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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1917
Page
4
Mitchell brief highlights include Navy recruiting in the area with M Nilson and Francis Fahy enlisting for service, local visits by G W Randlett Harvey Parcells and others, a postponed patriotic meeting, and community notices on schools libraries and homesteaders progress. Entitled figures include Miss Evalena Rossman and J S Daniels with speeches noted in nearby states.
Members of the Round Table club enjoyed a successful request program at the club president Mrs. ST D Butterfield’s home on Monday eyeing. The program opened with sketches by Miss Mame Ogin and Miss Georgia Scott and included routines by Mrs J M Wood Mrs J J Spangler and others with burlesques and musical numbers. Refreshments followed and Miss Scott received a bridal gift as she prepares for a June wedding.
Led by Mrs. Claud B. Hamilton, prominent Grand Rapids society woman, club women organized a garden campaign to aid the needy. They secured 800 plots of land for gardens and included more than 300 city owned lots in the effort.
Saturday's Daily Special reports Resurgam lodge A I W M meeting at 7 30 pm Monday with M M degree work and lunch. Rev W H Haight to preach both morning and evening as revival continues at Free Methodist church. Also notes cattle shipment by H Cudmore near Mitchell and a Milwaukee relocation update from Mrs Morgans.
At a lively Aberdeen Commercial Club meeting the budget plan was laid out. A 30 day drive will push the fund to 15000 with a 2000 allocation for the October harvest festival. J Ivelley retires as president and George Fletches becomes president of the club. Current membership stands at 281 with 29 admitted this year.
Fourteen colleges from the two Dakotas will send representatives to the Northern Normal and Industrial School for the Y M C A officers training conference on April 21. Paul A. Reichel traveling secretary for the student volunteer movement will attend. He has been recently selected as student secretary of the University of 3 D.
Vermillion has operated for nearly thirty years without a legal board of education. The attorney general’s ruling confirms the city’s charter status, and the town must elect a legitimate school board in June after the commission form was abandoned.
The text outlines Oman as a southeastern Arabia state with a coastal and inland extent, a population around 60,000 mainly Arabs, a capital Masakat, and a sultan who appears to have abdicated or exited power. It notes the authority is nominally Ottoman or local but effectively under British influence.
During his tenure as Czar 12 different attempts were made to kill Nicholas. Quitting a job like that ought to be a positive pleasure.
Murdo South Dakota rallies to a war footing as volunteers form four companies across Chamberlain Mitchell Reliance Presho Murdo and surrounding counties. A battalion is planned with three companies stationed Chamberlain Reliance Presho and west of Presho Murdo plus a fourth company west of the river to meet national call amid US Germany war declared.
Two Mitchell young women, Miss Phyllis Satterlee and Miss Sadie Brisvine, may be among the first to enlist under a new Navy rule allowing women to serve shore duties for four years. Both are stenographers, would work in a Navy office, and replace men slated for shipboard duty. They met with Quartermaster M. Nilsen and await word from Omaha, Nebraska on their application.
Regular army officials led by Col. George H. Morgan and W A Morrison visited Notre Dame academy to inspect Troop E of the cadet battalion. Mitchell officials noted the cadets’ khaki uniforms rifles and drill precision matching regulars.
The article notes Milwaukee readers’ ire after German sailors are interned in a bone-dry state and suggests such action could provoke a declaratory war from Berlin. The piece frames the foreign policy move as an escalation and hint of broader conflict.
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