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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1902
Page
8
Plainspoken district notes report illnesses and improvements. Watkins and Login among the sick, farming signs appear with new grass, planters advertise Sunday school prospects, and Plano hosts social events. Burgeoning immigration, land filings in North Dakota, and local trips pepper the week. The article records community life across Badger and Prosper with names, towns, and events.
West Perry March 24. John Dondelinger has purchased the Streeter place after negotiated buy at 3350 dollars. Skimming station patrons received twenty cents for February butter. The Ladies Aid met with Mrs H J Timm. Next meeting with Mrs John Hiliet on April 2. Spring work keeps farmers busy while Rev Slocum preaches to small audience and asks a full house for Easter. Bon Gilfillan toured Weston Springs. Katie Rushmore postpones basket social until term end. Jove party at Holtman home last Friday. dancing to Me W. Gilfillans visit Sioux City. Mrs Waugh ill. Farwell Dramatic Club to present play March 26 at church. Missionary society election canceled for lack of members. F J Rowley hosted guest at Rowley’s. Wallis baby’s death mourned by all. George Thomas sick. P Rowley visiting Plano. Bethel notes and school term close with Ethel Jewett departure. LL Rowley visits. Rowley hauled two loads to Epiphany. eighty fees paid. Wubbard ill. school board met Tuesday.
Mitchell traveler John Tuckey visited J Swift while farmers sow grain and the ground shows excellent crop prospects. A Farwell school play drew a crowded Saturday crowd and a repeat performance was staged. Myrtle Young wed Edwin Seaman at the bride's parents home with Rev. Davis officiating and local friends joining in celebration.
Riverside reports the death of baby Joy Wallis at 5 30 am after a brief illness. Funeral services are set for 10 oclock Thursday at the Wallis home. Clarence Wallis returns from Brookings after Agricultural College course. The Ladies Aid meets April 3 at Mrs Cassem's. Hanson No 4 School closes early due to low enrollment. Riverside School enrollment falls from 30 to 15 as spring work begins. A social at Mr Whites is rescheduled to Friday April 4. A measuring party is announced.
A town hosts a measurement contest where participants pay five cents per foot and an extra cent per inch to gauge their height, with stamps or coins collected by a committee. Refreshments are offered. An Easter party follows on Friday evening April 4 at the home of Mr and Mrs J R White at eight o’clock for Rev Knight’s benefit.
A long item list from March 24 covers local movement in Mitch ell Ethan area. People travel for mill work and sale of goods. new teacher Miss Lottie Duncan engages for spring. families welcome and depart. social events include a basket social and a masquerade pending.
Reports from J. B. Phelps indicate a mild smallpox case in Ethan with near full recovery. Ira Cutts' family under siege. Miss Etta Ottman photographed Fred Sheeder in a muddy pose. Various locals travel, host receptions, and plan events including a masquerade ball at Pioneer Hall April 1 with prizes for best costumes.
John Oakes and Ed Corbett arrive from Alexandria to paper and paint W S Snyder's house. Jacob Liberty plans a future grain business. Rumors speak of wedding bells and an electric railway link to Tobin’s suburban home. Farmers chafe at rain delays. town patrons seek clarity on a welfare concern. Lizzie Clement helps at the Ottman. observers urge greater consideration after the late friend’s stay.
Baker notes a successful artesian well for Mrs. Clark at 410 feet, plus various social updates. A. H. Tofts hosts a party. Miss Wagner attends. Ed Clark visits Will Stolse. Will Sim and Wess Burns return from Chamberlain in search of Uncle Sam land but cannot cross the Missouri River. Dan Golish goes to Rockport. Champlin, Burns, Knappe, Boertine, and Clark visit the Baker pencil pusher. Walter Clark writes from Wausau. Frank Crique hauls hay to Plankinton. Knappe family attends Hillside confirmation. Miss Jessie Greaves resigns teaching. Jimmy Carroll to finish term. Snell enlarges his house. Baker faces a potential damage suit over a broken culvert. Paper hangers due Friday. George Carlow expected home from Black Hills trip. Robert Schuetz circulates a petition for a county bridge over the creek between sections 14 and 15.
A hand generator is for sale at low price via Ed Haynes who ran Spencer Grain Co here last fall and left for Black Earth Wisconsin. Mrs. Haynes and Miss Perle Richards give updates on visits and a piano recital at University chapel draws a large crowd with Mrs. Garrett and Miss Lee providing vocal support.
Mr B Wingfield of Fair Play Missouri says Chambrain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy did more good than any other medicine after thirty five years of chronic dysentery. For sale by L O Gale druggist.
For sale 12 young cows and heifers 1 full blood Shorthorn bull 1 Gang plow 1 Sulky plow 2 walking cultivators 1 wagon 1 surrey new 1 one seat buggy 10 bushels seed flax Call on Me J Snow Plotner farm near town.
Mrs Jos Ryckman of two miles east of Clark regains sight after cataract surgery by Drs Stevenson and Jevanson in Sioux Falls. Thanksgiving Day marks her full recovery following two years of blindness. Mrs L C Lacky also reports first sight in seven years after similar surgery. Citizens praise the Sioux Falls physicians and urge others to seek eye treatment.
A handicap bicycle road race is set for Saturday April on the First and Main corner to near the James River and back. Prizes include a shotgun a folding camera a Stevens rifle and a gas lamp. A minimum seven entries and five finishers are required. Entry fee is 50 cents with applications due by April 4. N C A rules of 1901 apply. Contestants’ names due April 4. best amateur photo wins $2 store credit.
Advertises Foley's Honey and Tar as a universal remedy for coughs colds bronchitis asthma croup whooping cough hoarseness and bronchial troubles pneumonia and grippe. Sold by H Scallin at the listed outlet.
Frank Oleson of 504 East First Street lists a single good pony team, excellent drivers, a farm horse, and one set of driving harness as items for sale or display.
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