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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1905
Page
5
A brisk weekly digest highlights recent local happenings with brief notes on notable events, community shifts, and upcoming actions. Prominent names and places are identified, offering readers a quick snapshot of the town’s week.
A long jumble of names, locations, and events fills the page. Notices report visits to Minn. towns, market and real estate chatter, and social updates. References include Webster, Watertown, Minneap olis, Pipestone, and Tow, with mentions of Mrs and Miss entries, a rail excursion, and upcoming services.
Peters Church will hold Sunday services with preaching at 10:30 a.m. at St Peters. Lathe Latheriochureh and the Methodist Church schedule morning and evening services. Epworth Leight attends 6:00 p.m. Reverend L. Dunn leads Presbyterian Sunday services at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday School at 12:15 p.m. Evening service follows.
A sequence of brief notices records births and deaths. A baby boy arrived Saturday May 1 at Good Whabnship to Mr and Mrs Mastin Dine. A naming and service occurred at Lather parsonage May 8. Other notices mention Mrs Anna Dali and Swit Olson, a May 6 event for Mrs Porvick of Sisseton, and the Spring Grove, Minn. death of a person aged 12 with interment at Spring Veon. An elderly man, 82, died of consumption at his brother’s home near Bosske Ole Grove, with funeral at his father’s home.
The weekly shoot results praise millet as a top crop with estimated 30 to 40 bushels per acre. The page also advertises lots for sale in Sisseton, a lost satchel found with clothing and money, and hardware and printing gear for sale. Local notices invite readers to sell Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills, touting health benefits and family use.
A weekly list shows transfers including Howard Babcock to W K Morrix for blocks 124 lots 14 and 15 at Sisseton for 1 dollar and others such as Olaf C Logig to A D Maiseh for section 30 125 52 with 200 dollars, Claus A Skan to C J Engstro kam for various sections, and multiple bank and federal transfers involving John Molstre and First National Bank of Sisseton, with prices ranging from 1 to 4 500 dollars.
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