Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-12-26

: more experienced, closer student
better lawyer, as eloquent
speaker, better friend, as good ;
citizen, and yet the governor decline,
to meet Lawson in joint debate aftel
savagely assailing him. This il
equivalent to striking a man in the
back and running away Huron
Huronite.
When you hear anyone carping
at Christmas or wishing that be
could go to sleep aud not wake up
until after the day had gone by
put it down in your note book that
ne is the man who las no boys and
girls OF his own to return brea thless
with happiness, and is too far away
from the folks at home to bring
them the joy that was theirs when
"the children" crowded home at
fule tide to turn the old house
tewsy turvy during their all too
short stay.
President Joseph Swain of
Swarthmore announces that he and
the trustees had come TO the con-
clusion, after asking the opinion of
twenty-five other colleges, that they
should not accept the millions left
them 10y Miss Anna L. Jeanes, with
the condition that all intercollegiate
athletic contests be abandoned.
resident Swain said, however, that
If the estate were very large he
would favor trying the experiment
with the privilege of returning the
money if it were found that the gift
was of less value than the lack of
freedom.
Here is statement from the
United States department of agri.
culture, found on page 404 of the
1906 yearbook, which should set
every farmer thinking. A ton of
wheat, worth $22, removes from the
soil $3.50 worth of plant food. A
ton OF butter, worth $500, takes less
than 90 cents worth OF plant food
from the soil. This is proven by
scientific tests that cannot be
questioned. The profit and the soil
preservation is in dairy farming.
But still the dread of milking time
removes the danger of all the farm
ers giving up wheat raising and
making shortage in the worlds
bread supply.
John Seeley, of Cleveland, who
murdered his sweetheart, came near
being executed at Columbus Dec. IL |
Ill spite of the fact that commute |
ton papers from the governor had |
been mailed to the warden of the
penitentiary. Receiving no word |
from the governor the night before
the warden prepared to execute
Seeley, but, on second thought, tele-
phoned the governor and found that
the papers had been mailed. The
execution was, therefore, postponed
and the next day, the warden was
notified by the postotfice authorities
that letter was being held for
postage. 1t proved to be the papers
committing the death sentence of
Seeley to life imprisonment.
The department of agriculture
saturday issued a report giving final
estimates of acreage production and
'alue of crops, showing winter wheat
acreage to be 280,132,0 900; produc-
ion, 409,442, 900 bushels: value per
'ushel at SS.2 cents. Spring wheat
'crage 100000; production, 224,-
'4o, 900 bushels; value, SO cents.
Jorn acreage, 99.93l, 900; produc-
ion, ,592,S20, 900; value 5l.7 cents.
oats, acreage, Sl,S37,00O; produc-
ion, 754, $4,000; value. 44.3 cents.
The average weight per bushel is
hown by reports received by the
to be 500 pounds for
pring wheat, $50 pounds for
inter wheat and 20.4 pounds for
ats.
II will be good news toths people
I South Dakota that Senator Kilt
EDGE has realized his ambition and