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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1887
Page
5
Local notices promote WEIL Bros as leaders of low prices in dry goods and boots and shoes. Advertisers urge customers to visit for bargains on Butterick patterns and other goods. Community references discuss harness trade, nurseries, and upcoming fairs with transportation deals to Minnesota events.
The next meeting of the Pharmaceutical association will be held at Huron. Officers for next year include President W S Branch Parker First Vice President A A Bartlett Madison Second Vice President WD Dick Scotland Secretary I A Keith Lake Preston Treasurer LT Dunning Sioux Falls. The Western Loan and Trust Co has opened a Mitchell branch offering farm and city property loans with approvals completed at that office. For details apply at the rear of Security Bank. YOUNGBLOOD Manager.
The association names its new officers: President Theodore D. Kanouse Woonsocket Vice President C E Smith Miller Secretary Henry Ahern Mitchell Treasurer Major A W Edwards Fargo Executive Committee members W S Logan Waterton Miller Jamestown O S Palmer Sioux Falls V Lucas era E S Waterbury Waterbury
The Miller girl, ruled insane, remains at large as Yankton asylum crowds push non dangerous cases to the engine house. Governor Church advised county officials to take her to Yankton for admission, with Grover dispatched to escort her there tomorrow. If refused, the governor will arrange care outside the territory.
The Minneapolis exposition runs August 31 to October 15 with special excursion tickets to Minneapolis at 13.44 and 10.08 for September 8 to 17. Return coupons are valid through the following Monday or September 19. State Fair tickets to St Paul or Minneapolis are 10.08 round trip with 0.50 admission coupon, sale September 8 to 17.
Miss M F E Wright attends Mitchell Normal this week while the circus draws crowds west of here. Mr and Mrs Henry Pine celebrate a daughter’s arrival September 6. Rose Phillips returns home from six weeks with Rev Sage. Miss Wright begins school September 12 with new rules expected.
Affidavits of continued residence and non alienation required for several entries including Tarble Stifter Leiber Cummings Tymers Oleson and others. Follow up on improvements ownership status and absences with dates. Several cases require new publication proofs and corrections including Prutzman Hooper Thurber Hedden Waterbury Lockwood and Miller with name spellings verified.
The Normal Institute for county teachers opened at the west side school house with twenty eight teachers. Attendance grew to forty five and then fifty eight by Thursday. Lectures from Professors Reno and Hastman and a Friday talk by Prof Eastman framed a week of instruction. Benign notices praise the effort and many teachers from other counties attended. The program includes solos and quartets with a free lecture at eight o'clock inviting all citizens.
A special train brought the Dakota National Guards to Huron linking a Main Street march to the armory. The Second Regiment band led the line, followed by Yankton Company E with a silver cup, Elk Point company, Sioux Falls business chiefs, and local Company A. Notables including Col. Gale Capts Mallahan O'Brien Hinman Clover Kingsbury and Lieut Col Adams joined the homecoming. The event, though rain delayed, ended with broad smiles as the units marked another successful drill and competition over two regiments.
Communion was observed in the Congregational and Episcopal churches with additions to each. In the Episcopal church morning services will be held regularly hereafter. Rev. P. A. Reno filled the pulpit at the Methodist church in the forenoon, impressing listeners as a man of force and clear thinking.
The article notes morning services at other churches and a united temperance meeting at the rink addressed by Rev. Brown. An out of town visitor praised Brown for a clear logical appeal that targets reason, not passion. The rink was well filled and the interest strong.
The notice lists names of unclaimed letters at Mitchell postoffice for the week ending September 3. Addressees are urged to claim within thirty days or they will be forwarded to the dead letter office.
L A Giale's drug store sees booming trade from free trial bottles of Dr King's New Discovery for consumption. The article notes it treats coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and throat and lung diseases and offers a free trial bottle with a large size $1.31 option and a warranty on every bottle.
South Dakota railroad managers will issue a half fare round trip for the Mitchell territorial fair from September 26 to 30. Tickets sell September 24 to 30 and return by October 3. Special excursion trains will run daily from dawn to dusk over all lines within about 100 miles to boost attendance and display the state's products and enterprise.
The passage extols nature's beauty and claims Green's August Flower frees suffering and restores health. It asserts dyspepsia and liver issues cause most ailments and promises a dramatic cure after three doses, offering a sample bottle for ten cents.
The Tuesday evening lecture by Prof. P. A. Reno drew a large audience. He outlined elements of success, stressing grit, education foundations, definite aims, proper methods, energy, perseverance, promptness, and honesty as core traits.
An old advertisement extols Desence's Gem Syrup as a cure for consumption cough and lung diseases. It urges druggists to recommend it to the poor and dying, cites 80 000 dozen bottles sold last year, offers sample bottles at 10 cents and regular size at 7 cents, and says it is sold across the United States and Canada.
