Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-24
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

The Mitchell public schools opened
last Monday.
A social club has lately been organ.
lied at Springfield.
A band musical union for south Dako-
ia has been organized.
Alexandria lumber merchants are do.
ing thriving business.
A reading room is in contemplation
by the Highmore public.
A leap year ball occurred at Rea
Heights last Friday evening.
A brass band, of sixteen members, has
been organized at Woonsocket.
One hundred and fifty scholars are en-
rolled in the Canton public schools.
The Highmore school has opened for
the fall term with an attendance of forty.
1t is estimated that over 5000 bushels
OF wheat are received in Columbia every
day.
Geo. G. Stoughton is q candidate for
school superintendent of Sanborn
county.
The Marion Sentinel has changed its
day of publication from Wednesday to
Saturday.
Seventy.five pupils are enrolled for
the winter term, in the public schools of
Columbia.
The normal institute for Hutchinson
county will be held at Olivet, commenc.
ing Sept. 22d.
The first frost of the season showed up
cold and white in Sioux Falls, last
Saturday morning.
The monthly meeting of the Lincoln
county teachers association will be held
at Canton next Saturday.
The Masons and Odd Fellows, of
Woonsocket, are arranging for an ami
versary ball, October 10th.
The voters of Plankinton school town
ship will vote Oct. 4th, to bond for $500,
to build four school houses.
An effort is being made to have tho
Dakota City school district divided aad
have school house built IN the town.
The Redfeld Rifles have lately re.or.
ganized. They expect to open club
room and give series of hops this win
ter.
There are eighty-eight school houses
in Brown county, forty-eight of which
have been built and furnished during the
last year.
It was ascertained at the Pierre press
association, that the average age of a
Dakota editor is thirty.two and three
fourths years.
James Elliot, late local editor of the
Mitchell Republican, has been commits
stoned as mail agent between Sanborn
and Chamberlain.
At the band tournament in Watertown
the Mitchell band took the first prize of
5000; Huron second, $l0O; and Ashton
third, fifty dollars.
The editor of the Watertown Courier
has o. 8. presidential aspirations, but if
he fails of that his next choice is to be-
come drum major.
TIE first annual of the Sioux valley
farmers and dairymen's association, met
in Sioux Falls to-day, (24th) and will
continue through the week.
Small grain in Brule county is not
turning out as we'll as was expected,
from eighteen to twenty. five bushels be-
ing about the average for wheat.
Geo. E. Sutton has sold bis interest in
the Hutchinson County News to J. s.
Detwiler, competent journalist, who
will have full charge OF the paper.
The banquet given at Pierre Thurs
day night, in honor of the press, is said
to have been one of the most delightful
and recherche affairs eyer given in the ter.
ritory.
The second annual fair of the Bon
Homme county agricultural association
will be held at Tyndall, commencing
Sept. Both and lasting through October
1st and End.
z The Turner county democratic con.
vention which met at Swan Lake the
Goth, to elect delegates to the Sioux
Falls convention, instructed for Bartlett |
Trip, of Yankton.
There was macs meeting OF the |
democratic voters of Douglas county,
last Saturday, at Grand View, to elect
delegate to the convention at Sioux
Falls, October LIST.
The Hanson County Advocate says: If
there was half of the improvement in
the way OF building in our town (Alex.
andris) as there is in the county, we
would soon have the largest city in the
territory.
E. E. Griswold, one of the pioneer set
Tiers Of Lincoln county, has just com.
pleted a. new. residence, the sleepers
being constructed from trees grown by
himself, the. timber hewn by his own
hands and the material drawn by horses
raised on his farm.
Dell Rapids Exponent: The school
section south of town has been staked
of into mining claims of twenty acres
each snd located by parties in Mitchell, ]