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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1897
Page
8
Community brief listing a sick person, local visits, travel for a gun club tournament in Canton, notable residents visiting or traveling, weather note after a hot day, business trips, legal notices, court admissions, cemetery Memorial Day reminder, church social event, obituary fragment, and a delegate’s paralysis in Aberdeen with cautious hope for improvement.
Flax seed price noted at 75 cents per bushel from Joy Bros. Dr. R. A. Tait to be absent on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Mrs Faller and family depart for Early Iowa. St Martins church Ladies Altar society sociable postponed to June 10. Mrs Turner buried via LeMars. New O N W time card May 30. Geo Sturdivant moves Little house to Idaho street. W E Collins reports exceptional crop conditions. Six carloads of J O O F grand lodge delegates pass through. Colcord and Edgerton return from Plankinton with favorable crop reports. Hutchinson county votes liquor law validity challenge by withholding liquor tax funds. Marriage of Fred Zaller and Anna Rosman in St Martins church. Memorial Day planning with multiple subcommittees and parade organizing. Various civil and military figures named for services. Health note: digestive cordial promoted for recovery and strength. School board votes and salary changes. John Jones Jr named principal. Dukes salary cut. other teachers reassigned or retained.
A one hundred dollar reward is offered for any case of catarah that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. The notice testifies to the firm's honesty and ability, listing West & Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin druggists of Toledo. The remedy is taken internally and priced at 75 cents per bottle.
Travel and health note promotes Syrup of Figs for kidneys liver and bowels with 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles from druggists. California Fig Syrup Company advertises. Government bulletin reports South Dakota crops advancing with frost damage in the north and needed rain. corn potato planting and flax seeding underway.
The Wade Comedy Company presents Beggar Prince at the Grand opera house with an eager audience and encores for the performers. Also notes on Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup for teething and relief of wind colic and diarrhoea, plus local notices on stock mares, wagon travel, wheat prices, and Vermillion annual meeting attendees.
J. W. Kelley and Son advertise bran and shorts mixed at five dollars per ton with a small delivery charge. The Presbyterian church sociable, moved to next Thursday, will feature a foot and inch social element. Further notices will follow.
The Humphrey bills to extend street railway franchises 50 years and shift control to commissions were killed in Springfield. The first bill failed 123 to 29 and the second by viva voce vote. Civic reform groups and newspapers had fought the measures, and their defeat sparks statewide rejoicing.
Chicago reports the death of the Humphrey bills by the state legislature, a result that brings broad satisfaction to supporters and opponents alike. The failure affects markets as street railway stocks fell about ten points on the Exchange.
A Naples dispatch reports two lava streams from Mount Vesuvius have joined at the 1895 eruption deposit. The main crater activity is described as normal facing this linkage amid ongoing unrest.
Havana report says William J. Calhoun, the special commissioner appointed by President McKinley, has arrived to investigate the death of Dr. Ricardo Ruiz. He will oversee inquiry proceedings and coordinate with local authorities.
Results from Columbus Milwaukee Detroit St Paul and Minneapolis games. Standings show St Paul 0.765 Columbus 0.750 Indianapolis 0.563 Minneapolis 0.600 Milwaukee 0.500 Detroit 0.471 Kansas City 0.263 Grand Rapids 0.235. National League scores Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Brooklyn Washington Baltimore Pittsburg Boston St Louis Philadelphia and a St Louis Philadelphia second game with updated club percentages led by Baltimore 0.813 Louisville 0.692 Philadelphia 0.647 Pittsburg 0.643 Cincinnati 0.563 Cleveland 0.500 New York 0.500 Boston 0.467 Brooklyn 0.375 Washington 0.286 St Louis 0.294 Chicago 0.200.
A Times dispatch from Pekin reports the 4,000,000 taels loan secured by Shen Ta Jen from a Belgian syndicate is in suspense. England and Germany protest the terms as a breach of the most favored nation clause, delaying financing for key rail projects from Pekin to Haakow and existing Belgian built lines.
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