Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1894-04-05
vIBoRG VIBRATIONS.
Jens Jessen is painting and other
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JenS JeSSen is painting and other
wise improving his residence property
In town.
Last Saturday Queai 4 CJ.: of this
place, sold A. p. Smith the lumber for
his new $1,000 house,
y1borg IS at present without a meat
market and Mr.. Skinner OF Hurley is
supplying the town with meat.
SIN. Hohf closed successful term
Of school in district AZ last Friday and
has returned to his home in Wakonda
Three car loads of hogs were bought
and shipped from Viborg last week.
not bad showing for town i'll its
first year.
The weather of the past week has
ranged from January to July and may
we'll Serve to illustrate the capricious-
ness of March in northern climate.
w. j. Bogne has sold his hotel to Fred
Steffensen, possession to be given April
10. Mr.. Bogue will seek new field
where his genius will be better appre-
ciated.
Martin Christensen will soon leave
for tour of inspection in Texas. II
Mr.. Christensen reports favorable on
his return it is likely a South Dakota
colony will be located III that state.
Suph Hlkell and G. C. Gehon of Hur-
ley came down on their bicycles to look
over our town Sunday. While here
Mr.. Gehon had the misfortune to lose a
tire off from his bicycle and was COM
PEELED to return home in a four-wheeled
vehicle.
The great need of Viborg at the pres.
ent time is bank and few business
and residence buildings for rent.
People looking for an investment for
money can not easily find a better op-
portunity for safe investment than
right here. Yiborg is located right i'll
the very heart of the garden spot OF
South Dakota and is surrounded by a
class of people long noted for honesty
and thriftiness, and has as bright pros
poets as any town of its age and size.
A rather sad experience befell Il GER
tain man living somewhere west of the
western suburbs of Viborg. Warm
weather. dusty work and dry throats
were coming on. SO said citizen was
commissioned by his friends to go to a
Hutchinson county town where no
Quigley notifies the "blind pigs" aud
prohibition does not prohibit, and get
their 'little brown jugs" filled with the
genuine thirst qnencher. On the home
ward way owing to the roughness OF
the roads. or some other cause, the
party fell out of his wagon and the
horse continued his homeward way un-
guided and with his precious load an
protected, and asa consequence when
he arrived home the jugs were found
to be as empty as when they left home
in the morning. That neighborhood is
now decidedly "dry.'
Death again visited our community
last week. Peter Jorgensen quietly
passed into eternity Saturday, March
3lst, at the ripe age OF Is years. MIR.
Jorgensen was one of Dakota's pio-
neers, having settled on a farm in LIN
coin county in those early times when
Sioux City was the nearest town, where
he lived until advancing age and fail
ing health compelled him to give up a
life of active labor. About four years
ago he built a house on his sons (Jorgen
Petersen'sJ farm where he has quietly
lived since. Deceased was a devont
christian, for many years a member OF
the Nj. E. church and has lived an hon
orable and useful life leaving a large
number of friends to mourn his death.
He leaves an aged wife and four sons.
Jorgen Petersen, resident of this
place, and LOUIS, Hans and Rasmus
Petersen, residents of Sioux City. The
remains were buried Wednesday in the
M. E. cemetery.
GRoBIv.