The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-06-21
the ST. PAUL JossfRs
They Reached mitchell! Thursday
Evening -Four Hours Late and
Left for Chamberlain

ial train over the Milwaukee road
bringing the large delegation of st.
Paul jobbers, who are making a trip
over South Dakota territory. The
train was scheduled to arrive in
Mitchell at 1:54, but at noon it a
evident that the train would be an
hour late. The jobbers, however,
kept losing time at each place, and
the time of the arrival was changed
two or three times during the after
noon. The crowd of people was at
the depot three times to greet the
wholesalers and finally the business
men gave up in despair and went
home to supper.
The special arrived, however, at
a little after 6 O'Clock. The delay
was occasioned by getting a late
start from Redfie!d in the morning.
The special train is composed of five
%sleepers, a dining car, and it is a
handsome train that the Milwaukee
company turned yer to the jobbers
for their comfort on the trip of a
week.
No sooner had the train pulled in
to the city than the jobbers com
menced dropping off and started up
town to hunt up their friends and
customers. They were followed i'm
mediately by the Minnesota State
band, which played a couple of pieces
on the street to let the people know
that st. Paul was in town.
BY Z O'Clock the business men and
many citizens came down town and
grouped on corners, in stores and
banks the ST. Paul jobbers were in
troduced to Mitchell's business men.
They walked around the business dis
trict, and the st. Paul jobbers we're
informed of what was being done
in Mitchell.
They were shown the completed
new bank building of the First Ma
tional, the handsome structure that the
Mitchell National was ready to move
into, the site where the work was be-
ing carried on for the four story
structure of the Western National,
and the imposing structure of the
Commercial and Savings bank across
the street. They were free to con-
fess hat the banking institutions
showed a proper spirit of fealty to
the city.
They were further informed of
the Two fine church structures of the
Catholic and Methodist churches,
both of which are now under con
struction, each costing about $45,-
900, and they were also told of the
new church that the Congregations
alists have under contemplation.
They were further appraised of the
fact that Mitchell is developing as
a wholesale and distributing center,
and they yer shown the sites for
the Dakota Improved Seed Co., both
new institutions, and also the build
ing that is being converted into a
wholesale grocery by G. w. Hoon.
They were pointed to the growing
country to the west of us-to the
Black Hills as a territory for the
wholesale houses, not to mention the
thoroughly developed country with
in a radius of fifty miles of Mitchell
as additional territory.
Many of the jobbers have heard
of Mitchells corn palace, but have
never seen it. Many of them were
escorted to the building. and given
a brief history of the successes
which have come to it, and they were
further informed that it would be
held again this year,, the dates being
Sept. 1928, and that John Philip
Sousa and his band would be here
to play a week. 1t rather took the
jobbers off their feet to learn that
such an organization could be sup
ported in a town of this size for a
week, when it rarely played owe
two concerts in st. Paul and Mime
apolis.
The st. Paul jobbers expressed
themselves as being surprised to find
such a healthy growing business city
as Mitchell, and complimented the
business men as being a progressive
lot, who, evidently, bent their united
energies for the growth and develop
ment of the town.
Secretary Beeks, who is in charge
of the party, placed the Minnesota
State band in the hands of the bust
ness men for an open air concert
for the evening, and at s O'Clock
there were W a thousand people
on the street and they had the pleas
ure of listening to some very fine
music, and the musicians were cheer
ed and encored after every number.
The band is a fine organization and
the music it renders is of a high
class, which it ~interspersed with
some of the popular airs.