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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
12
Mitchell notes report a range of small town happenings. births and marriages. visits by Waukesha and Chicago figures. sales, real estate and business moves. local accidents including a scalding and a fall at a hotel. a lecture series and memorial service. and a major elevator-plant accident with injuries.
A large gathering marked Rev John H. Babcock's fifty years of Episcopal ministry, spanning New York to South Dakota. He guided churches in many states, mentored young ministers, and held notable posts, including academy principalships and high Masonry ranks. He suffered a violent assault in Covington Neb. and later joined Salvation Army work in Letcher before his death.
Funeral services for Aaron K. Campbell were conducted at his Main Street home on Saturday afternoon despite unpleasant weather. The G A R detachment, Captain Keep of the Salvation Army, and Reverend T F Morris led the rites with music, floral tributes, and pallbearers Chas Palmer 0 W Stearns H L Omealey John Roth W H Webster and D H Brown. Campbell born October 27 1840 would have been 63 and was a steadfast Christian and Salvation Army worker who preached on the streets and aided the religious cause around Mitchell and Letcher before leaving his farm buildings destroyed by a fire.
A lively and growing campaign favors Mitchell in the capital dispute with the Milwaukee road. The Yankton Press notes strong eastern support and predicts a merry but costly war across South Dakota as Pierre may soon settle the issue.
An oblique anecdote recounts a yeomanry officer in Devon led a small force across the country with a circuitous route. The dialogue shows an officer asking why the man keeps watch on a pain and the reply That oils hints at a puzzled era. The fragment preserves a hint of political leadership irony from a bygone period.
The Bevil a Knell list recalls a bell named Black Tom of Scothill given to a Yorkshire church to atone for murder. Glick Tom rings at Christmas with a midnight toll, a Yorkshire superstition dubbing it the devil's knell marking Christ’s birth and the devil’s death.
A humorous exchange reveals Papa Manykids lamenting that his daughters are too self possessed and wish they would find someone else to possess them, underscoring a comic family dynamic.
An advertisement extols Paine's Celery Compound as a universal cure for dyspepsia with claims of rapid nerve and digestive restoration. It cites a testimonial from Fred Kees of Clarendon Iowa detailing improvement after two bottles and lasting vitality.
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