Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-14
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SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

The Meade house at Springfield, has
changed hands.
A grand masquerade ball will be given
at the Madison rink the 26th.
The Minnehaha teachers association
will be held at Sioux Falls, the 18th.
Ice formed an eighth of an inch thick
at Centreville last Wednesday night.
Gen. Shields post, G. A. r., of Madi.
son, INDUCED in camp fire last Monday
night.
Barney Ward, of Wheeler. lost guam
tity of flax and hay by prairie fire, last
week.
There are thirty-one students in at
tendance at tie Brookings agricultural
college.
A post of the Grand Army has been
organized at Scotland with seventeen
members.
The safe and vault for the new Charles
Mix county bank. at Castalia, weighed
$500 pounds.
The Forest City Press offers that pa
per for six months, for the largest turnip
raised in Potter county.
Alex. McGillvray, of Forestburg, killed
thirteen ducks at one shot, with single
barrel gun, the other day.
Miss E. Emma Nicholas, is candi.
date for the position of superintendent
of schools of Potter county.
The safe of q. H. Fowler, at Marion
Junction, was ritled of $500 by some one
who knew the combination.
Doc Bentley was sentenced for six
months in the Sioux Falls peniterti tiary
for stealing wheat at Redfeld.
A Mitchell man caused the arrest of o
neighbor for stealing two carrots, the
retail price of which is ten cents per
bushel.
The assessed valuation of real estate
of Castlewood is ssl,2Ss; Estelline, s12,.
500; Dempster, Ss,4O0. All in Hamlin
county.
News: Twenty-one car loads of grain,
two of sheep and two OF cattle were
shipped from Memo during the last
four days.
The Flandrau Herald is two years old,
is permanent fixture in a growing
town, and is proud of its success and
prosperity.
Montrose has had several additions to
its business houses recently-a boot and
shoe store and harness store being
among the number.
Miss Eve Hollister, of Forest City,
killed rattle snake, with ten rattles,
not long ago, thereby avenging her
eldest sisters wrongs.
The laying of the corner stone OF the
round house in Mitchell by the o. NJ. A.
was witnessed by the largest crowd ever
gathered in Mitchell.
Mrs. Lieut.. Mitchell, of Fort Randall,
has been called suddenly away to her
old home in Kentucky, where her father
is lying dangerously i'll.
IS. Jones has been appointed com.
missioner for Hutchinson county to
collect products to be exhibited at the
worlds fair at New Orleans.
Forestburg Advocate: A strange phe.
nomenon was rainbow by moonlight.
which was observed by several about
nine o'clock the other evening.
Castalia Republican: A prairie fire
burned up fifty tons of hay for Charlie
Nelson, on Tuesday, and destroyed much
other property, grain and straw.
There is petition in circulation at
Milltown to change the mail route so as
te leave Memo instead of Scotland, and
to run to Alexandra instead of Mitchell
The Castalia Republican says: The
material and substantial growth of this
county (Charles Mix the past year is
not exceeded by any county IN the terri
tory.
Darlington township, Charles Mix
county, has voted $4,000 bonds for the
purpose of building five school houses.
The bonds have been sold to the Nation
al School Furnishing company, of Chi
cago, for ninety. eight cents.
Olivet Record: ]. 9. Boyles, present
clerk of the court, taught the first school
in Hutchinson county. A. s. Jones, then
superintendent of schools, issued the
certificate. This was in 1874 and the
school was taught at Olivet.
The following notice Is posted in every
available place in Aurora county as q
preventative to prairie fires: "Any per-
son caught setting out or lighting fires
in Center township will be hung from
The roof of the nearest house."
The Mitchell Republican learns that q
armer living near Plankinton fell off o
talk of corn one day last week and had
,is left leg broken in thirteen places
'bove his right knee. He was climbing
Up to see if the corn was getting ripe.
A number of jealous married women
If Canning, threatened to tar and feather
young lady named Nellie Knapp, who
las been holding down claim at that
,lace, unless she left town. Miss Knapp,
Vho was formerly known as Miss
decker, recently applied for teachers
ertificate to the county superintendent,
nd was about to undergo an examina-
ion and is highly spoken of. She is