Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-02-02
LOCAL NEWS.

E~NaanseessaisaaazeNs
i No January thawp this year sure.
Mrs. Q. RI Bruce had a severe attach
Of scIatica this week.
Mrs. Julius Schaetzel was q grip SUI
Iferer tie early part OF the week.
Services as usuaias the M e. church
next Sunday, morning and evening.
Rev. j. M. Hupp has resigned the
pastorate Of the Baptist church 10 this
Icity.
Clyde G. Cummins and Miss Odessa
Goodwin OF Sioux City spent Sunday il
the Reid home.
Mrs. w. H. Farnsworth returned to
her home in Sioux City today after .
visit here with her father, Geo. R.
Freeman.
Jos. Henkin started for Wyoming,
ILL.,, today, where he will spend ten
days or two weeks straightenihg out
business matters.
Mrs. Geo. w. French Is receiving .
visit from her uncle, Josiah Whitaker
of southern Nebraska MIR. Whitaker
thinks 1t is cold nation we have up
here.
The COURIER is day late this week,
owing to our being one hand short ID
the shop and still more illness in our
home. We hope for better things in
the near future.
The ground hog will not be fool
enough TO stick his nose above the sur
face OF the ground today, Observer
Sharp reports the government ther-
mometer as registering at s9s below
zero this morning.
The little child at the Methodist par
sonage, who has been suffering from
scarlet fever, is now entirely recovered
and none Of the other children have
had the disease. The quarantine will
be removed ina day or two.
AS Rev. Blackman was driving down
from Akron to attend the funeral of
VIM. Hodges Wednesday, his team
became frightened at a train just north
OF Westfield and ran away with him.
He secured another team and came on
to Elk Point, not recovering the run
.aways until his return to Akron. We.
understand the pole oil the cutter was
broken but otherwise the damage was
very slight.
w. r. Norris OF Whittemore, Iowa,
was here last week visiting his brother,
Ode Morris. In 1875 Mr.. Morris was
living in Elk Point and was q printer
In the COURIER Office, His reminis-
|cences OF that early day were very In
teresting and we wish more Of our old
timers could have heard his converse
tion. He Is now prosperous farmer
and stockman Ia Kossuth county,
Iowa, but keeps up thorough informa
tion and q keen interest In current
events az In the old days when be was
. newspaper man.
The COURIER received one day this
week. what the editor never before en-
joyed In his life, an annual pass over a
railroad. More than that, Il was over
the only railroad ever built and ste
cessfully operated hy South Dakota
men and with South Dakota capital,
viz the South Dakota Central. We
appreciate the privilege very much
and are thinking some of walking up
20 Sioux Falls TO take trip OF inSpec-
tion over the entire system some day
We trust the road may remain entirely
under South Dakota control and may
live to extend aud prosper
g. N. Sonnesyn & Co.. who early in
the year bought out the general mer-
chandise store u p. O'Flaherty, Ii now
LIN FUN charge OF the establishment
With the same old force of clerks. The
ISonnesyns are from ButterIield, Mimi,
and promise the public d large, up-to-
date variety Ia stock, liberal prices
and fair dealing Ia all departments.
Mr.. q FIaherty, whose uniform courtesy
and enterprise won for him only The
best oi opinions during his two years'
stay Ia Elk Point business circles, re-
turns % Armour and gives his whole
time To his large hardware and farm
| machinery business there.