Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-11-07

Pennington Fashions.

Mrs. Moses Brough returned the
Goth ult. from her visit in New
York.
Miss Ada Townsend closed her
school in the Peek district Friday.
VIM. Chambers departed Friday
night to resume his studies in the
Huron college.
Everybody in Pierpont and the
visitors too-realized Friday morn
ing that Halloween had passed.
The Speer house was sold at
public auction in Langford Saturday
to Will Sherrard and A. j. Case.
Glenn Henry attended the Pier
pont "Autography" social Friday
evening at the home of Mrs. Jane
Roberts.
Fred Chambers finished his
threshing in Pennington and drew
his machine home to Pierpont Satur-
day.
Presiding Elder Hall held
quarterly meeting services at the
Langford and Pennington churches
a week ago Sunday.
Charlie Peek and family have
moved to their new home and are
getting nicely settled for the future
season. -.
The Lawrence and Clark ia Miles
are preparing to depart this month
for California where they will make
their future home.
Fred Ewald who has been confined
to his home the past three weeks
with typhoid fever, is still a very
sick boy. DIR. Switzerland, of Pier
pont, is attending him daily.
Rob Hess, a cousin of A. w.
Clark, who has spent the summer in
Pennington departed the Goth ult.
for Minneapolis and thence to Idaho
where he expects to spend the
winter.
The Pierpont dancing club will
give their first private ball of the
season next Tuesday evening, Nov.
18th Cafarelli's band of Minneapolis,
will furnish music and a treat is
promised to those who are invited.
Having disposed of his farm,
Chauncey Blanchard and family
departed two weeks ago to again
dwell in Michigan where they
resided prior to coming to Dakota
in the early days. Their old Farm
ington friends will miss them but it
is hoped that the change will be an
improvement to their comfort and
prosperity.
Two of our young couples attended
the Halloween party at Mr.. and Mrs.
A. S. Martyrs home in Pierpont.
The charm and mysteries of the eve
ming afforded mirth and pleasure
until q late hour when the out of
town boys found it Necessary to
search long, patiently and diligently,
for their conveyances which had
stolen SO quietly away, in nook and
corner.
Mrs. Ralph Ballard, of Niles,
Michigan, who was summoned here
in July by the illness and death of
her mother, Mrs. O. G.. Huston,
departed last week Tuesday for a
visit in Webster with her uncle, j. T.
Goodwin, and family. From there
she went to Webster City, iowa, to
visit a sister and then will resume
her journey home. Mrs. Ballard
spent part of her childhood days In
Pennington also visited here three
years ago. She has thoroughly
renewed the old friendship and
made many new friends during the
past three months. She is a
pleasant lady to meet, highly edu-
Gated and a fine entertainer which
was a characteristic of her mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. n. Perry very
pleasantly entertained a party of
young people from Langford, Pier
pont and Pennington Monday eve
ming Oct. 18th in honor of the twenty
first birthday Of their son, Clarence
V. n. Parlor potato and clothespin
races and other games were entered
into with a spirit of thorough enjoy
ment. Guessing tables came next
on the program which afforded a
great deal of amusement. AT the
first table the guests found them
selves confronted by a dozen bottles
containing familiar liquids, and were
requested to guess their contents
and write down what each bottle
contained. Small dishes Of garden
seeds were found on table No. 2 and
spices on the third table. Baby
photographs awaited the guessers at
the fourth table and the players
were expected to guess hoy" or
"girl.' When the time was called
the hostess apnpared with gone wee