Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-03-13
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is a 1--we, thrifty and cnterprising town
on the Fl. & d. Division Of the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Hhul Railroad. about
237 miles from st. Paul, and has a bright
and promising future before it. Being
the county seat Of bay county, located on
a beautiful eminence, and having a vide
awake, liberal and energetic class of citi-
zens, it offers fine advantage to the bus
mess, professional. or any other man de-
string a good location. Tile Mt pop
ulation of the city is about 500 souls
Being located in the Coteaus, and sur
rounded by numerous farms already
opened, where fine water and grasses are
found in abundance, and which are des-
tined to become, at no distant day mag
niticent stock and gain farms. Webster
will be the market through which the
pro 1uct Of these fertile farms will have
to passeto the commercial marts of the
world and as the years roll on, will be-
come famous as the center of the finest
stock producing section of Dakota. 1t has
already made rapid strides in the march
OF improvement in the short period of
its existence, about three years. 1t has a
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING,
Sit1ated in the North-aas. part of the
city, Al feet square, thirty feet high, hav-
ing two assembly rooms above and below,
besides wardrobes and halls, and a belfry
and clock tower, in which hangs-a genu-
lie Nicely bell weighing 500 pounds. A
fine school has been in session during the
winter, with Ii. K. Wilson, Principal;
Miss Franc Moulton, Assistant, and Prof.
IL. ID. Root, as Musical. Director. The
average attendance has been IS, and the
school is rapidly growing in the confidence
Of the general public.
THE COURT HOUSE,
Situated west Of Main street, almost in
the heart Of the city, is an imposing
structure. 1t is 30x36 in size. There are
four office rooms below. with a hallway
through the center, and stairway leading
TO a large court room above, also the two
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ding is handsomely painted and is a fine
couRty edifce, capable OF accommodating
the county business for a long series of
years. The building and grounds are
paid for, and are the exclusive property
Of the county-no long MINDED indebted
ness, or ttii,ass nemesis onrthe growth of so
many new counties, Court House bonds,
to pay.
III CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
Is a large structure, 30x54, ground dimen.
SONS, % feet ceiling. 1t has a seating ca
pacity Of about 20Q and IS finished, both
inside and out with al the modern appli-
ances. It is q d cidei ornament to the
town, and is paid for. Services every
sabbath, morning ard evening. Rev. w.
g. Dickinson, Pastor.
Beside these, the city is supplied with
a commodious Opera House, and over
head, one Of the finest equipped Masonic
Lodge rooms ia Central Dakota, In The,
matter Of private residence, there are
several that are not surpassed inthis part
of the territory in elegance, And finish.
OF business houses, ne enunelate, two
lumber Yards, a bank, two general stores,
two hardWesc. II drug, II grocery, one
furniture, a harness shop, . printing nfficc
that produces work not exceilei N the
whole Territory. A money order Post
Onice, two blacksmith shops, two livery
and feed stables, two grain warehouses,
two coaI dealers, two feed stores, four
agricultural implement depots, two hotels
. telegraph and express Office, a wood
yar,l, a meat market, a barber shop, and
a millinery establishment.
In professional men we hayetw phys
| s~icians, four lawyere, and six or sever real
estate, loan and insurance AGENTS.
\ county agricultural society has re-
Gently been organized with Webster "a
it's headquarters.
It's benevolent societies are, one Ma
sonic Lodge, one Sons 81 Industry, one
Good Tonplars. and preliminary steps
have been taken to organize 9 Royal
Arch Masonic, and an Odd Fellows
Lodge,
Webster is also TIE $ paty point for
Fort Sisseton and Britton, A daily stage
runs to these two points, q tri-weekly to
Waserto S1i,. and aaweckly to Lake Lynn
and Waubay Lake.
The Iowa, Sioux Fails & Northern
Railway will enter the county ct the
southeastern corner, traversing It's whole
length, and leaving it II the Nofth-west-
eyn ,nner Webster viii be the end of
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