The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-01-15
IN TOWN AND N
MATTERS OF INTEREST THAT HAPPEN n,
THE COURSE OF A WEEK.

Friday. He is attending a Catholic
college at that place.
Jas. Murphy left Friday for his
former home i'm Wisconsin. lie en-
poets TO be gone about a month.
Miss Essie Bates. of WATERFOWL, is
in the city visiting at the home of
her grandmother. Mrs. G. NJ. .Abra-
ham.
Mrs. j. E. Carbon, of Emery, has
been visiting at the home OF o. w.
Goursey and returned home this
morning.
II. g. Tilton, a prominent attor-
uey Of Nermillion, vas in the city
today, returning home on the MORN
ing train.
Mrs. Otis Duncan anu children,
who have been visiting friends in the
lefty, returned home TO Sanborn,
Iowa, Friday morning.
Miss Phillips, the st%enographcr at
capital headquarters, arrived home
Friday after a vacation Of two weeks
at Westield, Wis.
I. j. Spangler arrived home Thurs
day evening on the delayed Milwau-
kee from Armour. where he had becn
attending circuit court.
E. B. VanAlstine has just put in
some new platform scales at his i'm
| plement warehouse for his coal bust
ness, the work being done by John
Roth.
Ed. Fe1nan, of Cavonr, and p. Il.
Smith, of Yale, who have been visit
ing at the home of P. II. Kelley and
family for the past few days, returned
home Friday morning.
Major Coursey and Captain Briggs
returned Friday from Salem.
They were there Wednesday evening
sitting as members OF a Board of
Survey called by order OF Adiutant
General Conklin.
A reduction in insurance rates is
one OF the new things Of the year.
Each insurance agency i'm the city
has been notified Of a reduction Of
o%ne-third over the old rates which
cover certain business blocks and
risks. The new rates went into effect
the first Of the year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Woodruff ar
rived home Friday from White
Lake, where they went on brief we'd
ding trip Tuesday. They Will take
rooms for the present at the Column
bia hotel and in the spring Mr..
Woodruff says he expects to commence
the erection OF a residence.
Presiding Elder Hager left Friday
morning for Fairfax in Gregory
county to hold quarterly meetings OF
the Methodist church. MIR. Hager
will have to cross the Missouri on the
ice to reach this charge, as 1T is To-
. Gated west Of the river. This is one
Of the most difficult places TO reach
on the entire charge.
At the meeting Of the Ladies Aid
Society Of the Congregational church
at the home OF Mrs. Geo. T. Foster
the election of officers occurred with
the following result: President. MIS-
Il. M. Clark; first vice president
Mrs. G. W. Downey; second vice
president, Mrs. ID. b. Miller: secrc
tary, Mrs. Il. II. Hoff: treasurer
Mrs. II. +. Ruth.
Fred Widmann left for a thre,
weeks trip to Minneapolis, st. Paul
Milwaukee, Chicago and DesMo;ne!
on matters connected with his hote
project. He will look up things per
] tanning to fitting the building will
plumbing, electric lights, elevator
etc. He says he will have thes,
things i'm readiness to install just a
. soon as they are ready to be put in.
: In accordance with the suggestion
OF Mayor Silsby the exit at the soutl
door Of the opera house has bee,
' placed in condition for use. Tn
room was filled with household good
j and these were taken out yesterday
: One OF the rows OF seats was also re
: moved making a better passagewa,
r to the door. 1t would be a good ide;
in the future for the people in tn
? gallery to leave the theatre by tn
. door in the south part so as to famil
iarize themselves with this exit il
: case of fire.
I DR.. r. j. Lamme returned Frida.
7 evening from Montrose. He spen
! the day there yesterday settling u
. the sudden departure of the tenan
+. on his farm. The nan had a famil
of eight and wrote the doctor tina
be was hopelessly IN debt, that h
r had decided to leave the country. an,
e gave him a statement OF what wa
Il left on the place. When DR.. Lamm
reached the farm he found that tn
d tenant had sold 100 bushels Of oat
4 and some wheat and other stuff. an