Davison County Delegates Named in Twin Party Conventions
In Davison county Republicans and Populists held separate conventions in Aberdeen and Huron on Saturday. Republicans chose nine delegates with Ge o A Johnston endorsement and a push to renomination. Populists elected fifteen delegates to the Huron meeting, with Goodykoontz aligning with populism and Omaha platform principles. disputes over organ ization and a reform agenda surfaced before adjournment.
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Republican Party
Davison County
Corn Palace
Aberdeen
Prescott
T. E. Blanchard
A. E. Dean
W.H. Helwig
M. L. Bobb
Levi Brown
R. T. Robinson
Goodykoontz
Omaha
Iowa
Silver Party
Huron
J. F. Berry
J. K. Johnson
D. G. West
Geo. Jenks
R. C. Warne
W.N. Blackman
Everett Smith
Geo. Schlund
H. J. Mohr
W.F. Hodge
James Tobin
John Colvin
R. R. Saul
S. F. Goodykoontz
E.S. Johnston
Smith
Court House
Ring
Warne
Colvin
Children Day Celebrated by Sunday Schools and Churches
The Sunday Schools and Churches marked Children’s Day with cantatas and floral decorations. Congregational exercises in the morning and M E church services drew large crowds. Pettigrew was not named chair at St Louis as South Dakota’s delegation chose L B French by a 6 to 2 vote.
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M. E
Pettigrew
South Dakota
St. Louis
L. B. French
Yankton
Pastor pounded a box of burglar’s tools received
A pastor received a parcel containing burglar’s tools at the express office. The owners did not call or claim the item, leaving authorities to handle the unclaimed package and investigate its origin and purpose.
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Cail
Baptist Society Delivers Surprise Gift to Pastor
About 200 people gathered at the Baptist church Tuesday evening for a donation party to honor Rev. C. W. McConnell and his family. A wagon loaded with donations was taken to the parsonage as the congregation expressed warm appreciation and strengthened church unity.
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The
Baptist Society
Baptist Church
C. W. McConnell
Mr. McConnell
McConnell
From the Georgia Colony A Letter From Fitzgerald Georgia
Hon Geo A Johnston receives extracts from W Thompson who moved to Fitzgerald Ga. The letter recalls Dakota friends and notes a slow moving colony marked by dry season and sick funerals. It mentions Decoration Day ceremonies by white residents and thousands of black citizens, moonshine whisky, and armed old soldiers amid a sad scene.
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Geo. A. Johnston
W. Thompson
Mr. Thompson
Fitzgerald
Thompson
Old Dakota
Andersonville
Lost cause colonists and a loaded revolver plot
The passage describes aging colonists who revere a lost cause, with low wages and white labor displaced by Black railroad workers. P H Fitzgerald leads the colony, aiding an alleged moral mission. A mistaken parcel to Thos Wallace containing loaded revolvers, a drill, and powder triggers police inquiry when the recipient returns it to the express office and no arrest follows.
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P. H. Fitzgerald
Halphide
Redfield
Thos. Wallace
Mr. Wallace
Wallace
Miss Jessie Fuller elevated to South Dakota Supreme Court stenographer
Miss Jessie Fuller of Mitchell has been appointed stenographer to the South Dakota Supreme Court after accepting the post in a Wednesday session. Her five years as Mitchell circuit court stenographer were praised for accuracy and speed. she resigns to take the meritorious higher appointment amid warm local admiration.
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Jessie Fuller
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of
South Dakota
Miss Fuller
Mitchell
Europe
Compliment to J H Scriven on Masonic Lodge Plans
The Huronite lauds J H Scriven of Mitchell for reporting 16 lodges with instruction in the past year and urging increases to cover at least 30 lodges annually. It notes no new lodges be formed without grand lecturer instruction, and that Scriven declined re election after eight years in the post.
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Masonic Grand Lodge
Huron
J. H. Scriven
Scriven
Mitchell
Potato Bag Shortage Pleases Tubers Producer
An absent quantity of potato bags this season pleases the tuber producer who sees the shortage as a favorable development for supply management and market positioning.
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Bee Scallin
Postoffice
Smith & Conyes
Gillis Bargain House
George
Logan’ Furniture CO
A. H. Pearson
BF. Drake
A. B. Hager
T. J. Spangler
H. P. Beckwith
L. C. Hillman
Geo. Thomas W. H. Dean
C. F. Raymond
J. W. Mason
Thos
Fullerton
Helwig
Ira Frasier
J. N. Crow
H. L. Bras
F. C. Hoffman
Johnston
Republican
N. J. Dougherty
Messrs. Johnson
Tobin
Stevens
F. M. Goodykoontz
Congress
Members and Friends of the Baptist
Preme Court
Georgia Colony
New South
Dora Noble
Eunice Thompson
Marie White
Jessie Warne
Adelaide Turneaure
Madison Normal School
Mackay
Miss Warne
Miss Turneaure
Chautauqua
Miss White
Leavening Powe
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