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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1895
Page
3
State Auditor Hipple visits the city on Friday night while F S Johnson of the Wolsey Journal called on Monday. The town notes multiple visits, marriages, business talks, and local events including artesian wells planned for Hartland township and numerous personal updates.
A nearby irrigation project shows Jerry Burger using a ten foot windmill and pump to water four acres, with expectations to double the area next year. He reports large potato yields and cabbage heads, tomatoes, melons, and overall profits. Huronite notes a potential $400 crop value at fair prices. H. Longstaff also shows irrigated winter crops three miles north, promising a substantial, profitable yield. The piece argues irrigation is essential for the region’s future development.
More than three hundred people attended an opera house supper Thursday night for the Huron cornet band. The event, organized by city church ladies, showcased abundant food and the band’s finest performance to date, with receipts near 100 dollars and a list of band members including Ed Dinneen Juba George Voss Charles Cornell Art Fuller Irving Cook Art Wearne E R Hill Fred Baker Cliff Langley Walter Cook John Koerner Frank Sterling.
A description of a woman thriving on good food and outdoor activity. Her health glows and her face blooms with beauty. When her system needs cleansing she uses the gentle Syrup of Figs laxative.
Forty or fifty Poland China pigs offered for sale by J. E. Ward at his stables. Call for details.
Huron horsemen consider a trip to Sioux Falls for state fair races. The SPEED PROGRAM lists purses including 2:28 trot $150, running half mile $100, and events on October 2 and 4 such as 2 year old trot and free for all trots with purses up to $200.
An old remedy, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, is advertised for teething relief. The product claims to soothe, ease gums, and quell diarrhea with wind colic relief, priced at twenty five cents per bottle.
Beadle County Auditor invites sealed bids for fifty tons of large egg hard coal and twenty five tons of Hocking Valley coal to be delivered to the courthouse basement in Huron. Bids must be filed by October 7, 1895, at 2 p.m. The Board reserves the right to reject all bids. W. M. Rogers, 6th w2
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh as a constitutional disease. The ad claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, building constitution and aiding nature. It offers $100 if any case fails to cure and directs to Toledo firm F J Cueney & Co for testimonials, sold by druggists at 75 cents.
Miss Gertie Whitney traveled to Huron for a business trip on Tuesday. Mrs. Whitney has lodged at Huron since summer, then moved there Monday. R. D. Wharton of Huron urged irrigation or emigration, noting the well five miles south of Cavour proves artesian wells are essential, with crops thriving and many produce varieties showing South Dakota’s potential.
High grade and registered shrop shires from the oldest established Beadle county flock offered at panic prices. J. W. Houston of Virgil and S. D. Ered advertise the sale of top quality rams.
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