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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
MNEEY TO LOAN.

Beggs & Ringsrud pay the highest
price for hogs.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

do not know how many young lives
have been led estray by your indis-
cretion.
Your maker did not bestow this
gift upon you to be turned against
him. To the contrary he expects
you to use it toward the elevation of
your fellow man; if you ignore his
will you commit a sin and will be
held accountable in a measure for
the downfall of one or more ofthose
poor creatures. Moderate drinker,
think of this.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

SHILOH'S COUGH and Con-
sumtion Cure is sold by us on a
guarantee. 1t cures Consumption.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
$500.

/ have on hand $500 to be
loaned on good chatt4l security. Call
aud see me. A. d. KELLER.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

Doors Scots to $500
Windows 75cts to $500
Shingles $50 to $500
Florida pine flooring S25 to S35
Shiplap SIG to S22
SToUGH a. TALCoTT.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

Cur HIS FOor.-Mr. Johnson, liv-
ing eleven miles north of town was
down i'll the timber on Monday,
getting q load of wood, and while
chopping off a stick, his AK slipped,
striking the top of his right foot,
cutting a cash three inches long,
clear to the bone. He came to
town and had DR.. Mead dress it for
him. The accident will lay him up
for several weeks.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

~--~-
John McCaffery having cut his
hand about three weeks ago in Bah
belts meat market, he held q Policy
in the Worlds Industrial Accident,
of DUBUQUE. Twenty four hours
after proof of injury was received
by the company he recsivea his
money. This is what we call
prompt and reliable Tribune Web
ster City, Iowa.
Also Thos. G. Mand, Of LeMars.
Iowa, received his Policy Tuesday
morning and sprained his wrist the
following Thursday, laid him up
too weeks received his full idemnity
at tao close of too weeks.-Globe LIE.
Mars. Iowa.
D.. H. Irsns, agent for Union and
Clay counties.
This week we will open the larg'
est and most complete line Of boot:
and shoes ever opened in ELI
Point, and prices were never as low
Beggs & Ringsrud's.
For sals.
A nice FIVE year old mare, cheap
Enuuire Of Din. ]. G, CoSIY
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

Freeman Bros. now carry a full
line Of embroidery and filling silks,
chenille arrasene, gilt braid, gilt
thread etc.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
Public examination for Physicians license

Elk Point, Oak, March IA, 1886.
I am requested by the Supt. Of
public Of health to notify all persons
practicing medicine in Union Co.
without diplomas, and who have
not received license to practice med
%icines, to appear at Huron Beadle
Co. Oak, for examination by the
Ter. Board Of Health. Candidates
should take with them evidence of
their having been ten years continu-
ously in the practice of medicine.
L. G. MEAD,
Supt. Co. Board Of Health.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

Call and look over my line of Cal
ifornia fruit, both dried and canned.
S. q. THORNTON.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

For lame back, side or chest, use
Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price %
cents.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
Porsals

Por Sale.
Best farm in Union county. The
Rash farm, n mile east OF Elk
Point. Enquire of
I. N. FLANAGAN.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

Mr.. Elmer Vining Of Chicago, son
of Mrs. Vining of this city is here
on a visit to his mother. He will
remain a week or two.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

The Adcocats is in receipt Of note
from George Reynick, Esq, of Elk
Point, informing as that a branch
house Of the great Vermont Marble
Works is about to be started there,
of which he will be general manager.
Monuments and tonlbstones will be
a speciality, at prices 40 per cent. be-
low anything hereabouts. The Ad-
voccte can recommend Mr.. Reynick
as one of the "bravest of the brave"
old soldiers and a square mar al
ways.-Ponca Adcocate.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
]. W. STECKMAN,
3 H~AIRDRESSER.

having, hair cutting and sham
ing done in the most artistic
10. Shop on Main street, three
brs east Of the bank,
Elk Point, Oak.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
Ready Pay Store:

banks white star soap 6 bars %
And other goods in proportion.
Save money, time and shoe leath-
er by coming first, last and all the
time where we lead in prices.
FREEMAN BROS.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

