Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-09-08

! here Wednesday visiting his son, w. c.
Banker and also arranging to place his
| daughter Ruth in the first year Of high
| school here.
| Among the New Londonites attending
| the state fair this week are Dove Price,
Harlow Lundquist, the Ed Kambestad
Alfred Olander, and Frank Bergeson
families, Elias Johnson and daughter,
Mabel, Anton Jacobson. Mrs. Augusta
Odland Mrs Carl Benson, George So
derlund, Melvin Lundgren and NJ F..
Lundquist.
Goldie Gables gave party to num-
Der of little girls on Wednesday, Sept.
! LIST, to celebrate her 3rd birthday. On
Friday afternoon Rh0da Nyberg and
Frances Gustafson gave a childrens'
party for a dozen Of their little friends.
The steam shovel and all the out Of
town force\ of men employed thereon
quit work in the Great Northern gravel
pit on Saturday. The local workers on
the extra gang will be kept busy a few
days putting the track into shape for
| winter handling of cars.
The New London public schools will
reopen on Monday. Sept 18th. The
schoolhouse is being cleaned and thoro-
|
teachers have been secured with the
| exception of a domestic science instruc-
tor. The school board however are maxi
ing every effort to fill this vacancy so
that everything will be in readiness
for the new school year. The new
teachers are: Superintendent, H. H. Nc
Nlven of st. Paul, principal of high
school, Hulda Hanson of New London,
|
9TH and 7th grades, Edna Peterson of
East End Sask., Canada, 18th and 9Th
grades, Eldora Lundberg. of Taylors
Falls, End and 3rd grades, Helen Bystrom
OF Tyler, first grade, Lila Olson of New
| London.
There was only a small attendance at
the public meeting called last Saturday
evening to talk over the local telephone
| SITUATION An informal discussion was
| entered into but no action was taken
NO particular individuals are RESPONSE
Die for the position in which we find
| ourselves respecting our telephone SER
| vices. The fault is in the system or
rather lack of system, and for that the
Whole community is responsible. Our
telephone system both in the village
and surrounding country was built up
| on the theory that telephone service
could be furnished with practically no
expense, except for the cost of installa-
ton. No provision has ever been made
! Tor repairs, or maintenance. and re-
| building, and the result is that the
| Whole plant is falling down and there
are no funds on hand With which to re-
| oulld. II this community is ever to
| nave dependable telephone service a
| new system must b. installed and new
methods of operation provided. Met
| allie lines must be constructed, both in
| the village and in the country. There
must be someone employed who shall
| devote his entire time keeping both vii
lase and rural lines and phones in re-
| pair. A limit must be placed to the
| number of phones on a line. The vii
| lage and country must get together in
| helpful cooperation. New money must
be provided for rebuilding and there
must he a grand raising of rates to
| provide funds to keep the system both
| In the village and in the country in
| working order. In no other way can we
| provide ourselves with good telephone
| service. If the desire is to have cheap
| telephone service. let us keep what we
have. It is cheap enough surely.
LEBANON LUTHERAN CHURCH
| Rev. A. F. Almer, pastor.
| Divine services next Sunday at II
| a. m.
Sunday school 10 a. m.
| Vesper services using the American
| language o'clock Bible class at 1880
The Willing Workers Society was en-
| tertained at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gust Monson Wednesday afternoon and
| evening.
Mr. and Mrs. r. Splitter and daugh-
| ter of near Swift Falls, motored here
Saturday evening and visited their
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Anderberg,
Of this city until Sunday. when they
| continued their journey to ST. Cloud to
| visit relatives of Mrs. Splitter.
| Atty. and Mrs. Chas. Johnson re-
| turned Monday evening from visit in
| the Twin Cities. Mr.. Johnson went
down on Saturday, but Mrs. Johnson
has been there visiting for some time.
MIR. Einar Holmstrand Of Duluth,
Mimi, is at the present. time a guest,
arriving here Monday evening. Miss
Mabel Nilsen, sister Of the pastor is
also here for visit. Her home is in
Duluth. They are visiting with Rev.
| NIrc