Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-27

Lecturer, G. ". Martin, Waterbury, Z"
Should not each township in our
county organize and make an exhibit
at the coming county fair?
Caution should be taken by farmers
in their associations to keep their
membership clean and straight. No
lawyer or doctor living in town and
making his living solely from profess
ional work should be accepted as a
member of the Alliance.
Regular meeting Co. F. A. Saturday,
August 18th at 1 o'clock. Committee
on arrangements, John Teasdale, OF
Woodruff, W n Hill, A Hodson, S S
Moore, L Nordyke, Il c Trollope, SIS
Vrooman, " Brownell, l. w Castle
man, L G Wilson's T Huntley, E Y
Miles, i G Cummings. Every town
ship should be represented.
Fellow farmers, who pays for the
writing in this column? Do you sup
pose the salary of four cents a week
and board yourself would enable a
man who runs tree claim and home
stead, alone, to devote much time to
the column? Think it over. Think of
your duty-your responsibility as far
mer, and drop us a few items; notice
of your local meetings or any thing Of
interest.
The last kicker on the Farmers Or
ganization quit his fuss when the
Board of Directors Of Alpena Elevator
gave orders to John Teasdale and G d
Worre]l to proceed at once to collect
cash and notes for the subscribed stock
to said institution. This enterprise is
only partial demonstration Of the
power of the farmers when organized
for his own purpose and benefit II the
soil tillers stand together no power on
earth can successfully resist them.
Among this class is three-fourths Of
all the wealth, nine-tenths all the hon
esty, ten-thirteenths of all the beauty,
eleven-fourteenths of all the backbone
and four fifths the voting power of
our country; therefore farmers inter-
ests are second to none Of mankind.
A trip to the east end OF Jerauld the
18th and 18th inst, took us by the
farms of Messrs Define and Pratt TO
the county seat. Leaving the Springs,
we saw MI. Blowers busy moving his
front yard. He has fine field Of oats.
Mr.. Thomas's tree clair, and pasture
caught our eye. They show the push
and management of the owner, The I
farms of Mrs. DR.. Hall and S II Albert
led us to exclaim, els this Dakota!' es-
pecially the latter's buildings, fences
and crops. Every field wears the i'm
press OF its owner in neatness and
beauty. Wheat can not be beaten be-
tween the Springs and Woonsocket. |
Sod-corn has no equal in the county. |
AS our backs turned on the premises
we said "truly the ,Alpena Elevator
has a good man on her board in the
person of Mr.. Albert. The willows,
other trees and corn of William Haw-
thorne cheered our onward journey to-
ward the Steel without Fire. On the
beautiful plain east of the Firesteel nc
more industrious and genial man han
dies the plow than o 0 Lendebek. Wei
had quite q talk with Mr.. l.. Asthe |
afternoon was very. warm, we tarried,
letting Our teams cool off while. we
warmed up on the signs Of the times.
Mr.. Z. is one of those hayseed men who
believes tha5 farmers should have
their rights. lie is well pleased with
the success of Woonsocket Warehouse
and is emphatic in his expression that
farmers should be more and more uni
ted to repel oppression in every phase
of life. He believes that every move
of soft-handed wire-pullers which af-
fects. the public welfare should be
watched with utmost care. Atr. Len
debek is very hopeful OF our crop for
1888. and also of farmers enterprises
If they ssard together. On leaving
this clever gentleman we soon came to
the abode Of W. Brownell, president of
.Jerau1d county Alliance. Here we
!fornd bis sons and daughters who look
after the interests OF his farm while
he is away on business in Farmers
Warehouse. Mr.. 3. spent the 18th and
18th in the vicinity of White Lake, as
sist1ng the farmers to organize a ship
ming company. They mean business
and with Pres. Browneil they can
move the monopoly grain buyers at