Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-09-16

Lily Wednesday morning has the right
ring to it: "Tell the people of tie
county through the Reporter and Far.
mer that the business houses and
elevators of Lily will be closed all day
Thursday, as we are coming to the
Day County Fair"
The Editor of the Groton Independ-
| emit, j. ID. Reeves, in writing of the
death of Charles Rathbun pays this
tribute: "How well we remember his
kindly nature. Always cheerful, with
never an unkind word for those about
him. All who knew him will exper-
fence a sense of personal loss in his
gong"
| John S. Helwig, a member of the
Chicago police force, arrived in this
city last Friday night for visit at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Helwig. Mr.. Helwig is one
of the old timers of Day county and we
are assured By persons who claim to
know that he was the first child born in
Day county.
Xavier Gagnon, who has been the
first assistant in O. @. Chapmvn's tom
serial parlors for several years, on
Tuesday resigned his position and will
leave Saturday for Lennon, where he
has filed upon quarter section of land
and will engage in farming, "X' has
host of friends who will wish him the
best of luck.
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector E.
Huntington, after spending few days
with his family in this city, departed
the first OF the week for the Black Hills
where he will introduce a new deputy
who Will take his place in that section.
I Mr. Huntington's territory has been
changed so that hereafter he will have
the South Dakota territory west of
Aberdeen on the new Milwaukee road
and North Dakota
The manager OF the Webster Opera
House has succeeded in booking 1.-TWO
Merry Tramps," musical comedy, to
be presented two evenings during
county fair week, on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, September %, %
The company carries IS peoele and is
one of the best shows on the road. Out
of town people desiring to see the show
should telephone or write to the Irwin
Pharmacy for reserved seats, not later
than Monday or Tuesday of next week.
One of the best written, best expressed,
best presented musical comedies to visit
Webster this season will be 1.-TWO
Merry Tramps" that jolly jingling
musical tom-foolry, with the past repu-
tation is guarantee that the play is
not one of the ordinary melodramatic
plays with short cast, but strictly q
musical comedy which contains seven
teen original musical numbers and
every one Of the whistling kind. The
company has been booked for fair
week two nights, September % and %.
Reserved seats at the Irwin Pharmacy
The I. w. Graham, ID. D., superin.
tendent of the Watertown district,
Dakota conference of the Methodist
church, will be present and hold the
fourth quarterly meeting of this con-
ference year at the Methodist church
next Sunday. He will preach both
morning and evening and at North
Webster in the afternoon at 3 o'clock.
He will administer the Sacrament of
the Lords Supper at the morning and
afternoon services. He will hold the
fourth quarterly conference Monday
morning at 10 o'clock, Sept. goth. All
are cordially invited to attend.
The deputy collectors of internal
revenue under Collector of Revenue
Ellerman are meeting here today with
their chief, relative TO the excise tax TO
be imposed on corporations, stock com.
panies aud associations, which has been
exploited by the News recently. The
deputy collectors here are Huntington,
of Webster, Merrifeld, of Grand Forks,
Greatorex, of Yankton, Piercy, of Pin
gree, N. d., and the newly appointed
J deputy for the fifth district, Alex
McGladrey, of Deadwood. The meet
ing will be continued tomorrow =
Aberdeen News, Friday.
| Horatio Tragitt departed yesterday
morning for New York city to enter
Columbia university, where he will
take up studies in pursuit of Bachelor
of Arts degree, or the Arts course.
Horatio graduated from the local high
school a year ago last June and was one
of the brightest and best students ever
turned out from the local institution.
His many friends will be pleased to
learn that he will continue his educa-
tional pursuit and do not hesitate to
predict that he will make an enviable
record in the big New York institution.
His father Rev. III. N. Tragitt, accom-.
panied him as far rs Minneapolis.
Milbank Review.