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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
1
Local items recount visits and travels of residents including Mrs. F F Mackey and Miss Vorulky, Mrs Stadard, and Mrs Yaksha, plus military news from Camp Funston and Fort Snelling. Entries note engagements, visits to Mitchell and Sioux City, and a Creamery report with butter shipments to Chicago. Comings and goings include enlisting efforts, commissions, and Thanksgiving plans.
Parker residents host and travel guests including Mrs Myrtle Anderson of Minneapolis and Mrs Nelson Sanford. Passengers from Sioux Falls included Arthur Shurtleff and family and Jeanelie Wertz. Local families plan Thanksgiving with D C Smith home. Jissie Jacobson sustains a fractured arm at a corn elevator, hospital care given. Land transfers include C W Harden purchasing northeast 40 acres of Douly farm and 5 acres of the late Wm Allen home near Parker at 150 per acre. Profs Steadman and Gaech receive military commissions as second lieutenants. Tom Marsh and Jack Devereaux return from North Yakima with ice apples. Sixteen Parker men, including Harold Maybee and Roy Wall, pass army exams at Fort Funston. Emerson residents Veberg visit Parker then return home. Parker teachers attend South Dakota Educational Association in Sioux Falls. Mrs James Gifford and children visit Selby parents in Wessington Springs.
Parkston residents and guests from Vermillion Sioux City and Idaho spent Thanksgiving with friends and relatives in the city. a Danube of local notices reports a Red Cross fund dance raised 140 dollars toward gifts for Camp Funston troops. Mrs Gottlieb Hildebrand, 77, died at her Parkston home and funeral was held at the Lutheran church five miles southwest with most children present.
Presho Mrs Anna Lewallen arrived Wednesday from Kansas and will spend the winter with her son and daughter in law. She plans to visit local relatives and attend community events during the season.
Letcher R. W. Bitel son of Mr and Mrs J C Hitel seen visiting relatives and friends in the vicinity left Monday for Lacota Michigan Mrs W H Dean and daughter Mrs D H French went to Brooklyn Ta Monday for a three months visit Joseph Amundson from Aberdeen visited his brother W A Amundson Mrs O Glapsaddle left Monday for Manson Ia to see her ill mother Mrs Ida Mayhew and daughter Mrs Harold Nordyke and her grandson from Villisca Ia visiting Mrs Maehews sister Mrs T N Wirkpatrick Srl Rearick remembered the Letcher boys at Pine Camp New York by sending a box of apples nuts candies etc for Thanksgiving. This is something the boys will appreciate.
Dolton F. C. Kappenman left Sunday evening for Luverne Minnesota to visit his sister Mrs. John Holden who is reported very ill. Also noted are local visits and small community items including a threshing machine shipment and a school fundraiser.
Artesian Mrs J M Nelson of Linn Grove Iowa attended her uncle F H Little's funeral and returned via Mitchell. Shoemaker family hosted by nephew and wife from Grand Rapids Michigan. Geo Roberts family left for Champaign Illinois for Thanksgiving with relatives. Hi L Tersey family left for Sioux Falls and Arcade New York to tour a dairy farm. Mrs Obingson visited from Brazil Indiana at Mrs Frad Gilcher's. Louise Ryan from Colllon teaching will stay at her home. Geo McNair of Warren County Pennsylvania visited his brother Ellis and heads to California for winter. Mrs S A Wise and children return from extended visit at Eaton Michigan. Mrs Arthur Franzwn leaves for Burlay Idaho to live with in-laws. husband in Navy. Neighbors held a husking bee at W Coe’s to crib forty acres of corn. Mr Goe’s feet troubled him, hindering work.
Alexandria F D Peckham was appointed fuel administrator for Hanson county by the state fuel administrator. Eva Gregory a Brookings high school home economics teacher visited her parents E I and Mrs Gregory before attending the State Teachers' Association in Sioux Falls this week. Joe Fox and wife returned from Nevada Indiana visiting daughter Mrs Arthur McCaffrey. Albert Avery arrived to spend a week with his mother Flora Avery after government work on camp projects in Dayton and Anniston, heading next to Seattle for Puget Sound navy yards. Frank Stablein sustained a painful injury.
Mrs. George Thorpe of Scotland hosted a Menno caller last Friday. Mrs. Albert Jungman visited relatives in Tripp during the week. G. R. Douglass and family left Friday for Worthing Minnesota for a visit. Henry Stoller attended an Hereford sale at Henry F. Mettler farm. Mrs. Dimock learned her nephew Lewis Case died of measles at Camp Funston Kansas. Druggist Fergen of Parkston is here taking G. R. Douglass state. Julius Winter of Kimama Idaho visiting his parents. Attorney H. G. Tilton and Sidney joined to buy a carload of horses to ship to a plantation near New Bern North Carolina.
Mrs Vernon and Miss Mary Smiley visit relatives in Vermilion while Miss Frances Smiley studies at the university. Fern Dorman attends a cousin’s wedding in White Bear. Mr and Mrs J M Newell spend Thanksgiving in Sioux City with F A Meccorml family. The O’Brien and Peterson households visit relatives in Mason City and with W A Peterson. Ed Brennan returns from El Paso Texas. Will Wagner and Silvert Fridley party head to Platte to see George Lehlund. Auctioneer Earl notes John Field sale a big success with cows at 100 dollars and horses at 4105.50. Ole Olson’s family greets a newborn daughter on November 29. Willing Workers honor Miss Laurents Garrington on her marriage to William Lemke of Mitchell. Local farewell visit to John Field family at Mt Vernon vicinity. Field couple to move to Grundy Center and then Lodi Iowa. Mrs D P Stout burial held at Mt Vernon with Rev John Nolt officiating. age 66.
