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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - September 24, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Info Rlph a Only Corn Palace sept. 22 to 27�?three big shows in one ten pages the evening Republican City edition vol xxx Peco re crowds at Palace actress urges marriages of 15 years Man Here held Mary Young i a a a a for torturing says it would end divorces married at 14 she says should re Chance to Correct mistakes doubts common Home v miss Points Oft that mov today Are living in of p \ i Ati establishments by 11 Orten s e a ind ers York City. Sopt. 24.�?to end abolish the life sentence for culprits advises Mary it a if sentence no longer . she complain. Vaars mild be the limit to the Validity of the marriage certificate after Whir it May be extended indefinitely int death do us part or it May be i it a ived decently without red t is serious minded actress who re a he part of the very modern wife in a dancing mothers.0 has very r finite ideas about marriage. She or f was married at 14. And be a a a a hat the greatest happiness cd a a a in women is possible Arough my Iris sri. Quot but it May also bring the greatest t a a she arces on. A and All of us e Tenet be poured in the same Mould. Most of us admit there is something radically wrong with marriage or divorce would not be so prevalent. But few of us have the i courage to come out and suggest re an tvs a tho unhappy marriage and Happy to to ridges Are in the majority in f i not suffer because the contract Mas he occasionally renewed. The air Coy marriage is the one to pro fir v the As it in now. Divorce is the Only adv. She Points out. And that is a put or Way. Since the reputation of the hush and or wife or both May be Damag d in the transaction and the Home my its traditions smashed so that pie children suffer. A with a time limit she argues. A a 110 contract to love Honor an i obey aut Matlo iffy expire at a riven time and those who make mls cakes in selection Are Given an Opportunity to find happiness elsewhere. The arrangements for the care and upbringing of the children May be Trade with honesty and Mutual confidence.0 to Are a Liberty Loving race she a a above and we need fewer restrict n marriage in Tead of More. No institution can take the place of a ire but greater happiness will or in Sib Only with greater Freedom. I May be that the Home of the o will not be a common Home. M v husbands and wives today have a a i Ftp Homes and find a happen in two that i denied in one. F Coelom in marriage should not a confused with License. It merely be Yat p0th the husband and the a a an equal Opportunity for a elopement and a career if the Ltd desires As Well As the old of is of one providing a Home and Oro keeping it. T a economic Freedom of women i revolutionized the Home and has made marriage a different problem in adjustment than it used to be. Nor increasing divorce rate is an in a Pion that the institution of mar a ego needs repairs and modern aged Recluse arrest made for robbery of Bachelor in his Shack near Corsica accused taken Back Arie Dykshoorn will be asked to identify Harry Kunefke As assailant Mary Young senator Edge is renominated against klan dry fories Are also beaten when Kean rens far behind in Yew Jersey children draw lots for $400,000 Worth of farms Newark. N. A. Sept. 24 a it it put a United states senator Walter e. Edge decisively Defeated Hamilton f. Kean National committeeman for the Republican nomination for United states senator in yesterday s primaries leading his opponent by 47,-162 votes when returns from 2,173 out of 2,559 election districts were tabulated. The vote was Edge 193.-791 Kean 1 46.629. Senator edges Lead was increased to 50,000 on later returns. Senator edges Victory was generally considered today As a Victory for the so called Liberal elements. Kean was supported by the anti Saloon league. The fight was a bitter one with the prohibition question As perhaps the Foremost Issue. Edge s supporters had openly declared that Kean had the general following of the Kun flux klan. Kean however had never admitted that this was True. Davis to renew his onslaughts on Daugherty do Max Ratiu nominee Reiter ates Coriou Fotion charge in reply to ohioan new York City. Sept. 24 c45 a having served notice that Trier is to to no obscuring of the Issue hat the american people shall be aroused to condemn and not to Convene the betrayal of of ital , Jhn a Davis prepare Cotsy to return to the stump. Der a rained to hit out tit Der than eve. Of. The subject of a a corruption in government a the notice for the democratic