Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-06-23
The 18TH ANNUAL REUNION
Day County Old Settlers Associ-
alton Turns Out En- Masse
to Attend The Reunion

| by III o clock last Thursday morning,
the hour for the beginning of the pro-
gram for the day, large crowd, esti-
mated at nearly 5000 people, gathered
in Webster. The exercises opened with
music by the band on Main street who
led the crowd to the court house square
where the speeches were delivered
from the band stand.
Rev. E. C. H. Peithmann delivered
the invocation, after which Mayor Har-
ris delivered an address of welcome,
which though short was appropriate
and to the point, rendering the visitors
the freedom of the city. The band
then gave another selection followed by
song by the quartette, after which
the Hon. Frank Sears, the orator of
the day was introduced. Mr.. Sears
address was a mastery effort. AS one
of the oldest settlers of the cour' he
is acquainted with every detail of the
county's history, and his anecdotes of
pioneer times, his short sketches of the
county's earliest history and his word
pictures of the joys and sorrows, the
struggles, the hardships and privations
of the early pioneers brought back old,
forgotten memories to the old settlers,
and presented to the younger genera
alton true picture of the toll and
hardships required to develop the county
lay, h,tv,c 70, 20 Oh 70 af
ductivity. To say that Mr.. Sears
speech was thoroughly enjoyed would
be putting it mildly. For an hour and
half he told of pioneer days, and
when he closed his address one old
timer was heard to remark: 'I'd go
without dozen dinners if Frank would
only keep that up a couple of hours
longer"
Prof. Thompson of the Webster High
School then delivered a few appropriate
remarks. and after another selection by
the band and song by the quartette
! an intermission for the picnic dinner
was announced. Quite a number had
brought basket dinners; the Association
furnished coffee and sugar, and very
pleasant hour was enjoyed on the court
house lawn.
At 200 o'clock the business meeting
of the Association was called, and S. S.
Yeager was elected President and Rex
w. Harris secretary for the ensuing
year. Webster was selected as the
place for holding the next annual
reunion of the Association.
The sporting events resulted as fol-
lows:
Boys Foot Race-1st, George Alsog-
er; End, Andrew Small, Jr.; Sd, August
Block.
Girls Foot Race-1st, Tille Farman;
End, Vido Nelson; Sd, Hazel Nelson.
Free-For-All Foot Race-1st, Guy
McKibben; End, C. Ahlers.
Fat Mans Race-1st, L. Hazelton.
Andover defeated Webster in the
baseball game by score of 8 to z.
Prizes were awarded as per the list
published in the program with the fol-
lowing result:
No. IA. w. Alderman.
No. 2-Christ Vein.
No 3-Julius Ahlers.
No. Mrs. Hans Christianson.
No. 81. P. Opitz, 1st; Ole Hanse,
End.
No. 6-L. G. Ochsenreiter.
No. Mrs. A. w. Alderman
No. 8-No contestants.
No. 9-Mrs. Guy McKibben.
No. 10-Mrs. A. M. Lundeen.
No. 11-Mrs. A. w. Alderman.
No. 12-Henry Bury.
No. 13-Mrs, Thos. Ray.
No. 14-Mrs. E. H. Belts.
No. 15-Mrs. T. M. Ray.
No. 16-Lars Midland.
No. 17-Mr. and Mrs. A. w. Acker-
man. -
No. 1910. l.. Williams.
No. &c Kohihause.
No. 20-Mark Phillips.
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