The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-02-22

IN { CITY Igesaag Oh lis way ii0me
from Pierre 70 main a te" days.
Ibe |situatiou out at Chamberlain
aith reference tae wasn0ui of Inc
3lia.e icfos ,h Missouri rerualns
practically ulc4n4e3. IN TACT the
freeze up Nil tr,d help matters to.
some * ent, although notbing can
9e done TOWARD relieving the situate
ion 50 that tfaiHa can be run across
aHtil Tic ice eofs out of the river to
s0ne extent. The river is reported
10 have frozen over last night when.
The lherhlometer went down below
zero.
The Alexandria journal states
that John II Dobson has Just le-
ceived his disappointment as post
master at Alexandria, and it was
secured through the assistance of
Congressmen Burke and Martin.
The success of Congressman Burke
and Martin i'm securing Mr.. Dobson's
re-appointment Indicates that they
have not lost out entirely in being
able to dispense federal patronage in
Washington. The supposition was
that all postoiiice appointments were
to be held until after the new con-
gressmen had been admitted to the
house and that the new majority of
the congre ssional delegation would
distribute the patronage on a different
basis.
In anticipation of the departure of
Miss Ethel Smith to Huron, about
twenty of her lady friends met at
the home of Miss Ethel Lyons Tues
day evening as a farewell for the esti-
mable young lady. She was not APP
prised of the event until she reached
the home of Miss Lyons anS she was
somewhat surprised to find her
friends gathered there. Miss Lyons
provided a number of entertaining
and interesting amusements for the
young ladies and the evening was
passed very pleasantly by all. Light
refreshments were served. Miss
Smith, who has been the bookkeeper
for the Commercial Mutual Fire AS
ISOLATION for the past five years, has
resigned her position and on March
l She will go to Huron to accept a
similar position. Miss Smith is a
very capable young business woman,
reliable and painstaking in her work,
and her many friends she has made
in MITCHELL Will regret much the
separation which will take place wher
she leaves the CITY,,
John Morgan has been IN the city
for a week or ten days and returned
home Wednesday to Maple River.
Mr.. Morgan closed a deal while
here Tor the purchase OF $40 acres O,
land in Badger township, neal
Loomis, the farm owned by w. b.
Lower. For 800 acres, the improved
part of the farm. he paiG $50 per acre
and for the unimproved 320 he paiC
$40 per acre. bringing the transact
ion up to 500, 500. Mr.. Morgan, will
return to Dawson county in the
course OF a week with three carloads
OF household goods, farm Implements
and blooded stock in the way OF
Poland China hogs and Hereford
cattle, with which he will stock lis
farm. Mr. Morgan has a family OF
fourteen children and with a few
more families like that the population
OF Dawson county would Increase
pretty fasf.
The following from the Letchei
Blade refers to a gentleman we'll
kown in Mitchell ana his friends will
regret to learn of his failing health
I'VE are panied to report the grad
ually failing health of Mr.. Edward
WEIGH. For some time it was
thought and hoped earnestly bv
his friends that medical aid would
benefit bis condition but for a worn
out constitution there seems to be
but little relief. Mr.. WEIGH has
passed through the years of early
settlement with it's the many hard
ships OF the pioneers and by his
close application (now proven toe
close has made enough of the earthly
goods to care for him in his declin-
ing years and to have this condition
come on Just at a time when he was
preparing to accept the easy side of
life is sad thing indeed. Expressions
of sympathy are upon every tongue
for the kind aud loving h%elp,uate
in her sad afniction.
After an absence of four and a
half months John Tuckey has return
ed to the city. Early in October Mr..
Tuckey left Mitchell for Buenos
Ayers, South America, in the en-
ploy OF the j. 1. Case Co., and while
there he acted in the capacity Of an
expert in running machinery shipped
O that country. Mr.. Tuckey was
a month making the trip and about
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