Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-03-16
OPERA HOUSE ASSURED.
CONSTRUCTION WORK WILL
BE STARTED SOON.
COMMERCIAL CLUB GOT BUSY

Commercial Club Committee
Sells $50 of the Necessary
600 Tickets, Thereby Assur.
ing the Erection of a New
Opera House in Webster.
At the Commercial Club rooms in this
city last Friday evening occurred a
meeting which promises TO be of great
Importance to the history of the city of
| Webster.
Announcement was first made that it
would be the regular monthly social
meeting with program, and as usual
this brings good crowd. In addition
the word was passed around that the
opera house proposition of w. C. Happe
& Son would be discussed, and this very
materially increased the number which
would otherwise have been present.
President Ochsenreiter called the
meeting to order and made few very
appropriate and pleasing remarks.
The following program was rendered
and every number thereon is highly
praised by those who were present:
Song by Quintet and Michael
Mohs, Lars j. Fiksdal, Otto Schie-
mann and L. w. Cook.
Address-"The General Spirit Business
Men Should Possess. Rev. M. r.
Crisp.
| Ill oil
Address "The Future Greatness of
Webster. Frank Sears.
Vocal Duet. - Frank Mohs and Lars j.
Fiksdal.
Vocal Duet-Frank and Michael Mohs.
Much credit is given Miss Wist for
the efficient and easy manner in which
she rendered the accompaniment upon
the piano for the singing.
At the close of the program the BUSH
ness of the evening was taken up with
vim that showed that nearly every
one who went up there went with full
determination to know all there was to
know about it, land also prepared to
express his opinion before he got away.
The proposition was first laid before
them and then it was discussed from
every view point, some favoring, some
opposing, but all in earnest and all look
ing for the best interests of Webster.
After the ground had all been threshed
over. motion was made that a COM
y,nit ho fnI RI
the business men and citizens and SOL
icit the sale of the 600 tickets for the
entertainments to be given during fair
week by Mr. Happe, and the motion
prevailed.
The chair appointed as such commit
tee Messrs. Atlas Knapp and A. T.
Cooper, and that the chair knew what
he was doing was shown when the two
gentlemen got busy the very next
morning and went out to solicit. 1t is
safe bet that no Individual male cti-
zen, who was in town at the time,
escaped their vigilance. They were
successful in disposing of about $50 of
tie lSScoSdiy OoV IiShcIo, anu Tic ldCI
that several of the city's good boosters
have not yet been seen is guar
antee that the other fifty will be
disposed of without any trouble.
When they made their report to Mr..
Happe he was happy in every sense Of
the word, and to prove that he had been
acting in good faith right along, and
that he was in earnest about wanting
to start his new building at once, he
departed at once for the east to pur-
chase the material for the opera house,
which, when compile ted, will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000, or as Mr..
Happe has guaranteed 27,0OO-and a
new building is always sure to stand a
builder in about third more than he
has figured upon. 1t will be furnished
throughout with the latest improved
fire-proof scenery and will be model
in every respect.
Webster is to be congratulated that
Mr.. Happe and son came to make their
hoiliC III Ihio SiIy anu SHOuiu ohoW IHSiI
appreciation of the enterprise they
have shown in so soon erecting hand
some building to take the place of the
old frame upon such prominent corner.
The city is further to be congratulated
upon the revival of the Commercial
club which is doing things already, and
if the same spirit as is now manifested
can only be continued it will be the
greatest asset that Webster ever had.
The Reporter and Farmer would like
to suggest that when the new opera
house is completed it be named "The
Happy Opera House" This would be
tribute to Mr.. Happe's enterprise,
and would also be significant of the
many good times the people of Webster
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