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WILLMAR VOLUME 13. WILLMAR, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1907. NUMBER 32.

The Royal Neighbors enjoyed a pleasant social evening after trans­acting the Camp business last even­ing.

The ladies of the Synod church are planning to give a Norwegian supper at the church basement on Thursday evening, Oct. 10.

A marr iage license was issued last Monday to Wililam G. Hayes of Blue Earth county to Edith A. Hintz, who resides in the neighbor­hood of Raymond.

Oscar Lundquist of Svea went to Litchfield yesterday on a business t r ip . The S\ea creamery, in which Mr. Lundquist is buttcrmaker, is put t ing in a new cement floor.

Swan Larson went down to Min­neapolis today to visit hi-* wife, who has undergone an opeiation at a hospital. He expected that he will take her home when he re­turns.

The Ladies' Aid society of the Swedish Mission cliurcii will meet in the church basement on Friday afternoon of thN week. Mrs. N. N. Feleenwil! entertain. All are cordially in\ ited.

August Johnson is here from St. Lou ib on a \ l-it with his father and brother at Lake Andrew and New-London. August works at the car­penter trade and states that things are booming a t St. Louis at the present t ime.

William Nelson's home was the scene of a surprise party last Thurs-dav evening, when a number of un­expected guests presented them­selves to enjoy a social t ime. A handsome water set was presented to the Nelsons by the uninwted guests.

As will appear from the proceed­ings of the count> commissioners in another column, the county board lias cut the legislative melon in this county, appropriat ing the $.")000 which fell l o this county's share, for various improvements in the different townships.

The Woman's History Club met Monday afternoon at the home of Mi's. John Martin to plan for the coming year 's work and elect offi­cers. The American year of the Chautauqua course will be taken up along with other studies. The fol­lowing were elected officers: pres­ident, Mrs. W. B. Chase; vice presi­dent, Mrs. P. C. Tonning; secre­tary and treasurer, Mrs. W. Heng-stler.

A party of eleven young people left for St. Cloud yesterday to at­tend the Normal school. They w^ro —the Misses Alice and Cora Berk-ne>s, Agnes Haines, Daisy Sander­son, Elsie Roberts, Ella Lorentzen,. Ella Boyd, Marie Nelson, Georgia Madison, Ella Feig and Luella Pe­terson (of Kandivohi). Seven of these young ladies were graduates from the Willmar High school last year.

The Young People's s iciety of the Swedish Baptist church has ar­range 1 for a literary meeting on Wednesday evening, Oct. 2. The topic for the evening will be of a missionary nature, Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Finstrom, at present on a va­cation here from their work as mis­sionaries in Venezuela, S. A., hav­ing promised to take a large part in the program. It will no doubt be interesting to hear of the con­dit ions and progress in that district from those who have been there in active work, and all are cordia^y invited to come.

The Great Northern Co. is again making an appeal to all consumers of coal to put in a supply at once, as there is bound to be a shortage of coal this year as it was last year, unless this precaution is ta­ken. The assistant track manager states that in North Dakota the coal stations are full but the con­sumers are not laying away any coal as they wait until they are in actual need of it, and this is going to make a scarcity later on. Al-tho we are close to stations, we are going to feel the effect of it, the same as North Dakota, unless the consumers put in their supply a t once.

In Municipal Court. In the case of State vs. L. Rod-

lun, the defendant pleaded guilty to not having complied with the state law in regard to c u t ing weeds on his lots and was fined $1.00 and costs, amounting to $5.50 in all.

The case of Bank of Brooten vs. Ole Rime was tried yesterday and was taken under advisement by Judge Muller.

The case of C. Ackerman & Co. \ s . W. C. Hawkins was postponed.

