Historic Happenings
15 years ago
February 3, 1997
Presidential inaugurations, Super Bowls, the World Champion Chicago Bulls... Russell Larson, rural Webster has a connection very few have, that of making the dies to produce the special commemorative coins sold in honor of those events/teams and many more. He made the die for producing the special coin for the 1997 Super Bowl between the Green Bay packers and New England Patriots.
Between Dec. 13 and Jan. 26 Waubay students had only eight full days of school due to snow and blowing snow. The front windows were entirely blocked by a huge drift that stretched from one end of the school to the other.
A FEMA meeting will be held for all township supervisors and town mayors who are to bring maps and all bills for snow removal.
25 years ago
February 2, 1987
Lake Area Hospital has been given a good bill of health by its administrator Gibbs DeSpiegler. The hospital had increases in revenue and served more patients in 1986.
The latest acquisition for the Museum of Wildlife, Science & Industry of Northeastern South Dakota is the Bristol railroad depot.
Coach Cindy Nelson’s volleyball team continued to roll along by winning their own invitational tournament and beating northwestern 3-0 for a 13-2 season record.
50 years ago
January 31, 1962
Two trucks of the local unit of the National Guard, joined county trucks and highway department personnel for the huge moving task of backing up to windows of the fire torn Day county Courthouse and loading them with office records, furniture and equipment preparatory to taking them to new locations.
Establishment of county offices following the courthouse fire is complete. The county auditor, treasurer, register of deeds and assessor are in the Izaak Walton clubhouse; clerk of courts, county judge, school and highway superintendent and sheriff in the City Hall; county and home agents in the Legion building.
Albert Herr will represent Webster at the northeastern SD checker tournament in Wilmot. Anyone interested in checkers may compete in one of several classes.
75 years ago
February 4, 1937
Again this week, rural mail carriers have been experiencing difficulties. High winds blocked the few roads not already closed. With their snowmobiles carriers on routes two and four made their complete route as did Archie Unke with his stripped down airplane-tired car. Half of routes five and one were accomplished with teams.
Discussion of the proposed city hall project featured the city council meeting. If the project is to be undertaken, the site must be decided on before preliminary plans and estimates can be drafted.
A steady stream of bald men visited bedessem barber shop when the news circulated that Mink Bedes-sem had purchased a machine guaranteed to grow hair on the most barren skull and to restore to the domes of haunted men the thatch which nature intended to protect them from the blasts of winter and mosquitoes of summer. It is destined to be as popular among Day county’s baldpates as a spruce tree to canines.
100 years ago
February 1, 1912
F.A. Bauske put out some fish in front of his cash produce house. looking up from our writing, across the street we saw a nice old family dog come along, look carefully in all directions to see no one was looking and then raise up and purloin a fish. The old dog knew she was stealing just as well as we did. someone phoned Bauske and he came out and caught her across the back with the brush end of a broom as she was making her escape with another fish. He did not hurt her much but frightened a year off her life.
School notes – The botany class is studying the plant division bryophytes, mosses and liverworts. The class mounted specimens and the slides were taken down to the Ruby Theatre and projected on the screen. The subjects were highly magnified and each individual detail could be seen.
Mrs. N.H. Anderson resumed her place in the central office of Webster Telephone Co. This gives the company three of the most competent, courteous, efficient and obliging centrals to be found – Mrs. anderson, Miss Stelle and Miss Ross. It is the general report of patrons that never do they get a hasty or sassy answer from these ladies.