Residents from Woonsocket and surrounding towns engage in travel and gatherings. Mayme Carmody wed Mrs. P. T. Kelly in Ramona with M. B. Carmody and Mrs. W. R. Jones in attendance. Velma Van Slyke of Illinois visits sister Ed M Newcomb. others travel to Huron, Plarr Texas, Detroit Minnesota and Washington DC for visits, reunions, and duty assignments.
At the home of D K Cole, attendees included Mr and Mrs Ira McCaul of Lincoln Neb Mrs Etta Hall of Madison S J, Mr and Mrs W E Cole and daughter of Granite Falls Minn and Mr and Mrs W J Cole of Huron Also listed as sisters of Mr Cole are Mrs McCaul and Mrs Hall.
The local Elks lodge held a Sunday memorial for departed members with many nonmembers as guests. Attorney E B Wagner of Sioux Falls delivered a patriotic, heartfelt tribute to the deceased, particularly honoring General George A. Silsby. Music by Lieutenant Paul Egbert and the Congregational choir pleased attendees under Exalted Ruler G G Kimball.
Sioux Falls Dec 3 In South Dakota Republicans eye May primary renominations for first term officials with Governor Peter Norbeck widely favored to win renomination without opposition. Budgets show Gus Helgerson and N E Knight also likely to secure renomination, while J E Handline departs as auditor for a new nominee. Senator Jay Reeves emerges as leading contender for auditor.
Miss Kathryn Lohman, daughter of Mr and Mrs W H Lohman, was struck by a thrown cream can from a moving train at the Como depot. The baggageman discarded empty cans onto the platform as the train approached, and one hit her with force. A damage suit is probable.
The Milwaukee division will ship laborers by floating gangs to towns lacking workers. Rail carriers will charge wholesalers and retailers for the outside labor, while employers pay the workers' wages. Congestion caused coal and lumber cars to sit for days at Kennebec and Draper, with 47 total days lost on the division.
Fifty members of the Mitchell company of Home Guards have signed for new uniforms to be issued soon. Captain F. W. Mitchell says most members expect to report within days and the uniforms should arrive early next year. The outfits, similar to the regulation type, were initially believed paid by the men, but state appropriation reduces the cost to a minimum of 10 to 12 dollars for the complete equipment.
Walter Eckersall, famed Tribune sport writer, places Will Kelley of Wisconsin and Mitchell on the right end of his first team. Kelley earns praise for steadiness, hard play, and strong tackling, noted for turning men inward and aiding both offense and defense.
Sioux Falls report details Frank I. Henderson, arrested at Bowbells North Dakota charged with obtaining money under false pretenses from farmers tied to a Dakota Northwestern railway scheme. He previously promoted a Huron to Duluth line via Waubay and may have taken funds in SD before moving north. The piece notes his active SD role. Also included is a separate slander case from Day County where Elsie Falkner sued Mattie Patterson for 25 000 and won 100 dollars after a heated trial.
A crowded house greeted A A Truax and his gospel team, with Messrs LeGrand Craton Todnem and Dr G Bbob, at Alexandria last evening. Mitchell party attendees included J B Haines and Mrs Bobb, Mrs Truax and daughter Luke, Chas Tym and C W Coursey. Alexandria residents welcomed the revival effort and anticipate large audiences next Sunday.
Camp Cody Deming New Mexico December 4 Col W T Mollison commander of the 136th Infantry the 2nd Minnesota surprised his officers by ordering them out for their first lessons in equitation with the colonel as instructor. Many officers had been drawing horses from the remount depot but government buys not always the gentlest nags though they are bought as broke.
Thanksgiving evening scene unfolds as Bill and the narrator attend Mitchells first Community concert. more than 2 000 people fill the city hall while others stand at doors to join patriotic songs. town observations mix journalism bravado with civic spirit and local sights.
Woonsocket resident P H Lund arrived in Mitchell for a short visit while Artesian’s C J Estabrook spent his Sunday over the weekend in Mitchell. Dozens of residents including Ruth Thomas Spencer and Miss Mary Schultz Sioux City were in Mitchell for various short stays and business. Overland shipments and freight car shortages affect buyers seeking machines. several local figures and visitors are noted including attorneys Wagner and Logstad, Lt. David Wallace at Camp Funston, and Prof E H Hahne returning from Lincoln for Thanksgiving.
Administratrix Sarah Anderson gives six months to creditors and claimants to file with vouchers at 4419 East 41th Avenue Mitchell South Dakota Davison County. Dated December 3 1947 Zollman and Tipton Attorneys for the estate.
Mrs Ernest Ward Burch of Mitchell has been named president of the YWCA war work for eight counties Davison Douglas Charles Mix Buffalo Jerauld Aurora Brule and Sanborn Plans call hostess houses to aid visiting women Red Cross nurses and workers with a $410000 state goal though quota is $4000 The campaign begins soon after a meeting with Miss Anna Owers of the National YWCA and a recent conference in Mitchell
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