Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-02-01

i may not b generally known, but
It IL . fact, nevertheless, that one
person can lease "a much land ss he
can bid in. The law makes no limi,
- to the number Of acres to be
leased to one individual.
DR.. Mcleod Of Wisconsin, preach.
ed in the Baptist church last We'd.
nesdav evening. Had the
weather been milder the attendance
would have been larger.
Invitations are out Tor a S O'Clock
tea party given by Rev and Mrs. A.
NJ. Pipes, and Prot. and Mrs. II. G.
Frye ut the house of the latter We'd
nesday evening" last night
Pages Theatrical company hold
forth in the opera house next week.
They will have a band Of % pieces
fully uniformed. There will be a
daily parade. 1t is a good troupe.
A letter received from C. F. Mala.
han ON last Friday, announces ,he
fact that his family are all in good
health and that the weather was
cold enough to freeze the tear
of a polar bear.
DR.. Mcleod, the evangelist, who
has been assisting the Rev. Mr.. Ir.
vine in conducting special services,
is q very earnest and sincere man.
His addresses are full Of meat for
serious reflection.
The Akron Building and Loan
association will complete the fifth
year Of its existence on February %.
For the four years of it's existence
it, profits have been 1921. During
the year just finished IS 900 have
been loaned.
A warraSt was issued on Tuesday
for the arrest Of Raphael Green on a
charge Of bastardy sworn out by
John Crum on behalf of his II year
old daughter Cora. The child lie
not yet born. Green has disap.
peafed and can not be found.
Mrs. John Conors, living nea
Jefferson, died last Friday at an
advanced age-in the neighborhood
of sixty years. She leaves to mourn
her loss, seven children. The funeral
took place on Sunday from the
Catholic church in the town of
Jefferson.
An exchange remarks that: A
printing Office in Kentucky is opened
every morning with prayer. That
is quite a departure from the usual
custom. Establishments of that
kind are usually opened by the
"devil," and not infrequeatly closed
by the sheriff."
Plymouth county citizens are 90.
ing wild owe the Hunter coal mine,
six miles east Of here on the Iowa
bank Of the Big Sioux. The quality
Of the coal, according to Prof. Todd
who has tested it, is exceedingly
poor and could not be used for stove
heating or cooking purposes.
Rev. Mr.. Pipes has under consid-
Grafton the idea of delivering Il
lecture upon 'The Nebular Hypoth-
esis of the Solar System" The rev.
erend gentleman has made an cx-
haustive study Of this question,
rnd If the lecture is delivered it
will be a very entertaining one.
The night operator at the depot
has been notified that his services
are unnecessary owing to the plan
Of retrenchment now going on.
Night operators are being discharged
all along the line. Armour, Yank-
ton and two or three other places
are ON the list. Supt. Beardsley's
stenographer "a also discharged.
According to rumor the American
Express company which holds a
contract with the Milwaukee rail-
way company has thrown up its
contract and the United States
express company will hereafter oper-
ate the express business for the Mil
waukee people. The change, it is
said. will take place next month.
The entertainment given in the
opera house last evening by Ham,
Inns Wizard Oil company Attracted
u very large audience, crowding the
capacity of the house to the utmost
limis. The programme consisted of
| ~specialties OF a varied nature and
won the audience from the start.
The company will be here the entire
week.
An appeal has been taken in the
suit Of john A. Morris & Co. VS..
Union county, tried before Squire
Joy. This is the suit to recover SAG
ON an account for furnishing station.
cry supplies and which the county
paid once to l.. P. McClarren MS
agent. MIR. McClarren did not turn
over the money to the company,
claiming it as part Of unpaid wages.
There will be a change in the
arrivals aud departures OF passenger
trains on next Sunday. Nothing has
been bruited as to the character of
the change, lis extent or dimen.
sions. The only rumor and that
escaped through the key.hole OF the
SUPPLEMENTARY office, which has
reached the outside is TO the effect
that one Of the freight trains on
the Mitchell division would taken
of.
Walter Hoffman, who I,as been
under the surveillance Of the Clay
county authorities owing to the &C.
cidental killing Of young Overhulse,
furnished last week acceptable bonds
in accordance with the wish Of the