Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09

ARTHER c. MELLETTE. Governor.
A Z. FRANK, Lieut. Governor,
and Pres. of the Senate
THOS. V. EDDY, Speaker of the Louise
Of Representatives.
Attest: II. S. MURPHY,
Secretary Of Star,
Proceedings of county boz "A in This
issue.
Miss Maude Adam i v;s;t;n, f,;enas
in Britton this W. ok
M = .untipgton visited Minneap-
20 ssiness yesterday.
ae oldest inhahilant thinks that the
present thaw little previous.
Read the proclamation of the Cover
nor converting the legislature at Huron
on the 18th.
The Royce-Lansing troupe, tonight, at
the Opera House; viii give you the rat
ting entertainment.
DIR. Harris and wife went TO Minnea-
polls on Tuesday nights train, and will
visit friends for few days.
It is claimed that white wood can be
made so tough as to require cold chisel
to spl;t it. Just like some fellows We
know.
The orange crop of Southern Cal
this year IS estimated at SOC, 900 boxes
The early frost in Day county is what
knocked our crop.
The Egeland Alliance meets at the
school House one week from Saturday,
and will be held every Saturday there
after through the winter.
With Christmas and New Years on
Saturday and the Fourth of July on Sun
day, the youngsters accustomed toan ex-
ira holiday are asking what is fair in
this?"
On Friday night, last, an entire stran-
ger came to w. P. Nuggets home-a
girl of the usual weight. Mother and
child doing well and Bill win soon be
abe to be out,
Now let the oldest inhabitant rise no
and tell of seyerest storms ever known
in his experience-where whole comiSu-
mites were buried in the snow for weeks
and lived on snow water.
Sunfowers have been raised for centu-
ries in Russia and Tartary for fuel. They
are now being cultivated in various parts
OF Dakota for that purpose. They make
hot fire. and are easily grown.
The sleighina is immense-our young
folks were out in force Tuesday night, a
whole robert sled load of them. They
didn't make the welkin ring and rome
howl ''ner nuthin"-oh, no!
w. r. Ruggles, editor of the Ipswich
Gazette and representative in the terri
torial legislature from the 18th district,
stopped over Yesterday to visit his broth
er. Ed. Willis is on his way to Chicago
It is very consoling to an editor to have
a man who never paid cent to the Off
&c, send you postal card asking that
three or four copies of the papes be sent
to him, Talk about assorted gall on tapl
Great Scott
The savage assault on Turkey last week
is such as to lead us to exnect its COM
plete reduction before the holidays. 1t
is war of determination, and we speak
for = gooa portion of the-meat, near the
breast bone.
The Commercial has been making
more improvements. having enlarged
their kitchen and doubled the size of
their sample rooms. The Commercial is
always doing something to better accom-
modate the dear public.
On Monday, while Mrs. Norton and
her friend, Miss Weymouth, we're flying
dowS so1th Main street in a cutter, sud-
denly the whiffie-tree broke, upsetting
the cutter and throwing the ladies vio-
lently out. Fortunately, beyond a few
bruises they escaped unhurt.
The Day county Agricultural Society
did wisely when they reelected Mr.. G.
Ecker, SIS President of the Association,
lie is just the man for the place. The
selection of Mr.. A. E. Barker. Treasurer,
and E. r. kuggles. Secretary, are tip-top
selections. and win make good our hopes
for a successful fair next year.
The Young Ladies' Mission Band OF
the NJ. Z. Church. propose soon to give
an entertainment at which viii be pre-
scented laughable comedy. They hsve
Eiade q beautiful crazy quilt which it is
proposed shall be disposed of ON that &C.
c'lsion. You pay 81 for an admission
ticket and the holding the number cor
responding with The one on the quilt win
become it's happy possessor. As the la
dies say, tits perfectly lovely" and as to
its being 'crazy"-well you just go up to
John Norton's store and gaze at the beau
tifully blended colors for five minutes.
and see If it don't make ycu cross eyed.
1T is common expression of
merchants that business is SO dull
it will not pay to advertise" What
would we think of the working man
who, when work is scarce, would
not try all the harder to find it!
The duty of the merchant or manu-
facturer at such times is to create
business by offering new and attrac-
tive styles, by seeking new custo-
mers, and pushing beyond unual
nelghborhood limits. He should
not sit down and wait for trade to
come to him, but seek it OH every
side and through the use of every
lawful fundamentally. When trade
is dull more active exertion must
be made to secure it than when
business is brisk. When times are
fiush and money plentiful it requires
but little effort to sell goods. There
is not so much need Of advertising
at such tines.