Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-01-23

Bran, Oats, Shorts, Corn, Etc. Ere
Delivery to all parts of the city.
/. N. Flanagan is reported as bein,
no better.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. O
NJ. Walters is i'll.
DR.. Traer receives callers at the Ire
mont. Consultations free.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Maynard were thu
guests Of Mrs. H. A. Stroud on Wednes
day.
= Mrs. John Finnie Of Virginia hal
been very ill of late, but is reported
better.
j. E. Tomlinson, the telephone king
fot South Dakota, was in the city on
Wednesday.
"Phrenology Of Matrimony'' tonight
to night at the M. Z. church. Look
out for fun and prizes.
Adam Scott of Virginia tp. pulled
u latch string, squared accounts and
and made arrangements to secure the
Inter Ocean for another year.
February 3 is the day you can buy q
ticket to Abbevville, Ca, cheap.
Homeseekers n way tickets sold that
day and date only.
Government tombstones have beeN
placed on the graves of the deceased
comrades, John Olson, Henry d. Doane
and Edwin Bcckley.
The members of the Epworth League
will give a Pie social On Friday even
ing, Jan. 81. Admittance and place
will be announced next week.
Abe Strobel had one of his fingers
crushed by getting it between two
cakes of ice in his ice house. It re-
quired a surgeons care to dress it.
Andrew Hayhome. who is at present
stopping at the Farmers Home, is slow
ly recovering from the effects of a SUR
gical operation performed by DIR. Comfy.
His left limb is gaining strength and
indications point TO a complete recove-
ry.
T. j. Reeves, fish commissioner for
Union county. was called TO Nc
Cook ON official business. He proposes
to see that the law is enforced and UNI
less the fishmongers of that section are
telling stories someone Is liable to be
i~ncarcerated for wrong doing.
On Monday Michael and John Eric
son OF Sioux Valley were arrested by
Marshall Kropp on the charge of cruel
ty to animals on a complaint sworn out
by Henry Beotger. Boetger claimed
that Nelson and Ericsson had riddled
the headquarters OF his COW with
bullets. The matter was settled by the
payment Of S23 for the COW and Sl6
costs.
The largest attendance at an auction
sale ever witnessed in the county was
Wednesday. 1t was estimated that
persons on the farm. Alison Bovee was
the %auctioneer, and the net proceeds
from the sale must have footed up
81, 900. Everything sold high and MI.
Oleson must be highly gratified over
the success of the affair. A stallion
sold for 1925, the cows for $50 and there
abouts. while the machinery brought
topnotch prices.
j. E. Cavalier, the YaAkton ex-news-
paper man, was here on Tuesday in the
interests of the Minneapolis Journal.
Charles Cooper has lost his Job as
leading man in the state for the journ-
al people. Cavalier dropped in Ver-
million on his way down here and in
terviewed Andy Lee on the prospects
of his accepting the populist nomina-
tion for governor. II am a republican"
said Mr.. Lee, land am not looking
e.. A. ~~~~S~n<;or fnr thn nAcn1 of on~
stable o governor from the populists
or any other party.
DR.. Traer's lectures at the M. E.
church are being well attended and are
giving great satisfaction. The doctor
is evidently an old hand at the business,
is thoroughly we'll informed, and has
the happy faculty of imparting a great
deal of valuable information without
wearying his hearers. The course of
lectures will continue this and part of
next week. We advise our readers TO
attend. 1t is seldom our people have
such au opportunity, and it ought to be
improved. It Is worth ten times the
admittance to see the portrait gallery
of distinguished and peculiar people.
According to a cable dispatch from
Berlin under date OF January ~ (laSt
Sunday Bob Kneebs has appealed
from the decision of the German
court which was nine months imprls0n-
ment and a fine of 1000 marks for start
ing on the German tracks an entry
alleged to have been the mare Bethel
under the name of Nellie Kneebs. The
case has taken developments which
may lead to diplomatic Communications
between Berlin and Washington. One
OF the German consuls in the United
States, it appears, in certifying to the
signatures appended to the dispositions
Of some OF Kneebs' witnesses, charac-
terized the witnesses as unworthy Of
belief, and declared that their testi-
mOny was only worthy of SO many dol
lars, Implying that they were paid for
what they had sworn to, and had wOr
to only what they had been for. Such
q statement accompanying the docu-
ments received here Is said to be q
breach OF the law. The c~oncul, 1t is
contended, has nOright to communicate
to his government his personal ideas
OF the character OF the American
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