presidential not inc was coital Nel in a letter writ end it erday to Harry m. reply to in which tile former general i created against what he characterized As the a usually vagal and Allt a More re pre a fusible reference which or. Davis Bas made during the Campaign to his official Fondue. Agreeing with or. Daughter that there is a something Nore important in this year of than election to beaten and robbed of Liberty Bonds valued at $2,800 and $400 in Cash and left bound and gagged and unconscious on the floor of his two room Shack seven Miles from Ltd Orsioma sunday night was the Fate of Arie Dyk Shoom 71, Bachelor. Today Harry Kunefke. Mitchell is under arrest. He is declared by Douglas county authorities to be one of the three or four men implicated in the robbery. Most of last night and All morning state and Federal officers and states attorney Sharpe of Douglas county Laboured to obtain a confession from the Man but Kunefke stolidly denies his guilt. Officers have been unable to recover any of the Bonds or the Money but on searching Kunefke a Home on East first Avenue yesterday they did discover some goods alleged to have been stolen from a Milwaukee freight car Here recently. A part of the goods it is said has been identified. According to states attorney Sharpe. Dykshoorn. Who lives alone in his Little farm Home near Corsica was peeling potatoes about to of clock sunday evening when three men entered his House. They asked if they could borrow a lantern or Candle in order to see to make some adjustments on their car. Dykshoorn told them he had neither lantern nor Candle and i then suddenly one of the men covered him with a revolver while another struck him Over the head and knocked him to the floor the robbers then demanded that he Tell them where his Money was Sharpe says that they expected to find about $23,000 in the Shack. Tortured with bums Dykshoorn refused to Tell about his savings at first but the robbers burned his hands with cigarette stubs choked him with a rope and otherwise mistreated him. Until he finally pointed out the hiding places where he kept his Money and the Bonds. Of his belief that Kunefke returned to hers again struck the old Man Over the head and left him tightly bound and unconscious on the floor. It was nearly i a. In. Before Dykshoorn regained consciousness Rind was Able to crawl to the Home of his brother about 80 rods away where he told history and notified the Douglas county authorities. Or. Sharpe said the Trail led to Kunefke because it was known that the Mitchell Man had formerly lived in the neighbourhood of the Dykshoorn Home and knew the old Man had Money in the House. It is also known or Sharpe said that Kunefke spent All of last week in the Vicinity of Corsica. Or. Sharpe declare that it is his belief that Kunefke returned to Mitchell on Friday obtained the help of two or possibly three confederates and went to Dykshoorn a Home for the express purpose of committing the robbery. He said that Kunefke probably would be taken to Corsica i this afternoon and confronted with Dawes plan is cutting out work on reparations Paris. France sept. 24.�? a5 a application of the Dawes reparation plan is so diminishing the activities of the reparation commission that the commissions staff is being Cut Down considerably and the eventuality of important changes in the commission itself is being considered in diplomatic and political circles. It is understood that the British government is in favor of radically reducing the expenses of the commission even favouring the substitution of regular diplomatic agents for the present members. Realization of this project is meeting with difficulty from French sources where any belittling of the importance of the commission and any diminishing of its activity before the efficiency of the Dawes plan is definitely demonstrated Are looked upon with Disfavour. Wheeler lauds visitors line Leiter by Davis up for Block to Daugherty i before Palace he compliments democratic nominee for stand on findings of Senate probe hits hardhat Dawes attendance Mark expected for third successive Day of festival tells Minneapolis audience Republican opponent too much Uke Daugherty office or political Success,0 or. Davis said the Issue of honesty of Public Dykshoorn whom he says would be senator Edge a also opposed by the National nonpartisan Campaign officials could not be be clouded a Jbv Able to recognize Kunefke if he is really one of the robbers. Committee of the american federation of labor. Kean had frequently asserted in the Campaign that Edge had failed to stand by president Coolidge and that a change of party control was necessary. Senator Edge. However asserted that he had supported president Coolidge and criticized his opponents for the sort of Campaign which he asserted Kean a adherents waged. Senator Edge s Victory will Mark the beginning of another hard fight to be decided Al the election in november it was admitted today. Rev. Or James k. Shields former superintendent of the state anti Saloon league will be an Independent candidate for senator in addition to mayor f. W. Donnelly of Trenton. Democrat and George l. Record. Jersey City Independent progressive and adherent of senator la Follette. Weamer forecast i. It Ltd a to. Neb. Sept. 24.