Mitchell Injunction Halts City Telephone Bond Sale
Judge blocks sale of 60000 in Mitchell bonds for a municipal telephone system, delaying bids. city council opened bids but issued no action as Spangler claims legality and debt limit issues. Bids from Karson & Son and others set aside for next term. construction bids reviewed and safeguards discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Frank B. Smith
T. J. Spangler
Spangler
A. FB. Whitchcock
Bélnge
Karson Son, & Company
New York
di. Goffin
Chicago
Satorney
Sidney Spitzer
Toledo
Robert A. Kean & Company
Bell Lumber Company
Minneapolis
Western Electric & Supply Company of
Telephone Improvement Company
A. J. Carter
Kelloge Switchboard & Supply Company
L. B. Stair
Dormers
Hes
Mt. Vernon
Ethan
Alexandria
W. 5S. Hill
Dakota Uorated Seed Company
North Main Street
National Oil’ Company
J. O. Walrath
John Michels
F. H. Winsor
Nes Jensen
West Fifth
Wisconsin
Mayor
City Enamel
City actions on sewer, bids, and pumping station work
Assessments of branch Y of the sewer system on Wisconsin street and bids to improve Mast Fourth avenue between Kimball and Langdon streets were authorized. City Engineer S H Smith to cost corsalring engineer services for pump station type and to clean the reservoir. project will take two days and reduce water pressure. Traffic ordinance report postponed to next regular meeting.
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Wisconsin Street
N. H. Jensen
Mast Fourth Avenue
Kimball
Langdon Streets
S. H. Smith
Seven Criminal Cases Bound Over for Circuit Court
Circuit court under Judge Frank B. Smith convenes November 17 for Davison county with at least seven criminal cases from the municipal court. Focus likely on Helen Veeder Anderson, University art teacher charged with theft, jailed since June. Five prisoners bound over by Judge W M Herbert were nabbed during Corn Palace week. Clarence J. Burch faces bootlegging and running an immoral house. Louisa McKee and Louis Hunt alleged to operate immoral houses, each bound over at $1000. Kim Ss Liong and Moo I Lee, Korean bellboys, to be tried for illegal liquor sales. Jacob and Robert Schooley to be tried for assault on Pat Callahan. J P Donnelly charged with pistol assault on Ben Walker. The trio are out on bonds.
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Circuit Court
Frank B. Smith
Davison County
Helen Veeder Anderson
W. M. Herbert
Clarence J. Burch
Louisa McKee
Louis Hunt
Wlai Liberty
Kim
Ss. Liong
Moo I Lee
Navin Hotel
Jacob
Robert Schooley
Pat Callahan
J. P. Donnelly
Ben Walker
Want Time on Land Payments
Hundreds of settlers from the Cheyenne and Standing Rock reservations petitioned Congress through Senator Sterling for relief from land payments. They cite four years of drought and poor crops driving them toward ruin and possible eviction from homestead lands unless relief is granted. The public lands committee will take up the case.
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Washington, D. C
Ne Rock
South Dakota
Congress
Sterling
Public Lands Committee
Britain to send ships for 1915 Hampton Roads fleet
London reports the government accepts the US invitation to join an international fleet at Hampton Roads in 1915. Britain will send battleships on a voyage through the Panama Canal to the Pacific to celebrate its completion.
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London
England
United States
Hampton Roads
Panama Canal
Pacific
Canal
Princess Victoria of Hohenzollern Leaves Hospital
Munich reports Princess Victoria Auguste of Hohenzollern wife of Manuel of Portugal left the hospital with her husband for Sigmaringen after weeks of confinement. Physicians issue a bulletin denying rumors about her illness and state the condition is due to intestinal bacteria.
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Munich
Bavaria
Augustine Victoria
Hohenzollern
Manuel
Portugal
Sigmaringen
Redfield College Taken Over by German Congregational Church
Lincoln Neb The annual convention of the German Congregational church of North America decided to take over the Redfield South Dakota college the largest denominational school of the church and hereafter the college will be managed by a committee appointed by the conference An endowment fund of 350 000 dollars will be undertaken
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Lincoln, Neb
German Congregational Church of North America
Redfield, S. D
Five hazers suspended for second Miller incident
Vermillion South Dakota. The university faculty suspended for the rest of the school year five principals in the Miller hazing case. The charges cited involvement in a second demonstration after warnings to desist.
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Vermillion
S. D
Miller
McNulty Defends Eligibility for Congress Seat
Aberdeen SD reports Judge Frank McNulty asserts U S and South Dakota constitutions allow his run for Congress from the Second District. He cites federal qualifications, cites Illinois precedents, and argues a judge may not be barred by state law from seeking office. The piece explains prior court decisions and oath requirements.
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Congress
Supreme Court
United States
South Dakota
House
Senate
Aberdeen
S. D
Supreme
Circuit Courts
Frank McNulty
Second
Circuit
House of Representatives
Turkey
Marshall
Fouke
Turnbull
George W. McCrary
United States Circuit Court of the Eighth Circuit
Committee On Elections
Ilinois
General Assembly of the People
house of _representatives
Illinois
Trumbull
Circuit Court
United States Senate
Professors Droppers Named Minister to Greece
Washington dispatches report Garrett Droppers former president of the University of South Dakota and longtime educator has been offered the post of minister to Greece by President Wilson. Droppers, a Williams College economist, Harvard and Tokyo alumnus, is a personal friend of the president.
