Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-31
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

the electoral college.
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Centreville wants furniture store.
Donovan's Tennesseans are singing in
central Dakota.
They have mug wumps in politics in
Hughes county.
A Woman's Relief Corps has been or.
ganized at Flandrau.
Redfield offers $4,000 for county seat
grounds and buildings.
A wool growers convention was held
IN Red6eid. last Saturday.
The Alex. Mitchell house.. at Mitchell,
will be re.opened Nov. Goth.
Arthur Burns, living near Estelline,
died of small pox, last week tuesday.
The township of Argo, in Brookings
county, is still badly infected with small
pox.
The Pilgrim is the title of the journal
which is to sound the praises Of Fair
bank.
The public school, of Gary, is closed
on account of prevailing contagious
diseases.
Frank A. Leslie is the peoples candi-
date for register of deeds, for Sully
county.
Phillip Bouck, of Moody county. re-
ports ripe strawberries on his vines, Oc-
tober 2lst.
The Deuel. County Advocate has sus.
pended publication at Gary and moved
to Clear Lake.
Geo. h. Thomas post. G. A. R., of
Redfield, will give grand ball and sup
per, November 7th.
A thirteen pound red beet gives san.
culinary appearance to the sanctum OF
the Rural Voice, at Olivet.
Tho first and only political torch-light
procession ever held in Dakota was at
Huron, last Friday night.
A petition asking for daily mail SER
vice from Pierre to Bismarck, has been
unanimously signed at Pierre.
LII. Shurtliff, formerly of Yankton,
now at Pierre, is putting up another
ane brick block in the latter city.
The Sioux Falls. Fairbank and West
ern railroad company have begun the sur
vey OF line from Pierre to Bismarck.
j. P. Wiley, of Clark county, was acci
dentally shot and killed while out duch
hunting recently. He leaves wife and
five children.
The town of Ashton. including thirty.
six sections and the city corporation, ac
cording to the assessors returns, is
valued at s1ll,O0o.
Mrs. Chas. H. Billings, who was de-
serted by her husband at Pierre. few
months ago, died suddenly last week
leaving young babe.
Clear Lake, the new town in Deue
county, on the Burlington road, ha.
bright prospects in store for it, anG
would like to be made the county seat.
4 Mr.. Frank Gile, of Brookings county
met with q painful accident while on
hunting the other day. from which b,
will probably lose the sight of one eye
The county seat of Edmunds count,
will be permanently located at the com
ing election. At present it is at Ipswich
and the citizens of that town would b.
glad to hold it.
The prohibitionists of Aurora count,
have held meeting and resolved to vot
for the best men already nominated b!
the other parties, and make no distinc
tive prohibition nominations.
The ring that has eclipsed the Bis
marck ring for the present, is the wed
ding ring-the voice of the parson !
heard throughout the land prompting
the bridegroom to cay with this ring
thee we'd"
i The Alexandria Advocate says: MI
Strong's brutal assault upon Wilson
n Gingles with billiard cue at his saloon
II Tuesday evening, has created such
!, feeling Of indignation, that the count
board will be petitioned to revoke hi
liquor license.
The county Of Hand has just recordet
it's second suicide, in the person of B.
! Aver, respected gentleman who va
suffering from BriRhts disease and dc
mented. The first was q young man b
the name of Macomber, who had CON
mitted murder. '
Il Aurora county farmers have suffere
serious damage from prairie fires. Sir
Igular that where 30 much 10 at stak,
the preventive is not resorted to in tim
Newspapers sounded the alarm tw
months ago and every farmer in the Ian
should have needed it.
There is . candidate for the legisls
, ture in the sixth district, whose name
Slough. Now, how shall We pronoun,
this name-Stow or Stuff? Decapita
the word and ii es us slough, Al
there 10 no question about the pr
uunciation Of that.
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