Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-08
We have some good work hors-
for sale. DAY Co. BANK.

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es for SALE DAY Co. BANK.
The Teachers Institute for Day
county will be held at the school
house, Webster, commencing Mon
day, April I'd. 1887, and will con-
tinue one week.
This is leap year, but the timid
bachelors need not jump at the
conclusion that susceptible maid
ems are going to fall over each other
in mad race to take advantage of
leap years privileges. None but
the brave deserve the fair and from
our personal observation none but
the brave usually win the fair.
| Therefore, young man, do not
nveIgle yourself into the belief that
you can don the cloak of seeming
Indifference and cock your heels
up on the shoulders of naughty
egotism in the expectation that
some beautiful, innocent and con-
fding damsel will supplIcate you
for the gift of your high and mighty
devotion. When it comes to that
you will find that thus leap year
business is mere matter of form.
Brace up: put on bold front; the
long winter evenings are net yet
gone and if You would become the
fortunate possessor of the affections
Of some noble hearted girl, remem-
Der that ''faint heart never wo a
fair lady" If the old man COM
plains about the coal bill, you can
console yourself with the reflection
that the gentle spring time will
soon be here and the garden gate
never kicks on carrying double
that is if its hinges are well oiled.
On Tuesday the Board of ST.
pervisOrs opened bill for Il poor
family in Day county town which |
was remarkable for more reasons
than one. The total amount was
for $50. 92-of this amount S4G.41 |
WAS Cor coal, aud s42Sl for grocer |
lis. In the grocery bill there APP
peared the following items for sub
S antlals:
3 pecks Of potatoes, 5 10
Flour, l 10
Matches, 81
Beans, 10
Coal oil. l %
Total, So 90
The remainder, 1891, was for
canned goods, such as peaches, to
matoes, raspberries, apricots, ETC.,
and lemons, oranges, apples, raisins,
currents, etc. Pretty rich bill of
fare that, for pauper-several of
the boys present wanted to know if
there was "any more room" For
coal, $46.4l was a pretty lively
charge for family. OF course the
board fired the oil bodily. 1t is
singular that q business man should
have no more judgment than to
make a bill Of this kind. OF the peo-
pie who pay the taxes to support
paupers not one i'll five hundred can
afford such luxuries, and it was a
silly idea to suppose the board of
commissioners would allow such a
reclllessly cxtraragant bill and one
made i'll only two months, too. No
wonder the board are getting
darned particular about bills"
The Coteaus of Day county
comprises the most magnificent
farming and grazing country in Da
kota. Many of our people who
have been waiting for the boom feel
disappointed that more active de-
mand for our lands mas not been
developed. 1t has been aggravating
to see the tide of emigration, set
ting in way back in the east. carry
ing hOmeseekerS on through this
section out to the Missouri river,
where they settled on lands not as
valuable us these by half. The fact is
nothing has been done by our peo
pie to boom Day eounty--it has,
like TOpsy, simply "growed," by |
the gratuitious advertising it has !
received ut the hands of its news
papers. Other counties have sent !
forth, from time to time, glowing
descriptions of their advantages to
the people OF the cast, and have
drawn large numbers of them, sec
ond settlers, who come with little |
money to aid in the development of
the country; and they have been |
greatly profted by the investment |
in their boom sheets, by the new
settlers thus obtained. 1t is time
we were rousing ourselves out Of
our Rip NamWinkle sleep, aud let
ting folks know the truth Of the |
statement made at the opening of |
this item. II men knew our un-
lriyalled facilities as ! stock raising |
country, it would not be long ere
quarter section o. these hills or
valleys would be twice as valuable |
as now--till they would command
q good price, ana attract class of
citizens that would at once add to
the wealth of the county. Snail we
give 'om whirl i'll the "efcto
east9"
In discussing the presence of
women at the polls, the Sioux Falls
Press says: "Without stopping to
discuss the expediency or mex
pediency of license on the one hand
or prohibition on the other it Gaa-
not be successfully denied that the
influence of the saloon and that of
the home are Numerically opposed
to each other. Whenever men use
liquor to excess it is the wives,
mothers AID sisters who suffer the
| keenest mental agony and the most
acute physical torture. In view of
the fact that woman regards the sa
loon as her bitterest foe, why should
she not be justified in exerting her
inhuence--whether it be by con-
yincing argument or by fearful
persuasion-to the fullest extent.
| If ever woman has an abstract
right to do any act outside Of the
duties Of her home, she has the alb
stract right--as indlsputable as her
right to breathe fresh air and to en-
JOY pure sunshine Ito urge men to
vote in the line of the protection of
, the home. That husbands &C.
, qqired habits and q wifeis anxious
I solicitude for her family do not
always ran together is too self
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