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OLD AS HER TOWN.
MRS. ELVIRA TUCKER WILL BE
 100 NEXT WEEK.

l
 1sO6-Life Still Sweet to Aged Moth
 CT of George L. Tucker of Clinton- viiIe-sister Living at Age of Nine-
 ty-six-Another Reltlve Lived to One
 Hundred and Five.
 Collinsville July 12,. The oldest ! person in Canton, Elvira (Northrop) Tucker, will reach her tooth anniver- i sary next week during the towns cele- bration. This aged woman is in good mental health and her general physical health is good for one of her years, al | though she is very deaf and her eye sight is nearly gone. So well is she, however, in other respects, that she still enjoys life and expresses a desire to continue to live. She had possession of all her faculties until five or six years ago.
 Mrs. Tucker was born July r, 1906, in New Milford, where she lived until her marriage, June 20, 1880, to Levi Tucker of New Preston. She was one of the six children of Amos and Han nah (Elderkin) Northrop, All of the children lived to good old age, and one sister of Mrs. Tucker, Mary who married Methuel Treat, is still living in South Britain at the age of 96 FL yira was the oldest child and Mary the second, The others, George Alfred, Urania and Grant, are now dead. A great aunt died at the advanced age of lO5. After Mrs. Fuckers marriage she lived in New Preston, where her husband had a blacksmith shop. and later at Napanoch, N. r, where he was engaged in edged tool work They moved to Collinsville about 1884 and MT. Tucker entered the employ of the Collins Company, where he was for many years foreman of the forging de- partment. They left Colllnsville in 1870 the husband then giving up business, and moved to New Britain. Mir. Tuck. CT died in 1882, at the age of 75 Mrs Tucker returned to Collinsville in 1884 but moved to Southington in 1888. For the past seven years she has lived with her son, in Collinsvile. Mrs. Tucker was the mother of four children two of whom, Sheldon Grant and Mary Elvira Tucker died In childhood. Another child bearing the same name as the latter, was born in 1S46 and died in 1875. She married Walter White of New Britain. The youngest child, George Lester Tucker of this place was born in Collinsville in 1850, but he has not spent all of his life in his native place. He has lived in Thomaston and Southington and seven years ago he re- turned to Collinsville, where he Is em- ployed as assistant foreman of the packing room. He is married and has two sons, Robert Notrhrop Tucker of New York, and George Frederick Tuck CT of New Hartford. Besides these two grandchildren of Mrs. Tucker, she has three great-grandchildren Mildred, Lester and Charles, children of George F. Tucker.
 Mrs. Tucker is d member of the Con- gregational Church in this village. She is a woman of retiring disposition, whose chief happiness has been found in her home life.
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unusually large in quantity. As to the relative merits of the large and small
 nut. cannot speak. being however that with thse big fat looking fellows on sale there is practically no market for the little ones, Philadelphia Record.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-14

T hear you went swimming this morning
 ''Yes. I did"
 How di7 you find the water?"
 Why, you can't miss it, silly! Go north till you strike the lake. H-Cleve- land Leader.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
Queer Names.

There are some queer hooks and cor
ners In the state of Maine, and many
of the titles of the smaller towns and
localities are worthy Of special men
ton. Near Otisfield Is Pugleyville,
while Hog valley Is a certain pictur-
esque retreat located near Raymond.
Dog Corner, Hencoop cove, is well
known place in Winthrop, while out on
the Coon road strange things have
sometimes happened. A mile long is
Pin Hole hill, the steepest ever, and
all the way up are little rests ito hang
the pins on" people say. Over Poland
way is the hunger inspiring name of
Beeftown, while highly suggestive of
negligee was the old name of Sac
carappa. One does not have to die to
pass through Purgatory, and some of
the most prominent men in the state
have hailed from this sinful region.
Neither are the gates of Eden closed
to all mortals, but nowadays one jour
neys via an ancient toll bridge that
leads the traveller straight to this en-
chanted land.-Lewiston (Me) Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
WILL WE OR WON'T WE:
Fire Hall and Opera House
Proposition up to Citizens.

