Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-12-17
DAKOTA NEWS.

marck.
-Kngsbury county has several 1912 war
widows.
A. M. Clark is the new postmaster at
Canistota.
The Bank of Glendale bas closed out
its business.
Wheat sells at 50 cents in the Sioux
Falls market.
A $15.00 courthouse is what Stark
County is to have.
Bismarck is working to secure first
class opera-house.
Oats are selling at 1925 per hundred
weight at Deadwood.
"A company of cavalry is to be organ
lied in Hyde county.
The new postoffice building at Scot
land is about completed.
The ice companies at Fargo have be-
gun harvesting their crop.
The Sioux Falls University is reported
in a fourishing condition.
The Merchants bank Of Watertown is
to be reopened January l.
The total school enrolment at Sioux
Falls for November was 7G5.
Howard County is to have new pa
per. It will be Democratic.
Sioux Falls will soon be connected by
through wire with the East
Judge Palmer will convene court in
McCook County on Dec. 90.
Many cases of typhoid fever are re-
ported in and around Glendale.
There were 100000 guests registered at
the Huron hotels the past year.
Coal is scarce along the line Of the
Northwestern in Central Dakota.
The schools of Wolsey closed on FRI
day for vacation of three weeks.
The postofiice building at st. Thomas
burned on the night Of the LIST inst.
Exploring with a diamond drill is one
of the novelties of Iron Hill mining.
The lowest point of the thermometer in
the Black Hills so far is Is degrees.
The tin interests of the Black Hills
are being steadily pushed to the front.
A colony of Vermonters are looking
for suitable location in North Dakota
Lake County will put in larger acre
age of crops next season than ever before.
The elevators at Fargo received 1900
bushels of wheat the last week of Novem-
Der.
The greatest event at Bijou Hills re-
Gently was the double wedding of last
week.
One hundred and fifty new buildings
have been erected at Aberdeen the past
season.
Good coal is delivered at Dickinson at
$3.50 per ton. 1t is taken from the side of
the hills near town.
The citizens of Brownsville are having
great sport in shooting deer, which are
thick in that locality.
"A Building and Loan Association is
promised institution at Glendale, with a
capital stock of 100000.
The Press is the name of new paper
to be started at Howard this week, under
the direction of J. 7. Cogan.
While adjusting stamp in mill at
Lead City, q die fell and passed through
tuc uduu u hlCudru DuOl1D.
From Aug. Z to Nov. 10 there were
25,O0O head of cattle shipped from Smith
wick, Custer County, to the East.
j. W. Werner has been awardedlthe
contract for supplying the Sioux Falls
Penitentiary inmates with clothing.
Fire in the NAPLES Block at Sioux
Falls, on the Goth ult., is reported as in
cendiarism. The loss is about $780,
Pierre will raise money and send
delegation of citizens to Washington to
work for the passage of the Dawes bill.
The great wheat blockade in the eleva-
tors is being rapidly raised on the Northern
Pacific by the increased supply of cars.
The Aberdeen Republican is respon-
sible for the assertion that Judge Church
is the most popular Judge in the Territory.
Prof. I. A. Shannon, late of the Da-
kota University, has beed installed as pas
tor of the Congregational Church at Plank
linton.
The Black Hills Salt Company has
called for the immediate payment of 2
stock.
David Ducharme was released from the
Sioux Falls Penitentiary on the 9th ult.
He had served term of one year for grand
larceny.
-Four years ago the town of Webster
was unpeopled, but last Sunday prayers
were offered in five different churches of
the town.
"A mutual dramatic company will be
fully organized in q few days at Sioux
Falls. 1t is to be managed on business
principles.
Aberdeen has instituted a Good Samar-
itan Hospital for the care of Brown Coun-
TVS poor. It is conducted on the nom
sectarian plan.
The first and only Evangelical Luz
theran Church in Dakota in which the
English language is used, was dedicated at
Fargo on Sunday,
Seventeen counties have thus far failed