Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-10-07

Bro. Raynes, of the live and
spicy Andover Gazette, was in town
Tuesday acting very strangely. We
asked him how business was in And
over and if he was pushed with Job
work, upon which he very relevently
and naiyely replied that it was a
girl. weighed ten pounds. We
talked kind % soothingly to HIM
till we got him down to something
like rational condition, when we
elected the fact that his wife had
presented him with the aforesaid
girl on Monday night. Everybody
smoked, A. f., bohbed around town
Hooking for theagent of some piano
company and asserting by the holy
horn spoon that he proposed to
have that girl PAWN ivory before
she got her teeth. Mrs. Raynes is,
We are glad to say, doing well, and
hopes to be able to get al dow n to
mundane affairs in time to print
tickets for the November election.
Ed. Benjamin stole march on
the boys last week by going down
to Litchfeld, Mimi, and car turing
Miss Jennie Tollman, one of its
fairest daughters for his bride. The
affair took place on Wednesday the
10th and Ed dropped back to town,
accompanied by his lovely bride, in
that quietly serene manner that
knocked the boys clear out and they
didn't tumble for several DAYS.
When they did, however, congratu-
lations and good wishes rolled in on
Ed from every side. Ed is one of
those genial, jolly fellows that de-
serves a good wife and we believe
he's got one-at any rate he appears
to be perfectly satisfied and as hap
Ply as a blackbird in a corn field.
Mr.. b., has been in business here
for about year and has won lots of
friends by his steady and industri-
GUS habits and pleasant ways. We
pledge the happy pair a new toast
luck.
Again have the naturalization
of marriage bells been heard in our
city and two more prominent young
people will walk together down the
pathway of life. On the eyering of
the Goth Mr.. A. Ross was united in
the holy bonds of matrimeny to
Miss Emma Wright, at the residence
of the brides parents near Webster.
Mr.. Ross, the groom, is well
known to our citizens, having been
in the jewelry business here for the
past four. years, as a young man of
exceptional probity and worth.
Miss Wright, the bride, is an ac-
complished young lady having a
host of friends in our city, who will
all rejoice in her happiness and wish
her prosperity through life.
Like sensible people as they are,
they quietly settled down in their
own home, to begin the battle of
life. The REPORTER adds its hear
tiest congratulations to those of the
numerous friends of the happy
couple and hopes theirs may be WAYS
Of pleasantness and all their paths
be rich with that happy and peace
full content that makes life really
worth the living.
On Monday evening, the friends
of our genial, efficient and popular
Register of Deeds, Mr.. G.. L. Shar-
retts, assembled at his residence, to
the number Of some seventy odd, to
tender their congratulations to him
and his accomplished wife, on the
22d anniversary of their marriage.
1t was complete surprise, no one
in Dir. Sharretts household having
had the least intimation of the in
tended raid Rev. Dickinson made
a very felicitous speech of congrat-
nlation, to which Mr.. Sharretts re-
piled in his happiest vein, express
ing his greatful appreciation of the
presents received, not so much for
their intrinsic value, as for the mo-
tive that prompted their kindly
visit and remembrance. One eu-
nique gift was a wild goose that had
been in the hands Of the taxdermist
and looked as natural as life-no
doubt it was intended as an intima-
tion to the gentleman that he was
"all right ON the goosel" After an
hour spent in social chat the conn
pany dispersed, well pleased with
the evenings visit.
W. 0puid SI.Iapl MOSQUE
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