The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-12-10

where DR.. Ball will attend a meeting
of the surgeons of the Milwaukee
road for the next week.
From Mondays Daily
Mrs. C. F. Townsan has returned
from Sioux Falls. where she visited
at the home of her sister, Mrs. E.
A. Nandercock.
A. e. Hitchcock spent Saturday at
Vermillion, comforting with Pres.
r. l.. Slagle of the state university
on college matters.
Mrs. w. R. Ronald and daughter
Miss Mary Joyce, will leave tomor-
row morning for a holiday visit with
her parents at Marion, Ind, and a
sister at Cincinnati, o.
Hog cholera and the fight being
made against it in Dawson county
will be discussed by some of the fed
eral officials in charge at the meeting
of the LOOMS Farmers club on
Thursday evening. Election of Off
GERS also will be held. The meeting
has been called for s O'Clock.
James A. Lindsey. of Regen, N. D.
has been visiting at the home OF his
brother. Prof. ]. C. Lindsey, principal
of the high school.
The sleeper on the Milwaukee sys-
TEN, which is attached to train No.
4, leaving at 11:25 O'Clock each even
ing for Mason City, Ia, can be oc-
cupied by 9 O'Clock in the evening.
The sleeper is not carried on Satur-
day nights.
Mrs. w. H. Rowe, who has Seen
visiting as a guest in the Sid w.
Smith and II. j. Blair homes since
Thursday, returned last evening to
her home in Chicago. Mrs. Rowe viii,
be bettered remembered in Mitchell
as Mrs. Catherine Brown, OF Tacoma
Wash.
Postmaster T. j. Ball has had
erected in the Mitchell office a rack
for handling parcel post mail which
will greatly facilitate matters. The
rack was designed by the Mitchell
Nasty and consists of three COM
partments or the second tier and
two below, to which the parcels are
consigned upon arrival at the Office.
One carrier is used exclusivel. for
the delivery of this class of mail.
Prior to the installation of the rack,
the parcel post mail has been piled
on the floor and on tables about the
room.
The concrete wall to the new re-
servoir at the city waterworks was
completed with the pouring of all
but the last three feet yesterday. Fer
the past two nights the temperature
has averaged beween 80 and "a de-
grees above zero and conditions have
been favorable for the work. The
remainder of the wall will be poured
with the first section of the roof in
one piece.
E. j. McCollum, a prominent stock
raiser and rancher of Lewiston,
Mont, spent Sunday with his sister
in-law, Mrs. Frank Rhodes, and
family.
Mrs. e. l.. Saul was called to Har-
Dor Beach. Mich, Friday evening on
account of the illness of her mother.
Miss Laura Saul is making her home
with her sister, Mrs. w. T. Rush,
during her mothers absence.
The board of directors of the Com
mercial club will meet in monthly
session this evening. The special
theater committee will meet with the
board.
About two inches OF snow, the first
real fall of the season, have fallen
since early Sunday morning. The
snow has been very wet and has
melted almost as fast as 1T has fallen.
Two candidates were initiated by
council U. C. T., at the first
meeting in IN" new quarters at the
K. C. hall on 81 turday evening. The
Ladies' auxiliary met at the same
time. Following the meetings, plans
were laid for a booster meeting to be
held on the first Saturday night in
an event will be celebrated
by the order all over the country. A
program of music from the Edison
machine belonging to j. d. Ander-
son finished the evening.
Miss Clara Arensford, of Farmer,
D., visited over Sunday at the P.
Kjelmyr home.
The city council will meet for it's
regular monthly session at the coun-
Gil chambers in the city hall this
evening.
L. P. Rhine, of Mason City, Ia,
general foreman of the locomotive
of the 1. and d. and
Black Hilyls divisions of the Mil
waukee system, was in Mitchell to-
day on business.
Mrs. Roy Woodman and daughter,
1sadore. returned this morning to
their home in Mwood. Ia, after a
visit of two weeks with Mitchell re-
latives.