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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1901
Page
12
Report notes various local items from correspondents with brief mentions of events and observations. No single dominant story stands out, but several small notes highlight regional happenings and upcoming community happenings.
Lillian Brasel nei neil visits grandma Bette Sailey returns from Iowa. Families from Mitchell note excursions and visitors. Quar terly church meetings held. Vacation trips announced. Local ball game plans and social dance at ball park Friday. Farwell riders, threshing, piano gifts, and rain hopes featured. Riverside and West Pirry reports. scares with a wandering trio of tramps near field.
Rev. A. A. Power of Emporia Kansas credits Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy with curing a severe attack of biliary colic after trying doctors with little relief. He recounts helping a neighbor who was sick for weeks and cured after taking a single dose and a second dose later. For sale by all druggists.
A South Dakota corn ear gifted to J R Ray of Salem Missouri for the 1900 G A R encampment inspired Texas planting. The ear swiftly grew into a notable Texas variety. Also a Deming Indiana man praises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for a teething baby, with quick relief.
A Mitchell city council committee and County Commissioners agreed to open a 66 foot wide road from Sixth street to the section line by purchasing the needed strip from Martin Gleason for 8200 with each party paying half. The deal is completed and the road will open to the public by next Monday after Gleason removes corn from the ground.
Huron correspondent notes South Dakota rising in general average for crops including corn and wheat. Estimates place statewide wheat between 35 and 45 million bushels, with corn and hay prospects strong. Beadle county corn outturns high, artesian and flowing wells cited as key to moisture, shaping central SD into a premier farming region.
Chas Goodnow of Pipestone Minnesota, instructor of Gregg Shorthand and touch typewriting, arrived in the city last Tuesday. A Brown's College graduate and Sioux City shorthand teacher, he operates a typewriter at 60,075 words per minute. Stenographers reporters and business people are invited to the college office over Butterfield's store to witness the method in operation. College office open day and evening.
Special round trip excursion via Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway on August 17 and 18 offers free program with band concert at 1 30 p m in Clear Lake Park pavilion and a 2 30 p m baseball game between Chicago Marquettes and Mason City grandstand admission 25 cents many other attractions round trip Mitchell to Clear Lake 250 includes sleeping car and berths at Mitchell for local parties tickets from nearest station provides further particulars Foley's Kidney Cure promotes kidney health in a separate note.
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