The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-05-05
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
MAT FRS OF INTEREST THAT HAPPEN
IN THE COURSE OF A WEEK,

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Iowa. She has been there for a couple
of weeks.
DR.. j. s.. Hoagland and Rev. F. B.
Barnett left Monday morning for
Chicago to attend the national con
vention of the Laymens' Missionary
convention, which begun its session
there Tuesday.
]. G. Markham departed Saturday
evening for a trip through the west
ern part of the state to look over the
country. Today Mitchell was with. ut
a justice of the peace and several
DRINKS will have to be held over I'M
til tomorrow when Judge Drake as
sumes the ermine of the Justice court.
DR.. r. ]. Lamme came home SAT-
urday evening from his trip out to
the Bitter Root country in Montana,
making the last end of his journey
home via the automobile route from
Redfield. DR.. Lamme said that he
bought ten acres of property near
Sunnyside, and he regards it as an
exceptionally fine place In which to
live.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Dodd spent tie
winter season in Los Angeles. CAL,
and returned home Wednesday even
ing. On their way home they stopped
at Missoula, Mont, and visited with
the Fergusons and the Prescotts. and
with the C%essfords at Seattle.
They wanted to be remembered to
all of their old-time friends in Mitch
ell.
j. H. Davis has been up in the ex-
IRENE northern part of the state and
came home Saturday night. He stop
ped in Aberdeen Saturday and Wis
tied with Cecil Braught at the hos
pital. He said that Mr.. Braught
was badly burned in the fire at Mead
ow a week ago. Both his feet were
right hand was, which is quite severe.
His mother, Mrs. d. A. Braught, is
there assisting in his care.
Lewis Whitman, of Des Moines, Ia,
is the new ice cream maker for the
Turner Produce Co., having arrived
a few days ago and has taken charge
at the plant. Mr.. Whitman has had
twenty years experience in this bust
mes and is an artist in his line of
work. This is one more additional sfya-
ture the company has adopted to
make their ice cream the best that is
made and supplying their customers
with the very best that can be produc-
ed. Mr.. Whitman will remove his
family to Mitchell as soon as he can
secure a residence.
j. e. Washburn, a student of Da-
kota Wesleyan University, departed
Friday morning for Chicago. He will
take the physical examination and
appear before the foreign missionary
board of the Methodist church to he
further examined for his appointment
to some foreign country to take up
the work of the missionary. During
the recent Laymens' Missionary con-
%vention in this city, the men of the
Methodist church made it possible
for Mr.. Washburn to go by subscrib-
ing to a fund sufficiently large as to
pay his salary for a year, by which
time the mission board of the church
will be able to assume the expense of
maintaining him in the foreign field.
The members of the May Music
Festival committee held a brief bust
ness session Tuesday to close
up some details of the coming affair.
The ticket committee made a good
report and they feel confident that a
larger sale of season tickets will be
made this year than ever before.
Everywhere they go they find that the
citizens are much more interested
than in previous years, and they have
come to realize that it is worth some
thing to Mitchell to be able to present
such a big undertaking. 1t is credit
able to the city to be the very first in
bringing prominent orchestras to the
state. 1t is to be a great musical event
and one which none can afford to
miss.
Mrs. Martin Jacquemai gave two
very delightful social affairs We'd
nesday and Thursday at her apart
ments in the Koch flats. On Wednes-
day five hundred was played with
five tables of guests. Mrs. H. Mcleod,
of st: Paul, Mrs. j: A. Dunn, of Ma
son City, and Mrs. Con G. Toohey. of
Sioux Falls, were the out of town
guests. During the serving Of re-
freshments, which took place at s
o'clock Miss Bess McHenry played a
uuUlOcF u 6OOO 6tlSCLlOu6 Ou Tue
piano. Mrs. Jacquemai was assisted
by Mrs. ]. K. Smith, Mrs. w. T. Stav-
er, Mrs. w. A. Heimberger and Mrs.
Geo. H. Rev. The head prize was
awarded to Mrs. Charles McHenry
and the all cut prize was won by Mrs.
Con G. Toohey. Thursday afternoon
guests for six tables we're invited for
bridge whist. the refreshments being
served first. Mrs. Jacquemai was as
sisted by Miss McIIenry, Mrs. M. F.
Patton, Mrs. ]. l.. Hannett and Mrs.
Sid w. Smith. The head prize was
won by Mrs. Robert Burns, and the
all cut prize by Mrs. c. W. Downey.
The Maynard" theatre will be
opened about the second Monday in
May. When completed, Manager
Tournier will have one of the best
NJ. p. theatres In the northwest. The
ventilation w311 no oanon1ollv un0d oo