Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-02-21

SAuAe sluco 1 came. Am having 3 very
good time. Would like it much better
II there were not so many coons. They
are to thick for me and in the summer
| don't see how the people can stand it.
viii go up to Chattanooga next Monday
and came back the next evening. Will
leave for New Orleans the 25th of this
month for a few days and then go back
to Chicago. Tell the girls that "Bloom.
ers' are very fashionable in Alanta."
Since Rev. A. E. Carhart has taken
charge OF the M. Z. church of this city
the progress made has been very graft
flying to that gentleman and all mem
bers of that denomination. Last Sun
day twenty boys and girls were added
to the Sunday school membership. The
Sunday previous three adults we're en-.
rolled, making an increase in the
membership of the church for the past
three and a half months of forty.
Last Friday one OF our society girls
received from one OF her ardent admir-
ers a neat little box upon which was the
following inscription says an exchange:
pair of lovely Boomers, wear them
for my sake" ''The horrid brute" she
exclaimed, ''this is not the bicycle sea-
son. l will never speak to him again."
After indulging in a good fit of crying
she opened the box and found two lovely
roses that were just too sweet for any
thing.
A letter was received by the editor
from John Clementson, who is now in
Atlanta, Ga, last Saturday. John de-
clares that there is six inches of snow
on the ground and everybody is ont
sleighriding. Ice skating and toboggan
sliding are among the chief features of
amusement. Every northern man he
had SO far met was anxious to get back
to the bansna climate of South Dakota
where the orange blossom and the
fragrant Mongolia scent the air with
their pleasing perfumes.
Several weeks ago Miles Hanson left
for Arkansas, DESERVING his sick brother
Chris, who was dangerously i'll from a
tumor. The worst feature OF the de-
se:tion was H~anson's leaving his broth
err in the shanty occupied by Miles with
out a word to anyone, in the dead Of win
ter. The county authorities took charge
NJ tho r~n%sn1& L. -, fhD fn1f~ "a no
! ported and last week DR.. Hudson ex.
tracted a Ian &c tumor from just back
of the knee on one of the limbs of the
sick lad. 1t was a neat piece of work
from a surgical standpoint.
A q meeting was held on Monday
evening in Hance Murphey's Office for
the purpose OF making out a program
for races on the 3rd and 4th of July to
be held on the fair grounds. 1t was the
consensus of the opinion expressed at
the meeting that the money to be hung
up shall be divided equally between the
running, trotting and pacing races. w.
J.. Comfy, John C%overdale and Edward
A. Simmons were appointed as a com
mittee to prepare a programme and re-
port the result of their labors at another
meeting to be held in the near future.
Newspaper men are blamed with a
lot of things they can't help, says an ex-
change; such as using Partially in
mentioning visitors, giving news ab't
some folks and leaving out others, etc.
They simply print the news that they
can find. Some people inform them
about such things and others do not.
An editor should not be expected to
know the names and residence of all
your ~uncles, aunts, cousins and brother
in-law even if he should meet them on
the street. Tell the newspaper man of
| your town about them, or what is even
better write it out and hand it to him
or send through the postoffice.
Rev. J. Morrison of Sphinx county,
brother of Mrs. Will Lawton of this
city, vas in town on a visit a few
days ago and while here paid this Office
a very pleasant call. Mr.. Morrison is
an old time printer, having served five
years at the trade. He is nov a Metho-
dist minister and a good one. He has
charge of the Hitchcock circuit in
Sphinx county. 1t is not often the a
that Il printer becomes a preacher, but
where that unusual circumstance &C.
ours you always an able divine. Mr..
Morrison delivered the evening SER
mon in the NJ. Z. church on Sunday to
a large and appreciative audience.
Duncan Ross, Sir, of Sioux Valley
paid this office a pleasant and enjoyable
visit last Monday. Mr. Ross is y u
the pioneers settlers of Dakota aud pro
badly is the oldest living SETTER that is
to say, the one having lived the longest
continuously on Dakota soil and living
to day. He first landed in Union coIn.
ty in the spring Of 1861, and is nov 81
years of age. During those "a years
he has not allowed the grass to grow
under his feet, but by shrewdness and
foresight he accumulated sufficient tt
be regarded as n Of the wealthies'