Hello Mike, You may not be able to find a newspaper obit for the deceased you seek, because not much was saved from early news publications. I have located the following which may or may not be of help to you. Dell Rapids had the following newspapers: Dell Rapids Times Historical Info: Merged with The Dell Rapids Tribune, to form Dell Rapids Times-Tribune. Issues published 7/2-7/5/1895 published as The Dell Rapids Daily Times. Missing Issue List: Any issues published before 1/1/1886. 1892: 12/30. 1893-1899. 1900:1/5, 3/16. 1904: 1/1-4/8. Dell Rapids Tribune Historical Info: Merged with Dell Rapids Times, to form Dell Rapids Times-Tribune. Missing Issue List: All issues published before 11/5/1892 and after 9/26/1896. Begin End Roll # 11/05/1892 09/26/1896 439 Dell Rapids Times-Tribune Historical Info: Formed by the union of The Dell Rapids Tribune, and Dell Rapids Times. Continued by The Dell Rapids Tribune (1920). Their issues ran from 1908 to 1920 Dell Rapids Tribune (1920) Historical Info: Continues Dell Rapids Times-Tribune. Missing Issue List: 1981: 4/22-12/30. Baltic, which isn't far from Dell Rapids, also had a newspaper named Minnehaha, but it was rather short lived and very few issues have ever been recovered. I believe it may have been printed in Dell Rapids, then distributed in Baltic. Minnehaha Missing Issue List: Any issues published before 10/11/1907. Any issues published after 04/17/1908. All Sioux Falls newspapers history and publications can be found at the following site: http://www.sdhistory.org/arc/newspaper/default.asp?EID=1&RID=1 If by chance, the deceased had friends or relatives in Sioux Falls, they may have had an obit put in the local paper. Even though Dell Rapids is roughly 30 miles north of Sioux Falls, it's highly possible that the news of the death never traveled that distance back in 1905. The first of my ancestors came to the Renner & Dell Rapids areas in 1866 & 1867. My great great uncle Jonas (went by John) Nelson was the very first to file for a homestead in the Mapleton Township in 1866. He, his family and his best friend John Thompson and wife came to this area in 1866 from Goodhue County, Minnesota. If the deceased you seek was Norwegian, you may also want to contact the following person: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">Mari Platt</A> "Bygdeboker for Meråker" and a new book just out about the immigrants from Folldal to the United States, "Utvandrerhistorie for Folldal" by Vidar Støen. I also have "Ætteosge for Gudbrandsdalen," 1953. Some local South Dakota County books: Pennington County, Minnehaha County, Northern Custer County, the reconstructed 1890 census for Pennington County, Behrens Mortuary Records in Pennington County, cemetery records for Minnehaha County, and I have access to South Dakota census tapes. There are other county books in our local and university libraries as well. I even do cemeteries. Sincerely, Donald Nelson