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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1905
Page
8
Neighborhood news notes cold spell and early grain conditions. Rainfall improves crops. An ice cream social at Otto Schell house is set for Saturday May 6 with invites extended. A fire started by a child burned a barn, killed three horses, and threatened nearby structures. City council contracts for a new pump to supply water for fires.
News items note the completion cost of a ten mile sewer at eighty thousand dollars in Sioux Falls and a planned thirty thousand dollar Masonic temple this year for fraternity use. The Aberdeen chief of police faces a two thousand dollar suit by Grimes over false arrest.
A collage of school attendance figures and named pupils across multiple grades from a 1905 report, listing enrolled pupils, daily attendance, and perfect attendance percentages for primary and intermediate divisions, with a publication notice detailing a five year homestead final proof for Peter J. Weimerskinch in South Dakota and witnesses from Browns Valley Minnesota. The page includes signatures and names such as Bonnie Andrews and Annie Kerns, ending with an advertisement for job printing.
Notice details a mortgage default on a 1901 loan by Nathaniel Cline and Nan Cline to Union Saving Association. It states the property in Roberts County, Sioux Falls area, will be foreclosed by public sale on June 3, 1995, at 1:00 p.m. at the Roberts County Courthouse.
Fragmented OCR shows a long, mixed listing of rail and postal schedules, survey references, and civic officials across South Dakota locales. Names include Islington and Sisseton with arrivals and departures times, post office hours, and official duties. then scattered mentions of universities, colleges, and various departments, interwoven with incomplete phrases.
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