Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-22

cluded not to invest.
The social of the Congregation
al church was held at Mr.. Prsnder
CASTS on Friday night last and wa
a boomer. There were 101 persons
present, and it is the universal fla
that they all had splendid time.
Mr.. A. I'll. Kremer returned
from his extended business trip cas-
last week. He reports lots of snow
in Minnesota, and having had 1
touch of the winter cholera during
his absence, does not look as ruggeo
as one would expect HIM to.
No night watch now. We rise
to inquire if it amt little early
for such step? 1t seems to us tina,
our town is in greater danger from
fire in consequence of some flue
burning out, than we have been be
fore since the winter commenced.
Mr.. Webber is engaged IN the
construction of u building in which
he proposes to put machine and
rep, ir shop. He has already bought
most of his machinery, and hopes
to be ready for business the latter
part of April or May. This is an
institution that Is badly needed here
and we are decidedly of the opinion
that Mr.. Weber has struck bo-
nanza. As soon aS he can he pro-
poses to fit up for making castings
Of all kinds.
! Bristol is agitating the ques-
ton, sis whisky sold in Bristol in
violation of law" Col. Lewis, ed
itor of the Bristol Independent tenn
perance department., thinks it is
but thinks it difficult to obtain evil
dence of the fact. II they could
only get hold of some fellow who
is "tossing back and forth with fe-
vered brow and parched lips" that
would "give 1t away" the task of
cleaning the pest out of Bristol
would be an easy one.
Last Saturday was the 1501st
anniversary of the birth of st. Pat
rick. lie is said to have gone to
Ireland in A. d. 1872, as a priest,
and some time subsequent to that
date he banished all the snakes and
toads from the Emerald Isle. He |
was not an Irishman by birth. The |
order known as the Knights of st.
Patrick, which was organized in the
10th centuary, is still in existance |
and keeps his memory green. st. |
Patrick died IN 493 at the ripe age
Of ZIG years and his remains were
kept at Downpatrick, in Ireland,
up to the date of the reformation.
Our citizens almost all wore The |
green Saturday in honor of his
memory.
--Messrs. Kramer and Gross in
vested IN a full blooded Norman
stallion in Minneapolis, to bring TO |
Wohsleg The animal $780,, -. ~
that they we're unable to get it into
an ordinary boy car, and they pUt !
HIM 10 one of those high, cheated
simmer cattle cars, Inning the car
on the inside with tar paper. The
car arrived here Saturday, but the |
stallion WAS dead. Many of our
citizens took q look at him in the |
car. He was a splendid looking
animal and it is 3 shame he did not
get through safely, because he was
just such an animal as this country
needs to improve it's breed of farm
horses. The gentlemen have shown |
commendable enterprise in this
matter and it is to be hoped they
will be able to collect his value from
the railroad company.
Our informant was incorrect in
his statement with reference to the
Fitzpatrick family. II seems that
he second day they were i'll, Mr..
Prendsrgast's folks were over and
did all they could to make them COM
Portable, and the sick com.nittee
IT the Good Templers lodge of this
city, Of which Miss Nellie Prender
CAST, Mr.. Foster and Mr.. NJ. Benja-
min are members, have seen that
the family were supplied with
watchers and help. AT the time,
our informant was fully persuaded
his statement of the case was cor
rect, and neither he or the writer
hereof learned our mistake till after
the paper was ont. The REPORTER
makes this correction with a word
of commendation to those who so
promptly went to the aid of the
stricken family. We learn the fam
lily are most of them able to be up
and will soon be around again.
| Now the fact is, when you go
home with your girl on dark night,
such as was last wednesday evening,
on returning home you should con-
fine yourself strictly to the road
one of our youths, on the evening
mentioned, after delivering his girl
safely at the door Of her country
home, undertook to take 8 short
cut to town; and here is where he
made sad and grevious mistake.
Across the fields he gayly skipped,
whistling merry tune the melody
of which was borne to the listening
ears of his girl on the gentle breeze
Of the star-lit night. Suddenly it
was interrupted with, "Blank the
blank thing to blankw-he had run
| into q barb wire fence. He backed
off and came up on the other ally,
only to find himself waist deep in
blue and sparkling waters of a tiny
lakelet, surrounded by banks of
cold, white yet beautiful snow. He
couldn't do the subject justice, and
didn't try; but wading through he
| fioundered through the snow and
again got tangled in another fence;
between his labored breathing came
reservations that gave cerulean blue
| to the atmosphere in his immediate
vicinity. lie pulled through about
midnight sadder and wiser than
when he started and oh, SO dilapi-
dated! The next day he appeared
out in his fathers pants, serenely
assuring the boys he always had to
break in his fathers pants and boots
before he could wear them; but
! his "feyered brow and parched lips"
and the dreamy, far away look IN
his eyes, indicated he was anything