The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-08-08


Mrs. Elmer George went to Olivet
Saturday to remain a week visit
ng relatives.
Miss May Rogers left Saturday
for Armour to visit with her sister,
Mrs w. r. Upton.
Mrs. e. S. Johnston arrived
home Saturday afternoon from her
visit with relatives at Madison, Wis.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Rees arrived
Friday from Long Beach, CAL, to
make a short visit with their son,
DR.. J. I. Rees.
W.. f. Bancroft, editor of the Wes-
sington Springs True Republican,
was in the city Saturday enroute
home from Chamberlain.
Attention is called to the new adj
vertisement of II. ID. Butterfeld in
which he quotes some low prices that
will be in effect on Monday and
continuing for a certain period.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. B. Angel have
been out to points in California for
a number of weeks and arrived home
Friday night via the Omaha road.
They enjoyed their trip very much
indeed.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Schlosser and
Miss Myrtle Simpson and Z. q. Nc
Manus, of Plankinton, came oper with
the ball team from the reform school
to witness the game Saturday
with the high school team.
Mrs. Robert Burns and mother, Mrs.
r. Wedehase arrived home Friday
from Fort Dodge, Iowa. Mrs.
Wedehase has been absent for several
months and visited points farther
east when she departed in May.
Read the new advertisement of A.
I. McGovern s. Sons. They call at
tenti0u to their pre-inventory sale
and have marked down a quantity
OF goods that they want disposed of
before commencing on The inventory
of ttheir stock.
C E. Vermilyea left Saturday
for Chicago. and will continue
his Journey later to Pittsburg, Pa,
and New York for the purpose of
purchasing his stock of Org goods
and novelties for the fall and winter.
Mr. Nermilyea expects to be away
about a month. E
a. T.. Moreaux has his. cooking
force now established in bis Ideal
restaurant in the persons OF Chas. a..
B%etsford, of Sioux Falls, who is on
duty during the day, and Fred Wiede-
man who attends to the kitchen at
night. Both are experienced in the
art, and Ma. Botsford has been at the
business for owe twenty years.
HI and Mrs. w. w. Huntress are
in the city looking for a house in
which to live. Mr.. Huntress
is a travelling man and would
like to make Mitchell his
headquarters to cover his territory
in the northwest. Vacant houses
are a scarce ARTICLE in this city at
the present time.
Mn and Mrs. Carl Tannehill ar
rived Friday from Fredonia,
Kan. Carl will take a position in
Ferguson's Cash Bargain strore and
they will remain i'm Mitchell through
the winter. Carl has been on a farm
at Ffe&onia since they removed there
last spring and he said they had
splendid crops in that vicinity this
gear. He stated that the rains were
quite heavy during the summer and
that much Of the wheat. Was down,
and they had to cut the greater por-
ton OF it with cradles. Their friends
in the city will be glad to welcome
them to Mitchell again.
Henry Noble, the Milwaukee
engineer who comes down from
Aberdeen on the passenger. is try
ing to figure out whether he is yiolat-
ing the game law by killing prairie
chickens at the present time when
he can't help it. MI. Noble says that
rarely a day passes but what the
chickens will fly in front of the
engine and are killed by coming in
contact with the head end. Henry
says he does his best to keep out Of
their way but they are SO numerous
along the railroad that they pre-
empt the right OF way sometimes.
The only thing he feels sore about is
that he hasn't time to stop and pick
up the birds that are killed.
The Mil waukee road has established
a new passenger train service over
the Southern Minnesota division
running east from Woonsocket, and
giving the people from that point to
Madison the first passenger train