Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-23

sue eSonBteBatlOnal cnurcn az Creighton.
| A telephone line will coon be erected
between Niobrara and Running Water.
A free reading room and q public
library is what is urgently wanted at
Ponca.
| q. E. Benner, of the Creighton Pioneer,
and Miss Emma Amerine, were married
recently.
The anti monopolists Of Knox county
will hold q convention at Niobrara on
the 26th.
Eber d. Cameron and Mics Anna Col.
man were married at Pleasant Valley on
the 10th.
Il. E. Bonesteel, of Niobrara, has been
nominated by the democrats for secre.
tary of state.
John F. Llndlay is the democratic
nominee for county commissioner of
Knox county.
A Sunday school in the new Congre.
gational church. at Newcastle, was or
ganized last Sunday.
The leading local republican politi-
clans, of Niobrara and Bazile Mills, are
engaged in hostilities.
Verdigris precinct, Knox county, has
called q convention to nominate tenn.
perance precinct ticket.
Creighton shows more substantial
growth in the past year than in any year
before since its existence.
Creighton expects to add -four mill
brick kiln and grain elevator to her i'm
provements at an early day.
An effort is to be made, by the county
authorities of Dakota county, to drain q
large section of their slough lands.
Henry E. Truesdell, of Plum valley,
has presented the Knox County Times
with head of cabbage weighing twenty.
one pounds.
Geo. Dorvey, the republican nominee
for congress of the north Nebraska or
third district, has resided in Nebraska
for twenty years.
| The Creighton Pioneer is ten years
old and is enjoying fair measure of
prosperity. 1t ls one of the best local
papers on our list.
| The new opera house and rink at
Creighton, was formally opened with q
grand ball last Friday evening. The
building cost over $4,000.
u The annual meeting of the Dixon
q county Sunday school association was
held in the Central M. E. church, ter
miles west of Ponca, Sept. 9Th and 7th
In the Dailybranch nelghborhood, o.
Dixon county, farmers are very prosper
ous, hay is abundant and royal crop Of
corn has passed through unscathed b,
the frost.
! johnson Sowardo attempted to kill
. man named Henry Lohman. at Knox
!, Vile. the other day. The difficulty gre,
, out of dispute about farm rented t.
: Lohman by Sowards.
At the late teachers institute, held a
Creighton, fifty-two teachers were i
attendance. There were fourteen ar
plications for certifcates-ten wer
issued of the second grade. No thir
grade certificates we're granted.
The Ponca Journal says: After al
Notwithstanding we occasionally e
into little row over the county sea
. you cannot find better country, bette
: land and crops, setter people and bette
= health than right here in Dixon count;
Cattle thieves are abroad in Ceds
"a county. Thirty-three head were recent
ly stolen from the Of Rancho by tw
q bad boys, and IN the efforts which hsv
been made to recover them shot gun
n have been fred and great excitemer
created.
r An election was had in Dixon count,
the 18th, on the proposition to chang
i. the county seat from Ponca to Martins
burg, which resulted in favor of Ponc
n by large majority. There we're
larger number of votes cast than eve
t. before in that county.
A Mr.. Herrick, of Hawkeye precinc
e Dixon county, owns several hundre
acres of land which he farms in
ID systematic manner. Last week wit
the aid OF ten men and three mowir
h machines he was engaged in cuttin
hay. Mr.. Herrick recently sold K
- of two year old steers for over forty dc
lars a head.
10 A prominent farmer in Dakota count
residing near Dakota City, was four
" dead near one of the fences on b
farm last Friday morning, with Sc
y on his forehead. An examination of Il
body led to the conclusion that the d
is ceased came to his death by being stru'
by lightning during the thunder stor
u of the evening before.
The third session of the North n
" braska annual conference of the Met
!. odist Episcopal church was held
Blair from the 10th to the 18th. The
- were seventy-four appointments al
" four districts, showing remarkat
!. growth. Friday, Oct. 18th. was set apa
" as day of fasting and prayer, to be Il
!, lowed by efforts to promote revivals
~ all fields of labor. The place for
!. next annual conference was fixed
Ponca.