A correspondent in another col
umn inquiries in sort of a round
about way, why the city marshal
pounces upon some who are just
comfortably booty and chucks them
in the cooler. while he lets others
who get wild and beastly drunk
ruuuu the streets swinging reyolvers
with IMMUNITY, Stand up, Mr.. Mar
shall and answer these queries.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

Jack Donahue, a gentleman who
''trayels on his muscle gave an ex-
hibition of strength in handling
heavy dumb-bells, at Ricard's saloon
on Monday afternoon and evening.
He exhibited some great feats OF
strength by raising a 1s0b dumb
bell over his head four times with
out stopping and also putting up a
115fb bell thirteen times. His selec.
ton of a place to give bis exhibition
indicated his character and it was
easy to discern that he w%
nobody but a common slugger and
prize fighter. His exhibitions ARK
not strictly of moral turn and ar
not calculated to be very elevatin.
in their tendency. This city cal
get along very nicely without an,
more Jack Donalue's.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
Fsr sals.

A nice five year old mare. cheap.
Enquire Of On. j. G. COMFY.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

of Mrs. Vining of this city is here
on a visit to his mother. He will
remain a week or two.
Hammond Bros. IL Cheever Blair
took their hay press to Burbank,
yesterday where there is a lot of
surplus hay to be pressed and ship
ped.
ReNL. P. sabin, went to Neck
ling, yesterday to assist Mr.. Bas-
com, of Vermillion in a revival
meeting at that place. He spent a
few days up there last week.
John Hammond, who lives five
miles west of this city, has been
granted a reissue and increase of
pension amounting to $500 for
deafness and wounds. We are glad
to hear Of Mr.. Hammond's good for
tune. He will make good Isl of it.
Hon. J. P. Kendall member of the
state legislature, and n Of Union
county's most successful farmres
and solid citizens dropped into this
office a few minutes yesterday
morning. He left evidence of his
good will towards the newspaper
froternity
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17
CASH

will buy them as above stated.
We offer no old shelf-worn
goods, no bats, but good, clean
goods at uniformly low prices.
We invite everybody to bring
their cash, and you will be con-
WINGED that we will give as many
ounces to the pound and inches to
the yard and as much value for a
dollar as any house in Union Co.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-03-17

be jeopordlzed, but when l recall
the fact that l am a party in part to
so great a wrong (Which l am be-
yond a doubt even if it is far re-
moved and that l am weighing my
chances for salvation against a few
dollars l might receive it changes
my mind and mother / aoiW cote right"
Cases of this kind may be found
in a good many families where the
influence of these christian ladies
can be felt and I may say Of this
society that it can ard will do more
to further the IN Of temperance
and justice than all else ever brought
TO bear against the demon rum.
There exists q class of men in our
midst who are more to fear than the
drunken sot SO far as influence is
concerned. No person looks upon
a man who is beastly drunk in any
light other than that of disgust, but
the moderate drinker is considered
differently. He conducts himself
honestly and is moderately respect
able, his influence is very bad, he
does not consider what kind Of a
burden he must bear.
We must remember we owe our
reasoning power and intellect to ON
maker; some are endowed more
beautifully than others. Those
who possess the gift in abundance
have . decided influence over thu
latter; it is not acquired but simply
q gift. Are we to abuse il? Look
10 yourself, moderate drinker, 70,
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05
aTINULAST.

