Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-04-01

e. S. Maynard was in on Mon
day and informed us that he hat
: the cellar wall and foundation to hi
new store room at Waubay ali il
and would soon commence the cree
ton of the superstructure.
The Quartermasters Depart
ment of this military division adyer
tises for bids to supply beef ans
mutton to the post at Fort Sissetol
from July lst, 1856 to July 1st, 1885,
Who will be the lucky man thu,
year?
MIR. Critch has moved the En-.
terprise meat market into the Office
formerly occupied by IIaish Il Bone:
which, our readers will remember,
he purchased last month. The new
place makes quite q handsome mar,
ket room.
| Blue stone or vitrol has been
extensively used in California for
cleaning smutty wheat for seeding,
with the result, in a few years of
doing away with the smut plague.
1t will be tried this spring in this
part of Dakota, where last season a
few fields were damaged by smut.
AGAIN we say to farmers. don't
put all your land in wheat. Get as
much of variety as possible. Put
in some millet, it is said to be boss
feed for stock. You who SOW soft
wheat, try the vitrol remedy to pre-
vent smut. You can get it at cost
at any of our elevators with full in
structions as to the method of using
| it.
We call attention to the adyer-
tisement of Hash & Bones which
appears in this issue. This enter
prising firm is now ready to meet
the wants of all who stand in need
Of tirst-class machinery. Office OH
the corner of second avenue and
nam street, opposite the Balzer
House.
Prof. Foster has resigned his
position as principal of the Webster
schools to take position rs book
keeper and cashier for John Norton.
The Professor has labored hard to
make us good school and deserves
we'll at the hands of the con munity.
1t is not vet decided who his success
sor will be.
Our old friend A. P. Croney,
formerly of the Glenwood. Iowa,
Opinion, called on us Monday, and
chatted while. 1t did us good to go
over the old fighting days with him. |
lie is out through Dakota looking
for location. lie is dandy news
paper man, and the locality that Sc
cures him will get "a bonanza.
Those of our subscribers who
want to subscribe for mill here
can do so by calling at this office.
The parties who propose to build
this mill are perfectly reliable and
only ask half your subscription
when the building is up and the
other half wheL the -four is pro-
duced, and only $1,000 bonps and
the grounds. 1t is the best PROPOSE
ton we could possibly expect.
IN the Dakota press, proposing the
passage of an enabling act, proyid-
ing for the submission of the divi-
sion question to the people of the
entire territory-first, division on
the 46th parallel, division on the
Missouri and no diyision--and adj
into the union OF either the
whole or the part as decided by the
people of the entire territory, is the
product of ex-Goy. 0rdway's brain.
The Coroners investigation in
the case OF Peter Kulsven. spoken
of in our last issue as having taken
his life, developed the fact that he
had been prompted to the rash act
by domestic troubles. lie had
good farm and a comfortable home
and 1t seems strange that he should
resort TO this method to escape the
troubles that encompassel him. The
revolver with Which he took his life
was 80 calibe: Colt. The shot
must have killed him instantly.
Mr.. Boyd returned home Mon
day morning from Chicago whore
he has been with lis son for medi-
cal treatment. The little fellows
feet are now straight. Another op-
Grafton is to be performed in July
and the bay viii have to wear his
iron braced shoes for about two
years. 1t seems wonderful that so
much should have been accomplish
ed in Il few months. He left here
with his feet hopeiessly out of shape
twisted clear around. He returns
with them in their natural position
and the prospect of being able to
use them as nature designed.
Squire Lee returned Saturday
from an extended visit to his parents
and his old home in Indiana. lie
arrived home in the night, wholly
and it is needless to say
that PA and Ma" correlled him,
both sitting down on each side of
him and plying him with questions
till the wee small hours-their hearts
fairly burning with the icy Of seaing
their first-born. Joe says he had Il
rafting, pleasant, hearty, old-fash-
toned visit, and we can easily believe |
it, since we never saw him looking |
better. lie says things i'll the bust
ness world down there are as fiat as
a pancake and that they are still
talking about the war.
-zFreqaently one hears the re-
mark from young men that they in
tend to abandon farm life and 60 to
the city. The desire t. avoid work,
and as well the monotony of farm
life, has crowded the towns and
cities and filed every industry to
OVERLOOKING. until there is hardly
room to turn around, much less to
make good living. The idea that
one can make more money in town
with less 'aoor is great mistake,
as is also the feeling Of mopotony
on the farm. In town and ont of it
the legitimate pleasures of mans
life are in his work and his home,
and he who seeks them elsewhere
will sooner or later rue the doing so.
Mans legitimate home, the source
of physical health and long life and
the very perfection of happiness, is
in the country and on the farm.
The converse ig tug, tho source of