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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1895
Page
4
Huron items list moves by residents to Dakota Avenue and nearby farms. officials, business visitors and a flood of telegrams accompany reports of weather, cattle shipments, deaths, lectures, and a new potato planting machine invention by Thos. Williams. community events include church socials, high school events, and creamery progress with daily milk receipts.
Attorneys pursued injunctions in two cases after a northbound train. John C. Freeman sought to stop Huron city treasurer from paying treasury warrants except from the sidewalk fund and sinking fund until prior warrants paid. City officers moved early, paying a $3,500 Dakota avenue lot warrant for a city hall before judge papers arrived. A second injunction targeted Ed Sterling and E C Patterson restraining warrants payments for 1893 and earlier. Both orders returnable May 4 at 10 a m.
Advertisement proclaims liquid laxative Syrup of Figs as a modern remedy, noting the shift from herbs and draughts to convenient formulas. It urges buyers to obtain the product from the California Fig Syrup Co. and to purchase through leading druggists.
At Friday’s meeting the Board of Education defeated a resolution barring city teachers who lack at least three prior terms of classroom experience. Committees appointed include Buildings and Grounds McIntosh Kelley Steele. Finance Maxfield Kelley Steere. Teachers Bliss Kelley Steele. Text Books and Instruction Steele Lapier McIntosh. Rules and High School Steere Maxfield Bliss. Supplies and Apparatus Lapier Kelley Steere.
The St Louis Journal of Agriculture praises No-To-Bac as a tobacco habit cure. It cites a prominent architect in St Louis who smoked for twenty years and was cured after two boxes, with the scent of tobacco now nauseating him. The remedy is sold by Holland Wheeler with a no cure no pay guarantee. Sterling Remedy Co. distributes from New York or Chicago.
An organization of wheelmen convened Monday evening and formed the Huron cycling club. Officers include President D. W. Smith, Vice President Ed Spinden, Secretary Walter Breton, Treasurer Dann Burney, Captain Will Jones, 1st Lieutenant A. J. Seeman, 2nd Lieutenant Carl S. Jones. Membership lists are now open.
Old remedy recommended for teething children by praising its soothing effects on the gums and relief of wind colic. It claims to ease pain and cure diarrhea, priced at twenty five cents per bottle.
Lora Hurd daughter of Merrit and Ettie Hurd died of consumption at her parents home aged 21 after a year of ill health. She was active in the Methodist church and Epworth League and passed with faith in immortality. Resolutions from the Huron Epworth League praise her Christian life and offer sympathy to the family. Also note: cheap excursions to the West offered May 21 and June 1 by the Chicago & North Western Railway.
Librarian Spofford testified that the Denver infringement case Trilby resembles Du Maurier's Trilby only in name. The old book has been on sale here for some time.
J S Burke assistant superintendent of the Dakota Central Division of the Chicago and Northwestern reports from an 800 mile survey of Hawarden to Oaker Tracy Pierre and the Doland and Groton branches. He finds corn acreage up in the northwest and east while wheat oats flax fall. Potatoes likely higher. pasture excellent. stock improving. Farmers optimistic for a bountiful harvest despite Russian thistle. as social notes caution against mercury in medicines and promote Hall's Catarrh Cure.
List of unclaimed letters includes Elson Janes Langton Phillip Nail Robertson W Papin Adolph Thurston Carrie L Wolfe with notice to claimants to advertise in the Huronite and pay one cent. Also printing contract notice for Session Laws of 1895 by Shannon & Lonestarr offering full sheep edition at 3.50 delivered within sixty days after adjournment of legislature.
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