Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-08-27
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

SOUTH EtSN DAKOTA.
Court convenee at Chamberlain Sept.
21st.
Report says the Beresford creamery
has failed.
The hay harvest is grand one in
Union county.
Turner county's fair will occur Sept.
18th, 10th and 17th.
Brookings is having boom in new
residences this summer
A bicycle contest will be one of the
features of the Huron fair
Sam L. Glover has severed his connec-
tior with the Sioux Falls Press.
Kimbalps base ball club have chal-
lenged the Plankinton club for $se0
game.
| Union county anticipates the heaviest
crop of corn ever known in the history
of the county.
The Brule county normal institute
met at Kimball Monday with an atten-
dance Of sixty.
The thermometer has registered over
100 in the shade at Elk Point every day
for over week.
Mrs. Myers, of Vermillion, lectured in
Elk Point last Sunday evening, on tenn
perance education.
Half of the society people OF Vermil-
lion are out on cnmping expedition
near Akron, Iowa.
/ Grand Lecturer Young, of Milwank 4e,
is holding a school of instruction in
Huron's Masonic hall.
1 600. c." of Huron, receives many
compliments for their fine appearance
and proficiency in drill.
Helen Potter, the talented elocution-
1st, gave an entertainment in Sioux
Falls, Thursday evening.
Jerauld county farmers lost thousande
| of dollars worth of grain by not having
binding twine in season.
: One Minnehaha county farmer has
} threshed 400 bushels OF wheat which be
, sold for fifty cents per busheI,
r Capt. Kellar, of Elk Point. has applied
, for transportation for thirty-fve mer
. and three officers, to the Aberdeen en-
cRmpment.
a A petition is in circulation of Huron
a asking the president to appoint Judg,
l.. K Church of the fifth district, COVER
nor of Dakota.
r Huron's street car railroad ha
q materialized. The line was completed
q to the fair grounds and the first Cal
It was run on Thursday.
: Vermilllon grain buyers pay bette
Q price for corn than the Elk Point buy
Q ers and the consequence is that Vermil
n lion gets good deal of Union count.
corn.
i A three year old son of j L. Gordon
9 station agent at Roosevelt, in Mine
= county, was run over and instantl
!. killed by switching train last Wed
y nesday.
'r An Elk Point watermelon grange
y. 70 | has become SO incensed at the boys ft
a stealing his melons that he threatens
IN shoot the next one he finds on h
n premises.
q Jens Hanson, of Turner county, fe
az from load of Nay the other day, causin
the horses to run away and pull IL
heavy wagon over upon him, breakin
- both arms and legs. He died 500
afterward.
~ The following, Dakota postmaste
were appointed recently: Flora
80 Wagner, Brandon, sphinx county, VI
William Thompson, removed; Thorn
f. Anderson, Edgerson, Charles M
county, vice Charles w. Pratt, remove
'o Il. A. Brown, chairman Of the dem
- cratic legislative committee for +
~ eighth district, has issued call for
- convention at Woonsocbet on the 22d
September. The district is compos
of Beadie, Sanborn and Jeran
nv counties.
III. The Egan Express advertlses fol
II boy to learn the printing business aft
as the following style: "We want one W
~, will eventually learn to know more
* the trade than we do, but we don't va
lr- one who will reach the point in two
lot three months"
aat Estellins has lately suffered Sf5,t
to fire, which was supposed to have be
we caused by lightning. A 10000 bus
ley elevator, faz house and coal she
ly 5000 bushels of wheat, leo barrels
e en salt, several car loads of coal and one
;p honr were oonsumed by tide fire.
his go,