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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1902
Page
4
A lively crowd gathered at Miss Agnes Shaub’s Prosper home for her September birthday with dancing and a midnight supper. The report notes local harvest notes, school openings, and various town developments along with agricultural updates and a Pain Balm endorsement.
In Flenburg on Sept 23 heavy rains hinder threshing and haying. Wm Kennedy of Wessington Springs visits. births and illnesses noted. Auction at Parfitt farm and moves to Washington. new well drilling outfit for sale. Social events include a dance at Lars Edwards and an ice cream social at Johnson school house with low attendance due to venue change.
F L Taylor of New Albany Bradford County Pa recounts taking Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to recover from a sudden dysentery during a planned bicycle journey. He says two doses before and during the trip let him complete it without ill effects and another attack was cured by a single dose last summer. Sold by L O Gale Druggist.
Bethel notes include a run away injury to F L Rowley and partner while four hired men tried to control a threshing team. Rowley sustained serious injuries. Wheat and oats yields are strong with 58.5 and 60 bushels per acre. A. G Pringle sold land at 31.25 an acre. Beulah Wells and Nettie Field noted for schooling. A rye crop on Pringle’s farm yielded 35 bushels per acre. Walter Rowley aided his injured father.
Prohibitionists of Davison County South Dakota will hold a mass convention at the Mitchell court house at 2 p.m. Saturday September 20 1902 to nominate candidates for state senator representative county treasurer register of deeds sheriff clerk of courts county auditor states attorney county judge superintendent of schools surveyor coroner and county commissioners for districts one three four and five and to transact other business. J Sykes Wilson county chairman dated September 1 1902.
A Los Angeles Herald quote contrasts genealogical trees with Darwinian ideas, joking that ancestral timber for the speaker comes from an old Aboriginal forest where remote progenitors supposedly swung by their tails.
Mrs Fitch left for Minneapolis to visit her parents. J M Newell and L Williams visited from Mitchell. Miss Martha Knutson returns to Sioux City to practice nursing. Cottingham family members arrive from Wisconsin. Rev McBeth of Miller preached both services. Rev Potter assisted. Mrs John Streeter of Armour visited relatives. Mesdames Garey and Momsen attended a harpist ball in Plankinton. Miss Mary Bridenbaugh of Plankinton visited Mrs Garey. A London solicitor finds his brother in a dramatic reunion after years apart ending in a family reconciliation.
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