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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1885
Page
5
Weil Brothers announces a sequence of bargain days across departments. Hosiery offered Friday and Saturday November 27 28, dress goods December 1 2, cloaks December 3 4 with aggressive pricing to entice late buyers. Sales continue until January 1 1886 with additional inducements in every department.
Readable fragments report illness of P J Brady’s elder son, a morris town infant death, travels of Lieut Cooke and A S Rowan, new birth, a high art statue piece, scarlet fever cases, and local events. Also notes on cattle, marriages, a juvenile arrest, business ads, and a major November fire with six thousand dollars loss and extensive damage to D Johnston hardware.
The Bowdle residence hosted a reception for Rev. C. B. Clark and his family as the new pastor of the M. H. Church. Ahern White and the Kratz Brothers performed quartets, Dundas pair sang a duet, and Shanton and Ahern played flute duets before social time. The congregation pledged support for Pastor Clark and his work.
Tuesday night fire damaged the United States Express Company vault but left its contents unharmed. Assistant Superintendent Chuck Johnston and Angus Johnston oversaw an evening opening of the safe. A German man named Richard, unlisted last name, was arrested for drunkenness and jailed four days. authorities suspect he may know more about the fire. He previously worked for Johnston and Major Washburn and has a wife in town. A dispatch to Mayor Huggins in Aberdeen hinted at a hoax involving multiple Georges in town and a dancing school rendezvous after which one Georges supposedly returned to his room.
A fragment describes dreams of a domino party by a fire alarm and the rush to the telegraph office to relay the alarm which reached Aberdeen in the described form.
The Milwaukee company will survey a route for extending the S. M. line from Woonsocket to the Missouri soon. Duluth and Denver road surveys suggest a line next season passing Huron Alpena and Jerauld county crossing the I. D. Division near White Lake toward the southwest. The project could cut rail haul for regional grain by about 800 miles and raise wheat values eight to ten cents a bushel, bringing new towns to Jerauld Alpena and White Lake with freight competition.
The Aberdeen expedition brought back solid and liquid facts on water. Led by Mayor McChesney and Aldermen, the party reported 904 feet of drilled strata and a 165 PSI steady pressure, with water rising 90 feet high during a test and over 6 million gallons daily. The system cost about $7,000 and yields revenue well above 12 percent, plus power for local mills. The council plans the same Aberdeen tests for Mitchell, then continues to Yankton before returning home.
Plankinton Standard reports a mixed train was slated west of Mitchell but after Superintendent Underwood reviewed the line there was too much business, so passenger and freight runs continued as before. Mt. Vernon Gazette notes Henry Parry of Mitchell Packing House inspecting livestock, finding many hogs in the area and brisk business with high prices. Miss Chapin and Miss Ells Burns visited Mitchell on Monday.
Messrs Weil Page Hooker Rickert Belcher Smith toe Durells Spears Wil son Hooker Richards and Wigratman spent the weekend out on a big hunt. After a hard day's work they returned home laden with game. They secured one jackrabbit and one cotton tail.
Reverend A A Brown officiated the marriage of Austin M. Sischo of Minnesota and Mary A. Patterson of this city at the bride's mother's home. Sischo will briefly go to Minnesota with his wife then return in spring to farm in Davison County. Ipswich Gazette notes a dramatic safe incident and a coal gas scare near two local residents.
Dillon and Preston of this city assist Jer auld county authorities in prosecuting Solomon for the murder of Robey or Robbe. Goody Koontz of Chamberlain defends. Preliminary examination set in Wessington Springs on Thursday with an Iowa lawyer likely to assist at trial. Jack King, longtime night clerk at the Alex Mitchell, vanished Monday with a hotel dining room girl. he will be replaced by Clarence Brockway. Theos. David returned from Chicago after election as vice president of the National Cattle Growers Association and board member. He brought high-bred Short Horns including a Cruickshank bull for Prairie Hall herd to boost Dakota cattle interests.
Thanksgiving was observed in old fashioned style with services at Congregational, Episcopal and German churches. There were social gatherings, family dinners, and a large Masonic party with eighty couples, sixteen dance sets, and good music. the Odd Fellows social followed, promising a winter of enjoyable events for the order.
Burglars attacked Redfield for the first time on Wednesday, Huron hopes to secure a tow unit, and Butte county returns cut the prohibition majority to 233. Yankton to get two daily passenger trains on the Northwestern road upon completion. Mr. Ellis Rust and Miss Mattie Cleve lance of White Lake wed at Plankinton. T. K. Long district attorney of Marion county married this week to Miss Kate Carson of Eau Claire Wisconsin. A verdict for 9000 against e Treasurer Mansfield of Stuts infin county. Bondsmen liable for roughly half. Owen Bartlett of Yankton is suffer-
A sweep of short regional items reports health mentions of a tongue cancer akin to General Grant, a 125 psi artesian well in Columbia, and a near completion of a Harrison schoolhouse. Town notes cover freighting to Mitchell, moving Paymaster Sharp’s family, banking reliability, Deadwood railroad celebrations, bridge progress on the Western railroad, and a list of Mitchell letters.
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