Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-21
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the state league. appears in this issue
Under the platform of the state league
courtyard township leagues are to be
formed and the mother county is asked
to take a hand in the organization. The
meeting ia to be held next week Friday.
Mrs. Frances A. Gregory died this
afternoon. at the residence of her son.
in-law, r. W. Burns, in the sixty ninth
year of her age. She had been an
invalid for a number of years and had
failed rapidly during the past few
weeks. The funeral will take place to-
morrow afternoon at five o'clock, from
Christ church.
Gamble Brothers have SO increased
their business in the past year, that they
have been compelled to enlarge their
office room and have accordingly taken
the rooms recently occupied by Miss
Sheldon as a studio, in Dewitt's block
adjoining, and have had their present
quarters connected with that room by a
door. This gives them the most COM
plete suite of rooms in the CITY, if not in
Dakota.
The Iankton Herald has conferred q
lasting benefit On mankind. IL has dis.
covered the Yankton ring and has
printed q steelplate engraving of the in
stitntion. As usual, there is a woman in
it, though she is very old and decrepit
and the Herald does not manifest good
taste in trotting her out at this late
period Of her existence. A dlscr1minat-
ing public will frown upon it's effort,
well meant though it may be.
Another interesting gospel meeting
was held at the roller rink last evening,
and interest is picking up p%erceptibly
in the work. Mr.. Bells logical address.
ses are listened to with much attention
and considerable good isthe result. A
golden harvest is looked for in Yankton,
and all that is needed to help the good
work along is a large attendance at
these meetings. Seats for 1900 people are
waiting to be filled and everybody is in
vited.
D.. P. Wilcox, who returned last even
ing from Watertown, where the grand
lodge of Dakota. I. o. o. b., recently
met, speaks in the most complimentary
terms Of WatertowD and its people. He
says that he has attended many pub
lie gatherings IN his day, but never had
seen visitors SO royalty entertained
as were the recent visitors to Water
town. His visit to that place will al
ways be remembered among the pleas
antries of Dakota life.
Il. B. Murphy loaded up his gun in
the middle of last night and stole forth
from his back door to his sheep pen,
where several dogs were congregated,
with designs on Murphy's mutton. Mr..
Ms only "kivering" vas the light of the
moon and q pair of socks, and he pre-
sented rather a ghostly picture as he
picked his way over Simpsons machin-
cry and around among the dogs and
sheep. He counts as the result of his
hunt the howls of one dog at which he
fred.
Geo. w. Lynn, a young man who for
q year past has been studying in the
law Office of Gamble Brothers, left this
morning for Bowdle, Edmunds county,
Dakota, where he will hang out his
single as attorney at law. MI. Lynn,
during his stay in -Yankton. has made
many friends socially and his close at
tention to business and aptitude in his
studies have given him q standing in
the business world. He is a young man
of promise and his friends will ever have
a watchful eye on his progress up the
legal ladder. For his acquaintances in
this city we wish him success in his new
field of labors.
The street sprinkler hydrant on Third
street broke loose last evening and fol
half an hour the city fathers, the
superintendent of water works and the
other officials were wading around in
mud up to their knees, and the air was
filled with sulphurous emanatiops and
the howls OF the spectators. as some
official ventured too near the water and
was given an involuntary shower bath
Finally Robert Campbell, who happened
that way, procured some tools and
frightened the hydrant connection SO the
leak was stopped and further waste Of
precious water was obviated. As it waa
a considerable supply flowed down the
street.
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