Mob Lynches Negro Before Crowd At Excelsior Springs
A mob of about a thousand in Excelsior Springs Missouri hanged Walter Mitchell a Black man believed responsible for an alleged late night assault. Police and county officials were overwhelmed. the mob stormed the jail via a false fire alarm, dragged Mitchell through town to an oak and hanged him. Witnesses described bystanders including a prosecutor and local attorney. Kansas City police arrived too late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Excelsior Springs
Walter Mitchell
Elms
Mitchell
J. E. Craven
Charles Holt
Raymond Commins
Clay County
City Hall
Commins
Holt
Liberty
Elm Hotel
Samuel J. Rowell
Excelsior Springs Junction
Kansas City
Cummins
Herbert W. Hill
Local residents and visitors share weekend travels in multiple towns
Reed Point and surrounding areas report weekend movements. Milo Collins returns from Deer Lodge while families like Fielde, Murphy, and De France visit relatives in Absarokee and Big Timber. Visits span Billings, Powell Wyoming, Laurel, Livingston, Columbus and McLeod with threshing seasons underway and cattle shipments to Chicago.
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Milo Collins
Deer Lodge
Jacob Fielde
Absarokee
Frank Murphy
Sam de France
Luthena Brumfield
Billings
Mel Olsen
Earl Findley
Findley Ranch
C. H. Anderson
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Powell, Wye
H. H. Marlow
A. C. Boyles
Grey Cliff
Laurel
Davenport
Rh. C. Woodburn
Livingston
Guy Carleton
Frank de France
Art Guthrie
Curtis Adams
McLeod
Lena Carleton
Burton Smith
E. L. Smith
Miss Fried
Dickson
N. C
R. G. Kunz
Durham Ranch
J. B. Arnold
R. R. Arnold
First National Bank of Mexico
Frank T. Woods
Yellowstone Park
Edgeington
Methodist Church
Ambrose Brumfield
Lester Faw
Fred Swift
Arthur Newman
Oscar Schuyler
Palmer Peterson
Chicago
Ruth Potts
Jim Baker
L. L. Walker
4-H Pig Club Tour And Go Getters Plan Big August Tour
The 4-H Pig club toured projects last Friday with about fifteen youths plus adults from Melville and Reed Point. A noon picnic at Ellis school followed stops at Voges Prather Kirkwood Gibson Preston Officer and Jarrett. The Go Getters plan an August 21 auto tour from Kent school visiting Fraser Horton Orr Thompson McComas Terland Bly and Crane to showcase member work and share poultry culling tips by M M Oliphant.
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I. N. Colby
Melville
W. G. Robinson
Reed Point
Vern Boddy
Voges School
Prather’s
Kirkwood’s
Gibson’s
Preston
Jarrett’s
Ellis School
Bridger Creek
Kent School
Fraser's
Horton’s
Orr's
Thompson’s
McComas
Terland’s
Bly’s
Crane’s
O. P. Terland’s
M. M. Oliphant
Montana
No Revolving Funds For State Colleges
Helena Independent reports the state board of examiners abolished revolving funds for state institutions citing incompatibility with 1921 and 1923 legislative provisions. All funds now go to the state treasurer except dormitories, trust deposits, and other refundable incomes, while contingent revolving funds remain for listed state units.
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Helena
State Board of Examiners
Board of Examiners
Greater University
the University
State College
State School of Mines
Industrial School
Vocational School For Girls
School For Girls
School For Deaf and Blind
Hospital For Insane
Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Orphans’ Home
State Prison and Agricultural Department
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TagehsSe
O. J. Ellingson
Motor Inn
James H. Wick
J. J. Gallagher
Iit
Abner K. Kline
Bert Hammond
Palmer Make
Oregon City
Wayne
Boy’s Union
John M. Hiner
J. A. Lowry
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