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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1888
Page
7
Advertisements tout Weil Bros offering dry goods carriages boots and shoes with bargains and reliable service. Customer pleasing aims highlight low prices and new patterns from the Weil Bros store.
The page blends vendor sales, discounts, and weekly promotions with community notices. It also carries school and local government items, farm prices, and personal news including travel plans and family notes.
Pleasant Ridge reports fine farming weather with rains aiding wheat and grass. May 6th no Sunday school due to rain. measles keep Olive Nabinger out two weeks. Arthur Mehner improving after illness. Mrs. Dan Thomas of Green Valley ill two weeks. Mrs. Win Wright successful with homestead progress and 100 acres. May 20th Sunday school convention at Pine school house. Dr Windle summoned to W Griffith home. Mr L Pine seen daily en route to school. Evans and Griffith to start work on Mrs Win Wright’s house May 9th.
Mitchell Choral society prepares the charming little opera Larks or the Haunted Nook to be staged at Koch's opera house on Thursday evening May 17. The cast includes Mitchell’s leading singers with scenes on the Hudson featuring English lords French valets U S army officers and a musical colored gentleman. The production offers solos duets trios quartets and quintets with a full chorus of fairies soldiers villagers and women. Programs and full information to follow.
S. M. Kimsley urges voters to reelect Nf. L. Bras as county superintendent of public instruction in the upcoming June election. He asserts Bras’ qualifications and lineage make him the best, calling for a wise decision by the people.
Mischief by neighborhood youths placed a log of ties on the rail between this city and M. Vernon. The freight engineer spotted the obstruction and slowed, preventing a disaster. The section boss identified the pranksters who pleaded for mercy, claiming no awareness of the danger.
After the county convention organizers pursue forming a Republican Club to unite the party across Davison county. An Armory meeting reviewed rebuilding the university with pro and con views, and strong support emerged guiding continued efforts. Public cooperation is urged to advance both goals.
The University Herald will be an eight page paper issued by students. Staff includes editorial writers H Stilwell and Lara Hutchins, literary editors E E Teachner and May Skinner, local editors W A Bell and Emily Rogers. Subscription price is 50 cents a year in advance.
Mayor Mentzer has received a letter from immigration commissioner Mc Clure requesting photographic views of Mitchell and data to be used in an upcoming elaborate Dakota article in Harper's.
Publishers plan to include only the most important towns in Dakota in the article. The intention is that the section will have an excellent effect and data and views will be forwarded at once.
Editor Henry Springer argues the Dakota conference will not move the M. E. University from Mitchell. He outlines steps to prevent relocation and urges continued support to rebuild the burned campus and provide education for young men entering ministry.
The regular examination for teachers certificates will be held at Mitchell courthouse starting June 5 at 9am. Second and third grade applicants may need to finish first day with possible evening session. first grade may require an extra day. No new applicants on day two. Bring legal cap paper and writing materials. A $1 fee applies to all examined. County Supt. N. L. Bras urges compliance with the legal age of 18 or over.
William Davis, an engineer on the west bound passenger, was angered by a cow that would not clear the track. He stopped the train and attacked the animal with a coal hammer. The cow stepped forward striking Davis in the stomach area, knocking him down. About fifty passengers witnessed the scene.
Physicians of Mitchell are requested when called to any contagious case to promptly report it to Dr. Daniels, chairman city board of health.
St Marys church holds 11 a.m. service May 18 with sermon and 12:15 p.m. Sunday school. Methodist Episcopal reports 11 a.m. sermon by Prof Reno and evening sacraments, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Congregational church offers morning and evening services with Sunday school and lectures on Man's Immortality and Man's Loss by the Wall. Strangers welcome.
East Side caucus led by O. O. Stanchfield named J. N. Crow T. F. Mentzer and K. W. Wheelock to select county convention delegates for May 12. Delegates include Stanchfield Silsby Rathman Wiard Preston Hannett Crow Gale Hardesty McDonald Wheelock Cowhick. West Side caucus chaired by P. P. Winsor elected J. Scriven as chair and appointed a three member delegation. Delegates listed include Winsor Kratz Moore Geattis Martin Fullerton Helwig Whittlesey Gloss Scriven Taylor Peachner. Caucus adjourned.
D. I. Moses, traveling immigration agent for the Ocean, M. and St. Paul company, arrived in Aberdeen to assume charge of the Dakota field. An old officer, he previously prepared the exhibit car for the Dakota display at the New Orleans exposition and has been based in Scranton, Pa. Now headquartered in Aberdeen, he signals the company’s push to reassert presence in central Dakota with local cooperation pledged.
Announcement for the South Dakota Firemen’s Association Annual Tournament to be held in Huron from June 4 to 8. Excursion tickets priced at a fifth above fare may be sold from stations as far as Wentworth Chamberlain Marion Junction Armour Scotland Frederick Groton and Ipswich. Return coupons valid through June 9. Additional tickets at one cent per man per mile for uniformed firemen traveling in groups, using T. & VP. tickets, with one ticket supplied to each company. A.V. U. Canvrenrer, G. PL & DA.
Advertises a California colony for Iowa residents offering cheap farm and fruit lands with three-year payment terms. Claims new towns surveyed, prosperous colonies, and wealth in the mild climate. For details send three stamps to L G Ly Man, Masonville, Iowa.
