Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1893-08-17

master Freeman for carrying the
nal sacks TO and from the depot.
All bids must be received by the
l4th Of this month.
Ira Heath is at his old job of at
tending to the street lamps and the
light shines forth with accommodate
ing and agreeable brillancy Ira
seems to be tie right mar in the
right place.
e. H. Freeman on Monday pur-
chased the residence which he and
his family have occupied for five
years, of 7. w. IIenshaw. Mr..
Freeman will make some changes
and improve the property at once.
A lady signing herself Annie NJ.
Beals, addresses an open letter to
County Judge Kirk, in the last issue
OF the Alcester Union, in which she
endeayors to show that tue permit
being petitioned for by II. c. HIGH
born, an Alcestcr druggist, for the
sale of Intoxicating liquors should be
rejected. She writes amusingly, TO
speak Of the letter m~ildly--very
mildly, She places her reasoning
upon the highest plane to be con
ceived and finds no fault whatever
with the character Of the applicant.
Physicians, she states, have discard
ed the use of intoxicating liquors
for medical purposes and for that
reason there is no necessity to
grant the permit. The lady should
remember hal the law is one thing
and the private opinion of physi-
clans as to the medical effect Of in.
t~oxicating liquor is another.
Squire Jay was busy on Monday
listening to the evidence in u suit,
the contending parties Of which
hailed from Beresford. Richard
Reedy, the liyeryman, was the
plaintiff and sued Ed Sogen, a con-
fectioner of our northern neighbor
for 500. 1T seems Sogen hired a
horse of Reedy on the 18th of July
to go to Lennox. He started home
the 18th and had got out only eight
miles when the nag laid down and
wouldn't huge an inch. Mr.. Reedy
was informed and the horse was
brought to Beresf,rd on the 18th.
On August 4th the horse died
from the effects Of the trip, it was
claimed. DIR. Davis, Of Centerville,
and DIR. Kelley. of Beresford, were
the expert witnesses on questions
pertaining to the science Of boss
doctoring. A verdict was rendered
for Reedy to the amount of SlCO
and costs.
On Tuesday August 20, there will
DC held in Peter Lass grove, in
Emmeha picnic, at which time
rheiewillbc racing of various kinds.
The programme is made up as fol-
lows: Base ball So; foot race 100
yard, first 81, 2nd 81; standing
Jump 81; egg aud spoon race for
young ladies, for silk umbrella; one
fourth mile race for boys under is
years of age. pair of shoes; tug-of-
war--mamied and single men, for
box of cigars; sack ace for boys un-
| der 1G years Of age, first prize 50
second so cents; high jump for pair
of gold cuff buttons; three legged
race prize ST; old mems race So;
horse race half mile first $50, Sec
ond $3.50; JIG and reel dance 81.
Pony race-ponies to be under IA
hands high and owe 5 years old
first saddle, second q bride, third a
whip, In the evening q grand ball
will be given.
Two weeks or so ego q stranger
with a well bred horse attached to a
cart arrived at the home of Geo!
Authier, living six miles south of
here. The stranger wanted q job at
harvesting and finally struck a bar
gain with Mr.. Author. On Thurs
day morning, a week ago, Mr.. Au-
thier went to his stable and found
that one of his horses were gone,
likewise the stranger and the cart
and harness which he brought with
him. The strangers horse was in
the stall, but the trade was too one
sided and Mr.. Author lodged a
his complaint with Sheriff Deane
who commenced to track the thief.
In the course of his investigation
he discovered that the thief had
stolen the horse, cart and harness
he brought to Mr.. Authier's place,
at Centerville on July 81. 1t is
safe to say that if the stranger gets
within the reach of Sheriff Deane
that he will be hoeing potatoes in
the penitentiary garden before the
year t%ranspires.
The correspondent of the Sioux
Fall Argus Leader from Elk Poin,
has an imagination as ductile as
butter, and as compressible rs a pot
of mush. He can cover space with
some sang froid as an old hen can
sit upon china eggs, and with the
same amount of expectations SO fal
as Matching goes. In the field o
politics he is like wild bull in {
china shop. His latest denouemen
is the announcement that L. G
Ericsson Esq. Of this place was ar
aspirant for the supreme bench
Nothing can be wider Of the truth
Its pure buncombe. Not even /.
resemblance of truth to it, and tn
purpose of the writer seems to b,
fill space and squirt bis vaporings il
the air with the same idea in hi
mind which the mosquito possessed
that H1sop tells about. One day il
Rome the King rode through til