Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-03-05
The trials Of a skater,
A young man who all the girls adore.
Who was never On rollers before.
Arose badly famed.
And loudly exclaimed,

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Joyed their visit.
John Norton returned from his
visit to New Orleans on Monday,
feeling greatly refreshed and thor
oughly satisfied. lie SAYS the Da-
kota exhibit is away ahead Of any
other in the exhibition and is the
establishment and admiration Of ali
who beheld it.
Farmers all over the county are
dragging their land and preparing
it for the reception Of the seed.
Last Saturday Il. IL. Egland, resid-
ing south Of this place sowed FIVE
acres of wheat. A few small pieces
were sown this week in central and
north Day,
Loves labor lost" is the way
ii young fellow pat it the other night
after lie had wasted a box Of black
ing and an hours time blacking his
boots, on his arrival at the girls
home, to find that she had become
tired of waiting and waltzed of
with another fellow.
An early spring is predicted.
We don't go a cent on predictions.
A fortune teller told us once that
we were going to be rich, and it cost
us s.. After much careful thought
and some speculation, we know that
fortune teller kind % come il over
us with u prediction, and now we
can call a fortune teller a liar with
both hands tied behind us.
The dance q week ago Tuesday
at Waubay, was q Jolly affair.
There we're thirty-eight couple pres
ent and they saw the wea small
hours Of the morn. Fred Russell's
orchestra furnished the music and
that accounts for the solid good
cheer of the occasion. When Won
want good music for a dance and no
fo0lin address +. IL. Russell, Roslyn
Day Co. ID. L.
ID. L. Blake, with commenda-
BILE enterprise, has imported a full
blooded, thorough-bre Holstein
bull calf, and though only ten
months old, it tips the beam to the
tune Of $50 pounds. Ii is a hand
some animal. We are glad to know
that Mr.. Blake was prompted to
this step because of : knowledge
Of the facts that our farmers, uni-
versally, desire to improve their
stock.
When a girl crops her front hair
and pulls it down over her forehead
like a Mexican Mustang, and then
ties a piece OF red velvet around her
neck, who can wonder at the num-
Der of p~ale-faced Young men who
throw away ambition and pass many
sleeplcss nights trying to get down"
on their upper lips.
Among the Dakota exhibit Of
the Milwaukee Il st. Paul II. r., at
New Orleans. Mr.. Norton saw
the big pumpkin and potatoes that
we're on exhibition at our fair here
last fall. This exhibit of Dakota's
products is the most complete in
the exhibition. No doubt our rea-
ders will be gratified to know that
Day stands to the front in that
splendid array.
Let a Young gentleman and a
young lady try the following expert
ment--set a g~slyanic battery in mo-
ton, and while she takes one handle
in one Of her banda he takes the
other IN his. Then let them softly
kiss each other. This is an improve
ment on ordinary methods, and is
sure to bring out ali the fireworks
there is in the human soul.
No man can do q thing well
whose diet is thin and who lives on
the SKINNED milk of life. We be-
lieye in Addison's theory. that good
coffee, good steak, and the necessa-
nv concomitants Of a good meal.
gives the body strength, and yigor
to the intellect" The Ill fed man
is never the bright business or pro-
f%essional one, by a long jump.
Some comfort may be derived
from the fact that ''hard times" do
not last always. Like good times
they come and go. The way in
which most men do business makes
it almost a necessity that ''haId
timess" should alternately succeed
each other at comparatively short
intervals. 1t is o fact that they dc
succeed each other, aud the fact il
not without a cause in tho methods
of business.
The select party at the Prior
House on Wednesday evening last
was the most elegant OF the season
There were about 40 couple present,
and they tripped the eight bonn.
bastic" till Fair Luna sought repos,
beyond the western hills. Ere,
Russel's "Coteau Orchestra" fur
nishcd the music, which is all tina
need be said Of that part Of the en-
tertainment, Every one praises tn
perfect arrangements, the elegan
banquet and the inspiring music
and enjoyed it 70 the full.
The motto Of every one shcul'
be to keep al the money at home
Buy Ut home AVID YOU will he bsne
fitted in u shonsana different way
that You would not think of. Yo'
patropize Mr.. B, who finds that b
reqi4ires something in your line an
goes and tickles you, At once 70
turn and tickle some one else, nm
the first thing You know the entir
business community have been itch
eled BY yorr s5 or ~ note, and
comes tack TO YOU none the w5fs
for the trin