Merit over politics urged for state institutions
W. E. Tipton of Mitchell, a state charities and corrections board member, argued at a Sioux Falls conference that appointments to the state hospital for the insane, the state school for the feeble minded, the state training school and the penitentiary should be based on merit. He warned against spoils politics and favored a republican board appointing qualified democrats when best suited, stressing long tenure benefits institutions and that all citizens share ownership of state facilities. He cited Minnesota as an example of outside appointments and urged civil service principles across South Dakota.
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Sosa Palle Arguedieader
W. EB. Tipton
Mitchell
State Board of Charities and Corrections
Hesce
Immynders
Recont Conference of Charities and Corrections
Wankton
Sioux Falls
Parmley
Crawford
Tipton
State Hospital
Minnesota
South Dakota
Local Farm Life Notes Near Ethan and Mitchell
Rural Ethan and Mitchell area reports detail visits and arrivals from the Annis, Jenks, Moses, Barker, Gardner and Stevens families. Cattle sales and horse trades recur, while a wolf captured by Art Gardner highlights livestock dangers. A smallpox quarantine and Easter visits mark into April community events.
Moving picture machine opens at Gale's Theatre
Manager Gale returns from Chicago with a moving picture machine to screen films on open nights at his theatre. The first show is Monday evening next with 20 cent lower floor and 10 cent balcony prices. An expert electrician from Chicago will operate the equipment in the coming days. Opening night set for Monday April 15.
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Gale
Chicago
Market notes and oddities from the Mitchell era
MITCHELL MARKET REPORT describes fat cattle and fat steer price ranges with figures such as 86 25 to 86.50 and 84.00 to 85 25. It also notes a new German industry distilling aromatic oil from celery leaves, yielding one pound of oil from a hundred pounds of leaves for flavoring purposes.
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Germany
Prosper Socials and Trade Notes Highlight Local Activity
Hendrickson Bros. sold four carloads of fat cattle to Peter Flemmer of Mitchell who plans Chicago shipping Saturday. Friends visited Ole Rudd last Sunday. Pros per youths attended a surprise party at Mr. M Hunt's. Goldie Simpson Lena Johnson and Claud Simpson visited O T Oleson. Lillian Carlson closed Prosper No 4 school. Goldie Simpson attends D W U Wm Darling and H S Rudd and families visited John Hendrickson. C F Anderson is breaking on his farm.
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A. M. Jenks
Oscar Moses
L. H. Annis
Wm. Sizer
Frank Green
Flemmer
Barker
Higgins & Markla
C. G. Markla
Ernest Stevens
A. A. Jenks
Emma Davis
E. V. Green’s
Prosper
Hendrickson Bros
Peter Flemmer
Mitchell
Chicago
Ole Rudd
Goldie Simpson
Local notes from Loomis April news item
April 11 Loomis updates include Homer Marsden remodeling by W A Shurtleff, Mrs. Fred Walker and baby joining husband in Cottonwood, J S Wilson visiting son J E Wilson, John Julian and Mrs Joe Vanover wed at Letcher, Adam Mewhirther traveling to Tacoma to visit mother, Mrs F J Smith ill with grippe, J P Shaw on sick list, John Oleson visiting Mitchell for back issue, and William Allen of Mitchell opening A F Pascoe restaurant with plans for April 15.
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Calfornia
John Julian
Joe Vanoversholtz
Letcher
Adam Mewhirther
Tacoma
Wash
F. J. Smith
la Grippe
John Oleson
Mitchell
John
Geo. Miner
Will Clark
W. V. Miner
William Allen
Alen
Tim Stots
Willie Clark
J. F. Wicks
Lancaster
Wis
G. M. Bowers
Ethan April 10 Social Highlights and Local Happenings
A Tuesday Tobey's hall dance drew a large crowd with fine music and supper at the O K restaurant. Pupils in grades eight and nine plan another party Friday. Mr Gammell resumes activity after two weeks ill. Mitchell Born welcomed D W U students returning home. The high school team to play Worthen township Friday. Evans of D W U preached at M E church and urged education value. Mrs A M Pierce and son Rundle returned from Lebanon. Two pupils earned teacher certificates with high marks amid tough exams. Ina Dodd and Minnie Lowrie attended Ethan church service.
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Ethan
Tobey’s Hall
O. K
Gammell
Mitchell
A. L. French
George Weiland
The
Round House
Worthen Township
Evans
M. E
Weak
A. M. Pierce
Rundle
Lebanon
Ina Dodd
Minnie Lowrie
Bay stallion 38 732 to stand at Mitchell South Dakota
The bay standardbred stallion No. 38 732 in the American Trotting Register, with four years of clean racing, is offered for service at Driving Park Mitchell SD under J J McGornish care. Expectable speed and a stated fee are noted for weekly Tuesday and Wednesday appearances.
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Driving Park
Mitchell
S. D
J. J McGornish
Viola Converts Market Talk Into Marriage Plan
COMMON SENSE VIEW. Viola decides to marry young Harry Wilkins despite her father's scorn. A mock business discussion using London marriage statistics shows Viola’s chances of remaining single are tiny, then she proposes a breakfast wedding with a $500 cash gift from her father.
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Viola
Harry Wilkins
Wilkins
Grafton
London
Old Chest Game and Nast Cartoon at New York Sale
The article describes a party game based on the Mistletoe Bough with a blindfolded lover and a hidden player in a chest. It notes Chinese people’s time norms, a Nast cartoon sale in New York where a Morristown admirer bid $22 for a sketch of Boulanger’s election defeat.
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New York
Thomas Nast
Morristown
Boulanger
Nast
Intelligent Sparrows Free a Paste-Ensnared Bird
Eyewitness recounts how a flock of sparrows worked together to free a trapped fellow, washing the paste from his feathers by visiting a fountain and brushing him with water from their plumage, then guiding him to a bath before flying off in high spirits.
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Chicago News
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Ladies Aid Society
M. EB. Church
Ed. Cook
Robert Curran
S. C. Cathout
C. F. Drake
Wm. Phelps
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Charles Brown
Tures
Mitchell Market Report
E.R. Storer
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Major Dent
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Goodyear Welt
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