Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-01-21
RECEPTION AND DONATION PARTY.

TUESDAY EVENING, JAN, 18th, 1896.
The reception rooms will be in the did
Masonic hall A GRAND SUPPER will
be provided and all invited to pariake. at
Z o'clock p, m. After supper visitors will
repair to the reception room where they
will toe entertained by music and games.
The Young people can fish for q
BITE IN THE FISH POND
and the lovers 81 art will view with de-
light the "JEMS" in the art gallery.
while mirth, music and song will be the
order Of the evening.
Supper, per couple 80 cents
Contributions for the benefit Of the
Minister. Rev. T.. Goodwin, or for the ia
bic, sill be thankfully received.
COMMITTEE.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat,
printed in Vests own state, says:
Judge Campbell makes a very
goec point on Senator Vest in the
Dakota controversy by reminding
him that, according to the bred
Scott decision, congress has no
right to perpetuate a territorial
government after the people of such
territory shall have complied with
| the conditions under which it may
be admitted as a state. The bred
| Scott decision was rendered, how
ever, to promote the extension Of
| slavery and the success OF the demo-
| cratic party, whereas in the case Of
Dakota, the application of the same
doctrine must have a directly oppo-
| site eifect-and hence statesmen OF
the Vest species are bound to reject
and resist It,"
The medical almanacs for 1886
are all out and the counters Of all
the drug stores are loaded down
with them. The situation in our
iand-a great factor in the product
Of human happiness. No well reg
ulated family pretends to get along
without them. They may possibly
worry through the year on an C
| sloual short allowance of bread and
meat, but upon no consideration
can the almanac be dispensed with.
70 the old grandfather and grand
mother they contain more solid,
genuine information and more salts
faction than any other work pub
lished, if we except probably the
bible. To them it is a perfect God
send. The information they gather
from it in regard to the weatherand
the phases of the moon is simply
wonderful. TO the children who
have advanced through their first
and second readers they are sources
OF a good deal of amusement and
h Up them to wear many weary
noRrs away. The delightful jokes
are read oyer and over again by
these fun-loving little shavers who
carefully divide the sylIables and
spell ont the long words Is they
droll ont the octogenarian conun-
drum and the decayed and toothless
pun. Bald-headed old bachelors
aud freckled old maids find conso-
tation and encouragement in the ad-
Nyertisements setting forth the won
ders performed by hair restoratives
and skin purifiers. In fact, every
medical almanac ever published tells
Of a remedy for every i'll that flesh
is heir TO. This years crop is now
being harvested. The good mau Of
the mouse never starts to town after
i sack of -four or a mouse trap ttist
he isn't told by his better half to lee
sure and get a copy Of every kind OF
almanac published. They generally
20 out of town with their pockets
lO&ded with this kind of literature.
Through the efforts of Senator
Edgerton and Governor Mellette,
the difficulties over the land entries,
made by the Sparks rulings are in a
fair way for settlement in "a few
days. The following from Senator
Edgerton on the l7th explains more
fully the situation:
Il think Mr.. jerks will con ,ede
to about all of the material demands
Of the settlers. He is fair minded
officer, and all the Dakota delega-
tion have the utmost faith in him,
and also Secretary Lamar. Mr..
jerks informed Gov. Mcllette and
me yesterday that he would do all
ne could for the relief of the dis
tressod settlers. He viii hold in
his rulings hereafter that fraud
must be shown in proving up before
an entry can be cancelled. Also
when notice is given of a suspended
entry the parties may appear before
the local land office and a suspen-
sion and notice OF %suspension shall
operate the same as a rule in court
10 show cause. All the parties who
make the entry viii have to do will
be to present papers showing that
entry and proof of entry we're made
in the usual way. Then the gov.
eminent must produce its proof es-
tablishing fraud. In Ease this ID
not done the entry will not be
cancelled"
1t strikes us that the "Visiting
Statesmen" rs the opponents Of
statehood sneeringly cali them, are
accomplishing more for the people
than all the loud-mouthed preten.
ders sent down TO Washington &c
defeat division aud statehoon ever
dreamed Of doing. Why is this!
Simply because the officers there
know these men represent the peo.
ple-that they have them behind
them, arc authorized by them to ACT
for their best interests. Boynton
and the rest of the howlers did not
go there with a view to advancing
anyones interests but their own, con.
s~eguently did not care a continental
how adverse rulings from the gen,
eral land Office injured the people
and the landed and other interest,
of the territory-it was nothing t.
them and hence they never mad,
any effort TO remedy the evils thes,
rulings had created. Could any.
thing be more conclusive that they
knew Absolutely nothing Of whaI
the people wanted. We opine not
Then il they we're SO lamentably ig
norant in this regard, would thel
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