Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-03-26

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Then other work will be - good
A. Courier job work now.
J. F. Reid and son Ralph were Sioux
City visitors on Friday.
Read M. Hoffman's enlarged adyer-
tlsement on range stoves.
Miss Jessie Hoffman entertained q
lew friends on last Saturday.
A boy was born to Mr.. and Mrs. selim
Madison OF POnca two weeks ago.
Erick Nelson Of Big Syringe has Sc
cured q situation In one of the flour
mills at Akron.
Miss Nellie HAPPIER was visiting Miss
beula Waterbury of Akron the fore
part OF last week.
We have seeds for. everything that
you can raise In South Dakota. Call at
f'ranklin's feed store and see.
The well.known shakespearean re-
otter, John j. Frainey will give q
Shakespearean recital for the benefit
Of the city schools at the M. E. church
on Wednesday evening, April I. Adj
mission 25c. !,
Shakespearean recital. Wedness
day evening, April /, is for the benefit
OF the city schools. Give 1t your nat
ronage. Admission Csc; purrbeelN
>!nade low TO bring q full house. This
Is q 30 cent entertainment. =
z Meat wedding Invitations we're printN
ed at this office last Saturday announce
Ing that the marriage of G. F.. Bratt
q Miss Hannah Oleson would take
place at the Norwegian Lutheran
church In Sphinx on Tuesday, March
81. Rev. E. Dahl will perform the
ceremony.
Mrs. Polly D. Nichols, mother OF
Hon. VIM. Durham Of Saddle Creek,
Lincoln county, died on the 10th inst.
Mr.. Durham Is we'll known In this
county, and the loss of q devoted
mother calls forth the general express
siOns OF sympathies on all sides.
Bert Partridge, an old Vermillion,
South Dakota, base ball tosser,'' states
Charles Maliahan in the last issue of
his paper, the Madelia (Minn.) Mes
senger, ''will play with the Mankato
team this year. The writer has seen
Bert twirl the sphere in many local
games In the vicinity of his home. He's
u good one."
Supervisors Dealy, Simpson and
Shoemaker, in behalf of Sioux county,
met with the Union county commission
ers at Elk Point last Thursday, states
the Hawarden Independent, and
awarded the contract for repairing the
bridge crossing the Sioux at the North
Side. Steel piers are to be erected In
the middle OF the stream in place Of
the wooden structure now supporting
the two spans, and the contract WAS let
to C. f. n. Campbell for $1,000. Work
will be commenced as sOOn as the ma
terial arrives, and is to be completed by
May II.
Mayor Gilmore this week received
from the St. Paul parties holding the
bonds upon the city Of Elk Point q bond
far $500 in exchange for that amount
OF money with interest 10 date. The
council decided some time ago that 1t
would be advisable to take up another
bond, insomuch rs they draw 8 per cent
interest. The action Of the council is
commended by all taxpayers. Since
Mayor Gilm0re's administration the
bonded debt Of the town has been cut
in two 1t being $1,000 when he went
into Office, and now only $1,000. At
the present rate the town will be out OF
debt on April l, 1893.
The Pukawana Press, in its COM
ment on the county convention held in
Brule county at Kimball, makes the
following, remarks with regard to q
former Union county man who was al
ways held In high esteem here and has
| many friends, who believe that there
has been done an injustice to the vet
eran. This farmer who VA turned
down Is G. w. Upton, Of Union town
ship, q life long republican; who has
always supported the party nominees;
who has never flinched in his republi'
canism; who has invariably worked fol
the straight ticket, regardless Of per
sonal friends on the ticket, who haf
been a republican worker In Uni0r
township for four rears; and who haa
| never asked for anything ct the hands
/ Of the party before. There II some
thing radically wrong in such treat
| ment as was accorded to Mr.. Upton
and the fellows who are Responsible foi
1t will regret it.
Last Monday evening . large and up
/ p~reciative audience had The pleasure o
| listening to an entertaining - we'll =
instructive lecture In the N. F. church
on the subject OF s.Spectacles." by Rev
@. D. Cleworth of Chicago. Mr.. Gle
worth is an excellent speaker, and hold
his listeners spellbound with wonder
and delight. The ''spectacles" OF which