Pioneer Recall of Dakota Times and a Cold Day Tale
A 1882 Dakota memory from Kingsbury County recounted by I F Crothers details a small frontier drama in an eastern South Dakota store. A party visits for eggs and fabric then drinks in liquor, a sleigh ride ends with a sinking ice break and a dramatic rescue by local men as a horse is choked to pull a drowning teammate from the ice.
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DE ‘Smet
South Dakota
Prairies
Dakota Territory
Crothers
Badger
S. D
Kingsbury County
Wridten
de Smet
I Forte
Chain of Lakes
Hemi
Hngber Woods
Seek $9 000 000 Land Claim From Cuba
American citizen Joseph E Barlow returns to Washington to press U S government for favorable action in a dispute over alleged sequestered Cuban lands. He claims a clear title to tracts around Havana seized by the government ten years ago. The report mixes legal pursuit with a separate accident tale involving a wagon mishap and a horse, detailing a stormy journey home and a fall that left a man briefly unconscious.
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Hievana
Joseph E. Barlow
Washington
United States
Barlow
Havana
Tel
Hyaway
Riong
Phex
Man’s fall at home ends with hurried departure
An account describes a settler rushing to assist a man who fell from his chair, lifting him to a bed before leaving quickly. The wife followed, bitterly helping to move the patient inside. The fragment alludes to a moral from Proverbs but provides no further detail.
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Ehair
Hitchcock Ladies Win Fair Prizes at State Fair
The Ladies Aid of Hitchcock Methodist church earned 13.50 from the State Fair contest. Members entered items across departments winning five first prizes, one second, and three thirds. Notables included Mrs F Page for linen cloths and daguerreotypes, Mrs A Steinhaser for candy and peanut brittle, and G McGraw for a quilt.
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Hitchcock
Ladies’ Aid
Hitchcock Methodist Church
Society
Aid
F. ©. Page
A. Steinhaser
G. ©. McGraw
John Kingdon
Gardner
Witchegel
Henry Walton
Jay W. Preston
Henry
Ipsen
Qardmey -Preston
Thilthcock
Mamie Albright
Garretson Fall Festival Planned for September 26 28
Garretson South Dakota prepares for its annual fall festival to be held Thursday through Saturday, September 26 to 28. Organizers promise the best fair yet with extensive attractions and steady crowds anticipated.
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Garretson
South Dackta
Garretsox
Mach
Wesleyan Opens With Big Freshman Welcome
Mitchell September 19. Wesleyan University opened with a large enrollment as freshmen activities continued through the week. A picnic Tuesday evening concluded five days of freshman events. W. T. Early, principal of Washington High School, Sioux Falls, addressed matriculation on the college student’s errand.
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Teat W. T. Early
Washgton High School
Sioux Falls
Redfield Plans New Sewage Disposal Plant
Redfield authorities announce a plan to replace fifty years of sewer discharge into Turtle Creek with a refined disposal system. Residents have long complained of the nuisance and the city aims to build a more efficient facility to properly treat the sewage instead of current methods.
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Redfield
Turtle Creek
Gulf of Mexico
All Spink Towns Boast Graveled Connections
REDFIELD Sept. 19. With no completion of the traveling of the highway through from Mellette to Conde practically aiding the towns in the county except Athol, all weather roads exist. The new road traverses Nortaville, Trelielle, Brentford and Conde, entering near Chelsea. Turton will link with Doland and Conde by a state road from Huron north via Carpenter, Bloomfield and Lasnte to Groton. Brentford has streets traveled, Athol to be connected later. An excellent graded rent was built this summer and well maintained.
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Redfiell
Mellette
Conde
Athol
Chelsea
Nortaville
Trelielle
Brentford
Turton
Doland
Huron
Carpenter
Bloomfield
Lasnte
Groton
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York
Dakota
Frontier
Cuba
Garvetson Fail
Wesleyan
Spink
Sonny Boy
Eys
Dep’t
Stetson, Mars—Parkway
Alearbury, ‘and
Tex
Dakota, South
Haas
Blazers
Coats
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