Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-02-11
Read the auction sale ad OF Reedy g.
Fl. A. Franklin is i'll from the grip.

/ Read the auction sale ad OF Reedy's.
II. A. Franklin is i'll from the grip.
A wrestling match is in sight.
Charles Fl. Freeman was in Sioux
City on business Wednesday.
The son the Potomac" company
local--will play to crowded house
we feel sure-in Akron Friday night.
The opera "Pinafore'' will be pre-.
sented to the public, some evening on
or before March 2 in the opera house.
1t is reported by the Sioux City press
that +. p. Stone the missing banker
will soon return and endeavor to make
settlement.
There seems to he plenty Of hay in
the market just at present. 1t COM
mands $2.50 and So a ton with every
prospect OF being less. The farmers
seem to be we'll provided this winter
with this stable" article.
Both houses OF congress in joint
session counted the vote for president
yesterday-c by the electoral college.
Practically speaking the president is
elected on the second Wednesday after
the first Monday in February every
four years. The vote as canvassed
stood, William Mckinley I'll, w. j.
Bryan l76 For vice-president Carrot
Hobart received 27l votes, Arthur
Sewall l49 and Thomas f. Watson q,
THE COURIER is in receipt of
private letter from Gilbert Larson,
formerly of this county but now at
Ollala, Ketsap county, Wash. Among
the interesting things he states in the
letter are the following: 81 am sur
prised to see my countrymen holding
all the best positions in Union county,
and being renominated, still all fell
through but one. Well, politics are
something strange, in fact funny. 1t
is very likely I'll live to see the time
when women will vote; while old
sogies like myself will be disfranchised.
There is only one consideration for
such as I, we have had our time. We
are having a very nice winter, leaves
have already come out On some
bushes. Enclosed find part of rose
bud that grew this winter. This is
my ninth winter here and I think it is
the best have seen. The bay here
called 'The West Passage" between
Seattle and Tacoma, which averages
about two miles wide, has been like
mirror for days and weeks at one
stretch, while other winters it has been
quite rough.
For the last five or six years the
county has paid the small sum of $500
for the bringing up of the tax record
in the auditors Office. The levy for
taxes are made in September and by
the time the county board has made it's
equalization of the assessment, sent the
report to Pierre to be acted upon by
the state board and had it returned and
the books corrected, there remains only
two months to do the work. 1t re-
quires four months OF solid work for
one man to perform the task and he
would have to work steadily and long
hours to accomplish it in that time.
During this period the auditor is busy
with the road supervisors work and
other matters, so that it is utterly i'm
possible for him to do the work. Con-
sequent]y the board employs-just as
boards do in other counties-to bring
the books up so that on December l,
in accordance with the law, they can
be turned over to the treasurer. Three
years ago Jesse Compton performed the
work, two years ago Geo. C. Kimmell
and Harry Dodd accomplished the hard
task, this year Truman Ames and Geo.
c, Kimmell brought up the books.
Each year the allowance has been the
same. Apparently this ought to satisfy
the editor of the Journal of Jefferson.
AS far as the editor of the Beresford
Republic is concerned divinity is at
fault and natures creations q bungled
job because Sturgess did not have q
hand in the making. Hence no matter
what the explanation, he could not see
any virtue in it through his colored
optics.
Card Of Thanks.
The ladies OF the Congregational