The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-02-23
CITY AND COUNTRY.

Representative P. %. Kribs was
down from Columbia Monday.
Miss Edith Witzel will resume her
duties as an instructor at the normal
next Monday.
Miss Maud Conner of Worthwhile,
S. D., is visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. r. Z. Champlin.
The sacred concert which was to
have taken place next Sunday evening
at the ME-. church, has been post
pOned for n week.
Emil Hlrsh, Mr.. Strauss assistant
in the e Strauss Clothing house,
has left for Hamburg, Germany, where
he will spend some months.
Agent Lovejoy, who returned from
the east recently, reports having a
pleasant trip, and the little side trip
to Washington, D. O., was very much
enjoyed.
The many friends of DR.. Hall and
family will learn with regret of the
death by dyphtheria Of their youngest
child, the only boy, who died at their
home in Brookings.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Hart have return
ed from a three weeks trip whichtook
them to Denver and Salt Lake City.
Mr.. Hart met two brothers at Denver,
whom he had not seen in many years,
Clarence K. Obeshulse Of Selby and
Miss Edith Joynes of Java were mar
ried Sunday afternoon at the Metho-
dist parsonage by Rev. J. w. Taylor.
Selby is gaining the county seat fight.
Manager G%ottschalk is certainly
furnishing the people of Aberdeen
with the best talent to be had, and
they evidently appreciate it, judging
from the attendance at each engage
ment.
The small pox epidemic, a source Of
very little if any alarm, has been
wiped out and the last patient has
left the pest house. But one case of
diptheria remains and that is on the
north side.
The First National bank of Ellen
dale will SOC begin the erection of a
fine brick bank building there and the
First National of Aberdeen, Of which
F. B. Cannon is president as we'll as
of the Ellendale bank, will also build
in the spring.
Miss Jeanette DAILY of Columbia, a
daughter Of Hon. Geo. B. DAILY, editor
of the Aberdeen Democrat, won the
$3.50 Klmball piano in the contest at
Macarthur & Sons last week. There
were about 600 registered in the con-
test. Miss DAILY is is years of age.
We have just received one of the
largest shipments of House Paint ever
brought to Aberdeen, amounting to
over a a load. 1t is the Heath &
Milligan Bros. prepared. 1t has been
sold here for years, and oursupply now
is all fresh and new. We invite you
to inspect our colors and new designs.
ABERDEEN HARDWARE co.
The people of Warner are looking
forward to the 18th day of March with
great anticipations. Onthat date the
Woodmen Camp will hold it's annual
ball. Every precaution is being taken
by those in charge to make it the
event of the season. Ed Moulton says
everybody is guaranteed a good time,
and If they don't have it, it will be
their own fault.
The surveying gang stopped in Yer
don Sunday night enroute from Aber-
deem to their camp at Oak gulch.
They may run another survey west to
the Missouri river, but as far as the
main line is concerned it is conceded
to be the permanent one, from Aber-
deem to a point on the county line five
miles west from Verdon and thence to
enter the hills at Oak gulch.-Verdon
Times.
A woman named Katharine Oster
came in from Bowdle the other day to
prove up on her homestead. She
could neither hear, speak, read nor
write nor did she know a letter even
Of the deaf and dumb alphabet.
Register Vetter took the testimony OF
the witnesses in the case and sent it
in to Washington but he is wondering
yet how she made them understand
that she wanted them to come to
Aberdeen and testify for her.
G. M. Stinchcomb of Donnybrook,
N. D., stakeholder in Tacoma Park
association, writes to r. A. Fellows,
Great Northern agent at Putney, in
quiring as to whether or not a
siding had been put in at the park.
He says he is thinking of shipping in
carload of lumber to be used in con-
struction Of cottages at the park. He
says he thinks a hundred cottages