Mitchell Happenings and Local News Roundup
Local items from Mitchell and vicinity note births, temporary moves, new work roles, and community events. Highlights include a newborn son born to Mr and Mrs Ralph R Bow dle, secondary reports on defense weekly drills, business changes at S T Greene creamery, and the arrival of Phillip Lawrence to rally old soldiers for the encampment. Also covered are anti smut powder distribution by S Bately, Powder trial plans, and notes on local advertising and printing upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph R. Bowdle
Hood
Gottlieb Scheuerembrand
Wm. Smith
Sixth
Lawler Streets
State Guards
R. P. Edson
J. A. Fosdeck
Mason City
Iowa
Will Scriven
S. T. Greene
Riverside
McKinley & Eddy
C. L. Hampton
Hampton
Phillip Lawrence
Sioux Falls
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad Claims Fifty Years
An old and well tried remedy, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, has been used by millions of mothers for teething children for over fifty years. It soothes the child, eases gum pain, stops wind colic, and cures diarrhoea. Pleasant tasting and sold by druggists worldwide for twenty five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for this syrup, and take no other kind.
Canvassed Vote and Coal Bids Amid Quorum Delay
Mayor VanAlstine and four aldermen waited for a quorum to canvass city votes and open coal bids for the year. Ward tallies show city hall approval at 240 to 81, total city vote 346, with various Aldermen, school board, and treasurer results. Alderman Beckwith urged delaying bid openings due to potential lower lake rates and pending contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VanAlstine
Stout
Halphide
Davison
Second Ward
Koch
Morrow
Peaerson
City Hall
Third Ward
Miller
Bras
Fourth Ward
Scriven
Dean
Beckwith
Coun
Aldermen Postpone Opening Bids and Park Seeding Talk
The council voted to postpone bid openings for thirty days. Alderman Bracy discussed seeding the west side park with grass, leaving seed selection to alderman discretion. Dr Bracy seeks a fence to keep cattle out, noting a watering trough at the west end where cattle frequently rush toward the grass, prompting safety concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cil
Testimonial from Old England Praises Chaemberlain’s Cough
Mr William Savory of Warrington England proclaims Chaemberlain's Cough Igvemacy the best for bronchitis. He says it saved his wife's life after six years of illness confined to bed. He notes she is now quite well and that the product is boldly sold by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Mediforme Co
L. E. Hostetter
Waterloo
Iowa
Hostetter
Messrs
Johnston
Logan
THE
Republican
Chaemberlain
William Savory
Warrington
England
Excursion to Sioux Falls on CM & St Paul Railway
A Sunday excursion on April 28 from Mitchell offers a 1 pm Sioux Falls Band Concert at the auditorium with Santee Indian Band, 2 pm balloon ascent by Madame Frances Leroy, and a 3 pm Aberdeen vs Sioux City baseball game at the ball park. General admission is free to excursion ticket holders, grandstand 25 cents. Special train departs Mitchell 7:10 am and returns 6 pm. Round trip from Mitchell is $2. Tickets via CMStP ticket agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Sioux Falls Auditorium
Frances Leroy
St. Paul
Minn
Sioux Falls
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y
Dark woods and a bear in a frightened boy's plea
A child vows to run away to escape punishment as a guardian of a fractured family. He imagines hunger, danger from a stranger, and his father’s sorrow when he is gone. The verse ends with a demand that punishment end and a hopeful return. The piece frames fear, guilt, and childhood punishment with dark, melodramatic imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry
Hood s Sarsaparilla Cures a Range of Blood Ailments
The advertisement claims Hood s Sarsaparilla cures scrofula salt rheum eczema catarrh rheumatism malaria and other blood poisons and nervous troubles. It cites testimonials from Mrs A Q in Maine Wa Garner in Pennsylvania and a baby case to support the promise that the medicine delivers solid up to date results and urges readers to choose Hood s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
A. QO
Spawatorng
North Searsport
Wa. H. Garner
West Har
Paul Hood
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Elda Pixley
Cuthbert Smith
Mitchell
Champeny
Mitchell, S. D
Henderson
Ers
Gillis Shoe CO
Mitchell and Vicinity
Harvey J. Rice
Prince of Good Fellows
Huron
Rice
Odd Fellows Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge
Canton
Mitchell and Davison County
James Bately
Cudahy Packing Co
Winona
Bately
Rocky Mountain
Doore
S. S. Bately
Charles Mix
Aurora County
Douglas County
McCook County
T. W. Hood
Freeport,ll
J. A. Fosdick
Scott
Milwaukee
James River
Aberdeen
City
C. KE. Vermilyes
Mr. Vermilyea
C. E. Fox
Minneapolis
Mr. Fox
Lawler Street
City Council
God
Chicago Times-Herald
Dross
Ernest Neal Lyon
New York Evening Journal
Fbie
Wheeler & Wilson
L.E. Starr, Mitchell
JS. D
Larmer &,Co
St. Louis, Mo
Jaque
Foley
Alfred J. DIX, D. D. S
Champeny Block
Davison County
Phil Tobin
Hillside
Webster
State of
South Dakota
John L. Burke
Mary Burke
T. J. Spangler
So. Dak
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