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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
6
Listed items include Dr Burrs spring water sale and exchange offers. Advertisements feature used typewriter trades, sale of 25 head Duroc Jersey pigs with pedigrees, and hauling services. Also advertised are clothes cleaning, taxi service, and contact details for R. M. Van Winkle and others.
Christmas events fill Loomis with a church program and dance. Miss Beryl Tooley visits Webster City Iowa for the holiday. Agnes Smith visits her brother in Sanborn. Darmer family travels to Mt Vernon for Christmas. Will Clarke hosts a daylong reunion. A new drag line business is planned for January 1. Residents invited to send items to lock box 13 Loomis SD.
The board of county commissioners adjourned after its final meeting for 112. The largest payment, 507.78 to A N Brodstrup of Pioneer Bridge Co., covers bridges to date. About 700 of the total is a direct warrant for Dram No bridges, the rest for county roads across ten bridges. Mitchell township gets the largest 42 for bridges. Other notable bills include 278.75 to Fullerton Lumber Co. for poor farm materials. States Attorney Therbert was told to pursue 729.90 against Union township for Drainage Ditch No, unpaid.
The local post office started parcels post under the new law with about two dozen packages dispatched by noon today. Postmaster Wells reports the office now has equipment and expects a busy period if the system proves successful. A new carrier and a new clerk were added to the Mitchell office to handle the traffic.
A series of farm sale notices describe auctions near Mitchell with multiple livestock including mares, horses, cows, heifers, calves, and hogs. Equipment, grain, fodder, chickens, and farm machinery are listed along with terms for cash and credit, noon lunches, and auctioneers' details.
Davison county board met December 30 and 31 1912 in Mitchell with all members present. They approved a $4 507 78 bill to Pioneer Bridge Co for bridges to date and detailed county bridge work across towns and townships. They adjourned to 1 30 pm and 7 pm approving multiple bills and adopting resolutions to enforce Drainage District 6 assessments and to furnish life necessities to Andrew and Johanna Jacobson while they reside rent free on Lot nine in Block eighty nine.
A farmer announces sale of farm assets after selling the property. The notice indicates the owner will conduct a public sale to dispose of remaining equipment and supplies.
L. S. Rose acted as Santa at the McCormick schoolhouse on rural route No. 4 near Mt. Vers non. His overcoat caught fire from a candle after he handed out gifts. He pulled off his flaming whiskers and, with help from bystanders, doused the flames. He sustained burns to the neck and face and blistered hands, keeping him home for days.
The Clark County farmers institute committee in Clark, S. D. has secured a valuable list of premiums for the annual event to be held in the town on January 7.
Exhibits of varied farm products accompany an institute expected to be the best ever held. South Dakota shows growing interest in better farming with courses and lectures by instructors such as Arlie Hopkins on Crap Growing and Farm Management, G. W. Dixon on Potato Growing, O. Wall on Dry Farming, John Robertson on Fruit Growing, and Dr W W Stone on Soil Water and Crop Rotation.
Three senior members of the university school of commerce will travel through the eastern states for practical study in their field. Herbert Stout Clarence Coxe and Harry Whitlow will be joined by Prof. Van Renthuysen with plans to visit Washington Chicago New York and major industries and stock exchanges. The trip, starting January 24, will last two weeks or more and be funded by mutual advertisement.
Rapid City South Dakota W R Putnam president of the Business Men's club returned from Wall where with State Engineer Lea he viewed a proposed irrigation project. It contemplates placing 200000 acres of land adjacent to the Cheyenne river under the riteh. The tract is all homesteaded but settlers left during the recent dry years and few have returned. A bill will be introduced in the legislature requesting a preliminary survey and feasibility study.
The state bar association annual meeting in Pierre is set for January 15 and 16. A featured event will be a dinner honoring Judges Carson and Haney who retire from the supreme bench after 23 and 18 years, respectively, on January seventh.
Mexico City reports about thirty thousand Mexicans leaving for the United States last year. The exodus is blamed on false promises of high wages and job opportunities in the North while others cite ongoing revolutions as forcing men from work. Some observers see potential economic benefit in reducing unrest.
A renowned American mining man in Mexico used duplicate receipts and photo copies to claim $25,000 after rebels demanded tribute during Madero's uprising. When a receipt was lost the claimant provided a fresh set, illustrating cautious foresight. The report also notes pulque taxes and wartime ammunition usage figures.
Aberdeen South Dakota County Commissioner Ira Barnes, head of the Dakota Territorial Pioneers, collects claims of territorial settlers. Mrs S O Webb of Eagle Butte declares she is the first white child born in Dakota, Vermillion, on December 28 1861. Barnes seeks earlier born settlers to challenge the claim.
Articles of incorporation filed with the secretary of state for the Mid-West Publishing Company a job printing plant at Mitchell with capital of 25000 dollars. Incorporators are Hoyt Cox E M Cox and A Harwood all of Mitchell.
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