The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1899-07-07

Mlss Nettle wells accompanied Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Shaver to their home
at Luverne, MINI on q two weeks
vacation.
L. o. Gales drugstore is the place
for pure, fresh drugs, patent med icines,
etc. Beggs' Diarrhoea Balsam is guar
anteed.
A. G. Pollard left Tuesday for Mon
mouth, ILL.,, having been called
there by a message that his father was
not expected to live.
Eugene McGovern arrived home
Tuesday from West Point and will re-
main here until time for re-entering
the military academy.
VIM. M. Smiths little boy became
mixed up with frecracker OF large
proportions and he carries a badly
lacerated hand as the result.
Rev. A. G. Stevens came home from
Hartland, VT, Tuesday evening. Next
week he will take his family to Big
Stone lake for brief vacation.
Mrs. C, G. Dean and two sons left
yesterday afternoon for Miller to visit
with her parents short time. From
there Mrs. Dean will go to Ames, Iowa,
to visit month or more.
Funeral services were held over the
remains OF Nels Nelson at the Swedish
church Tuesday afternoon at O'Clock
aud were largely attended by the resi-
dents in tnat. vicinity. The services
w~re conducting by Rev. M. Phil, and
the remains were laid to rest in the
Swedish cemetery.
Rev. A. D. D. Fraser went over to
the Madison Chautauqua to remain
over Sunday. Mr.. Fraser will deliver
an address next Sunday before the as
sembly, which day has been set apart
for the ministers and Christian workers
and the topics discussed will be along
the line of the needs of today in applied
Christianity.
The county commissioners were in
session IS board of equalization ar d
finished their work Thursday. The
assessed valuation on all structures in
the city were reduced 10 per cent. The
board sent the sheriff to Mt. Vernon
Wednesday to bring in the assessors q
books for that township, he having
failed to return them at the proper time.
Mr., and Mrs. M. A. Oppenheim. of
Sioux Falls, are in the city. Mr.. Op-
penheim is the general state agent for
South Dakota for the orthwestern
Life and Savings Co., OF Des Moines,
Iowa. He says that arrangements
have about been concluded to make
Mitchell the headquarters of the oom-
pany for this state, because of it's GEN.
trail location. THE REPUBLICAN is
pleased to welcome Mr.. aud Mrs. Op-
penheim as new residents of Mitchell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Harker and little
son, George, narrowly escaped q seri
GUS accident with a runaway Tuesday
afternoon. They were driving out in
the country and had just crossed the
Firesteel bridge east OF town, when
they saw runaway coming up in the
rear. 1t was within hundred feet of
them before they discovered it but
gave Mr.. Harker time enough to get
sufficiently out of the road to avert the
full force of the crash. AS it was the
hind wheel of the buggy was caught by
the other vehicle and they were turned
completely over. None of the occu-
pants were very badly injured,
although Mrs. Harker sustained few
bruises. The buggy was damaged to
some extent and the gentleness of the
horse they were driving averted any
other accident that might have follow
ed. The runaway team started from
D. L. Tenny's house. Nobody was in
the buggy. The team stopped by COM
ing in contact with tree and nearly
demolished the buggy.
A rain OF unprecedented proportions
in the same space of time visited this
section at O'Clock Wednesday even.
ing and for an hour there seemed to be
no limit TO the amount OF rainfall.
Observer Huyck stated that in the
short period there were exactly two
inches of water came down. The
streets were practically running rivers
and it tested the capacity of the catch
basins to carry off the immense vol.
ume of water. The rain was general
nearly all over the county, althoue h no,
80 heavy as in this locality. Northwest
of town there was strip of county visi.
ted by hail and considerable damage
was done, Ole Lugland being the
heaviest loser. He had in between zoo
and 300 acres of wheat one half of which
was destroyed. John K. johnson
was caught by the hail but to wha,
extent WAS not learned. Southwest o
to 1n about 10 miles there was quite s