Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-15
The Ladies of the Maccabees gave a


Kading hall last Thursday evening and
despite the awful warm night the affair
was largely attended and very much
enjoyed.
Fred Halbkat. of Spring Valley, Mimi,
who spent few days with his brother,
Frank. and his family in this city last
week, departed for WATERFOWL last Fri
dsy to visit with another brother for a
few days.
Marriage licenses have been issued by
Clerk of Courts Smith since our last
issue to William B. Gullickson and
Anna ]. Negaard, John ]. Bolstad and
Carrie Paulson, August Gruba and Anna
Gunderson.
Sheriff Gross feels that he is about
four hundred and fifty dollars richer
this week in view of the fact that one
of his blood hounds whelped nine pup
pies, and he claims they are easily worth
fifty piece.
William Egeland, of the Egeland Land
company, of st. Paul, arrived in this
city last Saturday and will spend few
days with his mothers family. Will
has hosts of friends here who are always
glad to see him.
r. L. Irwin went out to Pickerel lake
to spend couple of days last week, but
owing to numerous breaks in the auto.
mobile he managed to get in nearly
week at the popular fishing resort.
That's his story.
The Misses Kaplan, who have been
visiting their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Kaplan, who reside south of
this city, returned to st. Paul Sunday
night where they are employed in a
department store.
DR.. P. d. Peabody claims to have
broken the record for pike fishing at
Pickerel lake by catching a specimen
last Monday which weighed eleven
pounds when taken out of the water.
1t was big fish-we saw him.
David Compton and family started
for the Pickerel lake fishing resort in
the auto Saturday night. The machine
worked sufficiently well to get them out
to Enemy Swim where they borrowed
team for the remainder of the trip.
Charles Russell arrived from st. Paul
Friday. He has been under the weather
for some time and came out to his
former home in Day county to recruit
up and told your reporter yesterday that
he could already see much improvement.
J. L. Erickson, of Pierre, private Sec
rotary to Governor Crawford, was in
the city last night on his way to Web
ster, where he will be the principal
speaker at q Norwegian gathering
today.-Aberdeen American, Tuesday.
Mr.. Morrison, who travels for the U.
M. @. ammunition and makes this city
on regular trips, at the st. Paul gun
club shoot last Sunday broke ninety.
nine ont of a possible hundred birds.
That Is shooting some.
E. W. Taylor came down from Aber-
deem Tuesday morning and weep. out to
Pickerel lake to visit his family VINO
are enjoying an outing in the cottage
out there. He returned to Webster last
evening and went to Aberdeen this
morning.
Len Carl and wife went to leland, N.
D., last week where Mr.. Carl was to
act as station agent for the Milwaukee
company. After personally inspecting
the inducements and surroundings they
returned to Webster and passed up the
new situation.
Rev. Nortvied. who was pastor of the
Norwegian Lutheran church in Web
ster eighteen years ago, but who is now
church missionary with headquarters
in Minneapolis, was renewing Day
county acquaintance for a few days
the first of the week.
Miss Cora Wilcox, one of the lady
clerks in Tegtmeier & Calmenson's,
who has been spending her vacation
with relatives and friends at Foster and
other points on Big Stone lake, returned
home Monday night and is again at her
place behind the counter.
Mrs. Fred Thoman and mother, Mrs
Parkhurst, were incoming passengers
from Webster Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Parkhurst has been visiting her
son, Lyman, and became sick while
there. Mrs. Thoman went up to bring
her mother home.-Huron Huronite.
Anton Karpen, the general manager
of the Lampert Lumber company, Of
this city, 10 taking his summer vacation
and departed Friday morning with his
family for Glencoe, New Ulm, st.
Peter and other Minnesota points where
they will spend few weeks with rela-
tives.
In letter to friends in this city, Mrs.
A. g. Thurman reports that her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Thayer, pee Miss Sadie Thur
man, is quite seriously i'll at her home
in Redfield. Many friends in Webster
will hope that Mrs. Thurman is unduly
alarmed and for the speedy recovery of
Mrs. Thayer.
Mrs. H. H. Potter, Mrs. Curtiss, of