Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1892-02-04
LOCAL MENTION.
Circuit court convenes next Tuesday

ware at Piers.
I. Those sewing machines have arrived
Call In and see them.
Mr.. Jos. Andrews is slowly recover.
ing from seyereattack of grippe.
/ A fresh supply of rock and barrel
salt just received at j. J. Mansfeld's.
For the next 30 days 1 will sell Felt
j Boots and Overs at wholesale prices.
G. NJ. Pier.
| The prospects are that there will be
considerable building in Hurley the
coming season.
/ Wanted-A girl to do general house
work; wages SO per week; steady work.
Mrs. G. j. Bach.
4 Lon Welch is kept busy at home this
week attending to young son, which
arrived Monday.
| You can get at the Herald Office 100
envelopes with return card and name
printed thereon for so cents.
Mr.. Peter Lauritsen and wife and
Mr.. Lauritsen's father have all been
quite sick, but are now better.
Travelling men have been quite nu-
merous this week, and they all speak
in praise of the Commercial hotel.
Foster has another storm booked for
the 9th inst. Hope it will be like the
last two predictions-Jan % and Feb,
Sd.
One years subscription to a monthly
magazine or semi-monthly farm paper
free. For particulars enquire of G. NJ.
Pier.
7. w. Kyle has sold his farm in Nor
way township, four miles northwest of
Hurley, to John Lease, the price paid
being $1,000.
Take bottle of Quick Relief Oil and
Dead Shot home with you and if they
don't cure come and get your money.
Sold by Z. Brauch.
| Tuesday was Ground Hog or Candel-
mas Day, and if the varmint wished to
see his shadow he had an opportunity
to do so. This weather is all right,
however.
| Dell Coy, formerly prominent citi-
zen of Pierre, and who is well known
to many citizens of Turner county,
died at Odebolt, Iowa, Monday. of
pneumonia.
Any Herald subscriber wishing to
send for an eastern publication-maga-
zine or newspaper-will be supplied
with the same at actual cost by calling
at this office.
| Cornelius Dwyer and John Schultz
leave Friday for Deadwood, where
they will serve as us, jurors. The
boys want to be careful and not get
lost in the bad lands.
An order will soon he issued by De
partment Comm ander Palmer, an
nouncing the annual Grand Army
encampment, which will be held at
Mitchell on the 18th of March, contlnu-
ing three days.
February 8, the day which Foster
had set for another of his severe
storms, is passed and gone, and the
storm has as yet failed to arrive. The
professor seems to be losing his grip on
weather manipulations.
The Farmer and Stockman, the only
paper in southern Minnesota devoted
exclusively to farming and stockrais-
ing, will be sent one year to any ad-
dress for twenty cents. Address, Farm
er and Stockman. Heron Lake. MINI.
The following is said to have appear
ed recently in paper published in
Algeria, Africa: 1.-TWO new states
have recently been constructed-Sou
Dakota and North Dakota. There di-
vorces may be found with ease, short
residence being the principal quali6ca-
tion. To this haven for the unhappy
married the unfortunate are focking
in great numbers. In Sioux Falls, in
South Dakota and Pierre, the capital
of North Dakota, they comprise the
principal part of the population. and in
the country they settle in such num-
bers as to torn colonies. These settle
ments are called divorce colonies and
form an important feature of the
state."
City Marshal Pool received tele-
gram Saturday morning enquiring If
certain described persons had been at
Hurley, and if they were in that vicin-
ity at the present time. An affirma-
tive answer brought another message
reqesting the marshal to be at the
depot when the train from the north
arrived. Upon the arrival of the train
the gentleman-who proved to be>a de-
tective from Red Wing, Mimi, and
Marshal Pool started for Tab. Demo-
mas. seven miles east of Hurley, where
the parties in question were stopping.
The parties, Mr.. McDonough and wife,
were found, the papers served, and the
officers returned home. What the
papers were remains a mystery. not
even Marshal Pool knowing the errand
of the Minnesota officer.
| At the time of the arrest at Hurley
Of John F. Emery of Sioux Falls, an
account of which was given in last
weeks Herald, Emery's family was
stopping with his wife's brother, S. w.
Baker, three miles north of Hurley.
Mr.. Baker informs the Herald that he
Immediately went to Sioux Falls, and
in company with his father examined
the preparations made for firing the
building. Beside the ones noted in the
published accounts of the affair he
says that in the garret OF the house the
small windows in the gables had been
darkened and that a carpet and various
other articles saturated with oil had
been. place over the closet fire, to aid in
spreading the flames. From the re-
marks of Mr.. Baker, the inference is
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