Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1891-06-25
LOCAL MENTION.
Haying will soon commence.
Old papers for sale at this Office.

Old papers for sale at this office.
Jewelry away down, at Kellar's. i
"A 20 lb. pail jelly for 80 at Piers.
Try pound of our 20c tea. G. NJ
Pier.
cans California fruit for S1.OC at
Caeap Johns.
Paints, oils and brushes for sale by
j. G. Murphy.
There is talk of redistricting Hurley
school township.
The largest bar Of soap In town for
SC at Cheap Johns,
Go to Miss Summers restaurant for
your 4th of July dinner.
T.J. Hogan is having stone foun.
dation placed under his store building.
Owners of fast horses are now get
ting them in trim for the 4th of July
races.
John Feekas has been running six
breaking teams for several weeks, and
is putting in lots of fax.
Aad the rains continue to pour.
About half an inch Of water fell Tues
day night in this vicinity.
Strawberries are quite plentiful on
the market, but owing to the great de-
mand for shipping the price holds up.
c. H. Goddard has greatly improved
the appearance of his house by liber-
al use of paint in tasty combination OF
colors,
There will be divine services at the
Protestant Episcopal church next Sum
day morning, the 28th inst, Rev. DIR.
Trimble officiating.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Fidelity Ins. Co., of Huron, and the
risks held by that company will be
transferred to the Hecla of st. Paul.
Remember, that on the 4th you will
be able to get fine meal with all the
delicacies of the season at reasonable
price at the restaurant in Opera Hall
block.
A travelling peddler was anxious to
sell goods in Hurley this week-until he
was informed by the town clerk that
it would cost him $500 a day for the
privilege.
The base ball game on July 4th will
be between the Yankton and Parker
teams, for purse of $500. They are
both good teams and a fine game may
be expected.
The Parker Press is Dragging on the
bicycle riders of that town. There is a
chance for one of them to get away
with $1,000 of Hurley money on the
coming 4th,
Robert Pinney came in Monday
morning and reported that he had a
field OF corn which stood waist high.
This is the same field that the Herald
reported as being up the 1st of May.
Albert Apland brought in carload
of hogs Monday and sold them to Fred
Frederickson. Only short time ago
he sold a car of cattle. These Turner
county farmers do manage to make 3
living.
ExchanRe.-Never judge a man by
his appearance. A shabby coat may
contain an editor, while the man wear
ing hign-toned plug hat and support
ing a dude cane may be one of his de-
linquent subscribers.
The crosswalks are In and the side
walks ARE being repaired. Now let the
marshal gobble all stock found running
loose within the incorporation and it
will save some of our good citizens
from occasionally thinking swear"
From present prospects, if the day is
fair, there will be the largest crowd Of
people in Hurley one week from Satur-
day that ever assembled in Turner
county. Hurley's way of doing things
has given her reputation that always
brings crowd when anything is go
ing on.
The older citizens of the county are
nearly all acquainted with Judge Shan
non as a public speaker, and to those
who have settled in this section within
the past few years we wish to say that
you will hear a regular old fashioned
Fourth of July speech on lndepend-
ence day.
Tuesday nights storm was quite Sc
we're at points in Iowa. at Suther-
land, east of Alton, a number of build
ings were blown down and l,l0O feet
of the railroad track washed out. 300
feet was also washed out near LeMars,
and no Sioux City train arrived here
Wednesday.
Last week Elliot & Bach sold to John
Johnson, of Norway township. fine
traction engine and threshing machine.
The outfit cost in the neighborhood of
$4,000, and is said to be the most COM
plete threshing outfit ever brought to
Turner county. 1t is hoped that it
may arrive in time to lead the 4th Of
July procession through the streets OF
Hurley.
Wakonda correspondence in Vermil-
lion Plain Talk: S. G. Denlingor, our
assessor has completed hislabors. 1t is
found that parties living on the line
between Turner and Clay counties run
their property across the line to avoid
the assessor. They say it costs the
farmers one-third less in Yankton and
Turner counties than in Clay on the
same valuation.
Mr.. Eppard, a Brown cornty inde-
pendent member of the legislature,
who Tin public) declared that it was
bribe to accept a pass from a railroad
company recently loaned his pass
(Which he probably received in privacy
to friend, but conductor saw the
fraud and took up the pass. Mr.. Ep-
pard is now requested by the Aberdeen
News to explain his position.
Fourth of July is coming and all the
small bows will have tire-crackers. Lit