The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-06-29

MONDAY and Monday night. For sew.
en- days the MERCURY has been hang
ing around from the 80 to the 9s
mark. and the thing was getting mo,
notonous. Monday. the mercur,
dropped to rs degrees during the da,
and at night it vent to IS degrees
which shows quite a range of temper.
allure in the course of "a hours
Much relief was afforded by the
change in the atmosphere and it was
welcomed.
C. A. Beebe returned from a tril
down in the Kansas City territory
where he had an opportunity to look
over the grain situation. Mr.. Beebe
said that Kansas was much worse
than anything he had seen in cen.
trail or southern South Dakota. The
crops in nearly all that territory are
burned up. and there will be no grain
to speak of. Mr.. Beebe was also in
several Iowa districts, and found
many bad spots of dry country, where
the crops were injured to a serious
extent. He said that South Dakota
has the best looking crops of any
place that he has visited during his
trip.
John Watkins was down from Bad
ger township Monday evening and in
speaking of the crop situation he
said that they had failed to get any
of the rain of the past three days,
but notwithstanding that the grains
were getting along nicely, and were
holding up in fine shape. Mr.. Wat.
kins said, that the corn was makins
a fine growth and that it was excep.
tionally clean this year.
DR.. Mark Mizener has decided tt
open an Office at Ethan for the prac
tice of his profession and has go
everything in readiness. He has ha6
quite a good deal of experience fof
a young mar in hospital work since
he graduated from college, and starts
out in his practice under favorable
circumstances.
MIR. and Mrs. Walt. Smith expec;
to leave in the course of a few day,
for Los Angeles, Cal, where he will
open a clothes cleaning parlors.
A copy of a Los Angeles
CAL, paper was received at this ofic.
and in the sporting department is {;
picture of Arthur Zeitschel, who
won the road race between Pasade
ma, and Los Angeles, a distance of II
miles, which was run a few week
ago. Young zeitschel made the race
under the colors of the Y. M. C. A
and showed up strong at the end c
the race, and, maintaining a goot
lead all the way through. Youn,
Zeitschel left here a year ago las
January, and is a night clerk in /;
prominent hotel. He is the grand.
sen of Mrs. Theresa Zeitschel and &
nephew of Mrs. Isaac Spears.
A pretty wedding event occurred
this afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock, whe:
Miss Mae Raney and P. w. Jacobu
were united, in marriage. The cere
mony took place at the Methods
church and was performed by Dr.. J
IS. Hoagland. Only Their elatives ant
a few intimate friends were present
The fire department boys will leav
Sunday via the Milwaukee road TO
Lead to attend the state firemens
tournament, which will open Nor
day. 1t was the intention of the dc
partment to go out to Lead via tn
Northwestern read, but owing t,
the fact that there is no Sunday trail
between Pierre and Rapid City the.
changed over to the Milwaukee road
The management of the Western
Union Telegraph Company this norm.
ing dressed the local messenger boys
In uniforms OF a new military de
sign and put into effect regulation.
that show regard for the welfare O.
these active young employees. Tn
uniform is of deep blue cloth, sum
mer weight, the coat being singl
breasted with turn down collar ant
braided with red soutache. TIL
shoulder straps are embroidered wit.
the letters Nv. u" in red. The,
trousers are blue with red stripe. Tho
cap is a natty e design, a blend o.
the latest military and automobil,
patterns. Uniforms will be worn
while on duty, being returned to of
fees at night for cleaning and re.
pairing by the Company's tailor.
With the grading up of the stree,
around the court house, which has
just been circled with a cement
curbing, the county property shows
a decided improvement in appear
ance. The high school building
grounds have been improved in mucn
the same manner, only the cement
curbing has ben placed only on the
south, east and west sides. These
grounds have been graded and sown
to grass, so that the place looks at
tractive and inviting.
The Dakota Central Telephone Co.
is transferring its paraphernalia in
to the new building on Third Avenue
east and expects to have the Office
over there within a month.
Another switch board is to be in
in the new building and the
will be improved to a certain
extent, although little can be accom-
plished under the present system.