Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-03-20


Local notices will be twenty cents a
line, special local five cents, and ten cents
per line when set in back letter.
up to the present writing no more
bills have put in an appearance from An
dover on the John B. johnson case.
See ad of "Minnehaha Seeds, in
another column. They are responsible
parties and will give you satisfaction.
Geo. Ringer run his team through
&c Hs.tteH yesterday. Travellers are be.
ginning to find the best way to Britton.
Mr.. Fullmer of Blue Lake paid onr
Office q visit last week, and kindly took
the REPORTER to subscribers in his vicinity
Farmers, be particularly careful to
get good seed, for thereupon depends in
a great measure, the success or failure of
your crop.
The Masonic fraternity of Webster
propose to dedicate their Hall in the near
future. The program will be announced
in due time.
-Schachte & Palmer have bought the
lot where the dentist office standsrand
will move their meat.market there the
first of April.
While witnessing a match game of
ball in Chicago, recently, a boy in the
crowd was struck on the head-the bawl
came out of his mouth.
The town we'll in front of Norton's
ought to have an iron pump There's
plenty of water in it If only some means
are devised to get itsout.
"A new remedy for bed bugs is pro-
posed. You give them salt and while
they are of in search of a drink, move
the bed into the next room.
Editing a paper is like carrying an
umbrella on a windy day-everyb body
thinks he can do it better than the man
who has hold efthe handle.
Ladies, remember, that now as the
house-clesning season approaches. that a
kind word will 60 much further than .
f1at-iron era potato-masher.
One evening last week we saw o fell
low hugging the telegraph pole most en-
Enthusiastically, and swearing she could
out-sipg any girl he ever saw.
Both political parties in Congress are
now engaged in making records; and the
chance for anything like justice toDakota
seems In the dim and misty future.
This is the first day of Spring. One
of our citizens in announcing the fact
grandiloquently exclaimed Hail, gentle
Springr' We objective want it to rain.
If you want to make the acquaintance
of gentle, ~spirituelle charity-the modern
kind-get strapped. She'll kick the stuff
fIn out of you on your first application
for. aid.
SAY" said one of our boys to anoth-
err the other day, "How is you sweet
heart getting along?" "Oh, pretty we'll
.rless-she said / needn call again" was
the reply.
March marched IN like a lion, but thu
| king of beasts has vanished and given
place to the meek and quiet lamb. Let
us hope that he may be left in peaceful
possession.
Considerable sickness now--mostly
colds. People should be careful as the
warm weather comes on. A little expos
ure now is more likely to produce a cold
| than if the therm ometer was at 80 below.
H. r. Turner, the liye and energetic
| Britton townsite proprietor and agent,
WAS in town on Monday. Mr.. Turner
saws Britton is red hot and will be more
40 as soon as the snow is of. He made
us a pleasant call.
A lady in town says she thinks the
cremation society q good thing and wants
| 70 ioin il. She says she hasn't beer able
to get anything but skim-inilk since shes
came TO town and wants TO know II the
society can i.eIp her any.
lis there a future for the~democra-
CIV ?" is the agonized inquiry of the New
York World. We don't know. Probap-
" it will come under the head of that ex-.
citing theological inquiry of the day, is
there a hell?"
A farmer 5ising near Webster hasa
half dozen hens that hsve laid an egg
each every day this winter. he Will
build a p~alatisl residence, wit a huge