Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-01-23
Frankiih delivers FREE 70 all
parts Of the city.

Thompson and Gamble, the evange.
lists, are at Parker.
Alexander Crawford returned on
Tuesday from a visit up the road.
Merchant Frank Fritz of Garland
was a visitor in the city on Monday.
Mrs. Walter Hines and children are
now living in Ann Arbor, Mich, hav-
Ing moved from Seneca, Kas.
AR. Jameson, the reverential Judge
OF the city police court, returned from
his trip to Sioux Falls on Tuesday.
Geo. L. Houghton, of Appealed
Cases. fame, is in Dell Bapids. He is
still canvassing and selling his books.
! T. J. Reeves, the popular COURIER
correspondent from Mount Hope, grac-
ed a seal in this sanctum this week.
E. &. Ericsson was called to Vermil-
lion to appear again in the law suit In
volving a final settlement in the Cusick
estate.
Julius Schaetzel has purchased the
six lots in the block facing Alison Boz
wees residence on Main street. Mr..
Schaetzel will erect a residence in the
spring. !.
Zhe Modern Woodmen enjoyed a de-
lightful oyster supper at the Poole res
taurant at the expense of the new Of
ficers, who were installed or Monday
evening.
John Curry met with a relapse last
Monday in the attack of pneumonia
from which he has been suffering of
late, and grave fears are entertained as
to his ultimate recovery.
! Jacob B. Ness and Eric N. Ness, two
Scandinavian young men, left on Mon
Iday for Naniamo, b. c., where they
will try their fortunes at whatever they
an get to do in that far away country.
They have been working in this section
OF South Dakota during the past year.
DR.. L. C. Mead, superintendent of
the Yankton State hospital, was in the
city on Saturday greeting old friends.
The doctors visits here are always en-
joyed as all remember that he was
once an Elk Pointer and is one 10 in
property interests.
John COverdale has rearranged his
large shop on Pleasant street, SO that
1T presents q convenient aspect.
The blacksmith department has been
moved into the rear end, while the
wagon and machine department now
occupies the portion of the large build
ing which faces Pleasant street.
That most admirable monthly publ
cation, Good Housekeeping, never
made Il better showing of what it is in
real merit Of contents than it does in
its January, 1897 issue. In all that re-
lates to the care of the home, tho adj
ministratiOn of the kitchen, the beauty
of the drawing room, and the general
management of u household, it stands
as an instructor at the head of the
magazines of it's class.
De Smet Leader: AS will be G by
the financial statement published else
where in this issue, K%ingsbury county
has S25, 900 in cash in the treasury and
a bond nor an outstanding debt of
any kind. This is a very satisfactory
condition OF affairs, and our neighbors
in the southern part Of the state who
been extending their condolences
this way are respectfully requested to
put this in their pipe and smoke it.
Martin Moles of Richland was a
caller at our sanctum on Monday and
his account with THE COURIER.
Someone" said Mart, ''has been tell
ing \ story that | was going to skip the
country, but to show the utter fallacy
of such q thing / am around settling up
with everybody to whom | owe q dol
lar. When l get through am going
to Maauoketa, Ia., to live. Lived here
twenty years, but / am going away with
very little although not a debt is left
behind"
This item taken from the Redfieldj
Observer will be a matter of surpriG
TO our readers-at least is is such tOa
the editor. sit transpires that Nc
Laren, the fellow who used to travel
through this section years g for the
Sioux City journal, and who deserted
his family in Minneapolis recently, was
one time q preacher at Sioux Valley,
MINI. With no reelection upon many
gond men who preach the word, the
people Of this section have reason to
believe that some of the worst rene
gades and most disreputable cases Of
humanity have jOckeyed with the pro-
fessiOn of preaching in South Dakota.
Some of them followed preaching be-
cause they could not get a living at
any other calling and some OF them
In succession other vOca-
lions of failures becaure they were
distrusted and despised by their fellow
men. It is a pity that such creatures
can turn to God when they have run
their course with men,"
Michael Mulcahy, Esq, OF Orillia,
Ont, Canada, arrived in the city on
last Friday te enjoy a visit with his
son, DIR. Mulcahy. The senior Null
cahy Ia = fine sample Of the successful
Canadian, and with his genial and jo-.
vial good nature is no doubt a popular.
citizen in his own baiiiwick. In d con-
v~ersation had with him by the editor
he remarked in reference to the Ven-
ezuelean dispute: Across the border
in Canada we occupy rather neutral
ground. We are loyal British sub
iects, and we "a see no reason why
there should be a war between the two
great Anglo-Saxon nations over a bit Of
raw land In South America that ID