MITCHELL  , a

city and the county-seat of Davison county, South Dakota, U.S.A., about 70 M . W.N.W. of Sioux Falls . Pop . (1905), 5719; (1910), 6515 . Mitchell is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul and the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railways . Among its buildings and institutions are the city hall, the Federal building, a Carnegie library, ahospital, and a sanitorium . Mitchell is the seat of the Dakota Wesleyan University (1885; Methodist Episcopal) . At Mitchell is a " corn palace," which is decorated each autumn with split ears of Indian corn, and is the centre of an annual festival, held in September and October . The city is an important shipping point for grain and livestock, and has a large wholesale trade . There are railway repair shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railway, machine shops, and manufactories of bricks and dressed lumber . Mitchell was settled in 1899 and chartered as a city in 1883 .