Press And Daily Dakotaian

SOUTHERN DAKOTA.
Bridgewater has a new band wagon.
Tyndall takes pride in its brass band.
Lennox is anxious to be incorporated.
Canton’s city marshal
wears a uniform.
The Hurley Herald has completed
volume three.
The Catholic fair at Scotland enriched
the church fund $250.
Two new warehouses will be built in
Tyndall this summer.
Col. Laird, of Pierre, has embarked in
the land office business.
William Callman has been appointed
postmaster at Chamberlain.
The high wind of last Monday blew in
a plate glass front at Huron.
Several tornado houses have been
built in Vermillion recently.
There were 250 transients registered
at the Scotland hotels last week.
The town of Hurley has a balance
of over fifty dollars in its treasury.
The Parker nursery company did a
business of $10,000 the past season.
Wheelock camp, No 11, Sons of Veter-
ans, was organized at Egan recently.
There will be less flax sown in Clay
county this year than previous years.
The Clay county teachers' association
will convene in Vermillion May 15th.
Rev. Joseph Cook will lecture in
Sioux Falls, Saturday night, May 1st.
W. T. Perry, of Emery, Hanson coun-
ty, commenced planting corn April 24th.
A term of the district court will be
held at Alexandria, commencing June
8th.
Chamberlain's school children observ-
ed arbor day by a liberal planting of
trees.
A large number of cottonwood trees
were killed by frost near Aberdeen last
winter.
Elk Point Courier: Seeding is in full
blast and our farmers are pushing it
with vigor.
Eden is believed to be on the verge
of the biggest boom that has yet visited
that little burg.
Mitchell parties will start a news
paper at Armour, the new town in
Douglas county.
Miss Ruth Barber, of Buffalo county,
has made her third final proof on a quar-
ter section of land.
Alexandria Herald: Seeding is finish-
ed and corn planting and breaking are
the order of the day.
There will be a meeting at Alexandria
May 8th of all those interested in build-
ing a farmers' elevator.
The Mitchell Mail says three times
the usual amount of corn will be planted
in that vicinity this year.
Scotland's city council has ordered
down all business signs which project
across the side walk.
Vermillion never experienced duller
times or had a poorer trade than the
three stormy days of last week.
Fifty-eight thousand three hundred
and twenty eggs were shipped from
Scotland in one day last week.
Nearly all the children in the Wayne
neighborhood, in Hanson county, are af-
flicted with the whooping cough.
The commissioners of Union county
have instructed their assessors to assess
per mile, all railroads in the county.
E. C. Toney has retired from the
editorial chair of the Columbia Dispatch
and will be succeeded by W. S. Baxter.
Capt. J. M. Talcott, of Elk Point, is
building a handsome oak wood fence
around his property. It will cost about
$500.
The Enterprise society at Chamberlain
gave a May party, Saturday evening. A
queen was crowned with pomp and
splendor.
Shakespeare's day which occurred the
30th ult. was celebrated by the Chatau-
qua society of Chamberlain in a right
royal manner.
Elk Point did not observe Arbor day,
for the reason, the Courier says, that
there are more trees there now than are
good for the health.
Sioux Falls has a city window dresser
who, it is claimed piles up goods in the
show windows as artistically as it is
done at Marshall-Field's.
A man in Douglas county, who was
pressed for time to avoid contest, last
week set out 29,150 trees. He had two
small boys to assist him.
J. R. Tinnan, the accomplished editor
of the Kimball Graphic, was married at
Shenandoah, Iowa, Wednesday, the
28th ult. to Miss Addie Argus.
George W. Pense, of Sioux Falls, is
missing. He left home ten days ago
for Minneapolis, since which time
nothing has been heard from him.
The art loan exhibition to come off in
Pierre next week will be a very attract-
ive affair. The veritable George Wash-
ington hatchet will be on exhibition.
A saloon keeper at Mitchell got lost
going home the other night and becom-
ing bewildered came near perishing be-
fore he could make anybody hear him.
A. C. Oathout, of Alexandria, shot a
sandhill crane last Saturday that meas-
ured six feet and a half from tip to tip
of wings, and its height was over five
feet.
Peter Anderson of Bethel township,
Clay county, lost his house and contents
by fire last Sunday, which is the second
time within a year he has met with a
similar loss.
