Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-17
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sOUTHERNDAK1

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Woonsocket is year old and thriving.
Court will open at Mitchell next Tues
day, the 2lst.
Travel from Pierre to the Black Hills
10 increasing.
There are twelve voting precincts in
Dawson county.
The first heavy frost in Day county
occurred the eth.
]. E. Baker has 1000 chickens on his
tarm near Huron.
Eleven buggies were sold at Letcher
during the summer.
Charles Il. Tucker, who lived near
Letcher, died on the6th.
Apeople's ticket will be nominated in
Miner county on the 2lst.
A life insurance company has been
organized at Sioux Falls.
TIE typhoid fever afaicts the neigh.
borhood Of Woonsocket.
The Hughes County Democrat has
Just been started at Blunt.
The Glendale literary society has
been revived for the winter.
The Central honse in Mitchell will
hereafter be known as the Arlington.
An effort to secure water by the arte-
sian system is to bs madeat Ipswich.
The Huron FIRE company carried of
the second prize at the Aberdeen tourna.
ment.
The anti-monopollsts of Codington
county, have nominated full county
ticket.
A tax payers organization have NOM
mated county ticket in Edmunde
county.
The Dawson county schools have
begun their winter terms under favorable
auspices.
The suspended bank of Dakota, al
Mitchell. is rapidly settling up with its
creditors.
Anthracite coal is being mined sixty
miles west of La Beau, in the Moreau
river valley.
Fort Randall enjoys daily mail service
with Mitchell. 1t runs via Grand View
Douglas county.
The Sanborn County Prohibitionist il
the title Of new paper just started .,
Woonsocket, by F. L. Osgood.
Twenty.six travelling men registered
at the Wright house, in Huron, last Mon
day and twenty-seven the day following
E. Vernon announces himself as ar
independent candidate for the Office o
school superintendent of Sanborn coun
ty.
The Hon. B. R. Wagner, of Boz
Homme county, and the Hon. James G.
Blaine, were born on the same day, Jan
uary 80, 1880.
j. K. Foster. the present incumbent
and q very efficient officer, has been
nominated by the republicans Of Doug
las county, for register of deeds.
A shippers association has been or
ganized by the farmers around Lake
Preston, the object of which is to sell
and ship grain and livestock.
There are to be three school house,
built in Letcher township, three il
Elliot, three in Butte and two in Logan
all in Sanborn county, this fall.
An entertainment is to be given by
the pupils of the Letoher school, for tht
purpose of raising money with which te
purchase q bell for the school house.
A burglar entered the residence oi
Mrs. Bishop, at Pierre, took her money
and assaulted her, but she knocked him
down with chair and pounded hin
until he was glad to make his escape.
The members OF the Woman's Relief
Corps, of Huron, are doing everything
in their power to provide the families o.
the hail sufferers, in that section, will
suitable clothing for winter. There art
twenty -four ladies in the society.
The Capital ventures to say that th,
ceremony of laying the corner stone o
the new round house at Mitchell, wa
the most important event that has trans
pired in the history Of that famous city
It must have been bigger thing thar
the homestead monument then.
Scotland Citizen: Last Friday nigh
Q prairie fire destroyed considerable
property in Hutchinson county, nortf
and west of Olivet. The fire started OF
the premises of James Allen who hat
his house destroyed. Next it took the
house and contents and all the hay O
George Rice, the hay and grain o
Joseph Haynes. Other parties saved
their property only by hard work.
Avoid fever, ague and biliousness BY
taking colden's liquid Beef Tonic. Ash
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