Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-02-25
DARorA COMBINATIONS.

There GRE l0S school districts iu Min.
neheha county.
Highmore has a fine prospect of get
ting q larsa steam gflst mill.
Five Pembina saloons closed their
doors TbnEs6sy on account of the local
option law,
The STANDARD oil company are about TO
made Grand Forks a distributing point
for q large extent OF country.
Owing 80 the o~YereroWded condition
of the public schools o new building
viii probably he erected 10 Madison
shisseason.
3. q. Cotton, of Ward county, owner
of q coal mine there, is Trying to make
arrangements with Grand Forks dealers
to hsndie Turtle mountain coal.
Sioux Fails will pat up o new $4,000
school house on 9th street, IS soon IS
spring opens. This will make the fifth
public school building in the city.
Work has been commenced on the
building for the new Grand Forks cream
cry. The plant will cost about $4,000,
and Is to be 10 operation. w April J..
Gay ssearns, OF De smet, the boy who
lost both feet ID eonseq aeace of being
out in the January blizz ard, cannot live
It is thought his death is only q question
of lew days.
Ed. Kennedy has gone to Caledonia,
Trail county, to complete arrangements
for tpe beginning OF work oa the grade
for the Minneapolis s. Pacific extension
from Fargo to Grand Forke.
The Farmers alliance and the united
labor party have engaged Hon. Jesse
Harper, of Illinois, for q series of twenty
lectures IA Minnehaha county en- the
iaboE and kindred questions.
Madison voted last fail 80 organize
under she law of 1887. and will elect q
fall council and a mayor this spring.
Judge Downs, the present mayor, will
probably be his own successor.
The new city directory beng compiled
by Pettibone & 10. shows Sioux Falls
to haze a population of IL 900. This
shows it to be the largest city IL Dakota.
Ten years ego Its inhsbitante numbered
700.
B. w. Caldwell and w. II, Bliss, of the
Sioux Falls Daily Press, with John
Dickinson, have formed 8 printing, litho-
graphing and book binding company,
under the name of the Press printing
company.
Il. j. Kelley, of the Grand Forks
Piaindeeler, received the sad news on
Wednesday OF the death of his father at
his home in St. Croix county, Wisconsin,
where he me with an accident that cost
him hi liz.
Inc Ainnehaha county COMMISSIONERS
meet In adjourned session Thursday at
which time a petition bearing a large
number of signatures will be presented
to them, praying for o bridge across the
river ct 9th st. in Sioux Falls.
A republican club has just been
organized at Canton, form ng 6 consti-
tntion in accordance with the rules of
the national republican club league.
The Opening session was largely attend
ed and the republicans of the oounty
will pretty generally organize into local
clubs.
The De Smet G. A. r. gave g camp
ire and dance Wednesday night. About
800 were in attendance. Prof. Updike,
of the Dakota agricultural college, ana
commander of the Dakota veterans
union, was present, and addressed the
soldiers on this achievements OF q. s.
Grant.
AT HiRhmore sentiment is rapid
~ changing against Homer James, the
ex-treasurer OF Hyde county. The in.
crease in the sum OF the deficit, and his
purchasing cattle in Iowa seem TO have
an influence in that direction. He will
be brought to Highmore at once from
Iowa, where he was arrested.
The Waiertown national bank and Da-
kota loan and trust company have NOV.
ed into their new and elegant quarters
in the large building just finished by the
above named company. This structure
10 all completed OF a cost of $75, 900, and
is considered fhe finest and best build.
ing Wess of the twin cities.
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