The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-02-20

AOuo OF DaVlQ DaTueli ldst IuuTs-
day evening was quite we'll attend
ed considering the bad weather.
and the receipts were over SIS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Collinge
are called to mourn the loss of
their little son, ten months old,
who died Wednesday morning from
pneumonia. Funeral services will
be conducted by Rev. Chas. Will
cox tomorrow, and the remains
buried in the Scotland cemetery.
0. J.. Bruhn has installed a new
gasoline lighting plant in his dwell
ing house. 1t is the first of the
kind to be put in at Scotland, the
gas being fed to the lamps through
a hollow copper wire. The plant
consists of a generator and two
large lamps, and cost only $50. It
gives a beautiful light, the cost is
moderate, and it is said to be more
economical to operate than any
other system.
Mrs. Fred Bardell visited in Ged-
des the first of the week, returning
Wednesday. She was accompa-
MED home by her mother, Mrs.
Yeager.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. d. Grifiths
spent Sunday with the family of
Rev. A. S. Peck in Sioux City. On
Sunday a message came here for
Mrs. Grifhths stating that her
cousin, Miss Ina Briggs, was dan
gerously sick at her home in Hi
nois, The message was forwarded
to Mrs. Grifiths at Sioux City, ard
she went on from there to Illinois.
Mr.. Boepple has decided to close
out his stock of merchandise, and
has engaged Mr.. G.. P. Hanson of
Bridgewater to sell the goods at
auction. MIR. Hanson has been a
merchant for twenty five years,
and Knows the ups and downs of Q
merchants life thoroughly. He
has just closed out a stock at Irene
for a merchant of that place, and
an exchange says of his work,
standing room was at a premium,
to see the international auctioneer
clean the shelves and send the
goods to the straw pile"
The valentine social held at the
home of A. H. Mcclellan last Fri
day evening was largely attended,
over eighty being present. The
first part of the evening was spent
in playing games, in all of which
hearts seemed to be the prevailing
emblem. Blowing soap bubbles
through hearts to determine the
fortunes of the blowers, and a con
test at throwing hearts, a contest
which showed that hearts often 90
wild. A program was then given,
consisting of a piano duet by Miss
es Myrtle and Violet Sweet; piano
solo by Prof. Manthey recitation
by Florence Brown; duet by Ivy
Sweet and Nellie Redman rec1sa-
ton by Violet Sweet and a piano
duet by Violet and Myrtle Sweet.
Refreshments we're then served and
this part Of the program was also
"hearty."
MIR. F. Becker, who has been in
the mercantile business in Scot
land since-1880, being the propri-
etor of the oldest business institu-
ton in town, has retired from bus
mess and on Feb. 18th turned the
store ove to his children. The
new firm has been incorporated
under the name of Becker Bros.
Co., the members of the firm be-
ing Philip Becker, president; Gus
Becker, vice president Jos. Beck
or, secretary, treasurer and bust
ness manager and Misses Lydia
and Caroline Becker. The COM
pany is incorporated for $15, 900,
but the stock carried will invoice
over $2O, 1000. MI. F. Becker start
ed into business with a small cap
ital but by faithful attention to
business has amassed a fortune