Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-08-29
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
LIouoR licenses in jamestown nov
cost ESQ.
4 ADUsINEss college will soon be located
at Aberdeen.
FBosT has injured the garden patches al
Grand Forks.
NATIVE watermelons are flooding th,
Yankton market.
The Wizard Oil company has pitched
its pavilion in Lead City.
BRYANT now has four grain houses all
In readiness for business.
MORE headers than harvesters were solo
| BY Columbia dealers this season.
The electric light plant Mt Brooking,
will be in working order this week.
THE frame work of the new county jai
at Flandnu is completed.
The Free Methodist church at Mt. Yer.
non will be dedicated next week.
THE Columbia hose company was re-
c1gunised last week. w. A. Darlington Il
chief.
ACTIVE work on the street railway al
Deadwood will not begin before mex
| week.
WINFRED wants variety Of industries
from windmill factory up to national
bank.
MISS ANNA DowDELL will harvest 100
acres of fax on her home stead in Dawson
county.
The BARRIERS at Brookings have agreed
| not to open their shops ON Sunday fol
business.
Two premiums will be offered for the
| fastest walking team at the Aurora count,
fair this fall.
EVEN the ministers of Grand Forks are
besating the city council for that Chinese
laundry deal.
NINE infants and one adult were bap-
tiEed at the Episcopal church in Bismacl
last Sunday.
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 ona of Alpena's fair
damsels ate twenty one ears of sweet corn
for DINNER one day last week.
RECENTLY Macarthur 4 Estes. of Cleal
Lake, sold to Wilson 4 Co. 1000 steers,
for which they received $6a, 900.
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, gel
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 weathe,
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.
GEoRaE BAKER, Of Yankton, was SEN
fenced to fifteen days In Jail last week foi
Malteating his son. 1t was shown that
he had chained the boy to q log.
The farmers in the vicinity of White
Lake completed their organization last
week and adopted the naMe Of Farmers
Purchasing and Shipping association.
A FOOT RACE has been arranged between
AL Fndley. of Chamberlain, and Frank
Craft, of Bijou Hills, for purse Of $500,
race to take place at Chamberlain Sept. 70.
JUDGE ROSE, having returned to his
home at jamestown. was waited upon by a
delegation Of fifty citizens who presented
him with handsome chair that cost $l00.
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 $40,
900.
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 Webber pleaded guilty to
opening and stealing the contents Of a
| registered package, and got two years iu
the penitentiary.
DOC poisoners are getting in their work
at Lennox. The Independent Of that place
saws they should be ''ranked with animals
on account of their small, narrow and
| immoral condition.
THE roller mill company at Aberdeen
been stolen. They have furnished their
night watchman with gun and whistle af-
tor being held up in the mill by tramps.
JUDGE CocHRANE. a leading attorney
Of Fargo, has taken the case of the -four
Chinamen 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 she young fellows who attended
camp meeting for "the sole purpose oi
creating disturbance" He threatened tc
read the list if there was any more
| monkeying.
PRESIDENT NcLouTH, Prot. Foster and
Prof. Keffar. Of the Brookings agricultural
college, has gone east. They will visit the
| Michigan agricultural college, after which
they will attend the national association oi
agricultural teachers at Cleveland 0.
The Commercial college at Yanktor
closed last week for vacation. II will
probably open up under new faculty, q.
| Prof. Rowell has secured the principalshiF
| Of the Canton schools, and Miss King, tn,
shorthand teacher, has accepted q position
~ amanuensis II q law Office at Huron.
PARTIES from Gloyersville, N. ", hav,