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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1886
Page
5
The Granule invites Brule county households to try the Official Paper at fifty cents cash in advance through January 1 1887. It claims extensive reading matter, non partisan politics, and a world wide reputation as a moral Dakota paper. Subscribers are urged to add extra copies postpaid.
Read the July miscellany covering an ice cream social at the Presbyterian church, notes on local agriculture and potato varieties, price trends in eggs, and a humorous tale of a suit for breach of promise. The item also mentions the Graritic publication, fish and game notes, and a quip about a wedding proposal.
Kimball notes homecomings and arrivals including E Gates, Joseph Harker and J E Jay while reporting visitors from Mitchell, Chamberlain, Harker & Bird and Plankinton. Local society details cover parties, weddings, dances, and a hat prank at a ball game, with county towns, editors, and a California Fourth of July scene.
The Sioux City Journal notes historical droughts dating back to 1921 and highlights extreme former dry spells, while A Sheridan Jones reports on crop responses to drilling versus broadcasting in Dakota. Scot land business owner relocates with window sign Across the Street. The Commercial House changes hands with Henry Cushing buying in and J F Conant leasing and managing alongside Brig ham. praise for the Kimball hotel operator as a genial host.
A hunting party led by A W Smith and including N T Willson, Wm Askew, Ed Jefferon, and John Coward returned with a wagon of ducks after four hours at Chain Lake near Bijou Hills. They killed over 400 ducks, and several ducks were sent to the paper. The column also includes humorous responses from married men in western New York to the question Why did you get married, with various witty and rueful remarks.
A full meeting of the Brule County Sportsmen Game Protective Association is called for Saturday at 2 pm in Mr. James Brown's office over Farmers & Traders Bank to receive the Constitution and discuss other important business. W. B. Affleck, President.
Two good farms near Kimball offered for sale or trade. Bargain price and terms arranged by calling G. I. Merway for details.
From the White Lake Times we learn of joining a sewing society to measure how many irresponsible people populate our mailing list. The Kimball base team has challenged all clubs this side of San Francisco but passed White Lake by.
The Plankinton Beacon notes the Kimball boys are champions of Dakota but recalls a close fall game and expresses interest in a rematch trial.
The Castalia Republican editor sternly warns a prominent citizen to stop meddling in private business or face further editorial censure. The piece insists on avoiding war but promises pointed remarks if the intruding figure continues.
A young attorney escorts a damsel and asks her which kind of money she prefers. She blushes and answers matrimony. He probes the interest it yields and she quips that properly invested it will double the original stock every two years.
A young country woman asked for a copy of the daily in the Republican counting room during a heatwave. The clerk offered it for a nickel, she took it under her arm and left, a cool, refreshing maneuver that left the office more comfortable for a time.
A Bloomington man collapsed on a parlor floor and claimed to be dying from a broken spine. A doctor and bystander blamed baseball as he recounted sliding into home base at home. The humorous tale ends with the patient saying he stepped on the ball at the stairs and touched the home base in the cellar.
N W Cummings, 24, unmarried, died by self inflicted gunshot in a vacant Lyonville barn. His body was found with a 432 caliber revolver, shirt burned by the flash. Coroner Cone and a Kimball jury found he had troubled days over a mortgage on his property, no further cause given.
H H Standish, once of Kimball, was struck and killed by lightning while atop a haystack in Colvin Chas Mix county on Wednesday. Nearby, a man named Darr, residing near Waterbury, also perished from a lightning strike the same day. J N Barkee of Kimball handled the undertaker duties for both deaths.
The Dakota Agricultural and Stock Association hosts its first annual fair on August 30 to September 3 at Mitchell on its own grounds. Brule county expected to have strong representation as C. M. & St. Paul offers free exhibit transport and half fare for passengers. Premiums include 450 dollars for best county exhibit and 350 dollars for best herd of cattle with one bull and four cows.
The notice proclaims free old papers to subscribers until further notice with a nominal charge of two decents per person for additional copies. It notes mill price changes from 1850 cents per hundred at print shops and indicates others have cut prices as well, prompting a matching policy.
The Chamberlain Gun Club offers ten dollars cash for information leading to convictions of any person violating prairie chicken or grouse laws. Possessing dead birds is sufficient proof. D. H. Henry, President. Joan Foster, Treasurer.
The Kimball club defeated a picked nine from Plankipton and White Lake by a score of seven to one in Kimball city last Friday afternoon. Aurora county led off, but Kimball tallied five runs in the third, aided by errors on both sides yet played with notable skill. The crowd, including many ladies, enjoyed a full afternoon with a celebratory banquet and dances at the Kimball House for the visiting team.
Promotional ad copy touting Chamberlain's remedy with strong claims. Ends abruptly with incomplete sentence. No clear event or人物 names beyond the product.
Frank S Smith advertises as a hardware stove and tinware seller. He states no agricultural machinery is sold.
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