Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-14


in public land. A chapter, illustrssed
with numerous cuts, shows how tostell
Township, Section and Quarter-Secti0a
corners, and explains the system of
Government Surveys: .It\gives thelat-
est rulings and instructions under the
Homestead, Presumption, Timber Cul-
ture, Desert Land, and other laws. The
price of the book is only % cents.
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Editors WEss1NGroN SPRINGS HERALD,
TP. lO8 68.
Stacking has begun. EsssS7
Some mud in the harvest field low
places. .eSS,
w. M..Titus has all his wheat taeked.
"A. ~. Each has been cutting f0f aaFs.
Nordyke, J. Z. Gilbert and P. ". wei
Is. Bihford and J. Grieye hayl been
cutting grain at the rate of Is acres a
II. T. Hamlnack, Binford and frieve
and I. N. Rich made a SURPRISE at
Smiths by cutting his wheat ons fore
noon.
A. G. Snyder is absent for week or
two. ~
Mr.. Walter ftom east of the till was
a. Friends monthly meeting Saturday
last. ~.
Mitchell; held meeting az school house
No. 2 last Friday evening.
n. j. Dhnham visited Tetdpldton Sat-
urdayi 49,,
S. f. fIuntley attended the services
Of Gen. q. s. Grant at Washington
Springs last week. j. =.
EDEN VALLEY.
Our farmers have had to harvest this
year beneath a burning sun, there be.
ing great many days of extremely
warm weather. There was quite 4 re-
freshing rain last night attended by a.
great deal Of thunder and lightning.
Our busy farmers are getting along
nicely with their harvest; If thdweath.
er Is favorable they will soon be
through stacking, They consider their
crops very good except those that have
been destroyed by hail. .,
The. hum Of the ,threshing machine
is heard in our vicinity.
Mi. Sheffield has nephew out from
England; he has come to stay.
James Conloh has d brother from
Illinois visiting him. IN. =.
d. n. Smith was up in this neighbor-
hood again last week to stack his grain
and calling on friends. ~.
There has been some, sickness in J..
o. Gray'a family. but, they are better.
The young people had; q, very pleas
ant time Saturday evening at the re-
ception given In honor Of T. Linus
Blank and wife, at the residence of NJ.
d. Blank.
Rev. Mr.. Castle held quite an inter-
esting meeting at Alpena short time
ago. He administered the rite of hap
tism to number of converts.
AUNT LYDIA,
FRANKLIN.
News Is scarce. Everybody busy
stacking when the rain does not pre-
vent them. -, ~.
Elijah Purdy has sold his fine 800
acre farm to. Mr.. Grant. Mr., Purdy is
going back to his old home in Illinois.
We are sorry to lose him from our
Mr.. Mc3ou1lgal, ;of Woonsocket, has
traded for the Barker claim.
School in the Larson school house
closed last Friday after d very success
/ / understand the schools in the Black
and Kogle districts will close on next
Friday.
steam thresher and are ready for any in
need Of their services:
As showing the interest felt in regard
to Dakota among manageable ladies
in the east, the New York Tribune re-
lates, that a bachelor emigrant from
Germany who. came, to, DIacgota three
years ago, secured,a claim and got it in
cultivation, recently sent to! an official
in New York to have "a wife. selected
for him. His request was published in
the Tribune and thatpaper says he now
prays that the manageable .maidens
be informed that he is,no longer in the
market. He. has been deluged with
letters from all sorts Of feminine Great
ures-slim, fat, tall, short, blond, bru-
nette, fair, .freckled, and with black,
brown, red and gray hair, and coming
from every part the country. He
says that he would require the bank
account Of Gould and a regiment of
stenographers to.reply to the letters he
has received, which ask him about the
size apdivalue Of his property, the eli
soil, products, population, schools,
churches; and age and description Of
the minister. He is married. now.
Colonel Dpnan;is said to have had a
similar experience.
Burlington tVt) Free, Press: A rep
resentative from one of the back towns
drove into thiseity yesterday, and he
was greatly impressed by the funeral