Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-07-27

rockefeller owns practically every
thing now except the sulphur com.
bination." Well, you can see, by
the way he sticks to the Baptist
church, that that is one thing he
wants to avoid.
A contract has been awarded to a
Barre, Vermont, company for the
erection of the Mckinley monument
at Canton. Ohio. The shaft will be
Of Milford pink granite, will be 95
feet high aud $50 feet in circumfer-
ence, and will cost S275,000.
Tom Lawson has gone back to
Boston believing the people of the
west are the bones and the sinews of
the nation. Tom catches on more
quickly than some of the Boston
bean eaters who never get away
from view of the Boston commons.
Persons who make failure Of their
lives that is to say, who show no
talent for getting hold of money and
keeping it-may find small grain
of encouragement in the discovery
by Kansas editor that all persons
who succeed are Rockefsller's on a
small scale.
There is an issue Of veracity
between Mr.. Depew and a number
OF witnesses before the New York
state insurance commissioner. Here
is the place where the senator will
find that man who tells many
funny stories finds it hard to make
people believe him when he wants
to.
w. o. Winston, who is more COM
petent to give an opinion than many
brigades Of politicians or correspond
ents, says the Panama route is the
correct che for the canal; that Mr..
Stevens is the right man for the
engineer and that America is the
right country to dig the ditch. The
next thing is to buy spade.
The editor of "Fads and Fancies"
the book that is creating such excite
ment among New York smart set on
account Of its racy stories, has plenty
of enterprise. Half of the S. S.
paid $500 apiece to get into the
book and the rest paid $500 to keep
out The publishers had 'em COM
ing and going.
Adrian C. Arson, erstwhile base
ball monarch and later billiardroom
is in arrears to Adrian G..
Arson, city clerk Of Chicago, for
sundry and divers fees. He has
promised to pay up the first time he
sees the city clerk, provided the
clerk does not see him FIRST and
avoids meeting.
A st. Louis Judge has decided
that barber shops do not come under
the head of forbidden work on Sun
day. He thinks that they should
be kept open as matter Of necessity.
What about the poor devil Of a
barber who has been working all the
weekY What does he think about
its II is a safe guess that the
journeymen BARRIERS are in favor Of
the closing law. Seven days as is
just one too many for any man to
work every week.
What about art Tor arts sakee Let
him think Of other professional men
like himself who write poetry, pur-
sue a scientific investigation, teach
school, practice medicine, administer
colleges, or preach all doing their
work on inadequate salaries, but
continueing uncomplainingIy at their
posts. Really we are quite dis
appointed in Mr.. Jeifries. consider
ing how gloriously notorious he is.
We had expected better things Of
him. And how we shall miss bis
seraphic face in The newspapers.
The very notable American, Mr.. |
James J, Jeifries, the worlds heavy
weight champion, announces that he
Il about 70 retire with honors from
bis profession" because pugilism
"doesn't pay" He has our pro-
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