Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-31
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

ACTIVE work on the street railway a,
Deadwood will not begin before next
week.
W1NFRED wants variety of industries
from windmill factory up to n national
bank
MISS ANNA DowDEL1 will harvest 100
acres of fax on her homestead in Dawson
county.
The BARRIERS at Brookings have agreed
not to open their shops on Sunday for
business.
Two premiums will be offered for the
fastest walking team at the Aurora county
fair this fall.
EVEN the ministers of Grand Forks are
beratine TIE sssy council for that Chinese
laundry deal
NINE infants and one adult were bap-
tized at the Episcopal church in Bismack
last Sunday.
A CHILD of George Wise, of Mandan,
died last week from the effects of eating
canned corn.
AN interesting feature of the Jerauld
county fair will be the parade of young
ladies on horseback.
IT is reported that one Of Alpena's fair
damsels ate twenty-one ears of sweet corn
for dinner one day last week.
RECENTLY Macarthur & Estes. of Clear
Lake. sold to Wilson & Co. 1900 steers,
for which they received $500
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
railway company is opening new station
six miles northwest of Bryant. 1t is called
Kent.
A CITIZEN of Aberdeen turned detective
and succeeded in capturing one of the
thieves who have infested the city re-
Gently.
THE police of Grand Forks are pulling
the saloons. The saloonkeepers pay a
fine of $50 each and keep on selling just
the same.
A NUMBER of horses have died recently
near Running Water of an unknown dis
ease. They stand around, act dull, get
lean and finally die.
THE grand lodge of Knights of Pythias
met recently at Wahpeton. Thirty lodges
sent delegates, and several hundred visitors
were in attendance.
The Tribune says that the summer re-
sorts of the east would turn seer and yell
low with envy if they knew of the weather
that Bismarck is ENJOYING.
REV. J. w. DAVIS, pastor of the Con-
gregational church at Rapid City, has re-
signed and will take charge of the Congre-
gational church at Neigh, Neb.
GEORGE BAKER, of Yankton, was SEN
fenced to fifteen days in Jail last week for
maltreating his son. 1t was shown that
he had chained the boy to a log.
The farmers in the vicinity of White
Lake completed their organization last
week and adopted the name of Farmers
Purchasing and Shipping association.
FOOT RACE has been arranged between
al Findley. of Chamberlain, and Frank
Graft, of Bijou Hills, for purse of $500,
race to take place at Chamberlain Sept. 20.
JUDGE ROSE, having returned to his
home at jamestown, was waited upon by n
delegation of fifty citizens who presented
him with handsome chair that cost 500.
The famous Stark farm south of Bis
marck, known to many as the Robert
Macinder farm, has been sold to James
keeney,of Chicago, for the sum of $780,
coo.
j. T. KITCHEN, of St. Lawrence, at
tempted recently TO uncap a loaded shell,
when it exploded, tearing off the index
finger of his left hand and badly mangling
the hand.
In THE United States court at Dead
wood William Weber pleaded guilty to
opening and stealing the contents of q
registered package, and got TWO years in
the Ienitentiary.
DOG prisoners are getting in their work
at Lennox. The Independent of that place
SAYS they should be 'ranked with animals
on account of their small, narrow ant,
immoral condition.
THE roller mill company at Aberdeen
has locked the door after the steed has
been stolen. They have furnished their
night Waterman with gun and whistle af-
ter being held up in the mill by tramps.
JUDGE CocHRANE. leading attorney
of Fargo, has taken the case of the four
Cinnamon recently fined there in hand.
and positively asserts his ability to make
the city disgorge the amount of the fines.
ELDER DoBsoN, at Deadwood, has kept
cases on the young fellows VINO attended
camp meeting for "the sole purpose of
creating a disturbance" He threatened to
read the list if there was any more
monkeylng.
PRESIDENT McLouTH, Prof. Foster and
Prof. KetfAr, of the Brookings agricultural
college, has gone east. They will visit the
Michigan agricultural college, after which
they will attend the national association Of
agricultural teachers at Cleveland O..
THE Commercial college at Yankton
closed last week for vacation. 1t will
probably open up under new faculty, as
Prof Rowell has secured the principalship
Of the Canton schools, and Miss King. the
shorthand teacher, has accepted position
as amanliensis in a law Office at Huron.
PARTIES from Gloversville, n. Y. have
purchased the corner opposite the Bank of
Groton. at Groton, and will soon begin
the erection of a $4,000 brick hotel, to be
furnished in modern style and finished by
December /.
TWENTY-FIVE men at work on sewers
and number at work on the Union Bank
ing block at Aberdeen struck for higher
wages few days ago. They had each
heen receiyinn 81 20 nor day hnt demand :