The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-12-05

G. G. Bras arrived home Thursday
from his trip to the Black Hills
country.
John Cook has been in Sioux City
for several days and arrived home
Friday afternoon.
MI. and Mrs. M. Keith we're over
at Alexandria Thursday and partook
of a Thanksgiving dinner with Ell. j.
Mohr and family, returning on the
afternoon train.
Mrs. j. B. Wolgemuth, who has
been visiting her son, Lee Wolgemuth,
and wife at St. Paul for several
weeks, arrived home Wednesday via
the Omaha road.
R, j. Taylor was here from Charles
City, Iowa, Thursday and ate
Thanksgiving dinner with his family.
He is well pleased with his new posi-
tion at Charles City. Mr.. Taylor re-
turned Friday morning.
Mrs. j. e. Babcock and daughter,
Miss Maude, arrived home Wednes-
day evening from Hot Springs. S. ID.
They have been out there for the past
three months for the benefit Of Miss
Babcock's health. She is very much
improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. 9. L. Downey arrived.
in the city Friday afternoon from
A tlanta, ILL.,, where they had been
to attend the celebration of the
ninetieth birthday of MI. Downey's
mother. They left for their
home at Ashton Saturday afternoon.
MI. and Mrs. T. W. Lane arrived
Saturday from their farm in Jerauld
county and were guests at the home
of ]. E. Wells during the day. They
left on the afternoon train for
Minneapolis to remain through the
holidays with relatives. Mr.. Lane
was elected as a member Of the state
senate from his county at the recent
election.
a typographical union Will soon be
in working order in this city. At
a meeting of employees enough
signatures were obtained to secure a
charter, and the following temporary
officers were elected: President,
John w. Peckham recorder, L. D..
Bartell treasurer, L. E. Willison.
The members hope to he able to ex-
tend the membership until every
printing office in the city is working
under the union rules.
1t is expected that within a short
time there will be Installed in the
postoffice a new c%ancelling machine
which will very much lessen the
labor of cancelllng the stamps on all
out going mail. postmaster Bras
made a requisition on the postofice
department. at Washington for OF
these machines and it has beer
granted. The machine has to be
made to order and it takes some
little time to deliver it. The in
crease Of business has made it neces'
sary that some more rapid method Of
c~ancelling the stamps by hand be III
stalled and the new machine will en-.
able the clerks in the office to do the
business more rapidly. The machine
is made for electric power or by hand
and in the absence Of the fOrme.
during the day the latter will hav'
to be utilized for the present.
There was a very large audience GU
to hear "Bob," Burdette at the oper;
house Thanksgiving night. He wa
one of the attractions of the lectur
and concert course. AS a humorou
lecture Mr.. Burdette takes from
rank on the platform, and the man.
people in the audience who heard hin
years ago find him much the sam
Burdette when they laughed hearth
at his witticisms that had the effec
of making the world look brighte
than before. He discoursed on tn
subject of living a happy life, an
there was much that he said in
witty manner that could be take
seriously with profit. MI. Burdett
> has seen the various phases Of lii
throughout his travels and is able t
offer pretty good advice along tina
line. A good deal Of his lecture wa
illustrated with anecdotes that wer
closely applicable to his subject an
there was very little of the time tina
the audience was not laughing. Hi
lecture was highly satisfactory to al.
and the time he was or the platforr
passed swiftly to those who listened
This morning Mr.. Burdette wen
over to the University and talked fC
nearly an hour to the students, i
which he gave them some friendl
advice. One of the students sal
that he thought the lecturer ha
told all Of his good stories last night
hut he woke uD the student bod