Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-01-23
"Pillsbury's Best for sale ut Frank
Inns. Minneapolis Fl0ur-Best on the
market. Try 3 sack.

j. N. Fsatsn Of Akron, Ia, was In thu
city over Sunday.
John Malady has an advertisement
In this issue. Look Il up.
Capt. Fisher OF Vermillion perambu'
lated up our streets on Monday.
Photographer Butler paid his Yer
million friends q visit last Sunday.
II Is claimed that telephone c~onnec.
|tion will be had between Beresford and
Elk Point this week.
The supper given by the ladies Of the
M. E. church in the opera house one
evening last week was . success.
DR.. u. E. Traer, the lecturer on
phrenologv, preached 9 sermon In the
M. E. church last Sunday evening.
A. Poole, the restaurant man, leayes
for England In q few days. He will be
absent q month or two on business.
The sale Of the 40 acres of land be-
longing to Gustaf Kanego estate, In
Alcester township, will be approved by
Judge Smythe on Monday. The land
sold for 1921.
Truman Ames has been helping
County Auditor Asbield this week.
The work of the Office Is of such proper
lions at the beginning Of the year that
q deputy is required.
Judge E. G. Smith is holding court
in Yankton this week. A very large
calendar is reported with q number of
very important cases, some of which
are the outgrowth Of the Pierce failure.
VIM. Sayles, the hale and hearty
farmer OF Sioux Valley and q veteran
of the war, graced the COURIER sanc-
tum on Wednesday. He made glad our
exchequer by paying for another year
of the COURIER.
A meeting Of the incorporators of the
Cyclone and Tornado Insurance cOmpa-
ny of Union and Clay counties was held
in Hoffman's hall on last Wednesday
afternoon. President Andrew Martin
presided and the object and purposes
of the association were discussed as
we'll as the bylaws of the association
adopted. Al the annual meeting Of
the Farmers Mutual Insurance compa.
ny the old directors were reelected.
The infant sono of DR.. and Mrs. w. j.
Comfy died on Wednesday morning,
after a very brief illness. The little
one was only two weeks old and from
it's birth possessed but little vitality to
withstand the rigors of life. Every
thing was done to relieve its struggles
but fate decreed otherwise. The funer-
al took place at 4 o'clock from the
house. q large number of sympathizing
friends being present.
A special train carrying the ''brass
button" officials of the Milwaukee rail-
way passed through the city on Sum
day. Among those on board were Gen.
eral Manager Earling and Supt. Boards
ley. They stopped at Elk Point to
meet the grain buyers and have a chat
with them as to the prospects, and Sc
cure an estimate of the amount that
could be counted on for shipment.
j. E. Hanlin, general freight agent,
who was also one of the party did the
cross-questioning of the grain buyers.
He wanted to know what the Armour
cribs were doing, and when told that
their buyer vas doing his u best, re;
for an estimate on the corn crop of
Union county, and Geo. r. Freeman
made an estimate for him OF 100000
bushels, which 10 a very close and con-
sentative figure. Finally Hanlin want
ed to know why 1t was that the corn
crop was not moving to market, adding
that the Milwaukee road had rushed
out hundreds, yes thousands, of empty
cars into the corn country In anticipa-
ton of a general move into the market.
Il believe | can give you the reasOn,"
said George Freeman, who was in the
party, land it ia this: If you ship two
cars OF corn to the market it takes one
to pay the freight. With the extreme
}owness of price, farmers have just de-
prmined 70 feed their corn until the
sFtsesc0mes. Corn costs nov III cents
f0rfre3Kht to Chicago. If we had an
sc OF even 1Oc rate we might do some
business, but there Ia no use of shipping
at present"
Our competitor, the Leader, under
the editorial guidance Of Editor Ayers
Of VermilliOn, endeavOrs to throw cold
water on the list of South Dakota CCun-
ties and the brief account OF where
each name was derived from, which
was printed Ia our last issue. The Hist,
we believe, IL reasonably accurate
certainly the few alleged errors men,
toned are open to considerable dis
cussion. Clay county, we are reliably
informed, q named after the clay
found on Clay creek. The creek was
named years before the county was or
'ganizsd, and the early settlers followed
quite q general custom in the west Of
naming the county after some stream