The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-05-20
~AUGUSTANA COLLEGE
Fiftieth Anniversary will be Celebrated
Appropriately at Canton

Canton-The fftieth anniversary Of
Augustana college will be celebrated
with appropriate festivities on Tues
day, May 81, 1910. The United church
and its several schools will, through
their representatives. take a betting
part in helping us make this ami
versary long to be remembered in the
annals of tho school.
The festivities of commencement
week will begin Sunday. May %. In
the morning dedication services will
be celebrated in the new Lutheran
church lately erected in Canton. DR..
. r N. Dahl will oficiate. In the even
ing Rev. David Stove, 1900" will de-
liver the annual ~baccalaureate SER
mon. In connection with the dedica-
ton exercises the local churh will
conduct a religious conference on Mon
day, and in the evening Prof. Chris
tiansen OF st. Olaf college will give
an organ concert assisted by able vo-
cal talent.
The entire day and evening of
Tuesday the 31st Of May, will be CIV
en- to the anniversary festivities. Pres
ident DR.. Dahl will speak in Nor
wegian, and Rev. J. c. Roseland In
English in the forenoon. The after
nOon and evening programs Will on
tain a number of short addresses. rem
i%niscences and cOngratulatory speeches
by representative men who have been
prominent in church and schOOT az
fairs, interspersed with instrument
and vocal music. Wednesday is grad
uation day. Glass day exercises will
occupy the morning and the COM
mencement exercises will a k place
In the evening.
Augustana college was founded In
1860 by the Scandinavian Evangelical
Lutheran Augustana Synod and tenn
porarily located in Chicago. ILL.,.
whence it was moved to Paxton, ILL.,,
In 1863. After continuing here for six
years the Swedes and Norwegians
concluded to divide the school &C
cording to nationality and the Nor
wegian branch. faculty and students,
moved to Marshall. Wis. The school
was again moved to Beloit, Ia, In
1918. and to Canton in 1884 where l.
has found a permanent home and a
Elsf1e field for its activity. Its prom
sserty in the city of Canton is valued at
about $4,000.
Sioux Falls-The building commit
tee. having charge the pans for the
construction of the Odd Fellows home
At Dell Rapids. met at the Catarac-
Nhotel in this city last week. Or. A. F.
#Clough. chairman: Geo. w. Snow. {.
u. Bach. =. s. Emerson and ]. NJ. Pat
ton were present. Also Grand Score
tary Harvey ]. Pice and Brother Hen
4rv Robertson. chairman OF the Dell
8Rapids committee. and Mr.. Schwartz.
Narchitect. Several bids for the on
Nstruction OF the building were receiv-
led and considered. and the plans care
3fully gone over. The bid OF the Gar
4ner Construction company of Madison
5for the COMPLETED b"ilding. heating
plumbing ard all ready for occupancy.
was the lowest and deemed the hes
land the same was accepted subject t.
the approval of the grand lodge. A
tgood deal Of work was done on the
freport TO the grand lodge. and II Is
8expected that everything will be read
Bfor sctioa IT The baginNiNg 81 the SEES
gsion.
Pierre-State Engineer Lea has re-
Eceived from the Kansas City Star, a
Request as Ia feasible lines for a high
way from Kansas City to northwest
fern Montana Such a highway could
Tbe established along the Missouri riv-
Ter for its whole cor. Sc. but would be
somewhat lon&2Sx;h0" a line to- fo@'9a
1.-THE river 10 practically the south line
Iof this state. then taking a more west
Ierly direction through the Black Hills
Ito the southeast corner OF Montana
land be continued through that state.
THE -foute would sweep through the
very center of this state and would