Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-09-07
MITCHELL CORN PALACE
SEPTEMBER 1928

The executive committee of the Nit
chell Corn Palace has been working for
several weeks in preliminary way for
the most successful annual gathering
ever held in this state, not excepting the
year 1904, when the world famous Sousa
concert band entertained $4,000 people
in one week in this city. Since that
time new Corn Palace building has
been erected with a seating capacity of
5000 and display room for a dozen coun-
ties with agricultural exhibits, and the
world renowned Sousa band has again
been retained as one Of the many attrac-
tive features that will be provided for
the thousands of citizens from this and
other states who come to Mitchell for a
royal yearly entertainment.
This great band of musical artists,
which will give two concerts daily for
the week from September % to oS, will
be assisted as inside entertainers by a
splendid high class vaudeville troupe
engaged from large eastern city.
The free street attractions this year
are to excel any former year by having
greater numbers and higher class of
entertainers
1t is expected that the opening day
will be very interesting as very prom
inent and able western railway official
will favor the people with an hours ad-
dress upon the resources and possibili.
ties of this great undeveloped western
country.
Assurances have been received by the
gentleman in charge of the agricultural
county exhibits that twelve counties
will present their products for the visi-
tors to examine. four of which are west
the Missouri river. Since we have dir.
ect railway connections with the Black
country it has been decided by the min.
ing interests of that part of the state to
present a mineral exhibit from the var.
ious counties of the Hills, under the sup
ervision of Col. Tbornby and S. w. Rus.
sell, of Deadwood. The counties of
Butte, Stanley and Lyman, west of the
river, promise to surprise everybody
with the 1907 products gathered from
their newly developed farms which are
now being so rapidly taken possession
Of by the thousands Of homeseekers who
have come there in the past three years
East of the Missouri river the counties
of Brule, Aurora, Jerauld, Miner, Han
son. Dawson and possibly Douglas, will
also have tastily arranged county dis
plays in the Corn Palace auditorium.
The train service from all over this
state will be the best ever furnished an
annual Corn Palace or any other gath.
ering in this state. Special trains have
been arranged for. so people living in
the state within 200 miles can make the
trip in one day by using part of two
nights. 1t has been decided by the
Western Passenger association to grant
la one fare ticket for the round trip.
People living in the Black Hills, 200
miles from Mitchell, can get a railroad
ticket for the round trip for 50, which
will be very enjoyable to those who
have been in the habit of paying four
cents per mile.
Col. A. Robe, of Kansas City. the
greatest living cereal art designer, who
has mapped out the artistic grain de.
signs put on every Corn Palace, has been
secured for decorating again this year,
and will reach Mitchell August q, when
a force of fifty men will be put to work
to cover this immense building with
grain produced especially for the work
In 1907.