BOOZE BARRELS ARE BOUNCED

Sheriff Bonde Pays Unexpected Visit to Elks Hail and a Sud­

den Drought Follows. Sheriff Bondc and the Elks Club

at Willmar had an interesting time during the Street Fair, which re­sulted in cleaning out a quantity of liquor from the premises. At the time of the removal from the city of L. A. May, under whose aus­pices the bar at the club had been inaugurated, it was quite generally repoitcd that the strong drink fea ture at the club rooms had been abandoned. A number of members of the order had openly denounced the practice and assured the au­thorities that there would be no violations of the prohibition policy permitted at the club rooms. Sheriff Bonde was therefore inter­ested to know whether or not the government retail liquor license held by the club, which expired at the end of the fiscal year June 30, would be renewed. It always takes some weeks before the large num­ber of licenses issued a t the Inter­nal Revenue Collector's office at the beginning of the vear are entered in the books so as to be available for examination, and it was not un­til a couple of weeks ago that Sheriff Bonde received the word that the license for the club rooms had'been renewed for the ensuing \ea r in the name of Albert Scud-der, the chef and porter at the club. A few days before the street fair Sheriff Bonde traced a shipment of four barrels of Hamm's beer to the club basement. Armed with this evidence, the sheriff swore out a complaint against the place as a public nuisance, which paper had been duly prepared by County At­torney Ottevness, and presented it last Thursday afternoon to Judge George Muller of the municipal court, asking for a search and seizure warrant . The judge re­fused to issue the warrant . De­feated in this, the sheriff a t once made his way to the club and, se-euring*admittance, had anjinterest-ing interview with the porter. He demanded to see the posted license, which was shown him back of the door in a locked room stocked with liquors. The porter confessed that the stuff was disposed of to mem­bers in exchange for coupons, the coupon books being sold to them by the club. Subsequently the sheriff had interviews with the head offi­cers of the lodge, who professed to be very much surprised a t the sheriff's discovery, which practice of selling and disposing of liquor they declared was without their knowledge and consent. They stat­ed that the offending liquors would be promptly cleared out from the premises on the Monday following. The sheriff insisted that they be taken out and shipped out of town before Friday evening, which was agreed to. Thus it was that a dray ciew was seen busy hauling out barrels from the basement under t' e Elks club Friday afternoon. Several big wagon loads were taken out, but the officials of the order stoutly maintain that with the ex­ception of four barrels the large number of empties had accumulated under the former regime.

While the thirsty individuals whose practice was interfered with naturally are indignant a t the sheriff for trying to stop their source of supply, people generally strongly commend him for doing his duty without fear or favor.

VERY PRETTY FALL WEDDING

Gabrielson-Melander Nuptials at Kandiyohi Witnessed by a

Large Crowd of People.

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Library Notes .

At a meeting of the Library board recently it was decided that the children's books should be put in their own room, which will ne­cessitate the purchasing of new stocks. This will make the chil­dren ' s room quite an ideal one. The stocks are get t ing crowded so that others will have to be added before 1 wig.

The annual meeting of the Min­nesota Library Association is to be held in the Twin cities the last of

S w e d i s h P lay W a s a S u c c e s s . The Swedish Dramatic Club of

Minneapolis presented the rural comedy "La r s Anders och Jan An­d e r s " a t the opera House last F r i ­day evening to a packed house, and by request repeated the perform­ance Saturday evening, as there was a large number of people who could not get admittance Friday evening. The company fully sus­tained the excellent reputation they made here last spring when they presented " V e r m l a n n i n g a r n e . " Every par t in the play was well filled, and there was not a dull mo­ment from the r is ing of the curtain till its going down on the last act. The specialties by Miss Klara Lar-

