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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1888
Page
7
Weil Bros markets seasonable dry goods, carpets, clothing, boots and shoes with low prices. Each customer is promised bargains this season as they strive to please all shoppers at their store. Butterick patterns available through Weil Bros as agents.
A mix of ads and community notes including store offers on shoes seeds and medicines, new business openings, repairs at livery and bakeries, social events at the Masonic hall, and brief city council proceedings with officer appointments, bridge care, and a proposed running team subsidy.
Irvine and Horton were sworn in as marshal and nightwatch before city clerk Kimball on Tuesday. Hall and Pulley praised for two months of service, while Martin Kirwin's naturalization issue was resolved by Chris Hunt. The funeral of Mrs. Babcock was held at St Mary’s Church with Rev Gardner and Father Morris officiating and pallbearers Bowdle Knowles Singiser Hitchcock Thompson and Morrow.
The article extols Hood’s Sarsaparilla as an essential spring medicine, claiming it purifies blood and strengthens the body. It asserts it cures scrofula pimples boils biliousness dyspepsia sick headache catarrh rheumatism and other diseases from impure blood. It urges readers to try the medicine.
A. Harader of Mt. Vernon headed toward California for health. Wednesday reports say he became insane while traveling on the trains through Nevada and was placed under guard by an officer. Friends began efforts today to take charge and bring him home.
Easter day in Pleasant Ridge featured pictures and flowers with a cross credit to Supt. W Griffith. Music and a Sunday school program delighted attendees as Mr L Pine began spring school term on April 9 and Miss M Ek Wright started class in Pine school house. A W C T U mass meeting is set for April 20 at Pleasant Ridge school house. Spring farming work intensifies as locals race to beat neighbors. Mr James Ewart advances with a new feeder and fine horses. Sunday school at 10 a m sharp. efforts to recruit forty members for summer. New buildings are planned nearby and George Stephens bought a top quality team with harness and wagon.
A citizens committee on the university rebuilding aims to raise the needed funds through direct subscriptions paid in six monthly installments starting June 1. The effort invites cash, material, store orders, and days of labor from every resident, with a full report hoped at the adjourned University Board meeting next Tuesday the 17th.
Public sale set for Tuesday May 3 1888 in Sioux City Iowa featuring about thirty five head of shorthorn cattle including fifteen bulls and twenty cows and heifers. Notable entries include two year old cruick shank bull Sattellite and fine show yearling Waterloo Duke. Cows in calf or with calf at foot. cattle in good breeding condition and strong milkers. Catalogue available April 10 from Allen & Close Waterloo Iowa. auctioneer Cox F M Woop. Terms one year at 10 percent or 5 percent cash discount.
At Mitchell Dak on Saturday April 21 1888 starting 1 30 PM the undersigned offers for sale brood mares with foal road ponies wagons harness mowers plows carts and nursery stock. Terms include cash under 10 and credit until January 1 with approved security and interest. John Porterfield.
A historical promotional note touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as the prescription of a leading nurse and physician in the United States. It claims forty years of use and benefits for teething, including relief from pain, cures for dysentery and diarrhea, griping, and wind colic, priced at 25 cents per bottle.
Subscription list started by the Republican for Mrs. Bruhn of Union township shows donors including Mitchell Printing Co. and employees, Auditor Robinson, Emma F. Robinson, M. F. Bloss, J L Hannett, E C Malmsberry, Treasurer Prescott, W W Gardner, Tom Manchester, Mrs T C Burns, Major Wallace Mebane, Jerome Wiltse, Geo Ledyard, and others totaling 2750. It aims to raise at least 150 to cover doctors bills and spare the woman from selling her horse. funds deposited will be given to Mrs. Bruhn when the goal is reached or deemed impossible.
Sioux Falls residents lament the loss of the night St Paul train that linked the city to Chicago travel and early connections. The Argus Leader urges a Sioux Falls Business Men's club delegation to the railroad central office to press for reinstatement, noting Mitchell’s willingness to cooperate.
Stitely of Minneapolis sold a carload of buggies corn plows and planters to Olmstead. The goods arrive late this week from Parlin Orendorff with the leading Tricycle stirring plow. This marks the third carload sold this season and sales reflect high quality and customer satisfaction.
Mrs. Margaret A. Babcock wife of Rev John H Babcock died at St Marys rectory Mitchell Dakota on Sunday April 8 1888 after a brief illness begun in Sioux Falls where a physician advised her to return home. Her decline was rapid after return and she passed away at 11 o clock Sunday. She was known for Christian character and had many friends in Mitchell. The bereaved husband receives public condolence.
Mr Bray arrived in Sioux Falls after a grueling eight day trip from Omaha that wound through Council Bluffs Manilla Savannah Austin Minn Egan Woonsocket Mitchell Canton and finally Sioux Falls. He covered about 1500 miles to reach the city with 200 miles travelled as the crow flies.
The passage describes biliousness with poor morning appetite rough tongue and alternating diarrhea or constipation. It notes symptoms such as hemorrhoids blood loss dizziness headaches acidity and flatulence. It recommends Green's August Flower as a low cost remedy with many claiming success.
The Republican convention to select Dakota delegates for the Chicago gathering will meet in Jamestown on May 16. Davison county earns seven delegates, paving the way for a county convention soon. A central committee, formed at the last regular convention two years ago, includes one member from each township with R. I. Dundas of Mitchell as chairman.
