Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-02-06
Thursday, February 9, 1908.
|RedSaunderS
BY
HENRY WALLACE PHILLIPS.
Copyright, 1909, by Mcclure. Phillips e.
Company.

w nat 10 you mean, VIII uSkeu
Miss Matte, with wide opened eyes.
81 mean you're stakeholder as good
as anybody. You've got half my stock.
Now, hold on! Just listen. This Is a
queer run, Matte. from the regulation
point of view. this company of ours.
I know enough about film and back
In to know that. You ought TO have
seen the pryin' andepokin' and nosln'
around them Boston men did before
they took holt OF the Chanta Seechee
and made II a stock company. One
Teller was the ablest durn fool ever
come aerosst / used TO let on | didn't
sayvy anything about It. Now. OK
plain to me, says | to him. You Say
you have so many shares of them
stock waving my hand to bunch Of
critters in the distance What part
do you take? | mean, what's your
share of each anlmal2 and does the
last man get the hoofs and the tailT
oh, you don't understand says he.
TN explain ii to you SO he starts
In to tell me that stock didn't neces-
sarily mean beef critters and n lot
more things, whilst old man Ferguson,
who was putting the deal through,
stood listening and chewing his teeth,
thinking I was going to give our friend
the frolicsome hee-hee at the wind
up. But / stood solemn and never
even drew a smile, for fear of queer
Ing Ferguson. Well, that's the proper
way to start a company-make 1t as
dreary and long winded as possible.
We amt done that, and perhaps Wen
90 broke for breaking the rules, and
then your stock won't be worth cuss.
So don't you get excited about It,
wanted the Saunders family to be rep
resented. Pretty soon the old lad with
the nose will be around, and you'll
have chance to read about the par
tics Of the first part and second parts
OF the party and 'aforesaids and be
hirdsaids' and the rest of the yappi
them lawyers swing SO that honest
men won't know what the devil they're
MP to-
"Oh. Willl How can ever thank
your cried Miss Matte, her eyes ILL
Ing. 1t seemed great and responsible
position to the gentle lady to be
stakeholder In the corporation. 1t
wasn't the monetary value of the
thing: 1t was the pride of place
III you don't know how, don't try"
returned Red. You give the other
three stockholders good feed tomor- 4
row and the thanks will be up to you.
Hello! There's the old lad nowr as
. trumpet blast rang out from the
front porch. 1T must take some prac-
ice to blow your nose like that. I've
heard jackasses that could not bray
h the same class with that little old
gent-come I'm. Come I'M You needn't
sound the rally again"
Thus adjured the lawyer made his
entrance, and Miss Matte became I'm
duo and involved course Of law a
In the Fairfield Straw
board Manufacturing company.
Fairfield rose to activity like very
mail giant refreshed. Teams and
heir heavy loads kept the respect
nble dust In constant commotion. A
grfst mill was added to the intended
plant, thus offering an inducement to
the farmer to raise grain. and incident
ally straw, $50 we can keten 'em on
both ends. too as Red put II.
The time seemed IKE enchanfment TO
XiSe Matte As a bringer OF the It'd
fnUS and stakeholder In the company
she had risen 10 be a person OF iinpor-
tance, with the result that she was
syeu more modestly shy than before,
although In her heart she liked IL;
but more delightful yet was the spirit
~ holiday activity which inspired and
pervaded the place.
Red had insisted on operating on
TIE lines that are laid down with rail-
road spikes In the western commune
ties--to patronize home industries as
much a. possible. Therefore the ma