The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-08-30
Miss Minnie Bingham left Friday

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morning for Chicago and Will be
away about a week or ten days.
Mrs. b. NJ. Johnston arrived home
this morning after an absence of
about two months, during which time
she has been visiting at Wycliff,
British Columbia.
o. A. Bates, one of the city mail
carriers, is taking his annual vaca-
ton at the present time, and the pat
rons along his route are being sup
piled With their mail by Charles Ma
son.
If you are thinking of securing a
home and prefer to locate in some
particular section of the city, a want
ad will bring you offers of all pro-
perty that is for sale or rent in that
locality.
Mrs. II. l.. Burlew, of Alexandria,
was operated on at st. %Joseph's hos
pital Saturday by DR.. Roselle, who
reports her condition as very good at
the present time. Dr.. Roselle is
bringing quite a few cases here for
operation, where he can secure such
good nurses as are at the hospital.
The teachers committee of the
board of education is on a quiet hunt
for an assistant principal for the
high school. Since the resignation of
Guy Borden it has been a difficult
matter to find a man to take his
place, but the committee has strong
hopes of landing an assistant before
school opens, which even will occur
next Monday morning.
DIR. Geo. P. Dix came home from
Aberdeen Friday. He has been
away on a vacation trip lasting two
! weeks, which he spent with his wife,
daughter and his mother at Big
Stone lake, where they had a cottage
in connection with a congenial party
of fifteen people from Aberdeen. DR..
Dix said it was the most pleasant
two weeks vacation that he had spent
in years, the spot on the peninsula
being an ideal one for comfort and
the fishing was just right not to
catch any big ones.
President Hawkins of Vermillion
and Secretary johnson of Redfeld,
with other members of the executive
committee of the South Dakota Hard
ware Dealers Association, were in
session in Mitchell Thursday evening
attending to some business matters
of the association. Among other
things they awarded the contract for
printing the proceedings of their re-
cent annual meeting to The Repub-
lican. 1t will make a book of about
100 pages. The gentlemen returned
to their homes during the day.
Word was received from Kenebet
this morning that Harry Brisbine
died Tuesday afternoon in the hos.
pital at Chamberlain. A few days
ago Brisbine was shot by L. Jensen
the owner of the farm on which Bris
bine was living, over the question o.
t%hreshing at the present time. Bris
bine was shot in the knee, making
a very bad wound. Jensen was ar
rested shortly after the shooting ant
after the preliminary examination
was bound over to the circuit cour
of Lyman county in the sum of So,
600. Brisbine's condition at the TIM
of the shooting was not thought t.
be very serious.
Theodore Osborn, the rural rout.
mail carrier on No. /, is at his HON,
on East Sixth street in a bruised con
dition as the result Of a runaway il
which he was mixed up in a few day
ago. He had started out on his tri]
to the northeast with his team ant
an open buggy, and when about eigh
miles northeast of town his team be
came frightened and ran away. Hi
buggy was turned over and he wa
thrown out, but he held on and wa
dragged some distance. His heat
was cut badly in two places, on tn
top and side, necessitating the takini
of several stitches to fix up tn,
wounds. His body was also bruise'
to some extent. He was picked III
in the road by some neighbors alon;
the way and brought to his home il
this city. Mr.. Osborn is about g.
years old.
The Boyles Business College will
open it's fall term September 9, ant
the information for the benefit o
students is detailed in a neat cata
logue which has been sent out. TIL
president Of the college is Virgil D
Boyles, the official stenographer 70
the fourth judicial district, and il
this capacity Mr.. Boyles is regarded
as n of the best reporters in tn
state. His knowledge Of stenograph,
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