Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-09
Election Notice.

ANooiS0 " lltleDl SlNel unLU 0l Lle
10th day Of May next, 1854. at the office
OF j. 7. Ford, in The town of Messing
ton Springs in the county of Jcranid,
D. T., al election to bel,held fer school
township, No. 8, for the purpose CT sub
hitting to u vote of the people Of bond
ing the said township for 5000, with
which to build three school houses, enc
TO be located within ! mile of the S. w.
Of section Il l07 65 one within
IL miles of the N. u. corner Of section
Is; one within q of q mile of n. i.
Of section Is. Said money to be
issued IN 800 bonds. About $500 of
said money to be used for school house
within q of q mile Of n. E. corner of
section Is, and $500 to be used fcr each
Of the other two.
Which election will be opened at 8
o'clock in themorning and willcontinue
open until 4 o'clock in the afternoon of
said day.
Dated this 14th day of April, \. d.,
1884. GEO. r. BArENAS,
Township Clerk.
A former Iowan. now q successful
Dakota farmer, write back home!s'"It
seems to methat the prairieros blooms
much the same as i'll old ;Towa5 grass
grows as green and plentifnaly. the
corn higher, wheat harder oats, flax
end timothy more rankly; the skies are
as sunny; the rains are refreshing and
often: the winters no longer or more
severe, the soil as fruitful and more
easy Of tillage; the Lines Of %transporta-
ton good and increasing fast; the wo-
men as fair; the babies as big and the
men as good hearted as in any place, SO
there is justification for the heavy I'M
migration that is Ell route for Dakota.
There is nc one competent to describe
the future Of Dakota if but half she
promises is true. When we see bigger
and better corn: as good wheat; pota-
toes and oats grow here (and on SGD at
that as are to-day grown in the garden
spots Of Iowa or illinois, the average
citizen feels atri1le prouder of his claim
and Uncle SANS eomplements.9-south
Dakota Tribune.
The following frolp sqneof Bob Bur-
dette's writings contain more good,
sound common sense than any temper
ance lecture We ever listened to. We
cannot remember Of eyer reading any
thing on temperance that SO perfectly
conceded with our views. Burdettg
says: "Just you quit, without oath, res
olution Or promise. Simply quit. If
you have a young mans weakness for
beer, wine or whiskey, as the railroad
man says, Shut her OFF, There is no
trouble about it. Let me tell you there
is no harmin whiskey. 1t does not and
cannot hurt you-if you don't drink it.
That's all you have TO do. Don't be a
prohibitionist lunatic, Don't be a re-
former. Don't be a fanatic. Just sim.
ply don't drink, and all the whiskey in
America can't make you drunk if you
don't drink any Of it. Whisky never
hurt a man who didn't drink it."-Gary
Interstate.
Tally one for the man that horrows
his neighbours paper: "a resident of a
Montana town was out hunting recent
ly and as a snow storm came Up he
crept into a hollow logfor shelter. At
ter the storm abated he endeayored to
crawl out but found that the log had
swollen so that it was impossible to
make his exit. He endeavored to con-
pose himself as much as possible, but
with Indifferent success. He thought
Of all the mean things he had done I'M
til finally his mind reverted to the fact
that instead of subscribing for his local
paper he was in the habit of borrowing
it from his neighhqrs and Thus defraud-
ing the printers. On this he felt so
small that he slipped out Of the log
without an etfort."-EN.
The y. S. Grand jury, which has just
closed a twenty-eight days session, has
indicted Gov. Ordway for asking and
receiving brides in the Polk county Or
%ganiZation. He gave bail in the sum
of $4,000 to appear at the next trial
term Of the U. S. Court. OrdWay's
presence in Yankton was waived and
his bond accepted, while he remained
in YermilI1on. Alex. Mckenzie came
down to N:ermillion to go on Gov. Ord
ways bond. The governor and wife
have been in Vermilliop several days,
visiting friends.
The General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church of the United
States. met in Philadelphia, Thursday
of this week, May list. and will remain
in session about a month. The General
Conference is the lawmaking power of
the M. e. church. 1t consists of one
ministerial delegate to every ~forty-iiye
members of the Annual Conference,