Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-13


gladden. the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Kelly in Sperry's Addition.
Miss Mata O'Neil was rendered
surprise at her rooms in the Ruble
Block last Saturday evening by a
number of her friends.
The addition to the New Shoe
Store is now ready and the propri-
etor, Mr.. Erickson, has now more
room. for his stock and increasing
business.
The Church of God will hold an
Assembly Meeting at H. O. Myhre's,
Arctander, Mimi. from Nov. l6 to
Is. All are cordially invited to at
tend this meeting.
John Koester, an old time resi-
dent of Meeker county, died in his
wagon while driving to town one day
last week, heart failure undoubted-
ly being the cause.
A basket supper was held last
Friday evening in Dist. No. 81,
town of St. Johns, where Miss Birdie
Ramsett is teacher. Fifteen dollars
was raised for library fund.
Mesdames w. johnson, O. Satter-
gren and A. Hanson will serve re-
freshments in the church parlors of
the Swedish Bethel church tomor-
row afternoon. All are welcome.
Sheriff Bonde ha, attended a
meeting Of the grand jury at Ben
son this week. He was present at
the hearing Of 0. Strom Of Kerk-
hoven for the illegal sale of liquor.
G.EE. Newlin of New London Wis
tied 3Willmar one day last week.
Mr.. Newlin states that he expects
to go to Hubbard county, where he
will buy some land and start sheep
raising.
Aabasket party party will be
held in the Roen district west Of
town next Friday evening for the
purpose OF raising funds for a H.
brary. Miss Somerville is the
teacher.
The mask social given by the
Royal Neighbor camp last night
was great success. There was a
very large crowd present, and the
masked merrymakers enjoyed them
selves immensely.
J. C. Bjornberg and family, of
Fahlun, we're surprised by a num-
ber Of their friends last Saturday
evening. All the participants en-
joyed a pleasant time, and they left
nineteen dollars as a present to the
people of the house.
Dusky Diamond, the valuable
stallion owned by J. P. Madison,
was sold this week to Joe Pulkrabec
of the town of st. Johns and will
be taken by Mr.. Pulkrabec's son to
Canada, to which place the latter
expects to move in a few days.
Chas. A. Gustafson, formerly a
carpenter of this place, came up
last week to attend the funeral of
John Dalzlel at Harrison last Sun
day. Mr.. Gustafson states that he
has built himself a house in North
east Minneapolis this summer.
Rev. S. A. Lindholm Of Tripolis
called at Wilnaar yesterday. Mr..
Lindholm is very busy preparing to
move to his new home at Lafayette,
MINI. Tomorrow he will hold an
auction sale at the parsonage. He
expects to preach his farewell SER
mon on Nov. "a.
The ladies of the Swedish Luther
an Bethel church will give supper
in the church parlors on Thursday,
Nov. Fl, beginning at four O'Clock
and continuing thruout the even
ing. The bill of fare will consist
of baked beans, sandwiches, coffee,
cake and doughnuts. Price, Il
cents. Ali are cordially invited.
DR.. Leslie Keyes formerly in
practice here but now Of Minneapo.
lis, made visit to Willmar over
Sunday. His friends arranged 8
"Hayrack' party in his honor Sat.
urday night. After merry ride
around the city, the members Of
the; party enjoyed an oyster supper
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. F. F
Nelson.
Andrew Ray, Andrew Lindquist
and Nels Lind, Of this city, went tt
Mile Laos county last week to lool
at some land. They also made :
trip to Duluth and were in that city
at the time of the great fire in thu
elevator district of Superior, whe1
two and a half million dollars
worth of property, including th'
Great Northern elevator lone of th'
largest in the world), several fac
tories, two large boats and man!
other buildings, were burned to tn
ground. They state that the sigh
was something awe-inspiring ant
brilliant and one that they will
never forget aslong as they live.