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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
4
A cluttered page lists offers and ads for part time income schemes, rental rooms and houses, sale items like furniture, tools, a mare, and farm real estate. Also included are real estate journal promos, desk and room boarding requests, and miscellaneous notices about schooling and telegraph courses.
Decorations at the Corn Palace are advancing rapidly under supervisor William Kearney and designer Dr. F D Gillis. The central tower features a grand motto Peace and Plenty with peacocks and fruit panels. The interior uses straw for borders and new cloth lenses replace broken ones, while work focuses on preserving color and design for the opening in four days.
Creighton Parnsworth seeks a full discharge after being adjudged bankrupt on September 28 last. The petition, heard December 6, 1915, requests relief from all debts and notices were ordered mailed to creditors. The court set the hearing in Sioux Falls with publication in The Mitchell Capital.
Milton Schuster stars in a musical comedy supported by a budget plan with a guaranty fund of 600 dollars. The act, famed as part of Schuster's Comedy Legs, is promoted by E. McCarthy and tied to the P. and O. railroad financing model.
A review lists new dances with war time names and contrasts fox trot and one step styles. Dancers are urged to try Alvar 1 Bournigne and Dilly Burke while noting Waltz of Ant step and Riviera tango influenced numbers gaining popularity amid winter shows.
Growth of the Mitchell Hide Company over five years leads to a planned Aberdeen branch under W. J. Johnson. Guynn, head of the concern, says the expansion fits sustained prosperity and increasing shipments. The Mitchell head office remains under Guynn in Mitchell.
The thirty first session of the Dakota Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church convenes in Sioux Falls on Wednesday with Bishop William Alfred Quayle presiding. Highlights include completion of the Kota Wesleyan fund and plans for a statewide campaign to raise 100000 for a state hospital and endowment needs for ministers and deaconess hospitals, pending conference action.
Amid church leadership talks, Dr. Thomas Niels Turner, Dakota president and secretary of the itsobol, is favored to be elected bishop at the coming general conference. Lively support from clergy and 48 lawmen is noted as delegates are selected and about a thousand people may attend.
Wesleyan's student body joined faculty and guests at the annual joint reception held Saturday in Hal J at S dining halls. Attendees mingled, exchanged books, and enjoyed music and readings by Miss Maude Slat and Miss Hese Reynolds. The event fostered campus unity and featured planned Christian association lectings for upcoming dates.
A farmer near town recalls a terrifying encounter as a huge rattlesnake lurked near his hay load. He was resting atop the stack when he startled upon the dangerous reptile, yielding a great fright.
A partially coiled rattlesnake near a mowing area was discovered dead and loaded on a wagon after an attendant shouted for help. The man feared the snake was alive, but it was evidently killed by mowing and removed by the workers.
Laymen of cooperating churches in Mitchell plan the Laymen's Missionary Movement state convention to be held November 7 to 10 at First Methodist Episcopal Church. A $1,200 budget with a $600 guaranty fund and $1 registration per delegate were approved with no sessions collection. Strong backing is planned from the Methodist conference in Sioux Falls, the Presbyterian synod at Turon, and the Baptist convention at Deadwood.
A report details methods to secure support for the convention including a traveling committee to divert the meeting, official endorsements by five cooperating church boards, and church members resisting Mitchell. An immediate effort will raise the guaranty fund. Local Taymen, afternoon at 5 o'clock arch in the
A missing mother, reading a farmer’s ad for a housekeeper near Lane, South Dakota, answered and traveled north with funds from the farmer. Her son from San Antonio had searched across Texas to Madison and beyond, then appealed to newspapers for help. A reader in Jerauld County located her, logging the reunion of mother and son after weeks of separation.
A dispute over willful game items led to a violent fight near Frederick in Brows County. Seer Im was stabbed in the abdomen and may die, while Clifford Lynn is jailed in Brown County. Lynn slashed Miller during the affray as they fought over possession of some willful lacs.
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