Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-03-12
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! Waubay WHITES

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w, NJ. Lawyer made a flying trip
to Andoger iast Saturday on profess
sional business.
Several new cases of grippe are
reported, but none are serious.
Newton Simmons, the elocutionist,
gave an entertainment at the school
house Friday night to rather a small
audience.
Presiding Elder Springer, of the
NJ. &. Church, WATERFOWL district,
stopped off here between trains last
Saturday lis mission apparently
was to look over the grounds with a
view of stationing a minister here to
take up the work which was dropped
some three years ago.
John Stein and Il. r. Kempter
and son returned from Groton last
week, where they have been invoic-
ing and settling up the affairs of the
firm of Kindschy & Kempter, made
necessary by Mr.. Kempter with
drawing from the firm.
Hart Sykes and family returned
home during the fine weather pre-
vious to our late snow-storms, after
wandering all winter through the
northern part of Minnesota in search
of work and finding poor picking.
Thirty good strong men are want
ed to chop wood at Waubay in the
camp of the Modera Woodman. L.
L. Nordness penetrated the forests
last Monday night and found the
campfire. He will undoubtedly find
his way out by next Monday night.
BY that time, the camp will have the
satisfaction of knowing how much
experience he has had at saving
wood.
Mrs. M. Rexford is mourning the
loss of one of her red birds which
she procured while in the East last
summer. A post norton examina-
ton performed by DR.. Herman and
Judge Rexford revealed the fact
that the bird came to its death by
over-indulgence in chequers, as a
large chequer over three inches in
circumference was found in its crop.
Whether they convinced its owner
that these results was the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the
truth, and they would cross their
hearts and hope to die if it wasn't,
| have been unable to find out.
The writer had the pleasure this
week of perusing NJ. ID. Jonsen's
letter, printed in the So. Oak. Day
light, which is right to the point.
There are swads of people who, il
they would come u from under
cover and give us the pure facts as
Mr.. J. has, could duplicate the same
experience.
J. w. Dilley's family carriage
horse was taken sick ard died Sun
day night.
The electric light plant of Roy E.
Thompson is nearly OIL quite perfect
ed, and it will not be an uncommon
thing hereafter to see his fathers
store brilliantly lighted with cleo
tricity.
Miss Nellie Wayland is very sick
at the present writing with neuralgia
of the heart.
When w. A. Abbott went to his
barn Tuesday morning to do the
chores, he found the door wide open
and both horses gone. They were
found at a farmhouse a mile from
town. Evidently, they were out for
a time.
r. r. Kempter departed for his
home IN Alma, Wis. Sunday night.
DIED-Mrs. M. Erred, whom we
have mentioned in forn.er cores
pendence as being sick with cancer,
died at her fathers home in Lower
Town on March A, at about 1870 p.
IN. Deceased was about az years
old, and leaves a husband, father,
sister. and two brothers to mourn
her loss. She has suffered nearly all
winter with the dreaded disease, and