AT a special meeting of the Webster
fire department Monday evening. after
considerable discussion, 1t was decided
to discharge the committees and lay
the proposition of the erection of fire
hall I'd opera house on the table II
was found that the committee canvass
ing for loan could not raise sufficient
funds to warrant attem "ting the pro
ject.
The question of location was the bug
aboo, and it won d appear that the Cit.
zens feel that there is not brains enough
in the department to entrust it with Sc
important undertaking
Practically all the offers made, were
made with proviso, or string on
them, and were divided up between
three locations and not sufficient
amount to warrant attempting building
on either.
The firemen are all very much dis
appointed at the outcome OF their effort
however they want fire hall and
opera house in Webster, and to this end
a resolution was adopted to the effect
that the department will loan to the
citizens or any party VINO will under
take the enterprise, 81 500 now in the
department treasury, aud use every
effort to raise an equal amount among
the fremen, there is little doubt that
the amount will be there if demanded.
as most of it is already pledged The
offer is open for thirty days, and there
is no string on the firemen's offer, any
available location goes with them.
The matter of location had not been
taken up by the department.. Figures
were submitted for several locations
but no action was taken as the members
ali felt it advisable to ascertain first if
the scheme could be financed before
settling any other proposition. 1t is
now MP to the citizens whether or not
Webster has fire hall and opera house
The firemen both individually and as a
department stand ready to do their part
Call citizens meeting, appoint com.
mittee, and get busy. Don't tell what
can be done or might be done, get out
and do il.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
Montaigne and Marriage.

Montague went toward marriage
with the quality of cheerful alacrity
which would have inspired journey
to the whipping post. Might ! have
had my own WILL" he tells us, IL would
not have married Wisdom herself, if
she would have had me-" No quainter
piece Of polite literature can be found
than the letter which our philosopher
addressed to his wife as a kind of nee
essary compliment on the occasion u
the death of an only daughter. And
the alacrity with which he relegates to
Plutarch the task of consoling her In
her affiiction testifies to the entire con-
sistency of his habitual claim that the
dignity of marriage is best subserved
when husband refrains from becom-
ing too fond of his wife. Even in view
Of this consideration, however, such a
brief and refrigerated epistle suggests
an amazing degree of reticence in a
writer who needs only the turning of
faucet to enable him to pour forth
q quenchless stream of ideas on any
and every subject from thumbs to i'm
mortality. Martha Baker Dunn IL At
Antic
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
A Strange Feast.

A curious feast is observed by the
Mohammedan inhabitants of India. in
which the origin of the custom known
as painting the town red may possibly
be traced. 1t Is called the Holi and
consists chiefly In the plentiful sprin-
king upon all and sundry OF certain
red preparation called holi powder. 1t
stains the white clothes of the natives
with an ugly, dirty looking red that
conjures up before timid eyes dread
visions Of bloody fights and CHASTITY
mutinies. The powder is made in two
shades-the one vermilion the other
rose red-and both are used impartial.
ly by the observers of the ceremony,
who delight in bedaubing their faces
with the powders until they look like
strange and hideous denizens of hades
come up, still glowing with the fires
Of that region. Among the better
classes this festival is falling into dis
favor, for it leads to many unpleasant
excesses and had its origin in some de-
cidedly disslpated scene In ancient
heather history.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
LYNN POStOm Ce:

L. Fjerdingstad, our blacksmith, is
on the sick list
Gust Sundahl passed through here
last Saturday, selling machinery for l..
G Ochsenreiter.
@. E Blegen is back again from his
duties as juror at the July term of the
circuit court.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Young are the
happy parents of new boy.
Haying is on now and an exception
ally good crop of grass is reported.
Andrew Loe, of Pierpont, was doing
business here Monday.
Peder A. Mixxelson received the sa d
news from his daughter Anna, OF
Mohill North Dako that her husband
way killed in run way last week.
The Skudesness church will be fin
ished inside soon.
Mr.. Erick Winsen is in Minnesota
visiting her relatives
Il G.. Paulson has contract to fix
the Young school house.
Nels Williamson is the new treas urer
in school district, No. $50.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
Gladstone 81. a .sup.. !,

