The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-02-26

CITY AND COUNTRY.
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Lot Wilder soon leaves for Everett
Washington, where lie will enter the
employ of a large lumber mill firm.
Ira o. Curtis has been absent from
Office about two weeks. lie is, said
to have been attending TO business ia
Chicago.
The last mustaches to be sacrificed
to tue prevailing fashion are those OF ,
Joha Latbrop, of Gem and John j.
Nelson, the sIender wheat buyer or
Pu.ney.
Sheriff Cole has Father Browns pic
ture in his office and the other boys
are talking Of taking out a writ and
have the coroner go down in that
basement after it.
The Aberdeen high school basket
ball team played the return
game with the OAKS team last Friday
defeating the later team again, this
time by a score OF % to L.
Elk Senator e. 2. Ashford OF Rondeli
is agitating the question of construct
ion of an electric or trolly line from
Aberdeen to the south east thru the
townships Of Gem and Rondell and
on forty Or fifty miles further south
east.
The first official occupancy OF an
office in the'neW courthouse was blythe
county commissioners. They held d
business session in their room on Sat
urday. while the other officials didnol.
40 business in their new quarters I'M.
til Monday.
Mrs. Andrew IIafer, who lives in the
FIRST ward in this city, and whu it will
be remembered gave birth to triplets
about a year ago which died enc after
another in the course OF a month or
50, has lately given birth to twins. a
boy and girl.
Rev. John Nelson, union Sunday
school missionary returned Monda.
evening from a tour OF about ten
days thru Sphinx and BeadIe counties
holding meetings and working up the
home department., in which he has
now enrolled lib members.
w. e. Lovejoy, who has been agent
for tie Northwestern railroad in this
city for twenty years has sent in his
resignation and will act as advertising
solicitor for the Dakota Farmer
throughout the states of North and
South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.
The Northwestern railway people are
using their best efforts to induce
Mr.. Lovejoy to reconsider his deter
mination to resign.
James Tunstall, a former Columbia
boy. who travels for an individual
lighting plant house over North Da-
kota and Northern Minnesota, has
been in the city a few days. From
him the writer learned that his faith
er, Wm. TunStall, a well known old
timer at Columbia, died very sudden
ly from a stroke Of appoplexy last
April at his home in Minneapolis.
John FL. frey has good reason tc
)e thankful for the invention of tia
telephone. On Thursday night he
worked rather longer than usual ano
wien lie started &c ga;aaenac Aefeaa
himself locked in without a key
Iha Jewett wholesale building will
! its iron grated windows is as secur,
us any Jail. It was the night Of tht
business mems banquet and smoker
lie social event uf the year, ard Mr.
Firey was down for a speech. TIL,
only way the cry for deliver
ance could reach human ears wa
lover the telephone wires.
Last Tuesday morning Col. Bol
lStewart, Capt. Dewell, and Adj
Beckwitl- left Pierre on a tour .
inspection of the companies in Col
Stewards command-the End Regt
is. d. N. G. The trip will take tw'
weeks and will take in the cities AM
towns OF Micheli, Howard, Salem
Redfield, Yankton, Sioux Falls, Volga
Huron, WATERFOWL, Aberdeen, ant
Milbank where companies are located
The Eureka and Eyarts companie
Twill not be inspected on this trip. Th
Aberdeen company L will be inspect
ed tonight. The boys have bee
d drilling for a week or more in antic
] ipation of the event. Captain w. c
n Hazel OF this city left Wednesda
morning to join the staff at Canton.
Frank Coburn, a son of Ell. II. Ce
burn, of Lansing township, was brc
down by Sheriff Cole on Saturday fror
Kuhn, charged with being implicate
In the stealing Of a number of horse
from Gus Berry of Detroit township
on the night Of the 18th of Januar,
}. The horses were traced to near Kull
land two Of them it is reported foun
in Coburn's possession. He claims i