Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-01-16
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paris Of the city.
Mrs. Ira Nichols Is i'll.
b. M. Brink will return from LOuisi.
ana next week.
Rev. J. Olbue of Nora was In the
city on Monday.
The county officials have bought q
new steel filing cabinet for the clerk o.
courts. j
~6Ohn Curry has been very ill with
pneumonia, but we r glad to state Il
improving.
Mrs. Wood. wife OF DR.. Wood of Hon
olu,u, Sandwich Isles, and a sister 81
Mayor Gilmore, Is in the city on q visit
| with Mrs. G. d. Lufkin.
Mrs. F. M. Gilmore, Miss Grace and
Master George arrived IN Tuesday
from Lincoln. Neb.. where they have
been OF a visit for five weeks.
James Lilley was up town yesterday,
having recovered from his recent at
tack Of illness. He proposes to take 9
trip to Tennessee in u few days.
Rev. H. T. Shepherd, the pastor o.
the Congregational church Is i'll and
was unable to occupy his pulpit last
Sunday. His illness is..said to be due
to pneumonia.
Lars Lykken OF Nora brought Mr..
and Mrs. Baard Graeneng Of Sioux City
Pierre on Monday to take the train fol
Sioux City. They have been stopping
at Mr.. Ole Lykken's during the illness
of his son.
The two sons OF Dan Myers, now ol
VermilliOn and formerly of this place,
are at present attending colleges.
George Is In Cleveland. O., studying
medicine and Wilbur is In Minneapo.
lis, a student Of the state university.
= Jerome Mangan and family returned
from Beresf0rd last Saturday, after
performing the last sad rites connected
with the burial of their son. The fun
eral ceremony in Beresford was largely
attended by the friends OF the family.
Editor Danforth of vermillion walked
through our Office door one day last
week. It was a tight squeeze, but after
getting in nothing would satisfy him
for a seat but u ink keg. He was
accommodated, and no doubt the marks
are still visible.
The Modern Woodmen and A. O. U.
W. lodges are looking about for new
halls, of which there seems to be not a
suf1iciency in the city. Several new
places have been suggested, and it is
not at all unreasonable to believe that
we shall ere long have another society
hall in the city.
The VermilliOn Republican rounded
out it's thirty-sixth year two weeks ago.
It is more prosperous than ut any time
in its history, has n clientele that is an
honor to its subscription list and the
pride of it's editors. This clientele
represents the Drawn and brain of the
Clay county yeomanry. Brer. Wiley,
who maps out the policy of the paper,
good mana bright man, judged by his
Newspaper-and one might stretch it a
little and say a wonderful man. But to
look at him with your eyes, possibly
you might have some misgivings as to
his goodness, his brightness, and his
cleverness, but then, like the singed
cat, he ia better than he looks. You
can eve Judge a man by his looks.
Take Socrates, for instance. Not that
you car compare Wiley with our old
friend Socrates, but merely for illus
tratiOn as to looks being deceiving.
However, here is wishing Brer. Wiley
luck for another thirty-six years, for he
deserves it. With the exception of
Cal of the Sioux Falls Press he is the
hardest working newspaper man in the
state.
For some time past there has been
sioners Of Union and Plymouth county,
Iowa, to determine on a site for a new
bridge acr0ss the Big Sioux directly
east Of Jefferson. The Plymouth coun-
ty commissioners we're in favor of hav-
ing the bridge built at the Buena Vista
farm one aud One-half miles further
down than the point selected by our
own commissioners. 1t seems that the
owners Of the Buena Vista farm we're
anxious, yea determined. to have the
bridge where 1t would rebound to their
own &C vantage largely and almost en-
tirely. Had the bridge been located
thcre the farmers using It would have
to gotwo miles out Of their way TO avoid
the high bluffs, while If it was located
at the point advocated by our commis-
si0ners it would have been directly op-
posite the valley all would have passed
10 go up on the upland in plymouth
county. No agreement or compromise
could be reached by the joint commits.
sion, and the matter was dropped ow.
ing TO the ~obstinancy, the deterrntna-
ton, and bull-dOggedness OF the Iowa
commissioners who ruin or rule every.
thing they get their fingers In.
In q telegram published iii tie Chi.
cagO Inter Ocean, which the editor
read, he noticed q little bit OF local
news. It was trifing In Its character,
yet a year ago, should he have prophe.
Isied such . fact, he would have been
the recipient Of q string Of epithete
from the pen of our friend Knapp. The
stray bit 81 news is this, In the Ian.
pua0e OF the dispatch, which Is dated,
AbheyvilIe, Ca, january O., 1895
ga new weekly paper will be starred
here next week BY B. r. Knapp h Son,
II will be democratic II politics. Il