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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1889
Page
5
Gale's drug jewelry and book store offers Paris green at 40 cents a pound and a wide line of books and stationery. The paper reports local road, crosswalk, and street improvements plus weather notes and community updates including births, church and railroad items, and a farmers weather bulletin.
The eighth annual Dakota Medical Society meeting set for June 20 and 21, 1889 in Mitchell will hold sessions at Masonic hall near the Alex Mitchell hotel. Officers and section heads are listed with chairs and secretaries for Medicine Surgery Obstetrics Nervous Diseases Hygiene Endemic Disease Microscopy and Diseases of Children, plus volunteers and committee assignments.
Dr. J. C Alloway is noted in the Bismarck Tribune on December 12 for two decades of service. The item highlights Alloway’s career and mentions Collins in relation to the same context.
Rosedale residents report the Gopher club will hold its annual julevation toward the end of next week. A local count committee faces a busy period as a boy tallies nearly 500 points with many others in the hundreds.
A column laments Mitchell’s neglected cemetery grounds and calls for action to fund improvements. It notes beautified homes, gardens, and school grounds as contrasts, urging the city to install a neat fence, gates, a well, water trees, and invest the lot revenue for cemetery upkeep to restore pride.
Phillip Tobin reports a 100 acre field sample of wheat in fine condition. The 30 inch tall heads show a fair sample of local wheat with decent rain needed. Corn acreage is vast and promising, which could offset potential wheat crop losses.
A Sabbath observance meeting at the court house moved to the Congregational church due to Dr Crafts absence. Speakers including Rev A B Smart Rev C B Clark and Rev Mackintosh urged observance, while resolutions condemned Sabbath non observance and the Sunday press. The meeting adjourned without forming a group. Meanwhile crop news from the county shows mixed prospects with continued worry over Brown and Spink counties and generally poorer small grain yields expected.
The Baptist church for South Dakota holds its Ministerial Sunday School convention in Armour with many delegates, including church and Sunday school members from the city. The article lists several attendees such as Rev. S. J. Winegar Deacon Morse and Mrs. M. E. Kline among others.
Property listing offers 8 D. in Mitchell or Sioux Falls town property choice city lots in Pittsburg Cheroke and McFarland Kansas. Address P O box K city.
Pleasant Ridge ends its school term on June 21 with a picnic and a well arranged literary program. Sunday school and church assemblies occur next Sunday, followed by an 8 oclock gospel temperance meeting led by Rev Curl and R N Kratz. Mrs Moyer hosts a Sabbath School at 1 oclock, with good attendance. Mrs P A Sanders and Mrs Richard Evans were berrying when a hailstorm frightened a horse, causing the top buggy to be destroyed but no one injured.
Henry Block of Mitchell and Mrs. Sarah Mussleman of Bard wed at Bard school house by Rev. A T Lyman. The Chamberlain Register notes Mitchell trails in the capital race while Chamberlain warms up.
Mrs Anna Lindquist, 50, died unexpectedly Sunday afternoon near the Milwaukee track. She had been active and in good health, collapsed after a short nap, and was pronounced dead from heart disease by Doctors Parmelee and Crane. Funeral services were held at Henry Noble's residence with Rev. Nelson officiating.
A Republican reporter interviewed Davison county farmers to gauge crop prospects. The northeast area shows discouraging small grain stands, with many crops very short and thin, though a small portion may yield with immediate rain. Elsewhere, conditions seem only modestly better.
Indications point to record crowds for the South Dakota events starting next week in this city. Three days of races list classes including trotters pacing and running events with substantial purses and entries from Chicago Minneapolis Sioux City and many South Dakota towns plus Nebraska and Kansas. The meet runs on the 26th 27th and 28th with noted trotters and local horses expected to boost attendance and exhibition.
