... Mrs. B. F. Reed, who had been visiting her brother Cheever Hudson, at Mitchell, S.D., got home election day and cast her first vote for president. Mrs. Reed brought word that there was a great blizzard at Mitchell Sunday and Monday. Snow fell to the depth of two or three feet, and roads had to be cleared before traffic could be resumed. ...
Read more local history in Gene Miller's Out of the Past column in the Nov. 5 Kossuth County Advance.