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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1905
Page
4
The college campus beautification project aims to raise 400 dollars more after netting 200 from dormitory room rentals. The ladies association plans fundraisers including a supper in the college chapel on Friday November 3 to support tree planting grading and related improvements.
Each pupil provides himself with drawing book and pencil and water color paints. The enrollment of the high school has increased to 146. The names of the honorary members of the Athletic Association are to be framed and hung in the high school room.
A Wisconsin girl aided a vehicle wreck on the Milwaukee near Janesville and received $25 from the company plus a thank you note. The act prompted wide praise for her bravery and generosity moving readers to tears.
Brookings Register reports a state formed company plans to bind independent telephone firms into a single large corporation. The incorporators include Andrew E. Lee R. F. Pettigrew and Coe I Crawford who control vast capital.
Professor Jas W Wilson of South Dakota Agricultural College extols the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago as a premier educational center for students, packers, speculators, and exporters. He predicts a record show due to nationwide prosperity and notes upcoming rail rates from the North Western Line.
Reform preacher and author Rev. Charles M. Sheldon is dangerously ill in Topeka Kansas from a stomach and kidney disease and may require surgery. Doctors call the condition alarming after he returned from the East last Saturday and was seized with illness.
A Politiken dispatch reports Riga Russia under anarchic rule with frequent clashes between crowds and troops. Many killed or wounded and government spirit shops looted and destroyed. The polytechnic school has been closed.
In Ridgeville Indiana on October 25 seven burglars dynamited the Ridgeville State Bank safe. Cashier Branson was wounded by a bullet in the ankle as he rushed to the bank after the alarm. Approximately $6 000 reported missing.
Mary Mabel Rogers, condemned in Vermont for her husband’s death, has been allowed to proceed with a Supreme Court appeal as a pauper without cost. The record will be printed at public expense.
Deadwood Oct 25 Bert Tilly who acted for Kermit Roggevelt on the Black Hills expedition has received a hunting axe from the White House. The president's son Kermit, aged 44, plans to make the trip next summer.
Two masked men held up eight farmhands in a box car near Anoka. They secured $100 and valuables, lined the harvesters against the wall, and searched them with pistols at their heads. This marked a second holdup of the same kind in a week, and the case was reported to Minneapolis police.
Minneapolis Wheat quotations for October 25 show December at 83 4 , 84 3 4 c with May at 86 3 4 c. On track prices listed for No. 1 hard 85 85 3 4 c, No. 1 Northern 85 3 3 c, No. 2 Northern 82 3 4 c.
Wheat bids and on track prices for No. 1 Northern and No. 2 Northern listed at 854 and 834 cents with December and May futures shown. Flax prices on track for Oct, Nov, Dec at 97 cents with May at 1.01 dollars per bushel.
St Paul reports cattle prices by grade with ranges for steers cows heifers and calves. Hogs fetch 4.60 to 5.20. Sheep show yearling wethers from 5.00 to 5.75 and lambs from 6.00 to 6.90.
Chicago market figures list cattle prices for cows and heifers stockers and feeders and Western cattle, hog prices show mixed and butchers, good heavy and rough heavy ranges, lighter weights, and sheep and lamb values with stated highs and lows.
Chicago markets list Wheat Dec 87 1/2 cents May 88 1/2 July 84 cents Corn Oct 51 Dec 45 Jan 44 40 May 45 July 45 Oats Oct 29 Dec 29 1/2 May 32 22 1/2 July 31 1/2 Pork Oct 16.00 Jan 12.37 Butter Creameries 17 1/2 22c Dairies 17 20c Eggs 16 18c Poultry Turkeys 1c Chickens 9 9/10c Springs 10c.
An overstated ad notes throat irritation and persistent coughing. It promotes a cough mixture that eases irritation briefly and offers a free sample in a direct marketing pitch.
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