Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-01-30
FRANKLIN delivers FREE to all
parts Of the city.

Mr.. Thomas Mulcahey, father Of DR..
Mulcahey, leaves on Monday for the
Pacific coast.
t will not be long before We can ring
up the depot and ask the time of the
arrival Of the 1925 train.
M. M. Williams of Hand county, this
state, and at one time a resident of this
place, is reported as being very i'll.
~khere was a gasoline famine thiA
week, which was relieved by the time
~ arrival Of a gasoline wagon on
Wednesday.
VI Now if we only had electric Lights
and a water works system, the town
would be strictly in the push.
Auditor Asbjeld who has been suffer-
Ing from an attack OF the grippe re-
turned to his work on Wednesday. n
4 There is an epidemic raging in the
CITY just at present. It is similar to
the grippe of d very light form. The
physicians are kept very busy attend
ing to the wants of their patients.
Hearing was had on last Monday be-
fore Judge Smythe upon the petition OF
Henry Silver, praying that he be re-
turned to competency by the court, and
that his guardian l.. P. Lambertson, be
discharged from further performance
of such duties. After listening to the
evidence the judge rejected the
petition.
K. II. Langdon, E. E. Hoyland, M.
A.. Sawyer, Peter Nelson, James Flan-
merry and James McVee OF Elk Point;
Henry Spalda, Richland; MS. Reeves,
South Sioux City; Peter H%alverson,
Chattsworth: Lars j. Ericsson, Akron,
Ia, are among those who have added
their names to our subscription list
within the last ten-days.
Mr.. LYDIA Sha;pand Miss Rena Hale
of Akron, Ia, we're the names Of a
couple of young people who we're bound
together by the laws OF the state
through the aid of the vows of matri-
mony on last Monday. Judge Smythe,
in his most impressive manner, per-
formed tht part assigned to him, while
Clerk Omdahl wrote put the license in
the neatest style known to the art of
penmanship.
BoRN-On Monday, Jan. q, 1896, to
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Joy, a daughter.
Weight 81 pounds. Mother and child
doing nicely. The grandparents Of the
child, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jones, Of
Madison, are in the city to catch a
glimpse of their only grandchild; while
Grandpa Joy seems to walk ore i'm
posingly than v in consequence of
the additional honors conferred upon
him. To the parents we extend con-
CALCULATIONS.
Word was received here on Monday
of the death of the wife of John Finne,
of Virginia township. The funeral
took place on Friday, and a private let
ter received by one of our citizens,
states that the church did not hold one
half OF the sympathizlng friends who
assembled to pay their final respects to
the dead. Mrs. Finnie had been i'll
since Christmas, and her death o.
Cured on Wednesday OF Thursday.
During life she was a woman of many
virtues, and::possessed asterling charac.
ter. Her aim and ambition was to make
the home OF her husband and children
q resting place in all that the term i'm
plies, and her loss to her noble hus.
band is indeed q severe one. In Elk
Point, where the deceased had many
friends, the news of her death was a
shock, and the entire community SYM
pathize with the family in their sad
dest hour of life.
A. Hale, the veteran travelling man,
whose home for many years has been
in Sioux City, died in a hospital in San
|Diego, CAL, last Sunday. It is only q
few weeks ago that the deceased was In
| Elk Point, making his last trip for
sprague, Warner &Co., Of Chicago, and
little did his friends suspect that 1t was
the last trip in q business capacity he
would make on earth. Mr.. Hale com
menced making this territory % years
ago for Sprague, Warner y Go. and
continued in that capacity up to hit
death. He was known all over North
west Iowa, Northeast Nebraska and
South Dakota. He counted among hit
acanaintances all the leading merch-
ants OF tie sections described. He vii
be missed. His jolly laugh, his bluf
manner and quaint stories will long b
remembered. He always said that h
travelled moro miles BY team than an,
travelling man ia the United States ami
never failed 10 make the inland towns