Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-08
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

| There isn't . vacant house in Egan.
Marion is having quite building
boom.
There is not one saloon in Buffalo
county.
Wheat in Deuel. county yields sixteen
bushels an acre.
Corn in Kingsbury county is an ex-
cellent crop this year.
Some Brookings county wheat yields
sixteen bushels to the acre.
Sixteen bushels to the acre IS the
yield in Minnehaha county.
The town OF Twin Brooks, in Grant
county, has been lately plated.
The Sanborn cousty fair will be held
Sept. 22nd, 23rd and 24th, at Diana.
Twenty-eight cars of grain wese
shipped from Diana during August.
Yermillion is having its first term of
court this week since last September.
John Mouncey, en- old resident of Elk
Point, died Monday afternoon, of paral-
ysis.
Miss Olive H. Bently is candidate
fer school superintendent for Hyde
county.
The wheat crop of Faulk county will
average twelve or thirteen bushels to
the acre.
| The Eleventh infantry at Sully, has
been lately re-enfcrced by twenty one
new recruits.
Thirty eight of the forty townships
in Hand county are now organized fol
| school purposes.
Three children under one year of age
died in one day of cholera infantum, al
Clear Lake. recently.
A balloon excursion will be one OF the
features of the Deuel county fair al
Gary, Friday the 18th.
| The Miner county agricultural fail
will be held on the last days OF Septem-
| Der and the first OF October.
The Beresford News comes to the
front with watermelon weighing forty
one pounds, the biggest one yet.
The Deuel. county fair association viii
! bold their second annual fair at Cleal
Lake, the 22nd, 23rd and 24th insts.
| Miss Knapp, of Iowa and Prof. Vance
of Racine, Wis. will teach in the Yer
million university this coming year.
Thousands OF black birds are devas
tatlng the corn fields adjoining Elk Point
One man is kept busy shooting them.
Barrett, Hunting g. Co.'S agent at ELI
Point has shipped thirty-four Car loads o.
shelled corn during the past twelve days
/ The Castlewood Times adyertlses tina
it will announce the name of any candi
date for any county Office for three dol
lars.
| Track layers on The Scotland exten
sion celebrated their entrance int
Mitchell Monday by going on bi
spree.
The CLARK County Pilot has been pur
chased by syndicate vino will operat'
the same under the name of the Pilo
Publishing company.
4 The third annual fair of the Brown
county agricultural society will he hels
at Aberdeen the three last days 0
September.
Mrs. Henry Ramsdell, of Goodw1r
Deuel. county, attempted to commi
suicide by taking poison, the other da,
Her efforts were frustrated by frIend
One hundred and five teachers wer
enrolled at the late teachers institut
held in Miller. The attendance We
about double the number ever he'll
before.
Thomas Mcdonnell, editor of th
: Carthage Prairie Home, who owned o
!. extensive wheat field in Potter count,
lost every grain by the prairie fire {
: last week.
Aurora county contains eighty scho'
8 houses, an increase of fifteen over la
q year. The current school debt OF tt
9 county he's been reduced from aIi2,220
: about $1,000.
A brute of a man named Mitchell, wi
lives IN Elk Point, pounded his wife
Z. the fane the other dsy until phys
9 clan had to be sent sor to dress b
+ wounds. The brute went to Jail.
e1 Tnrner county has twelve organize
!, school townships, seventy~one grad,
/ and three unaraded schools, twelve fiji
grade teachers, twenty. one second grad
n twenty-nine third grade and eleven pl