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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1897
Page
3
A brief city court item notes an ongoing debt matter involving a detainee. The report cites the docket number and location at Kota court, with no further details on parties or outcomes provided in the readable text.
Local notices report farming weather stacking and frost with social visits among residents Waugh Berry Winsor and Simpon families, aid society meetings in Jackson school house, and farm plans including an artesian well. Harvest and threshing near end in Blendon, various travels, and quarterly meetings at Victor school. Prairie chickens heavily hunted in Davison county with local sightings and signs.
Rev Howard Russell national superintendent of the anti saloon league spoke on temperance at the court house Tuesday evening in a forceful, practical address. A juvenile band planned to play but failed to appear, yet the audience joined in song and prayer. Russell read about 40 names and urged monthly agitation to keep league work alive, accompanied by Rev A E Carhart, with donations requested for state work. The article also praises the Mother’s Friend book by The Bradfield Regulator Co of Atlanta, mailed free to expectant mothers and highlighting its benefits.
In Pierre the state board of equalization and assessment, first with Populist representation, split on railroad valuations. Governor urged one third of actual value, while the attorney general argued for considering earned income and past losses, leading to a mostly preserved previous year’s valuations amid partisan friction. The dispute echoed broader battles over tax policy and enforcement, with extra tension from public press rebuttals and internal disagreements.
The Republican Judicial Convention for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of South Dakota will convene at the Mitchell court house on Friday August 20 1897 at 1 PM to nominate a candidate for circuit judge and conduct other business. Representation is based on 1 delegate per 75 votes or major fraction for A O Ringsrud in 1896. counties listed with delegations. By order of the judicial committee C A Crissry chairman dated July 1 1897. The C St P M O Ry offers two dollar plus one fare round trip Aug 17 Sept 7 and 21 for homeseekers to all settling areas.
For over fifty years Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup has soothed teething infants, calmed gums, relieved wind colic, and treated diarrhoea. Pleasant to taste, sold by druggists worldwide at twenty five cents a bottle. Ask for Mrs Winslow's and refuse other brands.
The Yankton Gazette lauds Miss Fannie Foster of Sioux City for issuing a practical treatise Nature Study as a Basis for Reading and Language for Primary Grades. It follows gardens fields woods streams and winter snow drifts to teach language and reading while broadening knowledge of nature. The piece notes rapid local adoption and praise from teachers in Yankton county.
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