The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-05
IN ID<NN Nj COUNTRY.
MATTERS OF INTEREST THAT HAPPEN ~
THE COURS UT a WEEK.

tallroading just the same. lie.
might 20 up a few notches higher in
The railroad business. but they do
not think that he Will give it up all
together. His uncle was one OF the
heaviest stockholders of the Milwau-
kee system.
9. G.. Rathbun has commenced the
erection of a new bakery in the rear
OF the p%ostoffice block, he finding it
rather unhandy to have his bakery
in one place and his grocery store
in another.
Miss Beatrice Corrigan, of Chi
cago, a niece of M. Korn, arrived
in the city Tuesday, and will
take a position in Mr.. Korn's store.
Miss Corrigan was at the head of
the china department in Hillman's
store on State street and has a thor
,ough understanding of the business.
The Woman's Library Association
held their regular monthly meeting
in the library rooms Tuesday after
noon, and among other things they
talked over their plans for an enter
tainment of the public which they eX-
pect to give Oh or about May 1. They
will make their announcement of
plans later.
\ person. giving the name of
Marsh was arrested Tuesday night
on the charge of drunkenness and
placed in Jail until Wednesday,
when he was brought before Judge
Herbert. Marsh admitted that there
was no error about his being drunk
and therefore received a sentence of
twelve days.
j. III. Grafton, the auctioneer, left
Tuesday afternoon for Chamberlain
and from there he will go out on the
special train over the Milwaukee road
to the new towns where the lot sales
will be held this week. The Milwau-
kee company secured the services of
Mr.. Grafton as auctioneer for the lot
sales. He had such good success at
the other sales that the company en-
ployed him again.
The South Dakota School of STEM
ography, operated by the Boyles
Bros, has just moved into a new To-
cation. They have secured the for
mer knights of Pythias hall, over the
|Scallin Bros. drug store, and the
school is nov doing business there.
For next winter Scallin Bros. will
equip the large room with steam heat
and give the firm a comfortable place
in which to do business.
w. G. RiJchey, who is living in one
of the Hager houses out on the west
side. has just commenced the con
struction of a new residence on
Fourth Avenue west, in the same
block north of Scallin's residence. 1t
will cost him about $4,000 when COM
pleted and will be a very attractive
residence, with three lots surround
ing it. Mr.. Ritchey is a travelling
representative, and has resided here
since last fall.
A son of VIM. McGrath, of this
city, who is working on the Minot,
N. D., Daily Reporter, has gone to
Chicago to enter the Inland Printer
School to study the mechanism and
operation of the linotype machine,
and after he gets sufficiently inform
ed he will return to Minot and OPP
crate the machine that is to be
placed in that Office. On his way
back to Minot he will stop in Mitch
ell a few days to visit with his par
ents.
Henry Noble, who has been run
ming down from Aberdeen as a Mil
waukee passenger engineer for a
good many years, and was also a
former resident of Mitchell, moving
to Aberdeen on account of the turn
around run between the two points,
will soon go to the coast to make his
home, locating at Seattle, Wash.
When the construction trains start
out on that end of the Milwaukee ex-
tension Mr.. Noble and his son will be
given the first engine and this will
lead them to the first passenger run
on the transcontinental line.
A. e. Hitchcock and F. H. Winsor
are away on a trip through the west,
and in writing home Mr.. Hitchcock
said that they were delayed by a
wreck at the little mining town OF
Clinton, Montana, and while waiting
for the wreck to be cleared they de-
cided to walk up town and look
around. They stepped into n OF
the stores and were greeted rather
suddenly by Mr.. and Mrs. Rueben
Dwight and Miss Mona Prescott
neither party knowing that either
were in that locality. Mr.. Dwigh,
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