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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
6
Unknown assailants daubed Wentworth German Lutheran parochial school in yellow paint and windows with yellow coating. The raid follows recent public notice that German teaching would end at year’s close, prompting local residents to speculate about outside involvement and motives amid wartime loyalties.
Sioux Falls May 8 Dr Albert M Sherrill director of a hospital in Gem Creek and a leading physician in the northwest of South Dakota is in serious condition after an auto accident. His car mistook a trolley right of way for a road in darkness, ran 100 feet over ties, left the grade and toppled ten feet down a bank. His head struck the edge of a sidewalk severely injuring him. The auto was badly wrecked.
About fifty residents of Fort Pierre have joined a home guard group. A meeting to perfect the organization will be held early this week.
Dakota Wesleyan University awards the year's top scholarship medals. Mildred Caifee-Post of Mitchell receives the medal from Dr. Wet. Schermerhorn, with K A Stout and John Foote Ways funding. Other honors include the Ronald prizes for best economics essay won by Harold Card and Frank Norton, Grace Frandsen earning the Mary B Ely scholarship, and ten freshmen named honor students. Lloyd H. Rising receives a memorial silver cup for national Old Line oratorical victory.
Local man held after county council on defense session details yielded to federal action. About 20 witnesses examined in a probe into alleged disloyal statements by seven Davison county residents, including a Mitchell man. One defendant reportedly lost memory when brought to trial and faced a charge connected to driving away a Liberty bond purchaser.
An enemy alien, Anton Nichols of Terry, has been interned at Port Noushis Utan for the remainder of the war. Nichols was whipped by his mine boss after disloyal remarks and his boss was arrested on charges of assault and battery. Nichols was held after the trial and handed to U S authorities.
Classified listings and market notes from a period edition. Reads like a local trading column with brief entries and market tips. Includes prices, items, and small notices set in a compact, period voice.
Arrangements are complete for a ceremonial session of the Shriners of the Black Hills to be held in Rapid City on Wednesday. About seventy five new candidates will be initiated and more than three hundred Shriners from northern Black Hills are expected to attend with delegations from other regions. It is billed as one of the region’s largest Shriner meetings this year.
Aberdeen South Carolina May officials and the best recruiting station were informed by the war department that the gas and flame corps of the army is filled and no more recruits can be accepted. The service opened months ago and attracted many volunteers seeking adventure and danger. Enlistees are trained for gas and liquid flame offensives to counter German weaponry.
A 197 model A Crow Nikhart touring car is offered by L Haynes at the Federal Building. Also advertised are tomato plants priced two dozen for 00 with seller W A Fitzhock at 619 South Minnesota Street.
Memorery received a side stock when he saw the solicitor in court and admitted the hayl told the solicitor to leave. After a severe rebuke by the board he was released. A separate case for investigation involved a suspected food law violation referred to the food administration for decision. Kaiser's pictures reportedly confiscated from Davison county farms were found among hoard’s nets.
Washington May 7. The treasury extended an additional credit of 75 million dollars to Great Britain, bringing total American loans to that nation to 2.795 billion and total credits to all co-belligerents to 5.86885 billion.
Chicago produce market report shows butter receipts and prices, with live poultry and eggs trades. Butter steady to unsettled, receipts 402, eggs firm with 20,005 cases, live poultry firm with changes. dressed poultry unchanged, fowls and chickens priced per standard factors.
Sioux City Market shows hogs 10 to 15 cents higher with bulk sales around 17.00. Cattle receipts reach 3,000 with steer prices around 16.70 to 17.20 and fat cows near 11.50 to 14.50. a notable sale featured Charles Weller of Akron Iowa sending beef steers averaging 1,554 pounds at 17.15.
William C. Scully in the Atlantic compares the ostrich's power to a lion, noting its ability to disembowel a horse or punch through iron. He warns that an enraged ostrich is deadly to unprotected humans, citing many fatalities from ignorance of its speed and ferocity.
A Buffalo Times remark notes that a writer in the New York Evening Post proposes a day to return borrowed books. It argues that in practice every day is already used for returns and those days are heavily sidelined from the main agenda.
Exclusive listing shows Noble & Son Motor Equipment providing complete private motor ambulance services via Mortiplane at 4th Ave West. Contact day or night by telephone 2276 for funeral directors and ambulance arrangements.
Lieutenant Paul F Baer of Mobile Alabama the newest American ace of the air shot down his quota of five Germans since March 11 In a letter to his father he says he has downed seven Germans since that date but only five are officially credited He has also won the Distinguished Service Cross And his father says smilingly Paul always seemed the most timid of our four children.
Bert Snow offers painting and paper hanging services with decorative finishes. Contact phone number 3395 for estimates and work scheduling.
Milwaukee and Minneapolis grain bids show mixed results with corn and oats easing slightly. No. 6 yellow corn at 1.40 dollars, oats around 1.75 to 1.80 dollars, barley near 4.62 to 4.62, rye about 2.40, and Minneapolis cash notes listing several yellow and white grain grades with prices ranging around 1.30 to 1.80 for corn and 1.50 to 1.62 for barley.
The passage explains that Chinese beckoning uses a downward curled finger and a sweeping back motion, differing from the palm up, finger by finger gesture used in Western practice. It notes cultural variation in nonverbal invitation and body language.
Price list notes butter fat at 44e and prints butter at 48e while Leggs Tub Butler items show 200 units. It appears to be a catalog snippet with listed costs for dairy products and related goods.
Market notes show hog receipts around 6 000 head with steady to higher prices. Cattle and sheep quotes indicate beef steers near 10 000 and calves around 14.50, with various feeder and heifer values.
South Saint Paul market report shows receipts of 4800 hogs 4700 cattle and calf totals with steady to higher prices. Hogs range 16.75 to 17.20 with bulk around 17.15. Cattle includes steers 16.50, cows and heifers 13.00, calves 12.50, stockers 6.50 to 11.00. Sheep receipts 25 with lambs 19.00 to 24.00 and ewes 16.00 to 16.50.
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