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Market Report and Local Notices From Sheldon Area
Market prices include eggs 12c per dozen, butter 14c, potatoes 60c per bushel, apples per peck, cows 2.65 to 4.50, hogs 6.00, oats 24c, corn 30c, wheat 64c, barley 27c, flour 1.30 per sack. Local notes mention Dr. Norton ad, visits by Fred Wagner, Lena Jackson, Core de Vries, Ed Lanning. weather rain. new shingles on school. various town visits. a powder mill explosion at Ashland injuring 20. two elevators burned at Fairview. several social calls and dances. a Sioux Falls trip. renewed subscription from John Roskamp. and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Brink
Matlock
Fred Wagner
Lena Jackson
Sheldon Friends
Core de Vries
Sheldon
Ed Lanning
Will H. Eddy
Herb Dean
LeMars
Judge Kennedy
Henry Lorenzen
Everly
Charley Bergman
Fort Donaldson
Lowel
Charlie Morse
Blessing & Winter
C. J. Fink
Rock Valley
Friends
Hermann Lutyens
Hull
L. Morse
Milwaukee
Fairview