Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

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SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
The Brooklngs Press is printed by
steam.
A good soaking rain is needed in
Miner county.
The cemetery ut Alexandra has been
newly fenced.
Onida will remain the county seat of
Sully county.
Servant girls are scarce commodity
in Brookings.
The Sioux Falls Leader guarantees its
circulation to be 1000.
A new opera house will be built at
Carthage this summer.
Horse thieves are getting IN their
work in Brookings county.
The Brookings Press will be made a
daily paper at an early day.
One hundred and. fifty peopls dinsd at
at q hotel in Kimball last Sunday.
AT a church social at Hurley, not long
ago, ono apron was sold for five dollars
An Italian harpist and Yiolinist are
making glad the souls OF the Mitchellites.
The third annual commencement of
the Pierre university will occur the goth
inst.
The Springfield Times publishes q
column each week of interesting crop
reports.
Over $4,000 worth OF blooded stock
has gono into Brookings county this
spring.
a drum corps composed OF fifteen
drummer boys has been organized at
Mitchell.
Col. Laird, of Pierre, celebrated his
tifty-third birthday on the presidents
wedding day.
Dakota City will remove in body to
the new railroad town of Kirk in Hutch
inson county,
One hundred and eight people at
Huron have been examined for pensions
thus far this year.
The assessed valuation of property
within the corporate limits of Flandrau
will approximate $s250,000.
The June term OF court opens at
Brookings on the 9Th. There are several
divorce cases on the docket.
A fifteen pound boy baby put in al
appearance at the home of Cleveland
| Gray, at Canton, last week,
Sully county farmers kills gophsrs by
the hundred by mixing stryohnjne with
corn and scattering 1t over the feldu.
There ia large amount of fine farm
ing land in ali directions from Sioux
| Falls that is neither occupied nor farmsd
Four valuable horses belonging tc
Isaac Montague, OF Union county
which were afflicted with glanders, were
killed last week.
The Centrsviile Chronicle has com.
pleted volume three. The editor pro
fessez to be well satisfied with the bust
ness of the office.
A little girl at Brooklngs cut her face
80 badly on barbsd wire fence that il
WAS found necessary to take som,
stichsz to close the cut.
Geo. r. Freeman, of Elk Peint, sold
team of horses to Minneapolis party
last fall, for $500 which have since beer
sold in New York for $4,000.
Pukwann Press: 1t is general re
mark that grain of all kinds il
making healthy, rapid growth. A Rood
yield of every kind is certain.
| Col. John Foster, of Mitchell
addressed the six posts of Sphinx county
at Fishers Grove, near Frankfort, or
Decoration day. There were 5000 peopl,
in attendance.
Bill Fielders, the democratic war hors,
of Hughes county, immortalized himsel
during recent convention at Pierre b,
making twenty.eight different ant
distinct speeches.
Two men were killed by lightning a
Beresford, the other day, and boy VIII;
was herding cattls near by was strucl
by the bolt during the same storm ant
torn all to pieces.
w. T. 7. Bushnell, editor of the Da
kota Farmer and Miss Blarch Van PETIT
both of Huron, were made man and wifi
the and inst. So also were Grover Cleve
land and frankie Folsom.
| A Mrs. Hamilton, who lives nea
Pierre, was thrown from horse whicl
she was riding, Oh Decoration day, re-
ceiving injuries which may ca uss he
death. She was inssnslble many hours
A woman who is eighty-four years oil
reached Sioux Falls the other day
penniless, who was trying to get to th
Black Hills. A purse was mad
mp for her and she went on her way re
ioicing.
j Springfield Times: A. B. Seatoa doe
not do nytning in the way of grain, bu
as raiser of berries we believe he take
the lead of any one in Dakota. ae ha
'lfive acres of strawberries which vii