The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-03-10
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
MATTERS OF INTEREST THAT HAPPEN
IN THE COURSE OF "A WEEK.

Born. Friday, March 4, to Mr.. aud
Mrs. Nelson. on the south side, a son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. P. Jay have NOV
ed to Mitchell where Mr.. Jay is n
gagged in the draying business.
Mt. Vernon News: Fred Hill and
wife have moved to Mitchell and are
engaged in the restaurant business
MIR. and Mrs. M. F. Bailey arrived
home Thursday evening from Aurora.
Ind, where they have been visiting
since last November.
+. L. VanTassel, president of the
First National bank of Yankton. has
beer in the city for several days, a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. Litch-
field and returned to his home.
Mrs. j. b. Greene, of Des Moines,
Iowa, is visiting her brother, Louis
Herzog. Mr.. Herzog has not seenhis
sister for %thirty-two years n they
failed to recognize each other when
they met.
Eugene McGovern arrived home
Friday afternoon from his trip to
New York, where he has been for the
past ten days, making his purchases
for the summer, and laid in a very
attractive line of goods.
Mrs. 2. H. Eager returned home
Wednesday evening from Sioux Falls.
where she attended the opening of
the Washington cafe in that city
Tuesday. She said that the indica-
lions were that they were gong to
do a fine business in Sioux Falls.
Friday work was commenced by
Johnson & Co. on their new laundry
building, located on the corner of
Second Avenue east and Lawler
street. 1t will have a frontage of rs
feet on Second Street and will be two
stories high. The building will be
completed SO that the laundry can
move in about July 1.
A quet wedding ceremony occur
red Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock at
the home of Rev. F. j. Norton, when
he united in marriage Mr.. William
P. Fox and Miss Ollie May Adams,
both of Bard. They were accompanied
by Lee Adams and Miss Estella Wick
erman, of this city. Mr.. and Mrs. Fox
will make their home on a farm in
the vicinity of Bard.
A. B. McKeel returned home this
morning from Rochester, Mimi, and
was accompanied by his father, Mr..
McKeel went there for an examina-
tion and possible treatment or opera
ton, but the physicians could not ar
rive at any definite conclusion as to
his ailment, and he came home not
much wiser than he went as to his
condition.
A wedding ceremony occurred late
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Rev. F. ]. Norton, when he spoke the
words which united the lives of Sew
rim -Ialde and Ellen Jesberson, botn
of whom reside at Mt. Vernon. The
bride and groom yer accompanied
by a brother and his wife and the
sister of the groom. They returned
to Mt. Vernon on the late afternoon.
train.
DR.. Ray Smith spent a good por-
tion of last week in Nebraska and
was down in the vicinity of Crawford
looking over the possibilities of land
investment with the idea Of following
the %avocation of a farmer. The land
did not suit him, and he decided to
remain by the dental chair. DR..
Smith said that snow was an un-
known quantity In Nebraska, or that
portion, since early in January and,
that he was driven over the country
in an automobile.
George Ferguson, the Milwaukee
engineer running between Mitchell
and Sanborn, arrived in the city yes
terday after an absence of nearly a
month, which he spent on his claim
in the western part of the state at
Bixby. Mrs. Ferguson took up her
residence there early in the fall. Mr..
Ferguson said that the Mitchell col
ony out there was getting along nice
ly, and while they have had a hard
winter, with little chance to get
around much owing to the snow and
cold, yet they have come through the
s in nice shape, and they are
anticipating having some good times
the coming summers 500 as they
can get their crops in.