The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-03-18

hope and charity is a cement, he
declared, which brings a community
closer together, makes its people
stand as a unit and is the best thing
for a town. DIR. Kerfoot declared
that Mitchell was the best town in
the state, and he had been around
some. and yet he thought we ought
to be able to say that Mitchell has
the best paved streets, a thing we
are lacking and this sentiment found
a hearty echoing response for that
improvement He referred to the
south side, which he wanted them
to understand was still an intergral
part OF Mitchell, and hal they had
some boosters over there. He said
the Newburys were boosting for
Mitchell and were scattering flowers
all owe the northwest, all of which
spoke of Mitchell. There is Da-
kota Wesleyan University, an insti-
tuition which is boosting for Mitch
ell every day of the year through
the literature which is sent broad
cast over the state, through the
young men and ome who have
gone forth from the college to take
their places in the world. We are
trying to cultivate the appetite of
these young people to do the bet
ter things of life, to occupy a place
i'm a community that will tend to
make it better. In coming to South
Dakota DR.. kerfoot said hat he rec
.ognized that it was a broad field of
usefulness. He found the people
here broad in their conception and
openhearted in all things. He felt
that it could o be otherwise with
these broad prairies, which openly
invited this spirit and where the
narrow and contracted ideas could
not find Judgement. Our institu-
conclusion land we will boost all
we can for you and we want you to
boost all you can for u.s." His adj
dress was received with the heartiest
appreciation, for it contained senti-
ments coming from the president of
the college that appealed with much /
force to the business men of the
city. His speech had the ring of
sincerity and when he had finished |
the sentiment prevailed that DR.. Ker-
foot would make an ideal boosterl
for Mitchell. He stated that he wasI
glad indeed of the opportunity thati
had been presented him to meet with
the business men of the city where
all lines were represented.
Mayor Hitchcock was called up
to respond to a subject that is
near and dear to him-the content
improvements of the city, but
he said that while he had grouped
ideas concerning these matters,
he was so thoroughly surprised at the
turn things had taken that his ideas
had gradually faded away. He did
not think Mr.. Burns was any more
surprised at the turn of events in
that short space of time than he.
The mayor said he came here thirty
years ago at the same time that
Tom Burns did, that he knew Tom
when he was clerking in a grocery
store, and hal they boarded to-
gether and that he had come to know
him thoroughly through all the in
tervening years, during all of which
they had been warm friends.
Tom Burns is no saint, said the may-
Or, and / know him even better than
his pastor, and I can throw as many
bouquets at him as any and do it as
.cheerfully and with the kindliest
feeling. The mayor said that Tom was
A good loser, and there was one thing
be liked particularly about him, and
he always took whatever del
hal came his way smilingly.
at night but when morning dawned
and he came down town that there
was no trace of defeat on his coun-
tenance. We can't all do that, said
mayor, but we can do our part
and that is what is required of us
in this life. He said that this was
about the swiftest company he had
ever got into in Mitchell, and which
indicated to him that Mitchell had
put off it's baby clothes and was now
a city, and in this respect he wanted
to urge the men to get a higher con-
of what Mitchell must do tol
stay in the class into which she had
unconsciously grown. We have got,
to do the things in the ways of a city,
and we have got to forget that we