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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1901
Page
3
A notice promoting Wilkinson's Livery offers safe driving horses for ladies and good teams for country driving, highlighting reliable mounts and quality service for equestrian transport.
Students and friends at Mitchell Dakot University gathered for the fourteenth annual South Dakota Intercollegiate Oratorical Association event. President Mallory announced Edith Noble as first in a closely watched contest. The evening began with invocation by Rev T H Youngman and a piano duet by Misses Connor and Walker.
John Hutton of the South Dakota Agricultural College extols South Dakota as a rich, industrious state with vast wheat fields and Black Hills resources. He urges loyalty to state and country, highlighting education and women’s freedoms, and warns against gold worship and factionalism.
Mr. George Williams spoke on Problems of the Times as Redfield College representative. He argued national strength rests on citizen character, civilization level, and a varied American population shaping the general character of its people.
E. D. Schoonberger of Winkton College argues evolution governs more than bodies, shaping inward humanity socially politically and spiritually. He portrays Love justice and evolving law as drivers of a social metamorphosis that could redefine progress through ideas that divide the false from the true.
The speaker argues a looming danger will lift, with fallen empires becoming stepping stones to progress. He cites evolution, the heart turning from war, and humanity choosing endurance or extinction, praising Mr. Schoenberger for top thought and style in a judge’s verdict.
Mr. George F. Sheldon delivered an oration for Huron College praising Paul Kruger as a symbol of Boer liberty. He drew parallels to Washington and Lincoln, extolled Kruger’s patriotism and faith, and urged that his steadfast leadership inspires nations toward liberty and virtue.
A prize oration praised for reverent portrayal of a man and Christian character. Miss Noble is applauded as winner amid crowd cheers, with Mitchell leading the standings as Dakota University’s cup stays with the college. Judges and finalists from Huron Redfield Brookings Yankton appear. Mitchell dominates past contests and will send Noble and Schoenberger to Grand Forks for the inter state contest on June 3.
The document lists judges markings for each oration and shows how each college placed. It records the scoring marks assigned to competitors and the final standings by college.
The five colleges held a meeting to elect officers for the State Oratorical Association. Shirley Miller of Brookings college was named president. E W Kline of Redfield college became secretary and treasurer. C J Novotny Yankton college was elected vice president and Lauritz Miller Mitchell University as secretary and treasurer. The group plans to meet where the athletic association decides. The contest yielded about 250 in receipts, enough to cover expenses.
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