Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-15
NORTHERN NEBRASKA.

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The stock yards at Coleridge are com.
pleted.
Petty robberies plague the Harrington
people.
Crows are destroying corn In Knox
county.
Threshing is about completed in Knox
county.
A pork packing establishment is talked
of at Ponca.
Bazile Mills young people do their
roller skating at Creighton.
ColeridRe expects twelve families from
Ida county, Iowa. next spring.
The price of horse flesh is unusually
low in Knox county this season.
The Buchanan company played in
Ponca all last week, to crowded houses.
John Brins, of st. Helena, has made
1873 gallons Of wild grape wine this fall.
Rev. L. A. Lake breaches on alternate
Sundays at North Valley, Knox county.
Frank w. Munson was married to Miss
Nellie johnson last Wednesday. All of
Ponca.
The Bazile Mills creamery has discon.
tinued buying cream and making butter
for this season.
Rev. d. G. Winship will attend to the
spiritual needs of the Methodists at
Niobrars hereafter.
The Knox county fair at Creighton
was success beyond the expectations
of the management.
The Dixon county agricultural society
has decided to make an exhibit at the
New Orleans exposition.
CANDLES new opera house was opened
at Ponca recently by Ella June Meade,
an elocutionist of much merit.
The Eden school, in Knox county, has
only four pupils enrolled. while last year
the average daily attendance was twenty
five.
The wheat yield in portions of Knox
county did not average as high as ex.
pected but the quality was exceptionally
fine.
The Dixon county grand jury. in
session at Ponca last week, rendered
indictments against majority of the
saloons IN Ponca.
s. "a. Coats, Dixon county man, has
discovered tin mine of great value in
the Black Hills. His many friends
rejoice over his lucky find.
Wallace Suficool and family. of Ba-
zile Mills, have started for Kansas in
their own conveyance. They carried q
tent, stove, and other camping out con.
veniences.
An insurance agent named Skow, tried
to kill himself with q pistol shot, in
Antelope county. last week. Financial
embarrassment and fast living were ct
the bottom of it.
A. b. Crosby, of Wakefield, was killed
the other day by the accidental discharge
of gun in his own hands. VIM. Gillian
of Jackson, is suffering seriously from {
similar accident.
Bazile Mills Times: Rev. Thoma
Kent, late of Earlville, iowa, will here
after make his home in Creighton, q
pastor Of the Congregational church a
that place and in this.
| The Cedar county fair was not com
plete success, oging to bad weather. /
ralned almost constantly. The agr
cultural society own fine grounds and q
excellent race course, near Harrington
Eden items, Bazile Times: At preseu
the al.sbsorbipg topic is Mrs. job
Pugh, who went crazy short time ag
and was taken to Pierce to be cared TO
but got away and has not been seen {
heard of since.
The matched game of ball, which va
, arranged to take place at Martinsbul
between the Ponca and Wakefield club
for 500 and the championship of nortl
) ern Nebraska, has been declared off G
account of inability to agree upon Q
umpire.
Ponca Journal: In Dakota county an
= other counties in the state, hog cholel
> is prevailing to an alarming exten
;, Thousands of dollars worth of hogs ha,
died with it, and no remedy has thus t,
g helped to stay the disease. 1t has n
- yet made its way into Dixon county. b
:, possibly will soon.
d The Ponca journal says: The returl
"a are slow about getting in, but enout
: votes have been counted this week
show q majority Of one ct w. N. NJ
Donald's and one at ). s. Keyser's, bo
. soprano singers and ten.pounde
! Mothers doing we'll and fathers jubilal
= Let the good work 60 on.
: 1t will be remembered that McMahe
~ station agent at Emerson, v
arrested six months ago for robbing t
, safe and burning the depot The Il
y grand Jury at Dakota City, failed to q
s. an indictment against him. On
n release he was re.arrested on the char
or of the larceny of money from the Anne
+ can express company. On examinsti
= on this charge be was released and
- left the country.
Advtcs . nstasr..
Are you disturbed at night and broh
=. !. Of your rest by q sick child suffering q
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