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

Call and look at the immense
stock of John Norton. No trouble
to show goods.
Tho Mill received three cars of
coal, and will again resume grind
ing No. l hard.
The present cold snap has
made some ugly rents in the coal
bins of this city.
Col. Lewis up from Bristol
Monday. He is doing real well with
his chrome agency
All wool imported dress goods
worth ninety cents for fifty cents at
JOHN NoRToK's.
The Territorial fair for 1888
will be held at Mitchell the last
week in September.
The Children had an enjoyable
party at the residence of Nh. Beatty
on Monday evening.
Webster was fortunate enough
as to get several car loads of coal by
the freights Saturday.
The billiards. are so impartial
this winter that even Texas can't
make faces at Dakota.
The number lost in the bliz-
card, in Dakota, as far as heard
from is above a hundred,
AS you can't do anything else
these days better stay home and get
acquainted with your wife.
We have not yet had a Janu-
airy thaw. 1t will have to hurry up
or We won't get n this year.
The last As hours will be the
occasion of our getting no mail for
another week. This is pleasant.
Great bargains in all depart
ments of my stock.
JOHN NORTON.
We will pay cash and the high
est market price for beef cattle,
ALMEh o n
Call and examine my stock be-
fore buying, az l defy competition.
JOHN NORTON,
Go to John Norton's for clothing
and secure the finest goods and low
est prices eve offered in Dakota.
-Jens Peterson returned from a
pleasure trip east on Sunday. He
complains of having had a good
time.
We heard Of several farmers
who have made tunnels through inns
mence drifts of snow to get to their
stables
If this soil will produce broom
corn in goodly quantities, why not
have a broom factory in Webster to
consume it?
=HST5FaI fFsighE rains passed
here on Monday going west while
two or three heavily loaded grcin
trains went east.
If you want to make an adver-
tisement do you some good, now is
the time to get the attention OF
newspaper readers.
-Advices rom"Surgeon'Brown
Of the Webster Rifles, are to the
effect that he will return to the
Company about March LIST.
Sec new advertisement of AID.
Hash. Al proposes to get to the
front this year with the very best
and cheapest machines in the
market.
The Yankton insane ASYLUM
muddie is settled, Justice Trip de-
cided the Governor had a right to
remove the board of trustees, and
that settles it.
-Chas. Cromwell returnd home
Sunday, from Morris Mimi, where
he has been in attendance on his
sick mother. He left the old lady
greatly improved.
We see by the Britton Day
light that Elder Hambly is highly
regarded in that yailwick, both as a
minister and a man. The Elder is
a fine man any way you take him.
e. r. Paige went down to Min.
nesota on Monday night, but before
he started he wisely ordered the
REPORTER to follow him that he
might keep posted on current
events.
The stockholders of the cream
cry association held a meeting last
Saturday at Ruggle's office and de-
sided to push the enterprise along
and be ready for business as 500 as
spring opens.
1t IS expected there will be a
national inspection of Posts Of the
G. A. r. during this and next
month. s. FL. Jumper, of Aber-
deem, has been appointed Inspector
General for Dakota.
The last blizzard has had . dis
couraging effect upon the country
schools, though as far al we can
learn, no children we're lost in the
storm, a few cases of frozen faces,
fingers, hands and feet have been
reported.
The kids and young men OF
the city are indulging in the prac-
tice of the manly art of self-defence.
The boys ought to get Prof. Dill
worth to come here and teach them
A good class could be raised here.
We notice be has quite a large class
at Milbank.
The proper plan in, whan q big
storm comes up, for the teachers in
the country, to keep the children
in the school room and remain with
them until the storm is over. A
hundred lives might have been saw
ed in Dakota, i'll the big storm, If
this method had been observed.
To prominent citizens meet
and this dialogue insues:
"Hello!-. what do you do to pass
away the time these days"
"Well, / am industriously n
gagged in getting acquainted with
my wife, and l pledge you my word
| never knew she was such an ami
able woman before"