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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1915
Page
11
Mitchell crowds flood Main Street for Corn Palace festival amid sunshine and parades. Automobiles and road traffic surge. 3000 visitors from north and eastern towns arrive for the event. Bands, vaudeville, and pageant rehearsals draw large audiences as filming for the week’s story and the pageant unfold.
Plowing soft water was struck yesterday afternoon by John McClurg who has drilled the well at the Country club the past week. Water found at 200 feet will supply shower baths and kitchen in the eb house. A hydraulic ram may be placed downhill to pump water to the reservoir and course. The sewer to carry surplus water will be finished today, outlet to Firesteel creek. Enthusiasm grows as golf activity increases with about 30 members already purchasing outfits and ten playing regularly. Paul Young, secretary, posted the lowest 43, six over bogey and ten over par. Fred Bartsch from Aberdeen Country club will teach the rudiments next Monday for a month.
A mysterious wild man roams the Missouri river frontier of Gregory County. Homesteader Edward Odenbach spotted a huge man rising from weeds, sharing a brief standoff before the fugitive fled on all fours. Sheriff and posse searched all night but found nothing. The man wore only overalls and a bare head, identity unknown, with theories he is an escaped lunatic.
Sioux Falls plaintiff Gamble Wagner Danforth filed a federal suit alleging the Nebraska Newspaper Union and the Western Newspaper Union of Maine conspired to restrain trade in the ready print business. The complaint seeks treble damages of 300000 and cites secret Chicago office coordination, price fixing, and cross exchanges of patron lists and statistics to suppress competition and destroy the Nebraskan house’s advertising business, claiming a 100000 loss in value of assets.
In South Dakota, total maintenance costs for schools and counties are projected near ten million dollars for the year ending June 30, with school maintenance at 5.41 million and county maintenance at 4.01 million. Teacher wages rising from 955,404 in 1905 to 2.71 million in 1914 and highway expenditures from 27,482 in 1905 to 1.22 million in 1916 show sharp expense growth. state maintenance grew from 1.22 million in 1905 to 3.57 million in 1916, underscoring larger local than state spending increases.
U S Weather Bureau report for week ending September 28 notes moderately warm weather with early and late cool spells. Eastern areas warmer than the west, rain later in the week, less sunshine, haying threshing and plowing delayed by rain, corn matured slowly with local frost damage on September 21 but not widespread. pastures remain green and stock in good condition.
Dakota Wesleyan meets Madison Normal on Saturday at 10:30 in the opening game of the 1915 football campaign. Coach Chester C. Dillon notes several key backfield losses and lists the tentative lineup with Payne Coacher Zavit z Mohr Smith Payne Reier Fox and others filling back positions along the line. Referee Paul G. Young will officiate as crowd transport to the field is expected to be limited.
Aberdeen guest Miss Helene Bassett stays with Miss Marguerite Anderson in Sioux Falls. Many locals visit Mitchell for Corn Palace events. weddings and licenses noted. Community updates include visitors from Sioux City and Wessington Springs, plus several marriages and travels to Chicago Seattle and California.
South Dakota crowds flood Mitchell for the Corn Palace with special trains from Milwaukee Sioux City and Sioux Falls. Weather turns favorable and attendance rises as Bristling program features Verdi numbers Mina Hager and Victorina Haye. Cinderella tale leads to coronation by Mayor Hitchock with corn button crown and film footage planned at the University.
Miss Helen Gross of Dakota Wesleyan is chosen as Queen of Corn for the Coronation at the Corn Palace to be staged Friday at noon. An elaborate ceremony accompanies a film story by Harold P. Brown, with a procession of Ladies of the Corn and a corn pageant featuring a chariot of corn and carnival pomp through Mitchell events.
Vermillion D The summer indications show a greatly increased attendance at the University of South Dakota at the opening of the school and the past week’s registration is expected to total a fifty percent rise over last year. Expanded facilities are underway with a new chemistry building now in use and space limits imposed in several departments. The College of Music added four pianos and practice hours are being scheduled to accommodate demand.
James Dowling, posing as a deaf mute, has been near Mitchell for a week crafting an escape with two sharpened case knives. Chief Wood Smith captured him after a coat theft at C. W. Hoon store. Dowling had been granted jail liberties earlier. Two bootleggers, George Case and Harry Condron, were fined $100 each in municipal court for furnishing liquor.
A fragment notes a Lead, South Dakota incident where a married woman was insulted, leading to a formal action against the offender. The report mentions a young man named Hume as the observer who uncovered the improper advances. The piece reflects a local social issue and legal response.
The man was found guilty of making improper advances to a young married woman and was sentenced to fifty days in jail. He could not pay the fine and will serve roughly two months longer in jail.
J. A. Gregory, recently freed after a long murder and larceny sentences, threatened to harm Circuit Judge Williamson and witnesses. He traveled from Reliance to Iona and Mitchell, later spotted in Kendall ranch area and Kinnekinnie, chased by Gregory County Sheriff. Deputy Houston reportedly apprehended him.
Dakota Wesleyan maps a year of debates against Yankton Huron Morning Side and St Olaf colleges in three triangle matches. South Dakota topics favor socialistic control of production and exchange while Morning Side St Olaf discussions advocate city manager government for American cities.
In Deadwood South Dakota the September naturalization term drew 31 applicants, 17 admitted, 7 denied, and 7 delayed six months. Ignorance of government and liquor issues caused many failures, prompting Examiner Kasper of St Paul to arrange a night school at Lead High School for foreign born residents seeking civics knowledge to pass the tests. H D Butterfield left for St Joseph Missouri, and a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Arthur Trombley on Wednesday September FAN arrival earlier.
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