Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-12-13

s"a.iC!is0 STOOm - Al 4CClV0
tllier OF the soil and an honest. upright
young man. Only u few relatives wit
messed the ceremony. The wedding
feast was partaken Of at the home Of
u brides parents
u. E. Harriott, the able assistant in
~. u. Ericson's Office, is devotiHg his
spare change these days to the pur.
chase OF law books with the idea, dur
Ing the year Of 1895, Of hanging cut
his own shingle IN some good, live
town In South Dakota.
Henry II. Stevcr OF Prairie town
ship called at our Office on Saturday
n subscribed for The COURIER. MIR.
Stever is d believer OF sound republic
can principles and proposes to keep
abreast with the CURRENT Of county
affairs by taking The COURIER.
Sheriff Deane arrested Charles Nash
: OF Alcester on last Saturday on a
bench wHrrent issued by Judge Smith.
States Attorney Keller convicted Nash
at the last term OF court on a charge
OF selling intoxicating liquors. His
sentence is sixty-days and 500 fine.
The jury failed to agree in the suit
OF Mayor Gilmore VS.. the Iowa Savings
pank OF Sioux City, which was tried
before Judge Wakefield in the City
last week Wednesday. "A Sioux CITY
jury is never to be relied upon" is one
of the popular comments OF the day.
Miss Mabel and June Mallahan,
daughters Of Charles Mallahan OF the
Medilia MIMI Messenger, are in Sioux
City the guests CT friends. Mr.. MALTA
! han, we are glad to state, is meeting
with the success he deserves in his
venture in publishing the Messenger.
At the afternoon teas given by Mrs.
y. W. Miller last week Mrs. Henry
Henkin won the. prize on Wednesday
evening, while Mrs. M. v. Mulcahey
was the victor on Thursday evening
and Mrs. J. F. Reid stood at the head
OF b class us the abiest cap mixer on
Friday evening.
Rev. Mr.. Nearman Of Akron paid
THE COURIER Office a very pleasant
call last week on Wednesday. While
In the city he called on Rev. T. NJ.
Cofey Of the First Baptist church.
Mr.. Nearman is an able divine and his
future 4 not be confined to SO small
II town as Akron.
Among those who added, last
week, to the little sum we are en-.
deavoring to raise to purchase new
material are the. following: Clarence
Cheney, John E. Lee, james Olson,
ward Anderson, John Maludy, J. r,
Kent and Mrs. Amy Shiney.
On December IS a lecture will be
given by the Rev. Father McGrath in
the Catholic church on the subject;
The Spirits OF the American Nation"
Father Mc(irath is a noted orator and
all those who can attend should do SO,
as they will be rewarded with an even
lag full OF instruction and entertain
ment.
Up in Beresford the justice court
has been listening to the evidence in
a suit brought by T. l.. Torgeson
against Tom Brady to collect u $25
note given by Brady to all in tie con.
%struction OF the Beresford mill. Nearly
800 have already been expended by
the parties in contention and the end
is not yet.
Mrs. W. V. Iiicas, wife of Congress
man Lucas, is the g,iest Of her friends,
MIR. and Mrs. i. F. Crum. Mrs. fii,cas
has been very i'll during the past few
months, having come from her old
Iowa home, Garner, to Elk Point.
While the guest OF Mrs. Crum she will
take treatment from Mrs. Elliott, the
Christian Scientist.
During October the Chicago, Mil
wenkee and st. Paul railroad earned
~l,7S4 less than during October, 1893,
and saved s27s.397 by decreasing. its
running expenses. The net earnings
NicyJs 81 DCr QsE q s(o.r,pcIl ~ beEp oSc
N t earnings for the four months from
July ] last shows a decrease OF $685.
$50. Hard times hit all classes.
Last Friday Irvine Finch Of vir-
gina, one OF the valued subscribers of
The COURIER, sent by mail So to pay
for The COURIER during the year Just
passed and u little on the next. MIR.
Finch has orr thanks and we will see
to it that the cog in the press which
Mr.. Finch has bought is always well
oiled, SO that it may have Il longer
lease OF life than usual.
We wish the editors nip in Vef.
million could get along without call.
ing each others sheet such bad names.
It's the "Gimlct" or "ti.c Cannibal
sheet" or "the Tomahawk" or some
other equally appalling name ever,
week. 10 the Vermillion newspaper
fraternity we humhly call attention
TO the g~entlemunly manner in which
prer Knapp conducts his sheet in the
Point.
The following very complimentary
alNusiOn TO IHE COURIER was made by
Editor Stone OF Hawarden: The Re
publican, a new paper established ut
Elk Point a short time ago. is reported
to be in trouble in n financial way.
There is no room il. Elk Point for two
republican papers, and as The COURIER
is now filling the bill in every p~articu-
lar, 1t would seem to be simply Il "sur-
vival OF the fitest."
Application has been made for an
increase in the pension OF Lieut.. Bal
lard Of this city-a veteran, completely
helpless and entirely dependent upon
the charity OF relatives. His afii,-
tons are entirely due to the suffering
endured during the war and u bene-
tlcient and generous government
could not do a wisef or nobler net than
extend to MI. Ballard the increase he
SO richly d~ererves.
Miss Belle Erskine OF Chilicothe, O.,
passed through the city accompanied
by her mother on her way to Tyndall,
where she goes to attend the bedside
OF a sick sister. Miss Erskine is al
present living Mt the old Erskine home.
stead in Ohio and cared for her fntiel
during his fatal illness the past sum.
mer. 1t is quite possible that Miss
Erskine will stop off and visit her many
friends here on her return trip.
Editor Round of the Akron Register
paid The COURIER Office u very pleas
ant visit on last Saturday. MIR. Rounc
has the misfortune to be deaf an,
dumb, but nevertheless he Is one o.
|, those. ~wholesouled chaps who occa'
!, %sionalIy md their way into the news
paper business, and the life OF u com
, munity Is thereby blessed to an extern
I which can only be measured by thu
i. benificent effects OF the suns rays.
;, Last week G. W. Beggs OF Chicago
sent In his contribution towards buy
: ing Il new outfit. Mr.. Beggs Is til,
!, kind Of 4 man we admire and ti,
! memory OF his many good deeds III tiii
! county when the grasshoppers wer'
: thick and doubts were entertained 4
to the success OF the country are Il.