Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-31
*Belcw Zero.
nACoNx Us

LOCAL. EAC0Nx US
The city schools will reopen next
Monday.
January LIST, and the ferry boat still
running.
The banks and public offices will be
tomorrow.
1t is customary on this occasion to
swear of-iust o little.
Indications are that tomorrow will be
a bright, picnioky sort OF q day.
The men OF Yankton are planning to
do considerable calling tomorrow.
Tomorrow being New Years day no
paper will be issued from this office.
New Years services and midnight
OF Christ church this even
ing.
Wheat is a little on the rise, selling
all the way from se%Yentv-five to eighty
cents per bushel.
At the Methodist church this evening
there will be watch meeting from nine
o'clock until midnight.
jeff Wilcox denies most emphatically
that there are any cases OF scarlet fever
or any other contagious disease at his
hotel.
The next annual meeting of the south
Dakota educational association will be
held in this city next year, just after
Christmas.
Mrs. Sullivan will give a musical
entertainment with her pupils on some
afternoon Or evening this week, at
Wagoner's music store.
Frank Van Tassel, who returned from
Iowa Saturday night, says he left q foot
OF snow in that state and had no desire
to bring it along with him.
Professor Hart o gentleman who has
recently como to Yankton, purchased
last week 240 acres. of bottom land be-
tween the jim AMI the city.
The special meetings at the Methodist
church are increasing in interest and
will be continued each evening this
week. Rev Geo. r. Oaks will assist
Mr.. Bardick,
The second district legislative delega-
ton will leave Thursday for Blsmarck
aud Councilman Washabaugh, OF Dead
God, who IS now in Yankton, will prob
ably go with them.
A change was made in the furnace
pipes at Christ church to-day whict
speedily brought the temperature up tc
o comfortable point. 1t was cold in the
ohnrch yesterday, but this evening il
Will be warm.
Yankton hes improved sbout $500 600
during 1888, including it's electric light
water extension, school house, insane
asylum, business structures, private
residences, etc. It has been anything
but a boom year, but things go steadily
on.
At the Catholic church to-day Father
Redmond has been celebrating solemn
mass in honor of the close Of the pope'l
jubilee year, which ends t o-nigh.. There
will be no services there this evening
Tomorrow mass will be held at 6 o. M
and high mass at 8 9 M, with services il
the evening.
Peter Hober, of GAINESVILLE, Will,
crossing Jim river on the ice near hi
residence yesterday fell and %seriousl,
injured his arm. There is o d~isIocatiol
OF n OF the joints and probably q frac.
ture though the surgeon was unable /,
determine the full extent OF the hurt
because OF the swollen condition of th
arm.
The following is the programme a
Christ church, Rev. W. N. Wyatt
Klamath. rector, for New Years eve
Ills p. M. evening prayer; hymn 2s
Magnificat, Nuno Dimittie, Harvey Lob,
hymn %; Sermoa Eye know not wha
hour your Lord shall come" Offertory
hymn 80; 1890 a. m. administration
holy communion.
A couple OF prospectors who have bee
looking over the Turkey creek regio
east OF Ysnkton q few miIes ~Sassert sht
they have uncovered two formations {
coal on Dan Statford's farm. Thet
formations both crop out in the face
the creek bluff. n above the other.
is probable that o drill will be put dow
when it is expected other coal formation
will be penetrated.
A Lincoln, Nebraska, special Civ
this relative TO q wall known river ms
and ex- Yanktonian: II is reported he,
that Capt. james A. Emmons, editor
the State Democrat. who has bes
absent about six weeks in Dakota iool
Ing after some business interests, b
, discovered g wien of first class COS
thirty.six feet in thickness, on son
lands owned by him near Dickinson
the Northern Pacific in that territory.
The lecture which Rev. Ohas.
Sheldon will give in the C~ongregatioi
al church next Wednesday evening. b
been delivered to large audiences
Bangor, Maine, before the students
Boston university, and at severa. 9th
q places in New England. Ii hss evel
uhere been received with great intersl