Last Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock occurred the marriage of Miss Marie Gabrielson, oldest daughter of Charles Gabrielson of Kandiyohi, to Mr. Martin Melan-der, also of Kandiyohi. The mar­riage was performed in a bowery on the lawn and was a very prct t j affair, witnessed by a large number of relatives and friends of the con­tracting parties. Miss Alfreda Lindholm presided at the organ and the bridal party proceeded down the stairs and out on the lawn, on a walk laid in white with a border of white ribbons, which were suspended from either side of the porch and extended down to the bowery. At the entrance of the bowery was an arch from which was suspended a wedding bell of white, pink, purple and red asters. Fes­toons of various colors were sus­pended in the bowery and on the table in the center was a large bo-quet of asters. The bridal party was lead by Miss Ida Melander, a sister of the groom, as bridesmaid and August Gabrielson, a brother of the bride, as groomsman. Then came the maid of honor, Miss Anna Gabrielson, a sister of the bride, and the best man. Oscar Melander, a brother of the groom. Following the maid of honor and the best man came the bride and groom. They wei'e met in the bowery by Rev. S. A. Lindholm, who read the mar i-age service and after the marriage ceiemony gave a short talk on the significance of the marriage rela­tion. Then followed the hearty congratulations of the many friends of the happy couple. The morning had been cloudy but the sun shone brightly upon the bridal party and those who witnessed the ceremony-were reminded of the saying " H a p ­py the bride that the sun shines o n . "

The afternoon was spent in a social way and refreshI. ents were served. At four o'clock a bounte­ous wedding dinner was served in a large tent erected for the occa­sion. Besides the many good things to eat the tables were deco­rated with a profusion of cut flow­ers. The color scheme in the din­ing hall was green and red. The parlor was decorated in white and orange festoons suspended in all di­rections from a bell in the center. In the dining room a bell of green and red was suspended above the table and from this was suspended festoons thruout the room. Cut Howers and potted plants were seen everywhere. An arch of welcome had been erected a t the entrance to the well-kept lawn and in the evening Chinese lanterns illumin­ated the scene.

The bride was att ired in dotted netting over white China silk trimmed with Irish point lace and wore a veil with wreath of myrtle and lilies-of-the-valley. She car­ried a large bouquet of bride 's roses. The bridesmaid and maid of honor wore gowns of white all-over in border and carried pink carnations. The groom and attend­ants wore the conventional black.

The guests from a distance were —Mr. and Mrs. John Klint, Mr. and Mrs. Tinberg and son Charles and Mrs. Andrew Anderson and daugh­ter Ruby, all of Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. P . C. Peterson, E. C. Wellin, V. E. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Anderson and Sophia Carlson, of Willmar.

The newly married couple re­ceived a large number of handsome and useful presents, besides a sum of money. They will go to house­keeping at once in the City restau­rant at Kandiyohi. Both the bride and groom are well known a t Kan­diyohi. The bride was born and grew to womanhood on the home­stead, where she also managed the household for a number of years af­ter the death of the mother. The groom has made his home a t Kan­diyohi for many years, and their many friends are glad to know that they will make their home here. They have the good wishes of all for success and happiness in their married life.

Conductor J . B. Fitzgerald is working again, after having been ill for the past two weeks.

Walter Wilson, who has been call boy for some t ime, has been pro­moted to switchman in the yards.

Our new train master Land is is hot after lost badges. Brakemen and conductors had better have their uniforms shining when he is on the war path.

Frank L. Hill, who has been Asst. Supt. Murtha 's clerk for the past two years, has been promoted to traveling car clerk on the Willmar Division. Mr. O. F. Wooman is his successor.

Asst. Supt. M. H. Murtha has returned to his duties after spend­ing a very happy honeymoon in Colorado and the South. Mr. and Mrs. Murtha have gone to house­keeping in the new Ruble building.

Conductor Walter Hackett, who has been laid up for the past three weeks, has now gone back to work. Walter has had a prerty hard at­tack and went thru three opera­tions; but he is now enjoying the best of health.

Mrs. Kreiser of Seattle, Wash., is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J . WT. Johnson of this city. She will remain for several months, while her husband is on a visit to his old home in Sweden.

BOOTLEGGER IS NEATLYCAUGHT

Would Be Dispenser of Booze at Street Fair Sells to Wrong

Man and Lands in Jail.

