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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1914
Page
2
The notice lists subscription rates for AE Mitchell Capital Publishing Company with payments of 1.00 and 0.75 and 40 cents in various terms. It credits W. Ronald as Editor and Manager.
The Pierre dispatch cites reports from Juarez and Zertuche detailing executions of generals Miguel Alvarez Ignacio Nunes and others by the constitutionalists. It also notes a call to tax reform as South Dakota debates a single tax and critiques a Republican committee misprint affecting state patronage.
An editorial lauds former United States Senator Pettigrew and former Judge Elliott, urging Carnegie, Peace, and other commissions to honor their public service with medals and certificates. The piece envisions neighbors and a community rallying behind the decorated figures amid symbolic dandelions and banners.
A large meeting in Philip South Dakota gathered reps from Kaloka Belvidere Cottonwood Fort Pierre Milesville Ashcreek and Hardingrove to discuss a Stanley County division. No definite plan emerged with Jackson County potential on the Milwau kee railroad line and western areas resisting. The session ended stormy and unclear if any division will occur this year.
The longest distance call ever handled over the Dakota Central Telephone line to this city linked Baltimore and Rapid City. It was completed last Friday night on a business message.
About 8 million dollars in land value across roughly 850000 acres will be assessed for the first time this year. Private owners have new farms added, with tracts scattered through western and some eastern counties, valued on the same basis as last year. Names such as Shawn Bruin Bertha Todnem Marie Bruin Laura Waston and Father Hart appear in the readable fragments.
Pierre South Dakota Gallie 8 Hadway a sixteen year old boy near Elbow in western Stanley county lost his life while trying to rescue a driver and cattle herder Radway died after being dragged and trampled when a freighter with four horses shifted its load and ran away.
The Land of Heart's Desire was presented in the University chapel after stormy May day events delayed the campus program. The Irish play drew strong acting from all cast members and featured between act intermissions musical numbers by the Mandolin club and the Girls Glee club. Directed rehearsals were led by Mrs. W. G. Seaman and Mrs. Clyde Tull.
In Pierre South Dakota the Democratic and Republican parties move cautiously after the primary. The Bull Moose faction at Huron debates whether to field a state ticket or focus on congressional and senatorial races led by H L Loucks for Senate against Charles H Burke. Equal suffrage forces mobilize, while varied party figures weigh potential candidates for governor.
Pierre South Dakota reports a legal opinion that shipments of Texas heifers bred for breeding are not required to undergo tuberculin testing. The ruling clarifies the state law exempts non pure bred cattle brought in for breeding from the test, even when shipments originate from Texas.
Kimball South Dakota reports 1.88 inches of rain on Saturday and a near cloudburst Friday near Smith Creek ten miles north. Two inches in half an hour washed crops and small bridges from banks, delaying corn planting across the area.
Mrs. RH. D. Watkins traveled to Yankton Monday and will visit Rev. Greene's family in Alcester. Mrs. Jacobs briefly visited Mellette. Loomis schools will close with a Friday picnic. Rev. Albertson went to Yankton Monday. KH.M.S. met well at Mrs. Mclain's home Wednesday. Jared Johnson began a trip to Illinois Thursday morning.
The South Dakota railway commission fixed June 17 for a hearing on a connecting track between the Milwaukee and Northwestern systems at Mitchell. A separate June 26 date was set for switching charges at Rapid City and a hearing on apple and potato rates at Hot Springs involving Eric Severson.
More than two thousand people attended the funeral of General Sylvester J. Conklin in Clark. State officials, National Guard officers, Masons, and fraternal groups joined the procession from the Methodist church to Rose Hill Cemetery where a tall granite monument marks his resting place and service to state and nation is honored.
Eastern South Dakota saw renewed heavy rain in scattered areas over Saturday and Sunday nights. Measurements included 1.5 inches between Scotland and Running Water and near Lennox on Saturday, with lighter showers near Mitchell and in towns from Plankinton to Redfield and Aberdeen. The forecast called for sunny, summer-like weather today.
Pierre South Dakota. Fred Sears a White River ranchman drives toward home with family when his auto bogs in a mud hole. A rattlesnake sleeping by the roadside is awakened by the motion and warns locals as efforts to free the car fail. A ranch team later pulls the vehicle free and the rattler is killed by the wheel.
For the first time in South Dakota Episcopal history women join delegates at the state convocation west of the Missouri. Bishop George Biller Jr. of Sioux Falls presides with Secretary Frederick Barnett of Mitchell. One third of delegates are Indians. Bishop Biller’s council of advice comprises six men from the western region.
Corn planting nearly finished in Pierre region with Missouri valley acreage expected to surpass prior years. Pierre Commercial Club corn contest yields saved seed corn now fueling increased sowing. Winter rye appearance strong with promising spring growth and expected heavy crop.
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