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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1916
Page
8
Markets report hog prices up to 8.20 with tops around 8.25 at Union Stock Yards Chicago while Sioux City notes hogs 7.40 to 7.90 and cattle steady to lower. Sheep and lamb prices move within tight ranges as receipts vary.
Minneapolis cash grain prices listed for Wheat and related grades with bid and ask figures. Prices shown for No 2 hard winter No 3 yellow and other grades with arrival indicators and futures references. May and July wheat values noted alongside oats barley rye and plax figures.
The Milwaukee grain market lists bids for corn oats rye and barley with bid ranges for No 3 mixed corn 73 to 75 cents and May and July corn at 76 1/2 and 76 3/4 cents. Wheat June and July futures stand at 1 27 8 to 1 20 5-8 dollars with various shipment terms.
New York City Wednesday reports firmer butter market with receipts totaling 6 470. Creamery specials quoted at 34 341 2 ex tras 233 331 2 with firsts at 28 32 and 125 25 1 2. Process ex it 224 oe firsts 23 and stock No 1 120% 201 25 AG 1 2.
Richard Harding Davis, famed author and war correspondent, arrives from Europe and states Americans are despised in France and England. He cites French contempt for U S indifference to German submarine outrages and light gifts to Belgium. He notes millionaires give little while many donors ignore pleas.
Washington officials report the Lusitania note revisions favor the United States with Secretary Lansing pushing to state the reply is in answer to the July 31 note. Count von Bernstorff seeks Berlin approval, but administration aides insist the change will not alter the document’s meaning.
The passage revises references to the primary election to mean the biennial primary held on the fourth Tuesday in May. It states delegates to national conventions will be chosen at the May primary and declares an emergency to ensure validity of 1916 conventions. It explains alternate effective dates if sections are void and notes legislative absence and political maneuvering around Cummins and delegation prospects.
A South Dakota special legislative session opens with members from across the country, including Gulf states and California, arriving to debate the primary law. Most travel solo, hoping to finish by Friday night to return home, while some expect a longer session. House members largely attend, with about a dozen absent, and only 34 of 45 senators present on roll call as work continues.
Justice of the peace S D Wolsey and Hotel Major owner S D McLaughlin investigates if G M Allen of Wolsey is the man found frozen to death while traveling from Fort Yates to a farm west of the Missouri River. The stranger registered at the McLaughlin hotel, then traveled by car toward Fort Yates. he walked on freezing night, failing to reach the farm. The case hinges on whether Allen has been heard from since the tragedy.
Francis Case of Hot Springs won first place in the Dakota Wesleyan peace oratorical contest with his speech Man to Man. Leslie Caldwell of Alexandria placed second with America's Opportunity. The winner advances to the state contest in Mitchell later this year, with the state event set for February 18 in Mitchell.
Berlin reports a notable decline in business failures in 1915 with 4,580 bankruptcies, down from 7,738 in 1914. The statistic is highlighted by officials as a striking feature of Germany's economic life amid wartime conditions.
Farmer Roseland near Goodwin lost 2000 bushels of potatoes in an unusual accident. To prevent freezing he placed a coal stove in the potato pit and a gale blew straw onto the hot pipe causing a fire that burned the roof and roasted the crop. He relies on potatoes as his main income.
The council passed Ordinance No. 46 reducing North Main street width from the Omaha tracks to the city limits to 40 feet. John Kurvink acted as mayor. Fire insurance agents urged fairer city hall insurance distribution. Eleven Avenue residents complained about graveling with no action. Sanitary sewer petitions referred to committees. West Third Avenue sewer resolution set for hearing. City engineer reported storm sewer costs under estimates. Parson, city waterworks chief engineer, resigned to farm near Mitchell. Mechanical engineer Guy Frink salary raised to 80 dollars monthly. Bills and routine business completed the meeting.
Mitchell stores display season themed windows and shelves as Valentine cards evolve this year. Kewpie valentines gain popularity with simple, dainty pictures and rhymes. Children have DIY materials for homemade valentines while flowers replace much of the older youths paper cards. Crepe paper decorations, Cupid silhouettes, and bleeding hearts feature in party decor.
P A Zollman announces as Republican candidate for Davison county State’s Attorney nomination in 1916. He notes twenty three years of legal practice and two terms as State’s Attorney and County Judge in Hanson county. He asks Republicans for support to secure the nomination and election.
Rapid City and vicinity residents have prepared a petition to Governor Byrne and the state board of pardons requesting the release from Sioux Falls penitentiary of Scott Henderson. He is serving a term for passing worthless checks from Pennington county. Henderson’s wife has raised funds to reimburse victims and seeks her husband’s release to aid on their farm this spring.
Washington DC report prints a call by Senator Johnston and Congressman Gandy urging South Dakota Democrats to assemble in Mitchell on February 24 1916 at 2 PM to select delegates and alternates to the national convention the plan aims for a mass meeting since no state committee exists and stresses loyal party workers.
Sioux Falls reports that bond’smen from Hudson and nearby areas agreed to a $6,000 settlement with the state over interest money allegedly retained by former South Dakota state treasurer Charles H. Cassill. About $150 per bondsman will be paid, with P. H. Hall the sole dissenter. Cassill has gone to Washington to pursue further settlement efforts in the U S supreme court case.
Mr Cassill has recently started a bank in a thriving Wyoming town and it is reported to be on a better financial footing again.
Two Lynch Nebraska schoolboys fired revolver shots at the home of G O Van Meter former Geteeeane of schools of Tripp County South Dakota and now principal of the Lynch city schools A bullet narrowly missed his daughter and his niece who were in a room beside the wall
John J. Lowell, cofounder of Davison county's second settlement with H. C. Green, died at his Hanson county home near Mitchell. The veteran of the Union Army was 73 and survived by seven children. Memorial services in Mitchell will be led by Dr. J. S. Hoagland with G. A. R. participation.
The Mitchell Commercial club discussed financing at a noonday meeting. An $8,500 city appropriation funds advertising but $900 must pay for a band, leaving tight resources. Members considered raising a $5 membership fee aiming for at least 100 members and boosting revenues.
Kimball South Dakota businessman G Conant prominent for years as Kimball house proprietor was buried Saturday with Masonic funeral rites. He had moved to Hartington Nebraska then to engage in garage business later sold. He leaves a wife and two grown sons. R F Jones drilled another deep artesian well on a 2280 acre ranch reaching 948 feet deep, part of a reservoir supplying water for the farm.
The Swedish steamship Texas carries cotton cargo and is afire while making for Kirkwall with a port of call near Scotland. The vessel departed New Orleans January 22 and Newport News January 27 en route to Gothenburg and Christiania.
A New York World column satirically warns that Western applause for President Wilson could trigger a nervous breakdown for the Colonel, framing political tension with witty contempt and sharp phrasing.
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