Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-01-21
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS
News OF the Week Abeuf TowR BY
fhe Psfieat PeacN Pashef

Mr.. and Mrs.. Carl Anderson Of Sioul
City visited here over Sunday.
John e Erikson returned last weei
from visit with friends In Indiana.
Ed. johnson went to LeMsrs the LAT.
Ter part OF the week for medical treat
m ent
Treasurer AuthIer, with his two
little girls, spent Sunday with friends
la Jefferson.
Patrick Herrity and Harry White
attended big mule sale In Leeds,
Iowa, Saturday.
Mrs. w. M Shook Of Onaha has
been visiting here the pxst week
among old time friends.
The pupils of the seventh and ei ightb
grade will hold market at Geo. Has
sons store next Saturday morning.
Mrs. Ella A. Kent, who recently
moved to Akron, has been visiting here
and looking after business matters this
week.
Get your wedding Invitations at the
COURIER Office. We have the latest
.Jrms, tho best type faces and the most
sttractiveprices.
W. r. Glenn spent Sunday here with
his family. He is now working in a
harness shop in Scotland and expects
soon to move his family there.
Ssate's Attorney Stickney il at Pierre
this week, attending the meeting OF
The states attorneys OF the state and
hob nobbing with the Legislators.
Sam Dilner was at home the first OF
the week. He had just come In from q
rip TO Montana, where be left lots OF
snOw and the thermometer forty de.
grees below zero.
Market next Saturday, Jan. %, q
Geo. HassOn's store. PrOceeds with be
used by the pupils OF the ssveuth and
eighth grade In preparation for the
celebration OF the one hundredth an
uiversary OF Lincoln's birthday.
Mrs. Mary Collins OF vermlll' on,
Mrs. N. Tollefs0n Of Richland and
Mrs. Ole TolIefsOn Of Wo0n socket,
relatives OF Ed. Tollefson, visited at
his home here this morning between
trains. They we're on their way 70
Wesl6eld.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Sorenson we're grea,l,
saddened by the death OF their little
two months old child last Tueeda
Ths funeral services were conducted
by the Rev. w. l. Beatty, at the home
Of the parents, and the body inferred
in the Elk Point Gem terry.
Chss. J. White Of Miuot, N. D., is
here visiting relatives and frieuds
He 10 engaged In the real estate bust
ness In Minot and thinks they have q
great country uD there. He will re
main for q visit Of several weeks, as /,
is Eve or six years since he went away
from Elk Point.
Billy Reynolds, the youngest of the
two men who were so severely burned
in the electric theatre explosion here
some six weeks ago, left yesterday for
his home near Mason City, Iowa. He
still carries his head in a sling, but the
burns are healing nicely and his face
will be disfgured but little.
B. w. Mass y, commissioner from
the fret commissioner diatrict, is sick
in bed with pneumonia. Commis.
sioners Dahl and Briggs drove down to
see him Tuesday. 1t is hoped that the
sease will take light form with hin
and that with good care and attendance
he will speedily and entirely recover
A dance was given bv Mr.. aid Mrs
Tom Davis Tuesday night, In honor o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Summey, who we're
married that day. II WAS . mos
! J,,1o ofn ta1 -
neighbOrs and friends, and the bark o
the young couple was nicely launchet
on the sea OF matrimony under full sail
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Robinson ar,
now comfortably settled on the Robin
son farm The young couple wer'
married Christmas at the home of th'
brides parents at Elk Point. The,
have the congratulations and bes
wishes Of the c0mmunity.-Kondell
correspondence In the Aberdeen
Democrat.
Ber. Munsou spent Sunday In Yank
ton. Monday he and Commissioner
Briggs and Dahl made an examination
OF the asylum, paying particular at
tentiOn to the inmates from UniOl
county. They we're greatly please'
with what they saw Of the states effor
to care for and improve the mental con
dition o. the deficient and deranged
There are now twenty-five patients 8
Yankton from this county, not - man
as ut some times. Two Of them
Thomas Dagg and Jacob Danielsou
have spent over thirty years In tn
asylum and both were committed g
Yankton on the same day.
Harvev d. Barr died Tuesday morr
ing, Jan. 10, At his home Ia Akron, .
the age OF seventy-nine years. he hs
been ailing for the past several year
but the Immediate cause Of his deaf
was poeumoDia. He was among tn
earliest settlers OF Union county, tai
ing q Homestead sovAn miles east I
Elk Point on the Big Sioux, where b
resided for some time. For the pa,
plumber OF years he has made bis hon
10 Akron, Iowa. He was the father
, Major Barr OF this city. The fuoer'
will be attended At his late home
Akron this afternoon at l o'clock.
: fuller notice will b published nel
week.