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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1905
Page
11
An advertisement states a garment shop offers up-to-date outfits adored by discerning customers. It notes prices from 52 to 40 dollars for suits and 3.25 to 10 dollars for pants, with an agent for the International Tailoring Co.
Local laundry ad touts home operation with soft water use, 18 employees, and preference for local spending. It invites customers to try the service and promises best effort to satisfy, ending with a phone contact.
Correspondent reports 190 grading teams and 10 crews at work between Chamberlain and the Missouri River area with 150 more teams expected next week. Piling and trestle construction proceed from American island to the river’s west bank, a 15 460 foot trestle using 3800 piles. Boat launch anticipated by July 1 to enable river crossing, with filling, sheeting, and movable track on the vessel. Grading continues on American island and is about half done. Trains expected to run on the extension by September 1.
Howard city witnesses testified as 15 depositions are read in the Wheeler divorce case. A.C. Wheeler, harvester company representative, faced divorce for cruel treatment. Mrs Wheeler seeks separate maintenance and to share his finances citing alleged affair with Miss Alice Doyle.
Next Sunday is Memorial Sunday with services at 3 oclock in the city hall building. Rev T J Giblett of the Baptist church will deliver the afternoon sermon. Commander Plotner invites all city orders to join the morning parade and the march time will be announced later.
Mitchell university again victors in inter-collegiate oratorical contest held in Yankton. Burton F. Tanner took first place with Huron second. Dakota Wesleyan praised for leading state colleges in ar t erical victories. Jimnes Crowther helped Mitchell win last year.
The annual teachers party hosted by Superintendent and Mrs EF Us War was held Wednesday night. Rooms featured cut flowers with prizes awarded in contests. Miss Windle won a tie for guessing a portrait. Miss Hathaway excelled in a word-forming alphabet test. Miss Haynes won the nursery rhyme line completion.
The ad urges catarrh sufferers to use Hyomei during warm months May or June for quick relief. It warns against stomach medicines and promises a direct nasal application kills worms and stops growth. First day shows improvement and the complete Hyomei outfit costs one dollar with a money back guarantee by Scallin Bros.
Oacoma in Lyman county on the Missouri River will rise as a major shipping and distributing point after the Chicago Milwaukee and Saint Paul line extension opens. A sale of town lots is planned around June 1 offering profitable investment chances for mercantile enterprise as rail and steamboat access boost trade. Watch for excursion dates for the Oacoma lot sale.
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