Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-15

| IleeG Tie uTSL Wtch III ApIii.
term of court about the frs
The Teachers Institute commence
on the I'd and the G.. A. r. wi
give a camp fire during the week
From this it will be seen tina
things are liable to be lively her
| during the first week in April.
i MIR. A. l.. Blackman, from nea
Britton, was down Thursday to la
in stock of groceries and othe
truck at Jno. Norton's mammoth
store. This makes some ZOO
worth OF trade Webster has receives
from that section of country. TIL
boys are learning where they cal
| get cheap, good goods.
Tho Board of Supervisors hay
struck it in dealing with the poor
They require that merchant shall
| have an order from some member 0
the Board, which he must attach Il
his bill when he sends it in to be aud
lted. This will prevent or save th,
county from unnecessary expense
and be a relief to business me:
as we'll.
/ During the past week Mr.. Fitz
patrick's entire family was down
with the measles, and no one tc
care for them but Mr.. +. himself.
1t is pretty hard lines. when all the
families in a neighborhood are Sc
afflicted that they can render nc
assistance to each other. We learn
that his family is getting better,
/ thought still unable any of them to
be out.
/ Look out for fellows travelling
professedly in the interest Of leading
eastern papers and offering chromo>
as premiums for subscribers. They
take the money for the Chromos
which are worth about ten cents
each, and reyer send the papers. Ii
any one comes to you, whom you do
not know, with such IN offer, kick
him out for he is fraud and will
get your money and never furnish
you an equivalent.
If farmers will keep one idea in
view from this till spring and act
upon it, they will not regret it.
Defer no work till warm weather
that can just as well be done now.
4 vast amount of work can be got
away if this suggestion is acted upon
work that will take you away from
that you are compelled to do to get
in a crop. Keep list of what chores
Won have to do and do them now
get your farm in shape for the
campaign.
A lodge of the order of United
Workmea has been organized III
Webster with A. L. Barker, Master
Workman; w. G. Dickinson, p.
NJ. W; A. j. Wolfe, Foreman: W.
Kendall, 0yerseer: L. Il. Foster, Re-
corder; Milo Benjamin, Financier;
o. L. Nelson, Receiver; Chas. Rus
sci, Guide; Ed. Benjamin, Inside
Workman and Henry Serenson, Out
side Workman. The order will
meet in the School House for the
present.
When viii people learn not IL
! bitg stsoxefy ivsii tsasag they seo' IS
l.ycuth not far from Webster, hill
been ailing for some time pastE
having in consequence very tad
dreams. While in this state he &C,
oidently stumbled upon the adyer-
tisement of a Michigan firm that
would send him receipt to prevent
these dreams, on receipt of 90cents.
He sent the money and the recipe
was brief and pointed as follows:
"Don't go to Sleep"
An unknown exchange pays the
following tribute to winter; GIt
SHOWS and blows, and stings your
nose-makes all creation SILVER. 1t
bites your toes, increases your woes,
and freezes up the river. The frost
nips all, both great and small, this
dreary dismal winter;it freezes type,
bursts water pipe, and yexes sore
the printer. So let her roll
mean the eoal--it taxes the cash, in
winter; now please be kind, make
up your mind to settle with the
printer.
There is many soul trudging
along life's rugged pathway, with
weary, uncertain steps Sad and
dowlhsarted, who would, if there
was a kind hand reaenad out to
help them, walk erect aud lightly
over the jagged pathway. We are
what we are. We cannot be truly
other than ourselves. Mans dispos-
ition is naturally sunny and genial,
bat storms of adversely sOmtimeS
warp and twist our natures, just as
the storm warps and twists the
giant oak. Ne bend and sway to the
storm, aud while our bodies may be
ungainly, the soul will readily res
pond to tho music of life. Kindnes:
is never wasted.
! Not half, nay, one-thlrd of the
taxes of the county are paid. oul
people, in electlng men to the legis'
lature should secure men pledged te
a reduction of TAXATION. We have
no need of Territorial Veterinary
Surgeon, or paid Board of Health
we should abolish the office of Supt
| of Schools and assistants, aud enact
a law making the office elective ~ 1
salary OF about $1,000 a year and
expenses. There are useless salaries
| paid By the territory amounting t.
| fully s25, 900. We must retrenel
our expenses. We can not STOP
our schools, but we can arrange 81
we will not have to pay useless
salaries to barnacles that the Law
lays upon the system. 1t is time
for our'pcopln to begin to think o.
these things seriously.
/ Now is the time to get YOU
ploBs and harrows III shape for thu
spring campaign on the farm. L
your breaking pillow need shar penins
take it to the shop and have it done
at once. Ii You have single i'm
plement on your farm that stands
in need of repairs, now is the time
to look after and get them in shape
for BUSINESS. Don't wait till yor
want to use them, and then trot of
to town and loose half or a whole
day in getting repeairs look afte
them NOW, and thus save time ant
money in the operation. You