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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1885
Page
5
From this date the Kimball post office hours are posted: weekdays 7:00 AM open, close promptly at 5:00 PM, Sundays 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and mail and money order business as stated. The September notes preview local events, weather, farm figures, and community notices including school, G A R, and upcoming entertainments.
The Kimball Fire Department plans a grand Firemen's Ball with a fireworks display at the opera house next Thursday. The White Lake string band will provide music, admission is 1.00, supper for couples 0.50, and complimentary tickets go to the Plankinton Brass Band. The large fireworks display, delayed to allow harvests, promises one of the area’s finest shows in Dakota.
A humorous spoof tale opens with a mock epic about Tishomingo then shifts to a local sideshow review. It describes a crowded event in Kimball featuring a poultry show bare dance and a Monkeys exhibit. Sullivan the boxer headlines amid four rings advertised but only two used. The crowd acclaimed the asthetic circus as the town’s largest.
The city council met Tuesday with all members present except Snow. Wetherell moved to hire the marshal to haul water to the artesian well for 76 cents per eight barrels. An ordinance suppressing houses of prostitution was read and passed under suspension of rules. Wetherell and Kent advertise new jeans suits in the Northwest.
The Dakota census dispute roams from Brule county figures to Kimball Chamberlain and Canton with papers offering conflicting totals. A Delaware Ohio incident recounts a hoax sale of garter hose under false pretenses at Wesleyan College. An 1885 Brule county note invites school officers to a Kimball meeting to discuss county education.
Kimball High trade School will open September 14 under Principal John W. Pishor. The school board raised the grade to enable students abroad or from outside the township to enroll for business teaching. Tuition is $1 per month in advance, covering bookkeeping and higher mathematics as part of the curriculum. Dated Kimball Avenue 12, J. Maynard, toner? clerk.
Reno Post reports G A R will hold a camp fire at the Kimball opera house on Friday evening Sept 25 1835 with vocal and instrumental music select reading and a supper served in army style after the exercises Admission 25 cents Dancing after supper optional. Also noted drill progress on an artesian well and various local notices about bids milk delivery and shops in Kimball Dakota.
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