Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-10-12

week ana 0QueQ MS name 70 Oul
subscription list.
DR.. WINNER of Pierre, was in the
city making nm effort to place sew.
eral hundred head Of cattle to be
corn fed during the winter.
David Bruneau Of Big Sioux, was
up attending the fair and added his
name to The CouR1ER's roll Of hon
or. David knows a good paper and
of course is after the news.
In several Of the townhips the tax
list has been revised by
the road supervisors, and property
owners are being warned to put the
roads in good repair for winter
travel.
Any girl desiring a place to work
for her board while she attends the
city schools can be directed to q
place in a family Of only three
Call at this office in the Hoffman
block.
A hand satchel was found in a
lumber pile near the railroad track
on Monday and upon opening it
halt a case of cigarettes were found.
The cigarettes were those which had
been stolen from John Malady's
store. As to the thief nothing has
been learned.
The republican township caucus
was held in the court house on Sat.
uaday and u good ticket put in the
field. Geo. NJ. Linch was nomin.
ated for assessor. +. M. Smythe and
NJ. Il. Kent for justices af the peace,
and G. e. Krouse and St. George
Card for constables.
John Finnie of Virginia was in
the city to take in the fair and to
prove up on his timber claim on
section Is in Virginia township. Nj
,Finnie is one of the reliable farmers
of Virginia, a wheel horse republi.
can, and owns as pretty a farm as is
to be found on the Sioux bottom.
The electric lights were turned OF.
for the first time at Redfeld on the
2Sth ult., and were a success in
every particular. Power is furnished
by the Hassell & Myers ~artesiun
we'll near town. Redield and
Mellette are the only towns on earth
lighted up by means of artesian
well power.
The Plainfield (Ill.) Enterprise OF
2Sth declares as follows: ut
seemed like old times at the M. E.
church last Sunday for the old men,
bers to be permitted to hear Mrs J.
r. Kent, who is here from Elk
Point, S. d., sing and speak. Mrs.
Kent was always an active church
woman and her sincerity rendered
her presence influential"
The board of county commission.
ers at their late session appointed
Amos Haskins, G. w. Finn aud W.
K. Harding as appraisers to assess
the damages arising from running
a road through the land owned by
Lester and Frank Wakeman in
Valley township. The d,rec-
tors are ordered to meet in the office
Of Frank st. John, justice Of the
peace on Oct. 20, 1888 at 2 o'clck.
M. Hoffman received this week a
of the mammoth Garland
stove OH exhibition nj the worlds
fair. 1t is the biggest ever manu-
in the world. 1t cost $685.
900 to build it. 1t weighs 20 tons.
It ia 80 feet high and 40 feet
long and over the fire CRATE three
men can walk side by side. 1t re-
three full cars to transport
The stove. The Garland people
make it a point to lead tha world
and they succeed.
A very serious accident occurred
Mrs. Peter Atkinson of Brule on
which resulted in a frac-
lure Of her thigh. 1t seems that
Mrs. Atkinson is sixty-four years
old, and was holding a team of
spirited horses on aside hill on her
husbands farm in Brule, when they
began to e and jump, finally over
the old lady. The wagon
10 which the team was hitched
over Mrs. Anfinson's thigh
breaking it badly. Owing to her
extreme age it is doubtful whether
she will recover. DR.. J. G.. Comfy
attending the injured lady.
c. n. Freeman, who departed
east on Saturday, has a two-fold
mission sec the worlds fair and
to place a patent in the hands OF a
manufacturer. The patent is a
check holder for q harness and
go as to make the fastener
as the horse pulls on the
rein. Mr.. Freeman will visit
New York, Jersey City and Wells
West Virginia, before return.
in the hope Of placing the pat
ent so that a good royalty may be
realized. 1t is understood that E.
Eckert is interested in the patent.
hi Chicago MI. Freeman will
look up the patent he has with 9th
ers on q lamp, now being manufac-
The contract with the man.
expires on Jan. /, and it
will be either renewed or placed
some new concern.
On Saturday a certain friend of
TIE COURIER fresh from Washing
ton dropped into the sanctum greet
ed the editor and in response 10 his
question whats going on down in
Washington, replied, "They are tel
ling a good story on Hoke Smith in
the hotel corridors. Under Hoke's
in the pension department
hs has fixed "old age" for pension
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