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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1887
Page
4
The council will consider the division measure on the 21st and local option questions at the next general election hoping for a full vote. Yankton seeks a railroad bridge to Sioux City and Nebraska, benefiting the James River valley. The legislature reportedly favors the plan.
In BisManck the council and house introduced numerous bills. Proposals include a fish and game protector, independent school districts, bonds for public institutions, and division of the territory. House actions include female suffrage, rail wares, and a large Sioux Falls bond measure. debates linger on division and election timing.
Reports list proposed tax and legal reforms by lawmakers including reducing exemptions and regulating railroad property. The session notes mention passage of a joint resolution to buy 1883 85 session laws, a revenue bill debate, removal of supreme court terms, seed wheat appropriation, and a new trial ordered in Woods case.
Colonel Charles G Williams, former Watertown land office register, trips to Newark and Boston to organize a bank and land company to aid Dakota resources with Watertown as HQ, Williams to be president. National Bank of Dakota at Huron formed with D T Steel president and G E King cashier. Sioux bill timing linked to post-appropriation legislative steps.
A Woonsocket masquerade ball at the courthouse hall with an elegant supper at the Delavan house draws top social mention. Mrs A G Miller and Miss Minnie depart east, while Albert Strub of Grissel and Strub reportedly wed in Iowa City.
Mrs. Phoebe Chesley of Peterson Clay Co Iowa shares a remarkable tale vouched by town residents. At 73 she suffered kidney trouble and lameness but Electric Bitters restored her health and energy enabling her to do her own housework. Try a bottle 50 cents at Hammer & Hammer.
Edward Shepard of Harrisburg Illinois credits Electric Bitters with curing an eight year leg wound after his doctors warned amputation. He used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve sold by Hammer Hammer at fifty cents per bottle and twenty six cents per box.
A salve advertised as the best in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores and many skin eruptions with a money back guarantee and 25 cents per box sold by Hamner & Tammer Evergreens offered at 75 cents per 1000 by Northern Nursery Company.
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