Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-03
many friends in Webster, They were
the guests of Mrs. Chas. Rathbun

many friends in Webster, They were
the guests of Mrs. Chas. Rathbun
Mrs. James Bond and children and
Mrs. A. P. Bryant and children. of
Andover, arrived Monday for a visit
with the.J. G. Rathbun family in this
city and at the cottage at the lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Yeager and
family, who made an overland trip to
North Dakota some time ago to look
after their real estate interests, arrived
home Thursday night of last week.
l.. l.. He'll and ]. V. Preszler, of
Wetonka. S. D., arrived in this city on
Wednesday evening and are acting as
managers of the Gunderson store which
has been purchased by Mr.. Preszler.
Mrs. Floyd Daniels had sufficiently
recovered from her recent operation at
the city hospital to make the trip to
the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Grant Chapman, in Marshall county.
Mr.. and S. l.. Potter, Mrs. j. C.
Garrick and Mrs. E. o. Potter went by
automobile Friday for visit with rela-
tives and friends in Andsver, Groton
ard James. They returned Saturday
night.
Last Saturday afternoon Mrs. L. G.
Ochsenreiter entertained small party
of ladies at bridge for Miss Brennan, of
Lake Preston. Refreshment were
served and very enjoyable afternoon
spent.
Contractor McKennett has finished
the cement work in the basement of
the new opera house block for Happe
& Son and now has his crew putting
the cement in the basement of the new
Irwin building.
Rev. Jonas Johnson will preach in
the New Sweden church, Kidder town.
ship, next Sunday, August 6, at 100
o'clock a. m, and in the German
Friedens church, Webster, at $3.50 D. m.
the same day.
Mrs. Will Christian and Miss Cert
rude Thompson arrived from Aberdeen
Tuesday for visit with Mrs. Atlas
Knapp. The three ladies' left for the
Holm cottage at Pickerel lake We'd
nesday afternoon.
Miss Louise Fossum accompanied her
brother, DIR. Thor Fossum, of Groton,
and party of friends from that town
to Pickerel lake, where they spent
Sunday and yesterday Aberdeen
American, Tuesday.
A. M. Eastman, one of our tonsorial
artists, this week purchased an auto
mobile from the Day County Auto &
Supply company. 1t would seem to us
that boat would be more appropriate
this kind of weather.
Mrs. ANN Tow, of Norway, Iowa,
and daughter, Martha, and Mrs. Julia
Tjosen, of Pauline, Iowa, sister of Mrs.
Tow, arrived Saturday night for visit
at the homes Of H. o. Wickre and
Harbo Strand in this city.
Chas. DEUEL. arrived from Faith last
week and will spend some time with
his Day county friends. He reports
that crops are not much in his section
of the state. He will remove his stock
to North Dakota for the winter.
Harry M. Bruce, who for the past
year has been chief clerk of the Com
mercial hotel, departed for his old
home in Memphis, Tenn, Monday night.
Harry is an expert as hotel clerk and
left host of friends in Webster.
Messrs and Mesdames Henry Gilbret-
son and H. o. Wickre made an auto
mobile trip in the formers car to the
latter's farms in the northern part of
the county last Sunday, coming home
by way of Pierpont and Andover.
Geo. Weller came over from Miller
in an automobile Sunday and assisted
in the loading of his household goods
for removal to his new home. He was
accompanied by F. E. Harrington, of
Mellette, an uncle of Mrs. Weller.
]. S. Fullmer was here in the inter-
est Of his harvesting machine COM
pany for couple of days this week.
Jap says the company finds 1t is rather
long on men this fall and is only keep
ing the good ones in South Dakota.
Mrs. Hamilton and daughter, Cora,
of Ash Creek, S. D., who are visiting
with j. A. Hawkins and family in
Waubay, took ride around the coun-
try on Friday visiting the lakes and
reaching Webster for few hours visit
with friends.
C. A. johnson was. down Minnesota
last week and he reports that crop con-
ditions are about the same there as
here. He went to attend the National
Association of Photographers at St.
Paul and reports most pleasant and
interesting meeting.
A nice six room residence, electric