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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
3
Local notes recap travel for Mrs. Parsons to Washington and health returns for Louis Briedenbach family. Mitchell reports include hunting, fishing, auto sales shifts, club improvements, a billiards exhibition, boy scouts program, various visits and movements, minor crimes, marriages, births, and April Davison county statistics with a false fire alarm incident.
Monday notices report Miss Marian Osgood leaving Mitchell for Grand Island Nebraska to attend a business college after teaching in Bon Homme county all winter. Other brief items note visits, travels, church activities, and local meetings across Mitchell including the Huffmann Auto company open house and upcoming chautauqua plans.
Vermillion South Dakota The Drake relays South Dakota Yankton Wesleyan meets feature top sprinters Quigley Cal Wesleyan Markey Woodward and Berry While Wesleyan leads in vault and relay prospects state and Huron battles for high marks with javelin record chatter. Track experts project Wesleyan first in the triangular with State and Huron. SD and Yankton projections cited.
The Columbian burned Sunday night May 3 about three hundred miles south of Cape Race. Explosions killed crew. Captain McDonald ordered wireless calls for help but a blast disabled the radio, cutting off contact with nearby ships that could have aided rescue. The vessel continued to burn as flames raged.
Dr. George G. Kimball and Dr. M. W. Myler will depart this evening for Sioux Falls to attend the state dental meeting scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Notice is given by D. H. Ford administrator with will annexed of Julia Ford to creditors and all persons holding claims to exhibit them with vouchers within six months after first publication to Letcher Mercantile Co. in Letcher Sanborn South Dakota. Dated May 9 1914.
London announces Prince Alexander of Teck will succeed the Duke of Connaught as Governor General of Canada. He will assume duties in October at the end of Connaught’s term. He is a keen soldier with limited administrative experience but is a hard worker and good organizer. The Princess of Teck is a favored royal figure.
Washington reports the Agriculture Department predicts the largest winter wheat crop on record, surpassing 1913 by about 20 percent and exceeding 1912. Estimated yield tops 232 million bushels with 35.5 million acres harvested. May conditions are favorable and abandonment lower than last year.
Heavy rainfall drenched Kimball last night with 0.78 inch recorded and 1.64 inches since the start of the period. Farmers count the precipitation as a boon for crops, lifting county optimism.
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