Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-15

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Che Turner'S will hold their aunua
election this evening.
This has been town meeting day in a.
counties that have adopted civil town.
ship organization.
There are more strangers in the city
nowadays than were to be seen in days
OF the past, all of which means prosper
ity.
Professor Donetto, a one-legged dan
Ger, has struck Yankton and the city will
probably be treated to a sample of his
exhibition in the near future.
j, w. @. Morrison has been appoint.
ed executor of the estate of ID. j. Swear
engen deceased. Mr.. Morrison's bond
was filed to-day. The estate amounts
to $4,000.
President Cleveland was notified by
telegraph of the result of the debate at
Yankton college Saturday evening, add
the old gentleman is to-day possibly
wondering by what legerdemain of elo-
queuce such a result was reached.
The farm machinery merchants of
Yankton report trade in their line as
booming, This is not the only kind of
business that is booming in this city,
the business men generally report the
business this month as the best of that
of any March for several years past.
Father Martin, of the Catholic church,
OF Yankton, preached two very interest
ing sermons to his people yesterday.
Father Martin is filing thu pulpit of
the Catholic church during the absence
of Father Scallon who has charge of
a parish at White Lake, Aurora county,
for the present.
There is a Law suit in progress this
afternoon in Judge Congletop's court, in
which the Yanktcn ferry company. and
several of the stockholders of the COM
pany are the interested parties. The
decision of the court had not been rem
dered up to five o'clock, therefore we
are unable to give it.
The sidewalks along the fronts of our
business houses are piled high with
boxes, out of which the merchants are
extracting their spring goods. Proba-
bly, the most complete lines of merchan-
disc of every description, ever displayed
in the stores of Yankton, are those that
will be dealt out to the public during
the coming spring.
In the near future the firemen Of Gen.
~trevllle will give a ball for the benefit of
the fire department of that burg and as
Yankton iremen may know what it is to
be short OF money wherewith to pur-
chase suits and other necessary things
they, the Yapkton tiremen, may see
fit to go to Centreville in a body and
help the good cause along.
A hard time sociable will be one of
the events that will occur Immediately
after lent. Now if this we're Sioux Falls
or some other place where the times
were really hard, we would call it a very
appropriate affair, but in Yankton where
paupers are in demand, and every body
IS on the high road to prosperity. We fail
to appreciate why it should be called by
such q misnomer.
Rev. DR.. Dorsett stated to hlscongre-
cation yesterday morning that during his
labors as rector in YanAton, which had
extended over the three years past, he
had never observed more earnestness on
the part of his flock in matters pertain
ing to the church, or more hopeful indi-
cations of numerical and spiritual
growth, than at present during the open
ing days of the lenten season.
-Four people passed through this city
on Saturday On route for Scotland,
three of whom were of the same age, and
we're brothers. They were all of one
family and consisted OF a mother and
three infant sons. The babes were born
while the train was crossing the Mlssls-
sippi river on the way from the east.
This will seem i%ncredulous but it is
nevertheless the plain. unvarnished truth.
The first mail out of Yankton over
the Northwestern left at 6 o'clock this
morning. Mr.. Ralph M. Ward has the
contract for carrying the mail and this
morning he transported six pouches
from the postotfice to the train. This
new arrangement has upset some of the
interior workings of the postoffice force.
but MIR. Farmer expresses himself as well
pleased with the new accommodations
The mail arrives at 10 O'Clock o. a.. and
will not be distributed on the evening
of its arrival.
The lecture on the temperance CUES
ton given by Mrs. Ell. NJ. Barker, presi
dent of the w. @. T. o., at the Methodist
church last evening was not as we'll at
tended as it should have been, as The
speaker gave a very entertaining dis
course, setting forth the many facts rel
T ative to the cause she advocates in
, logical manper. 1t was an opportunity
for listening to a first class discussion o
the temperance question, and those VIII,
missed it missed q great deal. Mrs
{ Barker handled her subject deity, AM
the audience were greatly entertained
A full line of the celebrate,
> Broadhead Dress Goods. The,
, have no equal,