�?putting it slips of paper which called for a Pes on property Worth More $4 9,000, into a Box. George w. Wealthy Farmer apportioned \ children and two heirs of deceased daughters a majority land. 1.700 acres in Nebraska a too in Illinois. Took less than ten minutes to Dis of the property which Fisher h cd become burdensome in Hie need Ipp. He retained however on and some farm and City i cry. A daily program free Midway acts f0 a. M. Band concert. High e juvenile band. In front of irn Weber a. Of a. amp Fritz a the i cooler thursday h foundry. A laugh a minute j North Dakota mostly fair tonight a Quot it of scharnweber a. I amp not a thursday cooler tonight in East .30 a. M. Chefalo. Leaping 0n South portions n of tire running in High. Or. J South Dakota mostly fair tonight Overland company. And thursday cooler except in sex 0 Simms amp i Ritz juggles and j Treme Northwest portion thursday is. A funny pair. In front of Iowa probably Lair tonight and thursday but with some cloudiness warmer tonight in East and South portions cooler thursday in Northwest portion. Minnesota probably fair tonight and thursday but with some cloudiness warmer tonight in extreme East and cooler in Northwest portions your forced Effort to represent the real contest of this Campaign As one Between the defenders of the Constitution and those who seek to overthrow it under leaders a fresh from a baptism of bolshevism in lurid and suffering Russia. A a if the Constitution is to or. Davis wrote a the first requisite is that men who hold office under it shall be honest and faithful to their trusts. Its real enemies Are nut the reds and bolshevik its of whom you speak whose shadows frighten you but corrupt and impotent Public officials and their asserting that instead of being j a quite his allusions in the Campaign to or. Daugherty had been a both direct and or. Davis declared that he found no warrant whatever for withdrawing a single Cne of them. In connection with indictment of United states senator Burton k. Wheeler of Montana. Or. Davis assailed both the department of Justice and the Republican National committee in connection with the sending of their agents to Montana. He added that the a significant things was that no Effort to find an indictment had been made until the senator had assumed a leading part a in or. Sharpe said that last night Kunefke broke Down in his cell and promised to make a statement this morning but that apparently he had changed his mind and was today Stead fast in his denial of any connection with the Corsica robbery. A a a it it a a Coolidge gets report on probe of a Gas Trust Washington sept. 24.�?president Coolidge arranged his Calendar of business today to receive delegates to the convention of the National association of retail druggists and address them from the South portico of the White House. Tomorrow or. Coolidge goes to Philadelphia to speak at night in connection with the exercises celebrating the 150th anniversary of the meeting of the first Continental Congress. Another voluminous report a been Laid on the presidents desk. Attorney general Stone submitting to Clamp lid on rum Trade in Philippines Manila. P. I., sept. 24�? g45 a instructions issued by the state department at Washington ordering All foreign consults to refuse to Issue Bills of health to vessels carrying liquor to the. Philippine islands for Beaverr age purposes were received Here today it As stated officially. The ruling of the state department based on an interpretation of the eighteenth amendment by the department of Justice last june. Was contrary to the interpretation placed upon the volstead act in official circles Here it was believed the dry Law of the United states did not apply to unorganized territory in which category Manila Falls. Based on decision Washington. D. C., sept. 24.