Chicago & Northwestern Trains From Huron 1887 Schedule
Train times listed for Huron with daily and weekend departures. Passenger and freight services shown with limited details, agent T. D. Akonza noted.
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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1887
Page
8
Train times listed for Huron with daily and weekend departures. Passenger and freight services shown with limited details, agent T. D. Akonza noted.
Crossing repairs at Jim River laundry and Belknap store urgent. Durand’s root beer fountain praised. Goss & Parks opening tin and cornice shop at old St Elmo stand. Capt Van Etten spoke temperance in Turner county. Odd Fellows lodge No 96 formed in Vilas with 18 members. Builder Sherrer to start south of Congregational church. Judge Thomas week includes Dunbar v. A change of venue to Justice Grant. O’Kehlner builds west Iowa street home. Allen contract. Huntley and Goss lead Huron fire department running team. Ward returns from Sioux Falls with stolen horse and buggy. Street fights rising. Marshal Scott intervenes. Byers-Borgwardt case before Judge Thomas. examined waived and bound over. A frightened justice of the peace sought night guardian home. Freeman jury listed. Carpenter adds bedroom and veranda to O’Neal house. Horos topic veranda planned. Advertising noted as beneficial. Buell couple to leave Huron early June. Buell resigns Tank Line agency. Sunday scrap ends with fines of five dollars and costs to each man.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe post office hours and mail delivery windows, mentioning opening times from morning to evening and a noon target. References to Lovz, P, M appear as initials or names within the unreadable text.
A storm and heavy snowfall disrupt Thursday and Friday activities. Mention of the Agricultural College accepting a new plan for student occupancy and discussions about discipline and campus life. references to a Mother party event and a May program with songs and exercises for attendees.
Fragmentary text notes room being fitted out for occupants and a target occupancy by May 1. Source mentions location and construction status, implying preparations at hand for a new use or tenancy.
The readable text contains jumbled phrases about winter conditions and a hydrant but lacks coherent details or identifiable people or organizations. No verifiable event or outcome can be established from the fragment.
Huntley of Huron defeated Brown of Aberdeen by about three feet in a 100 yard race for $175 on Wednesday at the fair grounds. A large crowd attended and hundreds of dollars changed hands on the result.
A Monday night meeting at the Methodist church decided to hold a county meeting in Huron on Tuesday May 10 at 2 p m to sign the petition for the election. Langley and Kent to draft the meeting call. Broodgood Stewart Mackey Forsythe and Bick named entertainment committee. Nash report on petition adopted. Finance committee Mower Wilcox Nash. Hon ee eSmet offered guidance on the new work.
Mr and Mrs A Tucker go to Aberdeen for a few days J M Snedigar leaves for Chics co for about two weeks Eva Gregory teaches in Broadland Rev J B Seymour's wife is ill with pneumonia in Illinois W I Millen and wife return from visiting relatives Grant moves to W S Peterson residence Mayor Rice returns from Centreville where he organized an Odd Fellows lodge J B Bishop and wife return from weeks with Michigan relatives Lena Reed and mother of Chicago guests stay about four weeks Reed returns to Chicago A N Brooks of 118 65 in county seat for a day or two John O Kane of Huron Oak completes labor for Ed and Kate Maloney then travels home Tom J Church visits his kota sister Dakota likely prefers the State Capital over the Territorial Capitol
Postmaster Love forwards a note from Superintendent Bates citing Karl Spangler’s report on free delivery delays in Huron. The message complains of missing house numbers and absent street signs at intersections and asks to notify when corrected. A stray ad line about hats appears at end.
Railway chatter recounts pay car movements and conductor assignments with references to Len Walters and L F O'Brien. East arrivals include Asst. Gen. Supt Hallenback Chief Eng Blunt and Supt Oliver in Pierre. Memorial proposal to upholster cross-ties discussed at Dakota Press Association with editor comfort notes and millinery ads mix in.
G W Sterling with Prentice and Pettigrew previously laid out two additions to Pierre. Sterling sold his entire land stake in Pierre to W E Prentice, except ten lots. The sale covered a one third university addition, 55 adjoining acres, and 56 town lots in Prentice Pettigrew Sterling addition. The cash sale totaled 7500 dollars. Prentice returned home pleased.
The Free Methodist School described as an industrial and Christian school under the denomination will be located at Wessington Springs in Jerryld County. Competing towns included Howard Miner Centre Diana and Parkstone. Wessington Springs residents pledge 2000 dollars by January 1 1888 and donate 500 acres of land and stone for building goals.
Milwaukee discussion centers on a flawed historical account claiming 1801 figures rode to the capital to deliver a cow. Sioux City Journal contrasts the claim with Jefferson’s supposed actions, labeling the quote as insufferable and questioning the historians consensus.
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