Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-17
DIES SUDDENLY!
theodore Twett, Editor and Pro-
prietor of the Webster
World, Dead.
FOUND IN A DYING CONDITION
w. l.. Mack Upon Arriving at
the Office Discovers His
Chiefs Condition.
Medical Aid at Once Summoned
but Came Too Late to
Resuscitate.

Last Thursday morning about seven
o'clock when w. L. Mack opened the
World office, where he is employed, he
was startled by some labored breathing
IN the direction of the room in the rear
OF the office used by MIR. Twett, the
editor and proprietor, for sleeping apart
ments. Upon entering the bedroom
Mr.. Mack discovered MI. Twett very ill
upon the bed and Immediately rushed
out for assistance.
DR.. S. Lull was soon at the bedside.
After taking the temperature and the
pulse the doctor said at first that he did
not consider the patients condition SER
ious. But almost in the next breath
the doctor changed his opinion having
discovered a peculiar and very weak
condition of the respiratory organs,
though the pulse was strong and the
temperature normal. Doctor Lull at
once called Doctors Harris and Hash,
and together they did everything known
to the medical profession to revive Mr..
Twett but to nc avail as he had passed
beyond human assistance. He died
about 900 o'clock without having
regained consciousness.
Theodore Twett was the son of MI.
and Mrs. Lars Twett, and was born in
Frosten, Norway, November IL, 1871.
He resided in the old country until the
summer of 1893, when attracted by the
inducements held out to industrious
young men in America, he severed his
home ties and came to the United
States locating at Bristol, this state.
The first year of his residence in this
country Mr.. Twett worked at farm
work. The next year, desiring to more
thoroughly familiarize himself with the
English language, he attended school.
AT the close of the school year having
formed the acquaintance of HI. H. Show
erman, and a great and lasting friend
ship having sprung up between them,
Mr.. Twett entered his office in Bristol
to learn the printers trade.
When Mr.. SLOVENIAN purchased the
Webster Herald-now the Woodland
moved to this city, Mr.. Twett bought
an outfit and launched the Courier at
Bristol which he conducted until after
the election II year ago, when he sold
the Courier to accept the position as
business manager of the South Dakota
Ekko. But this new field was not salts
factory to our late brother and after a
short experience he resigned his posi-
ton, returned to Bristol and bought
back the Courier.
Last spring when Mr.. SLOVENIAN
purchased the Walla Walla Argus and
was looking for some desirable person
to whom to dispose of his interests in
this city, it is not surprising that he
turned { o his firm friend and former
faithful employee, and that satisfactory
arrangements We're made whereby Mr..
Twett purchased the Webster World
and with it consolidated the Bristol
Courier, and moved here in March of
this year.
During Mr.. Twett's short residence in
Webster by his courteous manners, his
strict attention to business, his modest
ways, his splendid habits and morals,
his answering desire to do what was
right regardless of consequences made
a great many FIRM friends.
One of the saddest features of the
death of Brother Twett is that he was a
great lover of a home, and to meet his
affinity and make a home of his own
the supreme desire of his existence,
and this hope of his life was Q % to be
He was engaged to Miss
Peterson, n of Websters
NEST prominent and accomplished young
and the wedding was to have
been solemnized next month.
The deceased leaves his parent, FIVE
brothers and one sister il Norway, his
lance and hosts of friends in this city
md state to mourn his early demise.
But they can say with Carlyle: sit
be said of him that when he
departed he took a mans life with
Private funeral services were held at
the residence of P. A. Peterson Satur-
day afternoon at 100 o'clock, Rev,
Hammer, of the Norwegian Lutheran
church officiating.
The public funeral services We're held