�?the eighteenth amendment has stretched out is forbidding hands to the philippine islands. Under a Legal decision holding shipment to the islands of liquor for beverage purposes to be contrary to the amendment the state department a instructed a1 United states consular officers to decline 3 Clear vessels with such destination and cargo. Disclosures that such order had been issued last june was made by tha department yesterday on receipt of dispatches from Manila indicating a belief on the part of governor general Wood that the Philippines were exempted by the volstead act which a department of Justice decision has held to be not the Case. Coolidge makes pledge of service in speech today Minneapolis minn., sept. 24.�?up up a before a noon gathering of la Follette supporters today in Minneapolis senator Wheeler Independent vice presidential candidate complimented John w. Davis democratic presidential nominee for his stand on findings in the Senate investigation of the department of Justice and renewed his attack on general Dawes Republican vice presidential candidate. He recited again his Story of the Lori r Bank failure in Chicago and criticized Genera Dawes banking conduct. A progressives should read and appreciate the letter of John w. Davis1 to Harry m. Daugherty made Public today a he said. A for myself i appreciate it not merely a an act of Courtesy to myself but As an act of intelligence. I am even More pleased to have this note of intelligence struck in one of the opposing Camps than i am to have or. Davis single me out for an expression of Confidence in the work i undertook to carry through in Washington. A i want to show you Why you Are in danger of getting another Daugherty if ill Fate should give you this Man Dawes. The men in their possibilities at least Are too much alike. Their sympathies Are alike and their careers Are not essentially Indi member of Congress for a Oder party Baltimore md., sept. 24.�?John p. Hill representative from the third District of Maryland who tested the prohibition Laws with a cider party at his Home last saturday night was indicted by the Federal grand jury on a charge of the illegal manufacture and Possession of liquor. Of minister and Paramour put in separate jails big Day tomorrow coming of senator i uis will attract Republican hosts of state Washington d. C., sept. 24.�?up a service and Mutual consideration were set up today by president Coolidge As the guiding principles in relations Between the government and business in a talk to delegates to the convention Here of the National association of retail druggists. The president again pledged himself to an administration guided so that a there May be a reduction of taxation and Harmony in our foreign relations that there May be peace and pursuance of the policy of service or. Coolidge said will bring a a less and less interference by the agencies of the government in business it should be the aim of the government he added to make the contracts Between business and the administration As few As possible a a a and to reduce the burdens and annoyances to the Minim us which is consistent with conservation of the broadest Public senator Moses of new Hampshire chairman of the Republican senatorial committee reported to president Coolidge today that the Senate Campaign As Well As the National a progressing satisfactorily. Today a baseball see Page 2 for report on today s games him the conclusion and data of the the criticism of the administration i Federal Trade com Mission in its Inver and of irn Weber a. �?T2 30 a m. Captain Hugo the Man meteor. A leap into space. In Quot a Section 6th a main. A n0 p. M. The daring Henderson Quot too p. My band concert. 4 45 Simms amp laugh sundry. A laugh a int of scharnweber a. 5 15 Chefalo. The the fiery chasm. Showing real Speed. In 45 Simms in fun Mare juggles. An act you la like. In front of scharnweber a. 6 15 the daring Henderson Only title wire artist. Midway a real thrill. Intersection 7th amp main. A Stellar show is read for you in Ide the Coin Palace 9i3q band con non the Midway. Local temperatures maximum and minimum temperatures from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. Dry agent and bystander shot in Baltimore raid Baltimore. My. Sept. 24.�?leo. G. Woodward prohibition agent attached today As recorded by the official e j to Tje Washington squad operate government thermometer maximum. 82. Minimum 56. At 8 a. In. Today. 62. Of ing in Baltimore was shot through weather and roads Huron Clear. 58 roads Good. Mitchell Clear. 