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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1898
Page
11
Mt Vernon items note meetings of the Retailer's Protective association and W C T U district convention, local visits by members, and Mt Vernon schools closing with commencement June 17. Beulah reports social gatherings, creek washout repairs, hogs sold, cows and horses, and multiple neighborhood updates including fishing, sheep, and farm labor.
Dispatches report repeated U S naval actions near Santiago harbor and in Guantanamo Bay with multiple Spanish losses. Lieut Hobson and seven assistants sank the Merrimac under fire, while Schley and Sampson silenced forts. General Shafter sails with 27000 men for Santiago. troops may deploy soon from Camp Merritt.
June 6 report from Blendon notes Westbo selling bogs in Mt Vernon, artesian well drilling for Ab Kingsbury, and Saulian escorting Addie and Pearl Chappel to Mitchell for summer with relatives. Victor post office mail will move to Mitchell on July 1, with complaints about a late local mail carrier. Memorial services at Victor Lutheran were postponed to June 5 due to rain. Farmers vary in corn cultivation progress. S C Michener filed final proof on his Mitchell homestead with W H Dean, J B Davis, and E Gordinier as witnesses. Only one quarter of Brendon township land remains government owned. English surname frequencies listed. Insurance premiums rise for travelers to Canada or U S.
Rainy week yields solid subscriber gains for THE CAPITAL in Davison county. Representative notes regulation achieved this week and lists new subscribers across Rome Hanson Tobin Mitchell and Hutchinson counties including Reinartz Dabler Stover Meyer Mut ziger Curree Tobin Carlson Walstrom Bryan Kruse Bowers Tietz Oathout Schoenfelder Koster Geesregen Rosenquist Nelson Holm Weepie Reinartz Germsheid Doty Earl Doty Wrightson Donovan Carlson Loecher Erpenback and Wrightson endorsement underscores paper's wide local reach.
Mark W. Sheafe of Watertown South Dakota was nominated today as a Brigadier General. The item notes his appointment amid war era promotions and mentions unrelated advertisements for Hood's Sarsaparilla and a lengthy discussion on France and depopulation with contrasts to Germany England and Italy.
The Philadelphia Record notes Britain’s major oaks and ancient trees such as the Major or Queen oak in Sherwood forest, the Isle of Man’s famous fuchsia tree, Boreham Essex’s willow, and the Ben Lomond’s two inch dwarf willows. It cites Bentley and Winfarthing oaks two centuries old at Daniel of Windsors era. It also mentions Maxim’s cavalry gun weighing 80 pounds, firing 700 shots per minute, and a sultan’s fieldpiece firing 770 shots per minute on wheels.
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