Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-17

Territorial Items.
THE new bank at Whitewoo has been
opened.
POSTMASTER THOMPSON a. Fairbank
has resigned.
The supreme court is now in session at
Bismarck.
AND now it is a tannery that the Aber-
deem people are talking about.
THE roller mills at Casselton are shut
down for the want of wheat to grind.
The expediency of organizing board of
trade at Sturgis is being inquired into.
THIRTY FIVE carpenters find steady en-
ployment at Whitewood: wages from $3.50
to 81 per day.
A LEAD CITY woman called upon a
dentist recently. to build a couple of teeth
to replace that number knocked down her
throat" by brutal husband.
THE cold weather and deep SHOWS have
driven the wolves from their usual haunts.
and pinched by hunger they are becoming
hencoops in the western part of the terri
tory.
THE county commissioners of Douglas
county, at their session recently granted
license for the sale of Intoxicating liquors
for the year 1883 for $500.
REV. Rose has resigned his position as
pastor of the Congregational church.
Pierre, and in the spring will return to his
former home at Cherokee, Iowa.
The committee for the appraisal of lands
taken by the Aberdeen and Bismarck rail-
road have adjourned to meet at the call of
the chairman, Joseph Hare.
In the absence of something more suit
able Dakota man kept team in his
kitchen during the night of the blizzard.
TWENTY-FIVE conversions have resulted
from the protracted meetings at Aber-
| deem.
ONLY three deaths in five years is the
death record Of Wentworth. Population
not stated.
THE DeSmet Leader has entered upon
its sixth year, and presents a healthy APP
pearance.
THEY are talking artesian we'll in Har-
rold.
A DELEGATION of Huronites will visit
the ice palace at ST. Paul.
AN ice cutter at Huron the other morn
ing caught a catfish two and half feet
long.
DAVIDSON COUNTY was so fortunate as
to have only one person frozen to death
Two others We're severely injured.
Mrs. W. L. BRocKMAN. at Huron, had
the misfortune to fall down the stairs at
her residence, sustaining quite severe in
juries.
sold the last of sixty-fve hogs in market
the other day. Each Of these sixty five
netted him $50 per head.
RECENTLY. at Bismarck, w. R. Moffatt
one Of the editors of the Dakota Settler.
was severely beaten over the head with the
butt end of pistol by J. Griffin. saloon
keeper. heavy cap is all that saved the
EDITORS life.
HILL CITY is afflicted with measles in ;
very virulent form.
EG!AN complains of scarcity of coal.
SoRGHUMis said to be practical cro]
i i'll Dakota. Some claim to have realized
as high as 500 per acre. Of course ther,
is considerable labor involved.
MORE cattle and hogs and less wheat i.
the watchword in Dakota.
SCOTLAND is glad that it is on the mail
line Of the Milwaukee road.
THERE is a fatal epidemic among the
dogs at Winfre |. Lake county.
The Methodist revival meeting is Still
the chief attraction at Aberdeen
The Fargo social club disbanded, ant
has re- organized. On with the dance!
The Masonic lodge at Egan has received
a nice set of triple plated jewels.
TYNDALL hauls it's beer from Scotlan,
in wagons while the railroad is blockaded
IT is said that the stock losses in 30,
Homme county will not exceed 800 head
THE Odd-Fellows at Egan are preparing
for grand dance on the 22d of February
THE city mill at Huron is great
crowded with an unusual amount of Gus
tom.
The location of the north Dakota agri
cultural fair for 1888 will not be fxe,
until April 10.
DAKOTA farmers expect to expend tn
greater part of their energies next seaso
on corn raising.
INcANDEscENr lights were placed in tn
First National bank and Salisbury Bros
at Aberdeen lately.
ADAM GERNER, father of the operate
at Iroquois, was lost in the storm and Der
ished. His body was not found for severn
days.