Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1888-08-23
DAKOTA ITEMS.

/ Watertown brags on its shirt factory.
Frost has injured the garden patches
at Grand Forks.
Grow Lake boasts of the only demo-
cratic club in Jerauld county
i Work will be commenced at once on
the water-mains at Plankinton.
The Argus-I leader bemoans the fact
that Sioux Falls has no race track.
The electric light plant at Brookings
will be in working order this week.
/ Salem offers $1,000 cash, 1000 bushels
of wheat, and site, for grist will.
More headers than harvesters were
sold by Columbia dealers this season.
/ The package peddier is taking in the
j farmers in the vicinity of Vermillion,
Miss Anna Dowell will harvest 100
acres of flax on her homestead in Davl-
sCn county.
The BARRIERS at Brookings have
agreed not to open their shops on Sun
day for business.
An interesting feature of the Jerauld
county fair will be the parade of young
ladies on horseback.
Two premiums will be offered for the
fastest walking farm team at the
Aurora county fair this fall
On Friday last Macarthur & Estes, of
Clear lake. sold to Wilson & Co. 1000
steers, for which they received $65 ,O09,
1t is reported that one of Alpenas
fair damsels ate twenty-one ears of
sweet corn for dinner one day this
week.
The Tribune says that the summer
resort of the east would turn seer and
! yellow with envy if they knew of the
weather Bismarck is enjoying.
A number of horses have died re-
Gently near Running Water Of an un-
known disease. They stand around
act dull, get lean and finally die.
George Baker, of Yankton, was sem
1 fenced to fifteen days In Jail last Fri
day for maltreating his son. 1t was
shown that he had chained the boy to
Log
AT Huron gasoline stove exploded
while being filled from Il pitcher at the
residence of Dr. Tisdall. Mrs. Tisdall
is so seriously burned that her recovery
is doubtful.
Postmaster j. G. w. White, of Car
Donate, in the Black Hills, who was
short 81 ,259 in his accounts, plead guilty
to the charge in the United States court
at Deadwood.
Rev. Wilmot Whitfield, Who was once
superintendent of Methodist missions
in Dakota, has been nominated for con-
gress by the prohibtionlsts of the
/. Sioux City district.
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
in the penitentiary.
Dog polsoners are getting in their
G work at Lenncx The Independent, of
n that place, says they should be "ranked
il with ANIMALS on account of their small,
: narrow and'immoral condition
Judge Rose returned to his home at
jamestown last Saturday. and in the
evening was waited upon by a delega-
tion of fifty citizens who presented him
= with handsome chair that cost 500.
Elder Dodson, at Deadwood, has kept
cases of the young fellows who attend
= , ed camp-meeting for 1.-The sole purpose
: of creating disturbance" He threat
ened to read the list if there was any
u more monkeying.
Barrett's comedy company was billed
for Bridgewater last Friday. The
y Methodist church had been engaged
u but objections were raised to using the
church for show purposes and the
&c company was obliged to skip the town
= Julius johnson and j John Popp, while
engaged in repairing a wire fence
q were instantly killed by thunerbolt
g in Glenwood township. johnson was
r a married man and leaves widow and
three children, and Popp was in his
ID employ.
- Some would-be practical joker al
- Grand Forks the other evening secured
- 800 feet of hose, attached it to hy
drant and placed the nozzle in chIppl
house. The frail angels were upstairs
es and when they discovered it an houl
ii afterward everything in the domicil'
was flooded
A young woman stopping at the Da
kota house in Vermillion d few day
~ last week had cat that would ge
s. into nearly every room in the hous
ne and necessltate Its mistress going II
Of also. After the lady had taken he
s6 departure it was discovered that none
C. and articles of apparel were missing.
n The latest industry started IN Cantor
~ is the man buying old rubbers. Woo
u sheds, back yards and sometimes closet
,u have been searched by ambitious boy
oil who are working for revenue only
5. Many fond and indulgent parent ha
I'D missed a new pair of rubbers AM
n wrenehed the story from his heir wit
er a trunk strap that they went to th
or rubber man.
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The Undersigned will Offer at
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