Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-11-14

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~ YEARS THE STANDARD.
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
Two new subscribers this week.
~ Only six weeks more and 1895 will be
placed in the archives othistory.
Boil your drinking water If you want
to escape an attack Of typhoid fever. !,
The plasterers are putting on their
touches to the interior Of Silas Kent's
y fine residence.
- The Burbank saloon was raided last
week by tramps. Cigars, tobacco and
bottle OF whiskey were taken.
Mrs. Geo. w. Young of Sioux City,
we'll known here, has been very i'll Of
late from an attack Of malarial fever.
Squire Norton. on November 6. mar
ried William DeWof and Miss Mary
Egan. The groom and bride are res
idents Of Elk Point.
Emmett O'Brien of Yankton is now a
resident of Fl. Dodge, Iowa, where he
runs bucket shop, measuring out Op-
lions, puts and calls to suit.
z C. E. Krouse has fixed up an Office in
his implement warehouse, and now can
entertain his friends with heat and
comfort during the coming winter.
= o. M. Walters is having splendid
success with his air-tight stove which
he manufactures. 1t is q decided inn
prOvement oyer other kinds Of SIM
liar make
Frank o. johnson, the Sioux City
contractor who built the Citizens Bank
building, committed suicide in Sioux
City on Saturday afternoon. He was
thought to be demented.
The COURIER notes that jeff X.
Stickney, according to tho Tyndall
Tribune, has just fitted up his Office,
and 10 now started on his career as a
follower of the creed and ethics of
Blackstone.
Paul J. Mangan. son of Register Of
Deeds Mangan is again ill from an at
tack OF heart trouble. At last accounts
he was on the mend, and his large cir
Gle OF friends hereabouts hope for his
complete recovery.
The Nom Partisan Union, Of which
Rev. A. f. Carhart is president, has
set aside January 26, 1896, as Citizens
Day." and every minister in the state
will be requested to hold appropriate
exercises upon that day.
Thomas Kerrigan and family de5
on election day for Missouri by
the overland route. Mr.. x. has pur-
chased f0rty-acre tract Of land, and
will build himself q house and homo in
the rough old state OF Missouri
John Void, who disposes of his per-
sonal belongings on the 18th OF this
month by auction, will Immediately
after the sale takes place, leave with
his family for Norway. He has only
been in this country for few years.
The Elk Point Driving Park associa-
ton is on the eve of dismemberment.
An effort is being made to create d.
vision of the proceeds-sOme $50 in cash
and the valuo OF the stalls erected on
the fair grounds.
Huron Huronite: None OF our inn
mediate funeral, but Bro. Buchanan Of
the Elk Point COURIER seems to have
wound up his Leader competitor with
watch chain. There seems. as reas-
on. to have been failure to attach
it firmly to the Main spring.
Gen. George A. Silsby of Mitchell
will not leave the state, but will net %
travelling agent for the Merchants
Mutual Insurance company. The gen.
eral is well-known in Union county,
having stumped it in the interests Of
the republican party upon several &C.
casions.
b. F. Knappis now in Georgia. He
10 there to attend the sale OF town lots
ct Fitzgeraldville, the metropolis to-be
vi the colony lands. II prices are not
too high. and the outlook favorable,
Mr.. Knapp will locate In that glowing
country, whore the banana, magnolia,
and tarnntula vie with each other TO
send forth their respondent perfume
and poison to happy and disconnected
world.
The Berestord Republic can have the
500 offered two weeks ago II II can
prove that there aro higher prices paid
for farm produce all lines considered
jim any town Ii Union, Clay. Yankton
and Lincoln counties than at Elk Point.
II cites the fact that BeresfOrd Is pay
Ing u cents for wheat. Elk Point has
been paying 48 cents, and 80 far as
hogs are concerned our buyers pay all
the way from 70 70 30 cents per hum
dred more than they do IN my Of the
adjoining towns.