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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1914
Page
2
The piece discusses Iowa and South Dakota politics. It advocates reforming jails into custodial farms to provide work and reduce crime. It highlights a Corn Palace idea for South Dakota at San Francisco and notes funding via voluntary subscriptions. It also mentions President Wilson, Congress pay, and female suffrage debates.
Miss Bernice Browne was honored at a birthday party attended by nine friends with music games and a three course dinner served by Mrs O Eli Browne. Separate events include Margaret Brady hosting twelve friends with songs readings and an automobile ride. the Women's Aid society meeting at First Methodist Episcopal church. Charles H Warren and Miss Gail Raney’s marriage in Merrill Indiana. F W L Moyer’s sunrise party for his fifty seventh birthday. a Fifth Street Park gathering for the beginners’ department of the Methodist Sunday school. and the Crocus club postponing a July 19 picnic to meet next Wednesday. The Silver Wedding of Mr and Mrs J M Wilson was celebrated with thirty friends and a silver tray presentation.
A driver, during his first experience behind the wheel, lost control on a bridge and plunged fifteen feet into a stream bed. The machine struck the guard rail, toppled, and landed with the top underwater. He escaped uninjured as the bank kept him from being pinned.
Chamberlain South Dakota reports a near tragedy when F K Hoverson of Dixon plunged his car into a creek banked by a narrow embankment near Cacoita. Quick action by bystanders saved his life as the vehicle teetered before sinking.
Proceedings of a court martial of Seth Bullock Camp No 1 United Spanish War Veterans reveal George D McClellan of Tead forged a Port Meade discharge and fake Philippines service. An Anaconda man named McCullom disputes his claimed record and the roster check fails to confirm his unit. McClellan insists his record will be proven legitimate.
Beulah Township Farmers' club gathered over 100 members and families at Robert Seaton's home ten miles northwest of Mitchell. A local play entertained attendees while Prof S D van Benthuysen urged alfalfa over other crops and Vernon Van Patter advocated consolidated schools.
A special Aberdeen club committee plans 25 000 biweekly folders over three months. Each folder will show crop yields and farm scenes to promote South Dakota as an agricultural state. Folders will be distributed to businessmen with correspondence.
A severe hail storm at Van Meter thirty miles west destroyed coach windows on a mixed train and battered crops. The ground lay white for miles along the railway, with debris spreading across the area. Rev. J. H. Kearton of Miller, a former Dakota Wesleyan student and noted South Dakota preacher, will speak on Citizenship at the South Dakota Editorial association in Ruskin Park next Sunday.
Negotiations are under way between Electric Short Line Railway of Minneapolis known as the Luce Line and three eastern bond houses for a large bond issue to extend the line 216 miles from Madison South Carolina to this city, reaching a total of about 450 miles. The June report notes extensive assets including 120 miles right of way and 19 miles under construction with bridges and culverts.
A large Aberdeen crowd gathered at the commercial club house to bid farewell to Dr. and Mrs. George Williston Nash who leave for Bellingham Washington where Dr Nash will become president of the Normal school on August 1. The couple have led the Northern Normal and Industrial School for nine years and built it into a leading Northwest normal. Professor Willis F. Johnson will succeed Nash as president. The informal reception echoed community goodwill for the Nashes as they depart for their new home and duties.
Rapid City reports that the county division plan to detach the eastern Pennington portion to Howard County has approval from the Pennington County commissioners. Residents in the Milwaukee Line south end show little enthusiasm, arguing a new county seat would be harder to reach than Rapid City.
Aberdeen South Carolina report notes Ipswich women’s club plans to plant rows of shade trees along three miles on each side of the Twin Cities Aberdeen Yellowstone Park Trail. Planting aims to create six miles of shade with hopes other towns join, turning the route into a shaded driveway to Yellowstone Park.
Advertises Dr King’s New Life Pills for headaches, bad breath, sour stomach and indigestion. Claims the pills cleanse stomach and bowels of fermenting foods and waste with a full bowel movement giving a satisfied feeling. Also promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for burns.
Henry Ferber, 39, died after a quarrel at a barn dance at Louis Schuler’s farm. Henry Schulte, 28, is jailed awaiting trial on manslaughter charges for allegedly kicking Ferber in the stomach during a struggle, with coroner’s jury returning the indictment after Ferber’s death from peritonitis.
Baseball enthusiasts from Aurora and Brule counties gather in Pukwana South Dakota on August 11 and 12 for the annual tournament. The two day event features top teams, band music and other attractions with purses for winners.
Sisseton South Dakota report says white men can no longer cheat Native Americans freely as federal enforcement tightens under Uncle Sam. An Ortley man previously traded a nonfunctional car for a Sisseton reservation Indian’s team of horses and wagon. Superintendent Mossman ordered a return trade or face federal court action.
Hundreds of travelers by freight train arrived south of Aberdeen S D seeking harvest work but crowds thinned as harvest neared. Police report petty thefts by the early arrivals but intensified patrols have reduced incidents as farmers absorb labor.
The South Dakota Press Association plans a two hour stay in Mitchell on July 27 as part of a weeklong outing. Editors and wives will tour Letcher Mitchell and Mr. Vernon by car, dine at the Elks Club, hear short speeches, and view local building activity. F L Ransom to head the entertainment committee for about 100 visitors.
The Davison county board of equalization cut Mitchell city real estate by 20 percent, dropping assessed value from 6 460 188 to 5 168 151. The unanimous action sets a lower value than 1913 state board figures and notes county average land value at 47.50 per acre with structures included.
East St Louis Illinois Henry Spencer sentenced on July 31 for the murder of Mildred Rexroat a Chicago tango teacher was today refused a stay of execution by Justices Carter Farmer Dunne and Vickers of the Illinois supreme court.
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