Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-15
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The Valley Sprinos Enterprise has
commenced volume three. The Enter
prise has been recently enlarged and is
marked Improvement.
The Wilmot, Roberts county, Reporter !
is q new addition to our exchange list,
Johnson & Co., publishers. 1t is neat
and newsy and We predict success.
Woonsecket Times: County Super
intendent Meyer has just apportion-
cd S1,62S.10 among the schools Of the
county. for the frstiquarter of1ss6.
The Republican tells of an elegant re.
ception given by MIR. and Mrs. g. W..
Taylor, of Mitchell, on Friday evening,
ia honor Of Mrs. Lawton, of Cedar
Rapids.
The business men OF DeS,net have
offered to give $1,000 toward the erec-
ton OF O court house providing the
county issues bonds for $4,000 for that
purpose.
Hans Johnson and Nels Anderson
were arrested in Roberts county the
other day On suspicion of being the men
who attempted a murder in Minnesota
last week.
Members of the G.. A. r. of central Da-
kota are planning to hold q grand camp
fire on the grounds occupied by Capt.
Kennedy and his scouts IN the Indian
war of 1862.
/ 81 Rrnnkinr p Nnt,,tu hnnrI pf hao1th hoe
ordered killed a number of horses sup
posed 80 have the glanders. The only
sure way Of preventing a spread of the
horrible disease.
Hur,nite: Moro than 1000 babies
were born in eight counties of the Jim
river valley last year. More than 5000
have been born In the same area during
the past five years.
G. w. Wright who has been postmas.
ter at Wentworth, Lake coanty, ever
since Wentworth had a postofice. kas
been superseded by @. II. Weiss. the
new democratic appointee.
Some Norway, Turner county, young
ladies are agitating the circulation CT q
pledge by which the signers. refuse to
associate with any young man who
drinka. smokes or CANDLES.
Mitchell Republican: Mrs. Brakeman,
living east of the James river, near Cor
neil, was found dead in her bed a few
days since, having retired the evening
previous in apparent health.
1 ST. rn,
The Olivet Record says: The crop
acreage in Hutchinson coanty this year
will be immense. Our farmers will put
IN the ground the largest crop ever
known in the history of the county.
The friends OF MI. and Mrs. O. E.
Hinds, of Woonsocket, perpetrated a
very pleasant surprise upon them one
evening last week, it being the occasion
of their twelfth wedding anniversary.
The stable and contents of George
Archibald, of Brown county, consisting
OF a pair Of oxen, three cows, hay, seed
wheat, farming implements etc, were
entirely destroyed by q prairie fire a
short time ago.
Dakota City Advance: DR.. Carr, of
Midtown, passed examination before the
territorial board OF health, whlch met.
at Huron March 28tb, 1886. The doc
tor has worked up q large practice, and
we are glad to hear OF his success.
Carthage Prairie Home: Everywhere
IN south Dakota WI note a gradual, but
very perceptible advance over the ap-
p%earancs and prospects of one year ago.
The farmers are putting in larger crops,
and doing their work more thoroughly
than ever before; only such work will
pay.
J.D. WEIGH, an enterprising farmer of
Hutchinson county. who owns $50 acres
OF choice land, informs the Dakota City
Advance that in 1885 he .hreshed out
lS9 bushels of wheat, 149 OF rye, seven
bushels OF timothy seed, 1880 bushels of
oata, Ss4 bushels of fax, and gathered
200 bushels of corn.
A Diana, Sanborn county man, recent
" incurred the i'll will OF a young lady
to such nm extent that she poured boil
ing water on his COW. He subsequently
published a card in a LEGAL paper warn
ing all COWS to beware of said young
lady n her hot water.
The Blunt Times takes exception to
the action of the county commissioners
in allowing q bill of $500 to help delray
t~he.expense of representatives of tho
county in laboring for the opening to
settlement of the southern portion Of
the county in connection with the pas.
sage Of the Dawes bill.
A x. M. CA. has been organized at
Sioux Falls with one hundred and
thirty members. The officers are: A.
d. TUFTS. president; A. s. Brown and G.
S. Fulford, vice presidents; G. r. Dean,
secretary; A. Bevsridge, treasurer; @.
s. Palmer, John Sella, E. W. Bryant and
I. w. Bloomfield, directors.
Wakonda has a harness shop, a good
hotel, butcher shop, wagon factory, two
blacksmith shops, two lumber yards,
two hardware stores, two dry goods
stores, two grain buyers, three coal yards,
a bank. drugstore. good stock yards,
and Wakonda wants a millinery store
before she will be happy,
The Rec Heights Free Press reports
great damage from prairie fires in Hand
county. DR.. Wood lost his barn, and 100