62 roads Good. Sioux Falls partly Cloudy 54. Roads fair. Pierre Clear 56 roads Good. A the Chest Early today in the hallway j of a dwelling he had entered to raid. A few minutes later mrs. Alexander Booth who lives two doors West of the raided dwelling was shot in the i head after she had been awakened by the shots fired at Woodward and looked out of a third Story window. The bullets witness said were fired by a group of men who gathered on the sidewalk and fired a dozen or i More shots at the raided dwelling. Aberdeen Clear 42 Roa Tai a a physicians said Woodward a wound Watertown Clear. 56 to. G Yod. Was not necessarily serious. Mrs. Yankton Clear. 63 roads Good. Booth was shot in tha lefts. Ligation into the gasoline Industry. Or. Coolidge has indicated that he would reach a decision at an Early Date on Tariff commissions report on the proposal to reduce the sugar duty. A a o Brothers in Law use pocket knives in death Duel Maynardville tenn., sept. 24-�?As the result of a Challenge to a a let a go outside and see which one lives Wheeler has heavy schedule in Minnesota mount Vernon ii sept. 24.�? up a the principals in the Sweetin Hight Poison plot Romance today were separated by Miles. The Rev. Lawrnce m. Hight being held in jail at Nashville ii while mrs. Elsie Sweetin was a prisoner at Salem 111. Both were taken from the local jail yesterday mrs. Swetin being transferred because the Jefferson county jail has no quarters for women prisoners while the minister was transferred to Nashville More As a precautionary measure. With the confession obtained yesterday from mrs Sweetin that it was she who. At the instigation of the Clergyman administered Poison to her husband and the admission made monday by Rev. Hight implicating himself in the Sweetin Poison Case and assuming responsibility for his wife a death. States attorney Thompson of Jefferson county saw his Effort crowned with Success. What action of any the Southern Illinois methodist episcopal conference will take against the minister is a matter of conjecture. The conference opened its annual meeting at Carbondale yesterday and in his opening address Bishop Leete of Indianapolis made it known that he would have the matter in a estimated by a committee but not before the courts had finally decided the Case. Mrs. Sweetin asked her family physician. Or. S. A. Thompson of mount Vernon to recommend a two Good lawyers a indicating she intends to fight for the minimum punishment for her crime. County officials Here today expressed interest in announcement of the identification of a photograph of a Young woman found in the pastors Home As that of Grace Elliot who died at her Home at Centerville ii oct. 15, 1922, after seven weeks Hines pronounced As typhoid. The Young woman s father said there was St. Paul minn., sept. 24.�?a heavy schedule faced senator Burton k. Wheeler candidate for vice president when he arrived in Paul today for several addresses Here and in Minneapolis. Met in by. Paul by a committee from Minneapolis his program called for a noon meeting at the Minneapolis steel and machinery company s Plant Minneapolis a i of clock luncheon address political conferences in the afternoon two Early evening speeches in Minneapolis and an address to a mass meeting in St. Paul longest Charley Lay and Alonzo at night. Waggoner first cousins As Well As j tomorrow speeches in Hibbing Brot hers in Law fought with pocket knives last night and Lay met death in the encounter. Waggoner was arrested and bound Over to the criminal court grand jury. Lay and Waggoner engaged in an argument Over a trivia business Deal it is claimed. And the Challenge was then passed Gad accepted. Virginia and Duluth will Complete his Minnesota visit. A a. Taggart to Hospital Boston mass., sept. 24.�?thomas Taggart democratic Leader of Indiana was removed to a Hospital Here from his Cape cod summer Home today threatened with appendicitis. With a line four deep extending for almost a Block from the com Palace Box office at noon today a smaller a the hours went line which grew larger instead of seemed apparent that tho big Corn Palace show was out to set a new attendance record for today. Monday smashed previous monday records. Tuesday set a new High Mark for tuesday when approximately 6.