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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1895
Page
4
Advertising rates on application note price details while obituaries and wedding gifts are charged per line. Sioux Falls police move to Lincoln, and Union County paper shifts editors to a Populist stance. South Dakota reports rain, dry towns, and rail project updates with school indictments and coal fears. Gamblesusan congress applicants to Yankton undergo exams for West Tolat posts.
The article surveys Populist Party decline and corruption allegations in Monona County Iowa, linking local exposure by Nelson Daughters to broader party failures. It notes alliances with Knights of Labor, misused funds, and a nonpartisan county plan rejected by local leaders amid broader calls to end Populist influence. It also discusses China opening to machinery and recent electoral vote alignments among states, framing shifts in labor and economic policy.
The Pres notes a nine to three vote for Alderman Cogan as pres. Cogan, anti-Phillips, wins presidency by three to one, amid a tense scene. A farmer’s wife in Indiana recently bore triplets, and the father’s joy is echoed in a letter to President Cleveland reporting the event and a $500 check from Grover.
Governor Sheldon pardons Meade Vousty Turner county for burglary, Frank Neyui Turner for theft, and another man named King sentenced for larceny. All were near release and benefits from clemency aimed at sparing their manship and ending lengthy terms.
Reports from the W.1 Cl meeting on Memorial Day plans and a Friday dance with a late night supper at the hotel. Sunday church entertainment by Miss Chandler of Mitchell University and the Mandolin Club, with ice cream served afterward by the Ladies Aid Society. Local residents visit, farm work notes, frost damage, hog and corn updates, and small town happenings across Mitchell, Jamestown, and surrounding areas.
South Sanborn notes G. W. Nash visiting his daughter and returning to Minneapolis Saturday. The county reports corn nearly all planted with some up before frost and frost damage in gardens. The Creamery Co. has solicited milk on an established route in Litchfield area.
The Congregational church in Letcher hosted music for the choir with Rev. Sage due to deliver the annual memorial sermon at the school base in Letcher next Sunday. Local notes recount weddings, social events, and community happenings with names and places across the region.
A survey party arrived from Omaha on Wednesday with multiple assistants and gear, traveling via the west Milwaukee line toward Chamberlain and Wheeler to begin surveying toward Mitchell. The University baseball team departed for Vermillion for this Friday and Saturday's Oratorical Contest and Athletic Sports, with ten players named and marching in good spirits.
Telegram from Jamestown reports Mitchell has been granted the next session of the AO O W grand lodge in 180. Efforts at this session aim to split the grand into two divisions for each state lodge. Also notes local notices about stock and exams for county certificates, plus weather and state geology activity in the Black Hills.
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