The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-08-17
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
MATTERS OF INTEREST THAT HAPPEN
~ THE COURSE OF A WEEK

eastern iowa. Which occurred sa,ur-
day, At points between Caimay and
the east state line 1t Is reported
that from ) Il 10 inches oil water fell.
~inundating the country and putting
all the railroads in thai section IL
OF business for the time being. The
rain came in four different showers
and thus gave the water a chance TO
run on before the other deiuses toll
lowed. The Milwaukee passenger
from the east is scheduled as being
six hours late today as a result OF
the storm,
For fire and tornado Insurance see
W. E. Rathbun. agent for the Royal
Insurance Co.
,Iohn Roth died this morning AT !
O'Clock. as the result OF dropsy. Mr..
he has been slowly failing in the
about II years of age. The tuner
al arrangements will be announced
later.
VIM. Gilmore and George Keppie,
who live at Arlesian, We're in the
City late Saturday evening, and when
they started for home All accident
happened to them and their buggy
was overturned. In the miNup that
followed keppi was batteres about
the fact, and a third party in the
buggy, whose name could not be as
ce%rtained, had his arm broken. Tne
two men were brought into the cour;
of Justice Satterlee this morning and
pleaded guilty to drunkenness and
RECKLESS driving, which brought on
the accident. The court imposed a
fine of $40 in each case, which they
Eaid and started off to Artesian.
AT a meeting the corn palace
committee adopted the idea of max
ing the pennant n feature of the
advertising for the fall exhibition.
1t is to be gray in color and the
dates and name printed thereon. The
remnants will be given over 10 au-
tomobile owners all over the state
TO attach to their machines. 1t is
sail! that the auto drivers are cry
anxious to get some such a decora-
ton and it will make a fine adver-
Using feature for the palace. 1t is
expected to have the pennants ready
in the course OF a week.
Sanborn county is going to be
represented at the corn palace. A
committee consisting of Fl. w.
Hauge, j. M. Ruhe and H. S. DIE,
of Woonsocket, made a trip to Letch-
er. Artesian and Forestburg to get
the merchants to subscribe; to a
fund for making the eAhibit, get
.Woansoeket business men will pu,
,t9ie Esbalance of .theg 5000 necessary
sto get tan appropriation of 5000
from the county commissioners.
%sanborn. county has some ,gopa crops
this year, and the progressive mer
Of that county are goiiig' to have ar
agriculturalt' exhibit i'll the count,
display which, will, make the east
erners sit up and take notice. Othel
counties are making preparation.
to have an agricultural exhibit.
Thomas Ball, the original lont
distance house builder. Of Mitchell
has started in OF the CONSTRUCTION O
another residence out on Fourth
4 Avenue west, eleven blocks from
Main street. The basement is fin
Iished and the foundation is beini
'Iput in at the present time. Johl
ISlater has the contract FOR doing tn,
carpenter work. Mr.. Ball said h,
had forgotten how many houses h,
has built but several years ago thu
number had gone over a hundred
and Tom said he had lived in neal.
every one of them. The new resi-
dence is to be 2SX4O and two storie
high.
H. R. Kibbee and party took
drive of 20 miles northeast ant
!, north of Mitchell yesterda,
and had fine opportunit.
to see what the corn crop is doing il
that territory, Mr.. Kibbee state,
that they saw some splendid fields O
corn on the drive and that the be
lief was general that the crop would
be a good one. OF curse they say
2 some fields where the corn had beel
J put in poorly and the stand CAV
evidence of it, but where the cor,
had been put in properly the fiei,
J looked fine and promising.
Evan Watkins was in the cit,
from Badger township, and in speak
ing the crop yields up there said tina
the wheat varied to a marked de
; gree from good to bad. He sal,
: some of the wheat was so poor tina
it was not cut at all, and that
goodly proportion of it went as hig'
as 16 bushels per acre. T. S. Bark
t er had 1870 acres that averaged 1
bushels. 1t was Of the bearded va
t riety. Mr.. Watkins said, his owl
wheat. which was of the blue sten
: variety, did not yield very we'll. Fl
: got 10 bushels per acre from 6
acres and four bushels per acre from
e 40 acres, which however, was on ia.
pl.Iwing and did not do so we'll. MI
: 'Watkins said NAT he tried the Camp
: bell system of dry farming on hi
l wheat. but that it failed to respon,
i on account of the lack OF moisture il
e the subsoil, which is necessary in tn
S early spring.
George Syevens, agent for the Mil
S waukee company at Murdo. is at tn
hospital for the present. He cam
iD Sunday to remain a day. and wa
taken with very severe pains in tn
back, SO much SO that when he wa
sitting in "a chair and attou,pfod 4