Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-06

+. Thursday afternoon Mrs. r. j. Gam.
BILE entertained several of her lady
friends with an elaborate lunch and
this afternoon Mrs. J. Ell. c. Young pre-
sided over a like gathering, These
lunches are not progressive. The prize
goes at the first table.
Lou Seeley. living about four miles
ont of Yankton, sold 81, 100 worth of
cattle to-day to Mr.. Pearson. Mr.. Seeley
has sold $500 worth of hogs this winter,
and has now to market 500 bushels of
flax, the product of last seasons crop.
Our farmers are getting there.
The P. S. K. club, composed entirely
of small folks, gives a magic lantern ex-
hibition at MN. Matthiesen's residence,
on Pine street, this evening to which a
number OF their older friends have been
invited. The invitations bear in one
corner the inscription, Admission ten
cents" and we hope the dimes will be
numerous.
Bishop Marty and Vicar General Will
lard have decided to locate an Indian
school at Fort Thompson, otherwise
known as Grow Greek Indian agency.
Fort Thompson is convenient to the
Yanktonais and the Brules and the pat.
ronage of those bands is sufficient to fill
one school.
H. F. Lake, well known in Yankton as
u fine workman in leather and a trainer
of hunting dogs, who has for several
months past been o resident of Tyndall,
has sold out his boot and shoe business
there and will remove with his family
to Eagar, Cedar county, Nebraska, where
he will locate and open a boot and shoe
store.
As j. Wenzloff was crossing Third
street, at the intersection of Walnut
street, this afternoon, he was run into by
a team driven by Jno. T. NJ. Pierce. The
tongue of the cutter struck him in the
right side, knocking him down and for.
an instant stunning him, However no
serious injuries are the result, and as it
was purely accidental no hard feelings
ensued.
The devil in the Press and Dakotaian
lower regions throws our other egg
story into obscurity. He says his
mother had a hen which she killed the
other day ard in course of q subsequent
dissection of the fowl she found sixteen
hard shell eggs ready to be laid all in a
bunch, and-but here one of the audi
snce began to snore and the boy stopped.
Now the books are closed for sure.
A lady who has lived long in Yankton
and is largely Interested in tie preserva-
ton of its property, asserts that the first
and next thing for all the ladies of our
city to do ia to hold q fair for the bene-
fit of Yankton's tiremen. She suggests
that a committee be appointed from
each church to work up the project and
that the ladies all lend their aid to the
movement. This Is an exceedingly sensi-
BILE proposition.
The plan of yesterdays meeting IN
behalf of the. fair association is to or
ganize a new company and divide the
capital stock into twenty shares of $3.50
each. This will furnish means enough
to put the enterprise again on its feet
and 1t needs only another staff. Four
teen shares were taken at the meeting.
The project involves many improve
ments at the fair grounds and a first
class exhibition the coming fall.
A man brought a load of wood to the
city yesterday and stopped on the north
corner of Douglas avenue and Third
street for a few moments. While there
a large snake of the blue racer species
dropped from the load and wriggled its
way to the sidewalk. A Yankton man
stood there talking with another man
and they both saw the reptile at the
same time. One said to the other, chat
amt out OF my boot" and the other said
the same thing, but we have since learn
ed that they each hunted up one OF the
blank pledges usedssby the reform mems
club in days gone by, and that their
names thereon now lead all the rest.
Here is a good one on an Omaha trav-
cling man. He struck town yesterday
on the midday freight, was taken to a
hotel and had dinner, after which he
| proceeded up Third street with his grips.
When in front of the postofice O man
who was cleaning off the roof of the
Fargo block dropped q scoop full of
snow which landed on top of the travel
ing mans derby, driving it tightly down
over his ears. He made some remarks
suitable to the occasion and while he was
getting his head out of the hat some
bystanders remarked that the snow
flakes were getting smaller. After Mr..
Omaha heard this he hailed a passing
bus and went to Scotland. He told the
bus mon that there was ono thing he
never would have and that was "snc
storm in mine."
DIR. John La BARGE, OF California, who
has been soiourning in our city for the
past week, is not, as was stated yaster
day, now il the regular army, having
left the service several years ago. Aftel
looking YankUon over, he has concluded
to identify himself with our communit
f, and exchange the glorious climate O
California for the no less salubrious re
. gion of Dakota. He will become q resi-
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