Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-02-01
Butler Bubbles.

Last Thursday Miss Kni ut and Miss
G"org" of Bradley visited Miss Edith
and Maud Potter.
| Rev. Paul Shepersky ,rrived from
Kampe>ky last night to assist Rev.
Boyce in IA ~eries of revival IN etingS.
Miss Hattie Ash is frustrating with her
brother DIR. James Ash at Will w Lake.
RS. l.. NJ. Haselton is at S sseton h lp-
ing h"r sister Mrs. L. l.. Lane care for
a little Lan" lately come TO town.
Quite a company Of jolly Young
people from Bristol drove down and
spent last evening ut the home of ii. f.
Ash an family.
Now your Uncle John wants to cal,
the attention of the readers of your
paper to an article from the Holmquist
c~orr"s"ondrn, in the Webster World of
Jan. %. The first part reads as follows:
ur. Chas. Swanson of Holmq list pur-
chased a hall section of land from Albert
Holmquist this week. Two years ago
Mr. Swanson came to this country from
Illinois AID purchased one quarter SEC
ton in Kidder Twp. which by closely
attending to farming he has not only
paid for but has accumulated enough TO
buy for Cash a half section, besides hav-
ing paid for horses and machinery. This
is a far example of what an industrious
man al do in South Dakota. We have
the best poor mars country in the world
and it is qually favorable toward men
If limis.d means and capitalists.
Now If the foregoing is not as strong
a sermoo to prove the prosperity OF the
presen' AS could be given I'd like to see
thu next fell"w try. If he had only
addei that in the mean tim. Mr.. Swan
son had married a wife and raised eight
bouncing babies h might defy the
world o equal it. Let us see. 1t il
hard To tin,i a quarter of lnnd in Day Co.
not worth $1,000, reckoning him one
team at 800 and machinery at 5000 and
his W support and ~incidentals at $500
we hav, the snug little SUN of $4,000,
earned in ,wo years or AZ average Of
sixteen dollars every working day during
the time. Now then notwithstanding
this magnificent showing the corsespon
den, could not close his article without
giving a calamit, howl. He has walked
! SO long In { e .smitdlr of tn road" his
ey,s ar. ) filed with dust he could not
see ow the two ends of his articl.
would read when brought together. for
The closing part OF his article reads as
follows.
Prosperity seems to hav. struck us I
littl. 30" violently to b. appreciated,
whea way down, Taxes way uu. VERY
thing we nav, to seli has never been
lower while every thing we must buy
was never higher, but then l. certainly
musl he right for the G. o. u. says W"
never had better times etr.
Poor fellow, what could Mr.. swanson
have done had the times been good?
II is a wonder that h. made a living
Today wheat 53c, oats %, corn 81, barley
80, Flax 81. 20, hogs 50 90, beef cattle
way up, horses $65, cows $50 and most
any kind OF a calf as Don as it can stand
alone worth SO, common labor all
through the last season hard to get al
two dollars per day and man and team
$3.50 and some things we have to buy.
Coffee IL cts Tea 35-Sugar 5 and 6 Paint
Sheeting ) to 8 Nails A. Lumber go
Mems clothing a good cotton suit S3:5t
Wooden suit $500. Not a single thing
the farmer has To sell but what brings q
good round price except wheat and your
Uncle John has hauled more than one
load of wheat from Howard Co. Iowa VI
miles TO McGregor and sold it at 3scts
per bu. and dressed hogs the same dis
lance and sold them Mt $3.50 per cwt
and now Notwithstanding 2. V.& Cos