Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-10
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS,

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Sioux Falls has q new town clock.
a. district fair at Blunt opens the 18th.
Volga's school opened for the winter
last Monday morning.
The Blunt schools began the fall term
with over 100 students.
Trail county wheat is much better
yield than was expected.
The Bismarck schools opened Monday
with a large attendance.
The central Dakota medical society
met at DE Smet the 7th.
Fielder posfofice has been re.estab.
lished in Hughes county
The majority Of the population of
Qnida are on The sick list.-
Campbell county produced about
28.5S4 pounds Of butter laHt year.
A farmers elevator opened at volga
the 7th, With excellent prospects.
Campbell county expects to have q
county seat fight on its hands this fall.
Eighteen cases Of typhoid fever are
reported at Gettysburg, Potter county.
Two thousand bushels OF wheat were
marketed in ALTOONA. Saturday, the 4th
inst.
The agricultural college at Bookings
seems about 10 enter upon a 8 era of
usefulness.
A number Of new buildings are going
np in Parker and new sidewalks are
being built.
Clark citizens are considering the
propriety oil sinking an artesian we'll to
cost $4,000.
The aPoet Of Potter county, has beer
sent to the insane asylum. His name ii
Henry Fstter.
III Blunt gets all the railroads she
wants she will attempt to rival Huron
FOR capital honors.
The first stone farm house in Bur.
leigh county is just being erected, about
ten miles from Bismarck.
Liusey Carl, of DeSmet, was attacked
by q savage bnll the othersaay and it is
feared his. injuries may prove fatal.
IT is reported that about two hundred
families of German speaking Rnssianl
VIII Hstl1aIn MERCER county next snrins
a young babe died in it's mother
arms the other day while riding in
wagon from Washington Springs to til,
farm home.
Three men were killed by lightning
last week up in central Dakota. One il
Faulk county, one in Hyde and The
third in Hand county.
I'D. C%ayanaugh, CITY treasurer OF
Grand Forks, died suddenly Monday, the
9th, sitter q short and painful Illness. Hs
leaves q wife and two daughters.
Two years ago there we're only two
public schools in Burleigh county, out.
side of Bismarck. Now there are thirty
schools and twenty-five good school
houses.
GeorgeT. Angel, president of the
Boston society for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals, has been giving
lectures in the towns along the Northern
Pacific.
A drunken soldier at Fort Yates dc.
aberateiy shot and killed q corporal Of
the guard, not long ago. He was or,
rested and taken to Bismarck where ii il
hoped he will suffer the full penalty Of
the law.
The Woonsocket Times has concluded
volume four, but the editor was toe
busy to write at any length regarding
past and coming events. He did say
however, chat he expected to be there t
complete volume five,
A double wedding occurred at the resi-
dence Of J. 3. Poort, of EmdeD, Dougla
coanty, q few evenings ego, whereof,
Mr.. Poort's two daughters, Louisa ant
LENA were upited In MAJ fiage to Mr
Theodore Courshon and MIR. Loonsis 8
Gail. They will all make Plenkinto,
their home III the future
Altoona has one Of the naost beautifu
toWnsites in Beadle coraty, and is sur
rounded by aa finely, cultivated farm,
as can be fonndin the Jim river valley
The town possesses an excellent system
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