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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1885
Page
4
The Dakota state constitution has been printed and released for public scrutiny. Editors urge citizens to unite for adoption, praising its benefits for state control, credit, education, and orderly government while opposing spoils-seeker politics and partisan division.
The Ellisville Independent urges choosing Huron as Dakota’s capital, arguing Sioux Falls is best positioned for growth but that a central location near population centers would best serve the state. It endorses Huron for its Opera House hotels and investment in permanent improvements. Nae Wessington Times notes Commissioner Mesher could represent Beadle county's West End without aides.
The La Co Tah Commandry Band gave a fine concert at the Grand Opera House to a small appreciative audience, though extreme cold spoiled comfort. Performers included Mrs Eldridge and Miss Van Pelt, with Kent and Stuyime drawing encores. Special train visits and railway notes closed the report.
A prominent citizen calls the notion that Orange Judd is a non smoker a fair joke and says Judd is one of the most inveterate smokers he has seen.
A dense 1880s notice set details for several mortgage foreclosures in Beadle county Dakota Territory and surrounding counties. It lists parties such as William Gi Phage, John Eber, Henry A. Forcht, Joan Enen, and mortgagees like Charles L Valentine and Covauian & McMantx, outlining default, owed sums, and sale procedures at county courthouses in Huron and Beadle, with dates in October and November of 1885.
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