Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-12-24

Frees salary for the adjutant general
ends with this month and the pension
also ceases with the death OF her
husband.
Ralph Ward has ordered q supply oil
toboggans, to be here in time for the
next snow.
General Lew Wallace will lecture in
the Yankton college course January oath
William Parsons FEBRUARY LIST and
George Il. Vending FEBRUARY 10Th.
These dates are now positively fixed.
Yankton and adjoining counties are
unrepresented in the farmers territorial
alliance now in session at Mitchell. The
farmers of the old settled portion Of Da-
kota are too much engrosaed in farming
operations to give time to gatherings for
the amelioration of their condition.
The are satisfied with results and do not
want to be am%eliorated,.
An "Old Bachelors reception will be
given in the G. A. r. hall next Wednes-
day evening. Thirty bachelors will serve
supper and entertain the public with
songs, general conversation and ad-
dresses. Hours, + o'clock to 10 q. m.
Admission to this novel entertainment
twenty, five cents. This promises to be
one of the very finest entertainments of
the holiday season.
SkuHIpt Hall rs V,,Lto- .1I.-.
visited Vermi!liou on Wednesday for
the purpose OF arranging with the de-
oatlng society OF the university for q
debate, on the question, "R solved, that
the jury system liz it exists to-day,
should be abolished" The debate will
occur in Vermillion some time in the
latter part of January, AMI the Yankton
college orators have been given the ai-
tirmative side of the question. The
judges will be Vermlllionltes.
General Frees remains left Yankton
st $50 this morning for Toledo, Iowa, al
which place they will arrive at 6:52 this
evening. Mrs. Free and William r.
Free, brother of the deceased, 60
through to Toledo with the body The
children renal il Yapkton for the
present. Gen. Hugh. J. Campbell. Gan.
w. IL. II. Beadle and Hon. Geo. II.
Hand accompanied the party as far az
Hawarden, Iowa, and returned at noon
to-day. Yesterdays funeral services
We're largely attended, and DR.. Wards
remarks were appropriate and touching.
The G. A. r. post had charge OF the
services, in accordance with wishes fire.
quently expressed by General Free.
A delicate task has been entrusted to
the Press and Dakotaian, one which we
undertake with more Willingness be-
cause to morrow is to DO a holiday and
our garrison ls to be absent all day from
its fortress. 1t is not only a delicate
task, bat also a painful one. 1t relates
to the ladies OF Yapkton, and we ask
right here that these OF the adorable
sex who feel that they may be offended
by what is coming will skip the balance
of this paragraph and turn to some other
subject. III our newspaper experience
We have never before been placed in a
situation which called for q similar re.
guest. The committee in charge OF the
lecture course d~esire-that is, they ask us
to desire-to convey to the intellectual
beings whose presence adds such q hal
lowed charm to all public gatherings in
Yankton, the intimation that their big
hats are a sort of a nuisance in an audi
ence. This is the way the lecture CON.
mittee feel about it, though they would
not have a suspicion OF this go abroad,
not for all the hats in town. They ask
us to suggest, in some OF those polite
and suave expressions for which we are
especially noted, that the ladies who at
tend next Mondays lecture either wear
very small hats or go bareheaded. We
have done u duty and now fall back to
observe the consequences.