The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-08-28
MITCHELL'S CORN PALACE
Bigger and Better Than Ever 1t
Will be Opened Sept. % to
Oct. 1-GOOd Attractions

Oct. 1-GOod Attractions
Matters are progressing finely to-
ward the success Of the corn palace
at Mitchell, which will be held Sept.
% to Oct. l, inclusive. The exterior
Of the building has been practically
cleaned of the corn and other decora-
tions which have remained on the
structure since the last corn palace.
and the new decorations will be put
on next week. The decorative work
will be under the management Of A.
Robe, of Lawrence, Kan, who has
had charge Of this work since the
first corn palace was erected in this
city. This work will be done later
this year in order to have the corr
and grasses freSher when the palace
opens. The interior will re decorated
and everything in connection with
the fall event will be on a much larg-
er scale than ever before.
The leading musical feature will be
the Banda Rosa, Of fifty musicians,
which will give two concerts each
day. This famous band was secured
at a cost by the management for
twice the sum that was paid any
previous musical organization that
has played at the palace, lut it is in
keeping with the desire of the people
Of Mitchell to give South Dakotans
a grand treat when they come to the
palace this fall. The band will come
direct from Minneapolis, where it
plays an engagement of several weeks.
Hayes and Healey, a speciality team
from Chicago, has also been engaged
to appear on the program with the
Banda Rosa. Special attention will
be paid to the street attractions
this year, and while all the con-
tracts have not been made yet there
will be sufficient to keep the crowds
we'll entertained when there is moth
ing going on in the corr palace build
ing.
One of the big features of the corn
palace will be the exhibition Of the
counties within the corn belt OF
South Dakota, where will be dis
played the. products of the farm. Au-
rora ,..Brule, Buffalo, Hanson, Lyman
and Sanborn counties have made ap-
plication for space in the building
and the workers in those counties are
getting their products together for
this great event. South Dakota has
had a big yield Of all kinds Of grain
this year and the success of farming
in the state will be we'll displayed
through the agricultural exhibits.
Plenty of room is given for the
counties to display their products
and this feature has never failed to
be one of the most attractive. Peo-
pie from the east who make annual
pilgrimages to Mitchell to view the
corn palace Will be given the lest
opportunity to see what the soil has
produced this year, and they will
have every right to marvel at the
wonderful development of the crops
under favorable conditions that have
prevailed throughout the growing
season. The weather during the en-
tire growing crop season has been
nearer the ideal in the corn belt Sec
tion than any year in the past ten or
twelve, and South Dakota has simply
shown to be true this year what
the people have always claimed she
would do when anything of an ideal
istic nature prevailed in the way Of
weather.
This year of good crops has---done
and will do much more to dispel the
prejudice that has prevailed against
the state, and the effect is arleady
discernible in many eastern publica-
itons, which heretofore have been
%criticising the state, are now Offering
fine words Of encouragement on the
growth and development along all
lines. Mitchell's cor palace will
even more forcibly carry the idea
homo &c the seeker after knowledge
of South Dakota.
The following special days have
been arranged for the ten days:
Sept. 22-Opening-Davison county
day.
Sept. 23-Moody, Lake, Miner,
Sanborn, Buffalo, and Jerauld county
day.
Sept. 24-Turner, McCook, Camp
bell, Mcpherson, Walworth, Ed
munds, Potter and Faux county day.
Sept. 25-Lincoln, M%innehaha,
Hanson, Lyman, Brule, Aurora,
Brown and Sphinx county day.
Sept. 26-Traveling mems and
Beadle, Hand, Hyde, Hughes, Sully
county day.
Sept. 27-Sunday.
Sept. 2S-Codington, Deuel., Ham