Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1885-09-24
Remember the fair.
Regular Dakota weather.

1
Regular Dakota weather.
A light frost Tuesday night.
Hardware merchants are numerous.
Trunks and valises at Hogan & Piers. |
Sib. Welch has been moving IL fire.
break for the railroad company. =;
Uncle Sam's condition powders at
City Drug Store.
Register of Deeds Moore has Il new
safe in his Office.
Frank Clark's wounded leg is re-
ported as doing well.
The Alderman Fruit Farm propre-
tors have been marketing apples this
week.
Geo. Ii. Montgomery is out on bail,
and it is thought that he has gone to
Wisconsin.
The NJ. r. sociable at w. Ii. Conllins
last Friday evening was quite largely
attended. and very pleasant evening
was passed.
Nearly every corn-iield in the suburbs
of Hurley contains flax buyer, and
they sometimes get SO excited that they
bid on sheep.
LII you want a square meal when at
tending the county fair, call at the
Wentworth House and there will be no
disappointment.
We recently had the pleasure of eat
ing a bunch of fine grapes from the
farm of Mr.. Terwilliger. and pronounce
them as fine as can be raised any
where.
Through some unknown cause a
small fire started in Hogan Il Piers
back store Tuesday noon, and but for
its early discovery might have resulted
seriously.
If you attend the territorial fair at
Huron, remember that the Wright
House is convenient to the depot and
the fair grounds, and is one of the best
hotels in the city.
The Yankton Press says two town
sites haye been provided for on the
Yankton-Centreville extension of the
Northwestern-one at the johnson
farm, eleven miles west of Centreville
and the other ut kaucher's mill, thir,
! teen miles east OF Yankton.
a. III. McGrew last week tested the
practical working of his new railroad
ditcher in a cut on the line of the North
western. in Iowa, where with crew OF
six men it performed as much work il
one day as could be accomplished b!
200 men with shoyels and a train of fla
, cars.
The season is approaching when th'
swindler, under the guise of a tire,
1 agent or a machinery dealer makes hi
accustomed rounds through the farm
ing community, and winds up his littl
speech by asking your name to some
trifing (?) document. a number O
Turner county's citizens have learne,
a not to trust their autographs in tn
hands of strangers, and probably NOR
(they don't take the Herald) Will lear
the same lesson. Neyerpu your nam
to any document for a stranger.
Iankton Press 21st: Surveyor Ger
eral Taylor, who left Yankton for IIr
i ron on Yesterdays special, in respons
:, to Il telegram informing him that in
y structions relative to surveys in Dakot
s had arrived at his headquarters. say
that thirty thousand dollars is setapal
II for Dakota work and the contracts III
n to be let to the lowest bidders. II
t. must first advertise thirty days, afte
o which the bids will be opened and til
work given to the lowest responsib
j, men. 1t will not be possible to get me
4 into the field in time to do much su
&c veying this fall. All the work dol
If under this appropriation must be con
pleted before the first of July, 1856, I;
- all money remaining in the appropri
~ tion on that date will be covered bat
= into the treasury, unless extensions Al
= allowed. This is thetrst year since ID
= kota became a territory when its su
vey work has halted and thereis no
40 greater need than ever before for th
Is class of work.