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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1886
Page
6
Train timetables from the East and West list departures and arrivals with notes on days. A Dakota auction sale offers embroideries and insertings at half the former price and white goods arriving soon, with a wide range of fabrics priced from 3 to 37 1 4 cents per yard in large quantities.
The company cautions that many small outstanding accounts should be settled promptly and announces a switch to strictly cash transactions starting April 1. It emphasizes the need for all overdue payments to be received by that date.
The column blends social events and local commerce with a missing Methodist preacher Rev. Ackerman, real estate and land office updates, new hires in town and harness goods. It mentions Mrs. Slowe meeting, the Tyler house rent, a missing preacher, town ballots, and local trades from harness to photos.
On January 25 the Undertaker Brokaw's train for Grand View moved the wife and child of William E Duff in a casket beyond Baltimore. A rear signal omission caused a headlong Baltimore and Ohio wreck, a fire, and a three hour search under flames. Duff and his mother survived but endured illness afterward. A new casket was bought near Newark, paid by the railroad.
The council considered major water works expenses including 135 tons of cast iron piping or nine car loads with freight at 58 cents per hundred totaling 1296 dollars. Hose on Main street totaling 1500 feet at 80 cents per foot would be 1200 dollars. A 45 horsepower engine is expected to cost 650 to 800 dollars.
At a Wednesday night meeting a hose company was organized with Foreman Chas Lewis and seven other Chas. officers including Fitch Hedden Bolton and fourteen members listed by given names. An advertisement lists letters for Mitchell March 8 1886 with many named individuals and noting uncalled letters.
The Fair committee decided to hold the fair from August 30 through September 3 with plans under way for a successful exhibition. Farmers Mutual Protective Association of Plankinton led insurers in last year's loss payments and is promoted as the low cost option for farmers. Geo Farnsworth will handle Association business in the area and farmers are assured his work will be backed by the Association.
Davison county farmers met at the court house with about forty in attendance to discuss building an elevator in Mitchell. The group formed a cooperative movement, reading articles of incorporation and planning stock books after state approval. Col. Price to address a next meeting at Koch’s Opera House. multiple figures and claims on trading practices were presented to justify farmer unity and action.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup touted by a leading nurse and physician as a forty year universal remedy for teething children. Claimed to relieve pain cure dysentery and diarrhoea ease griping and wind colic while giving health to the child. Priced at 25c a bottle.
Adolf Leveten halted by Sheriff Alterton at the depot on a 223 judgment claim raised by J. W. Zeere over a disputed 1500 remittance. Zeere sued over alleged misused funds. a prior settlement left $300 paid, transit blocked. Also noted are plans for a three terrace pyramidal monument to be built in Washington with each state supplying soil, a Gen. Grant statue atop, and Dakota placed between Minnesota and Montana. Joe La Brush sentenced a year for larceny with horse stealing charges pending. Public notices advertise cures, remedies, and local offers from Baker Bros and Chamberlain’s products, plus land sales and a piano offer.
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