The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-01-09
GOOD WILL

ster.
supt. and Mrs. Thollehaug enjoyed
Christmas dinner with the H. N.
Schmidt family.
Rinas Bros. shipped hogs with the
Equity people just before New Years.
There wa sa dance at Sjoberg's on
Dec. 80 tn and another at Herman
Rolstad's the following night.
Mr. George Selkirk will hereafter
work at the Agency Office instead of
being foun at the old Government
School, it is understood.
The w. e. Bickford family are en-
joying new Victrola. Beautiful
music is now to be heard in great
number of homes in our vicinity.
Miss Marvilla Elliston was out on
Tuesday to spend the afternoon with
Miss Margaret Schmidt.
A. E. Wickard has resigned as a
member of the school board in south
Good Will and w. L. Wohlheter has
been appointed to fill the vacancy.
Mrs. T. C. Names and children left
on Tuesdays train for Webster where
they VIII spend a week.
Miss Vera Bcl1ford has gone to
soisseton to stay awhile to take chiro-
practc treatments from Dr.. Ruth N.
Hay
The Misses Elizabeth and Stella
Hendrickson of Ortley came up Fri.
day to visit the Misses Schmidt, re-
turning home the following day.
Post cards telling of3the safe arrival
i at their destination at Miami, Florida
of Miss Ethel Lynd and her friend
Miss Vera Marble of Cleveland, Ohio
on Sunday evening, December %
1919, have been received. Miss Ethel
is the third daughter of James w
Lynd, and enjoys the honor of being
the only Good Will girl to spend her
Christmas vacation in the beautiful
sunny SOUTH May the time be near
at hand when each and every mem
Der of Gods Woodworking family,
meaning farmers and all laborers
everywhere shall be enabled to enjoy
! the beauties of Nature, such as are
found in Florida, California, etc. etc.
AS it now is, the most unheard of
prices are charged, hotels demanding
$1,000 per day for room alone More
reasonable hotels are to be found of
course, but this illustrates how Law
ishly our proflteers are spending
money, while we are eternally being
exhorted to ave, save, save! Con
sistency thou art jewel"
Rev. and Mrs. Butterheld and
children of the Sisseton Methodist
church partook of New Years dinner
at the Schmidt home.
Mrs. John Crawford gave little
birthday party Saturday evening Ia
honor of her husband. Dancing was
the chief amusement, ard your CON
Iitributor is happy to be able to write
1 that everyone was we'll behaved. A
guest from nearby town had to be
politely but firmly requested to act
| ladylike and thereafter did.
On Tuesday December 90, 1919,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert r. Betz chief clerk
at Sisseton Agency departed for their
new home at Balboa Heights, near
the Panama Canal on the Peninsula
OF Panama. Mr.. Betz has left work
for the Department of the Interior
and is entering upon his new duties
for the War Department. MIR. Betz is
in Glass A in clerkships having been
In the government employ over 20
years. They will be sadly missed.
Probably no head OF the school here
was ever better liked than was Mr..
Betz. To the office of the Agency he
carried with him the same fine in
fiuence-at once safe, highly-refined,
true and trusty to the end. To meet
him was privilege; to know him was
to feel you had found friend. Mrs.
Betz was an accomplished musician,
having received training in Minnea-
polls, and later at Denver, Colorado.
That SO talented singer was not
heard by more OF us here is great
pity. She had sung grand opera in
Denver. and the fact that she was
not called upon to sing for audiences
here, can IN no other manner be ex-
planned tina that we are lot of
stupid duces Almost can Carlyle'si
declaration be arm. ~ to us, whsn lie
said England is inhabited by ia, 900,
900 people. mostly FOOLS
They arrived in New York City ON
Saturday, Dec. q, attended church
there Sunday saw some OF the sights
and set sail for Panama on the last
day Of the old year. May, the New
Year bring them all that their hearts