A reference to THE Corsican Broth
ers" recalls an amusing story of Mr..
Gladstone's visit to the Lyceum when
Irving was playing In this drama Mr..
Gladstone at the time was not bur
dened by the cares Of office, and one
evening he dropped in at the Lyceum,
where he was occasionally accommo-
dated with a chair at the wings" On
this night, however, when the stage
was set for the opera ball In "The Cor
sican Brothers" his curiosity led him
into one of the boxes for spectators in
the scene. Up went the curtain: Mr..
Gladstone was at once deserted by the
pit and greeted with shouts OF Joy
which caused him hastily to withdraw.
This" says Mr.. Austin, twas his first
and only appearance in the drama out
side OF the dear old legitimate at
Westminster. "-Westminster Gazette.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26

A hundred and fifty years ago the
farm hands and house servants Of
England were clothed In leather. A
good pair OF leather breaches was said
to pass from father to son as an heir
loom. Then boy went TO school as
well protected as an armored cruiser
The author Of 'Didisburye III the AZ"
offers some observations upon these
articles of common wear: The test Of
good pair was to try If they would
stand upright Of themselves when no
body was in them. IL they would do
30 they were good. strong stuff and
likely to last for many years. My
father remembered prentice lad com
Ing to his father, whose fond mother
had provided him with such pair
and they were the means of vast
of fun in a game that is unknown in
these days-that is, for the boys to set
the breeches upright and then jump
into them without touching them with
the hands. 1t was probably pair of
such leather breaches that the Windsor
boy was wearing when George III.
asked him If he did not know that the
man before him was the king.
"Yes," said the boy.
Then why don't you go on your
knees, and you might kiss the kings
hand" said the king.
Because I'd spoil my breeches."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
The Ball In Lawn Tennis.

1t Is curious fact that every book
written on lawn tennis cautions the
player to keep his eyes on the bali at
the moment of striking ii, yet there are
very few expert players who do so.
A rife shot looks at his target. a bowler
looks at the pins, and a billiard player
generally looks at the object ball. not
the cue ball. / have found il next to
impossible to carry In my mind. while
moving rapidly to play flying ball. the
exact height OF the net the direction Of
the lines of my opponents court and
his position, so that II has become
second nature with me and with most
other players to look up In the direction
that the ball Is to go before II actually
leaves the racket. 1t is principally be-
cause the reverse Of this Is necessary
In golf that lawn tennis players have
SO much trouble In mastering the old
Scotch game. From tennis habit they
take their eyes off the ball too soon for
golf success. Parmly Paret In Coun-
try Life In America.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
The Floor Of the p.cisc,

The red clay which covers the deep
floors of the Pacific and the Indian
oceans is made up of refuse and residue
that which can Withstand the strong
chemical action Of the gases. In 1t
may be found ccconposed volcanic
rock, pumice, zeolitic crystals, man
ganese oxides. meteoric iron, teeth Of
sharks and ear bones of whales. Few
IL any shore deposits are apparent in 1t.
The rock is vitreous refuse, belched
forth by subterranean or insular vol.
canoes. The minerals are supposed to
be Of cosmic origin-planetary dust and
meteoric fragments that have fallen
into the sea and have become disinte-
grated. The great quantity of sharks
teeth remains quite unaccounted for
at least their apparent gathering to-
gether In these ocean basins is consid-
cred very strange. G. Van Dyke in
THE Opal Seal"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
Jumpers of the Sea.

Many of the inhabitants of the sea
are good jumpers and some have be-
come famous. Among them should be
mentioned the tarpon or silver king, a
huge fish with scales that CLEAN like
silver. In the Pacific waters the tuna,
an ally of the horse mackerel, is noted
for its leaps. Sometimes a school
sweeps up the coast, and the powerful
fish, often weighing 500 pounds, are
seen in the air in every direction. They
dart like an arrow, turn gracefully FIVE
or six feet in the air and come down,
keeping the water for acres in a foam.
and, If not the greatest, they are GER
tainly the most graceful of the jump
ers of the sea
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26

Fully half the grownup people Of
France believe the old story that Napo-
leon Bonaparte put check for 100000
that the coin is yet in circulation. They
say that the people did not want the
five franc piece and that In order TO
create a demand for 1t Napoleon re-
sorted to the device mentioned. The
check or treasury order, II is said, was
written upon asbestus paper and in
closed in the metal at the time the coin
was made. Thousands of five franc
pieces are annually broken open and
have been so inspected since the story
Of the check was first circulated
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
The First Armored ship.

