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Newspaper
Huron Weekly World
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
6
The program lists acts for the day including a high diving dog, a ladies relay race, a Shetland pony race, Marvellous Melville with trapeze, hay-rack rope acrobats, and a comedy act. Evening entertainment remains in the opera house.
F Steffen returns to Austin after a month’s vacation to resume studies. Thomas Middleton pleads guilty to petit larceny and is sentenced to ten days by Justice Geddis with Grant Wharton witnessing. Mrs Chas Ambros and two children depart for Rochelle Illinois then Minneapolis to establish a home. Businessmen urged to close for the fair on Wednesday and Friday afternoon from 1 to 7, with stores urged to stay open in the evening.
Fireman Chas Marquardt re signed. Andrew Lilley agent for Standard Life Co of Detroit solicited business among railroad men. September sees twenty seven engineers assigned to the chain gang, twelve in August. Foremen changes and engine movements from Winona and Waona surface in daily dispatches. Several engineers return from Escanaba Des Moines and Fond du Lac with duties on Dakota, Iowa, and Brookings lines.
President Roosevelt officially appoints Robert Bacon of New York as first assistant secretary of state to succeed F R Loomis. Bacon will delay taking office until mid October as Secretary Root settles in. Bacon has long been active in New York business and was a junior partner at J P Morgan and Co.
The Adrianople blaze started Saturday and burned through Sunday due to water shortages. The fire destroyed most of the six quarters, with damage around 5 million dollars and only about a quarter insured. Thousands are left homeless.
Berlin reports sixty six cholera cases and twenty three deaths in Prussia with ten new cases and three deaths in a day. Health authorities fear spread to detached areas while closing Vistula refreshment houses and raising border measures. Two cholera wards are being built at Koepenick near Berlin and river traffic inspection stations are set up.
The week’s notices record Tamagno’s death in Italy and Laden’s passing in Glen Cove. A failed assassination attempt in St Louis, Ziegler polar expedition news, and a Great Northern speech in Grand Forks are noted alongside a high profile boxing result in San Francisco. Yale kennels burn, stock seats set new records, and memorial obituaries mark Clarke and Mueller’s deaths.
Karlstad Sweden Sept 1 The first meeting of the Swedish and Norwegian delegates to discuss the dissolution terms was held. Swedes chose Premier Christian Lundeberg and Norwegians Premier Michelsen as chairmen and will alternate. Conferences will be secret.
Public notice of a chattel mortgage foreclosure in Beadle County South Dakota with sale set for September 9 1905 at 2 PM at the corner of Second Street and Dakota Avenue Huron. Property includes two horses buggy harness and identifies mortgage amount interest and the debtor Lyman T Hinckley.
The executor of John Doherty deceased invites creditors and claimants to present claims with vouchers within six months of first publication. Notices are to be filed at Crawford Taylor in First National Bank Building, Huron South Dakota Beadle County. Dated September 6, 1905. John Deery Executor.
The Dora launch operates Sunday morning every two hours. Sunday afternoon trips run hourly to Risdon's Bridge and back. Regular fares listed: Risdon's Bridge and return 1c, Ward's Grove and return 25e.
Beadle county issues a ban on hunting and shooting by non residents in Banner township with a ten dollar reward to witnesses who complain in addition to witness fees J 8 Schneiler Clerk C F Steffen Chairman.
Beadle County seeks support for the state fair exhibit. Farmers are urged to contribute grain samples in sheaf or threshed, corn stalks or husks, and other farm products including fruit. E T Losey signs the notice urging public participation.
Charles Newey the sole surviving Dewey brother died at Montpelier Virginia at seventy nine after a long illness. Acting Governor Atkinson accepts invitation for Hawaii delegates to a national conference in New York next December. Thomas H Wells aged ninety one prominent coal and iron operator dies at Youngstown Ohio.
Carl A. Strom chief of the Panama Canal Zone mechanical department resigns. For Morris route cable service to Japan resumes though wires run slowly. San Francisco mint extra force dismissed for lack of work. Marshall Field obtains London license to marry Mrs Delia Spencer Caton of Chicago. Helena assay office buys gold bullion totaling 209 979 dollars with Montana mines supplying 182 299 dollars. Aaron T. Bliss of Midh route assists G A R encampment in Denver.
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