Lea Ring Sale at Weil Brothers Opens Bargain Doors
Weil Brothers announces a reduction sale to clear an enormous spring and summer stock. Customers urged to come early for greatly reduced prices on all goods and cheap remnants in dress coats.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1886
Page
6
Weil Brothers announces a reduction sale to clear an enormous spring and summer stock. Customers urged to come early for greatly reduced prices on all goods and cheap remnants in dress coats.
Father Willard lecture raised 125 for the Catholic church. Local merchants plan farm and general machinery ventures. Goete Faust’s friends hosted a surprise for A. J. Waterhouse. Gymnasium movement grows among young men. Mitchell-Scotland gap talks waver on timing. Journal notes advertise fashions, ads, and regional business prospects.
Colonel M. W. Sheafe and Major G. A. Pettigrew arrived by train to inspect Company I at the Alex Mitchell Armory. A large crowd of spectators filled the hall for the eight fours inspection and parade rest. Col. Sheafe praised the unit’s improvement since Fargo as Capt. Silsby and Lieut. Cammann led a formal review followed by a reception and dance.
Final homestead entrants receive sixty days to respond after suspensions for insufficient proof. The list includes Zeph D Tollenbeck, Hans P Miller, Christ Sproel, Charles J Wells, Stephen Kromizzirski, Timothy Chase, Ed N Blakslee, Ed Coleman, Erastus Andrews, and cash entries like Johanna Peterson, Jac Stambaugh, Mary Hancock, James Manahan, Norrrison Goble, Albert Kruger, Hulda Ott. Several cases note proof requirements, residence affidavits, preemption affidavits, and potential entry cancellations with references to related court denials and ownership claims.
The record lists numerous entries canceled or held for cancellation across multiple townships with reasoned judgments on residence, good faith, and preemption status. Several cases, including Beebe, Sennessy, and Meyer, face appeals or require further corroboration, while others note improvements and mis filings. The railroad rumor adds regional transport context as Mayor Huggins deals with family illness and local disruption.
Chicago officer moves to Mitchell and Bridgewater to fetch J T McKee on a false pretenses charge after an indictment. A Perry township caucus nominates a full slate for next Tuesday's election amid a stock shipment from Kelsey ranch and a note of Delegate Gifford's push for the Homestead Monument bill.
C BE Gaines general agent of Buckeye Mower and Reaper rents Burr block store room formerly Weil Bros. and will fit it as office and warehouse. He plans full farm machinery display with a steam engine and weekly exhibitions, aided by a large field staff. Mitchell attorneys praise Judge Tripp for expeditious fair rulings. C P Hadley ships two cars of first class horses and mares to Mitchell for sale with guarantees. Arrival expected Friday or Saturday.
Agent McMaster offers the REPUBLICAN rates to California points. First Class is 68.80. Second Class limited 58.80. Second Class 33.80 for emigrant travel.
Edward Shepard of Harrisburg Illinois credits Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with healing a eight year running leg sore that doctors warned would require bone scraping or amputation. He used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Arnica Salve and recovered. Prices listed: Electric Bitters fifty cents a bottle and Arnica Salve twenty five cents a box, sold by Hammer and Hammer.
D A Bradford of Chattanooga Tennessee reports a severe lung cold cured by Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption after tried many remedies. He uses it for his family with best results. Thousands say lives saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial bottles free at Hammer & Hammer’s Drug Store.
Farmers are advised not to seed down their fields with weeds and to have wheat oats or flaxseed re cleaned at reasonable prices at the Blue Warehouse. Call at the warehouse or W H H Letcher's hardware store GEO Vogel.
A vintage ad notes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup trusted by millions for teething pain and digestive issues. price 25 cents a bottle. Also touts SHILOH'S CATARRH REMEDY as a positive cure for Catarrh Diphtheria and Canker Mouth sold by L C Gale.
Advertisement notes W F Parsons publisher of a business and legal forms manual will buy a quarter section of Dakota land and pay with books at wholesale price, enabling a seller to obtain a deeded farm and summer work. Also offers boots and shoes in exchange for a deeded quarter. Address JAMES S. FOSTER Mitchell Dak Feb 6 1886. Also many health ads tout Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy SHILOH’S and other cures with prices and local sellers Hammer & Hammer. Northern Nursery Co advertises seeds trees and money loans. Sales of flour, organs, and farm equipment appear with local prices and providers.
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