Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-11-16

around. He expects to have 1O,GC(
bushels of corn at the leas. calcutta
ton from off his 100 acre corn field.
In other words, at 25 cents a bushel,
he will receive $500, and fed to
hogs it will swell to 5000. Mr..
Main knows how to farm, and with
un,iring work will have, when old
nge cones, sufficient To live upon in
comfort.
Some miscreant set fire to q lot of
hay near the Touring mill on Friday
night and then sent in AN alarm of
fire. The fire boys bumped their
backs while the hook aud ladder
crew curved their sp;nes in their eff.
forts to get to the fire being under
the impression that the mill was
ablazA. Fire Chief Keller made the
trip in flying leaps while his assist
ant, Supt. Shethan, who vas at
home singing Il lullaby TO his baby
dropped the urchin and tore his
pants on a barb wire fence in his
efforts to get to the fire. When it
was founi to be a fake, the impre-
cations of choice Eaglish which were
heapel upon the head Of the perpe-
TRAITOR would have made the guilty
party crawl in Il gopher hole and
never show his head to a law abid-
lug community again.
Several weeks agoa representative
of Coats Tank Line Of Iankton Sc.
cured an order from several Of our
merchants for a carload of oil. The
representative of the Standard Oil
corporation a short time afterwara
learned of the order and made a
special visit to the Point to call on
the merchants who had ordered oil
OF Coats. The representative blunt
~ informed the merchants that un-
less they cancelled the order the
Standard Oil people would put in a
supply depot here and furnish oil
TO the consumer at S cents a gallon.
One merchant, quit" ns llunlIy IN
formed the Standard Oil representa-
tive to 60 ahead and SO far Us re-
scinding the order the Standard Oil
people could gu 'p'umb to Texas
Eight cent oil is what the citizens
Of Elk Point want" sal the mer,
chant, land you can't scare me-
The item published in The COM
TER several months ago with refer
nee to a horse stolen by Il party
hailing from Centerville will be re-
called. Ever since The thiefgot away
with Geo. Authors horse Mr.. Au-
thier, figuratively, has been securing
the earth for the stolen l~lotse; send
ing postal cards AID writing to all
the sheriffs IN surrounding counties.
Last Friday he received word that
the horse was in a livery stable in
Centerville and M. Author left i'm
mediately for that point bringing
ihe horse back noile the worse for
his several months of absence. The
thief, it will be remembered, stole
an $500 stallion from Ceuterville
doctor and drove to Authors place
where he hired out rs a farm hand.
The stallion had been driven so
hard that he died within three
weeks, but before he died the thief
had disappeared with one Of Mr..
Authors horses.
Architect Dow Of Sioux Falls,
who passed through tl+ city on
Monday on his way to Vermillion,
carried with him a sketch of the.
plans for the new state university
building. The frs. story and base
ment OF the srrnel building are
used, saving thereby $4,000. The
upper stories o. the rev building
are materially changed, even the
"f architecture is different.
The building when completed viii
be Of a RnmancsJue character, with
a magnificent dome in the center,
simuIar in style to many of the state
capitol buildings. The material in
state building ut the worli's fair
has been given to tie university.
which is said to be easily worth
$4,000. There are 100000 feet Of
lumber IN the building, with n ST.
900 skvlight, all the windows, doors
and iron rafters which can he laid
down in Nermi!lion at an expense
not to exceed $1,000. The mineral
exhibit which cost $500 has been
given to the university and regard
ed rs the best on the fair grounds.
Work will he began at once by the
citizens OF Vermillion towards cree
ing q new university building.