Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-10-03
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.


trust can corner the supply.
1t is dangerous to leave an auto.
mobile on the street at night now
a-days, there are SO many clipping
couples that just have to have them.
Some diet reformers who advise
people to be vegetarians show lack
of current information when they
mention economy as one of the
inducements.
A man pursued by the Waterloo
police took refuge in the sewer
rather than go to Jail. Dispatches
do not explain whether he has been
in that Jail before.
This years corn crop may not be
quite as big as some, but will bring
the farmers more money. The
pumpkin is as yet unfrosted, and the
Thanksgiving goose hangs high,
This announcement of an increase in
the prices Of cannon will be sure to
cause alarm among the Wall street
bulls and bears. Meanwhile butter
can soar to the sky and they'll never
wink.
Within year the number Of stock
holders in one prominent railroad
company has increased from 5000 to
$4,000. Confidence in dividends
and the best management is good
backing for popular uses.
Coal enough to load 24,l05 rail.
road cars was locked down the
Monongahela river in August. This
is the one river in the United States
that has been thoroughly improved,
and it's steady traffic is immense.
Several northern papers are try.
ing to figure out why it is that the
south votes the democratic ticket SO
persistently. Perhaps the real
reason is that large numbers of
southerners are democrats.
"Twenty-three for North Dakota
but North Dakota rather likes it,
Twenty three" is the number of the
biggest battleship of the American
navy, which is to bear the name OF
the northwest state famous for No. l
hard wheat and Budd Reeve.
In Sweden the public houses are
closed on Saturday-pay day-while
the savings banks are kept open
until midnight. No government can
force man to save his money; but
this Swedish system at least encour
ages him to deposit it where it is
most likely to be of use.
Anna A. Rogers in the Atlantic
Monthly explains many modern
divorces on the ground advanced by
the colored wife who admitted
nonchalantly: ooh, yes, | done
left 'im!" 'Wha', / jes' natch'ully
los all taste TO 'im!' Almost any
two people will find some incom.
patability, but it should be worked
down and not worked up.
Since the pure food law went into
effect a certain kind of raspberry
jam has borne this inscription:
"This jam is made of glucose, with
artificial seeds, and is colored with
harmless analine dyes" Hayseed
appears to be too valuable for some
preserves, and artificial seeds, made
by machinery, are substituted
People who object to jam in which
there is no fruit ought to read the
labels.
The insurgents in South Dakota
will be grieved to learn that in the
poll conducted by the Chicago Tri-
bune. Secretary Taft secured more
votes for presidetial choice than all
the other candidates put together
The insurgent candidate aFollette
was about the lowest in the bunch.
If the Crawford people are counting
on throwing South Dakota to La
Toilette they are laying up trouble
for themselves next March.
The New York Times gives list
of twenty seven of the leading
papers OF the south, of which num-
Der twenty -one against the renomi-
nation of Bryan, while six are
favorable to it. The south is the
region which casts the democratic
votes, and the showing is one which
should prompt the peerless leader
to make another tour of the south
Mr. Rrvan doasnf coro ~ 10 v,ras;