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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1894
Page
12
A compact roundup of local items from Mitchell and surrounding towns. Mentions births and marriages, Emigrant goods, real estate ads, auctions, church meetings, and a flood of notices from Champeny Bros. Includes a to-do on Exposition week, weather notes, and ads for Scallins Sarsaparilla.
Mt. Vernon township elected John K. Johnson A I Hadley and F B Rowell to the township board with M J Dougherty clerk Ben Rowell as assessor The village to be governed separately from the township A temperance entertainment at the M E church was enjoyed A wedding John K Johnson and Annie Knutson plus numerous farm and plowing notes, poultry and family visits mark a busy week.
The state central committee of the Independent party met in Sioux Falls city council rooms and continued from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The meeting, led by T. M. Simmons of Blunt, discussed when the state convention should be held and party principles. After adjournment they moved to Police Judge Hawkins’s office for further talks. Senator D. McFarland arrived to advocate for the party’s interests. A June 12 convention date was set with Mitchell as the site. Representation will be two delegates per county plus one for each 50 votes or fraction thereof for Van Osdel in 1892.
Judge Fuller in State of South Dakota v Sioux Falls Brewing Co rules that beer is not necessarily intoxicating without evidence. It holds that without a statute declaring beer intoxicating, mere purchase or sale of beer cannot prove intoxication. The decision notes varieties of beer, including non malt types, and reverses lower court findings.
Herb E. Hitchcock, longtime stenographer to Geo. A. Matthews collecting attorney for Walter A. Wood & Co., Chicago, returns to Mitchell to resume his old job with A. E. Hitchcock. John Powers plans part time travel to promote his new bookkeeping system.
W E Rathbun will sell at public auction at his place two and one half miles south of Ethan on Wednesday March 15 at 10 o clock a m a large quantity of grain hay and farming implements He will also offer for sale horses cows hogs and chickens An entire and first class threshing outfit will also be sold on easy time Artesian S D Mar 66 1804 I have used Scallins Lightning Headache Killer for sick headache and it relieves me almost instantly Price 25c per box MRS MARY A MILLIGAN
Three husky young fellows with no visible means of support arrive in town and hawk a policy of beg or steal. One dines with Clarence Bras before resuming street efforts to earn a dime for food. Ferguson's gives a Champeny 25c check likely traded for tobacco, while local farm hands offering $20 a month fail to deter their roaming.
The Sunday edition notes likely appointments for South Dakota postmasters with Mitchell and Sioux Falls leading the field and several candidates named. It also highlights Mitchell’s plan for another Corn Belt Exposition, praising past gains and urging broad county exhibitor participation. A. B. Rowley to auction farm assets March 16 including horses cattle and corn with specific sale terms.
The ad touts new hosiery for 20c with old stock at 10c and 16c of moth eaten goods replaced. It argues customers get first class goods for less, claiming modern stock costs less than bankrupt or Salt Lake bought items. It invites customers to compare prices and see the value of new goods over worn merchandise.
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