LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, Page One
Friday, November 5, 1909
CHANGE IN BUSINESS
Popular Photographer Sells Out to Noted Ball Player.
After twenty-six years continuous work in the photographic business in the same building R. I. Dabb, the popular photographer, has disposed of his studio and its appurtenances. The deal has been under consideration for some time and completed this week.
The purchaser is Harry L. Gasper, of Kingsley, who has attained a degree of fame as a baseball player. Mr. Gaspar learned to play ball in his home town and soon became a twirler of note in amateur games in this part of the country. He played for Waterloo in the Iowa league for two or three years where he made a record and this year was with Cincinnati in the big league, where he held his own, winning more games than any other pitcher on the staff.
Mr. Dabb will remain in LeMars this winter and will then probably locate in the West. He has built up a fine business in the many years he has lived in LeMars and it is safe to say that he has photographed nearly every man, woman and child in the county at one time or another, in addition to taking pictures of passing scenes in LeMars and places of interest in the vicinity. There are hundreds of houses in Plymouth county where his handiwork and reproductions are among the most prized of household gods. To say he will be missed is putting it mildly.
Mr. Dabb in his long course of business has accumulated money and has a fine paying business and his only reason for selling is that he wishes to engage in some occupation which will enable him to be more out of doors as the close confinement of indoor life is telling on his health which until of late has been most rugged.
Mr. Gaspar takes possession of the studio this week and will be assisted in the business by his wife, who as Miss Free, conducted a studio in Kingsley for some years and is a skilled artist.
~Newspaper transcription by L. Ziemann