Today in Mitchell History

June 4, 1903 June 4, 1929 – Mitchell Man Is Own Auto Sleuth June 4, 1936 – Highway Walker Killed by Auto June 4, 1962 – Student Starts Long Trip Home By Bicycle June 4, [Read More…]

June 3, 1910 – Jail Breakers Captured By A Bloodhound June 3, 1915 – Forty-Five To Be Graduated June 3, 1949 – Woman, 75, Hit By Car, Dies June 3, 1949 – S.D. Has Few [Read More…]

June 2, 1950 – 240 Register at Girls’ State June 2, 1967 – Public Schools Report 750 Summer Pupils June 2, 1967 – State Democrats Will Ask Lower Voting Age Again June 2, 1985 – [Read More…]

May 28, 1909 – Mitchell Man Kills Two When Threatened With Arrest May 28, 1932 – Dentists to Decide Golf Championship May 28, 1947 – Governor Receives Degree at DWU May 28, 1956 – Site [Read More…]

May 27, 1920 – South Dakota Farmers Violate Truancy Law May 27, 1924 – To Lay Cornerstone of Mitchell Masonic Temple May 27, 1927 – Little Girls Injured When Struck By Car May 27, 1938 [Read More…]

May 21, 1981 – Mitchell boy dies after accidental shooting May 21, 1983 – Suit blames bar owners for death May 21, 1983 – Bank: Corsica Cattle suit should be dismissed May 21, 1987 – [Read More…]

May 20, 1967 – More Than Half of State’s Interstate Is Open to Traffic May 20, 1970 – Rash of Shoplifting by Teenagers is Reported May 20, 1973 – SDIC Names Commissioner May 20, 1973 [Read More…]

May 19, 1967 – New School Is Planned at Mitchell May 19, 1970 – Mitchell Girl Dies in Crash May 19, 1972 – KORN-TV Sale Set May 19, 1975 – Man sentenced for shooting incident [Read More…]

May 16, 1960 – City Files Suit To Acquire Land Adjacent To CP May 16, 1961 – Mitchell Concrete Employees Strike For Union Tie May 16, 1966 – Mitchellite Is Named As Top S.D. Soldier [Read More…]

May 15, 1946 – Mitchell Train Run Is Resumed Again May 15, 1952 – Mitchell Man Still Critical May 15, 1958 – Farm Wife Wins Registered Heifer In National Event May 15, 1959 – Mitchell [Read More…]

May 14, 1946 – North Western Ups Rail Service May 14, 1946 – Mitchell Man Heads Embalmers Group May 14, 1958 – Crocket to Quit Kernel Coaching Job May 14, 1958 – State Traffic Toll [Read More…]

May 13, 1959 – Flying Saucers (?) Are Seen Over Lake Mitchell May 13, 1979 – Disease puts life at standstill   May 13, 1983 – Voigt to succeed Fosness at DWU   May 13, [Read More…]

May 12, 1893 – Senator Kyle in Town May 12, 1952 – Missing Woman Found Alive Short Way From Home at Lake Mitchell May 12, 1960 – George Riggert Heads Legion May 12, 1967 – [Read More…]

November 22, 1901 – They Played Foot Ball November 22, 1922 – Woman Teacher Seriously Hurt November 22, 1929 – Dakota Wesleyan Defeats Western Union 20-2 November 22, 1940 – Household Training Course is Success [Read More…]

November 21, 1910 – Woonsocket Has Organized a Commercial Club November 21, 1922 – New School at Ethan Dedicated November 21, 1949 – More Than 9,000 Hear Walter Maier at Mitchell Sunday November 21, 1949 [Read More…]

November 20, 1915 – High School Football Team Went Down in Defeat Before Mitchell November 20, 1929 –Injunction Proceedings Planned to halt James River Contamination November 20, 1950 – Overpass Opening Set at Mitchell November [Read More…]

November 19, 1909 – Dedication set for the new Mitchell High School November 19, 1909 – Farmer Finds Gold Near Mitchell November 19, 1967 – Mitchell Prairie Market Badly Damaged by Fire November 19, 1982 [Read More…]