Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-12-14
Butler Budget
d. Z Potter. Editor

Bristol visitors from Friday till tues
day morning.
Tony Hessinger was laying in a good
supply of groceries Tuesday.
Miss Mary Steich the dressmaker
has returned from a visit at her home
south of Webster.
Amanda Hendrickson of Bristol Wis.
tied friends here between trains Mon
day.
Miss Trean Richards spent Sunday
with her friend Miss Jean Holdings
worth.
Mrs Ed Webber of Webster was Wis
iting friends here a few days last
week.
Prof. Ahern spent Saturday and
Sunday with friends at Andover,
Dennis Bissette of Crandall was here
taking advantage of our cheap prices
Tuesday.
Mrs II. Patterson of Lily visited
here from Friday to Monday night.
Z. Debilzen and wife and Miss Me-
lena Halls went to Bristol Monday
night.
Charlie Knott aud NJ. Meuer were
transacting business in town Tuesday.
While working in a store at Lily
Rams Ash cut his hand badly on some
broken glass. Friday night he went
to Bristol to have it attended to.
Mr. and Mrs Martin Nelson gave a
lively party for the young folksThurs-
day evening, Don't tell his wife
when she returns, hut E. A. Dugstad
vas present.
Well. | see | m likely to have a libel
suit on my hands at last. My, I'm
always getting them boys mixed mp
But say Rams we will let the type stay
up and it will come in handy some
time and it won't cost You anything
for publishing,
Everybody and wife making a per-
feet jam were transacting business
here Saturday.
S. 7 Ashbugh and daughter Miss
Mildred took the train for Pipestone,
Mimi. Saturday morning for a few
days visit.
Mrs Ole Snipstad returned Monday
night from an extended visit with her
sister at W%atertown, S. ID.
Miss Alma who is attending school
at Bristol spent Tuesday with Butler
friends.
Mrs Amelia Malloy came up from
Sioux Falls Friday night. She is Wis
itine her friends a few DAYS before
returning to her home at fire Steel.
Dick Huwe was shaking hands with
Butler friends Wednesday. He and
his family are here on a visit from
their home west of the river and are
making their home with his brother
Will, southwest of town. The Budget
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children is down with typhoid fever.
G. u Buchele, our efficient Register
of Deeds, spent a few days visiting
Butler friends returning Tuesday
evening. While here he handed the
Budget a bouquet that was all wool
and a yard wide. Thank you Charlie,
that makes q man feel good.
Our German FRIENDS are holding a
two weeks protracted meeting We
are informed they will continue all
this week. they are having a good
attendance and a p..interest is man
ifested. Pastor Rev. Arnold Oertli
being in charge May the last clause
of the 47th verse of end chapter of
the Acts be the result.
Last Saturday night Mr. and Mrs &.
A. Potter took the train for Webster
in response to q phone message stat
ing that /. w. Sanborn. Mrs Potter's
father, had passed away the night
before. They stayed over to Tuesday
morning to attend the funeral which
was held Monday afternoon. Well
boys, close up. our ranks are thinning
rapidly. Within a few days Tom
Douglass, L. Langland AID now 4. w.
Sanborn have passed away.
Like the leaves on a tree, IN a late
autumn day.
They are silently dropping, dropping
away.
Well, the Budget bis now entered
upon the End year of it's existence.
It's growth has exceeded bur most
sanguine expectations. Beginning
with a few copies sent out to our in
innate friends. it now is a weekly
visitor in over two Thousand homes,
and is read probably by ten thousand
person. But our ambition is not yet
satisfied. We wish to add a thousand
to our list. In order to do so we make