Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-27
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There is a GOODNESS in the atmosphere
to-day.
, The Chautauqua organization meets
'to-merrow evening.
Saturday nights Scotland train was
delayed until eleven O'Clock.
A meeting of the mems christian tenn
perance union will be held this evening.
The P. s. K. club will meet at the
home of one of it's members on Friday
evening next.
a party Yankton ladies are froggipg
in the country to-day-that lie, they are
catching frogs.
Yankton county contains 6fty-six pen
%sioners, who draw from the national
treasury $776 monthly.
Yankton's democratic delegation will
leave for Aberdeen in the morning.
They are solid for Maratta and division.
Miss Pinkerton, q lady who has 1een
doing missionary work in Africa for ten
years, has been engaged to speak in this
city.
The time of the departure of the
Northwestern passenger train has been
changed from 6 O'Clock to $3.50, ten
minutes earlier.
A settlement of the convention ex-
penses is in progress The committee
finds that the assets are sufficient to
meet the liabilities.
The absence of M. P. Gilman, one of
the stock holders, prevented 8 meeting
of the electric light company to-day. AS
soon SIS he returns the meeting will be
held,
The W. O. T. U. will meet in regular
session at the M. E. church On Thursday
afternoon of this week, at which time Il
report of the Plankinton convention will
be read.
Chas. o. Bates, who has been confined
in the United States Jail in this city
for o month past for trespassing on gov.
eminent land, was released this morning
upon an order from the court.
j. T. Sargent, who has gone to Aber-
deem, thinks the democratic convention
| will favor submission of the division
matter to q vote of the people. Sargent
| will be satisfied with this settlement Of
| the question.
Since the convention there has been q
remarkable prevalence of hornets in the
houses of YanktoD. Did the departing
members any OF them design leaving
their stings behind them? A~natomicallJ
speaking that it is the correct place To-
the sting.
W. B. Valentines new Fifth stree
residence is being pushed to completion
as fast as possible and when complete
will add another to Yankton's list O
ccmmodious and handsome homes ant
will greatly improve the appearance o
that part of town.
There was o conference of the Yanktol
democratic delegates to Aberdeen a
Marshal Maratta's Office yesterday after
noon. The necessityotor q Sunday con
suItation was imperative and in mitiga
ton of their offence the delegate
opened the meeting with o prayer.
Last weeks Yankton county fair n
ceipts were sufficient to pay expense
This was what the gentlemen in chsre
claimed could be done and they haV
demonstrated their theory of the cas-
They nov say that q fair next year.
properly managed, would leave a surpll
in the treasury.
A report is circulated to-day whit
seems to bs well founded to the effe
8 that near james Groves farm, north
a the city, a large lake, we'll stocked wit
fsh, appeared in one night. The cart
: near some grain OF hay stacks is said
havs sunk in and water enough to drov
a man now fills the indenture. Ii til
e be true Yankton has the best OF all q
q chestnut sea serpent towns In Dako'
y go far as an attraction is concerned.
In compliance with the order