14 Nov 1906
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Newspaper
Willmar Tribune
Location
Willmar, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1906
Page
1
The ad announces a bona fide one week sale at THE FAIR starting Thursday morning November 15 with big discounts storewide on dress goods millinery hats caps and more. S. E. Magnuson urges customers to shop early for new goods and promises no fake markdowns and square deals with no need to bring old shoes.
A Great Northern east bound No. 14 derailed near Maple Plain after an open switch. The engine and several cars were wrecked but no serious injuries among passengers or crew. Fireman badly scalded, engineer uninjured. Freight engine aided rescue. investigation hints switch tampering. Also reports death of Frank Gustafson and obituaries follow.
Lutheran Synod plans forenoon off at Willmar church with 10 30 Sunday school in that building and 10 30 English evening service at the same Willmar church. Solomon Lake church hosts 10 30 service English. Young People's Society meets Nov 19 at 8 19 p.m. in the church basement hosted by Laura Jorgenson and Thea Rollefson. Ladies Society meets Nov 22 with guests Mrs Torkelsen Mrs C E Lien and Mrs J H Olson. Presbyterian services include 10 30 sermon on The Accomplishments of the Bible in the Realm of Morals and evening talk on Evidences of the New Birth. Sunday school at 12 m Intermediate C E at 3 30 and Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m. All invited.
Official election returns for Kandiyohi County in 1906 with legible items showing totals and outcomes. The surviving readable text references vote counts and candidates, though many parts are garbled. The fragment hints at numeric tallies and local official involvement in the tallying process.
The mission conference opened Thursday and closed Sunday, with many local and visiting attendees. Ministers from Minnesota and neighboring areas spoke on foreign and home missions and youth involvement, culminating in a $120 mission offering and services at multiple churches. A basket social was announced for Nov 28 to aid district school improvements. Municipal Court cases included fines for illegal fishing and muskrat trapping, and 11 year old Ernest Kuntz was committed to Red Wing Training School for assault.
Family births and social gatherings fill the page with events from Dist 67 and Willmar. A shadow social, church socials, curfew in Atwater, dinners for travelers, and a twin birth populate the week, along with a commitment case, a theatre show The College Boy, and bazaar plans at New London. Community members, churches, and merchants are named amid schedules and performances.
The West Lake Norwegian Lutheran church will be dedicated next Sunday November 18 with President J H Dahl Rey Romstad and other United Lutheran Church pastors participating. The church building was erected in 1908. The St Agnes Guild of St Luke's Episcopal church will hold a social at Guild Hall Tuesday evening November 20. Everyone is invited.
The Cincinnati Ladies Cremona Orchestra will visit Willmar Nov 26 for a Citizens Entertainment Course concert at the Willmar opera house. The eight member group features Jessie Baldwin Broekhoven, violin soloist and director, and Geo. H. Madison, basso profundo. The program blends classics with popular pieces in refined color and harmony, praised by press in Syracuse and St Paul. Local items note Kandiyohi events and gatherings through Nov 23.
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