The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-04-14

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Wednesday to make II visit with
relatives.
.. q. Thompson has been at Noon
socket and Letcher for several DAVIS
on legal matters and returned home
Wednesday morning.
Miss otessa Ericsson came over from
Parker Tuesday to temporary fin
the place OF Miss Dora Bobb In the
telephone office by reason of her
illness.
III. ID. Buttertield left Wednesday
Tor Colfax Springs, Iowa, to re-
main a couple of weeks to take the
baths for rheumatism, which has
caused him considerable trouble of
late.
Miss Lettie Russ, of the Mitchell
National bank, lett Wednesday fol
Bellevue, Ohio, to make a visit of
several aecls with relatives. Her
mother is also at that place on an
extended visit.
Jos. Harller has been up from Ged-
DIES for several days and dlove back
Wednesday with a team. He wa,
accompanied bv John Upton, an at
torney who was before the United
States land Office on Il contest case.
Miss Grace Doolitlle, who went to
Sioux Falls to spend her vacation has
NOT rcturnp6 10 oScnn,o bar d,t;o, T..
the city schools OF account of an at
tack of the mumps, and her place is
being filled 10y Mrs. Augusta Wider.
j. w. Lindsay returned home We'd
nesday to Geddes and was accom-
panied by the witnesses in the Heren-
Jenkins land contest case which was
heard by the United States land
office Tuesday and Wednesday. The
evidence was all in Wednesday morn
ing.
Presiding Elder Hager went to
Parker Wednesday and delivered
a temperance address there that even.
ing. Parker has a license contest on
hand for the spring election and a
strong effort is being made to win
out on the prohibition side of the
question.
John a. O'Shaughnessy, OF Mime
apolis, vice president of the Mime
sofa Mutual Insurance Co., arrived
in the city Tuesday evening to confer
with e. l.. Mason, the agent Of the
company in this section. MIR.
O'Shaughnessy was the former insur-
ance commissioner for Minnesota.
John Gormley has been very sick of
late and his disease seems to have
bat1led the physicians. An applica-
tion of an N-Ray machine failed to
give up light on the trouble. Tues
day evening, accompanied by his sis
ter, Mrs. Ed. Welch, of Letcher, and
Frank Gormley, his brother, he de-
parted for Rochester, Mimi, to enter
a hospital for further treatment.
John Sutherland, chairman of the
Pierre capital committee, was a pas
senger through Mitchell bound for
Sioux Fails, having come down from
the north on the Milwaukee road. I
He had to change cars here and see
ing two trains standing side by side {
on the tracks it rather habbergaste1
John, for out in his town people
never get mixed up ON one train that
leaves Pierre Johr went wrong-he t
got ON the same train he got of of [
and Went on down toward Yankton S
instead of taking the east train. 1t (.
does make a fellow rather nervous to t
get into a metropolitan city occa-
siona1ly.
w. B. Tobey was up from Ethan c
yesterday. He says his town is forg-
ing to the front in fine shape, several S
new buildings going up and other i'm q
provements being made. To show |
that they are doing some business {
down there he said that during the \
month Of March the Milwaukee COM
pany shipped in SO cars of freight f
The out shipments amounted to 45 t
cars, including oats. rye, wheat. {
corn, barley, cattle and hogs, also i
IA, l43 pounds Of butter and 100 cases {
Of eggs. Mr.. Tobey said that a new
bank building and the new Catholic I
were among the leading i'm
provements that were being made.
Clarence Taylor. who lives east of b
town, and Miss Mcguire, a Univer- a
sity girl, had a narrow escape from n
accident Tuesday night about ii &
They were driving into f
town when they reached the Fire \
steel bridge, near Charles Krom's b
residence, the horse became freight c
ened at some bills that were tackled to d
the bridge. The horse turned sud- S
denly and went down the embank- C
ment, eigth feet high. and Miss Ma t
guire stepped out Of the buggy is Il
it went down. Mr.. Tayler stayed by t
outfit while the horse %nlunued i,