Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-08-06
HON. Granville JONES AT WEBSTER ON SATURDAY


Wallace can be enrolled in that class.
A. J. BIGGER purchased one from Bas-
kerville & Dahl last week and had it
delivered Monday. 1t 10 Buick, five
passenger and very nice car.-Wallacc
World.
Mr.. aud Mrs. John Williams and
daughter, Mrs. H. +. Denton, came in
from the lake Saturday, and MIR. and
Mrs. Williams departed for their home
at Pierre Monday. Mrs. Denton, accom-.
panied by Joe Adams, went back to
join Mr.. ID. at the cottage at Pickerel |
lake Monday.
What is without doubt the largest |
granary ever erected in Day county has
just been completed on the farm of Bar
ney Elias, a well Known farmer living |
near Bristol, that county. The struc. |
ture has capacity of 1000 bushels and
will be none too large to hold the grain |
Elias expects to thresh on his farms this |
fall.-Sioux City (Ia) Journal.
Last Thursday the party consisting of
Ed. Prudhon, Ed. Potter, Ed. Merger,
John Rabak, John Dolan and Geo
Howson returned from Minneapolis and
drove back four new Buick autos, the |
property of the first four gentlemen
named. DIR. Brooks bought new Ford
runabout, thus adding five new mach
ines to the Webster stock, making in
all, we are told, abont 40 machines in
i Webster and vicinity.
M. Darmody returned Saturday from
} Hot Springs accompanied by his daugh-
, ter, Maggie, who las been at the springs
! for the past three months taking treat
l ment for rheumatism. Mr. Darmody
thinks q complete cure has been effected
, by the baths and treatment. This will
be good news to the many friends of
a the family. Mike says person does
q not have to be ailing to enjoy the baths.
He took several while at the springs and
came out feeling like fighting cock.
). Every little while we hear of stock
n being killed in the pasture during a
+ thunder storm, by being struck with
lightning, communicated from wire
fences, says an exchange. This danger
70 can be entirely eliminated by affixing q
= wire to post in every twelve or fifteen
In such manner that one end will be
u buried in the earth while the other has
contact with each strand of wire on the
W post. This affords a perfect ground by
= which the electrical charges pass harm.
.. lessly to earth.
is Have you attended any af the Friday
evening dances at the Bijou theatre?
= The management are making this regu-
. lar FRIDAY evening dance special feat
= ure. The hall is made cool and COM
70 Portable by large electric fan and the
best music obtainable in the city is
employed. The best people in the city
% are patronizing these parties. Dancing
"a commences at 800 o'clock or immediat-
Is ely after the performance. If you are
'r fond of dancing attend the dance at the
Bijou and spend most enjoyable even
10 ing. One dance 10 cents; for entire
% evening, 81 90.
Black rust has developed in the wheat
fields in this vicinity and the damage to
y the grain ia estimated at from one to
fifty per cent. The extent of the dam.
r, age Is hard to estimate and can not be
in definitely ascertained until the crop is
TX threshed. The most crop showing
Or damage 10 the wheat and large per
he centage Of that has passed the stage for
any great damage. The late wheat will
re- be hit hard in some cases. 1t is esti-
l. mated by some of the best judges that
,f fifty per cent. will not cover the damage
10 and some wheat will be shrunken by
lie blight caused by the excessive hot
weather which has prevailed for the last
m two weeks. In many places the oat
! crop is reported as light, and rusted,
! the wild hay crop will be short owing
to 30 many of the meadows being COW
J, cred with water, while timothy is q
poor stand this season. Barley and flax
are exceptionally good; the former is
! = practically all cut and the only danger
to fax is hail
TX
= Last Wednesday night the way
( freight, due at 3:l5 p. M, did not reach
this station until 1880 p. m. A car con-
tanning about fifty sacks of -four for +.
!. II. Aplin, and tank and barrel of gas
y oline were left for unloading. The
/. brakemen who were doing the work
had lanterns to light the way, but did
not discover that there was leak in
gasoline tank. Soon the car was ON fire.
., the alarm given, and the car was side.
=. tracked in short order, just north OF the
y creamery. And none too soon. No
le sooner had the locomotive got safe
ID distance than there was a terrific explo-
- sion and the gasoline tank shot through
the roof of the car 60 height OF about
SA ene hundred feet. and struck not far
81 from the track The roof Of the cream.
q. cry took fire, but was exunguished by
~ the untirtng efforts OF some OF our ciri-
10 zens. The box car was burned down 10.
8. the trucks aud about thirty sacks Of
-four destroyed. Quite number Of ties
m By the side Of the railroad track also
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