Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
most all his material and hire tho

workmen IN Yankton.
The new artesian we'll is still yielding
coal, but ii is of An inferior quality. In
fact it is not coal and hardly reaches the
grade OF ignite. In the course of a. few
thousand years, if left undisturbed, it
might make good coal.
Bishop Hare will be in Yankton We'd
nesday and will administer the rite OF
confirmation to all who desire to become
members of Christ church. He will also
examine the children of the Sunday
school and give prizes TO the deserving
ones.
Trip is the name OF the junction
town on the Milwaukee extension from
Scotland. The next town north in the
Mitchell direction is Kirk and the next
Ethan. The two towns on the Douglas
county extension are belmont and
Armour.
John tanning, of Springfield, an old
timer, has sent q peck of green peas to
the Press and Dakoteian with a card ex-
pltlilDR tu0 Aldlls A0 say = l. SCC
by your last issue that my brother
gardener, Box, will give you green peas
by the 10th inst. l thought you might
tire waiting, so accept express package
with compliments"
The second story of the Hawley &
Co. block, now under way, has been
rented to the Yankton fire insurance
company for @ period of five years, with
q privilege of ten. The rooms will be
arranged to suit the secretary, and a
fire proof vault, steam heating apparatus
and water from the city system will be
put in. This will give the Yankton a
very complete suite of ooms.
The Ysnkton base ball club went to
Vermillion on Saturday to play a game
of base ball with the Vermillion club,
and although they were beaten fairly
and squarely, they feel that the Yer
million boys had to play, and that they
earned their victory. The Yanktor
boys were handsomely treated, and the
visit to Vermillion was very pleasant
The score wal eight to twelve.
Master Harry. Mitchell, nephew o
. John Horan, foreman of the milwaukee,
machine shops, died yesterday afternoon
at two o'clock of a complication 0
= diseases. The boy was one OF the twin
!. children of Mr.. Horan's sister, who is al
invalid and Is being treated in Chicago
the boys having been, in the meantime
). left with her brother III Yankton. MI
Koran and family left this morning TO
Milwaukee with the body, where it vii
= be inferred.
At a meeting of the Ysnkton colleg
literary society, held Friday afternoon
officers for the fall term of 1886 wer'
elected as follows: Ell. w. Jamisor
president; E. w. Quincy, vice president
. L. A. Shatswell, secretary; e. G.. Wenz
: laff, treasurer; F. G. Pound, ohoristei
A highly interesting latin Grafton wa
+ given by Mr.. Wenzlatf. The Artistic
mans hold no meeting Friday, but /
the meeting of the Phllomatheana a YER
:. interesting programme was carried ou
: Ths societies will not meet again unit
s the first Friday after the opening
E school in September.
About n O'Clock Saturday two tray
ly cling men were seen making their wa
E up Third street bearing fishing pole
r. and tackle. They accosted q small be
: as to where the festive sucker might t
found, and the youth, with all his inn'
%cence, promptly offered to direct thel
to such a place and they followed him
the sand bar and there in O mud no
i'd without moro than a single inch
"a water In it they east their hooks and pr
ceedsd to await the first nibble. Tht
waited and had it not been for Il
CO crowd which had followed them at son
distance and stopped at the edge OF Il
ce bluffs they would have bsen waiting "
The boy he'd himself away and from
distance remarked that no suckers We:
ever 6 in Ysnkton except t~ravelln
nc men.
u Although the younger portion
Yankton's society attend and eni
many pleasant evening parties, it is ST
~ dom that they pass a moro snloyss
svening than that of Saturday last, VIII
ea the young folks to the number of abo
III fifty gathered at the residence OF Nj.
Mattheiaen, on Pine street, in respon
'oi to invitations extended by the Miss
on Mattheisen, in honor of Miss Maud Ell
man, of Sioux City. Weather OF t
90 most charming character favored
90 affair and the porticos of the house o
the hammocks swung on the lawn
ceived due attention. Within
GU house chatting and dancing were
4 means OF entertainment and the elegs
refreshments were highly appreolat'
mo 1t was an evening full of enjoyment,
yes mirably arranged for and most sacce
ga fully carried out.
.ar. Photographtc.
snd uems arc now Oh eAIioi.on -
palace studio on Third street in the C
of Yankton which cannot be excel
noeven by Brand of Chicago. In the c
rdv lection of pictures which visitors see
on a great many which were made in ]
inc Angeles. California, and other pla'
under circumstance most adverse,