Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-12-31
HOME HAPPENINGS
WEBSTER MARKET REPORT.

Hay, per ton ............ ........... .S,5O945O
Tomorrow 1886.
Band entertainment tonight.
The old year is nearly to its
end.
These are the shortest days of
the year.
THE cheapest cash IN town to loan at
~Huntington's.
A. Ross, on Monday, got in a
nobby little safe for use in his bust
ness.
Webster has two large feed
mills that are full of business all
the time.
...ifyou want to borrow money, Hun.
tington can help you in four seconds,
Several of our citizens enioyed
a pleasant hop at the Balzer House
on Christmas night.
...UneQualed facilities for real estate
and chattel loans at ~HnntingtoG's. No
delays, cash launched right out.
A. +. Raynes, the editor of the
AndOver Gazette, was in town last
week and shook hands with his
friends here.
M. Rexford, of Wauhav, was in
town Tuesday cracking jokes with
the boys. Rex is the %jolliest fellow
on the job.
Our beautiful weather is about
to leave lis. Well, we have had fall
in the midst of winter and ought
not to complain.
Hon. Il. A. Bones went to Ra-
cine, Wisconsin, on Monday even
ing on business. He is not expect
ed to return till about the 5th Of
January.
--Haish & Bones got in a man.
moth fire proof safe on Tuesday.
Their business has grown to such
proportions as to render this step
absolutely necessary.
We hope our citizens will all
arrange to attend the band enter
tainment tonight. The boys will
give you a splendid lay out you can
just bet.
An article which appeared in
these columns on the subject of
training children, a week or two
ago should have appeared as ''pub-
lished by request of Mrs. Bones.
&C. S. MAYNARD, the live bust
ness mar of Waubay, aud member
of IL county board, was in town
Monday on business. Business is
business with G. S., and he was
gone almost before you had chance
to say ''howdy" to him.
This is the time Of the year
when country newspapers receive
circulars from eastern firms asking
about their circulation, and if the
paper is lucky it can advertise for
the eastern firm for a whole year for
nOthing-well-who threw that
brick?
The glow of conscious superb
ority which mantles the face of a
man who discovers in a newspaper a
joke that he has read before in some
other journal, can only be compared
to the ecstatic facial expression OF
Wellington when he surveyed the
victorious field of Waterloo.
The hamdsOmest christmas pre-
sent made in the city this year was
by Mr.. John Norton to his wife-a
deed to his handsome residence and
grounds on north main street. 1t is
in order now to wish that excellent
lady "many happy returns Of the
day"
A fellow stopped his paper last
week, and wrote us as follows: 81
think folks ottent ter spend thar
mummy fer payper, mi daddy did
dent, an every boldly sed he wuz the
intelligentest man in kOunty, and
he he'd the smarfest set Of boiz that
ever dugged taters!" OF course he
had no use for a paper.
1t is now about time to wet
your finger preparatory to turning
over a new leaf. But we suppose
nobody will do this until they have
taken the convivialities of the holt
DAYS, in order to become thoroughly
disgusted with the vanities of the
world and become fit subjects fol-
the school Of repentance.
The bit of sunshine that Mr.
and Mrs. Bates, of the Surveyor
Generals Office, called "baby," or
the evening before their departure
from Yankton, closed her littl,
prayer with, goodbye, God, we'l
goin' to Huron to-morrow!"-Hu
ronite.
No more doth the gentle maid.
en- repair to the trout gate 10 coo
with her adonis, swap gum, and
meander down the lane. lie nov
comes in the purple twilight with
his pocket full of peanuts, and s5ey
chaw nuts softly in the front room
till the old man warns them 'it.
time honest folks were in bed"
One Of the best evidences o.
Christian charity, fortitude and for
b~earances we witnessed the othel
day. A fellow weighing two hun
dred pounds stepped on a little Eel
lows corns n was profuse lin hi
apologies. "0h," said The litGl,
fellow, measuring him with his eye
as he nursed his foot, while /,
ghastly smile spread over his face
giving it the expression Of a pan o
raw dough, 'its no matter.