Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-05-19
NORTHERN NEBRAsKA A.

Creighton has lady post Office clerk. !
a grlst mill project is on foot, at |
Emerson.
Gold bearing quartz, has been found
near O'Neil.
Corn planters are in great demand in
Knox county.
The Knox County News Office has
been painted red.
Sixty miles of track are already laid
west of Valentine.
The North Nebraska Eagle, at Ponca,
ls nine years old.
Creighton wants its sidewalk ordi.
nance enforced.
The st. Helena coal company is pre-
pairing to organize.
The cold spell was quite severe in
northern Nebraska.
Several new dwelling houses are 90
ing up in Creighton.
A new store is to be established at
Peoria, Knox county.
Harrington is having considerable
growth and prosperity.
Harrington is building up. The
town has two creameries.
Valentine is overrun with confidence
men and rascals generally.
Another excursion OF land seekers will
visit Harrington on the 18th.
The rapid building up of Creighton
demands new additions to the city.
A mail route from Wakefield to Pouca.
via Martinsburg, is probable.
A two story addition to the Brown
hotel at Creighton, Is being built.
1t is reported that Ponca is making
many substantial improvements.
Niobrara young ladies indulged IN q
May picnic last Saturday afternoon.
There are two women in Nebraska
who hold notary public commissions.
Substantial improvements are being
made in Salem, Knox county, this year.
Northern Nebraska is receiving the
lions share OF this spring. immigration.
Two bridges over the Niobrara river
will be built in Cherry county this sum.
| mer.
The Methodist at Creighton, will
soon commence work on their new
church.
There we're thirty-seven cents in the
Harrington treasury when the last count
was made.
Fifty resident lots have been disposed
OF on Pleasant Hill addition to Creigh.
ton, this spring.
The mill at Bazile, has beer
thoroughly renovated and is now az
good as the best.
| The Harrington Nonparlel is in favo,
OF Fourth OF July celebration ut Vani
grove near st. james.
| A democratic newspaper is soon to b,
established at Niobrara by Mr.. Suttle, o
the Stanton Democrat.
| The next term of court in Niobrar.
will be held June 17th. No term was
held the 18th of this month.
The first term of court just held O
harrington was busy one and the Ce
dar county bar is spoken of IN compli
mentary terms.
| Knox county cleims to be the peer o
any county in the state. in the way o
school houses, churches, manufautnrin,
institutions, etc.
The Knox County Times, the BAIL
Mills newspaper, which has been sus
pended for time, re-appears brighte
and newsier than ever.
The difficulties of the postmastershi1
at Coleridge, resulted in general row
so serious that one of the parties impli
Gated. John Bridenburgh, has been in
dicted.
With three hotels, two boarding
houses and four restaurants Creighton'
accommodations are yet inadequate 70
the large amount OF transient custom
the town is receiving.
Ponca Journal: On Saturday Thil
Beller brought to us q jaw bone whicI
he said he found ninety feety below th
surface while digging we'll for NJ,
Johns. 1t is the jawbone OF an FINAL
extinct, and is very curious specimen
Creighton Pioneer: After nearly
quarter OF century of persistent effor
on the the part of the old settlers t,
build mp KNOX county with beautifu
homes and intelligent aud substantia
men. their hopes have at last been real
lied.