Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1888-02-08

f'min search Of name tor wosdy stew
Thst's tissus OF Hes -cant you ~ - asaeS
It's . AXE you know sa
The Devil smiled the snails os viseqd;
ns scratched HE hesd from 4 e - e.
Then said ~Tes. oall tt-A DokOen Bt1Duoe4
and tho lie went forth.
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A MAN ~ The nAms ~ K~eht :, : 6Glo
living near Sharon, Pa, lost : con. = ~
recent blizzard, near wessiAeten GpsGe,
D. T. He arrived At his Psansy1va1D &
homo the other day with The bedy q -
boy, and at once tells. an Associated Rssp
reporter story Of the storm thAs ~ mnal
know is false. II, % he says, hs has yiaies1
Dakota since the blizzard. He sayS ~
terrible state Of affairs exists IN ths tss1i.
tory and that the total numbse q AssAns
will exceed 1000, although the papsrs =
that section are suppressing the fsste.
This any man who has been on The 0rsund
knows to b an absolute falsehood. II
deaths in the entire territory, havino -
ealgreater than all New EnglanA, wase
somewhere in the neighborhood Of -.
and the papers, instead Of supprsssing
the facts, have spared Mother expense nor
trouble TO secure reliable reports, and slso
TO give at length details Of individpal
bravery and pathetic stories Of suAstiig
and death. The doctor also says thae -
has seen a list Of over 500 who pssishsd. I
This, too, is as braxen = falsehood q ~
first statement. because no such nsuIher
Of people died, making II impossibls -
compile any such list. II is only chasita-
ble to say that, in his grief over ~ -.
timely loss Of his son, :he doctos's -
is unbalanced, for IN NO other ~ -
such erroneous statements b aaes1nDea
for, coming from . man Of sapFosodly
high standing.
DAKOTA has 800 banhing inslttutisa1
and it's present population = not A. fse1
GOO, 900. u
THERE was no one frpssn to dsaAA u
Sully county during the storm, but mAny
report close call.
A GOOD Touring mill 10 the gfeat an4
pressing want Of Elkton, and the Rsosv6
man is working the thing up IN trus wsat-
ern style.
ACCORDING TO recent compilaAioa d.
kota has 325 newspapers--35 dailiss, IA
weeklies, 10 quaterlies, monthlies -
semi monthlies. 2
SuLLY county peopls ara. talking - q
old settlers meeting for ths ~ -
which they contemplate an organisataso
which shall in the future have annual ~
unions.
MANY persons who were out h -
storm and escaped freezing are nOv -
fering from pneumonia and kindTsd isoa-
bles as result Of the cold cir On thelx
lungs.
M. ADAMS, writer in the Blunt AdU0-
cate OF last week, says ''the storm = ~
18th was tame affair compared NTH ~
blizzard that visited Hand county -
March, 1884," Mr.. Adams may n0t b >
prevsricator, but there are l60,ooo pee1ls
in Dakota who believe that he h labssiae
under fearful delusion. ss
THE new bank 1t whitewoo hAs bsss
opened.
POSTMASTER THOMPSON a Faisbaah
has resigned.
The supreme court Is now in ssssioa =
Bismarck.
AND now II is tannery thst III 49,
deem people are talking about.
The expediency Of organising : board q
trade at Sturgis is being inquired into.
THIRTY -YIvE carpenters End saSaAy -
ployment q whitewood; wages fron 91.Ge
to ~ per day.
| A LEAD CRY woman called spoa :
dentist recently, TO build coupls = ts61A
to replace that number .knocksd down -
throat BY brutal husband.
The cold weather and dssp SHOWS hevs
driven the wolves from their usual haan16
and pinched by hunger they - beesstno
altogether too familiar with basnyasde -
hencoops in the western part q ~ tsasi-
tory.
THE county commissioners of pp1G
county, at their session rscently 0rante6
license for the sale Of intoxicatine lqs1eo
for tho year 1883 for S5oo.
REV. RosE has resigned Nj poeiiltn =
pastor Of the Congregational eAnssas
Pierre, and in the spring viii Istsru = -
former home at Cherokee, Iosa.
| THE committee for the appsaisal a. -
taken by the Aberdeen and BismAsck Iafl-
road have adjourned TO msst = ~ sAlI n
the chairman, Joseph Hase.
In the absence Of somethiAg nors sail-
able Dakota man kcpt : tean h ~
kitchen during tho night q ths blissasd.
/ TWENTY FIVE conversions Aays yssulls1
from the protracssd nestings = A.
deem.
| ONLY three deaths in Ays ysArs = ~
death record Of Wentworth. Popsls1ea
not stated. s
i THE DeSmet LsGdsr has sntes1 ain
its sixth year, and pressats hsellAy s
pearance.
| They are talking artssiea IN =
rold.
| A pELEoAriox q Hurcnifss I'm Slllll
the ice palace = -. Paul.
/ The roller mills = Cassslbs ~
down for ~ want ~ vhsaE = ~
DAvIDsox coUrrr - = le11 ~ . - ljl r.
70 have only ons psrseA
1 Two others xeis ssve1Say Il ss|
MRs. w. q. BnocxsAx. x = u