Del Richardson fell into the toils of Sheriff Bonde last Friday and is now serving time in the county jail for boot-logging. He arrived here from Bemidji a short time ago and secured work with one of our local plumbers. During the street fail he foolishlj hi t upon the idea of at­tempting to supply the thirsty among the big crowds that would assemble here. He accordingly took the train for Raymond, where he secured a stock of pint bottles, which he placed in agunnysack and took to Willmar on the night train. The sheriff had secured an inkling of his work and was successful in buying a bottle from him, paying fifty cents for the same. He promptly arrested the man. Rich­ardson was brot before the munici­pal court under the city ordinance Monday of this WGek and pleaded guilty. He was fined $50 or given thirty days in jail if the fine was not paid. In the meantime his familv, which had been \ i s i t ing at Marshall, arrived here and they were sent back to Bemidji at once as tluv were in destitute circum­stances.

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A FAMILY OF FIVE GENERATIONS Mrs. Lisa Anderson, of Lake Andrew, Has More

than a Hundred Descendants Now Living, Four o! Them in the Fifth Generation.

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h i s d a u g h t e r M r s . Cl inton Spieer , of S t ('louc1, 44 y e a r s : h e r d a u g h t e r M r s . Ann ie Aasgord , of S t Clr.url, 22 j v . i i s , h e r son Clinton, age 4 y e a r s .

Mrs. Lisa Anilerson wa<s born al ttnniiiicti. Dal; n*». Apii l" lv17 Her hus­band's name was Panwl Aiidersou. Uci d<-M t nrt.int , now lhino number one hundred and one, being four children, twenty-nine grandchildren, si\t\-four threat grandchildren aud four great great grandchildren. Engineer A. K. Damelson of this city is a grandson of Mrs. Anderson.

Hawick, Sept. 23.—Rain delayed threshing |almost an entire week. We shall be thankful for a little dry spell until grain is taken care of.

Mrs. Nyberg had the misfortune to slip whilejsteppmgfrom a buggy last Thursday, and sprained her ankle.

Alice Hudson returned to Clin­ton, III., last Tuesday.

Solon Benton visited over Sunday with his parents.

Milk chocks shrank in size some this month.

The elevator prospects are not as good as they were, but the project is not entirely dead.

Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Hood enter­tained a company of friends in honor of Mr. Hood's birthday last Saturday evening. Everyone had a splendid t ime..

Mr. and Mrs. Farnum vki ted at Rcam2r's Sunday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Hanson and Mr. and Mrs. Conlin, of Paynes-ville, attended the Hood birthday party Saturday evening.

Mr. Reamer is making sorghum this week. The late spring cut down the yield for this year.

A large number from here at­tended Catholic services at Paynes-ville Sunday morning. The Jera-becs had their little daughter bap-ized.

Two Mormon Elders were doing missionary work thru here last week, but we d idn ' t learn of any converts, tho some bought their Hook of Mormon.

Mr. Paynes and Mr. Reamers celebrated a "combinat ion" of birthdays at the home of the latter on Tuesday evening.

Those interested in music are working up a class, and expect to secure the services of Mr. Albright of Pavnesvillc at Hawick once a week during the coming winter.

The Messrs. Hood are building the new coal house at Hawick and kalsomining the interior of the schoolhouse.

The farmers ordered two cars of hard and soft coal at Hawick last week, making some difference in its cost to them.

Mr. Paynes and Miss Andrew were in Paynesville Saturday.

Merve Welsh, Joe Pelkey and E. T. Reamer have rented the Teters farm for the coming year.

J im Hawks sold over $1200 worth of flax this year. Not bad for Roseville.

Lightning did considerable dam­age around us Wednesday evening, but Roseville escaped. The large barn on the Whitney farm north of Lintonville burned with most of its contents, mlcuding four horses. Several grain stacks in East Bur-bank, near the church, were burned, and a large fire was burn­ing off southeast a t the same t ime.

will Having secured control, by purchase, of the business and good

of our competitor in the laundry business, we desire to announce that in the future we will conduct our business on as nearly a cash basis as possible. Responsible parties will be allowed thirty (30) days time, BUT NO LONGER. Failure to make settle­ment at end of thirty days will work forfeiture of credit with us.

