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tody.Marion has a population of nearly 300. Bridgewater is to have a wchool house 20 x36 feet.BriMgewateS^ercbants aptdoing hbooufc; ing burine**. ’C. J Branch, of Olivet, has recently become the father of twins.the:111cuuedarn toiKtail•eetadpotIllOllyStobanytentSOUTHERN DAKOTA.Over 3,500 acres of land were located in McCook county last week.Plum Dale, MoCook county, has voted $500, to build a school house.On Tuesday last an engine parsed through Parker drawing thirty-seven cars.A new four horse coach has been put on between Bridgewater and Mitchell.The onlv piano in Mccook connty belongs to Mr. Gleason, of Bridgewater. *Coal has be*n found in nearlv every well that has been dug in McCook connty.The 8’wnx FaUft napera s*y «oroe of the blue rlhhnn bnvs have slipped a littleThe Parker hand gave a hall last Thursday night which was a success in every wav.Centerville precinct. Tnmer county, goes solid for Thielraan for delegate in congress.The Menno'Chronicle wants $35,000 worth of Armstrong and Davison connty warrants.The Methodist revival meetings at 8loux 7**118 are prolific of much good to the pe.op’eMiterial to b^ used in getting tip the Alexandria Herald at home is in transit to that place.The masquerade ball last Wednesday evening surpassed anything that has ever been held in Cameron, in the way of halls.The Bridgewater Echo is our last new exchange. Bridgewater is in McCook couoty n the Hue of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul railroad.A two hundred pound German man, and a delicate little thirteen year old German girl, living fourteen miles from Parker, wil] be unite 1 in the bonds of matrimony soon The Southern Dakota railroad company will cut down the grade at Vermillion fifteen or twenty feet. The work of lowering And moving the track will soon be commenced Arrangements ate abont completed for the erect ton of a mill on the gtnux river, two miles wes' of Sioux Falls. It will be called the Queen Bee mill of Minnehaha county.A donation for the benefit of the Episcopal clergyman, a parlor concert at the Bank hall, and dime readings at the Congregational church, all occurred last Tuesday evening at Vermillion.Sioux Falla Independent: The millcompauy'a steam drill arrived last week and is now at work at the bead of the lower fall in the center of the river, at which point there is a large amount of blasting to do. Although tbe rock ia almost at bare hb flint, thi* drill ainka a bole at tbe rate of about two iochea per minute, but great care bas to be exercised to avert breaking tbe drill Eight or ten holes about seven feet deep will be drilled into tbe rock just above tbe fall and charged with dynamite, con uecled with a battery, ao that all tbe charges will explode simultaneously, there b causing more effective work tbsn would be obtained if discharged 'singly. If tbe citizens of our city should experience youthful earthquake they need not alarmed. _Incorpi. T. BKAMB1 F. LtxcelFLOUR, COR1And DealersWheaFlour deUi charge. Gal taelf.YanktCAbeL. ERealLoans 1 City an
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Yankton Daily Press and Dakotaian
Yankton, South Dakota, US
Wed, Mar 10, 1880
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