The following beautiful lines We're
written by George d. Prentice. They
first appeared IN the Louisville Jour
nal thirty years ago:
There is time when the pulse lies
low in the bosom, and beats low in
the veins when the spirit sleeps the
sleep which apparantly knows no
waking; sleeps in its home of clay,
and the windows are shut; the doors
hung with the invisible Grape of
Melancholy: when we wish the gold
en- sunshine pitchy darkness and
wish to fancy clouds where no clouds
be. This is q state of sickness when
physic may be thrown to the dogs,
for we want none OF it. What shall
raise the spirit? What shall make
the heart beat music agaIn and the
pulses throb through ali the myriad
ttronged halls in the house of life T?
What shall make the sun kiss the
eastern hills again for US with all his
old awakening glances, and the night |
overflow with moonlight, love and |
flowers? Love itself is the greatest |
stimulant, the most Intoxicating of |
all, and performs all these and, is
still, and is not at the drug
store, whatever they say. The coun-
terfeit is in the market, but the
winged god Is not money changer,
we assure you.
"'NTen have many things, but still
they ask stimulant.
H'Men try to bury the floating dead
Of their own souls In the wine emp,
but the corpse rises. We see their
faces in the bubbles. The intoxica-
ion of drink sets the world whirling
lgain and the pulses to playing mu-
sic, and the thought galloping, but
he clock runs down sooner, and an
unnatural stimulant only leaves the
house it filled with the widest revel-
y, more silent. more sad, more de-
jerted.'
''There is only one stimulant that
never intoxicates, duty. Duty puts a ,
lear sky over every man into which
he sky-lark happiness always goes
'lnging."
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05
The Man and the Boy.

Many farmers are too careless
about the boys. They seem to act
on the belief that the boys will take
care of themselves, and 1t is not nee
essarv to do much for them beyond
feeding and clothing them, and get
ting what work they can out of them.
OF course, they send them to school,
but there is another sort of education
which every farmer ought to super
wise, and that is practical one.
Boys are quick to learn, and you
have Only to get them interested in a
thing, to teach them how to do it.
When you set them at new piece
of work, explain it to them. Tell
them not only how to do this or that
thing, but why you do it. Explain
the reason for 1t, and set them to
thinking for themselves. Encourage
them to be self-reliant, and when
they have done anything well, give
them the credit for which they are
entitled. Treat the boy as if he were
a man-for he is, on smaller scale
than yourself-and he will act like a
man. Take hum into your conf
dence, and make companion of
him, and he will surprise you by his
manliness and by his sensible IDEAS
These ideas may be crude, but the
germ of sense IS in them,
and it is your duty to assist in their
development, in every possible
way.
Too many men make their boys
feel that they are of little or no ac-
count while they are boys. Lay
responsibility on boy, and he will
meet 1t in manful spirit. On no
account ignore their disposition to
investigate. Help them to under
stand things. Encourage them to
know what they are about. We are
too apt to treat boys seeking after
knowledge as mere idle curiosity.
"Don't ask questions" is poor
advice to boys. If you do not ex-
plain puzzIing things to them, you
oblige them to make experiments be-
fore they find out, and the expert
mental knowledge is best, in one
sense, in another it is not, for that
which can be explained clearly, does
not need experimenting with. If the
principle involved is understood,
there is no further trouble, and the
boy can go ahead intelIigently.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05

DRINKING battles US, confounds US,
shames US, and mocks us at every.
point. 1t outwits alike the teacher,
the man of business, the patriot and
the legislator. Every other institu-
ton founders in hopeless difficulties,
but the public house (grogshops)
holds its triumphant course. The
administrators of public and private
charity are told that aims and obla-
tions go with rates, dues and PEN
sions, to the all-absorbing bar OF the
public house. Under the accumu-
latlng influence Of alcohol, the hon.
est man turns knave, the respectable
man suddenly loses principle and
self-respect, the wise man is utterly
foolish, the rigidly moral man takes
a plunge into Iibertinism. Let us
do something toward staying the
huge mischief which, one way or
another, confounds US all, and may
for we cannot be sure-crush and
ruin US all.-London Times.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05
Sam Jones in Georgia.

