The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-05-07
BRAWN AND BRAIN
They Will Both be Given Full Play When
the State Colleges Congregate
Here May 18 and IS.
Home Dramatic Talent in Another Pre-.
duCtiOn, Given for the Bsneit Of
The Episcopal Church.
TO DECORATE GRAVES
Old Soldiers Making Arrangements to
Deck the Graves Of Fallen Com
radeS Saturday, Nay 29.
TO DECORATE GRAVES
ATHLETICS AND ORATORY.

Mitchell Will be the Scene of Wonder
full Gathering in Two Weeks.
What will result in one Of the great
est meetings OF the year in Mitchell
will occur on May Is and l9, when the
annual Intercollegiate oratorical con
test and athletic association meeting
will be held. The indications are that
it will be one of the largest attended
meetings in the history of the two as
sociaiions and as Mitchell is centrally
located all the colleges are making
UNUSUAL efforts to bring a large crowd
from their towns. The University stu
dents have already commenced to pre-
pare for the great event by securing
places for the visitors and getting the
grounds in readiness for the athletic
contests, which will occur on the cam
pus! near the University. AS an in
dication that the crowd will be a large
one is shown by the presence of F. G..
Orr, secretary of the agricultural COL
lege of Brookings, in the city, who was
here to made arrangements to house
200 Brookings people. MIR. Orr said
they would arrive in special train
over the Northwestern and would bring
their college band along, also the two
military companies attached to the COL
lege. Brookings will be strongly rep
resented in the athletic contests and
among the orators. Vermillion and
Yankton are both going to send up big
delegations and each town declares
they will do as we'll as Brookings,
while Reofeld and Sioux Falls will
have large number OF Representatives.
The state University at Vermillion
will send along it's band and on Tues
day evening, the 18th, the Brookings
and Vermillion bands will have con-
test in the Grand opera house for a
prize, together with varied musical
program. Some great base ball games
are expected between Mitchell, Red
field, Sioux Falls, Vermillion, Brook
ings and Yankton, one of whom will
carry off the championship. Other
athletic sports. such as hammer throw,
putting the shot, lawn tennis, vaulting,
bicycle racing, foot racing, ETC., will be
seen, and will be participated in by
nearly one hundred college athletes,
and it is fair to assume that some
great trials of skill will be given.
The oratorical contest. which ia al
ways leading feature, will be held at
the Grand opera house on the 10Th and
will undoubtedly be an interesting af-
fair. The names of the contestants
and the subjects of their orations will
be announced later.
In conjunction with these associa-
tions the third annual convention of the
South Dakota Intercollegiate Y. M.
and Y. W. G. A. will be held commenc
ing Friday, May IA and ending Sunday
evening. Mabel E. Barlow, of Yank
ton, is president and Lillian McDon-
ough, of Mitchell, is secretary of the
Y. W. G. A., and W. r. Ellis, OF Ver-
million. is president, and Ed. S. Whit
taker is secretary of the Y. M. G. A.
The hospitality of Mitchell will be
tested on these occasions to care for
the 600 or 700 students and others who
will be here.