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The Sylvester Family of Plainview, Minnesota*

New Years Eve dinner & sleigh ride; George Dyer dies from appendicitis

January 8, 1915 - March 5, 1915


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Thursday, December 24. (NOTE: Hettie Marie)
Annual meeting of the Wabasha County Industrial Fair Association- City Hall- Friday January 8 at 2 o’clock. Geo F. Sylvester, Sec.
Travelers, January 4- Mrs. J. D. Bateman
"Daniel Defore"- Mrs. G. F. Sylvester.
"Myreen Waltz"- Mrs. Flores and Mrs. Sylvester
January 8, 1915- E. L. Sylvester made a business trip to Rochester on Saturday.
Byrl Sylvester left on Saturday morning for the State University after spending the Christmas vacation at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Schwanbeck entertained a New Years Eve to a 6 o’clock dinner and sleigh ride. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Askew, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester, Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Fisk, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Bateman, and Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Sylvester.
January 15, 1915- Mrs. Herman Mussell of Elgin and Mrs. Minnie Timm called on Mrs. E. L. Sylvester Friday.
January 22, 1915- The next meeting of the Travelers Club will be a musical held at the home of Mrs. G. F. Sylvester on Monday February 1. Response to roll call will be quotations from songs.
February 5, 1915- At the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Sylvester Monday evening the Traveler’s entertained their husbands and a number of friends at their annual musical program. The spacious home was filled with guests who feasted on the delightful program that was rendered. That all enjoyed the evening as well as the program need not be said. There is no entertainment that is so highly appreciated and appeals to the home people like the program rendered by local talent. (Program listed.)
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester entertained a company of friends last Thursday evening at a 6 o’clock dinner. All enjoyed a very pleasant social evening.
E. L. Sylvester received a message Tuesday morning at 3 o’clock announcing the death of the 8 year old son of his daughter (NOTE: Newspaper error. It should have read "sister."), Mrs. Nellie Dyer at Bemidji. He passed away Monday night death being due to appendicitis. G. F. Sylvester left Tuesday for Bemidji to attend the funeral.
February 15, 1915- Grief stricken friends and schoolmates over flowed the Methodist Church Wednesday afternoon where they gathered to pay a last tribute to little George Dyer, 9 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Dyer, who died Tuesday morning following an operation for appendicitis performed at an early hour Monday. Mr. Dyer is city superintendent of schools. George had been ill for a week but had persistently attended to his school duties. Late Sunday night his case became acute and an operation was deemed necessary. George was born September 12, 1905 at Dawson, Minnesota. His unexpected death cast a gloom over the schools and in respect to his memory the schools closed Wednesday afternoon. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Charles Gilman and interment was made in Greenwood Cemetery. The floral tribute probably exceeded in profusion and beauty any ever afforded in Bemidji; schoolmates and teachers; the Saturday evening Club and others, individually and collectively seeking to lessen the grief of the stricken parents and other relatives by these tender tributes.
At the cemetery the flowers were banked in a great mound over evergreen boughs. Mrs. A. S. Dyer of Pipestone, mother of Mr. Dyer and G. F. Sylvester of Plainview, brother of Mrs. Dyer came to Bemidji for the funeral. –Bemidji Sentinel.
Mrs. G. F. Sylvester left for Minneapolis Tuesday to attend the mid western banquet of the Women’s clubs.
February 19, 1915- The Ladies Circle will meet with Mrs. E. L. Sylvester Tuesday.
February 26, 1915- E. L. Sylvester returned from a short business trip to Winona Friday.
March 5, 1915- Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sylvester entertained a company of friends at a 6


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* SOURCE: Manzow, Ron (compiler), "The Sylvester Family of Plainview, Minnesota - a collection of information taken from the Plainview News, other newspapers, letters, and diaries beginning in 1884": Plainview Area History Center, 40 4th St. S.W., Plainview, MN 55964. Compiled in 2001.

NOTE: from Ron Manzow, December 2001: "Feel free to reproduce the pages for anyone who wants a copy. It was compiled to be shared... All I ask is that they consider sending a check to the [Plainview Area] History Center to help us out. That should be enough."


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