Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-16
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Pukwana has q broom factory.
1 The Hurley school contains forty>fivs1
pupils. n
Flax is all harvested in good shape in
Douglas county.
Egan has the promise Of q 5000 hax
mill inside Of thirty days.
The Douglas County Chronicle il |
going to have new Office.
Potatoes and beans are circulating |
medium in Buffalo county.
A literary and musical ASSOCIATION has |
been organized at Faulkton.
Mr.. Enooh Sargent, aged sixty.two
years, died at Hurley, the 2nd.
The fax market closed at $l.l9 at
Sioux Fails, last Friday night.
A prairie fire in Douglas county last
week did considerable damage.
There are four new dwelling houses in
process Of erection at Faulkton.
Eagle township, Brule county, will
organize at the November election.
The Elroy comedy company are play
ing q six nights engagement in Canton.
A shoe dealer at Mitchell sold seventy.
three pairs of shoes in one day last
week.
Grading has commenced on the Fair
bank, Sioux Falls and Western rail-:
road.
Mr.. @. 8. Raymond is a candidate for,
superintendent of schools of Lake
county.
James Fry, at Red Lake, Brule coun-
ty, threshed 2,435 bushels of wheat from
145 acres.
A military company has been organ
ized at Deli Rapids. with thirty.seven
members.
The Canton college is we'll patronized,
q good many young men being in at.
tendance.
| L. E. Manbeck, of Maitland, Douglas
county, was married to Des Moines
lady short time ago.
A coal merchant at Pierre offers to
trade ton of coal for ton of buffalo
bones and he is getting tons OF business.
Thirteen new school houses have been
built in the neighborhood of Bijou
Hills within year, at cost Of $1,000.
(; Two children belonging to the family
of James Hewitt, of Centreville, have
died of diphtheria, six more are down
with it.
twenty-five hunters from Mt. Vernon,
Dawson county. are enjoying q duck
and goose hunt at Lake Andes, Charles
Mix county.
The Herald claims that there is more
building going on in Hurley at the
present time than at any other town Of
the same size in Dakota.
The bank Of Dakota at Mitchell has
paid the credit, ,rs forty per cent. Of thei,
claims. Mr.. Kimball, cashier of the bank
thinks that within short time they will
be able to pay dollar for dollar.
| A teachers' institute, preliminary te
the organization and establishment of q
permanent institute in Faulk county
\ will be held Oct. 22nd and 23rd, the first
day at LaFoon, the second at Fsulkton.
The Pukvana Press says the board ot
commissioners Of Brule county are CON
sidering petitions asking an election OF
the relocation of the county seat, ,ani
il is expected that they will order q vote
on the question Nov. 4th. 23''''' p
The Dakota extension of the Burling
ton. Cedar Rapids & Northern is rapidly
nearing completion. Track is now being
laid at the rate of two miles day. It i
, expected that the track layers will reacl
Clear Lake, by Nov. let, and Watertowl
by the middle OF the month.
Six years ago last Saturday Chas. F
Hackett assumed control of the Parker
Era, changing it's name from the Swa,
Lake Press. Mr.. Hackett has mad
many improvements in the paper, whicl
is now Q very creditable journal and is {.
be congratulated on his success and goo
management.
Plankinton is to have system o
water works, bonds to the amount o
$500 having been issued for that pur
pose. The plan is to build tank ele
vated forty feet to hold 5000 barrels
which will be supplied by the town well
Pipes will be laid and hydrants PLACED
in cnnv nvenient placea for fire pnrpOees.