Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-01-27
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Ole Oleson of yermillion has the
honor of being the first white person
born in the State of South Dakota.
II Choate & co., of Htfr0n made
tbeir employees a very fine New Years
present, in the shape Of $seseeo IN PAID
Pho depot of white was -sf1fssed re.
Gently by burglars and renewed OF
some freight.
The wife of Senator Burlingame or
Castlewood. who has been dangerous
ly i'll. is ON the way TO recovery.
Parkston is discussing the advisa-
bilitv of securing a chemical engine
for better protection against IRE.
The Yankton Federation of Labor
is in a tiourishing condition, and new
members are being added at every
meeting.
"Reminiscences against the proposed
abandonment of Fort Meade are Delng
generally signed by residents OF the
Black Hills.
Mrs. Orpnia Tarbox, Il of the pi-
oueer women of South Dakota, cele-
brated her eighty-fourth birthday an
niversary at Iankton a few days ago.
A telephone line from Garretson TO
Dell Rapids is projected, with teie-
phones at the homes Of a number Oh
enterprising farmers along the way.
Pridgewater young men have deeid-
ed to organize an athletic ASSOCIATION,
and steps are being taken in that d.
reetion.
A substantial church of stone is TO
be put up by the Episcopal society or
Spearfish. The contract a already
been awarded.
The creamery At Parkston received
over 100000 pounds of milk last
year, and expects between six and
eight millions during 1898.
Charles Snow of Bon Homme u
ty thinks that prosperity has surely
struck us. One OF his cows presented
him with three fine calves last week.
AL Starter, who left the Black Hills
several months ago for a prospecting
tour in Mexico, has returned, and re-
ports no opportunity for miners in
that country.
The Klondike fever has struck IIud-
son, and it is not improbable that a
company win be organized to start for
the gold fields mex spring, with Fra
zier Gilman for captain.
N. j. G~arretson. a clerk in the HUI
ron land office, has been transferred to
the Chamberlain office. IL Is said that
this action may Cause troubfe in the
Huron Office.
Two men at Madison, named Dean
and Walker, got into trouble by pur-
Joining some quilts AMI dishes from
the Commercial house. Tkey get off
with a small fine.
". b. Keeney of Valley Springs has
just shipped ISL lambs To New York.
They were as fine a lot OF sheep as
were ever turned out of THIS state,
weighing. on an average, los pounds.
Pwe sturdy Hutchinson county
farmers have Just paid off the indebt-
edness on their farms in the sums of
1881 and 1913, respectively. IN each
case il was with this years earnings.
Uncle Dan Dwyer." who represent
ed Turner county in the legislature of
1892, recently celebrated his forty
fifth wedding anniversary. Twenty
three members of the family were in
attendance.
Prosperity has struck the Hills coun-
try somewhere, as money seems TO be
plenty. The Meade County Bank
Gas over $4,000 on deposit, which
does not look much as if there was a
dearth Of money.
Miss Nancy Enright. aged seventy
two years. was discovered dead in bed
at Huron. the result of heart trouble,
from which h mad suffered for some
time. Deceased made her home with
her sister, in the south part of the city.
A mountain lion and a monster tim
ber wolf are the bugbeass Of Yankton
children row. The animals have been
seen a number OF times in various To-
c%alitles, and hunters are beginning 10
don their war paint.
One hundred and ore licenses TO
wed have been issued in Turner eoun-
ty during 1897. If this rate was gen
eral all over the state. South Dakota
wculd begin to climb up the popula-
ton ladder.
Lake county claims to be the ban
ner county financially. and is much
elated over her having a larger rash
balance on hand than has Minnehaha
county, her larger ~neighbor. The bal
"H'Nf H'tpitIIS ~ INT tTcdSufeT = re
pert, is $2S,G07.27.
An Aberdeen photographer has sent
a winter-time picture OF Main street 70
the J.. A.. w. Bulletin. which may sur
prise Eastern people. II was an ordin-
airy dinner-hour view. bur the compass
OF the picture shows about twenty
cyclists ont, ard this in January.
G. o. Knapp of Parkston purchased
sixteen cows last spring. and kept
them on his farm. sending the milk TO
the creamery. The calves sold in No
vember for S160, and on Tan. / the net
proceeds from the sixteen COWS. de-
Quoting the cost Of the feed. was 5000.
Miss ShaIlabarger, a Deadwood hair
dresser. had a narrow escape from
death from an overdose Of morphine
given TO induce sleep. when placed
under the doctors charge respiration
had ctnsed, and II was with great diff.
ncufty that her life was saved
A small boy in C~entervile will GO
through life with one optic. as the re-
suit OF the fiendishness of a hoodlum
of the town. The boy was sent down
town on an errand, and one of the
crowd Of hoodlnms deliberately shot
the child In the eye with a II. b. pis-
toll.
Beresford has probabIy the only ex.
tensive bird fancier In the stHte. In the
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