Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-03-26
A CASE OF SOUR GRAPES.

! Dltter PHI Tor the SharpleS people and
their ''reply" published in last weeks
paper is simply the wry face they make
at having to swallow it.
They seem to wish to belittle the fact
that the three women present signed ou'
statement, as they (the women were
present at the Swimming only about five
minutes. Well! Well! We honor the
ladies good judgment in only requiring
five minutes Of the exhibition to enable
them to so thoroughly decide the case.
And would you look for such slur
upon nationality from such source?
In fact their whole harangue reminds
US of the case OF the small boy who got
tine whipping at school. He came home
with numerous excuses of how and why
some one else should have been whipped
in his stead, and wound up by saying,
"I'll bet you dollar that teacher can't
do it again"
II anyone doubts our sincerity in our
statements and report of the contest let
them read the following:
Webster, S. d., March 21st, '03.
/, Ferdinand Hinze, being first duly
sworn, do hereby swear that any state
ment that the separator contest held at
my place was not fair to both separators;
or that it was cold blooded deal to give
the DeLaval the best of it; or that any
point in the deal was unfair to the Sharp
les machine; or that any agreement
made by myself or the DeLaval people
was violated by myself or the DeLaval
people; or that there was any fraud or
Misrepresentation used by myself or the
DeLaval people in the contest, is abso-
lutely false and ungrounded;
That the statement that / was preiu-
diced against the Sharples separator is
also equally false. ! was entirely unde-
cided as to which machine would IKE
the better and buy until after had seen
both machines run at the contest;
That / have no reason to doubt the
statement given by the gentleman who
kept the time and am certain that it is
correct;
That both separators had equal
chances of winning except that allowed
the Sharples people to strain all their
milk through fine cloth before it enter
ed their machine and after they stopped
this cloth had in it much of the cream,
curd and filth that should have went
through their machine to have made
their run exactly like the run of the De-
Laval, and further than this allowed
the Sharples people to warm their bowl
in the warm milk before starting the
run. Further than this allowed neither
machine any advantage that was not
allowed the other;
That the insinuation that bought the
DeLaval because Mr.. Ochsenreiter ia of
my nationality Is entirely wrong and an
insult to any fairminded man;
That the Sharples people claimed to
me before the contest that they wanted
to put up their machine alongside the
DeLaval and they told me they could
prove to me that it would do better work
in the same conditions than the DeLaval
could do. When requested both par
ties to skim milk at So Fair. the De.
Laval did as requested and the Sharples
expert DID REFUSE TO DO so and
gave as his excuse that he wanted to
slush out their machine with hot water
or hot milk before putting in the cold
milk This i refused them as the
DeLaval had already began Swimming
cold milk and had not slushed their
machine and it was not in keeping with
the Sharples claim that they could do
better work under like conditions than
the DeLaval;
That / wanted to buy the best and
after the run was made asked my wife
which machine she liked best and she
then decided that she wanted the De-
Laval, and that we had not decided to
buy the DeLaval before;
That / bought the DeLayal because it
did its work better, faster and easier
than the Sharples;
That have paid Mr.. Ochsenreiter
$500 in cash money for the DeLaval
Baby No. /, and any statement that ] got
it for less Is false.
FERD. HINzE.
Subscribed aud sworn to before me
this 21st day of March, 1903.
John III. Lund,
Notary Public.
Tote fair, neighbors, tote fair.
L. G. OCHSENREI1ER.
BY G. Ochsenreiter, Manager.
to Assessors of Annual
Meeting.
You are hereby notified to meet at |
the Office of the county auditor on the