Strangers who desire credit, "will have to show us," their credentials.

We will endeavor to take care of the increase in business in the same manner in which we have our own trade and believe that we will be able to satisfy the most exacting.

If you find anything that don't suit, return the article, call our attention to the trouble, and we will gladly relaunder the same without charge. Respectfully,

W i l l m a r S - t e a m L a u n d r y .

SHOULD EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR

Kandiyohi County Would Not Suffer in a Comparison

with Other Counties.

The splendid showing made along horticultural lines at the Willmar street fair was an inspiration to all who take pride in the resources of the county. Members of the Coun­ty Horticultural Society waited up­on the county commissioners and urged them to make an appropria­tion of $1000 for a suitable exhibi­tion of the resources of Kandiyohi county at the next state fair . There is not the ^east doubt that a display could be made from this county that would be very credit­able and a good advertisement for this section. The Tribune is high­ly in favor of the move and hopes that the project will materialize and that all loyal citizens will pull together to make an exhibit that will truly represent the resources of our magnificent county.

i the week. The meetings are to be ifjield in the capitol, and promise to '£ o n ~ ^ d « 0 1 1 e { s k r a t t h u l t " were P > e very interest ing ones. thoroly enjoyed by the audience.

There is a great deal tha t is read- I t is safe to say tha t if the com-lljitye in the library besides fiction, pany returns to Willmar it will gpon't neglect it. play to a full house. / r r ;

B u s i n e s s Change . Hum Bang, the only resident of

the City of Willmar who claims China as his native land, has aband­oned the laundry business, in which he has been engaged in Willmar for the past ten years, and has leased the Glarum hotel for a period of two years. The laundry business was purchased by W. C. Hawkins of the Willmar Steam Laundry.

Rev. Paulson and wife enter­tained friends from Dassel over Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. Rosander, Ole Nystrom, Elmer Anderson and Miss Lina Nelson. They returned to their homes last Monday.

East Norway Lake church next Sun­day.

Peter Yttcrboe is not in the best of health these days.

Raymond Cox of Kerkhoven was around buying stock last week.

Having experienced that wind, if properly conducted, has the power of throwing grain, Andrew Reig-stad has invented a contrivance whereby he uses a blower instead of the old time bucket chains in handling the grain. If this inven­tion stands the test of it will no doubt be imitated by others, but ' b e w a r e of imi ta t ions ."

CUPID WOULD HAVE JV0 DELAY

The Novel Way in Which Frank Snyder and Miss Thora

Hoaas Were Married.

GRIM REAPER VISITS ST. JOHNS

Harry Peterson Taken Away in Life's Early Morning Last

Thursday Afternoon.

Death's messenger called at the home of Gustaf Peterson in the township of St. Johns last Thursday afternoon at four o'clock and claimed the son, Harry Lawrence, after a very brief illness. He was a strong, robust boy and enjoyed his usual health and vigor until the Sunday previous to his death. He was then taken with a sevei'e head­ache and the fatal malady developed very rapidly. On the following day (Monday) he expressed the be­lief that he would not live, and the medical aid that was summoned could do nothing to stay the dis­ease. He at once expressed the de­sire to see his pastor, by whom he was confirmed about a year ago, and he passed away peacefully and fully prepared to meet his maker.

Harry Lawrence Peterson was born near Ringo Lake, Dovr*- town­ship, March 4, 1891. Several years ago the family moved to their pres­ent home in St. Johns township. He leaves the griefstr ickenparents; four sisters, Anna J . Peterson of St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. E. Evenson of Harvey, N. D., Mrs. F . F . Nelson of Willmar, and Edith, who is stay­ing at home; two brothers, Edward and Reynold.