According to the best authorities on
curiosities Of the navy and warfare in
general, the first armored vessel was
launched In the year 1880 1t was one
Of the feet manned by the Knights Of
St. John and was entirely covered with
sheets Of lead. The accounts of the
times leave us in darkness as to the
thickness of this lead armor, but they
are very positive In the statement that
they were of sufficient strength to
successfully resist all the shots of that
day" At the siege Of Gibraltar in 1882
the French and Spaniards used war
vessels which were armored with
slight iron boom proofing over their
decks and to the waters edge.' The
very first practical use of wrought iron
plates as defense for the sides Of
vessels was by the French in the Cri-
mean war in 1853.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
The Deer's Tracks.

A deer if walking always places Its
feet firmly closed upon the ground, and
consequently the track Is sharply
drawn-that is. the hoof Is not spread
to any appreciable extent. Excep-
tons are sometimes the track of deer
that are heavy with fawns, during
spring and early summer, and those of
old bucks during the rutting season
But even then the heels of their tracks
are considerably closer than In tracks
made by a hog or a sheep. The hoOfs
of the latter two animals are always
rounder at the toe than those of deer,
making the tracks they leave easily dis
tinguishable, and If the difference is
not discernible In frozen snow the
fact that the trail made by hogs or
sheep does not register should settle all
doubts for the tracker. A deer II not
wounded will always step with its
hind foot I'm the track made by the
front foot.-Field and Stream.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
The Wife,s Reproarh.

In an address to temperance socie-
ty a lecturer told how drink had once
caused the downfall of brave soldier.
In the course Of the sad story he said:
Sometimes, after a debauch, the
man would be repentant, humble. He
would promise bis wife to do better.
But alas, the years taught her the bar
renness Of all such promises. And one
night, when he was getting to be an
sd man, q prematurely old man. thin
dmbed, stoop shouldered. with red
trimmed eyes. he said to his wife sadly:
you're a clever woman, Jenny, q
courageous, active, good woman. You
should have married q better man than
I am, dear
"She looked at him, and, thinking Of
what he had once been, she answered
IN quiet voice:
~ did, James,"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
Some Puritan Names.

One of the customs practiced by our
Puritan forefathers was that of infiict-
ing ludicrous and terrifying names
upon their children. One Puritan dam
sci, when asked her baptismal name,
answered, Through Much Tribulation-
We Enter-the -Kingdom-of Heaven, but
for short they call me Tribby." An
other unfortunate maiden bore the
name The-Gift-of- God Stringer. A
sickly boy was christened Faint-Not
Hewitt. Another labored under Fight
the Good Fight-o Faith White. A lit
tie girl who had propensity for cry
ing was at the age of eight christened
Weep-Not Billing. There also were
Thunder Goldsmith, The Work-of- God
Farmer, Search-tbe-Scriptures Morton,
Be-Courteous Cole and, worst Of all.
Kill-Sin Pimple.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
Right OF way In New York,

Most people in New York think Uncle
Sans mail wagons are supreme They
are not The hospital ambulance comes
first. Life Is more sacred than mail.
and when the ambulance gong gongs
clear the track. Next in Importance is
the fire engine. Property is more i'm
portant than mail, and when the en-
CINE toots and the bells ring clear the
way. Then the mail wagons. which
have precedence over everything but
the ambulance and fire engine. This
Is settled by city ordinanee.-New York
Press
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
Send Down Grace.

