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Friday, August 25, 1905

LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. Jim Baker left for Mason City Monday.

Chris Nieman and Will Bartlett drove to Adrian Monday.

H.G. Hawley returned from Mankato Saturday night.

Mrs. Brant went to Sioux Falls Monday to undergo an operation.

Miss Dickey, of Pierre , S.D. , is visiting with her cousin, Miss Nellie Lyon.

Jack Kanaban was called to Kentucky by the serious illness of his father.

Miss Biefernicht returned this week from a vacation spent in De Forest, Wis.

A.E. Hart departed the first of the week for St. Louis where he will buy goods for his store.

J.W. Pepple and G.S. Wyckhoff of St. James, spent Sunday with their parents in this city.

Mrs. C. French and daughter of Boulder , Col. , arrived this week for a visit with Mrs. Will Chaney.

J.M. Shanahan commenced tearing down his fire ruined dwelling house Wednesday and will rebuild anotehr of about the same dimensions.

John Bengton has purchased Sam Swanson's interest in the Swanson & Anderson furniture store and the firm will be known hereafter as Anderson & Bengston.

Bob Free returned last week from Minneapolis .

BORN -- To Mr. and Mrs. Pete Ryan, Wednesday, Aug 16, a girl.

Miss Grace Snow, of Sioux Falls , is visiting with Miss Mae Tupper this week.

Miss Aimee Little, of Northfield , is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. M.E. Lawton.

Jas. S. Ramage has recovered from an attack of typhoid and is able to walk about.

Earl Wakefield of St. James is visiting his brother, C.E. Wakefield, clerk in the roadmaster's office.

Mrs. C.M. Crandall returned home Saturday from St. Joseph 's hospital St. Paul . She is improving as rapidly as can be expected.

Mail carrier Rippberger was this week nicely remembered with a fine lot of apples from Mrs. Eliza Johnson, the mother of C.W. Johnson and from Mrs. J.E. Peterson. This fruit was the nicest of the kind seen this season. These gifts are very highly appreciated by the carriers, and adds cheer as they go along day by day in discharging their duties.

H.G. Norman hauled his personal property to Sibley Saturday and loaded them in a car and shipped them over the Rock Island to Clear Lake , S.D. The car leaving that point about 4 o'clock on Monday morning. Horace wished to get up in South Dakota in order to be able to take care of his share of the crop on the quarter section farm he received in exchange for the hotel property here. Mrs. Norman departed Sunday for Worthington where she visited with relatives and friends until Tuesday morning when she took up her journey for her new home, going by way of Sibley. We wish them happiness and abundant success in their new home in our sister state. --Bigelow Signal.

Rushmore

Emory Reese and wife spent Sunday in Little Rock Iowa .

Henry Ivers is erecting a large barn on his farm near town.

Geo. Wheeler has been putting up a new smokestack on the creamery the past week.

S.T. Wood has completed his new lumber building and is now busily engaged putting in a cement sidewalk. Mr. Wood now has one of the best buildings to store lumber in the county.

John McLeod is engaged working for the Innes Lumber Co.

On Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock occurred the marriage of Archibald C. Constable of Goodland , Indiana , and Miss Mable Mae Bedford. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W.M. Gilils [Gillis?] at the home of the bride's parents, S.B. Bedford, one of the oldest residents of the county. The groom is a highly respected young man with excellent habits and business abilities. The bride is known to all as being an exemplary young woman having been a life member of the county which she is soon to leave. After the ceremony the immediate relatives of the families to the number of about forty partook of a well prepared and bountiful wedding dinner. After a few days' visit in Rushmore Mr. and Mrs. Constable will go to housekeeping on the farm and in the home prepared by the groom.

Father Griffin Expected

Rev. Father Griffin is expected home today, from his trip to Ireland . A letter received here several days ago advised friends he had landed and was visiting his parents at Rochester , N.Y. , and a sister at Auburn . Father Griffin's many friends here hail his home coming with greatest pleasure for he has been greatly missed by them. --Ellsworth News.

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Source:
Microfilm, Worthington Advance; Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul , MN ; obtained March, 2008

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