Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-12-12
Additional Local.
Do you sponge THE CoURrERy
Now ID the time to subscribe

Do you sponge THE CouRrERy
Now ID the time to subscribe.
The school board will have meeting
in y few days.
Bier. Ayers Of Vermillior makes
daily visits to this city.
It is sain that there are FIVE schlat-
ter handkerchieis in the city.
Do not forget the entertainment in
the opera house ON Friday evening. 7
A. Hicks predicts cold weather Tor De-
,cember. 1t Is 80 easy to predict a we'll
known fact.
The ladies Of the Nj. T.. church are
to have II chicken pie supper in q few
days.
THE COURIER and New York Tribune
this year for one price when paid in
advance.
Capt. A. d. Keller il in Aberdeen.
where M grand chancellor commander
be will visit the local K. Of P. lodge.
y Mrs. Helen Schaetzel will recite n
number of selections at the entertain
ment In the opera house on FRIDAY
evening.
The city schools will be closed for
their holiday term week from Friday
The children are looking forward to u
joyous vacation.
The prevailing market for produce in
Elk Point on Wednesday was wheat.
4Oc: corn, 16c: hogs. ~ lO(dS3:l5: but.
tor. l6c; eggs, l24c.
THE COURIER wants to add II few
new subscribers TO it's list by the first
Of January. Our list is growing, but
still there Is plenty OF room for more.
Supt. Smith paid an official visit on
Monday to Hawarden and made set-
Element with the booksellers who han
die Union county school text books. ~
Eighteen passengers hailiug froM
Mellette, this state, passed through
the city on Saturday for the soldiers
colony in Georgia. They will be glad
Of chance to walk back year from
now.
The ladies of the Congregational
church society will give chicken pie
supper "Wednesday, December Is, 1895,
in Hoffman Hall lover COURIER office)
from TO 8 p. m. Price 25 cents. Al
are cordially invited.
G.. d. Lufkin our local music dealer
has few words to say to our readers
this week. His ability to buy for cash
Is unquestioned. therefore he has au ad-
vantge over other denlers which the
customer gets the benefit Of.
Elk Point did not put in a bid for the
republican national convention, but
that Ia no reason why this would not be
II good place to hold it. We might be
short In hotel accommodations, yet we
have plenty Of roOm--under the canopy
of heaven-tO seat all the delegates
and their friends.
No reply has been received to u
challenge sent by the local whist club
70 the Vcrmillion Whist players for
game. Evidently the lovers Of tho
notional game Of cards in the Uriver-
city city are afraid. Elk Point prldes
herself that her whist players can click
the stuffin'" out of the Vermillionites.
James J. Savage OF Midland, Mich,
editor and proprietor OF Midland Sun
Ia in the city. He is the con Of the
late Mr.. Savage who settled upon the
homestead now occupied by d. NJ.
DickersOn, and over whose title 10 the
land now owned by Albert Shurileff
there has been 80 much 'lawing.'
Col. Thomas Brown, Capt. Frank
Halligan, late private secretary OF
Senator pettigre W. and ID. l.. Mckinney
all of Sioux Falls and very active citi-
Gems of the Queen city. were callers at
The COURIER snnctum on Wednesday.
Mr., Mckinney is here us adju.tor Of
the German Insurance company OF
Freeport, with reference IL the $500
loss experienced on the building owned
bv F. NJ. Gilmore.
An election contest case il being
tried In Plymouth county, Iowa, east Ut
us. "a we'll rs ono in Dixon county, Ne.
brnska on the west. In Plymouth,
prot, Wernli, the republican candidate
for county superintendent. who was de-
feated by six votes on tho face OF the
returns. has entered his protest and
will fight 1t out in the courts. The
professor is An old settler, known to
MANI Oh TIC pcOpic uctc0UOu&S' o"~ Ae
regarded highly for his sterling worth.
An editor, who died OF starvation.
was being escorted TO heaven by an
angle who had been sent out Tor that
purpose. MAY look Ut the other
place before we assend to eternal hap
piness?" easily, "said the angel. So
thew went down below and skirmished
around, taking in the sights. The
angel lost track Of the editor and went
around hades to hunt for him. de
found him sitting by II furnacc, tanning
himself and gazing with rapture upon
= lot of people in the fire. There Wal
= sign on the furnace which SAID. De
liuouent Subscribers. Come SAID
the angel, 1--WE must be going You
40 ON said tho editor, I'm not com
ing. This is heaven enough for me-. =
Ex.
At the recent city council meeting !,
vas decided to call mass meeting o.
the citizens OF Elk Point. to determine
what shall BIO done with the chemica
firo apparatus purchased year or more
!, 400. The whole situation with REGARD
7 Is the contentious OF the Revere Rub
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