The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-07-28

Mrs. Joseph Goats and Mrs. Rose
Dunn of Siox City are guests of Mrs. /,
Phil E. Tobin, Third Avenue east. !
Miss Edna Miller and Wendell Mil
Ter are in Mitchell from Cresbard Wis
iting at the home of City Attorney
Lauritz Miller.
Mrs. E. K. Rice of Sioux iCty arriv-
ed in Mitchell Tuesday afternoon and
is a guest at the home of her friend,
Miss NJ. L. Quigley.
DR.. j. S. Hoagland departed Mon
day afternoon for Rapid City and will
spend the next two weeks in the
Black Hills country taking his sum-
mer outing.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Belts Of Mt. YER
non departed over the Omaha Mon
day evening for Portland and will
visit at points on the Pacific coast
the next two months.
Mrs, Fred Kimball departed this
forenoon for her home in Chicago,
having spent the past month in Mitch
ell with relatives, and attending
while here the marriage of her son,
DR.. George G.. Kimball.
Harry Perkins, one of the promin-
ent hardware dealers of Letcher, left
with his son over the Milwaukee this
morning for Portland, Maine, and
will spend some time enjoying him
self upon the north Atlantic coast.
Miss Eliza Hall arrived in Mitch
ell Monday afternoon and is visiting
with friends. 1t has been about seven
years since she has been in the city.
Her present home is now in Honolu-
lu, Hawaiian Islands.
S. D. Prescott of Washington
Springs arrived in the city Monday
and departed with Company A for
Watertown this morning. Mr.. Pres
colt is a former national guardsmaa
from Illinois and served in the Phil
ippines with Captain Shade.
Saturday evening Mr.. and Mrs. Sid
w. Smith entertained in honor of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. NJ. Fisk of Los Angeles.
A number of the old friends of Mrs.
Fisk were present and the time spent
was highly delightful. Mrs. Fisk will
be remembered in Mitchell as Pearl
Harker.
Sheriff l.. w. Plotner returned
home in his Buick car Tuesday af-
ternoon from Sturgis, making the
trip overland without mishap. Mrs.
Plotner travelled with him as far as
Kadoka and boarded the train there
and arrived home the day before.
MIR. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Fisk left this
morning for Sioux City where they
will visit a few days before going to
their home at Los Angeles, Calf.
Mrs. Fisk is a former Mitchell girl,
Pearl Harker, and the past week has
been very %enjoyably spent with
friends in the city.
A. B. Hager, with DR.. G. A. Bower
and wife departed Sunday afternoon
for Sioux Falls in their touring car.
There they will join the Little Gid
dem tourists and trail the party to
Minneapolis. Mr.. Hager expects to go
out to Seattle for a short stay after
spending several days in the Twin
Cities.
Reports from the harvest fields are
constantly more encouraging. In
Proser township it is reported that
the oats will yield 40 or SO bushels
and in Union township, where some
threshing has been done, there have
been yields of SO bushels. In almost
every case the farmers are surprised
by the amount of grain on the short
stalks.
Jack Sales of White Lake, well
known in Mitchell lost his barn and
contents early yesterday morning
from a stroke of lightning. 1t burn
ed to the ground and before anything
could be taken out. In the barn were
MI. Sales new Mitchell touring cal
and two buggies. His loss Of $4,000
or more is total, as there was no in
%surance.
The three young ladies who were
drowned Saturday in the Cheyenne
river near Marcus, in Meade county
are known in Mitchell by several peo
pie who are acquainted in or neal
Artesian. Miss Eta Aldrich of the
three was not so we'll known, having
come from Spencer, Iowa. Miss Sadie
Trainer is the daughter Of a farmer
living southeast Of Artesian. Mist
Blanche Atwood attended the Univer.
sity several years ago and had at