Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-10-31

| Vote for w. w. Main for commits.
sfoner.
G. D. Lufkin is home from ChicagA
| E. G. Ericsson was in Berestord on
Saturday.
Miss Hodgson OF Sioux City is the
guest Of friends in the city.
Rev. A. E. Carhart will make this
Flown his home for the present.
James E. Blair Of Sioux City is re.
ported to have sold out his drug store.
| The musical held at the residence OF
M. Hoffman was success in every
particular.
Why is Old Man Knapp like harp
lrstruck by lightning? Because he is
folarsted Tyre.
OFF anyone tells you that the COM
missioner fight is not hot one don't
you believe him.
Last Saturday and Sunday were
about AZ nasty days as anyone would
want to experience.
II that subscriber of the Leader in
MarshaltOwn had sense enough to take
THE COURIER he could be fully in
formed rs to the business interests OF
Elk Point.
Rev. Mr.. Fillmore of Vermillion con-
Quoted the services in the Episcopal
church on Sunday. The Rev. O'Reilly
has been examined for orders nnd no
doubt will be ordained before many
months.
The trial of ex.Congressman Dorsey
took place at Omaha last week. The
verdict rendered was an acauittal.
The trivl of his brother Frank will take
place in Omaha and it is said he will
be convicted.
The members of the local lodge OF
Modern Woodmen have under con-
sideration the idea Of giving an enter
tainment in the opera house on Thanks
giving eve or night. 1t will be q rich
treat II they give what they lave in
view.
The VermilliOn Plain Talk thinks
that peoples party" should be used to
designate the nominees of that or.
ginizatiOn in the auditors certificate
Instead of ''populist." 1t go happens
that major portion of the returns
were designated .'populist" and it was
thought advisable to make them uni
form. 1t makes no difference-either
populiet or peoples party-they are
one and the same.
At twenty when man is young he
thinks he knows it all, he likes to wag
1 hic noti <Cvnn,so md ovorOiso hfo oro III !.
he struts around in noble rage, the
world ia all his own, he laughs to scorn
the world Of age and lives for self alone,
He wears q window in his eye to see
his whiskers grow: he think the ladies
pine and die because they love him so.
At forty as you may suppose, he's
knuckled down to biz; It's not till
sixty that he knows how big 4 chump
he is.-BeresfOrd News.
Beresford Republic: The Elk Point
editors are calling each other liars,
s0ns-of-guns and unnumerable other un-
gentlemanly names. When the Re-
public held forth at the county seat
these gentlemen were on the most
friendly terms, it being common &C.
currence for them to drink out of the
same bottle, chew the same brand OF
tobacco and sit ON the same dry goods
box. Since the field is left to them
selves, each wants to see which can be
the biggest hog. and to us up here in
Beresf0rd is seems that both are max
ing splendid race.
Beresford Republic: The republicans
of the second commissioner district
have re-nOminated w. w. Main for
commissioner, and he will run in op-
position to Mr.. GundersOn. The Re-
public has not q word to say against
Mr.. Main The writer used to stack
hay and grain and hoe corn and
potatoes for Will and in our dealings
with him in that capacity we found
him straightforward, honorable,
honest man. Tis true that the IDEAL.
ings" were not very heavy. but they
we're the only ones we had with him,
and by them we must Judge him now.
A Tennessee paper says in one Of the
mountain counties only one man took
q newspaper, and the citizens for some
distance would gather in to hear it read
asked what they were doing in con-
they're playing tho dickens over
| vs4OAVs 4 ACy u0sC HssSoCN q low tSANAuS
two months to the year, and the worst
Of it Is they have made them both
| winter months. Blast their fool souls, y
said the listener, "and I'm nearly out
Of fodder"
A. f. Crandall of Beresiord who was
In town last week, besides being an at
torhey Is somewhat Of an inventor.
His latest production il a bicycle to be
rum on overhead wires. The con-
trivance Is similar to an ordinary
bicycle, propelled in the same manner,
the exception being that the wheels
jaSe above you instead of beneath you.
1.-The whole apparatus is run on an over
htad trss>nlr-the track being placed
ION arms pr0jec.Aing from poles set like
Etelephone or TELEGRAPH poles. This
will necessitate track between the
points whore the system Is q Be run.
and the poles Of the new tekauhone con.
Germ could be put to tho lsse also of
holding the track OF Mr.. Grandall's
patent.-vermillion Republic.
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