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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1884
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR of a rail timetable shows eastbound divisions and daily departures with arrival at 11:45 am and 8:00 pm from unspecified origins. No accommodation details. text is garbled and ends mid sentence.
Train schedule fragment shows daily service except Sunday from Columbia at 6:30 a.m. with connections to Huron at 11:00 to 8 p.m. and a two way sheet from Columbia at 6:30 a.m. toward Reddeld with a 12:10 p.m. stop.
News items from Huron and Beadle county report Bartow moving stock, construction near Fifth and Town, licenses granted for Iroquois and blocked for Wessington and Altoona, and a new S. A. Armstrong publisher for Boxtitd. Community notes include weddings, dairy purchases, farm sales, temperance signatures, and family afflictions with broad local ties.
In compiling last week's improvements for the Belknap area and others, costs were omitted. The list shows 440 870 plus 5 000 Coler building 5 500 Belknap improvements 1 700 Caldwell residence 600 Rathbun residence and 300 Young McColman, totaling 458 970 instead of 450 000.
County Commissioners begin the year hearing saloon license applications with petitions from Altoona Wessington and Iroquois urging no licenses. The article notes near unanimous local desire to keep saloons out and hopes the commissioners will grant these requests.
W F T Bushnell buys a half interest in the Daxora Farmer and W H Boothroyd is named editorial chief. The paper vows continued efforts to promote the Farmer and praises Boothroyd as a capable writer printer and farmer. The editors regret past neglect and cite difficulty in securing proper management.
East Third street grows into commerce with professional offices and shops. D A Kelley moves hardware stock to the new business block near Dr Dickin son’s residence. E B Chalfant opens a groceries shop opposite, an old merchant with Dakota real estate interests, signaling a steady shift of trade eastward despite existing residences and churches.
At a meeting in Dakota Territory, 800 shares represented to form the Dakota Company. O A Bogue becomes president, A E Kilby vice president, N H Merrill secretary, E H Meyers treasurer, N D Walling attorney. Directors elected for one year include Bogue Kilby Meyers Walling Merrill Dunlap. The firm plans land dealings, colonization, exchange and banking to spur territorial development.
Wessington reports a quiet period with good prospects amid snowbound migration. Ohio landbuyers from Huron County purchase local property anticipating an Ohio settlement. Alton and Ferguson return to establish business in town and capture regional trade. Lumber firms Mauer Mortney Perry and I W Morrison Co. prepare for year-end activity despite a complaint about a kept horse.
A contested action under a newly enacted misdemeanor law condemns a grandered horse and bars compromise or appeal. The jury’s verdict stands with potential Venice action if the horse is not sold and killed. Citizens urge county commissioners to bar saloon licenses amid tariffed taxes and temperance talk. A taxpayer notes telegraph news from abroad if blockade persists.
The Pierre Signal notes a melted bell fragment saved from engine No. 151 wrecked by collision and fire near Henry. It reports promotions at American Express and Dakota Central line HQs in Huron, with L E Day succeeding Adams. It covers the worst D C division accident, upcoming Milwaukee & St Paul balls in Mitchell, Col Leslie Curly visiting Huron, stock subscriptions for the Huron & Southwestern Railroad, and surveying delays due to cold. The proposed Dakota Central line would run eighty to ninety miles from Huron to Chamberlain, passing Beadle Sanborn Jerauld Aurora and Brule counties and touching this county west of Woonsocket.
The Continent Weekly Magazine, started by a Philadelphian, shifts its base to New York the literary and commercial capital. It offers aggressive subscriber deals and combination rates for readers of multiple periodicals. It opens with Orpheus C Kerr’s serial Once There Was a Man, a humorous yet subtly ridiculing tale, inviting inquiries for specimen copies while urging readers to assess a suitor’s character and integrity before marriage.
A braided OCR piece notes visitors and residents including E Rising of a new local business, J H Alexander of Berry and Alexander, Deputy U S Marshal A Pay, George Miller a farmer near Broadlands, and N Jerolaman seeking copies of local publications. It mentions W Cornell of Pearl Creek prospering on his claim, Elizabeth Cochran moving, a wife left alone in harsh winter conditions, and a brief mention of a scalding accident.
The item lists public notices from Huron and Beadle counties including land office instructions for settler proofs, bids for city water works in Huron, and local notices about loans, mortgages, and a bank manager move. It cites names, dates, and actions such as bids, selections, and charitable notices appearing in 1884 Dakota territory.
An apparently promotional notice offers medical lists at low rates with tax contracts, inviting submissions for estimates and promising defiant competition. It claims magazines may begin anytime and addresses include 33 Panx Row New York and 368 Kira St PaLapeLrata.
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