Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-07-31


ar Messrs Charles and Albert Han
ter son ofSioux City were guests of Mr..
in George and Miss Julia Freeman last
Sunday. We understand that the
). boys srent Monday at the Sioux,
becoming better acquainted with
:. the iinuy tribe.
i. AT the conclusion Of the game of
base ball played near Jefferson last
Sunday, we are told that several
parties INDUCED in two or three lit
tie side games, making base hitalter
base hit-of the basest kind. Why
ms use your fists, boys. bats are cheap?
In writing up the meeting of the
Sioux Valley Teachers Association
recently held in this city, the Min
al nehaha Teacher has the following to
lg- say Of the music furnished:
He The people of Elk Point are en-
titled to much praise for the excel
lent music furnished.
Tx ~
oil Mrs.IIarry Norman, nee Miss Ellie
he Goforth, is visiting with Postmaster
~ Mallahan's family. She has spent
the summer ut Aurora, where her
en- husband has been teaching school.
ca She will remain here until Mr.
ed Norman decides where he will teach
OF next year.
DIP. Ward, Sunday school mis-
is sionary Of the Baptist denomination
ty in South Dakota. conducted services
ne at the Baptist church in this city
CT last Sunday. He drove over to
Ponca last Monday TO visit his faith
:. er who is pastor of the Baptist
. church there, aud returned to attend
y. the picnic here last Tuesday.
ny We see by the Charles Mix Coun-
ty News that John Harding. a form
"a er resident of this county, is doing
:, well and raising splendid cropthis
year. He has built a dam across
the creek that runs through his farm
to furnish more accessible water 70
his stock.
I'd Prof. o. ]. Smith of Akron, who
st taught the Richland school last year,
ID has been employed as principal OF
the Ipswich, Elmunds county,
schools at salary Of sixty-fve dol
y lars per month. We are pleased to
Il see the boys who deserve ii SO well
a. get to the front in their chosen pro-
y f~ession.
Postmaster Mallaban received his
De "sicep skin containing the auto
s graph of President Harrison, last
re week but, as Mark Twain would put
VI it, ave have seen better writing in
"a America than that" The Elk Point
office was recently made q presiden-
" tial Office, hence this appointment
TX by the President.
u In some unaccountable manner
~ sweet clover has been sown along
y the railroad track north of town,
and is catching along the grade-road.
n 1t has also made its appearance in
SIS the cemetery. 1t is dangerous stuff
at and almost impossible to kill out.
II spreads all over and should be
" exterminated while that can lie
done.
Of The sociable held at +. G. Eric
to sons lastFriday evening was a rath-
is er sudden change in the program,
US since all had planned to 60 to Mr.
,g Wallace's. The rainy evening made
the change necessary. A splendid
time was enjoyed by all those pres
~ ent and the church exchequer was
AZ increased in the sum of SIPS 50 as a
result.
as ] am greatly obliged to the peo.
e. pie of Elk Point and vicinity for the
patronage and hospitality have re-
- ceived from the day | came as n
stranger among you. Going to my
.. parents, who call me back to per.
N form my duty MS a SON, with sorrow
I leave you, whom l have learned
to love as u friend and brother. l
hope you will treat my successor
and his lady in the future as well as
as you have me in the past.
he ABE POLLOCK.
!, Judge Blair has placed the CouR-
- TER clan under many obligations to
him for a basket Of nice, large, rosy
checked apples, grown in his orch
ard. They surpass any that we
I'D have ever seen imported into this
III. city at this Sine Of the year. in both
Ike size and fiavcr. IT is simply pre-.
w posterous to assert that apples can
lin -. Io rr,w,, Il, South Hal rtn whom |