Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1890-08-28
A light frost Friday night.
. What is the matter with the tomato

one year ago.
Grapes, melons, pears and peaches at
Pioneer drug store.
The native watermelon appears to be
rather small this year.
Guns to rent and shells loaded to
order at j. G. Murphy's.
B. b. Allen bought the hay stacker
at the sheriff's sale Saturday.
Painter Davy is busy at work putting
an extra finish on the inside of w. ii.
Robertson's new house.
The small boys are having lots of fun
with their foot ball, and Charlie Wood
ward and the rest of us occasionally
kick.
Farmers were numerous in town
Saturday, and the merchants had to
get hustle OH themselves to supply
their many wants.
The fourth annual catalogue of the
Scotland academy has been received,
and shows an enrolment of sixty
pupils in literary department.
The rains of Saturday and Sunday
soaked the ground in fine shape, and
the grass and trees have assumed hue
of deeper green as a result thereof.
Mr.. Amund Sorensen and Miss Mary
johnson, of Daneville, were on Tues
day. the 10Th inst, joined in the holy
bonds of matrimony by Judge Allen. of
Hurley.
Geo. Alcock is going to have an
auction sale one week from Saturday,
(Sept, 6) when he will dispose of his
household goods, billiard tables and
barber shop outfit.
L. r. Alderman was the successful
competitor for the prize offered by DR..
Miller, of Marion, during the normal
school, to be given for the best half
hour essay on hygiene.
The Baptist Sunday schools of South
Dakota will hold a Harvest Home Fes-
tiyal at their several places of meeting,
Sunday, Sept. IA, 1890. q very inter
esting program has been arranged.
Sec'y Danforth has the Herald's
thanks foroa complimentary ticket of
admission to seventh annual fair of the
Turner Co. Agricultural society, which
is to be held at Parker, Sept. "a, 25
and 26.
Benson Bros, on the Pape farm
southwest of Swan Lake, had 81 acres
of flax this year which they are thresh-
ing this week. The yield is 1919 bus.
per acre. at the present price this
will bring them over $1,000.
A correspondent writing from Adelia
Turner county, says that wheat is
threshing out about 10 bushels to the
acre; oats 40 to IS bushels; and fax z to
8. Corn has wonderfully improved
since the recent rains and will yield
25 or 80 bushels and probably more
Yankton Press.
The Lennox Independent says that
town "has made push this year that
is worthy of notice. She has put ST..
100000 in buildings" Say, Haas, didn't
you steal that item out of some boom.
town, or first-class city paper. and for.
get to give credit? You sometimes dc
such things, you know.
w. II. Carr returned Saturday even.
ing from his trip to Duluth and Super.
ior. Walter is firm in his opinion tha,
Superior is the metropolis of the north
west, and that in ten years time it viii
be surpassed in Importance and popu
lation by no city in the west save
Chicago. The Herald believes his
Judgment is.correct.
II there is Il person in Turner county
or anywhere else for that matter, who
thinks apples will not grow in South
Dakota, we advise them to visit tn,
Alderman Fruit Farm, two miles soutt
of Hurley, and view for themselYe
trees hanging full of as fine fruit a!
ever grew, of the Duchess, Wealth,
and Whitney varieties.
i
Up to the time of going to pres
nothing definite has been heard iron
the Mitchell convention, and thing
are SO badly mixed that each of ou
readers had better guess for themselve
as to the final outcome. 1t now look
as though the old state ticket would b.
renominated, and Picker and Gambl
for congress.
In the death of Z. j. jerks, Tnrne
county loses one of its most valued an,
upright citizens, and his departure
sincerely mourned by all who knew
him. The remains were buried in tn
Hurley cemetery, Saturday, the buria
service of the I. o. 0. +. being use,
and the sermon being preached b
Chaplain McIntire of that order. Th
members of the Masonic order ais
took part in the services at the grave
and dropped sprig of evergreen upol
the coffin Of their departed brother.
An Iowa editor has gotten himsel
into trouble by a little typographica
error. In writing up a visit to q lad
| friends house he described her collec
ton of house plants as follows: "Mrs
| b. has the finest plants in town." L
some way the letter 81" dropped out 0
the word plants, and the mistake WASH
discovered until the paper was off. Th
husband of the woman. with blood i
his eye, has been looking for the edito
since. He now writes his editorials i
the WOODS close by and his devil carrie
him his meals at night.-Ex.
Vermillion Republican, 2lst: Messr'
Lotze Il Fisher have commenced wor
on their new store, g. Ii. Crippen a
ready having the excaYating part Q
the contract completed. The mai
building will be 22xSo, two stories higf
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