Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-04-30
, Waubay WHITES

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The pop meeting was so very
quiet Saturday night that your
humble correspondent went to
sleep.
NJ. Rexford was doing the town
of Britton last week.
Philip Herman, who has been in
college at Minneapolis is here visit
ing his brother.
Miss Sadie Stephenson is very
sick at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lund were
calling on l.. j.. Nordness and fam
lily Sunday.
Mrs. X. Eickman's sister, Miss
Geiger, of Jordan, Mimi, is at the
Arcade.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Chilson, a boy, April p. Mother
and son are doing well.
The remains OF Ralph Chapman,
who froze to death on Blue Lake
some fifteen years ago, were taken
up this week and conveyed to the
MIlbank cemetery.
Will Miller has been seriously Ill
with stomach trouble or something
of the kind but is now able to be
about again.
A petition is being circulated
this week to retain the services of
Miss Lena Matheson as teacher of
the primary department for the
coming term.
Mrs. NJ. Rexford gave a five
o'clock tea to a few of her lady
friends Saturday, in honor Of her
niece, Mrs. Renshaw.
Mrs. Frank Gruby and Mrs. Ed.
Wearne were visiting here Tuesday
at the home of their brother, WA.
Abbott ; also Mrs. Cities at the
home of Dir. Herman.
julius Sorenson's familiar figure
has been grazing our sidewalks the
past week.
Stephen the Prophet is still bor
rowing considerable trouble over
the money question, and says if all
the gold has gone to the front, he
would like to know where that front
is.
The resident minister was at the
pop school Saturday night, and a
nicer behaved set of pupils you
never saw.
Next Saturday night is caucus
night. Therefore the pop school
viii be postponed for two weeks.
Then look out for the Mooley.
Frank Sears, the famous lawyer,
and the 1t. Hon. Senator j. T..
Kelley, the journalist, are expected
TO be present. Pop songs and
eonundrums and a genuine new
tangled panorama. Curtain will
rise and fall continuously.
That Sister Bird is an lnposter.
Mocking Bird is still on tke perch /;
Whlppoorwill. knock him off if you
can. Friendly greetings to Whip
poorwill, and here 1t goes again /:
What! whippoorwill Mocking Birds sister7
Without 9 scar and withou a blister?
just unearthed from out the gutterg
And with Mocking Bird would fiuttsrl
What whippo9rwil a sister. blithe aud gay.
Would stick "a her bill 10 run tie drayF
/ tell you its but a dirty fake,
For she IS not built to sit upon a stake.
What Whipporwill a sister, good and true.
Who would stick by a brother when inistor-
Mo-! .For she not made OF the kind OF s<aff
To down Mocking Bird or rnn a bluff.
What whippoorwill a sister Of mine, says she.
Boshl No such thing can ever be-.
Faith aud bejabers 'twould be a sight most
To see brother aud sister with different
shades OF hair.
What. Whippoor viii a sister that can stand
the .taskY
If so, come out and pull of your mask.
Show upE-our coiors, you snake IN the grass,
And don t give Us any more OF your sass.
What Whippoorwill a female bird2 How is
IL, Blu
The parrot answered. '.keep still, keep still
To claim feminine gender may be right
Nobody knows i, but Whippoorwill must be
a morpiladite.
MOCkING BIRD.