Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-03-14

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was perciptible in North and South
America, Europe, Africa, Westera Asia
m n Pacific ocean This is the first
eclipse of the moon and earth since 1891.
Mrs. Hines received a letter from
Father Hines, who is at Battle Creek,
Mich, On Tuesday. The letter stated
that DR.. Kellogg had made a thorough
examination of Father Hines and that
he was unable to do anything to relieve
him from further encroachments OF the
disease. Father Hines has already
started for Elk Point and will arrive
in a day or two.
Messrs NJ. B. Kent and b. Frank
Knapp are engaged in preparing a his
tory of Union county which will be
printed this summer some time. The
scheme involves the preparation of u
book containing 200 pages with bio
graphical sketches of the old settlers.
Mr.. Kent is engaged or the manuscript
and will be aided in the preparation OF
the book by MI. Knapp of the Leader.
Sheriff Anderson returned on Sat-
urday from Omaha, Council Bluffs,
Onawa, Wahoo and Lincoln, Nebraska,
where he put in a week securing the
country for Woods, the missing farmer,
who was thought to have got away
with two Of his children. Absolutely
nothing was heard of him although the
sheriff worked assiduously and earn
estly to secure some information as to
his whereabouts.
Mrs. George Porter met with a very
painful accident last Sunday in being
kicked in the face by a horse. The
bridge bone of her nose was broken and
a deep cash made on her upper lip. A
year ago Mr.. Porter broke one of his
legs preventing him from being able to
work for four or five months. Mr.. and
Mrs Porter have had more than their
share OF misfortune, and the sympathy
all goes out to them.
Sioux City Journal: w. H. Schlos-
ser. who has been a letter carrier in the
Sioux City p~ostotfice for about ten years
and was therefore one OF the Oldest
carriers in the Office, has rendered his
and his place has been
given to Robert w. Cox, who has filled
the position of substitute carrier for
more than two years. Mr.. Schlosser
to engage in farming, having
land in Union county, South Dakota,
between Elk Point and Vermillion.
On Saturday morning at : o'clock as
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Smith were eat
ing their morning meal in their then
home two miles east of town,
Mrs. Smith noticed something coming
out of the ceiling near the stove pipe.
hasty examination revealed the fact
that the upper part OF the structure
all on fire. Nothing except a few
goods were saved, the entire
being burned to the ground
an hour from the time it was
discovered. The insurance on the
house was Sl,400 and on the goods $500.
This is the third time Mr.. Smith has
met with the loss of his house by fire.
Press and Dakotan: The widely pub
|ished, very n~onsensical and wholly un-
true story about a Yankton county
named George F. Danville who
is the father of twenty-seven children,
oldest being ID and the mother less
than 30 years of age, is still going the
rounds of the newspapers. 1t is the
sort of fiction. There is no
such man us George F. Danville, and
there are twentv-eight letters at the
postoffice addressed to him. Local
physicians have received inquiries
from physicians and medical journals
concerning the story and Yankton
has been widely advertised in
consequence,
The editor has been patching during
winter, eating cold ''vittals'' and
in a cold bed. If the weather
will forgive us for the many i'm.
precautions hurled at him during the
past three months we promise never
more to allow it to happen ard inso-
much as better half has promised
10 make her appearance on next
Saturday, providing the weather is
pleasant and the capacity of a passen-
ger coach is sufficient to transport our
increasing family, The CoU-
RlER family will be once more housed
in the same nook and feasting on
The bountiful gifts of the generous and
considerable neighbors.
f. c. Ericsson has been in Yer.
million during the past week acting as
in the suit of Shaffer VS.. Gal
ct al. 1t seems that Gallagher
conducted a livery stable in Vermillion
for four years, Shaffer furnishing the
There was a difference OF
opinion between the parties as to the
basis of settlement and the court stem
ographer succeeded in taking 4O7 pages
Of ype-written testimony. while the