Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-08-13

ZenS OF tnaI i've DdhOto uo"h'
ResoIued, That the thanks OF this
association are hereby rendered to
the Watertown Light Guard band for
music furnished while we were in
that city, and while upon our excm-
sion.
Resolred, That our thanks are due
and are hereby returned to the mem
beers Of the press of the city of Wat
ertown for the brotherly reception
rendered TO us by them.
Resolved, That our thanks are due
and are herby rendered to the ladies
as well as the gentlemen Of Water
town for the numerous courtesies ex-
tended to us.
Resolred, That this, the second an
nual meeting of this association has,
through the enterprise and hospitali-
ty of the citizens of Watertown prov
ed pleasant and enjoyable affair,
and it has been such as to cause the
city of Watertown and its enterpris
ing citizens to hold an uppermost
place in our memories Cor all time to
come
A. H. Lewis then brought up the
question of foreign advertising and
was followed by remarks from Bush.
nell and Johnson.
BY ID. M. Evans:
That a committee be appointed to
take into consideration the desirable
ity of the passage of a law requiring
any person or company wishing to
publish newspaper, to file a bond
with the county treasurer of the coun-
ty in which it is proposed to be pub
lished, in the penal sum of $500 to
secure the payment of any judgment
which may be obtained against the
publication for breach of the law.
Motion prevailed, and ID. Nj. Evans,
G. Ii. Ellis and j. III. Drake appoint
ed such committee
Hon, A C.. Mellette, Gen. H. II.
Pease, j. Ii. Drake, Col, ID. NJ Evans,
j. G. Adams and A. Biz were APP
pointee committee to wait upon the
senatorial committee in st. Paul and
presented the respects of the associa
ton. The committee also took oc-
casion to urge the Importance of
opening the Sisseton reservation, and
presented various projects for accom-
plishing this result to the satisfaction
of the Indians. The committee gave
assurance of tneir sympathy in the
movement Senator Harrison ex-
pressed himself warmly in behalf of
the statehood of Dakota, and express
ed a desire to have the honor of in
Producing the bill which should
bring Dakota into the Union of states.
The association then took recess,
subject to the call of the president
MINNEAPOLIS, July 23d, 'S5.
10 p. m.-Association convened in
the reading room. COMMITTEES APP
pointed TO draft resolutions of tribute
to the memory of the great com
mander, Gen. Grant, reported in the
following language.
WHEREAS, Our convention is star
tied by the sad tidings that the long
Suspended sword, which never misses
its mark, has fallen; that Ulysses S.
Grant is dead, we can but pause, and
with bowed heads and heavy hearts.
record our grief in common with a
mourning nation.
In testimony of this solemn dispen-
satlon of Almighty God, we the mem.
bers of the Daktoa Press Association.
therefore
Resolve, First--That in his life
and death as citizen, soldier and
statesman he was model for all
coming ages, performing the obscure
duties OF the common citizen, the
heroic deeds Of the soldier, and the
exalted duties of the chief magistrate
OF the greatest nation on the face OF
the globe. with fidelity that endear-
ed him to all liberty-loying peoples,
and challenged the admiration of the
world.
Second-That as soldier from
Belmont to Appomattox, from the
command of company to that of
the grandest army the world ever saw
he was generous, brave and always
victorious. As citizen, from the
lanyard to the Whitehouse, he was
faithful TO every obligation, and true
TO his country, to himself, to his God.
and to that democratic simplicity
that should characterize every Amer
lean.
Ihird-That the matchless pa
tience and fortitude displayed in the
struggle that ended in death, an ad-
mirlng nation watched as il now
weeps at his bier remembering that