Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-10-05

corn palace judging from what we OBJ
served in that lively city last Friday.
In company with a number OF Can
tonites we made the trip and every
where along the route the depot plat
forms were crowded with excursion
lists waiting for the special that came
all the way from Sanborn, in charge
Of n of the most popular and genial
ticket punchers on the road-COn-
ductor Bradbury. The train arrived
at Mitchell at II, making the run
from Canton in three hours.
There were ten coaches filled and
we'll filled and at Alexandria 100 got
onto cars which we're already packed,
but it was a good natured crowd and
nobody kicked if their corns were
pressed under the dainty heels OF
some fair one on pleasure bent with a
corn palace smile.
In was an inspiring sight when we
got off the cars at Mitchell. The
town seemed filled and Main street
was a moving mass of humanity from
sidewalk to sidewalk clear from the
depot to the beautiful palace made of
corn. SideshOws and overhead shows
with music everywhere, vendors call
ing their specialties, booths filled
with attractions, here and there a
bare legged kiltie and happy faces
arm in arm parading along In the
sweet enjoyment Of budding love
with that corn palace smile, and
everywhere mingling with the crowd
you could see Mayor Branson's silver
starred guardians, but there was
little for them to do, as Mayor Bran
son ordered every known CRATER out
of town just as soon as one was dis
covered, consequently Mitchell made
a record for peace and good order
never surpassed anywhere considering
that some six thousand strangers
entered and left the city every day
during the week.
The writer met old friends from al
most every part Of the state and
while visiting in the First National
bank who should walk in but the
first squatter governor Of the old
territory, Hon. F.. M. Zeibach, hale,
hearty and smiling, and just as we'll
pleased as when he used to preside
over the Third House in YanktOn in
early days when the Third House was
generally considered the best Of the
bunch.
Mayor Branson is also president of
the First National bank and a most
genial gentleman, and a splendid new
building for the bank will be finished
in two months under the direction of
one of the best contractors in the
slater. X. HafSos of Canton.
Mitchell has lots of good men, pat
riotic and public spirited. and they
are always pushing, and their work
is making Mitchell boom.
James e. Wells, formerly of Lin
coin county, is one of the best men in
that town full of good men. Jim, as
the boys call him, has a host of
friends everywhere and he has won
this splendid friendship because he is
a square deal" champion from the
ground up.
We got up as far as the corn palace
an hour ahead of the Kiltie's concert
and began to look around among the
county exhibits, and all were good
and worthy Of any state. The Lin
coin county exhibit was the last on
the circuit, and it made every Lin
coin county visitor at the palace feel
cent display there stood H. II. De-
Long and Joe Millett, smiling &C
acknowledgements to compliments from
strangers who were admiring that
matchless display from Olaf Jens-
vold's big apples down to Joe Millett's
dwarf pop corn with root and stalk
complete and not over Is inches high.
Then there was John Gerber's red
ripe strawberries, a second crop, taken
up and transported to Mitchell, and
If you had the time to count you
could have counted ffty-one varieties
OF apples. all handsome. There was a
cannon beet mounted on twin squash
wheels and a squash representing a
mallard duck, and any number of
curiously formed specimens Of the
vegetable kingdom, and when you
looked around a little you could easily
determine that Lincoln county was
the corn county of the state, and
that Joe Millett, A. J. Wimple and
John Bremen we're making the coun-
ty famous by their corn exhibit.
Great fine yellow dent-13 inch ears,
all handsome with evidence of good
breeding.
ooh, my, what apples" when a
stranger got his eyes on those big
Jensvold beauties. That big "a ounce
fellow made the mouth of many a boy
water and the ladies couldn't be
satisfied until they clasped their deli
cate fingers around those rosy cheeks.
1t was no wonder that Messrs. De-
Long and Millett felt proud Of their
work and proud of their county and
pleased at the steady flow of compli-
ments that poured In upon them
from a surprised and we'll pleased
crowd of strangers.
At 1:30 the great curtain slid up
into space revealing the Kilties ready
for business. The concert was very