The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-12-08
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
MATTERS OF INTEREST THAT HAPPEN I'M
THE COURSE OF A WEEK.

excellent satisfaction in the presen-
tat1on Of ssGhosts'' about a year ag >.
~ill return for another engagement
on Der. j..
j. III. Holmes, of Aberdeen. spent
"Wednesday in the city and returned
on the afternoon train. Mr.. Holmes
has been down to Chicago and other
points east.
Mrs. Edkar Burton and children
arrived Wednesday flom the north
to loln her husband, who is the new
pastor Of the Baptist church. They
Will reside at 300 First Avenue east,
Thos. Lane was i'm from Jerauld
county Wednesday. Speaking of crop
results in Buffalo county, Mr.. Lame
SAID that Lyman Nelson, living five
mile west of Duncan. had some oats
that went IS bushels per acre.
Senator =. l.. Abel, of Huron, ar
llyged in the city Tuesday evening for
a hlief visit with Hon. O. L. Bran
son. Mr.. Abel recently moved to
Huron from Bridgewater and says he
likes the change very much.
r.. M. Bailey who has been on the
road for the past three for the Mitch
ell Roller Mills. arrived home last
evening. From the amount of flour
sold on this trip Mr.. Bailey has been
very successful in placing Mitchell's
flour on the markets of the north
west.
j. j. LaEey, of st. Charles, Mimi.
accepted a position with the Mitch
ellNational bank on the clerical force
this morning. The latter part of the
week Roy Townsend will give up his
position with the bank and leave for
MlnoI, N. D., where he will 90 into
the real estate and insurance BUSH
ness.
G. Q. King, of Scotland. who has
been i'm the city for several days on
matters pertaining to the electric
light franchise, departed Wednesday
1Or Chicago TO consult with his
attorneys relative to some things per-
tanning to liberal propositions to he
placed i'm the electric light franchise.
Rev. X. N. Kratz, of Wagner, is
In the city for a few days, Mr..
kratz was appointed as pastor of the
Methodist church of that place by
the Methodist Conference and de-
votes his entire time to his work
down there. He makes it a point 10
come home about once a month.
Ii. b. Stevens arrived from Parker
Tuesday evening and will be here for
several days. Rev. j.. S. Surbeck
gave Mr.. Stevens the contract for
setting up the pipe organ for the
Presbyterian church, and it was NOV
ed into the church Wednesday. MI.
Stevens has had considerable exper-
ience in this class OF work and his
presence in this vicinity will be the
means of saving much expense in hir-
ing an expert to come out from the
east 60 put the organ in position
The county commissioners met in
special session Wednesday. The
principle business was approving the
hon"s of three saloon keepers, where
changes are being made in the own
ership of saloons. g. e. Norris has
bought out w. Il. I ,rtis and Clark
Bros, who have been operating the
SALOON near the opera house under
another ownership, will have the
business in their own name. a SIM
liar change takes place in the con-
duct OF a saloon at Ethan.
dim Livingston and Pat Tiffany
we're up in pulice count Wednesday
and pleaded guilty 10 being drunk.
Both are old offenders and they greet
ed Justice Mckinley with IL happy
salutation wtlcp they anne into
count. The judge fined them each So
Tiffany paid his line but Livingston
siid, Swell, Judge. suppose l have
got To 90 uacii and board with the
city Il fe" DAYS. g that's WHAT,
said the court, ''if you can't dig up
the money"
A new stand pipe has just been
completed by the Milwaukee road
and is placed near the west end of
the round house between two switch
tracks. 1t is connected with the
water tank and engines coming out
OF the round house are enabled to
have their tanks filled with water
more conveniently than by crossing
over so many tracks to the tank, as
has been the case until now
r. X. Hafsos, who has the con-
tract for the construction of the hos
pital building, quit work on the
structure Tuesday evening as the
weather is getting so that the work