Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-08

he enjoyed the trip hugely. Uncle
Eds boast of friends here will be
glad to see him back again.
The new proposition is to re-
peal the revenue laws so as to leave
the question of prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of liquor,
strictly IN the hands of the several
states, without federal interference.
Where is the Webster Cornet
Band? Why do the boys not re
organize and give us some music
this summer? Surely the absence
of one man ought not to be allowed
to destroy the band completely.
Start her up again, boys.
Glencoe Enterprise: Little
drops of printers ink, little type
displayed" make our merchants
bosses and all their big parade.
Little bits of stinglness, discardiGg
printers ink---5usts the man OF
business, and sees his credit sink.
An exchange says that The coat
tail Irritation is said to be the latest
at Andover. From a young man
there who has had experience it is
learned that when q coat-tall bears
the dusty toe-marks o. boot it
means: 81 have spoken to your
father"
| "A physician, few weeks since,
giving US an account of the decline
of church in his town, said it
had died of the "foot-and-mouth
disease. Being asked what he
meant, he said that the people spent
their time running around talking
about one another.
Gust Halburg has bought out
the interest and franchise of John
Winter in the boot and shoe bust
ness and will continue the business
at the old stand. He is a fine
workman, and invites all Johns
old customers to come and see him
and give his work trial. See ad.
IN this issue.
One thing that speaks a good |
word for Webster is the moral tone
of its people. 1t is wonderful the
revolution that has taken place in
the city, in this respect, in the last
four years, and is = matter of graf
ulation to every good citizen, be-
cause it brings to us better class
Of citizens as settlers.
The Kimball Index tells of the
marriage of John G.. Bee and Miss
Alice l.. Hive, of Charles Mix coun-
ty, on the I'd instant, and then
adds:
How doth the busy Bee
Improve each shining hour
And gather honey alt the ia -
/ From one sweet opening II over;
| And from this Hive, If Heaven pleases. |
They'll raise swarm oflittle Beeses.
-Sibb Peterson is putting in a
full set of shelves in his building
south of Norton's and proposes to
put in a stock of general mercnan-
dise-in fact, some of his goods are
already here. AS business man
and citizen Sibb is fair dealing
man and will give his patrons the
worth OF their money. He hopes
to be ready f.. business in few
days.
---To fill orders taken last fall |
want several hundred bushels OF g cd
table potatoes about April LIST, and will
then pay The highest market price.
Particularly ! want some assorted
standard varieties, early and late Rose,
Beauty of Hebron, Snowflower, ETC., to
fill a car of seed potatoes. Kinds must
be separate and the POTATOES rot
touched by frost. Win give So cents
for them. W G. DICKINSON.
"A curious custom with regard
to marriages existed until very
recent Period in Suffolk, that if the
Younger sister married before the
elder she must dance in the hog
trough. In the west Of England,
where the custom also existed, it
was also fixed rule that the lady
should dance in green stockings.
We will wager that in the latter
case not many marriage licenses
were issued in cold weather.
And when the victory shall be
compIete-when there shall be
neither a slave nor a drunkard on
the face of the earth--how proud
the title of that land which may
truly claim to be the birthplace and
cradle of both these revolutions that
shall have ended in that victory!
How noble that people who shall
have planted and nurtured to ma
turity both the political and moral
freedom of their species.--A.
! Lincoln.
Stop the pillow and you paralyze
the world; you drive the commerce
from the seas, railroad traffic would
be ut an end; manufactures OF all
kinds would cease. Farming IS
the lever that moves the industry
of the world, and to the farmer all
men must look for their bread and
, butter. The farm holds the key to
prosperity OF the world, and IN just
so much as the farmer is prosperous
3 lust so much is every branch OF
; business in the world prosperous.
SO far as Dakota is concerned,
she might as well be a province OF
I Russia as dependency Of the Union
,, denied every right to which she is
entitled. There was a time when
the halls of congress rang with in
a dignant denunciation of such a
5 crime as this, and the American
a people turned and punished the
tyrant hands that had deprived
a American citizens Of their rights.
4 Is eloquence lost or has American
!, craftsmanship degenerated! - Ri
oneer Press.
Q MANY interesting facts are con-
4 tanned in the report of the railway
e commission. The railroads of the
territory carried over one million
!, passengers more in 1887 than in H.
3 Sc; in freight the increase was ovel
: three million tons, and in loca
: freight two million tons. The ter
ritorial tax on these roads wa'