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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1917
Page
5
Mitchell residents are present with many short items. Harry T. Gurrane visits from Colorado with relatives, J. J. McCauley visits from Bridgewater, and several others attend the Corn Palace events. Developments include local court fines, a veterinary corps recruit for Lt. Harry Dixon, and hospital operations. Community notices cover travel, marriages, births, and upcoming council meetings with Hoover representatives anticipated.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church will present a high order music program in the church auditorium Thursday at three oclock. Featured are pipe organ performances, vocal solos, readings, and a humorous skit about Our Y M C on the Army. A large audience is urged to attend. committee members prepared the program for the event.
Japanese ambassador Ishii met President Wilson at the White House marking his first to the capital since arrival. No public comments were reported as talks with Secretary Lansing continued, with the administration maintaining caution over policy developments.
A group of directors and representatives from Wyoming Dakota Oil Co. of Rapid City are securing a base at the Hidmann Hotel. Secretary V. L. Yeager and directors J. K. Hull, Fred Knudsen, Poti, LaVoy and Frank G. Rainey arrived, with the firm incorporated under Wyoming and South Dakota laws and licensed to sell oil stock by the State Securities Commission. Yeager reports over four dozen eastern inspectors examined the property in the past month and expressed satisfaction. Mitchell’s B. B. Dean and Alexandria’s T. Yule recently visited and confirmed two rigs pumping oil on the lands. The officers and directors are prominent Rapid City and western state figures.
The Home Guard regiment of South Dakota will be issued Springfield model light rifles and ammunition shipped from the U S armory. Issuance to state companies will begin from Redfield around October 2, per Captain KF W Mitchell. Uniforms will be furnished, differing in color and style from standard army khaki, likely gray or green rather than khaki, per War Secretary Baker's guidance.
About eight hundred delegates of the farmers union of the state will convene in Mitchell for a three day meeting starting Monday. The event includes preliminary arrangements for week entertainments with headquarters at the Widmann Hotel and hosted by the Mitchell Chamber of Commerce. A smoker and speeches by prominent union members will kick off the program and signal the coming convention as the largest in Mitchell this year.
The Minnesota Public Safety Commission urged the U S Senate to expel Wisconsin Senator Robert M La Follette for an alleged disloyal and seditious address at a Non Partisan League convention in St Paul The commission asked federal prosecutors to pursue charges if federal statutes were violated Townley faced intense questioning as officials reviewed the meeting and Townleys role Burnquist said state law violations were not found and federal action was recommended for possible offenses
Washington d c sept six a basis for complete agreement on the two billion dollar war tax was reached today by House and Senate conferees. A compromise excess profits tax levy of about one billion dollars was planned for presentation to Congress. The conference adds Northern Normal at Aberdeen and the School of Mines at Rapid City, increasing membership to six. Football plans unchanged. officials to be selected, basketball likely, and fall athletics to be adopted at the spring meeting.
Washington Sept 26 Conferees on the war tax bill continued work on compromises to reach agreement on war excess profits taxation They reopened the entire subject and were said to be considering among other things the definition of corporate capital
Building Committee seeks bids for carpentry work on a church in Cuthbert South Carolina. Write to the committee. Bids open October 6, 1947.
The Shipping Board sets a charter rate of 35 75 a ton per month as the basis the government will pay for requisitioned ocean going vessels. Soon the board will take over every American vessel for overseas use, operated under time charters as needed, giving the government control of ocean freight rates and service of vessels flying the American flag.
Billy Milton's One Man Band draws crowds at the Count Palace though not part of the regular show. With base drum guitar mouth organ and improvised songs he tours the northwest, earning nickels and dimes from a loyal following in Sioux Falls Deadwood Aberdeen and more. He claims Iluron residency and has been in vaudeville as his life’s work for a decade.
President Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Chicago and proceeded to Camp Grant Rockford to inspect the cantonment and its new barracks. He is scheduled to address the 48 000 soldiers and return to Chicago for a keynote speech tonight.
Prophecy fulfilled as giant electric locomotives powered by hydroelectricity haul heavy steel trains on the Milwaukee Road corridor. Electric traction spans 440 miles through the Belt, Rockies and Bitterroot, transforming travel between Blakte, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and beyond with a smokeless, noiseless modern electric railway system.
Track work at South Dakota colleges will resume next spring after representatives from several colleges met at the Navin hotel for the South Dakota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference fall meeting. The war suspension last spring halted intercollegiate track activities, but improved college conditions support reestablishing the program under conference president Dr. R. G. Gilmore of Huron.
Local women form a committee to prepare 160 boxes of home baked sweets for Company boys. Boxes will include cookies doughnuts and drop cakes with special baskets for individual soldiers. Donations should be delivered to Congregational church basement by 2 p.m. Thursday and volunteers notified to the committee chair Mrs S H Scallin.
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