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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1885
Page
3
A noted gathering of the Ladies Aid Society at the schoolhouse last Thursday brought winter sessions to a close with a successful fund for a good cause. The report highlights broader community activity, church attendance, local visitors, and town concerns including temperance notes and precinct caucus plans.
A major Dakota lender Burnstun Trevett Mattis plans to construct a two story brick building on the Wind sor house corner in Huron. The firm will house offices and secure vaults with burglar proof chests and city water heating from the system. The project aims for completion by September with residential partner Mr G W Abell directing expansion. The move signals strong capitalist confidence in Huron’s future. The firm already operates in Champaign Illinois Beatrice and western markets and plans expansion of its Dakota business from this location.
The letter from May 18 1855 reports good rain last Friday easing soils. Preaching by Rev B B Miller at Barr Schoolhouse and by Mr Headley of Carlyle Township. David Theiob to build a new house west of Weatherwax hedge farm. Obr improved and nesting. George Royer installed a water drawing windmill. Corn planting nearly complete, few sod corn fields remaining.
The Beadle County Republican Committee met at the courthouse in Huron on a Friday afternoon. Discussion covered whether Democrats should receive two of five delegates to the Sioux Falls constitutional convention and how delegates to the county convention should be allocated by vote totals. The plan as amended calls for one delegate per precinct with additional at large delegates, and the county convention set for June 24, 1885.
A baseball club is organized in the city with Capt Ed LaConree and a lineup including Harry Nicholl Frank A Dunning and others. Miss Abbie Turner, 19, of Dysart and Mechanicville, died after an eight month illness. funeral services were held at the M I church with Rev W F Pitner, and interment in Dysart cemetery as families from nearby towns mourn the loss.
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