Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-11-11
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behind time forty-fye minutes.
Mrs. L.. M. Purdy is entertaining q
number of friends at a dinnsr party this
afternoon.
The time for holding the military
fair has been set for the first week in
December.
The Milwaukee company is making
some repairs upon thsir Yankton ma
chine shops and round house.
The amusement committee of the
ladies fair will hold a meeting at the
armory this evening at seven o'clock.
-Four of the youthful orators of Yank-
ton college will debate on the woman
suffrage question at the college this
evening.
1t is suggested that the authorities
having control of the cemetery grounds
take precautionary measures against
prairie fire.
The registers of the Merchants and
Morrison hotels of this city show the
autographs of fifty non.resldents written
under the date of yesterday.
Yesterday occurred the monthly
drawing of a southern lottery and many
of the Ysnkton bloods expect to be able
to build railroads pretty soon.
A farmer in the city from a locality
about twelve miles north reports a six
inch fall Of snow this morning, and the
temperature this afternoon suggests a
like visitation for Yankton.
Chris Noonap, for many years the
faithful messenger of the Western
Union office here, has taken a position
as operator at the Milwaukee depot.
Chris has earned promotion by hard
work.
A piano cover of exquisite workman.
ship, on exhibition in Cox, Odiorne &
Cos window, vas made by Mrs. Otto
Peemiller and presented by her TO the
militia company to be disposed of at
their coming fair.
The Yanktou pork packing house ex.
poets to begin the slaughter of hogs to-
morrow morning. A crew Of men has
been at work since Monday cleaning up
the packing house, and its agents have
been out buying hogs for some time
past.
A scarcity of locomotives is bothering
the Milwaukee folks and delaying
what the transfer of freight. The Mil.
waukee is we'll supplied with rolling
stock, but there is an unusual demand
for it this fall, particularly on this di-
vision.
A party of spirited Broadwayians, mis-
taking their bearings in the gloom of
their surroundings, violently woke up a
tailor shop the other night and insisted
on having the proprietor cook them
some oysters. The best he could do
was to set up cold goose.
A. Hale, the wandering groceryman
of Sioux City, drove in yesterday from
Centreville. He says ten miles of rails
were down on the Yapkton extension
yesterday and that the iron horse was
IN sight of Wakonda, the new town.
Wakonda is somewhere near the summit.
Frank Hefner, who is purchasing hogs
for the eastern market, gathered in fifty
fat porkers in Nebraska yesterday and
forty in Dakota to-day. Among those
purchased in Nebraska is one weighing
nine hundred pounds, sold him by John
McCloster. This porcine monster can
be seen at the Milwaukee stock yards.
A letter from Fred Gross, one of Yank-
tons former citizens, to General Camp
bell, says the Cross precinct of Custer
county polled seventy votes straight for
the constitution and none against. Fred
is OF the opinion that his precinct is en-
titled to the banner. He says the state.
ments put forth that the Hills country
is not IN sympathy with the statehood
movement are false. They want state.
hood worse than anything else out there
Venus is the bright evening star
which shows such brllliancy Just after
sunset. 1t may be of interest to the
public to know that Venus is passing
now from superior conjunction to east.
ern elongation, coming nearer to the
earth, and turning less and less of hel
illuminated disk towards us. Also thai
the right ascension of Venus Is seven
teen hours t~hirty-one minutes, her de.
clination is twenty-five degrees ffty.twc
minutes south, her diameter is eighteen
seconds, and she is in the constellation
Scorpio. There are other interesting
facts connected with this planet which
we have been unable to procure.
A distressing accident happened
to a young man named Emf
Corrsen, who has been in the employ o.
q. j. Porter, for some months past
Corrsen and Mr.. Porter had been deliver
ing some apples at the residence of j
@. McVay, and on the return trip o
the wagon went over the south crossing
at the intersection of Capitol ant
Fourth streets, the young man, who wa!
standing up in the wagon, was thrown
out, striking the back of his head upo,
the hard gravel. His mind wandered
t from the moment he was hurt. He re
members nothing about the acciden
and only speaks in monosyllables, if o
all. He is confined to his bed at tn
, residence of Geo. 3. Hawley, where h
: boards. DIR. Van Velsor is in attend
apce. Mr.. Corrsen has been a compe