Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-04-30
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.

Come to Our Table.
1t is expected that the corner
stone of the new state capitol build
ing will be laid the last of May or
the first of June of this year. w.
Z. Milligan, Grand Master of the
Masonic order of the state of South
Dakota, has been requested to offici.
ate at the ceremony.
When Mr.. Crawford voted to
endorse the nearly four million dollar
tax steal Of the railroads in 1899, he
was listening to the "voice of the
people," we are told by one of his
newspaper organs. 1t is to be feared
that Crawford's ear was attuned
amiss-must have been the voice Of
the devil that so affected Brother
Crawford.
An editor who never thought
punctuation amounted to much, is
now defendent in libel suit because
he published an item about "two
young men who went with their
girls to attend the teachers institute,
and after they left the girls got
drunk" The comma should have
gone after the word girls but as it
is, the girls have gone after this par
ticular editor.
Moses was the first journalist, be-
cause he wrote on the tablets of
stone-but Noah went him one bet
ter and advertised. Noah built the
ark and announced the day of sail
ing. He whooped'er up lively and
made great display. The non be-
levers scoffed at him and died in the
wet water. Thus again did the man
who advertised triumph. You can't
keep good man down, especially
if he advertises.- Unidentified.
Senator Gamble, whom the insur-
gents VIII itewashed at the last legis-
lature in order to make him present
able as a senator, has been member
of that body longer than Mr.. Kit
redge but he is practically unknown
outside of his own state and in
Washington, And he has occupied
himself principally while in the cap
itol city in attending pink teas and
social functions. No law of import
ance is ascribed to him and his name
does not appear at the head of any
important committees.-Marshall
County Journal.
When Governor Lee was candi-
date for governor he was addressing
an audience in one of the principle
towns of the state and closed his
remarks by saying: 81 will not
detain you longer, as they are other
distinguished gentlemen present
who will speak to you" Governor
Crawford was wont to make consid-
cradle sport of Mr.. Lee for this
lapsus linguae. 1t is now ex-Gov-
ernor Lees turn to laugh, as in one
of his latest speeches the governor
said THE railroads employ good
attorneys. l know it because / have
been a railroad attorney myself"
News from the Black Hills is that
Senator Kittredge has been making
more than good in that section. His
meetings have been large, and every
where the senator is given assurances
of support which must give him
pleasure. The Black Hills will be
all one way in the June primaries,
and they should be, because the
insurgents have shut the Hills coun-
try out, and have given them prac-
tical notice that they do not seek any
votes from that big section of the
state; and it is fact that they will
get but few.
Why the farmers should keep
from ten to twenty. five acres of
thrifty and useful timber in cultiva,
ton continuously, is best answered
by the experience of Mr.. Brady, a
farmer who lives near Worthing,
Lincoln county, and who is now
clearing up patch of timber that
he has been cultivating for twenty
FIVE years just for shelter and wind
break purposes. He has already cut
off nearly quarter million feet OF
good lumber and large amount of
cord wood, valued at about seven
thousand dollars, and the entire cost
OF it all has been amply repaid in the
benefits derived from the grove in
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