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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
3
A long reader letter column offers advice on glasses use, skin care with creams, and makeup alternatives. It includes suggestions for easing eye irritation, facial features, and hair or eyebrow treatment, plus endorsements of breathing exercises and wholesome routines to improve appearance and health.
The court orders a bankruptcy discharge hearing for Gracep Neish of Mitchell Davison County. Notices publish in Mitchell Capital and mail copies sent to known creditors with details of the petition, date, place, and times for appearance.
The rebuilt Masonic temple in Aberdeen, completed at about 60 000 dollars, will be dedicated near Monday evening under the Masonic Temple association. Members of all Masonic bodies and their wives will attend. On March 20 the Master Mason degree will be conferred with guests Grand Master James Roane of Yankton and Grand Secretary Geo Pettigrew of Sioux Falls. The first week of April features the Scottish Rite reunion and later in April a grand ceremony by Veldu st temple Monvles of the Mystic Shrine.
The Senate foreign relations committee reported a modified Colombia treaty in which the United States would pay 25 million to Colombia for the partition of Panama. Former President Roosevelt opposed the payment, arguing his seizure of canal territory was justified. The measure will go to a vote at the coming special session of Congress.
Washington County reports Representative Cyrus A. Sullloway of New Hampshire, a Republican, likely maintains a majority in the House balance. With 214 Republicans, 213 Democrats, six independents, and two vacancies, independents may lean but no clear pledge exists. Rep Schall of Minnesota, a Progressive, signals no alliance with other independents to control the House.
Washington reports that President Wilson and advisers are drafting measures to prepare for possible war with Germany including strict press censorship and strong powers to suppress criticism of defense policies. The plan seeks quick passage of censorship, Espionage Act aims, naval appropriations, and centralized control before or during wartime.
The passage notes opposition in Congress to espionage and censorship legislation as unnecessary for war while warning the proposed measures could forge a dangerous dictatorship. It mentions training a volunteer or conscripted army and coordinating inclusive resources via the national defense advisory council.
Governor Peter Norbeck completed the fifteenth legislative session by signing most bills while vetoing five. The disapproved measures include SB 251 shifting street intersection costs to cities, SB 168 adding taxes for bond interest, SB 275 creating a commission on the terminal elevator industry, SB 260 buying land at Redfield state home for the feeble minded, and SB 291 adding another judge in civil cases on affidavit of prejudice.
Volleyball begins with business and professional men forming a tourney at the high school gym tonight at 7:30. Captains will be chosen after a game against the professors and Western National Bank staff. The bankers won the last contest and the winning team will be guests at a banquet later next month.
J H W Beek traffic director of the Greater Saint Paul association will speak at the merger banquet of the Commercial club and Retail Merchants' association in the city hall auditorium Friday night. Secretary E J Pellow announced the program this morning. Beek is praised as a forceful speaker familiar with the merger proposal as St Paul reorganizes its commercial work by merging the two groups.
Rit Beck and the St Paul association back fundraising for a banquet drive targeting 400 tickets. The preliminary meeting set ward committees with names across five wards to exceed the goal, aided by added helpers and renewed energy.
Mme Amilita Galli Curci rose from obscurity to top Chicago box office after a single appearance as Gilda in Rigoletto. Her rapid fame surprised musical authorities who doubted her voice yet praised a quick fix in tone and technique. The Milan native, fluent in four languages, had struggled to find a major engagement until Campanini finally gave her two chances.
Washington story advises home gardeners to choose crops by local performance and market needs. Emphasizes warm sandy soil for early crops, drainage, sun exposure, soil humus, water conservation, cultivation to weed control and aerate soil, noting soil is mostly air and water and rainwater provides ammonia.
A brief report notes a sovereign investigation of the Wel land canal plot and mentions past activity on the Mexican border, attributed as a past claim or remark.
Aberdeen South Dakota Representative Royal C. Johnson criticizes arming American merchant ships as a de facto declaration of war on the installment plan. He notes division over armed neutrality resolutions and warns outcomes hinge on submarine and armed merchant fleet actions.
A German believed to be Capt. Alfred Fritzen was moved through Paso, Texas, aboard a Southern Pacific train by government officers from Los Angeles in connection with the case.
The government weather bureau reports this winter as the coldest since its Pierre location began twenty-five years ago. Average temperature 12.6 degrees tops 1909-10's 13.2. February wind movement also exceeded the annual average by about one thousand miles.
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