The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-03-20
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
MATTERS OF INTEREST THAT HAPPEN IN
THE CURSE OF A WEEK.

). IA. Morgan buys hides. Eelts,
tallow and furs. First Avenue east,
Mitchell.
Jos. Winter departed Tuesday
for Chicago to make his spring and
summer purchase Of goods for his
store.
Jos. Swift, ST.. received a telegram
Tuesday afternoon from Plano, ILL.,,
announcing that his sister was
dying.
MIR. and Mrs. r. E. Patterson
returned home from Spooner, Wis.,.
Tuesday morning where they have
been visiting the past two weeks.
Mrs. Edith Raughman came home
Tuesday morning from Chicago, where
she has been for the past week
making her selections for spring
millinery, which will arrive in a few
days.
]. R. Canham left Tuesday morning
for Burt, Iowa, to make a visit OF
several weeks among old friends and
relatives. Mrs. Canham went there
a week ago. Mr.. Canhaln has given
up farming and will erect a house
on the east end of his quarter section.
L. N. Simons, who has been
practicing law in this city for several
years, departed for Belle Fouche,
In the Black Hills country, to make
his future home. and where, it is
likely, that he will enter into a
partnership with j. W. Raisch, who
went out there last year.
Elmer George departed Tuesday
afternoon for the western part OF the
state, and expects to take up some
land in the vicinity of Rapid City,
moving his family there later. He
has been working In the job Depart
ment Of The Republican for some
time and he has given the best OF
satisfaction.
DIR. A. &. Brigham, W. P. Nc
I! Cornell and Miss Jennie Hoover,
who are in the service of the state in
conducting tanners Institutes this
winter, arrived in the city this
afternoon to spend Sunday at The
Widmann. They are meeting with
fine audiences rs a general thing in
the Institutes and the farmers take
L n pr.of f(.oI M, i,tn,,es IN, tIn -,,l,
jects under discussion.
Wells s. Wells are building an
ADDITION to the rear of their store
for an enlargement of their ice
cream parlors fo- the summer trade.
They will also occupy the other half
of the store building now occupied
by Miss McMannaman with ber
millinery store, and the young men
will have about three tunes as room
In which to do business as at the
present time.
At the meeting OF the Grand Army
Monday evening the resignation of
Dr.. Geo. P. Dix as commander took
effect. which he filed two weeks ago.
j. g. Purdy was elected to fill the
position Of commander for the
%unexpired tern DR.. Dix will leave
the city in the course of a couple of
weeks to spend the summer at Orton-
vile. MINI. where he has leased a
cottape by the lake.
Mrs. S. D. Olmstead, of Fr.donia.
Kan. Is here Gil a visit to her many
ola friends in and round Mitchell.
Mrs. Olmstead said that they were
living In the luxury OF very cheap
fuel in Fredonia, using natural gas
for heating ana lighting purposes,
an1 The gas is produced on their OWL
farm. Mr.. Olmstead did not &c
down deep enough for oil OH his
place, Lelng satisfied 10 secure flow
OF gas that is more re uunerative
than oil.
One of Mitchell's former girls,
) Miss Liiab Older, has begun to dis
tinguiSh h Iself IN uub'ic life,
according TO thiragp + lorls Last
week She apptaIeG at the g. a. Il.
hall in the public library in Chicago,
as a special reader for Camp Luzon,
Army OF the Philippines, Spanish
War veterans. Although a genera.
prograla was given. Miss Older was
easily the favorite according to the
Chicago News, over the the Other
artists present, and she was calico
to the platform repeatedly during
the evening.
Funeral services were held owe
the remains of Miss Mary Moerck al
10 O'Clock a. m. Tuesday at the resi-
dence on Hanson street, which were
conducted for the Christian Science
lSoclety by Mrs. George Cessford,
The music was furnished by Mrs.
II. C. Nichols, MI. and Mrs. E. B.
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