Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-06-26
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Parker 10 TO have q Fourth OF Jul
celebration.
Beresford will celebrate the Fourtl
with a grand time.
Mary Lebolsy Of Larimore is in GRAM
Forks in custody, pending an investiga
tion by the lunacy commissioners as (,
her sanity.
A paper containing 200 names 10 i,
circulation in Beadle county, endorsing
the candidacy of Hugh j. Campbell TO
delegate in congress.
Preparations have been made for hold
ing o big celebration at Devils Lake OF
the Fonrth OF July. Judge Palmer o
Sioux Falls will deliver an grafton.
The grand lodge of Good TempIar
adjourned to meet at Webster, Day
county, next June. The Woonsocke
Times was made the official paper of The
organization.
The N. j. camp meeting is in progress
at Beresford. The tabernacle tent ii
pitched in town, and q large number
from abroad are in attendance, and con,
siderable interest is manifested.
The Beadle county republican con-
v%ention has been called for July 10th to
select delegates to the congressional
convention at WATERFOWL, and for Sept
18th to nominate county officers.
The old county seat OF Sanborn coun-
ty, F~orestburg, is being depopula,ed
and its buildings moved to Woonsocket.
In q short time nothing will remain to
mark the former county seat except
the saEd knobs.
a telegram from Hartford, Conn.,, an
nounces that Aberdeen's famous horse
Thornsess, by Dauntless, out of Lucy
Thorn, made the memorable time OF
2:l3135 at that city Thursday, winning
first money in the 2:2S class rsce of seven
heats. 3sl5 81
The procee dings of the Faulkton
councll last year relative to the sinking
OF an artesian we'll having proved illegal,
the new city council has called an cleo
ton ON Saturday, June 30, TO vote on
the question Of issuing $4,000 in bonds
for the sinking of q well and procuring
lire apparatus for the city.
Sir Knights James Rae, L. q. Crane,
s. 2. Rucker,, d. M. Holmes, j. G.,
Rusche, James jerks, Charles Holt, T.
A. Flint, Il. F. Arnold. Colo Topping
and George i Winship left Grand Forks
Friday Tor Winnipeg, upon the inYita-
ton of the commandesy there to attend
st. Johns day celebration.
Thursday night in q Chamberlain
saloon the proprietor, Atwaser, was
slasned and severely out by o travelling
man. City Marshal Foster arrested the
assailant, and while taking him to the
lock up he attempted to escape and the
marshal lodged 9 ball in his hip. Both
Atwater and Buel are seriously hurt.
About the time the prohibitory law
went into effect in Bookings the CITY
council passed en- ordinance forbiddlng
the owners of billiard halls to allow
minors to frequent their places of bust.
ness to play any games OF chance. Fri.
day the owners OF u OF the places was
brought before Judge Sweezay to an
swer TO the charge of violating tie ordi.
nance, and was fined, including costs,
$3.50.
Alargely signed petition is being or.
oulsted asking that the local option Law
be re-submitted to a vote Of the people
OF Beadle county in November. At THU
election it is required that there shall be
the names OF one-third of the legal voters
on the petition for the commissioners to
act upon. There Is no doubt OF this
nnmbsr being secured. Several saloons
are selling on the sly In Huron, yet pay
no revenue.
There Is an authoritative assertion
floating about the 500 headquarters in
Minneapolis to the effect that the 500
road will not be ironed to Bismarck. this
year, and that the old Lowry company
will forfeit the Bismarck bonus, raised
on condition that the locomotive should
be there before Christmas. The bond
negotiations have been too slow for the
completion Of the work this year. /,
will follow next spring.
The following were elected officers ;oi
the Dakota medical society for the ensu.
ing yeas: A. Andres, Mitchell, presi-
dent: s. J.. Coyne, Aberdeen, first vice
president; j. W. Freeman. Central City
second vice president; Fl. Emenult
Aberdeen, secretary; s, L. Halverson,
Mitchell secretary; w. H. Lane. Miller,
treasurer; r.. B. Van Velsor, Yankton, T,
S. Spafford, Flandreau, and j. Kutue-
wary, Redfield, board of cspsors.
To Reduce the surplus.
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