Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-05
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tion is growing all through Brown
county.
The First National bank at Canton is
said to have handled ten million dollars
last year.
The Dawson county farmers are pre-.
pairing to plant many and large fields
this spring.
Brown county had an assessed valua.
ton in 1883 Of $2265,92O00. In 1882 it
was $65l. l.l29.0o.
D. F. Roger has been appointed to act
a. postmaster in Alpena, in place Of Obed
g. Jessup. resigned. s.s 5f
Aurora has added to its numbers with
in the last three weeks an editor, Jew.
elsr and q physician. hf
VIM. II. Reed, who owns claim in
Hand county, is said to be the champion
bicycle rider of America. ss5.
The Dakota City Advance is iuquiring
how much Hutchinson county owes. It
intimates that it is on the scent ofcrook-
edness. 7 t-al..
There are only three counties in south
Dakota that have larger population
than Brown, viz. Minnehaha, Lawrence
and Yankton. if
At Huron, March 18th, the editors of
Beadle. Sphinx, Faulk. Hand, Ryde,
Hughes, Potter and Sully counties will
hold meeting.
Mitchell boasts of four fast horses, the
slowest Of which can vanquish the fastest
animal in the southern territory, outside
Of that town.
Brown county has eleven towns and
nine newspapers, and CLAIMS more miles
OF railroad than any other county in
south Dakota.
The family of Frank Odell of Eden
were mysteriously poisoned the other
day. Though none of them died they
were fearfully and alarmingly ill.
Clifton needs good hardware, dry
goods and clothing store. lumber yard,
grist mill, boot and shse store. drug
store, harness shop, shoe shop and bank.
Wildey Lodge No. 63, I. o. o. F., was
instituted at Lennox on the evening Of
the 2Oth by G. Master Briggs, of Sioux
Falls, assisted by brethren from Sioux
Falls, Canton and Marion.
The Pierre Recorder says that if the
Temperance jubilee. which is to be held
in Mitchell in April were to be pollti-
cal convention, every town in southern
Dakota would be scrabbling for 1t.
The railway officials at Huron have
been notified that over four thousand
carloads of immigrants and moveables
will come west over that division OF the
Northwestern road the coming spring.
James 8. Foster. one of the earliest
newspaper editors in the territory, has
in preparation at the Mitchell Republi
can Office, an edition of $4,000 copies Of
the Dakota Advocate, an immigration
publication.
Hon. Geo. r. Vending will deliver
his lecture entitled "Satan-who. what,
and where is the Devil?" in Mitchell,
March 18th, 1884. This is the fourth en-.
tertainment of the Citizens Lecture
Bureau.
The Sully county citizens believe, that
because their county is one of the best
in southern Dakota, and located between
two Lies of railroad, that it will be
thIckly settled another summer. We
believe so too.
NO. Nash, of the Canton News, wa,
surprised on the evening of his forty
fifth birthdays short time ago, by ,
sudden gathering Of friends, at his domi
cile, who presented him with an eas!
chair as token of their regard.
The tax payers Of Mellette held pub
lie indignation meeting lately and passed
a long series of resolutions condemna
tory to the board OF Sphinx county com
missioners for the general looseness il
which the financial affairs of the count.
have been transacted.
G. r. Tinan, editor of the Kimbal
Graphic, won the Garfield diamond badge
valued at $3.50, at the shooting match q
Ashtabula. Ohio, Feb. stb, says th
Graphic, the shot being twenty ella.
birds at eighteen yards rise. three trap,
and English rules to govern.
The commissioners of Brown count.
have resolved to build three bridges thi
season, two on James river between
Columbia and the crossing of the Hast
iugs & Dakota railroad, and one on tn
James river at some point between ,h
railroad crossing and Rondsll.
The Vermillion Republican says it ha
been proven in Clay county, by man.
and varied experiments, that blue gras
seed will grow when sown upon ou
common pasture or meadow lands, an,
not only grow, but thrive and run on
all other grasses as we'll as the weeds.
Parker Era: The following name'
persoce, who were damaged in the prairi
fire last fall, which fire was originate,
by O. & N. w. railway engine, hav
settled with that company and receives
the smounts set to their name: Johl
Peters, $3.50; James Stout $3.50; job,
Corners, $55; Adam Peters, 800; Cor
nelius Durckson, $275.
Parker Era: We have little respec
for the heart and culture of man wht
will laugh and gloat over snother's down
fall. 1t is 80 difficult to put ourself il
anothsr's place. and so easy to boast ths
We should not have fallen prey to terri