Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-10-24
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| Mrs. IA. q. RlSgsrud was Sioux
/ City visitor on Monday.
| Miss Louella Comfy made the trip e
| Sioux City on Monday.
~kast evening (TuAday) a gang 81
colored MINISTRIES held STay in the OPP.
era house. There was A,good attend.
ance.
There are no strings tied to Bill
Main" said one OF our leading populist
farmers, "and for that reason / am
lgoing to vote for him."
II Is said that Jack Wallace demands
the recognition of the belligerent rights
of his army in Alcester. No doubt the
matter is being considered by Gen.
Kelley who will, we believe, refuse
them Tor he is a peaceful and law abid-
| ing citizen.
Painter J. H. Hissong, who has been
holding down situation in the boiler
room of the linseed Oil works OF Sioux
City is reported to have been joined by
matrimonial bonds to an estimable
young lady Of that place. We hope
they will prosper and that 'his song
will be ever true and faithful.
| We are informed that John Waugh,
son -in.law of George Nj. Linch. has
fallen heir TO 81 900 through the death
OF his father. Mr.. Waugh is hard.
working, industrious young man and
deserves the prize he has won. He
proposes ere long to buy farm near
at hand and devote his energies to till
| ing the soil, which he is amply able
and competent to do.
Tuesday morning Ed. Simmons came
prancing down to his place OF business
with o majestic stride. He seemed to
have a pneumatic step, and as he
walked along the street you could hear
the boys sigh there goes the father of
an 12-pound girl, just see him fly and
wink his eye and hear him cry, oh I'm
a happy man." All day long Mr..
Simmons was receiving congratulations.
Capt. John L. VanKuren has been
very i'll at his home one mile west OF
town. He has been suffering very Sc
verely OF late from an attack of rheu-
matism which has been aggravated by
an accompanying fever. All hope for
his quick recovery, for there are few
veterans in this section who possess so
generally the good will and esteem of
all as the captain. We are glad to
state that he was reported better yes
terday.
The marriage of Mr.. J. Il. Wilson
and Miss Phoebe Gump took place at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. B. F.
Knapp Monday afternoon. Mr.. Will
son has been hotel keeper in Winter
set, Ia, but is now located at Onawa.
Miss Gump is sister of Mrs. B. +.
Knapp, and is young lady OF remark
able attachments in the lines to make
home cheerful and happy. Immedi-
ately after the ceremony was performed
the couple departed on their wedding
trip.
HI. j. McManus of Hawarden was in
the city on Tuesday representing the
Olcutt blank cabinet, for which he is
the general agent Mac is veteran
OF the war and the democratic party,
and the way he discourses politics is a
caution to the average Dakotan, who,
by the way, is no novice in the peculiar
ways OF politics. Mac is great grand
son of the renow6ed Alexander Ham
ilton, and no dopbt his crudition is due
to the fine strains of blood found IN his
veins.
Judge +. G. Smith and Stenographer
East returned from Dead wood on Mon
day evening and passed through Elk
Point on their way to Yankton. In a
conversation with the Judge it was
learned that he had an enjoyable time,
although sad gloom was cast upon
the court by the loss of one of its at
tachees-the clerk-whO died very sud-
denly. This delayed matters for u few
days until q new one could be secured.
The judge tried one murder-the Mat
son-case and six felonies, giving am
pie opportunity to exercise his talents
with reference to criminal law. Two
days we're spent in sight seeing, and
tho trip was an exceedingly enjoyable
one in every respect.
j. G. Knapp and w. j. Comfy, Jr.,
departed last Wednesday for Macon,
Ca, on rather peculiar mission. They
are accompanied hSh~W. K. Shaw of
Sioux City, and are, or will be, repre-
sentatives Of the Macon Driving Park
associatiOn,t to give series OF meetings
at Macon during the winter. As we
understand it, the association is but
the beginning of a movement to knock
the under-pinions from beneath the
American Trotting association and
leave that awkward institution fioun-
dering in the mire of distress. Whether
this statement is correct or not we do
not know. Anyway it is said that the
Macon association will not be member
of the American: that barred, SCARED,
ring-bOned or spawned horses can trot,
run or pace on the tracks: that the as
sociation is a wide-open, let-'er-go gal
lagher affair; that lots OF money is to
be made provided the Macon people
raise enough to provide for the enter
tainment,. and there is sufficiency left
after paying purses to leave profit.
Here's little item of interest regard
ing Potter, owner Of the Beresford
electric light plant and who wanted to
operate q plant in Elk Point. 1t is
taken from the Huron Huronite: "Jared
T. Newman, prominent attorney of
Ithaca, N. Y, has been in this county
for several days looking up the validity
If two certain nrOmiasOrv notes dated