Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1891-09-17

hereby notified that the same are paid
for, and need not hesitate to take them
from the postoffice.
LOCAL MENTION.
The corn is all right,
Court is still in session.
How the lumber rolls out.
The ice supply is getting low.
Monday was rather dusty day.
School opened Monday with 80 pupils
in attendance.
L. p. Flyger is hauling out lumber
for farm improvements.
Ladies felt hats Is cts; Velvet Sailor
hats $I.OO. Dora Rundell.
Business is reported by the mer-
chants as being quite lively.
ia. Scott is building new barn on
the rear Of his residence lot.
Rev. Patrick, of Mitchell. will preach
at the Presbyterian church Sunday.
The call for the republican county
convention will be issued today.
1t is pleasure to note the number
of fine carriages owned by the farmers.
John Fitch has the contract to paint
the Spring Valley district school
houses.
Hurley and vicinity is we'll repre-
sented at the district tair at Centreville
this week.
Col. Clough visited the high school
Monday afternoon, and addressed the
pupils briefly.
Rev. Boggs will lecture on "World
Building" at the NJ. E. church next
Monday evening.
A. NJ. Rasmussen and wife are mourn
ing the loss Of their week-old baby,
which died last Friday.
1t has been decided by the circuit
court that Jas. Sherard had q right to
cut timber on his own land.
Nathan Palmer has received his
arrearages Of pensions, and will here
after receive $500 per month.
Talk has again been revived in rail-
road circles that we are to haye a
through fast train to Chicago.
A letter from Mrs. E. j. jerks states
that she Is pleasantly located in Madi-
son and that the girls are in school.
Turner county is getting quite rep
utation abroad as a fruit growing Sec
tion on account of the Alderman Fruit
| Farm.
Mrs. Ira G. Ferguson, who has been
quite sick for several weeks past is now
gradually improving in health and is
able to sit up.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. Il. Curtis are rejoic-
ing over the arrival of a young son
who put in an appearance at their home
last Thursday.
T. w. Murphy expects to move onto
his farm next month. Turner county
has more attractions than the Queen
City for Mr.. Murphy.
The school board have decided to
shingle the Hurley school house this
fall, putting the same over the sheet
iron roof now on the building.
| In Warner, Brown county, one of the
| principal diseases mentioned in the
druggists affidavit book for spirituous
liquors, is drinking too much water.
| A mass independent convention has
been called to meet at Hurley, Sept. 25,
to elect delegates to the state conven-
tion to be held at Huron on the 3Oth
inst
A letter received from Oscar 0. Sny-
der brings the information that he has
changed his place Of residence from
Allen, Neb., to O'Neill, in the same
state.
Orsie Wallace presented the Herald
with a couple Of head of cabbage
which, for solidity, would take the pre-
MUM at most county fairs. They have
disappeared, however, and we can
vouch for their quality.
w. r. Gowdy, of Toledo, Iowa, form
erly of Hurley, has been riding over
Turner county a great deal during the
| past week, and he says the crops are
the finest he has ever seen, and that
the corn here is fully equal to that of
Iowa.
The lecture by Col. Clough at the NJ,
E. church Monday evening, was worthy
of much larger audience than atten-
ded, and those who remained away
were the losers. The Col. is a very
earnest and effective speaker and car
ried his audience with him as he went
with vivid description from phase to
phase in the life and character Of
John A. Logan.
as one Of the first intimations of the
new train service on the Northwestern
road, comes the announcement that
the Sioux City and Hawarden train
will be taken off, and that passengers
for Dakota points will leave Sioux
City on the regular st. Paul train at
$40 a. NJ, connecting at Alton with
the new Dakota train. 1t is intended
that the run between Oakes and Chica-
20 will be made in about q hours.