Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-15
DAKorA COMBINATIONS.

at st. Lawrence.
The P%iankinton Beacon runs a pro-
hibition department.
Kiagsbury county papers are chnrgiug
$3.50 for inal proof notices.
A new elevator at ST. Thomas has a
capacity for $4,000 bushels.
Fifteen cars OF freight. were received at
Rapid City n day last week.
A ''pet" dog at Bismarck weighs 135
pounds and is eighteen years old.
Dakota's wheat crop will amount to
neatly 20,000,0o bushels this year.
1t is predicted that in two years Hot
Springs will have 1900 inhabitants.
Ducks by the thousand can be found
ut or near the source of the Jim river.
Grand Forks ~tobaggan club are pre-
pairing for the coming winter psstime.
A manufacturing iewelry establish
mens is a new Sioux Falls enterprise.
The result of the threshing in some
parts OF Brown county is diacouraging.
A potato weighing five pounds
has been left at the st. Thomas Times
office.
Michael T. Batteler has been ap-
pointed register OF the land Office at
Fargo.
A goose weighing twenty-five pounds
was shot by Henry Miller, OF Barnes
county.
The schools at Salem are closed, owing
to the prevalence of w%hooping cough
and scarlet fever.
Redfield has enjoyed more substantial
Improvements this year than during any
year of it's existence.
j. A. Lee has been appointed clerk of
the court of Dsy county vice L. A.
Bones, Of Webster, removed.
Five hundred head Of cattle were ford
ed across the Missouri at Pierre mol long
ago, a feat rarely attempted.
Telegraph Operator Robinson has
been succeeded at Redfield by F. J.
McPherson, of Oshkosh, WIS.
The mayor Of Pierre has issued a
manifesto calling for an investigation OF
the ineficiency of the fire department.
aAV. =. Il. Owen himself as
candidate for the Office of superinten.
dent of schools of Kingsbury county.
Mrs. Geo. l.. Irvine died at Sioux Falls
Tuesday OF consumption. She became
o wife lesa than two months before her
death.
The Kimball band has dissolved and
over three hundred dollars in the treas
ury was divided equally among the
members.
The Pierre Journal says the Grand
Pacific hotel, under Ben Ash's manage.
ment, is coming to tine front with light
n1ng speed.
The Leola Blade, q new exchange
from MCPHERSON county, has reached
this metropolis and is welcomed with a
warm hand shake.
A young man recently married,
living at Plankinton, has deserted his
wife and home and nothing 10 known OF
his whereabouts.
The funeral of I'll. N. Eddie which was
held ut Grand Forks last Sunday was
b largest attended funeral in the his
tory of the town.
A dozen typhoid fever patients are
cared for in the Potter county court
house hospital and new cases are de
%yeloping every day.
Wells at st. Thomas, Pembina county,
are nearly all dry and the question of q
water supply for the winter is becoming
serious. Better sink an artesian well.
The name Of the town called Booth,
in Barnes county, has been changed to
Edna, after a daughter of A. A. Booth,
the first white child born in the town.
ship.
!, A little boy aged three years was
crushed to death at. Miller the other day
by falling under the wheels of a wagon
loaded with sand. He lived only fifteen
minutes.
The, Odd Fellows lodge of Woonsocket
gave a reception and ball on the eve.
ming of the 14th Of October in celebra-
ton of the third birthday of the town,
of Wo onsocket.
The town Of Dickey, in La Moure
county, was threatened by prairie fire a
few days ago. The fire company worked
for two hours and succeeded in ex-
tin2uishing the flames before they got
into the town.
The price OF wheat is declining in
Brown county, with indications that
feed will be scarce and high. Hay was
a slim crop at the best and much of it
spoiled in the stack, while no small
amount was burned.
Leola, the county seat OF Mcpherson
county, is located in the midst Of a fertile
agricultural district. The nearest rail-.
road is twenty-five miles away but q
survey has been made and the grade
nearly completed into the town.
A heavy rain storm visited Spirk and
adjoining counties Monday night.
There was lightning and thunder In
some places and hail in others and the
air was raw and cold. The rain was
much needed, and will facilitate fall
blowing.
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