The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-06-14
IN TOWN AND N
MATTERS OF INTEREST THAT HAPPEN IN
THE COURSE OF A WEEK.

Get II good lunch at Weber a.
Co.'S while in town.
Archie c. Turneaure went down to
Yankton t. attend the graduating
exercises of the college this week.
Rev. E. p. hall, of Brookings. ar
rived in the city yesterday to attend
the commencement exercises OF the
university.
A. H. Belts has a car of clean
Northwestern Flax that he has just
received from Minneapolis for seed
ing purposes.
Miss May Rogers arrived home
TUESDAY from Minneapolis, where she
has been teaching school, for the
summer vacation.
Rev. George Williams, of Seward,
Neb., arrived Tuesday afternoon to
visit a few days with Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Wallace.
Miss Florence Fosdick, bookkeeper
lOl IuC IdiulOl w., WCAG uP W DA6
Stone City for a vacation trip of a
couple of weeks and will visit with
the S. C, Jones family, who were
former residents of Mitchell.
The King road drag, or n that
has much the same appearance, that
is being used by the city for smooth
ing down the roads after a rain, is a
most excellent thing. A large area
of road can be covered in a day and
the roads made passable.
The ladies are showing a quite a
favorable attitude toward appearing
on horseback in the travelling mems
parade, June 81. Over fifteen have
signitied their intention to Mrs. Geo.
NJ. Rowley of riding in the parade.
Mrs. Rowley hopes to secure twenty
five or more for the section.
Mr.. and Mrs George b. Kelsey
arrived the first of the week from
their home at Farmville, Va, to visit
a few weeks up in Blendon township
and to look after their farm proper
ty. They got here just in time to
celebrate with the old settlers at
Mt. Vernon Wednesday.
The Dakota Improved Seed Co. ex-
poets to get to work within d short
time on the excavation of the ground
on the corner of Railroad
and Lawler streets. The residence
on the site is being re-
moved at present, and with that out
of the way the company will not lose
much time in putting the men to
work.
Griffin Devices was started We'd
nesday for Salem, Ohio. but it is a
question if he ever reaches there.
The son of the old gentleman, who
lives out at Vivian, sent a draft to
a. b. Test VIII which to purchase
a ticket for the old gentleman and
for him to be sent back to his old
home. Mr.. Devices is hardly insane,
! yet he is hardly responsible, judgir :
from his Wild conversation at time.
Frank Martin, VINO made the 1t
tempt to kidnap the little son of ..ir.
and Mrs. j. n. Cook Monday alter
noon, and succeeded in getting a few
blocks away with the boy before he
was captured, was brought before
Judge Herbert this morning on a
charge of assault. He waived exam
~ination and was bound over to the
term of circuit court in November in
the sum of $500. He failed to give
the bond and was remanded to jail.
John L. Nelson arrived home Tues
day afternoon from Lennox, where
he has been for several days in con-
n%ection with the question of
that town. Mr.. Nelson made the sur
vey for the sewers and was made the
city engineer for Lennox. AS yet
the contract has not been let on &C
count of all the bids being too high.
Messrs. Jacobs and Smith, of Lennox,
were In the city over night in IN
%sultation with Eric Jensen about the
digging of sewers.
Mitchell sent out a good delega-
ton of people to Mt. Vernon Wednes-
day to attend the old settlers
celebration. The Milwaukee road
provided good accommodations for
the patrons of the road, putting on
three coaches when it was ascertain
ed that the delegation would be so
large, and the freight was held until
8 o'clock as a further accommoda-
ton. Over 175 tickets were sold to
Mt. Vernon and a great many drove
out from this city. The address of
the day was delivered by Hon. Philo
Hall, of Brookings, one of South Da-
kota's representatives in congress.
Two baseball games and other sports
will serve to make the day enjoyable.
Prof. and Mrs. Frank E. Barry ar