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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1904
Page
11
Local items list social events across Prosper, Emsley, and Ethan with upcoming programs, baskets for a school library, and a push to organize a rural telephone company. Mentions weddings, dances, lectures, school activities, and community movement, including a Worthen county line note and a Mitchell stock sale.
In Prosper and Loomis reports, Mr. and Mrs. George Rowel and Miss Bessie Elion are noted visitors or guests. A misprint about a social date caused disappointment but a 813.50 basket supper at the Railroad School House supported a strong turnout and funds. In Loomis, Mr. and Mrs. Shaw returned from Minneapolis after the death of his sister, Mrs. Brand, burial in Redfield. The Loomis church dedication drew few visitors due to cold weather, a choir from Letcher provided music, and daily services were planned. The general store contract is let, and Loomis anticipates much construction as weather permits. Frank Harris returned from Harrison. Mr. Lambert and two children are ill. the clerk at the general store is on vacation possibly planning spring wardrobe. Mr Nagie, injured while loading grain, is now able to be out again.
Emma Titze attends German school at Hillside. George and Frank Zangl visited J. L. Bourret’s on Sunday. Wilhelm Herbst was in Mt. Vernon Saturday. William Van Fleet and C. H. Parret sold hogs in Mt. Vernon last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bourret visited Mrs. M Clark. A sale of stock and grain was planned at Mr. Mott's today.
Roby plans a public sale tomorrow offering household items and other goods. The message notes cold weather with no snow this winter and mentions local students preparing to celebrate birthdays of Washington McKinley and Lincoln next week. Mr Robert Shutz and family hosted guests Sunday evening.
Mt Vernon social notes list residents on business trips to Iowa Chicago and Des Moines visits with friends callers from Mitchell and Ar mour gatherings at homes. Miss Lora Bramwell and Miss Mabel Reynolds travel for visits while Mrs C B Woodward returns from Fonda Iowa. Mrs Haynes hosts a 25 guest afternoon with games and supper. An advertising plug ends with Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil promotion.
A stage moment features an actor confessing fear as a cabbage comes close to his nose and jokes that an audience member has lost his head, quoted from the Boston Transcript.
Dyspepsia plagued patient experiences relief from burdock blood bitters claimed to regulate and soothe the stomach promptly and permanently.
A tall tale from the Milwaukee Sentinel recalls a stout hotel guest at Lake Minnetonka who asked the bellboy for bath charges. The boy misheard seven cents a pound as the rate, provoking laughter and a reminder to verify pricing before quoting guests.
Mr. Dolan achieves a prosperity that allows a horse and carriage. A friend questions why his wife drives with the letter C on the carriage. Dolan explains the C stands for continted and jokes about changing to D being less elegant, with Mary Ann agreeing.
The London Chronicle notes robber bees disturb bee communities by breaking in and killing occupants to steal honey. Autumn is their peak. attacks can end in hours with hives killed or neighboring hives raided. Some farmers prefer the old straw skip to break the comb and spill honey for thieves.
Lord Orford once drove a team of red deer stags to a gig coach when a pack of stag hounds appeared on the London to Brighton road. The chase to Newmarket ended in a wreck at the Ramian yard, leaving the coach destroyed and the driver injured. Orford then took to horses thereafter.
British artist William Simpson recalls accompanying the army in the Crimean war. Lord Cardigan dismissed early Balaklava sketches with a vacant stare and a curt verdict that it was all wrong. Simpson pressed on and earned Cardigan's later admiration after making him conspicuous in the final drawing.
In a brief exchange, Trotter asks Bailaw why he hasn’t visited recently. Bailaw admits fear of being seen as a reminder of what is owed. Trotter apologizes, stating he had forgotten the debt and that the matter troubled Bailaw only briefly.
Miss Ann Teek laments young girls being engaged to two men at once calling it shameful. Miss Pepprey adds it is generating too. Philadelphia Press.
Walter asks Marie about making bread, and she recalls baking for her father until his doctor advised against it. The exchange highlights a shared memory of domestic skills within a family.
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