The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-10-07

For fire and tornado insurance see
w. e. Rathbun, agent for the Royal
Insurance Co.
Rev. r. N. Krat2, of Geddes, was
in the city Tuesday and left on the
afternoon train for Huron to attend
the Methodist Conference.
We sell guns and traps cheap.
Northwestern Hide and Fur Co.,
Minneapolis, Mimi.
Mrs. R. T. Robinson returned
Tuesday to her home at Egan. She
has had a pleasant two weeks in re-
newing her acquaintances with old
friends.
Mrs. Will Wider and little son of
Sioux Falls were the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Mart G. Wider during corn
palace week and returned home
Monday.
G. F. Wider of Wider Bros. & Co.,
! wholesale hide and wool firm of
Sioux Falls, returned home Tuesday
morning after a weeks stay with his
brother Mart. G.. Wider.
Mrs. Geo. e. Foster left Tuesday at
ternoon for LeBeau, out on the Min
neapolis & st. Louis road, near which
place her sister lives. She expects
to be gone about ten days.
Judge Smith and H. G. Preston
We're driven out to Plankinton Tues
day by Sheriff Plotner in his
automobile and the regular term of
circuit court was put in motion by
the judge.
Hanna" White Ash splint is the
best soft coal for cook stoves. Ask
your dealer.
Mrs. R. P. Edison passed through
the city Tuesday for Mason City,
Iowa, to remain a few days and Sun
day she will join Mr.. Edison here to
go to their claim out in Meade coun-
ty instead of Butte county.
Rev. Robert H. Dolliver, a brother
of Senator Dolllver of Iowa and now
in charge of the Black Hills mission
of the Methodist church, was in the
city Tuesday on his way to Plankin-
ton. From there he will go to the
Huron conference.
Rev. j. S. Surbeck, of Lead, ar
rived in the city Tuesday to
spend the day with friends while en-
route to Sioux Falls to attend the
annual meeting of the Synod of the
Presbyterian church Mr.. Surbeck
was a former pastor of the church
in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Michner have
/ hoon vic;firr IN tho 1@,o%o., ,,o.A 80
Mitchell and north of Mt. Vernon
for their home in Washington
Roy said his father was now living
in Kansas but that he expected to
move to Washington this fall.
Mrs. G. E. Vermilyea is still con-
fined by sickness at North East, Pa.
Mr.. Vermilyea states that she does
not show any great improvement and
is unable to say when she will re-
turn home. 1t will be remembered
she was poisoned while eating on a
dining car several weeks ago.
P. j. Trowbridge and sister, Miss
=. b. Trowbridge, of Milwaukee, are
here on a visit at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. j. P. McKillip on the south
side. MI. Trowbridge is an old resi-
dent of this vicinity, having located
in Hanson county in 1879, and left
this country 10 years ago. He finds
things much changed and can hardly
grasp the growth of Mitchell.
DR.. S. r. Kerfoot, DR.. j. S. Hoag-
land and District Superintendent
Dobson went up to Huron Tuesday af-
ternoon to attend the Methodist
Conference, which assemblies there
tomorrow. DR.. Kerfoot will have
several things to present to the Con-
ference for the advancement of the
University, one of which will be the
support Of the erection of a gymnas-
ium. At the Conference the propo-
sition of establishing a Methodist
hospital at some point in the state
will be brought up, and the friends
of Mitchell will make a strenuous
effort to land it for this city-the
place where it ought to come by right
of location and because of the Meth
odists' interests conferred here.
The Twentieth Century Club held
Its opening meeting of the year Mon
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
George A. Silsby. For the preliminary
exercises the president, Mrs. Grace
G. Spangler, gave the annual address
which covered many points of inter-
est with reference to the club work
for the coming season and contained
many good thoughts and suggestions.
The magazine work was taken up
and that completed the afternoons
work. The club starts off with "a
good membership and with the Bay
View course as the foundation for
the work the club anticipates an in
teresting winter season. The officers
are: President, Mrs. Grace c. Spang-
Ter; vice president, Mrs. Helen Tur-
ner; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. Min
ME G. Smith; historian, Mrs. Minnie
H. Ruth.
Ben Hyland, of Wakpola, a new
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