L. W. Trumbull, of Sully county, says
there will be double the area in crop in
that vicinity than there was last year
and he believes a better crop will be
raised than ever before.
The contract for building a water
works reservoir at Mitchell, to be com-
pleted June 28th, has been awarded.
Three mains will be laid which will
furnish protection to the whole town.
Pukwana Press: It commenced rain-
ing last Sunday morning and continued
steadily for twenty-four hours.....The
small grain is nearly all sown, and most
of it is up, and the rain came at a good
time.
Bridgewater Times: Farmers in this
vicinity report excellent progress with
their spring work, and before the storm
of Sunday and Monday, many would
have their ground already for corn
planting.
Huronite: The great Dakota building
boom is evidently to be inaugurated
this year. From almost every town in
the south part of the territory come
accounts of plans for fine and costly
buildings.
The Dakota division of the Sons of
Veterans will hold their annual meeting
at Huron on June 11th and 12th 1886.
The division has been organized only a
year or two but already has several hun-
dred members.
If there is another city the size of
Canton in the union that is blessed with
two excellent brass bands, ladies drum
corps, orchestra and girls broom brigade
the Advocate would like it to come to
the front if it can.
Miss E. E. Hackett, of Warren, Ohio.
went to Salem McCook county, the
other day, for the express purpose of
marrying John B. Swindler and they
were united in the holy bonds of wed-
lock on the same day.
Complaint has been made to the
superintendent of the board of health
of Union county, of a number of glan-
dered horses a few miles from Elk Point.
They have been quarantined and the
board will investigate.
Arbor day was observed at the Ver-
million university by about ten of the
students who planted fifty trees. The
board of directors, the faculty and
ninety of the students failed to put in an
appearance on the occasion.
The observance of Arbor day at Sprin-
field was confined to the school house
grounds, and the scholars, who planted
about seventy-five trees of different va-
rieties, each child present having some
particular tree named for them.
Huronite:
One Huron
milliner
worked all of Saturday night to finish
the bonnets she had promised; then she
delivered them on Sunday morning; and
then it was a rainy day and the bonnets
couldn't go to church on Easter Sunday.
The Canton News is authority for the
following: One day last week Mr. Levi
Wood, of the town of La Valley, killed
sixty-six snakes of the common striped
variety on his farm north of Worthing,
and he thinks about as many more got
away.
D.F. Small of Douglas county receiv-
ed injuries the other day while leading
an ox to water, which may prove fatal.
The animal, becoming frightened, start-
ed to run, entangling Mr. Small in the
rope and dragging him over a pile of
stones.
About two hundred bushels of flax
seed in an elevator in Bridgewater the
other day, was discovered almost on fire.
It was probably damp when put in the
elevator and the warm weather caused
it to heat. The Bridgewater Times be-
lieves that in a short time it would have
ignited spontaneously.
Scotland Citizen: The building of
the Scotland extension is going to be of
great benefit to this section of Dakota.
Already the tide of immigration that
has been pouring into Central Dakota is
turning in this direction, and once here
the superior advantages possessed by
this section will induce a large propor-
tion to locate....The slight frost and
freeze last week did in nowise any in-
jury to growing grain. Prospects for
an immense crop was never better.
The pupils of the Vermillion public
schools observed Arbor day by setting
out forty-four box elders on the school
grounds. The trees were dedicated to
the following characters and events:
Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Lafayette,
Sherman, Cleveland, Longfellow, Whit-
tier, Bryant, Hawthorne, Dickens, Scott.
Franklin, Gov. Pierce, Geo. B. Custer,
Byron, Shakespeare, Barbara Frietchie
The Landing of Pilgrim Fathers. The
cause of Temperance, The Woman of '76.
The Ladies of Vermillion, The School
Board, Burdick, Jolley, Inman, Lind,
Each School Room, M. Meehan, Ella
Buckingham, Mrs. Wilson.
The Springfield Times says: The
most severe snow storm ever experi-
enced in this section as late in the year
as now, set in yesterday afternoon about
four o'clock. It had rained all day up
to that time. About an hour before it
commenced to snow the wind changed
from the east to the northwest and the
temperature dropped about twenty de-
grees. In an hour after the change the
snow commenced to fall very thick and
continued until morning.
Telegraph
lines are completely prostrated, in many
places the wire being broken. The wet
snow clung to the wires until they
looked as large as an inch-and-a-half
rope. The train from the east was de-
layed two hours in consequence.