F Goodykoontz of this city furnishes Mr. Foster six apple varieties for the Milwaukee exhibit. The list includes Red Astracians Sweet crab Hyslop crab Transcendent crab Russian crab and large green apples of an unknown variety. The display aims to show Dakota as a fruit growing country to eastern visitors.
Brandreth's pills are advertised as a great blood purifier acting as purgative sudoritic and diuretic. They claim to cleanse the system through bowels kidneys and skin and stimulate the blood to help nature throw off morbid humors. One or two taken nightly promised as an infallible remedy.
The Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha railway offers round trip excursion tickets to Minneapolis from September 1 6 20 22 27 29 and October 4 6 11 13 at 3130 for the trip and local excursions September 8 17 at 1083 for the round trip. Special low rates of interest for looseline on brick or store business blanks offered by Davison Bros and Seaman.
The notice states tickets sold on the listed dates remain valid for return until the Monday after the date of purchase, with purchasers allowed re exposition on any excursion.
Messrs Geo A Johnston of this city and Ed Johnston of Mt Vernon with their wives went to Canton called there by the death of their brother Richard which occurred on Monday.
An Iowa nursery offers Box Elder seed at twenty five cents per pound with bulk shipping and special rates. The note promotes Pond's Extract as a healing remedy with a warning to avoid imitations and to insist on the genuine product.
Mitchell Dakota August 22 1907 reward of 1000 dollars offered for apprehension of the person or persons who murdered Mrs Isabella Maniece found dead April 2 1887 in To bin Township Davison County with coroners jury declaring death felonious and unknown.
Many people avoid cod liver oil due to taste yet Scott's Emulsion offers a palatable remedy. Described as pure milk like and valuable for consumption scrofula bronchitis debility wasting diseases in children chronic coughs and colds. Physicians report young patients take it with pleasure and the ad urges trying the product.
Notice to builders announces receipt of bill for building a school house in subdistrict No 4 Hanson township. Plans with John J White. a board meeting Sept 17 188 at clerk’s residence to open bids and let contract. board may reject any bids. PLL Se prr, Clerk. Q) W Leverin Co seeks a county agent to take grocery orders from consumers at wholesale prices. no delivery, no payroll.
Advertising copy touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as best for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions with a guarantee of satisfaction or money back. Sold by L O Gale.
A farm for rent in township 105 range 58 with all bush under plow. Features a good story and a half frame house plus a good frame barn. Liberal terms offered to steady wood renter. Address J S Rundeul Mitchell Dak.
For sale by owner 160 acres of rood land with 20 acres broken and a small house at a good well three miles from Mitchell. Address T. J. Tuorr Hyde Park 11 Box 263.
The Mirclone Packsind Co offers to pay about 33.40 to 25 for hogs brought in today, seeking all hogs raised in the country. Farmers are urged to bring hogs to market at the stated price.
Feeling low on spirits and troubled by headaches, the ad counsels brace up without stimulants or bitters. It praises Electric Bitters as a blood purifier and vitality restorer, offering renewed health and strength for 40 cents a bottle at L. O. Gale's drug store.
An old advertisement touts Castoria for infants and children with claims it eases digestion and constipation. It promises relief for various ailments and notes Shiloh's Vitalizer as a positive cure sold by L. O. Gale.
An advertised cure named Shi loh's Cure promises immediate relief from coughing. It lists prices of 10 cents for a unit and 50 units, and one dollar for larger quantities, with sales by L. O. Gale.
An ad announces Shilow's Catarril Remedy described as a positive cure for catarrh diphtheria and canker mouth sold by L O Gale.
A column of curious notes on women in society and local oddities across several states. It cites Pine City height and mortgage stats, a 745 letters courtship, a Salt Rock Valley bullet pin, a California attempted suicide, a Racine marriage to an armed Kickapoo chief, and a mission field of tens of thousands of unmarried and married women.
A series of brief, curious snake encounters across the United States includes Paddy Williams in Chester Georgia drinking whisky to recover after a copperhead bite, a five and a half foot black snake found in bed with Thompson children in Roscommon Michigan, and a St. Clair Illinois man extracting two live toads from a catching stomach.
A Lyonsdale man throws his dog into a flood where it is trapped under a dam and endures twenty one days on dry rocks. Grangeville's oldest settlers spot Indian squaw Big Mary in race with history. A Chilean plots lethal vengeance by tainting tobacco with smallpox pustules, causing an outbreak and a fatal confession.
The text notes Kentucky Knights forming a state assembly and stonecutters from Detroit to Omaha proposing a national body. It lists New York coopers with 10000 capital, a wire nail maker at 86000 nails per hour, and labour unrest from Massachusetts to Newark with strikes and docked wages. It mentions dairy unions in Elgin, Illinois with J G Ketchum as president and a policy of negotiating milk prices with condensers. End notes include a floating island on Lake Apopka, a child bitten by a rat in Decatur, a 118 year old chair, London's Artillery company age, and the death of New Hampshire’s heaviest man.
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