t'You, my colored friends, they
tell you about keeping up the sale of
liquor so that you may not be de-
prived of your liberty. Do you no.
tice that while you are dressed in
rags. that saloonkeeper has got on
good clothes, and lives in a fine
house? Well, if you were to 60 and
ask that man, Boss, where did you
get all those fine things he would
reply, If he spoke Alright, got them
from you, you black rascal
"When l was preaching prohlbi-
ton in Cobb county, there came an
old darkey to the little town. he
ripped out an oath, and swore, l. am
going to carry 200 votes for whisky
tomorrow That night that old ne
gro got drunk and lay down in a
barroom and died, and l think the
sympathizing saloonist raised 90
csnts, by general subscription for
his benefit. Laughter.
'This talk about being too rough
on the liquor men reminds me of the
man who was attacked by vicious
dog. He stuck a pitchfork clean
through him and pinned him to the
earth. The owner came out very
angry, and said.
"What did you stick that pitch
fork throgh my dog for?''
'Well, what made your dog at
tack me?''
"Well, why didn't you hit him
with the other end?'
"Why, didn't he come at me with
the other end?" Laughter.
''This is just my position. If they
come at me with the teeth end 1 will
meet them with the fork end. y
Laughter and loud applause.
''The cry is that it will deprive
the poor folks and the colored peo-
pie of the privilege of getting drunk
That Is just the class that want tc
see get to heaven. These get so lit.
tie in this world. If these old rich
devils want to import it, guzzle il
down, and go to hell, let them go.
We wantto put legs on these jugs and
dimijohns and run them out oi
here.
Here are these barkeepers living
in purple and fine linen and faring
sumptuously every day, and yo.
poor negroes 60 from the saloon BY
the way of the court house to th'
chaingang. That's the route
FCrles of ''dat's the troot.] There
is a complaint that you can't get :
little for medical use. have no
tasted, touched nor handled q drol
| in nine years, and ] am as healthy
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05
He Held Fast to a Good Thing.

"Yes," said the conductor on the
Illinois Central, "I'm married at
last, boys and am mighty glad of
it. But the strangest party of the
story is how I came to meet my wife.
1t was about a year ago. One day
we stopped at one of the stations
down the lire where the track is
doubled, when there was freight
train approaching on the track west
of the station. The freight slowed
up so that passengers would have
time to cross, and then put on steam
and come along after 1 had given
the signal to my engineer to start.
But 1 stood on the ground looking
ont for passengers who might jump
off and get hurt, as 1 always do un-
der similar circumstances. On this
occasion it was we'll that l did, be-
cause a young woman came running
out of one OF the coaches of my train
and excitedly made a jump to get
off. She landed right IN my arms,
and if I hadn't been there she'd
have fallen before the freight engine
and been crushed to death Well.
boys, just held INTO her until those
two trains had passed, and they
weren't very short trains either
She was so excited didn't dare put
her down, and felt quite comfort
able the way was, anyhow, with
her heart beating against mine.
Well, in that minute and half 1 lost
my heart, and we were married a
week before Christmas She says
she always did like a man who had
sense enough to hold fast to good
thing when he had a chance. -
Chicago Herald.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05

We all lead two lives-an inner
and an outer life,-and they may be,
we had almost said, twide as the
poles asunder." +" Perhaps, even g
greater distance may part them for
while one is of necessity earthly, the
other may be in spirit heavenly.
Business and labor need be no OBJ.
struction to godliness; we may car
ry Christ with US as we engage in
them, and while they hold US for
time as with an iron grasp, We may
still commune with Christ. Here is
a forclble paragraph from the lions
Herald,
Vinet justly remarks: MANY q
hermit lives in the world, many q
man of the world lives in solitude.
Thus a very active, busy man, while
handling merchandise and doing
much business in the marts OF trade.
may be maintaining secret inter-
course with his Lord and looking Tor
divine approval of his every trans.
action. On the contrary, woman
who lives chiefly at home may be
constantly fretting because she can
not live stYlishlv, dress extrsvgantIy.
and be recognized as one OF the
queens of society. Her life is pass
ed in comparative solitude, yet her
soul is rent and torn by the storms
of worldly passion which sweeps
through it day by day. The former
is sin the world, yet not OF IT," the
latter does not move in the activs
world, yet, being filed with lts spir-
it, is manifestly ssof it." The real
life of the former is hidden from the
multitude around him as much as IL
he were a hermit Of the. desert; the.
visible life of the latter, though in
active and in measure solitary, is
nevertheless as thoroughly worldly
as If it were spent ia the crowded
psrlors Of gsiety. -. s. -, -. -
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05
A Fruitful Five-DoIlar Bill.

