The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-03-15

Miss 5 NJ. Watkins. Who has beer
visiting relatives IN the country sine,
last fan, left "Wednesday for he
home at Marion. Ohio.
John 7. Kean came down from
Nopnsocket Wednesday and spen
the day in the city on business mat
tiers.
Miss Mildred Hough departed Wed
nesday for Algona, Iowa, where sh'
goes to accept a position as heat
trimmer in the leading milliner.
store of hat place. She expects t.
be away until about July |.
The water and ice conditions dowr
near Vermillion are reported to be
worse today and the outlook is bat
for running trains to Sioux City vie
1ankton. An ice gorge Is feet high
is across the track nea NermillioL
with little show of its moving away
Max korn has returned from his
trip to London, Canada, where he
was called several weeks ago by the
increasing illness of Mrs. Korn, who
is quite low with quick consumption,
Mr.. korn said she was no better
when he left.
The conference committee of the
Grand Army of the Republic of this
city has extended an invitation to
George A. Silsby TO deliver the adj
dress on Decoration Day to the old
soldiers and the public in general.
Mr.. Silsby has notified the committee
iof his acceptance of the invitation,
and ii will be a pleasure to hear the
address of our fellow townsman on
that occasion.
Patrick Condran, who moved here
last week from near Perry, Iowa, to-
day completed the purchase of the
j. n. Cook residence, on the corner
of Second Avenue east and kimball
oli CCJ. WI. SOIluIdu also QUIZ d
half section of land southwest OF
town, on which he will make a num-
her of good improvements and next
year he may move to the place. Mr..
Cook said that the sale of his prop
'erty resulted from the little want ad-
lvertisement he put in The Republic
can three days ago.
When Fred M. Bailey went up to
North Dakota a short time ago to
engage in the banking business he
associated himself with a mar by
the name of Barnum, and the firm
name is Barnum & Bailey in their
real estate business. They have just
issued some land circulars on North
Dakota soil, and as the anne of
Barnum & Bailey are associated with
the greatest circus on EARTH" so do
these North Dakota real estate deal
ers figure they have the greatest
country on earth.
w. B. Smith, mayor of Lennon,
and Lewis Jacobs, cashier of the En-
change bank, were in the city over
night in conference with John L..
Nelson, city engineer, with reference
to some surveying done for the city
for its new sewer system which will
be Installed during this year. They
find that the w in some places
will have to be put down a foot deep
.er and they desired Mr.. Nelson's as
sistance in that work. The town will
vote on bonds of $4,000 at the spring
election and the balance required to
put in the sewer will be supplied by
special assessment.
DR.. j. G. Mccartney, DR.. J.. F. At
kinson and w. A. Greene have been
out to Pukwana for three or four
days on a goose hunt and came home
on the freight Tuesday evening.
They reported good luck the first
day, when they bagged eight geese,
lllISS Ol WHICH III. AJklnSOn SnOU.
He laid them in a nearby field sew
eral hours as decoys for other geese
to come and get their medicine,
while they took refuge behind a hay
stack to keep put of the chilly wind.
When they went back to find their
geese Greene and Mccartney no
ticed that a small bunch of hogs had
just finished eating Atkinson's birds.
They told him so, but he took it as a
joke and later in the evening when
he came to discover that it was no
joke--well, we will draw the veil.
Principal Breckenridge is adopt
ing a different method, as assisting
in the study of American civil war
history, on which one of his classes
is now engaged. Tuesday afternoon
George A. Silsby, a veteran of the
civil war, gave the pupils a very in
teresting and instructive address of
thirty minutes on his personal re-
m~iniscences of the civil war, which