Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-17
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

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soUTHERH DAKOTA.
The W%oonsocket Times, is offered for
sale.
Cayour aims to beconaa a manufactur-
ing point.
Eden has thirteen members OF its @.
A. r. post.
sanborn county is prolific in news
papers. 1t has six.
Fifteen residences are now in process
Ct erection at Haron.
Seeding will begin in Bookings conn
ty the last of the month.
KimbaiI is looking forward to 8 brisk
building boom this summer. s
A Grand Army post was organized in
Bridgewaser Monday the 18th. teta
AN abundant crop Id .Bfule county is
one Of the expectations for tits season.
The city of ksdfsld proposes to Sink
an artesian well at the expenee of the
city.
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The B~ridgewater cornet band has
been r~eorganized ahd pracsic Is twice a
week.
j. L. Fairs Co. Of Sioux City, have
established a branch creamery at Yer
million.
A K~ingsb,alr.y5 count, teaehe.rs' insti-
tute4wlll be held in De Smet. April 5th.
and 9th.
Company 9. D. N. g, located at
Huron, has decided TO purchase new
uniforms. .,s.
The Mitchell postofice will be made
second class April LIST. Salary $4,000
per aunum.
Vermillion's city hall, which was com
menced two years ego, Is fast approach
ing completion.
A presentation Of the opera of The
Mikado is being arranged 10 be given
at Sioux Falls after lent.
a number Of pieces Of float coal were
brought up daring the drilling of IN ar
tesian we'll at Plank1nton.
The Odd Fellows Of central Dakota
viii celebrate the organization of the
order at W~oonsocket, April goth. l"
The Knights Templar of Sioux Falls
have challenged the Knights of Pythias,
OF the came place, to o competitive drill.
L. B. Martin, of Parker, has lately re-
ceived $2,700 back pension and will re.
ceive twelve dollars per mouth here
after. Mtt ~
Plankinton school teachers paid
Mitchell a visit o short time ago for the
purpose of inquiring into Mitchell's way
of constructing a school.
Goal costs twelve dollars q ton at
Huron. Added to this is the weight OF
q burIy driver who stands on. the scales
when the load is weighed.
The Leader takes pride in the location
of De Smet which it claims is exactly in
the center of one ofthe best agricultural
districts In southern Dakota. 2
Pierre's homo talent rendered the
"Rebellion" in an acceptable manner on
tive evenings last week for the benefit OF
the g. A. r. of that place.
A gambler, named Marks, shot and
killed o bar tender, by the nam OF
Garyey, at Miller, the other day. There
was talk of lynching the murderer.
A young physician at Blunt will have
to answer to the next grand jury ON the
charge Of aiding young girl who had
been betrayed, in hiding her shame.
The people, of Nadia on have recently
voted to bond the city to the extent Of
sS25, 600 for the rebuilding Of the normal
school building. lately consumed by fire,
ASMiner county man made a bet that
Dakota was not as; large as the New
England states and New York COM
bined. The Miner county man lost his
bet. 4gg8st4ao8 s85s8aEaG
"A three foot vein of coal is said to
have been struck or the Ashley farm in
Charles Mix county, at a depth Of fifty
seven fest. A shaft will be sunk at
once.
can English Dakota School Diction-
ary' has just been published. 1t is o
dictionary OF the English language with
its Sioux equivalents, compiled by Rev.
J.P. Williamson of Yankton agency.
Since Vermillion was incorporated it
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has 9 ' had but two mayors. Col.
Jolly was the FIRST, then D-. Burdick
served for v years being followed
by Col. Jolly, who still holds the fort.
/ Sioux Falls has established o working
mems resert--a reading room-where
the working classes can meet in the
evening and play cards, dominoes, chess
and checkers. No drinking, gambling
or profanity ia allowed. .ftol
The Dakota Coal Economizer com
pany was incorporated in Huron, the
16th,F. 81. Hnrd president, E. s. Baldwin
treasurer, B. nj. Rowiey secretary. The
company will manufacture for sale d
compound that will save from twenty
to thirty ger cent.in the use of coal.
Mr.. David Conway died suddenly, of
bronchitis. at Hurley, March 10th, aged
seyenty-two years. Mr.. Conway was
one Of the Oldest Odd Fellows in the
United States having been a member
of the order for ' e fifty years. he
was likewise one OF the pioneer settlers of
Turner county, having resided there
fourteen years.