Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-05-14


you will need wall paper and paint.
What you want is paper that just
suits y5u and You don't want to pay too
much for it, we have made provision
for your needs and can suit you to a
"T". Come and see Peabody g. Baillie.
| Pierpont went dry by IA majority
and Britton wet by majority of IL.
Britton had a very close vote on the
question and the temperance people are
to be congratulated upon the desperate
i fight they made, though they lost the
day. Langford bugle.
4 County Commissioner Goodrich was
hobbling around town on crutches this
week on account of sprained ankle.
Harry says he has used these wooden
helpers for about two months at home,
but this was the first time he had intro
duced them to our town folks. And
over Gazette.
/ Auditor Egeland and sister Celia,
departed for Hot Springs, S. d., Mon
day morning. Miss Celia is afflicted
with sciatic rheumatism and has gone
to Hot Springs in the hope of receiving
relief. Many Webster friends hope she
may return in the near future perna-
nently cured.
We see by the Commercial News
published at Sioux Falls that hotel pro-
prietors of the state are going to organ
ize, meeting is called in July at Sioux
Falls for that purpose. The name of
w. H. Mathews proprietor of Hotel
Webster of this city appears on one of
the important committees.
Miss Della I. Perry, of Pierpont. passed
through the city Saturday night enroute
for indianapolis, Ind, delegate to the
Supreme Camp of Royal Neighbors of
America, which is in session this week.
Before her return she will visit her old
in Michigan where she has not been
| since the early SOS, and expects to
remain in the east two or three months.
"Carrara paints are guaranteed to
be strictly standard quality throughout,
free from any adulteration whatever,
and to wear under all climatic con-
ditions at least five years, and at the
end of seven or eight years to look bet
ter than any other paint known at the
end of two years, if applied according
to directions" For sale by L. Lamb
Lumber Co.
There is nothing so annoying at this
time of the year to property owners
who spend many hours at hard work on
their lawns to have them appear neat
ead attractive as to find stock running
across che yard and rubbing on the
trees. Every animal found running at
large at this season should be taken up
and the owner made to pay all damages
and charges. -Langford Bugle.
Grand minstrel and vaudeville enter
tainment given by our best local talent,
at the opera house in Webster, S. d. or
Friday evening, May %, thirty ladies
and gentlemen, thirty black face artists.
AL G. Flournoy, the well known enter
tainer will appear in a number of his
specialties. New songs, new farce and
funny end men-side splitting farce.
Reserved seats can be secured at the
usual place.
There was fast game of ball played
in this city Saturday between the Web
ster and Aberdeen High School teams
which resulted in victory for the lat
ter, By score of four TO three. The
boys gave an exhibition of fast ball
from start to finish, the game all
through being characterized by sharp
hitting and brilliant snappy field plays
and was entirely free from rag chewing
and sloppy playing. The nine innings
were played in an hour and ten minutes
which shows for itself the boys played
ball all the time The Aberdeen boys
went home on the evening passenger
well satisfied sskh their visit, and our
boys have notkihg to be ashamed of as
it is no discredit to lose q good game
when it is won on its merits. Frank
Byrne did the unpiring to the satisfac-
ton of both players and spectators. The
Aberdeen High School team iscomposed
of fine gentlemanly lot of boys-a and
they play ball too. We hope their visits
Will be frequent during the summer.
An alarm of fire was turned in about
$50 Tuesday evening from st. Mary's
hospital The prompt action of the
| city fire department soon extinguished
lit The fire originated in the cell rooni
in the second story where crazy nFan
by the name of Larson was confined,
and had it not been for the heroic efforts
of w, H. Mathews who crawled in ard
hauled him ont he would, in ali probabil-
Iity have been suffocated. There are all
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