-800 people saw the two performances yesterday and the Palace management is hopeful that wednesday will continue to pile up the rapidly accumulating new Marks. In Cash re its yesterday exceeded tuesday of a year ago by More than $1,500. Weather is playing a Large part in the excellent records that Are being made this year for it has been Many years since the skies have been As Clear and the wind a warm As it has been thus far this week. With three More Days equal to the last three in climatic conditions w. H. King manager of the Palace believes that All previous attendance records for the week will be broken. Expect throng tomorrow tomorrow. Or. King asserted is sure to take its place with record breaking Days because senator Frank b. Willis Ohio will be Here. Senator Willis comes to Mitchell at the direction of the National Republican committee and at the Earnest solicitation of president Coolidge himself who compelled to refuse an invitation to appear Here in person delegated the Ohio senator As his personal representative. Senator Willis will arrive in Mitchell at 2 53 p. In. Over the Milwaukee coming Here from Omaha. He will make a Brief appearance at the Corn Palace immediately upon his arrival an will deliver his formal political address on a stand in main Street Between first and second avenues immediately after the Corn Palace afternoon performance. In the evening at 6 15 senator Willis will be a guest of Honor at a Republican banquet at the episcopal Church. The county state and National candidates in South Dakota Are All expected to be there. County chairmen and workers throughout the state and especially the Davison county organization will be out in full strength. Gov. Mcmaster. Senator Norbeck congressmen c. A. Christopherson Royal c. Johnson and William Williamson Are All to be pres ent. As Well As lesser lights in the South Dakota Republican organization. At this dinner senator Willis is expected to give some constructive organization suggestions to the county and state workers. Palace program to change tomorrow will see a Complete change of program at the Cora Palace. Under the direction of a. D. Scott builder of choruses who has Complete charge of the Ernie Young show this year four new dazzling numbers Are under course of preparation. One of these probably will be the most unique dance number Ever sen in Mitchell. Or. Scott has named it a the Orchard of Beautiful the Golden girls will each be arrayed As a fruit tree branches Laden with real fruit being built upon a base fastened around the Waist of each girl. The baby Ballet members will be consumed As fruit pickers and the fresh fruits apples peaches oranges Plum etc., will be picked and distributed among the audience. Or. Scott expects this number to to a tremendous Success. This chorus will be led by Ralph Snyder. The second change will be Spanish number led by miss Catlett and mme. Kovak. A double dancing feature will be shown in this number by two members of the Ballet. Or. Scott is authority for the statement that the costumes in the Spanish number will be magnificent. The third change will be a chinese number in which a trick change of costume will be used and the effect will be heightened by spots and flood lights. Plantation dances coming one of the big numbers of the entire week according to or. Scott will be Plantation Days which opens with a strut dance and slips into Buck and Wing. And in which almost every stifle of modern Plantation dancing in featured. This number nothing suspicious in her death but a a was first staged under personal rpm or he k t w direction of or. Scott at the. Rain. Rey. Or. Of flight. Her former pastor. I How a Cal an where it or a m a furore. Miss Chet Gorman will be featured in Plantation Days and specially dances will be offered by the had forgotten her name. Grace was an organist in the Church and Hight preached her funeral Sermon. Rev. Hight recovers poise Nashville ii sept. 24.�?Rev. Law rence m. Hight removed from mount Vernon to the Washington county jail Here As a precautionary measure gave instruction As to disposition of the Small amount of property be owns in a letter written to hts daughter mrs. Mary Eaton of Tamaroa ii it was reported today. The instructions were not made Public. Quot in a sorry for what i did but its too late for that now a Hight is quoted As having written in the letter. His attitude since arriving Here has been Calm and he appears to have resigned himself to whatever Fate May be in store for him. It dental experts say half a tooth is better than none if it is properly pre air Vii Southern boys. Blackstone too will offer a Complete change in his program Tomor Row night. Special manifestations in magic will be offered by the master conjurer who promises to present tricks and stunts even More puzzling than he has offered the first part of the week. Oben Deeley Dies los Angeles sept. 24.�?ben Dee Ley 46, motion picture actor and self styled fourth husband of Barbara la Man also of the screen died Here last night of double pneumonia. O Theodore Theodoroff a former bulgarian Premier had been trying to make a living As a caricaturist before his death in Sofia recently

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