The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-09-15

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ing to visit with relatives at Water
town for several weeks.
Oliver Spiller, OF Frederick, Ill. ar.
rived in the city and IS a guest Of j..
N. Cook. Mr.. Spiller expects to rent
a farm in this vicinity.
+. M bailey received a telegram
Friday evening announcing that his
father was stricken with apoplexy at
his home in Wanseca, Mimi, yester-
day.
Mrs @. W. Downey went to Ash
ton Friday evening to'see h%cr::father,
WHO was was run i've by a team and
wagon a day or two ago. His condi-
ton is not very serious.
l. j. Hamiel, of Upton, Iowa, ar
rived in tie city to visit his brother,
~. c. Hamlet, and family, who re-
side a short distance east Of town.
Mr.. Hamlet is an attorney at law.
Earl Merritt has been out to Wes-
lsington Springs for a few days and
returned home Friday morning. He
accompanied his father, who lives at
Perry, Iowa, to look over the country.
A class in German has just been
organized for the study of that lang
uage. The class will be conduct
ed by Prof. r. f. Otto and the
method OF teaching will be through
conversation.
Hon. 0. L. Branson went over to
Fulton Friday morning to attend the
harvest festival arranged for by the
citizens OF that place. On the morn
ing program Mr.. Branson delivered
an address, and this afternoon was
devoted to a series Of sports.
AdOlph Scleurenbrand commenced
work Friday morning to lay a cement
Sidewalk on the north and west sides
of the Commercial and Savings bank
building. The walk on the north
side will be ten feet wide and under
meath a portion of it will be placed.
the coal bin, which will hold about
two cars of coal.
N. c. Towne, Of Des Moines, Iowa,
stopped in the city from a trip out
to Aurora county. Mr.. Towne IS one
IOf the. most enthusiastic Iowa real
estate agents who is selling South
Dakota land and he is bringing a
great many people out here to settle
on lands. Mr.. Towne says he antici-
pates a large movement toward South
Dakota during the rest of the fall.
Alexandria will hold its second an
nual street fair on Sept. 20 and 81, for
which has been provided a fine line
of attractions, all of which are free.
1t will include trick bicycle riding,
Coney, the trained horse, base ball
games, horse races, etc. Prizes are
offered for an agricultural display in
cluding about everything raised on
the farm, and this will .sbe a big
feature Of the two days.
Macaroni wheat is making a fine
yield in this section this season, ac-
%cording to reports that have been
received. One OF the heaviest yields
was that Of l.. B. Widell, who lives
three miles west of town. He had in
% acres of macaroni and 1T yielded
826 bushels, making an average OF
2915 bushels per acre, it being
threshed by Jensen 4 Holbrook.
/ Mnnoropi ic -, t+colf , botto,
money getter than spring wheat.
While the price is not quite so high
yet the yield is SO much greater per
acre that it can be raised with great
er profit. The success Of macaroni
wheat this year will have a tendency
to increase the acreage in this county
next year.
Work on r%emodeling of the Presby.
terrain church is progressing so far
that the last service in the old edi-
flee was held Sunday. For twenty
five years it has done the duty fol
(which it was erected. but the de.
mands for a larger building sweeps
the old from the site, and the re-
modelled structure will leave little
semblance of the old. The new
|chnrch will be 4Ox6O, besides the
PASTORS strudy and the choir room
ION the south side. The main audi
forum will seat twice as many as
inow. The lecture oom will be 2Ox3O
feet in the west end. and the pulpit
Will be SO arranged that when neces-
sary this o can be thrown open
to enlarge the auditorium. No ar
rangements have as yet been made
for continuing services until the
new church is completed. Pastor
Surbeck intends to take a vacation
OF a month after this Sunday.
What might be termed a kid nine,
so far as years are concerned, went
over to Fulton yesterday afternoon