Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-02-06
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LOCAL PARAcaAPhv.
Mrs. Ben. Briggs IL quite i'll.
Judge Kirk and Carl Anderson SUM-
dayed in Sioux City.
Clerk of Courts Omdahl was a SiouH
City visitor on Tuesday.
Leo. Foster Of Yankton was in the
city visiting friends before starting on
an extended trip on the road.
While visiting in Missouri recently
James Lilly met Sherman Clyde. Mr..
Clyde likes the country and is doing
we'll.
There are twenty ex-uuion soldiers
sburied in our city cemetery. A few
short years and the number will be
doubled.
BoRN-January 81, at Q o'clock a. M,
to Captain r. s. and Mrs. Elizabeth
King, formerly Miss Elizabeth Geisler,
a sOn.
Henry Staley Of Sphinx township has
purchased the home property Of James
Nolan on the west side Of town. and
after his sale will become q resident Of
the city.
Mesdames E. G. Ericsson, M. Hoffman,
H. II. Blair and John F. Reid, passed
. pleasant afternoon on Tuesday with
their friend, Mrs. w. NJ. vinson, on the
farm.
! The ice harvest IL about over, aid
1afgs quantities OF concealed aqua pura
have been stored away with which to
make life more endurable during the
coming summer.
Alex. Weston Is home from ginning
cotton in Georgia. He likes the south
ern country, and says there are many
rar opportunities to engage in bust
ness in that much advertised state.
The Elk Point building and loan as
ISOLATION rejected the proposition TO
merge with the Sioux City association
unanimously. The local association Is
on i solid basis and prospects for bust
ness good.
Father Kelley has matched up an ell
egant looking and moving young team
OF roadsters. He says he does like TO
drive q nice rangey stepping team and
he doesn't care who knows 1t. We feel
just that way ourself, l thank you.
l. N. Flanagan is not gaining in
health as his friends had hoped he
would. In fact, he seems to be losing
strength. Mrs. Henry Oakes, his
daughter from Sioux Valley, has ar
rived, and is at HE bedside, where she
will remain for several days.
When Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Blair en-
tered South Dakota in 1868 by way OF
the Sioux bridge, the first person
spoken to was the late M. M. Williams
whom they had known for fifteen years
In Wisconsin. Lyle Webb, now sheriff
Of Arspahoe counny, Col, droves team
for Judge Blair from Wisconsin. !,
| We wonder II It wouldn't be . cool
| Plan during the rest Of the winter for
the several churches In the city to have
a blackboard erected 10 the entry and
then require the young ladies to reg
lister upon ,entering. BY this method
the young men who don't 60 for the
purpose Of hearing the sermon could
form q correct estimate on their
chances without going inside and dis
! turbing others. u
Oats &c and lOc per bushel; apples
e4.5O per barrel. Do you see the point
DR.. 6. 8. Agersborg Of vermillion hal
q small apple orchard Of two or thret
acres that yearly nets him between
$500 and 600, and he doesn't kill him
self Ia tending II either. Il - time K
look into these things little when 4
takes between forty and nifty bushels o.
oats 70 buy one barrel Of rood spplea.
The Hughes 4 Carroll Minstrel Go.
which showed at the opera house y
this city Last Thursday night carr!
With them soma specialists Of : higl
order. Mr.. Carr and Miss Little =
yocalists were poaseseed Of voices tina