Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-05

Mrs. G. w. Roberts has return
ed home from a visit with relatives
in independence and Fairbanks.
--Lorenz Horn and Robert Isham
students at the c. c. c. c. in .Des
Moines, returned to the capital city
this morning following a vacation
visit at their respective homes.
Guy Barker, who has been in
Des Moines a short time on business
came up Friday and visited his sis
er-ii1-law, Mrs. H. H. Hoyt and hus-
band, returning to the capital city
yesterday. Mr.. Barker has been in
Provost, Calgary, Canada, where he
has finished harvesting his crop of
wheat and flax, his wheat going
thirty bushel to the acre on summer
fallow land and eighteen bushel to
the acre on stubble land. He got
S1.70 bushel for wheat and $2.95
Ia bushel for flax. Mr.. Barker will
leave Des Moines shortly for Palo
Alto, California, to join his wife and
children in a winters stay there.
The Misses Marie Brown and
Betty Burken returned this morning
to Des Moines after Thanksgiving
visit with the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John R. Brown, on west
Division street.
Mrs. J. M. Badger and daugh-
ter, Miss Audrey, who have been
guests of their daughter and sister,
Mrs. Karl Stuart and family, re-
turned this morning to their home in
Des Monies. Mrs. Stuart and two
children accompanied them home for
a visit.
Mrs. William Newsome went
home to Stratford this morning af-
ter spending several days with her
sister, Mrs. I. w. Hyatt and hus-
band, and attending the Bromley
meetings. Mrs. E. NJ. Milburn, also
Of Stratford, is spending several
days with her brother, /. w. Hyatt
and other relatives.
Miss Ida Reed has returned to
hen duties as student in the State
Teachers college at Cedar Falls, fol-
lowing a visit over Thanksgiving at
the home of her grandmother, Mrs
S. E. Reed.
Miss Bernardine Shanor of Min
neapolis, student at Coe college,
Cedar Rapids, returned to that city
this morning after Thanksgiving
visit with her uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. B. F. Paine.
w. c. Meyers, who has been Wis
iting his sister, Mrs. J. w. Traver
and husband, returned this morning
to his home in Preston, Ia.
Mrs. Frances Stevens, who is
employed as a stenographer with the
Iowa Automobile Association in Des
Mcines, returned to that city this
following a Thanksgiving
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. A. Bishop. Miss Gala Bishop,
who clerks in Harris Emery's, also
came up Saturday night and return
ed to the capital city this morning.
Miss Merle E. Smith and Miss
Gertrude Merrill left this morning
for Des Moines to make a brief stay.
MIR. and Mrs. F. A. Billings re-
turned to their home in jewell this
after spending Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Billings and Mrs.
H. d. WEIGH and others.
Miss Blanche Robinson went
home to Gilbert this morning after
4 visit with her mother, Mrs. E. c.
Robinson, who is spending the win
.er with her mother and sister, Mrs.
A. J. Barr and Mrs. w. H. Meeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Eyer and
Miss Bessie Counts, former residents
who spent Thanksgiving at the John
R. kamrar home, and Judge Lawr-
,nce DeGraf, the eulogist at yester-
lays Elks' Memorial, returned to
Des Moires yesterday afternoon by
way Of Fort Dodge, Mr.. and Mrs.
&amrar taking them to Fort Dodge