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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
3
A dense classified page lists multiple rental options including a five bedroom furnished house and two furnished bedrooms in Mitchell. It also shows numerous sale offers from various sellers for farms in South Dakota and Canada plus city properties in Mitchell. Includes job ads and service notices with contact details and addresses.
Sioux Falls reporter George Boardman reports many farmers were buncoed on seed corn, paying $3 per bushel for seed that barely sprouted. He notes cutworms damaging corn and forcing replanting in some areas, while recent rains boost progress toward a normal early July finish.
Miss Florence Winsor was guest of honor at a surprise kitchen shower hosted by Mrs. F. M. Hammer and Mrs. J. G. McCartney at S. F. Goodykoontz home. Twenty young ladies attended with Grace White Ella Piston Maude Kimball of Chicago traveling in the same direction. American Beauty roses and peonies decorated rooms. A five o'clock tea was served and unique place cards bore four leaf clovers. An express wagon loaded with presents was drawn in, and gifts continued as Mrs Winsor opened the second wagon. Mrs Hammer also presented a French china plate to Miss White Miss Preston and Miss Kimball after refreshments. Roxena Butterfield recited several selections. The afternoon event was very enjoyable.
Thirty of Mrs. J. L. Hannett’s friends gathered on Fourth Avenue West for a surprise early farewell party as she prepares to move to her claim home west of the river. Cards and five hundred provided entertainment while tokens of esteem and refreshments marked a fond sendoff from the popular longtime resident.
A Mitchell business community memorializes Emil Becker, the late prominent citizen and local businessman. The banquet of Odd Fellows hall formed a committee led by H E Hitchcock to draft the tribute, adopted unanimously by a rising vote. The memorial honors his early efforts, later successes, and steadfast support of the town.
City officials express deep regret at the death of Emil Becker describing him as a kind husband indulgent father and good neighbor. The resolution offers City sympathy to his family and directs copies to be given to the family and press. Signed by Herbert E. Hitchcock F. H. Winsor Co W. Adams.
Two Dakota Wesleyan University graduates of 1907 are finishing college careers in eastern schools. Phillip G. Laurson earned an S B in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and will join American Bridge Co. Roscoe Saterlee completed Dakota Wesleyan in 1907 and earned a law diploma at Northwestern University, planning to practice law after an eastern trip.
Indictments were returned against Hugh Knott the city engineer and other prominent men in Memphis charging a conspiracy to steal 40 000 dollars worth of cotton from freight houses of the Iron Mountain Rock Island Frisco and Illinois Central railroads over the past three years. Officials say the cotton stolen during that period is valued at 200 000 dollars.
Friday morning at 10 o'clock the commencement exercises were held at the Methodist church for Dakota Wesleyan University. The program featured solos, hymns, and an address by Bishop John J. Nuelsen, urging graduates to lead in their professions and politics.
Dr Kerfoot conferred upon Rev Shepherd of Sioux Falls the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. With a few faculty changes announced, the exercises concluded.
Charles A. Alseth of Yankton College won first place in the interstate oratorical contest held in Yankton, with the piece The Lion of the North. William Greenleaf of the University of North Dakota took second, Roy B. Tibbetts placed third, while Dakota Wesleyan’s Orlando Horning served as secretary and noted the local school failed to place in top two.
Washington lawmakers clash over a bill to fund automobiles for the vice president and the speaker of the house. The House refused to appropriate 2500 dollars for the vice president and then rejected funds for the speaker's automobile by wide margins.
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