May Festival Brings Strong Concerts to Mitchell
The May Musical Festival in Mitchell showcased the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under Oberhoffer and the Dakota Wesleyan Choral Club in a two program event that drew large crowds. Soloists Marietta Bagby, David Duggan, Lucille Tewsbury, and Arthur Middleton delivered acclaimed performances, with the choral ensemble receiving an ovation for its interpretation of Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast.
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Theodore Thomas
Chicago
Gale Theatre
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Mitchell
Oberhoffer
MacCunne
Tschaikowsky
Mendelsssohn
Marietta Bagby
Page
Les Hugenots
Miss Bagby
David Duggan
Fischer
Donanyi
Dakota Wesleyan Choral Club
Hiawatha
Coleridge-Taylor
School of Music
Shakespeare
Scheirpflug
Hobson
Choral Club
Lucille Tewsbury
Arthur Middleton
Mr. Middleton
Mendelssohn
Carmen
Catholics Form Diocesan Association Plans for Orphanage
A Sioux Falls meeting organized the Catholic Diocesan Association to unite laymen and priests in South Dakota. Bishop Thomas O’Gorman to serve as permanent president. A five member committee to oversee a Catholic orphanage site and construction. Banquet at Cataract hotel featured toasts on cooperation, education, and college building fundraising. A pledge drive netted 9000 for Columbus College in Chamberlain, with initial gifts from P. H. O’Neil, Mike Gerin, and J. W. Reedy.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota
Thomas O’gorman
Catholic Diocesan Association
O'Gorman
Cataract Hotel
O’gorman
Columbus College
O. E. O’flaherty
Kimball
D. J. Conway
Chamberlain
P. H. O'Neil
Faulkton
Mike Gerin
J. W. Reedy
Beresford
Mitchell Wins Supreme Court Victory Over Dakota Central Tax
The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mitchell in a tax dispute with Dakota Central Telephone. The city sought 10 percent gross earnings tax on earnings over 2400 annually, for 1907 and 1908, with future dues likely exceeding 1000 dollars yearly.
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Mitchell
Dakota Central Telephone Company
Dakota Central Telephone’ Company
Howeve
Amie
Telephone Company
Smith
Miller
Seyler Acquitted in Sea Murder Trial
In Mays Landing New Jersey William Seyler is acquitted of murdering 17 year old Jane Adams by throwing her into the Atlantic City pier sea last February. He testified he last saw her landing on the pier and claimed police coercion and a drugged cigarette influenced his confession. The state argued fatal defence of honor. the defense said Adams fell accidentally with her sister and Seyler and his brother Orvis present.
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Mays Landing
N. J
William Seyler
Jane Adams
Atlantic City
Seyler
Petersburg
Robert Mitter
Orvis
Cornell Ex‑Ambassador Abhors Tobacco Odor
Andrew D. White former ambassador to Germany cannot stand tobacco smell and leaves the Cosmopolitan Club at Cornell University when he detects evidence of recent use of the weed.
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Andrew D. White
Germany
Cosmopolitan Club
Cornell University
Yankton Orator Wins Intercollegiate Contest at Huron
The Inter-Collegiate oratorical contest at Huron drew five colleges including Yankton Redfield Mitchell Brookings and Huron. C A Alseth of Yankton won first place with 8 points while Roy Tibbetts of Mitchell took second with 14. Mitchell had claimed top honors the previous three years.
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Huron
Yankton
Redfield
Mitchell
Brookings
C. A. Alseth
Roy Tibetts
Alseth
Tibbets
George Norvell
John Dobson
James Dobson
Patton Retires Keeps Fortune
Chicago grain king James A. Patton says he will retire from speculation and go abroad around July 1. He will form Bartlett Frazier & Company with starting capital of 1,000,008 to oversee the new venture and career shift away from gains on the board of trade.
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Chicago
James A. Patton
Grain King
Board of Trade
Bartlett Frazier & Company
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Diehl & Brown
la Vallieres
Bechtold and
Fritz
J.W. Broadbent & CO
Mr. Oberhoffer
Carlo Fischer
D. F. Desmond
W. J. Surprenant
John B. Hanten
Watertown
Supreme Court
Lower Court
The
State Supreme Court
ADAMS
Mitchell Man
Patton
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