Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-03-12

0Scuoo VIC <AyoTo LAY Sufe, was
u, the city on Tuesday. \
. There is damage Of overlooking small
pigs. Never leave any in the trough.
Feed little, often and regularly.
John Minis sold his building on Main
street, nd joining that OF Freeman Bros.
one day last week to Mrs, James G.
Smith, the milliner. The consideration
vas 500.
Many a young man a make money
this season by taking up grating, bud
ding, and especially spraying, for the
neighborhood. Get a sprayer and
hustle.
A. P. L-sbjeld, county auditor, was in
itiated into the mysteries of the An
cient Order Of United Workmen last
Monday night.
Hot milk is most valuable food; it
ought not to boil but just scald, then
be drunk with a spoon, as this slow
method insures better digestion. II it
cannot be readily digested add a table
spoonful Of lime water to each glass.
A single gallon of boiled oil will soak
in and furnish a protecting cover for all
the farm wagons, plow handles, horse
rakes, etc., on the farm, keeping the
weather from them and thus saving its
cost a dozed times. Put it on hot.
Samuel Nixon, for SO many years a
resident of Union county, now makes
his home in Sioux Falls, having left
Forest City. His interest in the ferry
at the latter place was fOreclosed upon
by the sheriff and sold at public auc-
tiOn. Report has it that Mr.. Nixon
practically lost all of the money in
vested by him in Forest City.
Lars Solaas OF Nora was in the city
last Friday. He accompanied Eric
Sunseth as far as this place, the latter
being on bis way to Norway, for which
country he left on the same day. Mr..
Sunseth goes there to secure a bride to
bring back to this country, that she
may be enlightened with this beaute-
land Of liberty and prosperity.
The Woonsocket Times comes to hand I
this week with the familiar name of l.. |
p. McClorren at the head of its columns |
as editor. p. J. Bentz still retains the /
ownership, and the change of manage
ment is made by Mr.. Bentz SO that he
may pursue a course of study in some
college. McClarren is a unique char
acter, and The COURIER will watch |
with considerable interest the progress
of The Times under his manipulation. |
c. d. Lufkin returned from his ex-
tended trip east on Monday. While
about he visited Boston, New York, Al
bany, Toronto, Canada, and other i'm
pOrtant cities. In Boston he met his
elder brother, Dudley, who had met
with q very and painful acct |
dent in falling down q steep embank-
ment, resulting in a compound fracture
of9the thigh and elbow. Mr.. Lufkin
accompanied him from Boston to the
at Battle, Creek, Mich,
where he hopes to see him receive such
as will win a complete re-
Mrs. Lufkin is in Boston, and
will remain there for several months.
While in Canada Mr.. Lufkin looked up
property Inherited by our fellow towns
man, w. Z. Dafoe, of this city, from
his Canadian relatives. The inheri-
lance consists of W. or eight tene-
ment houses.
On last Saturday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Slower, in Glendale,
county, Iowa, A. p. Ken
nedy died from the effects OF an attack
Of pneumonia. The deceased was we'll
known in this section, and particularly
from the fact that he was the defendant
to one of the longest drawnOut divorce
suits ever tried in this locality. Mrs.
Kennedy, his second wife, made
Elk Point her home for years, and dur
ing that time made a legal fight for al
;mony that involved for years, of and
on, the attention of the lawyers, and alb
a large quantity of money to
foot the bills. The deceased was a rail
road contractor nearly all his life, and
at one time possessed considerable
means, but with the losses entailed in
which turned out badly,
and the costs of the divorce case, his
property became encountered quite
y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Holden are enter
q number of friends and rela-
tives from Mlnnehaha county at pres
emit. They are Mrs. John f. Holden, a
sister-in- law of Mr.. Ole Holden. John
T. Lee OF Brandon, and Albert and Ole
Troskey of Corson. Mr. Lee is a men,
Der of the Minnehaha county board of
county commissioners, and one OF the
representative citizens of that county.
He is engaged in the mercantile bust
ness, and has had a successful business
While here he paid THE COU. |
office a pleasant call, and with
the editor glanced at the horizon OF the
political sky which now is calmly COW
ering Minnehaha. Whether 1t was an
optical delusion or not we cannot say, |
but it was agreed that there were
streaks of blood and gore visible. When
the full moon makes its appearance the
question can be definitely settled.
A dispatch to the Chicago Record
saws that B. G. GoOdner, q farmer near
Elk Point, s. D., is i'll with pneumonia,
contracted. so his physician says, in a
manner entirely new to medical sci
ence. A few days ago. during q visit
to town, Goodner invested In a new
suit oil clothes, and soon after started
for home with the bundle on the seat
beside him A short distance out II
occurred to him that it would be . good
Joke to don his new raiment At once
and surprise his family by the splendor
Of his appearance upon his arrival
among them. It was only the work OF
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