A little Portland miss. wb'; frNe
name Is Grace, had never - lded
shurch, being too little and too lively
70 be trusted there, according 10 the
Kennebec Journal But at last her
mother permitted her to accompany
In elder sister, giving her grave warn.
lngs beforehand. The rector % the
.hurch was frequent caller at Grace's
acme. and her mother feared that on
this account she might take liberties.
you must sit still" she said. land
vou must not say one word, but let
Mr.. Hammond do the talking. Now.
remember"
Oracle behaved very well in meet
Ing. AS soon as she reached home
abe reported:
"Oh, mamma, l did keep still-real
IT'LL, and when Mr.. Hammond called
me right out in meeting never stirred
10 go to him"
"Called you? Why, child. he never
called you In meeting"
Yes, but he did, mamma. He said
tl1ee or four times, Send down G1ace
but sat as still as mouse"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
Tn. Meaning of .Br,dxe. >,

The story goes that years ago, long
before bridge was known In London
clubs, two families who played the
game under the name of Russian
whist" were living In neighboring
houses at or near Great Daily in
Leicestershire. The Only road Of COM
munication lay over somewhat dan
gerous bridge. 1t was frequent oc
currence for the departing guests to
say to their hosts: Thank goodness, 1t
is your bridge tomorrow" meaning
that the other party would have TO
cross the dangerous bridge the next
night; hence Is said to have arisen
the title of bridge" We give this story
for what ii is worth, but in our own
mind we have little doubt that the
modern name of bridge" is merely a
very easy corruption of the old title
Of 'biritch." The two words "biritch"
and bridge" have absolutely the same
sound when spoken quickly. so that 1t
is easy to imagine how the change
came to pass.-London Saturday Re-
view.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
How the Daisy Was Named.

OF all the flowers of the field the
daisy is the most appropriately named.
Probably not one person in a hundred
understands the significance of this
little flower. Hundreds and hundreds
Of years ago it got it's name, and in
all parts of the world the name means
the same thing. The nature lover who
named the daisy had in his study OF
the wild flower observed that it opened
its eye with the opening Of the day and
closed it with the setting of the sun.
So with the simplicity of the true artist
he called it the eye of the day. the days
eye or, as we spell it today, the daisy
New York Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
The MhirIing of a bullet.

Bullets from the thirty caliber rifles
Of the United States army whirl with
great rapidity. The rifing gives one
revolution of the bullet about its axis
In ten inches. At the muZzle the We
locity of the bullet is 1900 feet a
second, which means 2,760 turns a sec
ond, assuming that the bullet does not
strip in the rifiing The circumference
of the bullet is .942 inch. which gives
a peripheral velocity of 1900 inches
each second. or 1900 feet a minute.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
The solution.

The bankruptcy court can boast some
delightfully."- naive rejoinders. How,
sir, is 1t possible" angrily demanded
the opposing counsel of the bankrupt,
ito live in the luxurious style you have
affected on $500 year?" The witness
replied, with an air Of justifiable pride.
that that was problem to which he
had devoted considerable time in the
interests of social economy. and the
results of his humble efforts were now
before the court
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26

In order to test Chinese witness
qualification for taking the oath an
English magistrate asked him the other
day where he expected to go when he
died. He replied. Picking" and was
disqualified.
One In another English court, little
girl. In answer to tkat question said
Il don't know" The horrifed counsel
called the judges attention to the an
swer. "Oh. don't know, either" said
the Judge. Swear the witness"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
Regular Ostriches.

This, ladies and gentlemen" said
the guide, sis real theatrical chop
house. You will notice the signs on
the wall, Watch your hat and Keep
an eye on your umbrella"
Great gooseberriesv exclaimed the
old farmer in the party. Il often heard
tell that these here actor folks were
half starved. but l didn't think they
would eat hats and umbrellas. Chi.
cago News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
The Way He Viewed II.

"Good news!" cried the lawyer, wav-
ing a paper above his head. 1--WE Sc
cured reprieve for your
"a reprieve?' replied the convicted
murderer indifferently.
"Why, yes. Don't you see you ought
to be happy
"Ah," replied the prisoner gloomily,
"that simply means delay, and I've
always been taught that delays are
dangerous" - Catholic. Standard and
Times.