The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-11-23
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" taVOrS every year maze new
O gifts with rain and sunshine sent
The bounty overruns our due.
The fullness shames our discomfort
Whittier
The lid Is 40 again ia that dear
old Sissetnn alr"ayd yet.
Verify l say unto YOU, saith Jere-
miah, Of Joppa. Fortune seldom
frowneth IN him that humpcth him.
self along on her trail.
A hands me water set. tea service
or Sisseton Souvenir piece of china
tree to every new subscriber to the
STANDARD. Sl.5U yer year.
I'll fear you are not long for this
wnrld." observed the Plymouth Rock
~ s,er tn the tat turkey vobbler.
jusi before Thanksgiving. "No.'
was the sad rejoinder, 81 feel as
though l already had one leg in the
grave-y,"
We would like to tell Rr'er Shep-
ard wha. we think of him but our
typesetter Is lady aud we don't
like to ask: her to set up our opinion;
being gentleman ourselves.we can
not express 1t; Shepard being hel-
ther. will readily surmise what it is.
Sisseton Chapter No. 60, O.. E. s.,
held it's annual election of officers
last Friday evening AS a number
OF the Star offices are appontive, we
are unable 70 publish the list The
complete report will appear later.
Say" remarked one fnancier to
another, ''are you one of the stock
l,'ldarS in the Newso" "Well. l
lab red under the daluslon that 1
was for d time" elbows thato"
We'll, l discovered later hat | was
merely one of the stuck holders :"
A dispatch from Pierre states THAI
a man from Grindstone has Killed in
one day forty four big rattlesnakes
in one bunch, with only IA club,
Upon what liquor does this YOUR cor
respondent thrive that lie sees so
many snakes? it must be worse than
the squirrel" whiskey they used to
Sill up ''in the woods" which, when
fellow took two drinks, made HIM
want to climb tree and boiler.
A coul lie of Germans from out in
the hills got into discussion in
front of our Office the other day. and
one of them got excited and called
the other liar Some friends of the
irate Teutons got around them and
got them into q saloon, some one
ordered beer and the two men shook
hands and joined in a song. .D'ye
mind that 'now?" SAID Policeman
Mahoney. III that had been twu
Irlshmen and one had called the
other liar. that would have bee u
the cue to climb tree. No glass lot
beer could square it then"
Apropos Of the recent contribution
sent from this city to the Childrens
Home at Sioux Falls, it may be re-
membered that the contributions
were considerably lessened on &C.
count of the collecting done just as
the committee had advertised that
they would collect for the Home, by
a stranger who purported to be work
ing for a similar Institution In an
other state. With reference to this,
we quote from a letter Just received
by Mrs, w. X. Morris from w. B.
Sherrard, superintendent of the
Home: cit is really too bad that the
public canuct he protected from
these swindiing beggars, who go out
through the country. The ones who
visited you are among the worst and
all their agents are constantly being
arrested and sent to jail, but they
|persistently keep at It. II you are
personally acquainted or any Of yonr
friends are with your representatives