The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-08-03
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Miss Lucille Evans left this morn
ing for Sioux City and Spirit Lake,
Iowa, and expects to be gone about a
month.
MIS-. John Bartlett, of Sioux City,
has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
a. II. Soft, and returned home
Thursday morning.
i Frank Grey. q nephew OF Mrs.
Edward Leehan, who has been here
on a visit, left Thursday for his
home at Stapleton. MINI.
Mrs. John Reiersoc and two chill
dren departed Thursday for Post
willie. Iowa, 10 make a visit of
several weeks with relatives.
w. h. Wendell and family. OF OF
tumwa. Iowa, are visiting with Mr..
and Mrs. F. A. Biwdell. Mr.. Wen
dell and MIR. Bidwell are cousins.
Misses JuIiette and Cora Thomas
arrived home Wednesday evening
from Rochester, Mimi, where they
have been visiting for several weeks.
Miss Rachel DOYLE went to Mill
wualSee Thursday to visit with
relatives for about three weeks,
{, which will also include a trip to the
lakes.
Pro-. j. III. breckenridge returned
from Huron Wednesday evening,
and on Saturday he goes out to Kim
ball to teach in the Brule county
teachers institute.
Miss Mile Hawkins has been
visiting at Armour and returned
Thursday to resume her place
at the desk in the long distance
telephone Office.
The parties who are camping
down at the river, that is some OF
! them, had some unpleasant eNperien-
ceS during the rain storm Wednesday
evening, M of them expressing the
! idea that there was no fun in
camping when you had to set up in
bed with an umbrella over you to
make any show Of keeping dry.
A recent game OF baseball at
Letcher on Sunday has aroused the
church people to action against
further dissertation of the Sabbath
day. The members of the Metho-
dist and congregational churches
joined in a set OF resolutions con
demlng the playing OF baseball or
enga-ing in any other sport on the
Sabbath, and asking the managers of
the ball club to desist in..the future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Boyles
arrived from Yankton Monday after
noon and hereafter will be counted
residents Of the city. Mr.. Boyles
| will he associated in the faculty of
the Boyles Commercial School, which
will open this fall Sept. 3. Virgil
Boyles. who established the school a
year ago, has reorganized the instl-
tuition on a larger basis and to its
curriculum has been added a COM
mercial and telegraph course.
Rev. j. F.. Booth, OF Miller, was
in the city Tuesday to attend the
meeting of the Anti-Saloon League.
On the occasion Of a former visit to
Mitchell Mr.. Booth and the presid-
ing elder Of the Evangelical cbruch
looked over the field here with a
view OF establishing a church socie-
ty, and while they were unable to
make a deal for the purchase of the
Methodist church, it being larger
and would require more of an invest
ment than the church cared to'make,
he said that they bad not given up
the idea Of organizing a church here,
with the possibility of doing some.
thing along that line in the spring.
County Commissioner Butterheld
was in the city Wednesday from his
Union township farm. He said that
the farmers were in the midst of
their harvest and that the grain was
in tine condition for harvesting.
| Asked as to the condition of corn
in his section MIR. Butterfisld said
that it was doing tine and that the
absence of rain had not effected its
growth in the least. Tie said that
they have had one or two showers
down there in the past week or ten
days but not a heavy rain. I'm the
townships east aud south of Union
corn is said to be showing the lack
of moisture. hut that it was holding
its own we'll under the circuln-
stances.
Alexander George arrived We'd
nesday from Aberdeen to take a
position in the United STATES land
office, having been transferred from
the Aberdeen office to assist i'm the
work here. Register Foster and
Receiver Burns maze a request on
the general land office for assistance
to bring up the routine work Of the