Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-06-21

John Austin, Of the firm of
Palmer & Austin, returned from
st. Paul, Monday, where he has
been purchasing stock of goods
and transacting other business IN
the interest of the firm.
This story by one of our farm
ers, illustrative of the size to which
gram grows in Day, rather stumped
a crowd of story tellers the day.
1t seems he was in his grainery not
long since and heard a strnge noise.
lie looked around, but could see
nothing save an o&t IN the corner
of the bin, that had been left there
last fall because it could not be
squeezed into the last bag that was
filled, and he having no extra ones
it was suffered to lay there unheed-
ed. Going up to the oat he exam
med it, and was surprised to find
that it has been followed out, and
that large rat was safely enscossed
therein. 1t seems he was very hun
CRY, and nibbled right through the
shell, and by the time he got inside
was so fat it was impossible for him
to get out. 1t is said that the
crowd to whom he related this sto-
Iy, picked up their hats and went
out to have "milk shake"
And still something new under
the sun, challenges our attention
as the days and weeks pass by. This
time it transpires that, since the
Reporter last brought joy into the
homes of its thousand readers, Mr..
Frank Bowen has been illustrating
the thought that it is "the Znex-
pected that always happens" Who
in sam hill would ever have iI.Iagin-
ed that Frank was going to tart a
livery business in Webster? but
that's just what he has done, aud
having secured the services of tha$,
prince OF livery men, Phil Dicker-
son to run it, he has invested in
some of the finest horses, buggles,
and carriages ever put on the road
from a Webster livery stable--in
fact his outfit would be way up high
toned in any of the cities of Dako-
ia. Frank proposes to treat the
people white, and has commission
ed us to invite everybody, his wife
and the rest of his small children,
to call at the red barn, opposite the
Prior House, when you want to ride
behind a spanking team for either
business or pleasure.
To our farmer friends we
would suggest that the cheapest
way to adorn your grounds and
give them q permanent beauty, as
we'll as add greatly to the value of
your place, is to plant'trees. The
expense is but trifing when COM
pared with the great benefits that
will accrue hereafter. You have
no idea, until you have experiment
ted, how few trees will relieve the
monotonous appearance OF a tree
less plain; the eye loves variety,
and a copse of trees in this country
is as dear to them as an oasis to the
travellers on the vast desert of Sa-
nara. Twenty-Five years ago Iowa
had vast treeless plains; to-day,
these same plains rejoice IN forests
containing all varieties of trees
conjenial to that climate. Our soil
is fertile and nothing prevents orr
following their example. As alrea-
dy suggested in these columns FREE
quently, wind break Of cotton
woods or box-elders around your
land is not alone ornamental, but
decidedly useful as WILL. 1t les
sens the force of winds and storms,
and protects less hardy trees that
yeu may choose to set out. Let
each individual do all that is possi-
bic in this direction, and We will
have a country, before many years,
that for beauty can only be equaled
by few and surpassed by none.