Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-01-26


Thos. Mckennett lost q full
blooded Jersey calf, one day las
week, kicked to death by one Of bis
horses.
The immense piles of snow all
around us is an evidence that the
earth will drop fairness next sum-
merit always does after a winter
like this. People will be comidg
here from the east to purchase
farms, because the reputation of the
hill country for never-falling crops
has gone abroad and purchasers arc
coming here to look us over. II
you want to sell your farm leave us
your numbers and your terms and
W 9 will see if we can't find some one
who wants a farm that will produce
90 bushels to the acre of No. /
hard.
Our genial station agent has
been almost a wild-eyed anarchist,
wanting to mash somebody or some
thing, during the past ten days
100000 times = day the inquiry
struck painfully on the ltympanum
of the ear: "Where's the train
now?" or "when viii we get q
train?" or SAY, Ii. o., just ask
Minneapolis when we may expect
some mall" or sis the snow pillow
through to 0rtonrille?" II got so
that forty different rumors could be
heard about railway trains in as
many minutes. When doubt gave
place to certainty, however, I'll. O..
was the same staid, reliable, cour-
teens and efficient agent he has al,
ways been and felt great relief at
having his nerve slmmered down
to their normal condition.
Mr.. Piacock, City Marshal,
who was 50 unforEu11aEc ak TO acct
IDENTIFY shoot himself on Wednesday
evening of last week while after a
lumber thief in Dickinson s Co.'S,
yard, is not suffering seriously with
the wound and came down from his
room to the hotel psrlor Tuesday.
The revolver went off in his pocket,
the ball striking him in the calf of
of the leg and ranging downward.
The DIR. probed it to the depth Of
about six inches and struck a hard
substance he thought to be the ball
embedded in the bone. He believed
he would not suffer any inconven-
fence from the ball and did not
try to extract it. If it becomes
troublesome, however, it will be at
once extracted. We hope Mr.. P.
will soon be able to resume his
duties,
III. G. Sorenson was in town
yesterday and dropped in to tender
his Congratulations" Henry is
one Of the live citizens of the king
dom of Liberty, where he owns a
half section of rich dirt. lie set
tied on his plaoa in April 1888, and
has a neat and eommodious resi-
dence, good graneries and barns,
wind mill, and a goodly array of
stock around him. In the year
just passed he raised 1900 bushels
of wheat, goo of oats and potatoes,
turnips and other vegetables. He
has 80 acres under cultivation aud
will add 80 or 40 more to it during
the coming season. The secret of
Henry's success lies In the fact that
he has attended strictly to his own
business. Last year he dealt in
agricultural machinery and expects
to this. His honorable methods
have won him q host of friends who
rejoice ii his prosperity.
One Misunderstanding interest
always prompts another. We have
a mill that is proving a regular bo-
nanza to our business interests, and
which gives employment to hall a
dozen men. We will soon have a
creamery that win employ a dozen
or more men, who will spend their
money hsre-~it will also be a SPLEEN
did thing for farmers, in giving
them cash for their cream at their
doors and allowing them to retain
the skim milk for calves, pigs and
other uses of the farm, let these two
institutions compose the neucleas
around which will cluster a good,
healthy and extensive manufacture
ing interest IN the future. The pro-
duct of flax here is immense, a mill
to work up this fibre would add an
other half dozen families to the
town-which mean an additional
S., 700 of trade-and, being within
easy reach, could dispose of every
ounce nf Irvine it made every year
"a big paying Investment, Besides
a flax mill to make our fibre into
raw tow and Irvine, we could have
an oil mill with it to use the seed.
Then, when we have this secured,
let us get a foundry and machine
shop. Thousands of dollars are sent
out Of this section of country every
year for repairs ON machinery Of all
kinds. A machine and repair shop,
costing not over 50, 500, could make
these repairs for less than they now
cost and yet be profitable TO the
owners Of the foundry. A machine
shop Of this size would employ not
less than six msn--slx more famil-
les, and another s., 1000 of cash
trade, besides the great convenience
and saving to the general public.
Other things would follow to meet
growing demands and it would not
be many years ere our city would be
the scene Of the most divirsiied
and intense activity, aud all its IN.
t%erests prosperous.