Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-02-27

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fence to accommodate the number.
j. L. Harris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burcalow, Miss Gibbs
and Miss Aldrich entertained the jun
Tors and seniors Friday evening, Dec.
81, at the Burcalow residence. The
evening was spent i'll appropriate pro-
gressive games. Mrs. Malmberg and
Claire Peabody won the prizes of the
evening. All report a most ~enjoyoble
affair.
Ed. LaMant returned from the south
ern part of the state Tuesday of last
week in in response to a telegram
informing him he was the father of a
pair of twin boys, born Mondai. The
little ones only survived a few hours,
they were buried Thursday. The
parents have the sympathy of many
friends in their bereavement.
Pete Alsager, of Lynn township has
purchased nearly five cars of lumber of
the st. Croix Lumber Co., to be used in
the erection of farm buildings. He will
build a house 2Sx32 feet in size, with IS
foot posts, and a barn 42xS0, with 16
foot posts. He has commenced To haul
out the lumber. Bristol Tribune.
Hosea Jewell came over from Sisse-
ton Monday evening to join Mrs, Jewell
who is visiting i'll the city. They will
pay their Webster friends a short visit,
after which Mrs. Jewell will return to
Sisseton for a month when she will join
Hosea at Damabooke, Ward county, N.
d.. where he has taken a claim aud will
go to hold it down the last of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. JEWELS many friends,
both here aud at Sisseton, will wish
them success in their new home.
Some Italian peddlers worked off a
lot of their wares OH "a Day county
farmer Friday of last week and he paid
them with a twenty dollar bill, receiv-
ing thirteen dollars and fifty cents in
change. The peddlers came to this city
and tried to pass the bill when they
were informed hat it was a confeder-
ate bill and was good for nothing. The
victim had victimized them. The ped
dlers returned to the country to find
their man but they could not relocate
him.
Hon. A. w. Campbell was in Redfeld
Friday ON his way to Aberdeen from
Faulkton. Mr.. Campbell, in speaking
about that prospective appointment as
special attorney to represent the govern
ment in the trial of the Spanish war
claims, said that he had not been offered
the appointment yet and that he would
have to investigate the matter a little
further before he could say whether or
not he would accept it If it was offered.
The judge is loath TO tear himself COM
pletely away from his pleasant business
relations with the people of Aberdeen
and South Dakota, and it will have to
be a very enticing proposition that will
induce him to do s~o.-Redfield Journal
Observer.
John Anrerson arrived from Cod
ington county Tuesday with a horse.
Yesterday he traded the horse to John
r. Taylor. Last evening. upon receipt
of a telegram from the Codington county
sheriff, Sheriff Rich began a search for
John and found him. X Early this winter
Anderson went to the home of II. Il.
Morgan and upon a plea of no work to
be found was taken in and boarded and
clothed for doing odd jobs. Tuesday
while Mr.. Morgan was away from home
in Minnesota he stole a horse and came
this way. Anderson's \ next boarding
place will be in the penitentiary. He
ought to get the limit of the law. Mr..
Morgan arrived in Webster this morn
ing and will take his horse home tomor-
row.
Our citizens were shocked last Satur-
day afternoon when a dispatch came
from Rochester, Mimi, stating hat A.
A. johnson had died at one o'clock of
that day. "Alf," as he was Familiarity
called, had been in the hospital at said
place about five weeks, and undergone
two operations ON account of an abscess
forming. He was ON the gain, appar-
entity, until Thursday of last week,
when he began to sink. He was cons
cious to the last and was conversing but
a few moments before death put an end
to his sufferings. Blood poisoning was
the cause of his death, which surprised
his physicians as they thought they had
subdued this ailment. Deceased was
one of our earliest settlers having come
to South Dakota in 1882 and settling on
his farm neal Andover. He was an
industrious, honest kind hearted man.,
and If he had an enemy we are not
aware of the fact. ''Alf' was of quiet
disposition-was a man who always
attended to his own business and
believed in doing unto others as you
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