A little money sometimes goes ;
great way. AS an illustration of this
read the following, founded upon al
incident which is said to have really
occurred
A owed SIS to B; owed $40 to
C; c owed $40 to D; D owed $50 to
E; f owed S12 so to F; F owed $40
to A.
All of them were seated at the
same table.
A having a IS note, handed it to B
remarking that 1t paid S. of the SIS
he owed B.
B passed the note to c remarking
that it paid So of the $50 which he
owed.
c passed 1t to d and paid with it
$5 of the S15 lie owed d.
d handed it to f in part payment
of. the $50 owed him.
E gave it to f to app y Oh account
of the $3.50 due him.
F passed it back to A saying,
: This pays half of the amount 1 owe
you"
A again passed it to B saying, II
now only owe You S5.
B passed it again to c with the re-
mark, "Ths reduces my indebted
ness to you to 10.
Cagain passed 1t to d reducing
his Indebtedness to So.
D paid it over to f saying, Il now
owe yon S20.''
f handed it again to + saying,
''This reduces my Indebtedness to
you 81. .5O.'
Again F handed the note to A say
ing, Snow L do not owe you any
thing,
A passed 1t Immediately to B thus
the balance of his indebt-
edness.
B handed it to G reducing his in
debtedness to SIS.
C.cancelled the balance of his debt
10 D by handing the note to him.
D paid it again to f saying, ~
now owe you SIS.
Than f remarked to + IF you
will give me S2.50 this will settle my
Indebtedness to you"
F took $3.50 from his pocket,
handed it to E and returned the $5
tote to his pocket, and thus the spell
vas broken, the single So note hav-
ng paid $3.50 and cancelled AS
lebtedness to B: C's debt to D; e.
lebt to F and F's debt to A, and
It the same time having reduced BIS
lebt to from go to :5, and DIS to E
rom $50 to SIS.
Moral a little and there
little. helps to pay off large scores.
Money circulates from hand to hand
md business moves. Pay your
lebts--in full if you can, If you can
lot pay in full, pay something.
What helps one helps another, and
% the round Is made American
Ierchant.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05

man as you ever looked IN the face.
''If there is anything 1 hate it IS a
little quack of doctor with half a
box of pills and gallon of whisky is
going around TO doctor ali creation.
If you are a doctor and can't get
along without whisky, the quicker
you are all in the changing the het-
ter. Speech at Milledgeville.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05

MILAN REPUBLIcAN:- In response
to a call for money, to defray the
expenses of Revs. Shelton and Gra-
ham, the people at the Opera house
Sunday night, showed their gener-
osity by subscribing 5000 to them
within a few minutes. . Revs.
Shelton and Graham leave this city
for Linneus where series of meet
ings are in progress. They take
with them the best wishes of the peo-
pie of Milan and vicinity, and their
visit to this city will long be re-
membered by those interested in the
cause of christianity These SER
vices are being continued at the NJ.
E. church.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-03-05
A wATERy GRAVE.
Dave Barton Drowned in the Missouri
River Near ROcheport.

] Fayette Advertiser.
/ Messrs. George Martin and Char
| lie Mitchell, from the Ashland neiglI-
borhood, were IN town Tuesday, and
we learned from them the sad intel
lIgence of the untimely death of our
old friend, Dave Barton, of Roche
port. Particulars could not be as
certained further than Barton, to-
gether with several others, went to
the island. in the Missouri river,
Monday morning for the purpose of
shooting ducks. Shortly after their
arrival at the island, Barton fancied
lie could kill more game elsewhere,
so he left the crowd and started for
another bar short distance away.
His absence during the entire day
was thought nothing of, Us it is quite
customary for hunters to get sepa-
rated for that length of time. Upon
the party's return in the evening,
however, they discovered Barton's
skiff, gun, ETC., all crushed up in s
gorge of ice, and he was not to be
found anywhere, and hence was sup
posed to have gone down to watery
grave beneath the terrible barges of
ice. Dave Barton was well and fa-
know throughout the lower
part of the county, having long re-
sided near Whites Store. He leaves |
4 wife and children, and host of |
friends to mourn his sudden and sad |
departure.