Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-15

Wednesday.
Frank Patterson of Hawarden is on
our streets today.
Hon. A. o. Ringsrud was transscting
business in Sioux Falls yesterday.
Millinery opening at the St. Paul
Millinery Store commencing Friday.
Special sale on Ladies' Spring Capes
Saturday at Ringsrud Mercantile Co.
Today is the anniversary OF the death
of Abraham Lincoln and the birth OF
Shakespeare.
~ Landlord Flannery has y gay look i"g
office since GettIe and Dewick the
mural artists got hold OF it.
County Clerk Lawrence went to
Sioux City Wednesday afternoon with
some court records to introduce in the
Adams suit.
Gov. Lee was in town Wednesday
morning between trains, but took the
train north for Pierre, accompanied by
Judge Blair.
Harry Joy and Miss Myrtle Talcott,
students, with Miss WestfalI, teacher
Of music at Yankton college, started
for Yankton Wednesday morning via
Canton and Mitchell.
Judge Smythe is getting to be quite
popular as the officiating party In
marriage ceremonies. He married
another couple at the Court House
Wednesday. They were c. ID. Ander-
son and Jennie SAKE, both from Salem,
McCook county, and their ages are AZ
and 10 respectively.
At Huron Mayor Hutchinson was re-
elected after hard fight and by only
five majority. Rev. W. H. Thrall,
of the S. D. Congrega-
tional Home Missionary Society, was
elected alderman in the third ward on
the Hutchinson ticket. License car.
ried by large majority.
Harmon Bros. had lively accident
Tuesday. Four horses attached to q
pulverizer were left standing alone for
a short time, when they became fright
ened at passing team. They ran
away and brought up against tree,
killing one of the horses and wrecking
the pulyerizer. The horse was valu-
able one so that the loss is serious.
Mark Scott run his new Deadwood
daily just one month and then the
Sheriff run the plant. II Bro. Scott
had imbibed of the spirit of the text
from which Bro. Buchanan of the Elk
Point COURIER preached creditable
sermon on daily papers short time
since, he would probably have been
saved the worry.-Dakota Republican.
There are few pieces OF school land
to be leased for the coming year which
will be let any time during the month
Of April. They are located in $500
40. Jefferson township, l6-95-4s Vir.
ginia township, and 36-9l-5O Elk Point
township. Persons wishing to lease
any Of the above described lands will
please call at the county auditors of.
fee.
Some of the people who are always
borrowing trouble are now lamenting
the wet condition of the ground and
crying that we will have no crops this
year. They are the kind that want to
SOW small grain in February and have
their corn planted by the middle Of
March. Let them tickle their own
ribs because the situation is as it is.
South Dakota crops never yet suffered
on account of being planted late,-
Lennox Independent.
VIM. Rosa of Chicago, representing
J, v. Farwell s. Co., was in the city Tues
day. This is the twenty-fifth year Mr..
Rosa has been making Elk Point on
his regular trips, and he can tell some
very interesting commercial expert
ences OF the old days. When you other
travelling men have been IS long in
the service and have made as good q
record as he, we will write you up too,
and perhaps will name our sons after
you as has been done by one of our
prominent business men in the case Of
Mr.. Rosa.
Aberdeen News: Governor Lee IL
said to have said that il it develops
that he made q mistake in cutting OF
one whole years supply of fuel for the
insane hospital at Yankton he will
make good the deficiency from his own
pocket. This is also what he said
about the expense Of the militia f0r
guarding the state funds at Pierre
while he was counting them--that he
would pay the bill from his own pocket.
Now, while it may be admitted that all
this speaks we'll Of the capacity of his
excellency's pocket, it will scarcely be
commended that it smacks Of stasesman'