Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-09-21

educating children. Df f'eiIhnannl
practices and t~eacltss it.
iAEtieS dpSlring TO improve thei
stork can DO no better than breed tiei
eo.ys to my Registered Short horn bal
.klondy Ike. He is Il fine individual
aud hi1 <eeding IL perfecs. For tenn.
pedlgree ansf other particnlars call Il
Eysy office. = Thos. McKpnnett.
Nc ssd Mrs. G. S. Wortley. ana Mrs
Lois Teecl, oi Ypsilanti Mich. arrived
IN the city this N. IN. aud will remaip Tor
some time visiting their many Webster
friends. They are guests OF Mr.. and Mrs,
Meyer ut the. Commercial. Mr.. w. viii
continue business with pleasure aud
look alter some real estate interests
while here.
The premium lisr of the Interstate
Grain Palace. 10 be held az Aberdeen
October 2 10 z. has been received. II L
the most complete yet issued by the
management. Fifty dollars ia cash and
= 500 prize banner will be presents
shat county making the best display
Bro hn comfy barred. Can't tlia Ueo-
PIE 81 this county scoop that prize?
AS viii lie seen elsewhere II onr col
umls, II. s.. Wrarne has purchased. and
viii continue. the luel and f.td business
81 Il. Il. Compton. the oldest business
III this Inc Id the city. Possessed ~
integrity AMI ability. IL is safe 10 f4re-
diet tlut Ed viii rapldfv forge to fhe
lront p the local business world. lae
Reporter extends congratulations and
heartily WISHES him every success.
P%atronize your home mofrhant. Is
tine q grade oi goods can BE- procured
N Webster ms can be found anywhere
at the figures. Nothing ii gained by
going Gatside 81 yopr home town FOR
goods, especially outside Of Webster.
where ms fine Il line of goods OF any
deScrlptiolt can be found as III The eoun-
try. Renuemher your home merchant
pays taxes aud helps support home IN
situations.
Tie Minneapolis Times has the foE
owing 10 say of Mrs. Yale, who will
appear ~ Webster on October 9th:
Mrs. Yale proved o be the favorite OF
the evening, and was enthusiastically
encored. She has a rich, warm con-
traito voice which she handles with
ease and grace, and wht:h she can
adapt to light music in amost charm
ing manner. She may be assured a
warm welcome whenever she iavors a
Minneapolis audience.
Harry Mackoll, OF Strand, S. d.. met
with u painful accident on Sunday
even ing, besides sustaining a severe loss
by fire. He and his brother keep a gen
eral store at Strand, aud Sunday night
he visited the room in which gasoline
was stored with a lighted lantern. An
explos ion was the result A barn, gas
mouse. shea aud contents were burned.
Loss a bout $500. Both OF Mr.. Mackoll's
hands were severely burned. He drove
TO town yesterday aud DIR. Tarbell
the injured members.-Public
Opinion.
Monday evening the friends OF G. w.
Siglinger dropped in on him aud his
astimable wife aud gave them "A surprise.
1t was the fortietn anniversary OF MIR.
birthday. A very pleasant
was enjoyed. Mr.. Cons, Of Min
,eapolis, delighted the participants by
humble Of fine selections, rendered in
most artistic manner on the banjo,
VI which he is certainly nast.r.
Despite Sig's mate modesty, he sur
rived the shock, and showed MP Tues
lay az serene and smiling as "A sum.
ner's day just M il nothing had hap
A t~hreshing engine exph,si0n, by
the owner and engineer lost his
ife, occurred Friday ON the farm OF
1has. il. veiie, u few miles sOntheast of
IL appears "A setting had jnst
been finished aud the engine WAS being
around to fasten the separator
when the accident occurred. The IN
zine stood almost at right angle with
the separator, to which fact may be- !.
Iscribed the escape OF the crew. The :
y piOsion was terrific, both ends al the '
nginr being blown ont, the engine y
lead landing some eighty yards away, 4
while the unfortunate victims body .
hurled forty yards, terribly scald- =
d. Mud in the fine~ - snpI,os4d to c
ave been the cause oi the explosions. c
he fireman had one loot injured mud =
Mr.. Schultz resided near But =
r. and leaves n wife and two children. -
Commencing Oct. - and continuing ),
,r b days until Nov. .. every post
ia the U. =. will have his hands p
weighing the mail matter deposited v
, his office. This work hns heretofore II
done at the depOts or in the mail NJ
ara, but orders have bessn issued that {
"a that day there must he weighing of .
very piece OF mail matter deposited and o.
reports must i.elnde the number Of Ii
Dnnds aud ounces vi first class matter 9,
all letters: ,And of second clnss j
or periodical publications, keep -
4 separate that which is drliverr dfrp- al
the county; and ah third aud fourth m
,,ss matter and nl rs,nches aud sacks 70
sed in transporting the mails. These :,
eights ure To be- taken aud reported Z
'ery twenty four honrs. La addition st
iere IL 10 be kept "A record of every 81
Dund aud ounce sent ont On each par nm
cular rnilroad line each day. The
)stoffice department wants tn find ont a.
st what is the weight of the stuff de- tr
at ei,cll ofiic, or zach dnv for r,
irty five days and the weight of the :.
Iuip necessary TO handle the .
me, aud the amounts sent ont by IN
whether deposited originally ST.
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