The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-08-05
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
MAT TlRS OF INTEREST THAT HAPPEN
IN THE COURSE OF A WEEK.

For fire and tornado insurance Sc
w. D. Rathbun, agent for the Roya
Insurance Co.
Miss Harriet Haney arrived fror.
Pierre Tuesday to make a visi
with MIR. and Mrs. John Haney.
Misses Bertha and Pearle Slade de
parted Tuesday morning for Oshkosh
Wis, to visit there and other places
for the next month.
Miss Bessie Bobb, who has been
visiting friends and relatives at Get.
tysburg and Doland for the past three
weeks. arrived home Tuesday even
ing.
Mrs. Rosa B. Fridley, of Rapid City
arrived in the city Tuesday to
visit her son, Harry Fridley, and wife.
Mrs. Fridley is a teacher in the gov
eminent Indian school at Rapid City
ami will return the first of Septsm-
Der to begin her active duties.
Milton j. Nix, a formef University
student and we'll known i'm Mitchell.
was here Tuesday visiting friends.
For the past three years Mr.. Nix has
been attending the medical school of
Northwestern University. This sum-
mer he has been doing hospital work
in Chicago.
II. ID. Butterfeld departed Tuesday
morning for Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
! where he will join Mrs. Butterfeld
and they will make their semi-annual
trip to New York to buy their stock
of fall and winter goods. They ex-
pect to be gone about three weeks or
a month.
Tuesday at IL O'Clock at the
parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal
church, Mr.. George M. Ellis and Miss
J%uaneta marie Campbell, 10th of this
CITY, were united in marriage by DR..
j. S. Hoagland. The young people
will reside in this city and will soon
commence housekeeping in their own
home, which is in course of compile
ton.
The severest electrical and rain
storm which has visited this section
this summer anne Monday evening
at $3.50 O'Clock, and for As minutes
the rain poured down, the precipita-
ton for that specific time amounting
to 1.43 inches. 1t reached 1.53
inches before it quit during the even
ing. The rain was accompanied by
very little wind, but the electrical dis
play was intense. So far as could be
learned there was no damage done
to the crops, and the rain was of i'm
mense benefit to the corr crop, which
will help a long ways toward a bump
er crop.
Dr.. and Mrs. B. A. Bobb, Mr.. and !
Mrs. S. H. Scallin and Mrs. Ralph
Wickersham left Tuesday evening via
the Omaha road for a trip out to Sc
attic to visit the exposition, going
via the Canadian Pacific route. After
doing the exposition, where they. will
meet DR.. and Mrs. E. F. Reamer and
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Wilt, who left
Sunday evening, the party will go
on to San Francisco to visit a short
time with DR.. and Mrs. H. S. Wilkin-
son, and thence to Los Angeles. They
will return via Salt Lake City, COM
ing home about Sept. 1. DR.. Bobb ,
stated that he did not intend to go to
Chicago for the winter, as was an
nounced in The Republican recently.
Harry Woodruff was over from Riv-
erside Tuesday He was asked
as to his knowledge of the drowning
of some man in the river yesterday.
Mr.. Woodruff said that he did not be-
lieve there was anything to the story,
as the party who was supposed to be
drowned was in his store Saturday
and purchased a lunch. The party
made inquiry as to how far Fulton
was away, and then started of in that
direction. What gave rise to the
story. in all probability, was that the
party went to the river Saturday to
fish and leaving his fishing tackle
suspended in the river the SUPPOSE
ton grew that he had been drowned.
Five more box-car tenants were
arraigned before Judge Markham in
police court Tuesday morning on the
charge of vagrancy. Three Of them
were released after examination.
Frank Essenther and Sam Terrell