Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-04-29
ASSESSORS NOTICE.

The assessors Of the comfy are
requested to assemble at the Court
House, May SID, Il, receive their
books and papers and to thoroughly
CANVASS and discuss the method of
assessment for the county. A fnll
attendance is desired that full and
general understanding may be reach
cd.
THoS. BRIaHAN, Auditor.
Last Friday little son of Hans
Anderson met with a serious acci-
dent. His brother. Martin. drove
up TO the house wiiha load Of wheat
when little Fred nan out to meet
the team The front wheel struck
him End threw him 6own passing
over ais chest and the hind wheel
over the upper part of the leg inst
below the groin breaking his leg in
two places and splitting the broken
bone through the center. Martin
had on a heavy sheepSkin overcoat
with the collar turned up and did
not see the lad until the mischief
was done. DIR. Sullivan, of Bristol
was called and reduced the fracture.
Strange as it may appear, 1t is be-
lieved the child sustained no serious
internal injury, AMI though suffer
ing from the fracture aud bruises
received he is rs comfortable as
could be expected under the circam-
stances. and 1t is thought will ulti-
mately recover.
--onec more we say 10 the Young
man stick close to your business.
No matter whether You are working
for Yourself or in the employ Of
some one else, make it an memorable
rule to be always found at your
place Of business always prompt aud
ready to wait ON customers. This
YOU cannot do if you have contract
ed the habit of either drinking.
gambling or following any other
game or paStime shat shsorbcs your
attention to the exclusion of other
and more important concerns. To
he found always in your place Of
business, ready to wait upon custo-
mers with cheerful and polite at
tention. Is to secure their esteem
aud patronage-if they know they
can always find you at your post
half the battle in establishing a
business has been slready fought.
Look arapni you, i it the men who
spend their time ut something else,
who can never be found when want
ed by a customer or patron th' I
succeeds. Ii no spends his time in
plaoes where games of chance pre-
vail, does he inspire confidence in
his fellows? Ii he sits in his chair
and lazily asks what a visitor wants
does he invite eustomerss Mott
is by being constantly on the alert,
always in his place of business and
ready, unless busy, to meet his Gus
toner aud inquire into his wants
before he hardly passes the door,
that draws and NtaIns trade, The
pleasant f,ce, always the same, that
sreets the customer who enters your
door. is q welcome but few men will
disregard either III business or pro-
fessional life; it creates mutual
acquaintance, mutual confidence
and establishes that pleasant friend
II relation between the business or
professional man aud his patron,
that no competition, no matter how
sharp 1t may be can overcome. IL
a man goes into store. for example
and finds everyone setting down or
lying on the counter, nine times ont
OF ten he viii go to the next door
rather than disturb Won Just TO
weigh HIM out half a dollars worth
of sugar; or L he goes TO your place
of business and misses the pleasant
face and greeting he has been acus-
toned to, ho feels lost and perhaps
wandefs away to some other place
aud establishes new relations and
your one lapse from yigilaut atteR.
ton to business looSes yaa eusto-
mer that you l4as never regain. II
has been aptly said that eternal
vigilence is tie price Of liberty. 7
and the same addage viii apply with
equal force to trade, ''etelAal vigi.
fence is the price "a success in husl.
ness. an,, II must be that vigilanc,
shat lands you over the rapids int,
the deep. qniet waters of an assures
prosperity.
Ga 10 Compton for your sof
ceal.