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Washington
DD. C
George Fred Williams
Boston
Greece
Sioux Falls
S. C
Garret Droppers
University of South Dakota
Northwest
State University
Washington Dispatches
Wilson
Droppers
South Dakota
Vermillion
Williams College
Williamstown
Mass
Foss
Massachusetts
Railway Commission
Propper
Washington, D. C
Garrett Droppers
Harvard
University of Tokio
Farmer Olson dies leaving estate worth $200000
Centerville South Dakota The estate of Austin Olson who died at his farm home near Centerville is believed to total $200000. Olson accumulated wealth since 1869 mainly from farming and owned about fifteen 160 acre farms in Turner County. Survived by a widow and five grown children. He was 64. He had a history of heavy drinking and a violent temper in liquor fits.
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Centerville
S.D
Austin Olson
Olson
South Dakota
Turner County
United States
Lincoln
Turner
Home steader sentenced to ten years for family mistreatment
Ralph Moffit, a homesteader in Hettinger County, North Dakota, received the maximum ten year term for family mistreatment after confessing to the crime. Judge Crawford lamented lacking power to extend the sentence. Moffit had brought his two daughters from Michigan to live with him on his homestead.
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Mott
N. D
Ralph Moffit
Hettinger
North Dakota State Penitentiary
Crawford
Moffit
Michigan
Mof
Moffit’s crimes exposed as eldest daughter nears motherhood
The discovery reveals long-continued abuse by Moffit who forced the two girls to submit to his lust. The eldest girl now 16 was about to become a mother when the truth emerged. Before imprisonment he deeded his farm and personal property to the two girls and a guardian will be appointed to care for them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ffit
Moffit
Politician cites low voter enrollment across state
Aberdeen reports show only about half of the state's registered voters in the October 16 enrollment. Ipswich leader D J W Parmley says portions of the state lag, Mitchell and Aberdeen totals trail, and Lawrence County approaches near total registration. He warns that few voters may participate in primaries unless enrolled and urges civic duty.
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Aberdeen
J. W. Parmley
Ipswich
Republican Party
Parmley
No Hog Cholera Prevalent Now Says SD Breeder
J M Erion president of the South Dakota Improved Jive Stock and Poultry Breeders association cites lung disease caused by a long dry spell as the killer of many hogs this fall. Post mortem exams on Chester White hogs showed lung damage with no cholera signs. twenty head saved with treatment, frost expected to improve conditions.
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J. M. Erion
South Dakota
Jive Stock and Poultry Breeders’ Association
Hrion
Chester
Farmers Seek Better Telephone Links With Mitchell
City council heard two petitions from L. E. Stair and local residents urging direct phone connections to Mitchell. Farmers near Mitchell complain rural lines charge 45 cents while Sioux City exchange costs 60 cents, claiming improved ties would boost local business and benefit both sides. Signers include J. S. Bonham Harry F. Taylor and Warry Thritt.
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City of
Mitchell
L. E. Stair
Stair
City Exchange
Sioux City
S. D
South Dakota
J. S. Bonham
Harry FE. Taylor
Warry Thritt
T. E. Trmey
Hamilton Has Shares Won Back in Dramatic Reinstatement
On the Stock Exchange the collapse of George Mansfield Hamilton’s finances triggers a chain of events. Margaret Penton and Robert Anderson pursue restitution from Hargreave Fenner, who funds the needed ten thousand pounds. Hamilton settles creditors and regains standing the same day, while Anderson’s reform story ends with a loyal couple and a wiser investor.
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George
Stock Exchange
Robert Anderson
Russell Square
Hargreave Fenner
Harpreave Fenner
Fenner
Hargreave Penner
Margaret
Anderson
Magaret
Margaret Penton
Hamilton
Margaret Gayly
Mr. Hamilton
Hargreave Penners
Wargreave Fenner
Tinmidton
George Hamilton
List of Names Referenced in Local Notice
A long list of individuals including L. A. Bonham John Morgan Thos Fortner Wm C Henning J R Boltman J S Penaluna T S Barker J E Watkins J E Wilson Alonzo McLane Bert Butler E D Watkins Hal Taylor G M Bower I G Alexander L P King A G Shaw Robert Wilkinson Frank Kenton Ed Cudmore J F McLoughlin 5S W Harbert J E Rowley A W Sodergren W R Piggott Wm Fox W T Adams W P Fox G D Peck J H Loomer Walter Slade Jonas Johnson J M Fox I W Trent F C Percy 1L Harbert Thos H Cramer C D Wilcox E K Eliason
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L. A. Bonham
John Morgan
Thos. Fortner
Wm. C. Henning
J. R. Boltman
J. S. Penaluna
T. S. Barker
J. E. Watkins
J. E. Wilson
Alonzo McLane
Bert Butler
E. D. Watkins
Hal Taylor
G. M. Bower
I. G. Alexander
L. P. King
A. G. Shaw
Robert Wilkinson
Frank Ken
C. D. Wilcox
E. K. Eliason
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F. B. Smith
Municipal Court
Shitlers
Cheyenne
Senator Sterling
Great Britain
Marriagh
Princess
Redfield College
McNulty
Purner
Homsteader
JW. Parmeey
Erion
Ammered
Herbert Maxwell
George Mansfield Hamilton
Brougham
Sing
Mr. Anderson
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