The annual county graded schools examination was held at the courthouse on Thursday led by Miss Dora Edgington Clara Hazelton Alice McConkey and Superintendent Bras. Eleven of thirteen applicants met the 75 percent requirement and earned diplomas. The list includes Alice B. Cook Mattie Dutton Flora Hanson Melissa Post Luna Clark Tillie Craig Ella Craig John E. Wilson Edwin Wilson Ella Kipp Flora Burke and more. Plans for next year include commencement exercises to boost pupil effort.
About 11 o clock Sunday night Roy Taylor and a Gleason boy rode into town when a pistol shot hit the hip of Roys pony. They found no shooter, believed the first shot accidental. A second bullet narrowly missed Roys ear as they headed home.
Rev. C. B. Clark addressed the graduating class at the M. E. church citing Paul and urging study and honest work. He praised co education, lauded woman’s equality, and urged pursuit of useful labor and daily life education anchored by Christ as a guiding example.
Citizens of Yankton appear reluctant to greet visiting firemen as a city paper prints a poem praising fireman courage amid public scorn. A social picnic in Green's grove honors Miss Tripp of Yankton gathers a lengthy guest list of local youths and ladies with refreshments arranged.
To Farmers. We have a contract with the Dakota Farmer, published at Huron, Dakota, and the Northwestern Agriculturalist, published at Minneapolis, whereby we can furnish either of these farm journals with the CAPITAL on the following terms. To every new subscriber for the CAPITAL who pays one year in advance at $1.50. To all old subscribers who will renew their subscription for one full year in advance at $1.50. To all delinquent subscribers who will pay arrearages and renew for one full year in advance at $1.50. A sample copy of either of these journals can be seen by calling at this office.
H C Stilwell arrived from Fayette Iowa where he attended Upper Iowa University for a year. He was second in the Faucett oratorical prize contest worth 40 dollars, with Freeman Bloodgood or Huron first. Prof Duncan says Stilwell gave the best effort in the audience’s view. Another Mitchellite, Prof Eastman, is retained for another year at a 20 percent salary raise.
The Mitch ell high school holds a commencement program at the rink with overtures, essays, salutatories, a valedictory and diplomas to be conferred. Mt Vernon class 1889 schedules its graduation with solos, orations, poems and diplomas. The university announces commencement week beginning Sunday June 23 with sermons, lectures, Board meeting and Phreno-Germann society events.
In the 1882 season the tallest wheat stalks measured twenty one inches on June 8 and thirty one inches by June 17 here, with early June days showing rapid growth. The report notes a period within the first twelve days of June lacking further detail.
Rain fell on the 20th with two inches of precipitation. Wheat samples show tallest stalks at twenty six inches and shortest at eighteen inches. The average of five stalks is 22.8 inches, with J S Vanderburg credited.
The Presbyterian church invites all to hear Rev Geo A Mackintosh next Sunday morning and evening with topics Christian Character Activity and Reward and True Manliness. Installation as pastor occurs next Tuesday evening with Rev Dr W M Blackburn Pierre University Rev H P Carson Scotland and Rev A C Mc Cauly Bridgewater taking part.
The German society prepares a grand Fourth of July celebration at J. H. Green's grounds north of town. A band is secured and all are invited to stay at home for a pleasant holiday observing the day locally.
A Castalia special reports the Wheeler district court jury acquitted the Bailey murder defendant after four hours deliberation. The decision is credited to the defense by A. L. Hoppaugh of Castalia and Judge Edgerton of Mitchell, with public opinion divided on the outcome.
A union Sunday school picnic is planned for July 4 in F. D. Tyler's grove Badger township. The program includes speaking and singing by children, baseball and cricket, foot races and amusements for all tastes. Events start at 10 o'clock and all are invited to bring baskets. By order Com.
The list of uncalled letters for the week ending June 17 includes Dove Mrs Sarah Chappelle J W Lon Eklund Peter Egan Mr Peter Graves Mr George Kimball Mrs J McKown Henry McPhial All Readers should say advertised when calling. Unclaimed items after two weeks will go to the dead letter office. D HAMMER P M
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