The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-10-29
From Saturdav,s Dailv-

All eutuuSIdSllc reception was CIV
en- the Oratorio Artists last evening
in the opening number of the Uni
versity Lecture course. Frequent en-
cores were demanded and given and
the musical taste of a crowded audi
ence was fully gratified. The COM
pany consisted of Miss Agnes KIM
ball, soprano, Miss Elsie Baker, con-
tralto, Reed Miller, tenor, Frederick
Wheeler, baritone and Ward Lewis,
pianist. Miss Kimball and Mr.. Miller
appeared to be the favorites of the
evening and the reception given their
efforts was especially hearty.
r. H. Blackwell of Plankinton, was
a Mitchell visitor last evening.
Dean E. w. Grabill of the state
university at Vermillion was in Nit
chell last evening and in conference
with A. e. Hitchcock, president of
the state board of regents.
Eugene Hager who accompanied
the Spearfish normal football squad
to Mitchell as coach, was a guest yes
terday at the home of his uncle A. B.
Hager.
Mark Storer and Louis Nordby,
captain of the high school football
team, went to Sioux Falls over the
Omaha this morning to see the South
Dakota-Denver football struggle
there today.
Three Mitchell nimrods, Judge
Frank B. Smith. H. E. Hitchcock and
F. H. Winsor, will leave next week
for the Black Hills on a quest for
big game.
Milwaukee railroad officials may
soon install a matron in the Mitchell
station. The matter has been pre-
sented to superintendent w. w. Col
Inns by committees representing the
different women's clubs of the city
and has received his approval. 1t is
probable that special convenience for
women travellers will be installed in
the station in the neal future.
The two Korean bellboys from the
Navin hotel, arrested during Corn
Palace week for bootlegging, entered
pleas of guilty through their attor-
neys this morning and were sentenc-
ed by Judge Frank B. Smith. Kim S.
Louy, who had been arrested previ-
ously on a similar charge, was fined
$3.50 or 125 days in the county Jail.
Moo l. Lee received a fine of 500
or a term of SO days in jail.
Mrs. Minnie Blume today started
action in circuit court for a divorce
from her husband, Louie Blume. Her
,nt;y;N,, 81, boo. 41nt Elm D,,~JD u,pc
married in Michigan on October 16,
1901. For the past five years Mrs.
Blume claims that her husband has
drank to excess and has failed to
provide for her with the n~ecessaries
of life and has abused her frequently
while intoxicated. The of the
couple are not given in the city di-
II. X. Ashmore, for many years a
prominent farmer in Sanborn county,
was in Mitchell last evening. For
several months past he has been in
Alberta province, Canada, where he
has extensive land holdings. Mr.. Ash
more departed this morning for Ar
tesian, where he will visit at the
home of his son, f. j. Ashmore, and
inspect farm property he owns there.
Later he expects TO go to Florida to
spend the winter.
Reports of a severe snow and rain
storm in the Black Hills country were
received in Mitchell this morning. In
dications We're that the storm was
moving eastward and would reach
this vicinity by evening. Weather
conditions this morning were UNI
usually bright and clear, but by
noon a clustering wind had started
from The north, raising a heavy dust
and chilling pedestrians who hal been
tempted out earlier in the day.
Charles F. Tym went to Alexandria
today on legal business.
III. G. Giddings arrived home last
evening from Iowa, where he has
been attending to business matters in
the courts at Sioux City and Guthrie
Center.
Mrs. G. l.. Jones OF Belvidere. Ill,
and Mrs. Robert Dulldm, of Harvard.
ILL.,, are visiting in Mitchell at the
home of their sister, Mrs. I'll. j.
Coke.
p. w. Dougherty of Pierre, counsel
for the state railway commission
passed through Mitchell last evening
DR.. l.. ID. Bailor of Minneapolis
manager of the medical department
of the Alfalfa Foods & Medicine Co..
is in Mitchell today on business. This
is the concern that was negotiating
with local capitalists two week age
relative to starting an alfalfa mill IL
Mitchell, and it is possible that {
proposal may be made at this time
Miss Merle B%ratsberg came dowl
from her home in Woonsocket thi:
morning.
e. J.. Austin, agent of the Well:
Fargo express company in Mitchell
went to Omaha this morning %hert
he will spend two weeks with hi
friends at his former home there.
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From Mondays Daily
Willard B.. Kennedy of Canton,
graduate of Dakota Wesleyan in 1911
has just passed the South Dakot'
bar examinations. Mr.. Kennedy ha
attended the college of law OF TIL
university of California at Berkeley
for the past three years.