The Methodist Episcopal Church invites Mitchell citizens to a lecture course at the church starting Tuesday May 15. Rev. A. W. Adkinson will speak on Mormonism, sharing insights from four years in Utah. May 22 offers a lecture by Prof. P. A. Reno on the Philosophy of Beauty.
A A Brown discusses the tragedy of atheism on June 5. Prof J C Eastman delivers on the lesson of a life on June 16. Rev C 13 Clark ends the course with a war lecture On the March. Lecturers are well known in Mitchell and expected to draw strong patronage.
The Dakota division encampment at Mt Vernon drew larger attendance than last year. Officers were elected including Colonel C Bras Mt Vernon Lieut colonel J C Sullivan Jamestown Major J F Baker Arlington and staff appointments. Next encampment set for Jamestown with resolutions of thanks to G A R and local ladies and citizens. Signed by Rogers Baker Beant Worben.
At the bride’s parents residence in this city, Nellie M. Meredith married Burt F. Rouse on May 10 1888. Rev A W Adkinson officiated before about twenty guests. The ceremony featured a floral parlor, a wedding march by Miss Iya Keith, and a celebratory repaste. Gifts included a wicker rocker silverware and numerous keepsakes from relatives.
Land deeded and patented six miles from Mitchell available for 3670 dollars. Tax paid and AY food farming property with small cash payment and balance on time. Enquire of J J Simpson South Side Mitchell Dak.
A long OCR list enumerates numerous patentees and applicants including Simonsen Kermers Wright McCumber Pobey Keaman Yurkett Javosi Reynolds Votcer Vospichil Lotseau Dickinson Greene Blackman Malnisberry Carron Arnold Haas Dahlgren Arnold P Aker Woodruff Visher Bartholow Stanton Iorton Vogus Wyss Anderson Bartholow McNary McAuley Carroll Clark Malvig Ellingson Lewis Sherman Schlund Davis Schuyler McAuley Johnson Craig Locke Olsen Blohim Hughes Fideler Scheel Jones Waugh Chantry Swan Punk Antiva Wenzel Babcock Eimery Gleeson Ingalls Stuart Pierce Schneider Larson Nosford Tobin Geelan Kemler Campbell Schmids Palmer Butler Droun Tobin Tobin Tobin Currier Harman Derungs Beck Oliver Cox Bever Tobin Fitzgerald Sohlasheck Barker Conger Jopp Hill Mullaney Keegan Piske Knibel Brown Grambihler Smith Olson Syverson Williamson Lyons Wetmus Colton Sluebner Smith Piske Brown Olson etc. The entry appears to be a compiled roster of patent holders or applicants with varied spellings and initials. The document is a scanned historical list likely used for administrative or legal recording of homestead patent preparations.
Royal Arch Masons held a Monday night initiation for R. I. Melride Willard Snow of this city and Mt. Vernon resident Mr Betts. Grand High Priest C. D. Pratt of Vilandreau led the ceremonies.
Local members and representatives from White Like Mit Vernon Woon socket and Akindria took part in a banquet. The event was served in an elegant style with an organized reception and orderly proceedings.
Yankton l re ss 4% Mev father Sheehan of Mitchell visits Bishop Marty and leaves this morning. The reverend notes encouraging church and secular affairs at Mitchell. Opening of the Sioux reservation may bring prosperity to Mitchell and the region west. Father Shoehan says the bishop recovered from a recent injury. Norman Nfagerian and family of Mitchell, Dak., traveling home after visiting the south pass through Sioux City yesterday. Rev. Mr. Babcock returns from Sioux Falls last night.
The list of uncalled letters at Mitchell post office for the week ending May 7 includes Blunt Dan Beach A Frinsimind Wall Hany Ferguson Julia Aggie Livingston Wil Viantard Hany Rathgaber Mrs M Smith Mrs When calling please say advertised. Uncalled letters will be forwarded to the dead letter office after two weeks.
W D Salt of Bippus Indiana and Abraham McHare of Bellville Ohio testify Electric Bitters cure rheumatism liver kidney and blood complaints. The claims include long cures and broad endorsements from multiple customers. Shiloh's remedies for catarrh cough and consumption are also advertised with guarantees and special offers.
A county woman claimed to suffer seven years from a severe disease that attacked vital organs. After using Dr King's New Discovery for consumption she slept through the night after the first dose and, with one bottle, was miraculously cured. The testimonial names Mrs. Luther Lutz and a drugstore in Shelby, North Carolina.
The Minneapolis and St Louis railway will sell excursion tickets to St Louis Chicago and Minneapolis dates June 2 to June 16 incl inclusive at one fare for round trip. Contact any agent for details. Whitaker Minneapolis Minn G J and PEA.
Notice to Contractors states bids for four county bridges due May 21 1858 at noon at the county commissioners office Oak., with diagrams and specifications on file with the auditor. The board may reject any or all bids.
Notice to assessors. The township assessors are to meet at the courthouse on Saturday May 12 1858 at 10 o'clock A M to confer on values for different classes of property. St T Roninson Auditor.
An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a trusted teething remedy from a top female nurse and physician in the United States. It claims forty years of use with millions of mothers and lists benefits including relief of teething pain and cures for dysentery diarrhea griping and wind colic. Priced at 25 cents per bottle and positioned as health for the child and rest for the mother.
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