Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-09-30

All kinds Of tinware given away
with baking powder at Simmons.
Miss Yates, Of Maine, known rs the
second Frances Willard, will deliver a
temperance lecture in the NJ. T.. church
next Monday evening. Oct. I. Every.
body invited.
The Yankton 7sieyrom comes 10 our
table this week with bran new dress
aud bran new name. Mr.. Ham
Kaufman, who has recently purchased
1t. reiegates the Telegram IT, The rear
and places Be"c"" Light ~ the head OF
the cOlu M. The BEACON Light will
carry on the same old business At the
old stand, hut many will lament that
the Old name has Mcn owe, Swallowed.
The Bear"n Liyht will undoubtedly be-
come the Witl-o'-the. wisp Of the
ropulist party.
Joe Henkin has just received u good
line Of the we'll known ESTEy
ORGANS AND PIANOS, and placed
the same in the Elk Point Opera House.
Joe buys his instruments for spot cash
which enables him to sell them ut
r"ry 'o~ prices. II you are in need Of q
piano or organ it will pay you TO ex.
anime his stock before purchasing
elsewhere. Hance Murphey will he
only too glad to show them to you.
Headquarters for Violins. Guitars,
Mandolins, Banjos, etc. Remember
the place, Elk Point Opera House,
James O'Reilly, OF Sioux City. was
placed under $500 bonds by Justi :e
Norton Monday for his appearance n,
the October term OF court. The law
requires all persons operating steam
threshing machines to put up a $500
bond, and it is alleged O'Keilly failed
to meet this requirement.. While
threshing for Alex. Wynn in Civil
Bend township on windy day, as re-
ported in The COURIER three weeks
ago, the engine set fire to n stack of
wheat and three or four stacks we're
consumed. Mr.. Wynn is the com.
planning witness.
The telephone company is putting
in new As foot poles in town and also
use better poles between here and Elk
Point. They will use the best number
twelve copper wire, with cross pieces
on every pole. TIE poles will be
about eighty feet apart in the city,
while outside the town they will be
one hundred and forty-eight feet apart
The company is using only the very
best material, and everything will be
put up in 6rst.class order, and in a
manner that will be a credit to the
town as we'll rs to the company
Akron Register.
The seventeenth annual meeting of
the Yankton Association of Conerepa.
tional Churches will be held at Hudson
next Tuesday and Wednesday. The
sermon will be preached by Rev. Geo.
f. Paddock OF Vermillion. Mrs. Pad.
dock will tell "How the Bible can be
Taught to Little People, and our
Rev. c. f. Taggart will discuss "What
Ought the Church to do for the Sun.
day SCHOOL, and give IN address on
progress and Conservatism" Wed.
nesday evening there will be addresses
by DR.. Scott of Sioux Falls, Pres.
Warren of Yankton College and Supt.
Thrall Of Huron. A good programme
surely! Elk Point ought to he repre-.
sented by good delegation.
A serious accident took place on
Main street Monday morning, which
will disable Mrs. M. Hoffman for q
couple OF months, and might easily
have been worse. Mrs. Hoffman and
her sister, Mrs. f. c. Ericsson, we're
drying down the street, when James
Steckman's horse. which had broken
away from hitching post, came dash
ing toward them. Mrs. Hoffman
thought collision was certain and
jumped out, striking heavily on the
ground and fracturing her left hir
bone. She was soon removed to her
home and attended by DR.. Comfy, who
summoned DR.. Jepson, OF Sioux City
for consultation. Mrs. Hoffman is get
ting along nicely and the doctors ap
prehend no permanent injury, but .,
the best II will be a long and painful
experience.
The Chicago, Milwaukee l. St. Pau
Railway has recently made some i'm
portant changes in it's Office force Al
Sioux City. Mr.. E. w. Jordan. 70,
some ten years commercial agent il
Sioux City for the Milwaukee, road
and for the last six years both division
and travelling agent there for freight
and passengers, has now been trans