Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-15
John Norton's one price store is
the place to buy goods.

the place to buy goods.
AS spring approaches it may b.
well to remind the people that there
, are no trusts in the maple sugar
industry--neither the consumer MOI
J the capitalists has any trust in the
manufacturer.
The Ladies Aid of the Congre
garional church will meet with Mrs
Prendergast ON Friday evening
March 10th. A cordial invitation
is extended to all.
Mrs. L. E. POTTER, Secy.
&c. S. Maynard made us fly,
ing visit from Waubay last week.
He reports that the division station
and round house is to be moved out
on Waubay lake and left to air till
the backbone of winter begins tc
break.
1t is mistake to suppose that
the railway is blocked in the hills
of Day county. There has never
been a time this winter when q
snow pillow could not sail through
snow drifts here IN four or five
hours.
AN exchange says that when Il
gentleman and lady are walking on
the street the lady "should walk in
side of the man" Great Moses! think
of pair of No IS stomping around
among feller's inards! We would
rather be excused if you please.
i In q recent assembly of citizens
| of Webster a vote was taken by
states, when it was found that six
teen states and two foreign nations
were represented in the company.
Minnesota had 8, Iowa z Wisconsin
Is, were the states that had the
largest delegations.
| Intimate toll would not enable
you to sweep away 8 mist, but by
ascending a little you may often
look over it. So it is with our moral
improvements, we wresGle fiercely
with Vicious habits, which would
have no hold on US if we assembled
into higher moral atmosphere.
~-Wheatland township elected
the following officers: Trustees,
A. N. Wilcox, Henry Paul and j.
Ii. Johnson; Assessor, j. j. Fosse;
Clerk, K. o. Thoe; Treasurer,
Louis Dell; Pound Master, Joseph
Look. There was quite lively
little fight over the office of assessor.
Senator Sabin encountered In
| st. Paul Dakota man who does
not want the Sioux reservation
opened, does not want division and
does not want admission. The same
man would probably have no choice
between the everlasting birthstone
cauldron and the evergreen shore,
When the senate committee has
got we'll into its investigation Of
the Standard Oil Trust, disclosures
may be expected which will cause
the people of this country to ask
one another what they could have
been about, to permit the formation
of such an unconscionable mo-
napoly. 8
Water is the strongest drink.
| 1t drives mills, is the drink of lions
land horses--Sampson never drank
anything else. Even hogs refuse to
drink liquor-shall man place HIM
self on lower plane than that dis
| pissed animal? This thought is
worthy CT your careful consider
alton.
| AS We 90 to overwhelmingly
we learn that the road was OPEN
ed at II o'clocb, Tuesday, and that
Tuesday nights storm stopped the
through train west in a snow bank
near WaubIy. The east bound
train got as far as Milbank. only
to find the road blocked from that
place to Bird Island with huge snow
| drifts.
Mature seldom makes a fool,
she simply furnishes the raw mater
ial and let's the fellow do the job
| for himself. We picked up letter,
written to girl, on the streets the
other day, the perusal of which
fully demonstrates the truth Of the
above proposition. Our readers may
be on the lookout for something
hoice aud raey soon,
i The second quarterly meeting
for Webster charge, Watertown dis
trict, Methodist Church, is post
poned to Saturday and Sunday
March gath and 18th. Quarterly
conference Saturday at $50 p. m.
in church. Usual sacramental SER
vices on Saba h,
A. ID. TRAVELLER, Z. Is.
o. III. SPRoUL, Pastor.
Mary of our subscribers have
Ieome in and paid their subscription.
There are others still behind who
will confer a favor if they will set-
tie. If you can't pay all OF your
account, pay part of it. This has
been hard winter and has borne
down on us all alike. Men we owe
need and must have their dues,
/ and the only way we can pay is tc
receive what is due us.
Our citizens that are now re.
turning from their winters visits Al
various points in the cast report
J many inquiries in the sections
, which they visited in relation tc
+ Dakota, and that the spring and
early summer will see large mum.
Der vending their way westward
with view to investing in Dakots
soil before the rise, which will sure
> ly occur, and that, soon.
"A number of samples of beef
obtained from various parts of the
country, recently analysed by th,
, government chemists IN Washing.
!, ton, were found to contain al
. alarming amount of dangerous adul
terations. As the brewers are ig
norant as to whose goods were sub
7 jsct to the test, they can put in
8 time denouncing one another unit
5 the facts are made public:
Since the frequent blockades a
Odessa and Monteyidio, Mimi, thu
winter, our people have learned tina
: the Aberdeen Daily News is adandl
E little paper, and deserves we'll a