Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-02-18

5lOIIdllh VI JuhOl tadL CHI luIilSH
grazing for cattle in the middle of
February.
We hope a supreme effort w:ll
be made TO get grounds in shape to
hold our fair this year. 1t will be
hard to do much with it if we do
not arrange some way to hold it as
people have always been accustomed
to seeing fairs held.
The increase In the size of our
paper has brought us many cordial
words of encouragement and en-
~dorsement from our subscribers all
over the county. Thanks. 1t shall
be II constant endeayor to merit
your appreciation.
IF the danties of the American
diet we've courageously declined by
the rising generation we would have
the proof of its wisdom IN rosy
cheeks, strong arms, clear brains
and clear consciences. w need to
feed more OH bread and butter and
less on mince pies and chocolate
caramels.
M. johnson, who has be6n in
business here during the past year
has severed his connection with the
furniture businss here and will try
his fortunes in Arkansas. Mr.. j.,
is a good citizen, sober and indus
trlous and is highly esteemed in the
community. The REPoRTER wishes
him abundant success wherever he
goes.
The Milwaukee road have ont a
fine map of Dakota and pamphlets
setting forth its immense advantages
They are splendidly compiled and
temdrace everything concerning the
prosperity and advancement of the
territory. When it comes to adver-
tising the country through which
their road passes, the Milwaukee
skunks 'em all.
The prospect for a lively spring
trade was never better in Dakota.
Should the threatened invasion of
Day by settlers from the east actu-
ally take place our people will see
another Such a refreshing shower
us made their hearts glad in 1882
and 'S3. There is still lots of wheat
here. however, to market and we
are bound to have q streak of good
times anyhow.
Persons who practice deceit and
artitice always deceive themselves
more than they deceive others.
They may feel great complacency
i'll view of the success of their do
ings, but they are in reality casting
"a mist before their own eyes. Such
persons not only make a false csti-
mate of their own characters, hut
they estimate falsly the opinions
and conduct of others.
There are young men who can't
hold Il skein of yarn for their moth
crs Tor two minutes without getting
it tangled all up and being as mad
as II hornet about it who can 20 to a
house where there is a "Gal' and
hold yarn for hours at a time. with
the patience and docility of a lamb,
and then inquire in tones as sweet
as the coo of IL turtle dove, If they
have any more yarn for him to hold
When the Masonic Temple
here il completed it will be an or
namcnt TO the city. and besides will
he the only one in the territory ey-
ccpt the one at Sioux Falls. Web
ster don't stand back before any
town in the matter of push, enter
prise aud vim and her Masonic
Lodge is Il rattlcr-composed OF the
kind of material that ''gets there
when undertake to do a good thing.
On Monday evening Hon. j. q.
Tronson, Of Bristol, came near
looslng his house by fire. 1t caught
around the chimney, but was fortE-
nately discovered in time to prevent
a serious conflagration. Our info:-
mant says he did not suppose there
were so many people there--that
the ground was black with them in
no time. Bristol is one Of the live
town on this road and is growing
rapidly.
-Chattle mortgage sales ought
to be published in a newspaper. I
How often docs a hundred dollar
yoke of oxen 90 for $50 or a $500
span Of horses for 300 all because
no n knew the sale Of personal
property was to take place. As the
law of publication in such cases
now stands, it is Il positive injury
to the public and Is in the interest
wholly and solely of the mar who
holds the note. +:
Mr.. Perry Long, of Egcland
township, and Il number of neigh
boga s8aed wheat last week. 1t
may be early to commence. but VIC
believe that the sooner You can get
wheat in the better You are OF. At,
any rate We shall keep your eye on
this early sowing and let our readers
know the result of the experiment,
if indeed it is one. and the more
carefully because We have always
advocated early sowing. /,
We sometimes get hol& of a
iagk-leg lawyer. away from here, !
| who is teo cute for anything. Wei
have one in orr minds eye now who
is preparing himself for one Of the
worst skinnings Il man ever got.
We do net feel like taking or enjoy
ing the impertinence of beers and
blaek=guards from other lawns, he
cause We haze AN Institution here
that can kick al sorts of black
guards at all sorts Of distances.
Ever since marital man was
created wish lie imm0rtal ''inside
passenger" ever since Satan cstaE-
lished his premium on idle hands;
and haman dcstinies worked at
cross-purposes with their own hopes
and intentions, the question of what
to do with ourselves and the hand
full of opportunities strung like
jewels upon the str9aa Of QUA, allot.
Tad SINS hos pt,zzlea al 'dcep heart
ed people. It is as impossible fer
any one Of US to be EHisarlnlY salts
| 6nl With our rh; II. s..n1auf IL ~. t,.av,tL, j