The weekly list shows uncalled letters including Butterworth J Hewitt Mr AL Beardsley R Duffit Mr J Baird Mrs PL McDonald Mr A Clogster CM Rosso Tommie Clark EU Sanders Mrs E Moaats Mrs Thirles Miss 5 Hunt AD Wilson Miss E Wentworth J A The note instructs to say advertised when calling and warns forwarding to the dead letter office if not called within two weeks. D Hamer P M
An old physician retired from practice offers a free recipe claimed to cure consumption and various throat and lung ailments as well as nervous debility. He states thousands of successful cases and will mail the recipe with directions in German, French, or English to any reader who sends a stamped return. The offer is signed by W. A. Noyes of Rochester, New York.
The Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha railway announces half fare round trips to prominent northwest Iowa southwest Minnesota Nebraska and Dakota points on March 20 April 3 24 May 8 22 June 5 19 Tickets good for return within thirty days from sale Full station details and destinations in Kansas and Texas available Contact T W Teasdale general passenger agent St Paul Minn.
Many people avoid cod liver oil due to taste yet Scott's Emulsion makes it palatable like milk. It is promoted as a valuable treatment for consumption scrofula bronchitis debility wasting diseases of children chronic coughs and colds. Physicians report children take it with pleasure and urge trying it to be convinced.
Mrs Phoebe Chesley of Peterson Clay Co Iowa aged 73 recounts a remarkable cure from kidney trouble and lameness citing Electric Bitters. Residents vouched for her truthfulness claiming she is free from pain and can do housework again. Bottle 50 cents at KX E Gale's.
First class silver hull buckwheat seed offered by H. F. Kilburn of Blendon Township Mt Vernon Post Office area. Price about 50 cents per acre. Direct inquiry to local contact for arrangements.
Keystone pulverizer nearly new for sale by Geo. A. Rogers located four and one half miles northwest of Mitchell.
Fifty acres under cultivation with a good house, well, cistern, stable, cattle yards and twenty five acres of fenced pasture located five miles west of Mitchell in NW 14-103-61. H Eardrum. N K Faulkner hardware dealer will exchange stock for rags copper old rubber boots and shoes and scrap iron. Herding stock for pasture offered by S J Olson two and one half miles northwest of Emsley in section 1-101-62.
An 19th century advertisement hawks Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, rashes, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions plus piles with a money-back guarantee. Sold by L. C. Gale at 25 cents per box.
9eioun Bros. & SeamMads advertise loans on city property for short or long terms with special low interest rates for long term investments in brick or stone business blocks.
The Charleston World editorial states it would back Cleveland if he is the nominee and urges no platform baits within the party. It argues protection is crucial for the state's interests and warns against discord between free trade and protection wings. Oregon Republicans hold an enthusiastic convention in Portland, while California Democrats oppose Cleveland's policy.
The Oregon Republican convention opens in Portland with a large, enthusiastic turnout. Delegates will choose six national convention delegates, three presidential electors, and nominate a congressman and supreme court judge. Incumbent congressman Binger Horman is not opposed.
Gen James S Negley touring California reports Republicans favor Gen Alger of Michigan for the presidency. He is popular with the G A R and expects the California delegation to back him. Democrats oppose Cleveland and his policy.
A Washington insider says Leland Stanford has decided to allow his name to be brought up at the Chicago convention for the presidency. The news is reported from San Francisco on April 12.
A terrible wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio near Grafton is reported with few details available. In Shawneetown Illinois during funeral services for John S. Brown a floor collapsed sending about forty people into a cellar though none were seriously injured.
A violent single storm battered Prive Buurr Arkansas on Monday night bringing furious rain hail and wind. A two story building and a church collapsed and a school roof was torn off while many trees were uprooted. No fatalities reported. In Rochester Minnesota stock growers report several colts dead in Olmstead county young foals perished this spring prompting an investigation.
The Fergus Falls G A R encampment executive committee has organized plans for the Park region encampment to be held in Ferreus Falls Minn starting Tuesday June 5. Officials expect 5000 to 10000 attendees over four days.
St. Paul April 12. W A Gray of Winlock Washington territory arrived Tuesday with a party of thirty traveling from North Carolina to Washington territory. Mr Gray will return here after another party now being organized.
Ike Weir, the featherweight champion, was injured in a hotel dispute and is recovering at home with a broken right leg. Patsy Cardiff married Nellie Hall in Minneapolis at St Clo tilda s church. Scores from cities include Esse Bal in Cincinnati and Detroit, St Louis, Chicago, Manchester, and Boston games.
A Boston Journal note describes an Asian Minor practice where a villager on a mosque steps declares the farthest he can shout, marking village limits. The neighboring village performs the same, and the land between these bounds becomes state property.
Ensign Ryan U.S.N. and J H Mead president of Arctic Ice were arrested on the accusation of abducting a 17 year old girl. Mrs Parsons says her daughter was lured to New York for an opera position and is hidden in a Broadway flat. The girl has been missing ten weeks. Prominent locals and pastors search continues.
Reports note Madison Wisconsin to be electrified while the senate confirms J L Rathborn as consul at Paris. Weir of New Albany faces a 70000 short balance as bills pass and various global items move from India to Serbia to Africa with political and economic notes.
The March crop report shows winter wheat at 82 percent condition the lowest in five years while rye stands at 92 percent. Washington reports reveal various political notes including a Dana petition seeking 2000 for Lincoln assassination incident and a Moorish government settlement. A prediction of another deadlock in Congress accompanies tariff debate remarks and editorial mockery of Mr George's stance.
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