The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-07-06

ing room by Mrs. VIM. M. Smith, Mrs.
l.. Beckwith, ST.. Mrs. r. NJ. Hammer.
Mrs George e.. Foster, Mrs. j. X.
Smith, Mrs. Virginia Doyle. Mrs. A.
e. Hitchcock, Mrs. L. d. Milne, Mrs.
II. E. hitchcock, Mrs wv. E. Upton
and Miss Blanche Rowley.
The evening was very pleasantly
spent in visiting among friends and
proved a delightful occasion.
A few kindly appropriations of Mr..
and Mrs. kibbee were sent by friends
and associations to which they be-
long. The children and relatives
presented them with a purse of gold,
Mr.. andI Mrs. L. Beckwith sent a sulr
%stantial gold coin, the ear neigh
bors sent a beautiful cut glass water
pitcher, the w. r. c. presented Mrs.
kibbee with a gold recognition pin,
the G. A. X. presented Mr.. Kibbee
with a handsome clock and Tile TWEEN
tieth Century club presented a dain-
ty little clock of a repeating charac-
Ter
1t was on July 2, 1861, that Helen
Day and Charles H. Kibbee were
united in marriage and which took
place at Warren. Ohio, livirg there
until the spring of 1862, when they
took UP with the westward trend of
civilization and moved to Eldora,
Iowa. In the fall of that year Mr..
Kibbee responded to the. call for
soldiers fer the civil war and enlist
ed in Co. G, 1st Iowa cavalry. They
had been married a few months over.
i year when Mr.. Kibbee enlisted,
and he did not return to his bride
for three years, as he was among the
few who failed to get a furlough DUR
ing the long struggle. He served
under General Dawson in the caval-
ry for a while and when General
Steele went into the southwest diyis-
ion with his infantry, the cavalry di-
vision was placed under his COM.
mant. After returning from the
war, MIR. Kibbee resumed his .voca-
tion in life and they remained at Ell
dora until the fall of 1880, when they
removed to Mitchell, where they have
lived for a period of 81 years. Here
Mr.. Kibbee devoted the greater part
of his time to the horse industry, and
he was a great lover of good horses,
the care and working with which nc
gave up some few years ago.
Mrs. Kibbee, since the days of the
civil war;, has devoted a great deal
of time to patriotic work through
the medium of the WOman's Relief
Corps, and as long as she has lived
in Mitchell she has been associated
in that branch. For twelve years
she has filled the post of president
of the local corps, and through her
illustrations it has come to be the
largest n most influential corps in
the state. So successful has she
been in the Corps work, that when
the Department Encampment met at
Pierre a few weeks ago, Mrs. Kibbee
was honcred with the Office of Presi-
dent, which brings the headquarters
to Mitchell. Mrs. Kibbee got her
first initiation into work of this char
acter during the civil war. She join
ed at that time what was known in
those days as the Christian Sanitary
Commission at Eldora, Iowa. 1t was
the work of this commission to make
a collection of food and clothing for
the soldiers in the union army, and
to get the supplies the members were
forced to travel all over the state.
gather up what was given and then
ship to Dubuque, where it was sent
of these good women for a period of
nearly three years, an i through their
efforts much suffering was avoided
by the soldiers and many comforts
we're added to their lives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kibbee have two
children, II. r. kibbe, president of
the Commercial and Savings bank,
and Mrs. Jessie Rowley, both resid-
ing in this city. These with the four
grandchildren. Myron and Glenn
Rowley and Mary and Ryland Kibbee,
were present at the golden wedding
anniversary, and made a very inter-
esting group.
This worthy couple have lived in
to the life of the community for the
81 years, and are esteemedl very
highly for the splendid character
istics which have been prominent
in their lives. all these years, and
which have brought them many
%steadfast friends. They are happily
situated with their children and
grandchildren surrounding them and
the passing years of their existence