Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-02-13

Z. W. Ericsson was called to Vermill-
ION on business last week.
NAiarge party OF ~bicyclists paid the
eWenner whiskey camp a visit on Sun
day.
Mrs. W.T. Buchanan and son Robert
leave on Thursday for Cherokee for a
brief visit.
The editor OF this great moral sheet
contemplties making a "trip 10 Chicago
on Thursday. !.
George Il. Freeman has been wresK
ling with an attack of the prevailing
epidemic, the grippe.
Mrs. James Anderson, of Sioux VAL
ley died last Thursday, very suddenly.
from an attack Of pneumonia.
kThe Carol & Hughes Minstrel show.
That appeared in Elk Point recently,
was stranded al Centerville.
John ~Clementson, the popular clerk
In Ringsrud' s store. departed on Tues
day for Atlanta. Ga, where he will
visit friends.
The editor of THE COURIER was in
Hudson last week and there attended a
meeting OF the republican state central
committee.
A Sioux Falls newspaper states that
Judge Palmer will be a candidate for a
seat in the legislature from Minnehaha
county the coming fall. /
Ray Ellis. the handsome scion of Dr!N
M Fills bod Shn ~-sefo~,ra %n
break his arm by being thrown from a
his arm In a sling in consequence of the
accident.
George Haver and family" states
the Fitzgerald Leader, arrived in the
city last Thursday morning to remain
permanently. They r pleased with
the colony"
Pearl Bryan. whose murder in Gin
cinnaii created such a sensation, the
details of which have furnished col
umns upon columns for the daily news
papers, was a third cousin of ]. Fl.
Bryan of this city.
A Mr.. Bollinger who lives near Elk
Point in Union county, and who has
been hunting and trapping in this
county since October brought in thirty
wolf scalps Saturday on which he will
secure q bounty.-Parker Press.
According to the Vermillion Free
mar DIR. Gerald w. Collins will place a
branch dental esta blishment in this
city and in Akron. The doctor, it is
said. is rapidly forging to the front
ranks as a dentist, and he proposes to
spread nj so as to take in all the south
ern section of the state:
Rev. S. F. Huntley, of Washington
Springs. this state, secretary OF the
NOM Partisan Prohibition Union was
the guest of Rev. A. E. Carhart several
days last week. On Saturday they
drove TO Alcester where they held Il
successful temperance meeting.
BY the Fitzgerald Leader, conducted
by our former townsmen, the Knapps,
we see that 1.-THE Palace Saloon, %
Bull street." is the finest place in Sa-
vannah. BY the wy the Leader has
every indication Of prosperity. Report
has it that the ''old man. is just coin
ing the '.goldt'' and is only waiting for
two years to roll around before he will
become a man with his thousands" of
ducats.
CD. Lufkin departed east on Wodhes-
day, and will ga as far as Boston,
Mass. Mr.. Lufkin goes in the interests
of his music business and proposes TO
get the best for the least money obtain
able. He always buys for spot cash
and by 70 doing gets better prices than
any OF his competitors in this section,
- - ~L,o o~ohlnA fn cnll ~ n oVpnp
figure.
H. E. Hoffman Of Brule purchased of
c. d. Lufkin a fine Frances Bacon piano
for his daughter, the other day. Miss
Hoffman is rapidly advancing in her
| studies of the pianoforte and already
| gives evidence of natural talent In that
| direction. Her father shows a COM
mendable spirit, indeed, in thus giving
| her all the advantages of a first class
instrument.
Otto Derr departed on Monday for
| Sauborn. Ia, where he has accepted a
| situation with the Sanborn Sun, oil
| which s'Pomp'' Mccormick is prophet
or. Mr. Derr worked in THE COURIER
| Office nearly two years, and OF late has
been connected with the Leader. He
| ia a faithful, honest and hardworking
printer. and The COURIER force wishes
| him good luck in his new field.
Herbert Gillette, who was assistant
secretary of state under A. Q. Rings
rud Of this city, has just withstood a
very difficult surgical operation in New
York city under the skilitul manipula
ton OF DR.. Tallingast Bull, husband o
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr. The doctor
removed a ancer0u growth from hi
neck. According to q dispatch the op
GRAFTON was q success, although it viii
be months before the patient RECEIVERS
While in Huron the other day thu
editor had the pleasure OF making tn
acquaintance OF Oiuf Nelson of Lymal
county. . former resident Of this sec
ton. Mr.. Nelson is one Of the leading
men OF his locality, and now owns
herd OF 400 head Of cattle. He 10 &C
tive. wide-awake and alert to his Owl
interests, and before the streaks Of gra
- rs.shio I'm his sttnurnv. Inks WA wi1