The funeral occurred last Sunday afternoon. Brief services were held at the home and the cortege, consisting of thir ty teams, pro­ceeded to the Swedish Lutheran church a t Willmar, where services were held a t three o'clock. The deceased had chosen the songs he desired sung at the funeral, Nos. 303 and 476. Rev. G. Peterson de­livered the funeral sermon, using as his text Joshua 1:11. The pall bearers were Fri tz Danielson, Ed­win Englund, August Johnson, Al­fred Johnson, Victor Fridlund and Ernest Berg. The interment took place in Fairview cemetery.

The stricken family have the sympathy of the community in their sorrow.

SUNBURG | SUNBfrAMSI

Sunburg. Sept. 2.°,. ('. G. Gand-rud took a \acation last week and visited fi iends and ielati\e^ in I'ope county.

Miss Mat tic Quamme is gi\in_c lessons in music to quite a number of young ladies in this neighbor­hood.

Mrs. Ei ick Paulson shook hands with some of her Sunburg fi lends last Saturday. She has for neai lv a year been staving with hei daugh­ter Mrs. Beint Thompson near Swift Falls.

Miss Lena Elverum, a \oung lady from Jackson, Minn., is viisting at the home of Mrs. Sigrid Gron^eth.

Thor Poverud and Carl Sagedahl, from New London, are woiking with the Ole Sagedahl threshing crew. Altho these gentlemen ha\e practiced city life for s\eeial months, they still know how to handle the pitchfmk with remaik-able grace and accuracy.

Mrs. Olaus Jorgenson spent la^t week at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Nils Broten of Sv\ift county.

At a meeting recently held by the Spring Creek congregation. Rev. R. K. Fjelstad was unanim­ously chosen to preach the dedica­tion sermon and lay the coiner stone of the new church. The dedi­cation will take place some time this fall.

Nineteen young persons were confirmed yestreday at the West Norway Lake church by Rev. M. A. Sotendahl, viz: John E. Wick, El­mer J . Skare, Mener E. Wold. Bennie Punheim, Nicolai EspeH'th, Henry Olson, Albert B. Teige, Con­rad Knutson, Annie Eilingson, Cla­ra Sondrol, Alma Landsviek, Anna Hollen, Marith Eliason, Mina E. Wold, Selma Hystad, Regine Wost-vig, Martha Freese, Sophia Jorgen-son and Inga Skare.

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Arctander, Sept. 23.—Hurrah for "Olle i Skra t thul t . ' ' Several part­ies from this locality took in the fair last week, and all report a good t ime, for which special credit is given to " O l l e . "

John A. Henjura left last week for Nelson Co., N . D. , where he expect^ to take in the threshing. A. Larson is his substi tute as " t h e man behind the p low" a t home.

Some good-sized grape sacks were pulled by here last week. Grapes are quite abundant this fall. ^

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Mamre, Sept. 23.—Carl Stang-hclle is on the sick list.

Mrs. John Larson of Willmar spent a few days of last week in this vicinity.

Mrs. K. A. Krantz made a t r ip to Wisconsin last week.

Mrs. F . N . Anderson went to Willmar last week to send a few days with relatives and friends.

The bronchos on Route 1 made an extra t r ip on Tuesday morning of last week. Luckily no damage was done.

Mrs. Lindstrom of St. Paul, who has been visit ing in this locality for some t ime, left for her home last week, accompanied by Miss Ida Johnson.

Miss Hannah Dahlman is staying at E. E . Ostlund's home.

David E. Hagman left last Satur­day for Minneapolis.

