Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-07-11

Andrew Runnestrand, printer in the
News office, met with a serious accident
last Saturday by catching his right hand
in the newspaper press and having the
flesh and nail torn from the second
finger DR. Jacotel attende 4 him and
hopes TO be able to save the finger which
at best will be long time in healing -
Milbank Review.
We are pleased TO inform our readers
that the clipping taken from the Brook
ings Register of several weeks ago
which stated that Ed Erickson, the big
pitcher of the Webster ball team of two
! years ago, was dead, was mistake.
/ Instead of being dead in Texas, he is
pitching ball aud fast ball for the
! Snokane Falls, Wash, team.
! Police Cooper's fine setter whelphed
nine dog pups one day last week and
not female. That is quite strange
litter of pups. Cooper, however, met
with misfortune the first few days
after they came. 1t seems thBt his
barn is infested with rats and while the
mother was shut ont one morning the
rats carried away and literally ate up
two of the puppies,
On Tuesday, 10Th of July, the Right
Rev. Monsignore Henry Msnsing will
be invested as Domestic Prelate of the
Holy Father by the Right Rev. Bishop
Thos OGorman, of Sioux Falls, South
Dakota. The ceremonies of InvestIture
will commence at 10 o'clock a. m, in
st. Otto's church of this city. Recep-
ton will be given at the opera house at
800 p. IN. All are cordially invited to
attend
Everyone who has had any business
out in the country during the past week
fatty contradict the report that the
crops of this county are two or three
weeks behind. We have talked with
great many during the past few days
and they all say that the crops are in
full harvest is already assured. We
have never seen the fax looking better
than is is today.
July 3, 1907, was the date of the
marriage of Mons Halmer Munson and
Miss Ruby Lillian Dart, both of Pier
pont, this state. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. d. c. Smith of this
city. Miss Lulu Palen was the attend
ant maid of honor and Misses Helen
and Frances Brink were witnesses.
The contracting parties will make their
home at Ash Greek, where they have
homesteads. Pierre Free Press
John Q. Schuster, of Ramona, Iowa,
Olaf Sjolie, H. H Minthorn, Leland
Rhodes and c. r. Hustes, of Bradley,
constitute party which arrived on
Monday nights passenger from the west
and went ont that same evening in
Charles Phelps large automobile to be
present at Enemy Swim for the early
morning fishing on Tuesday. The party
will go into camp there and remain for
week.
Frank Block, Ben Block and Felix
Rumpza appeared before Justice Rath-
bun last Friday and made complaint
against Tom Wagner, Peter Wagner
and Ben Wagner charging them with
an assault with a dangerous weapon,
etc. 1t seems that during a celebration
at Grenville the men named attacked
the others with sling shots and sand
bags and beat them up considerable.
The hearing has not come off yet.
When the time for the second hear
ing in the case of the State of South
Dakota VS.. Charles Rich and George
Baumgard, in which the jury dis
agreed last week, came both the COM
planning witness, August Blank, and
the defendants were glad to have the
charge of assault stopped without fur
ther trouble and each side paid half of
the costs and the complaint was with
drawn, the defendants released and
their bonds cancelled.
The Webster Clothing Company has
closed its doors and decided to quit
business in the City of Webster, and
are busy packing up what was left of
their large stock which viii, be shipped
to North Dakota. Peter Weum, who
has been the local manager has accepted
a very lucrative position in the same
line of business in Wisconsin and his
many friends here will sincerely regret
his departure from among us. We
have not learned as yet what are the
future plans of julius Dustrud, but
sincerely trust that they will be such
assto keep him in Webster.
We are not going to elaborate on the
celebration for nearly everyone in the
county was present and all who were
had the time of their lives. The music
was good, the speeches were fine, the
races the best that could be gotten up,
the ball games as errorless as most pro.
fessional games, the weather just as
the committee would have ordered and
all in all it was grand three days sue
cess. We are going to say for the
Groton High School Band, which came
down Friday morning under the lead
ership Of Prof. Casson, that they are as