Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1893-08-24

No paper can be published without
home patronage, and everyone is inter-
ested in keeping up home paper. If
a railroad or factory is wanted, the
newspapers are expected to work for
it. IT public meeting is wanted for
any purpose the newspaper is called
upon for free notice. If any of the
societies have a reception of any kind,
the newspaper is expected to give the
necessary notice. The newspaper must
puff the schools and everybody else to
advance the interests of the business
men of the place, and give them a
handsome notice when they pass away.
and yet some of them do nothing TO
keep up home newspaper.-Joufnalist.
Does it pay to advertise? We should
Judge by the price paid for one column
in the New York World it did. It costs
in that paper for one column, one issue
$780, The same column for one year
costs S10J,50. 1t is strictly business
transaction with the advertisers or they
certainly would not advertise. They
pay a large amount because they are
absolutely certain it brings them large
returns. And yet there are those in
every community who claim that ad-
vertising does not pay. The very let
ters on the delivery wagons are adver-
tisements; the sign over the door is an
advertisement. If it does not pay to
let your business be known, why are
they there? The best and largest re-
turns are brought to those who adyer-
tise the most liberally.
Sioux Falls Press, Goth: j. ID. Nc
Donald, the railroad contractor of this
city who has an eleven mile contract
on the Sioux Falls and Yankton is in
town. He has not yet completed his
contract but expects to be entirely
through and have his outfit IN this city
by the last of next week. He says the
track will not he within whistling dis
tance of him when the work is compile
ted as the bridge contractor is getting
in his bridges very slowly. Mr.. Nc
Donald is enthusiastic over the rich
ness of the country which the road
passes through and says it cannot be
exceeded in any state. All the farmers
are rich and failure of crops through
the section IS something unheard of.
The corn and wheat crop between here
and Iankton is something immense
this year he says.
Good table butter has been scarce
article in town of late. 1t is not be-
cause there are no good butter makers
in the country, nor because there is no
good butter made, but we believe one
of the causes is that there is not suffi-
cient regular demand for this quality
to encourage the makers to give
proper attention in preparing it for the
home market. There is blame on both
sides that prevent a steady supply
the makers shipping when they can
get few extra cents per pound, and
the consumers taking their chances on
the run of "store butter" when the
price is down. There are several
makers near Hurley who could get
good price for their butter the year
around if they would deliver to fam
lilies weekly and both sides act fair and
honorable i'll the matter.
During Mr.. Harding's visit at the
fair he was unable by the most diligent
search to find one lone copy of a boom
edition of any paper in this state that
bit at fakir Williams swindle. And
this is not the only evidence the Press
has that there has been no distribution
OF such editions at Jackson Park. A
friend who has been at the fair almost
daily since July Is, and who has made
frequent visits to the South Dakota
building, at the request OF the writer,
for the express purpose of keeping tab
on the fake. writes: II have not yet
seen copy of boom edition OF any
one of the papers on the list which you
sent me. They may have come and
been distributed but l have called at
your state building frequently and
never have seen any evidence Of the
distribution of boom literature. do
not believe there has been any such
distribution within the past four
weeks."-HOward Press.
Salem Special: When a preacher
looking stranger calls at your door and
tells you that he is a minister on his
way to another town, just keep an eye
on him. The chances are that you will
take him in treat him courteously and
that while you are talking with him
couple will come along asking the
way to the nearest minister or justice
of the peace. They want to get mar
ried of course and there is a minister
right on hand, and of course you and
your family would like to see the we'd
ding. Everybody does, and so the
couple is married in short order and
you and some of your people must act
as witnesses and sign what purports to
be a marriage certificate. 1t looks like
one and seems all right but it isn't,
at least not for you. The thing is so
fixed that it can be changed into a
promissory note and in few days 1t
will turn up at bank and you are out
from three to five hundred dollars.
Look out a little for this game and
when all three are at your house at
once, Just get down the old shotgun
and turn the dogs loose. Such SCALA
wags have very few rights that an
honest man ought to be bound to re-
spect.
LOST.
On Saturday morning, beween Swan
Lake and the Adventist church, the
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