Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-08-21
building. There is a promise OF q large

attendance TINS year.
A gentleman connected with the st.
Paul Pioneer Press writes q friend in
this CITY that he has travelled over De-
kota this week, and that he finds the
southeastern corner, especially Yankto.
county, the best land in the territory.
Its an old story, but is never distasteful
or untrue.
Service at the NJ. e. church to-mor-
row morning at eleven O'Clock. The
pastor will present the cause OF missions.
All are invited to come and hear he
wonderful and encouraging facts con-
nected with mission work in foreign
lands. Nothing of greater interest can
be presented from the pulpit.
The citizens of Yankton are requested
to take notice that the Vermillion camp.
meeting will open next week, on Thurs.
day, Aug. Goth. Evangelist a. j. Bell
will be present and one of the bishops
of the NJ. L. church is expected, and also
Y%ankton's first pastor, Rev. S. Ingham.
Reduced rates on railroad, one and one
fifth fare for the round trip.
The city schools, with the exception
of the high school, will resume school
work on Monday, August 3lst, at 8
o'clock q. m. The high school opens on
Wednesday the End of September. All
theTschool rooms are being thoroughly
cleaned and made ready for the opening
of the school year, Dakota's telegraph
school also begins work again very soon.
The services at the Congregational
church tomorrow evening will be m
what out of the regular order. Mr.. Clapp
having given the W. @. T. U. the privi-
lege of occupying the pulpit. The ex.
%eroises will consist of papers or remarks
!! by the president, Mrs, Swift, Mrs. Ward,
Mrs. Hagar and others, ~interspersed by
music. A cordial invitation is extended
to all to attend.
Alderman Branch says the enclosure
about the artesian we'll is found to be n
necessity. Mischevious boys were con
tinually tampering with the valves and
thrusting things into the we'll and the
only remedy WAS to enclose the we'll in
a house and keep the door locked.
Responsible persons desirious of exhibit
ing the we'll to visitors can procure a
key from either Alderman Branch or the
superintendent OF water works.
1t is worth while to again call atten.
tion to the cobble stone gutter placed
in front of the Dudley, Richey & Gross
block on the corner of Third and
| Douglas streets. 1t is a gutter which
will stand the friction of time and travel
and stamping horses and reua1n its solid
ity. It's cost was twenty.seven cents per
foot and MIR. Gross says he could dupli-
cate it for twenty-five cents per.foot. This
would gutter q store front for 1928 and
the result is we'll worth the Investment.
John T. M. Pierce, of this city, is very
much pleased with the country which
he saT while on Ills recent trip through
Charles Mix and Douglas counties. He
remarks that the farmers have the
finest crops in that section that any
section of Dakota has produced in all
the years Of the past, and by way OF
confederation he speaks OF oats averag-
ing thirty-two bushels to the acre and
of wheat going fifteen bushels of No. ]
hard and no mistake. Mr.. Pierce met &
large number of people and he enter
| &oi,, fha ooirinn thot fhnu ora oil in
telIigent and industrious citizens and
of Just the sort that Dakota needs to
possess throughout its length an6
breadth. The Charles Mix county folks
can rest assured that u Yankton rep
r%esentative has q high opinion of them
At last nights business meeting o
company E, Arthur W. Hand was unani
mously elected first lieutenant in plac'
of John =, Pennington, ir. Llentenan
Hand has for some time held the posi-
ton of second lieutenant and has beef
an officer in every sense of the word
Third Sergeant Louis d. Sharp wa
elected by informal ballot as secon,
lieutenant, in place of Lieutenant Hand
promoted. Company e. is now com
manded by three popular gentlemen
and it will be a pleasure for those in til
ranks to do military duty. The meeting
was we'll attended, and company E vii
go into camp this year with the deter
minatlon to maintain its past reputation
as the banner company of the Dakot
national guard. Drill every night is th
programme from now until the 3lst .
August. Let every man be present i
the wish of the captain.
The Morrison house Sunday dinner
hard to beat. We have tried them an
we know.