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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
4
Mitchell and nearby towns report social events, weddings, lodge meetings, and travel notes. Notables include J N Crow attending a grand lodge session in Sioux Falls, Dunnalks of Rapid City and Dakota Wesleyan highlights, and multiple wedding and travel updates involving local families and officials.
Mr and Mrs Dunn and Mrs Palmer visit from Luverne and Mitchell. Mrs Watson returns to Chamberlain after Mitchell visit. The city board of education approves Central school grounds for summer haut auqua and outlines expenditures receipts and treasury balance. Judges clerks and polling places for June 20 school election are named with several officials listed.
In Chicago a parrot named Vots perched on Mrs. Hazel Furman’s shoulder during a suffrage parade. Furman, a noted suffragist worker, planned to train the bird to shout Votes for Women but the bird refused. The scene unfolded along the Loop as onlookers observed the odd moment.
Excited Badger residents recount youths returning from a dance who confronted three masked gunmen in an automobile. The locals surrounded the trio, disarmed them, and ordered them to flee, after which the robbers disappeared from sight.
A farm child near Binde County accidentally discharged a rifle cartridge while pounding it with a hammer in his yard. The blast cost him an eye and left him narrowly avoiding more serious injuries. The boy is the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Taylor.
Joseph Baumgart will auction his 160 acre improved farm at 2 p.m. on Tuesday June 13. The public sale will take place on the farm located 9 miles west and miles from the designated starting point.
A well-improved quarter in a German settlement near Ethan, featuring a seven room house, new barn and granary, windmill, 120 acres under cultivation, and a $1000 down payment. The sale to the highest bidder lists October 1, 1916 as the opening, with rest due April 1, 1917, and a $38,000 two year mortgage at 6 percent. Judge Bros. to cry the sale, J A Stithen of Dimock State Bank to clerk.
Black Hills association of commercial club secretaries plans a January inspection tour by legislators to visit Rapid City Spearfish Custer Tot Springs and other Black Hills state buildings. It would be the first trip of lawmakers to the region for state institutions.
Judge Kenesaw Landis weighs custody of a baby at issue between Mrs. Dollie Ledgerwood Matters of Chicago and Miss Margaret Ryan of Canada. Ryan claims the baby was born in Canada, taken there and given to Matters. Matters was acquitted of attempting to plant a spurious heir to gain estate. The jury did not decide motherhood, and Ryan’s attorneys have filed suit for custody with the judge to rule.
The long serving faculty member known as the Grand Old Man will be awarded the doctor of science degree by Dakota Wesleyan University tomorrow in recognition of his twenty fifth year at the institution.
Prom Tuesday at Dakota Wesleyan featured class day exercises in the college chapel at 10 AM with Roy Rachus delivering the class day oration. Violet Jones gave the class prophecy and Bernice Obenshein presented the class gift, followed by a four scene history of college life.
Mrs. James J. Hill files in Ramsey county probate court to appoint Louis W. Hill as administrator of her late husband’s vast estate. No will exists. heirs value the estate at 550 million dollars in the petition, with exact value to be determined after review of securities and holdings.
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