Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-17
For Sale: Twenty-Five head
OF work horses, weighing from
100 to 1,40O pounds, and
from four to six years old.
David Williams.

Nike Thu received an elegant Regina
music box with fifty selection ~ Tuesday.
and everyone has enjoyed "a rich treat
listening to the operate and popular
airs.
Finlay Ross received a fine greyhound
from Clark county last Friday. On Sat
urday, Prof. Miller and Will Ross took
him out north OF the city for a course
and be picked up two jacks easily. Dan
knight and Will McIntire were out the
same afternoon and their hounds caught
two foxes.
LastSunday was observed as Lincoln's
birthday at the Methodist church. The
address OF the morning was given by r.
w. Parliman. f. W. Taylor addressed
the large congregation in the evening,
folio wed by short remarks by J. w.
Abbott and tine %nistor. Patriotic songs
We're sung and all together an enjoyable
day was reported.
Cards were received here Saturday an
nouncing the marriage. at Aberdeen, OF
Nels johnson to Miss Nora Fossum Feb
ruary II. They passed through this
CT v Saturday night on their way TO
spend a short honeymoon in the east.
The or BON is well-known here as his
business has often brought him in con
tact with our citizens the last eight or
ten years. He holds the position OF
general agent for the Plano company,
and is highly esteemed by all for his
sterling business qualities and courteous,
gentlemanly bearing. Being a moral
and upright young man, he makes many
friends wherever he goes. The Reporter
extends congratulations to Mr.. and Mrs.
Johnson, and wishes them a long and
successful life.
Watertown parties who suffer from
thieving seem to have unique methods
OF giving the culprits the worst OF 1T.
One man, catching a fellow loading up a
rack OF hay from his stack, waited until
the thief started off with the load and
then crept up behind the load and set it
on fire. OF course he lost his hay, but
the thief lost his rack and wagon and
barely saved his horses. Another man,
missing wheat from his granary on sew
eral occasions, wrote his name apoD q
large number OF small papers, and rolled
them up III balls which he buried in the
grain bin. He informed the grain men
OF his scheme, and n few days later a
load OF grain containing these balls OF
paper was offered for sale on the mar
ket. The buyer promptly informed the
owner, and it cost the chief 5000 TO
settle.
Al a meeting of old settlers OF the ethyl
OF Webster held Saturday evening, Feb
rugby IL, at the Commercial, n tempor-
AIRY organization to be known as "rhe
Old Settlers Association of Day County
was effected, aud the following officers
chosen to serve until the first annual
meeting on Jnue /, 1898 l.. G.. Och
senreiter, president John Norton vice
president , Ed. Warner, secretary
j. l.. Harris, treasurer. Membership for
1898 was restricted 10 all who settled
III Day county prior to January l., 1882,
,nd a membership fee OF fifty cents for
ZACH head OF a family was voted. The
secretary was instructed to advertise
The annual meeting, for which a notice
will appear later The association cor
daily invites all entitled to membership
to enroll themselves in IL book which Is
being prepared for that purpose. aud
assist in furnishing historical matter OF
value. and also assist in making the
coming annual meeting entertaining
aud profitable.
Ed. G. Warner, Sec.