Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1885-02-12
LOCAL MENTION.
Visit the Public Schools.
How about the creameryP

Fresh oysters in bulk at the Pioneer
Drug Store.
Be sureto send your sweetheart a
valenti ne.
Don't fall to attend the entretain-
ment Saturday evening.
Remember the mask skate and dance
at the rink Friday evening Feb. 18th.
There has been no delayed or late
trains on the Winter Route" this
week.
Now and hereafter the weather will
be very favorable for sojourners in the
south.
Mr.. Recdy, of Beresford, shipped
several car loads of cattle from Hurley
this week.
Make ready to set out all the trees
you can this spring. Keep it before
the people.
Some of our citizens are interested in
having a public library for our town
and arc pushing the good work.
The latest achievment in telegraphy
enables the sending and taking Of mes
sages from moving raiwlay trains.
From IS to % degrees below zero is
the corlial greeting this week, of Jack
Frost. We didn't work in our Shirt
sleeves.
Winter still fingers in the lap of
spring, or spring still fingers in the lap
of winter, which is it? weather proph-
cts all dead.
We are in receipt of two communica-
tions from neighborlng town in re-
gard to a church difficulty" but think
it best to omit the same.
The musical and dramatic entertain
ment of the l. O. G. 7. has been post
poned to Feb. 9th, on account of the
inclemency Of the weather.
The numerous artesian wells and
springs which abound in Spring Valley
make that the most favored section OF
the country for stock raising.
CHI. Goddard has one of the finest
scientific literary ond philosophical
libraries IN Dakota and is gradually
adding to it ve;y valuable books.
Hurley has not suffered with any
coal famine this winter as some Iowa
towns have, and good beef is 10 to IL
cents whilein Boston it is 80 to 35 cents
per pound.
Mr.. l.. H. Hanson and Miss Aanna
Mortensen were married last Thursday,
and their many friends join in wishing
them long and prosperous journey
through life.
Many of Turner county attorneys are
attending the present session of the
Supreme Court at Bismarck the de jatre
if not the de .facto capital of our i'm
mense territory.
Rev. VIM. j. Hill, Presbyterian, will
preach in the Hurley school house Sun
day evening, Feb. 10Th, at o'clock.
The sermon will be Illustrated by large
paintings. All are invited to attned.
4 class for the study OF the HOLY
Scriptures, will be organized at Grace
Church next Sunday evening immedi-
ately after evening prayer, and con-
tinue every Sunday evening thereafter
till further notice.
The lecture before the Ladies Relief
Corps which was to have been deliver
ed Tuesday evening, has been postponed
the lady lecturer, Mrs. Bennett, not
being able to get here, owing to the
weather and the pressure Of her Other
engagements.
| There is no section of Dakota-o
anywhere else for that matter-tha1
possesses better facilities for stock rails
1 ing than Turne. county. Pure water
nutritious grasses and an abundance
of corn are necessary to make goot
beef, and these we possess in an abund
ance.
/ While some disinterments were tax
ing place last fall in the old burylnt
/ ground at Swan Lake, the bodies wer
entirely turned TO dust as also the cot
lins. The fact that it is a common
herd and sheep pasture, rendered !
necessary to remove some OF the bodies
besides it is too near the brink OF tn
lake.
4 A quarter Of a century ago Horac
Greeley's New York Tribune was to b
found in thousands of New Englan
homes where 1t was considered a
authority on most subjects. A simiia
position in Dakota homes Is rapid
: being acquired by the Sioux City Joul
nal. Itsarrival is anxiously looked TO
and shade of disappointment Is to b
seen on the faces of all when the pos
master announces, Blockade in low;
no Journals this morningl"
Judge Palu,er's remark to sAttorne
Goddard while the latter was attendin
court at Canton, suggests the que1
whether the judge can adjourn to an
: other town than Swan Lake, an
whether or not the commissioners wi
rot be compelled to erect buildin
: for court purposes at Swan Lake. I'll
r school house at Swan Lake is not wit
l. in the county seat quarter section de
ignated for the seat of government, y
Z Judge Kidder held court there for Sc
, eral terms, as did Judge Shannon. Sa
school house has quite a judicial hi
+ tory.
The season of the year has arrive
when the dissatisfied dweller in tt
east is looking about for a new locatit
u ,,.ho., ~ o,,, hattar hiS ponditiO