Ole Flesland returned to New London last Friday, after a month 's stay in Minneapolis, whera he has been helping Rev. Midthun, for­merly of New London, in the erec­tion of a residence, the la t ter hav­ing purchased a lot in the southern suburbs of that city. ^

The local Singer Sewing Machine agency enjoyed an exhibition last Friday which had not been an­nounced on the street fair program. A well-dressed young couple came by the agency windows and noticed the presence of Rev. H. C. Buell of the Presbyterian church. They stopped and entered the store and the young man addressed the cler­gyman, stating that i t was their wish to be married. Always ready to assist his fellow man a t every opportunity, Rev. Buell signified his readiness to proceed at once if the young couple so desired. Ac­cordingly the wedding party was arranged in a corner of the room and the service was read which made the young people man and wife. They had entered the Singer agency as Mr. Frank E. Snyder and Miss Thora M. Hoaas and they joyfully proceeded on their way a few moments later as Mr. and Mrs. Snyder. The happy couple are resi­dents of New London, Minn. Man­ager Armstrong of the Singer agency was delighted a t the epi­sode, as were his assistants. He states that he believes that this was the first couple that was ever mar­ried in a Singer Sewing Machine agency.

J u d g e Marries T w o Couples . Ole J . Orson and Mathilda Anton-

son were married last Friday by Judge A. F . Nordin a t the court­house. The ceremony was wit-nessde by Mr. and Mrs. A. Ren-strom. Judge Nordin performed another marr iage ceremony last Sat­urday, when he united the destin­ies of Tyson Chandler and Annie L. Dirks. This couple" came from the neighborhood of Raymond. The ceremony was witnessed by H. J. Ramsett and Mrs. Tena Wurtz.

-ROSELAND -vf^EPORT5

Roseland, Sept. 23. —Threshing is going at full speed nowadays and a few more weeks of dry weather will finish it .

Farmers are busy cutting their corn, which made good progress last week, altho the crop will not be as heavy as last year.

Nanko Vos threshed 45 bushel barley to the acre and is selling it for 73 cents per bushel. Raise bar­ley, farmers.

The ditcher finished the Svobod-ny and Gort ditch last Thursday.

Rynhard Kohls and Richard Sod-erberg have bought a new Deering corn harvester from the Danube Hardware Co.

Mrs. L. Damhof and C. Christian-son have each bought a new manure spreader from Olivia dealers.

K. Dauma has purchased a four horse power gasoline engine and feed grinder . Nick says feed is too high priced to feed whole, and pumping water is too hard work to do by hand.

Quite a number of friends and neighbors helped Grandma Knott celebrate her 78th birthday the other day.

The H. F . Bruss family spent a few days in Chippewa county to at­tend the wedding of a niece of Mr. Bruss to Anton Hoenstein last Wednesday.

Quite a number .of people from here attended the Willmar street fair last Friday and Saturday. Some not.

report a good time, others

Ringville, Sept. 23. —Mr. and Mrs. K. Mork visited at Mr. Win­ter 's home in Irving last Sunday.

John hers l ie is moving his house­hold goods down to his old farm, as the people from Iowa who have bought the old hers l ie place are expected any day.

Rev. Nordberg will conduct Nor­wegian services in the forenoon and English services in the Gausdahl church on Sunday, the 2Dth.

Hulda Stenerson had to give up her job at Quisberg's last Satin day on account of her health. Her sis­ter Selma went to take her place last Monday.

The Eiethania Ladies Aid society meets with Mrs. A. O. Sonstegard Oct. 3.

Mesdames Geo. and Peter John­son and Oscar Gunderson took in the street fair at Willmar and re­port a very enjoyable t ime. It is too bad that not more of our peo­ple should take advantage of at­tending our county fair.

During the storm last Thursday night, about 11 o'clock, the barn of Mr. Simar was struck by lightning ahd completely burned down. The barn was valued at about $900 and carried an insurance of $400. The horses and harness were rescued with the exception of one horse that was killed by the lightning. The cattle were not in the barn a t the t ime, so none of them were killed, but one calf was badly burned. The whole community sympathizes with Mr. Simar in his loss, and a collection has already been taken up for him, and the farmers have been very generous in giving from 5.00 to $25.00, and i t is hoped that Mr. Simar can soon rebuild his b a m .

During the same storm the barn on Mr. Gray's farm near Linton­ville was struck by lightning and totally destroyed.

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