The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-05-14

al meeting there Tuesday and Wed
nesday.
From Tuesdays Daily
The society columns of The Re.
publican in the Saturday edition are
open to its readers for the publica-
ton of any news of parties. dinners
or club meetings. All news mus,
reach the office by 5 O'Clock or Fri
day afternoon. Telephone No. 2172 OF
PHI.
w. A. Branch was elected chair
man of the local committee in charge
of the summer ch~autauqua, to be held
in Mitchell June Is to 10, at a session
OF that body yesterday afternoon IT.
j. Morgans, secretary of the Com
mercial club, will act as its secretary.
There will be four soliciting commit
tees of two men to sell the tickets
for the chautauqua. which will be
$1.5O for the season of ten pro-
grams. Many OF the business houses
of the city also will have tickets for
sale.
Prof. S. ID. van Benthuysen, of Da-
kota Wesleyan had a class OF twenty
students in charge this morning on a
visit to the plant of the Mitchell
Publishing Company. 1t was the first
visit of many OF the students to a
modern printing establishment and
they were greatly interested in the
various departments, especially in the
bindery, where the university annual
The Tumbleweed, is being bound at
present.
w, p. Truax, of Wagner, was a
guest Sunday and Monday at the
home of his brother, A. A. Truax. Mr..
TruaN came up from Wagner in his
automobile and intended to drive
through to Sioux Falls, but the con-
dition of the roads prevented.
The annual business meeting of the
Round Table club was held last even
ing with the president, Mrs. Mamma
years work. Mrs. w. C. Hunter was
elected president, Miss Edla Laurson,
vice-president; Mrs. F.. L.. Ransom,
recording-secretary; Mrs. Dick Haney
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; Mrs. III. D..
Butterfield, treasurer, and Mrs. Anna
Thompson, librarian. In the curse
of study for the coming year will be
travels in the United States, with
American music and art, and Shak-
espeare.
Rev. Edgar f. Siegfried, of Mil
bank, was the guest of honor and
speaker at the dinner last evening of
the Young Mems club of S. Mary'sI
church. Rev. Mr.. Siegfried took for
his subject in his address before the
young men, Life" The dinner was
served by the Altar guild. Plans are
being made for a club picnic tt be
held at the river on May 25, with the
members of the Altar guild and club
as guests.
The high school track team is
working hard for the state track meet
to be held at Vermillion on Friday
of this week. Coach Forrest Fletcher
is optimistic that the purple and
athletes will make one of the /,
best showings of recent years. A stu
dent from the university at Vermil-
lion, writing in the Monday Sioux
City Journal, indicated that the first
honors in the meet would probably
be divided among the schools at Siohx1|
Falls, Yankton and Vermillion. The
Mitchell high school was not men,
toned, although it had already de-
ieated Sioux Falls easily this year. |
The entire boys chorus of S..
Mary's Episcopal church will be TAX
en- to Sioux Falls on May 81, for the
choir festival to be held there that
evening at the cathedral under the
direction of Bishop George Biller, Jr.
Choirs will participate in the service
from Sioux Falls, Yankton, Fland-
reau, Watertown and Mitchell, al
though Mitchell will be the only city
to have a boys choir. Bishop Biller
will be in Mitchell tomorrow for the
rehearsal in preparation for the festi-
val.
Hail insurance and abstracts of
title. ]. E. Wells, ms. Agency, Phone
2120.
A new Manganese steel safe, which
is guaranteed by the manufacturers
to be absolutely fire-proof, has Just
been installed by the Commercial &
Savings bank. The safe is AZ
inches high, with a silver chest at
the bottom and currency receptacle
at the top. The door to the upper
part is one solid integar, of the
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