Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-08-02

The chicken season opens in about .
month. Wait until the first. The game
warden and the Webster and Day
County Fish and Game Protective asso-
citation are looking for violators and
will pay twenty five dollars to any per-
son who will furnis the evidence that
secures conviction.
In spite Of the heavy rain last Friday
afternoon the Aberdeen and Webster
ball teams decided to play the game
scheduled for that evening on the local
diamond at Gals o'clock. They went out
and made the effort but the game was
stopped on account of mud at the end of
the second inning and the score stood 8
to in favor of the home team.
George G. Barney, Of the commits
sioner of school and public lands office,
was in this city last week looking after
some pieces of the states real estate
which were not leased at the last spring
leasing but have been put in commits
sion by some enterprising farmers. We
are informed that settlements were
made in every case without recourse to
the courts.
We are Informed by one of the local
buyers the scheme for the dockage Of
wheat will be changed this fall, a
sample of all wheat offered on this
market will be tested and cleaned and
1ockage will be made in accordance
with the test. With this system innaug.
nrated, and we are reliably informed it
will be, it will pay farmers to clean
wheat before bringing it to market.
Mrs. l.. G.. Ochsenreiter entertained
about twenty friends last Saturday
afternoon in honor of Mrs. Kuhn. The
home was beautifully decorated with
pink and white flowers. The guests
were entertained during the afternoon
with the question of anatomy. Miss
Florence Small answered the most
questions and was given the prize.
Very nice refreshments were served and
all returned to the various homes hav-
ing spent most pleasant afternoon
E. w Small, food and dairy com.
missioner, is looking up the slaughter
houses in the smaller places, and finds
many instances in which the most
drastic measures are necessary in the
cleaning-up line. There are small
slaughter houses which spread the
affluvia Of decaying offal for miles, and
which will hardly bear comparison
with the big packing house slaughter
pens. Now that official notice has been
taken, we can look for a marked
improvement throughout the state
Groton Independent
Don't knock your town. A little
chick with its little soft bill can break
its way out of an egg with conparat i've
ease. Those of you who have tried
cracking an egg on your knuckles
wonder how a chick does it. Scientists
have very simple explanation for it,
which is this, the chick knocks from
the inside and the arrangement of the
particles that make the shell is such
that they are easily driven apart from
the inside, but wedged together, when
struck from the outside It's the same
with city. The knocks from tho out
side have little effect It's the knocker
at home that hurts a city. -Langford
Bugle
The Aberdeen ball team defeated the
Webster team yesterday afternoon at
Culbert's pasture by score of IL to 10.
About the only interesting feature of
the exhibition was after most of the
spectators and players had left the
grounds. A bright mathematician from
Webster, by a clever deduction that
would have been credit to Sherlock
Homes, endeavored to prove that tie
game had been played and the score IL
to IL. He had the score man gu essing
but most of those present were satisfied
that Aberdeen had won a real victory
Gilbert pitched the first inning, but
retired in favor of Lund, having split
his finger with hot liner. The pitch.
ers of both teams played the game for
all It was worth, but the support given
them in the field was anything but
good. Aside from two or three indivi-
dual plays on both teams, the exhibit
ton was not particularly exciting
Aberdeen News, Monday.
E. W. Small, state food and dairy
commissioner, looks upon the fact as
being somewhat anomalous that the
cities of South Dakota should have
ordinances excluding slaughter-houses
from the city limits. What strikes him
as being peculiar is that people shauld
be willing to eat food prepared in places
that they believe to be too filthy to be
allowed to exist except in isolated
locplaties. He does not advocate city
slaughter houses, although he says
there is no reason, with sights and
sound excluded from the public, why
slaughter house should be any more
OF nuisance than meat market. He
is at work now on an ordinance for the
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