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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
Summons.

Summons.
Feb. 10 VIC
State of South Dakota
County of Day.
In Circuit Court, Fifth Judicial Circuit.
William Rich,
Plaintiff,
Thomas Bowles William Hadden, James
Scott and T. Ii. Mouat,
Defendants.
The State of South Dakota to the above
named defendants:
You, and each of you, are hereby sum
moned and required to answer the com
plant of the plaintiff which was filed in
the office of the clerk of this court, at the
court house at Webster, in said county
and state, on the 3ist day of January, 1905
title to and determination of all adverse
claims against the premises described In
the complaint and situate in said county
and state, to-wit:
The southwest quarter of Section No
Twenty 900 in Township No. one hundred
and twenty-five (122) north; of Range No
fifty-six (56) west of the Fifth Principal
Meridian; and to serve copy of your
answer to said complaint, on the under
signed, at his Office in Webster, South
Dakota, within thirty days after the COM
exclusive of the day of such service; and
If you fail to answer said complaint within
that time, the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in the com
plant.
Dated this 3lst day of January, 1908.
JoSephus Alley,
Plaintiffs Attorney
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
From Butler Herald.

John Schmid went to Webster on
business Saturday.
Mrs. Koenigs,of Condo, was visit
ing friends and relatives in Webster
and Bristol last week.
Mr.and Mrs. Faust and daughter
Rosie, and George Buck went to
Webster Saturday.
Geo. w. Butler came back from
Breda, Iowa, Tuesday night and
went through to Webster, returning
Wednesday morning.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
Notice to Creditors.
Nor Z W

State of South Dakota,
''', County ), r Of Day. $
In County Court.
In the matter of the estate of Sevilla
Long, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under.
signed, administrator of the estate OF
Sevilla Long, deceased, 70 the creditors OF
and ali persons having claims against the
said deceased, to exhibit them, with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this notice
to the said administrator at his place OF
residence in Highland township, in the
County of Day, South Dakota.
Dated at March Sd, 1908.
NJ. b. Long,
Administrator of the estate OF
Sevilla Long, decea sed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
CURRENT EVENTS.
Clipped from the Exchanges Which
Come to Our Table.


Come to Our Table.
Instead of being the rarest in
South American waters our flag has
recently put all others there in the
background. Now let business fol-
low the flag.
"There is never any question
which way the democratic party is
travelling" says Mr.. Bryan's Com.
moner. Certainly not. 1t has been
travelling backward for a dozen
years.
The reform party in South Dakota
has selected peculiar instruments
to perform it's work; a United States
senator whom no one denies is a
CRATER, one congressman who is a
home wrecker and one who is a
booze fighter. Huronite.
It's small thing to have the
doors OF a school or theatre open
out, but there might come time
when it would be worth a million
to the child or the men behind him.
In the seventh annual report on
the statistics of morality for 1905,
issued by the department of CON-
merce and labor, the death rates per
1000 Of population for the several
registration states for 1906 show
South Dakota in the lead with S.8
per cent. Indiana is second with
l2.5 per cent and Michigan third
with l4.3 per cent. If people are
looking for healthy state in which
to make their home there is no bet
ter place than South Dakota.
A reform state administration is
automatic in its workings. The
governor goes of and leaves his
office, the secretary Of state leaves
his, the auditor leaves his, the state
treasurer does likewise, the superin-
tendent OF public instruction follows
the example Of his associates and
devotes his time to discussing poll
tics, the commissioner of school and
public lands spends his time in keep
ling Deuel. county in line, and the
attorney general stays at Redfield
figuring out how to expend bis
annual appropriation Of 81 800 while
the insurance commissioner devotes
his time TO holding up Insurance.
companies and in collecting cam
lpaign assessments.
Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor Of
the noiseless gun, processes to being
sorry that he has made his ides
public. He says he is appalled, BY
the thought Of the harm that may
come from his invention. He points
out how disastrous noiseless CUR
/ will become in the hands Of crimi.
nals. he says that already advan.
. Il A / = 10
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
From ortIey Optic.

Auditor 2. j. Wagner, of the
Reliance Elevator company, was in
town Monday.
Will Anderson and his mother
arrived from Webster Tuesday
morning to visit with G.. E. Ander-
son and family.
That no serious accidents were
reported in this vicinity the first of
the week is a matter for thanksgiv-
ing. The Standard Oil tank was
here Saturday and loaded up a
couple of the merchants with seventy
five gallons of what was supposed to
be kerosene but which proved to be
a mixture Of oil and gasoline. The
presence of the latter was suspected
first when someone tried to light a
fire with it and later when the lamps
were lighted in the evening. One
lamp exploded, but was cotton out
of the house in time to prevent seri-
GUS damage. As soon as the mer-
chants discovered what they had
been selling they Immediately set to
work to find out who had the stuff
and to warn them and SO far as
known no harm was done. The oil
man at Waubay was also notified of
the trouble and came over Tuesday
and took the mixture out again.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
Far county Auditor.

| hereby announce niyseH az - ,,i,d
tor. Of Day county, 5. d., subject 20 th l,i
viii of the republican voters as eApIesSe'
i'm the primaries to be held IN June.
iva i nron,ise 10 faithfully and impair
tally ne form the duties if nominated
and elected. ,,onruoIrsr
Bristol Township, Day county, .. u
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
NEWsY STATE NOTES.

Earl Heddleston is in Jail at Yaukton
for an alleged attack on Virgil Winfrey
with gun Winfrey had been receiv-
ing threatening cards telling him TO
keep away from a certain young woman
and one day discovered newly dug
grave with headstone and his name,
with date of his death. He did not
take this broad hint, but went to a
dance and danced with the young
woman that young aeddleston claimed.
As he was leaving the mouse Virgil was
fired at and enough evidence was COL
lected to warrant the justice in binding
Heddleston over
Kenneth Sawyer, who returned home
to Dell RAPIDS from Arizona last week,
has received word from the manage.
ment of the Washington American ball
team that he has been sold to the .Des
Moines team of the Western association.
Kenneth finished the season last fall on
the San Francisco team in the Coast
league and while there was drafted by
the Washington manager. Last season
while on tn Winnipeg team in the
Northern Copper League. ken"
received salary of $3.50 a month, but
if he goes to Des Moines he will receive
not less than 5000 per month. Last year
Sawyer was in good form and was the
star pitcher on the Winnipeg team.
His friends hope for him bright future
in his profession as a twirler.
Plans have been adopted by the Dead
wood Business club for the organiza-
tion of company with 500 600 capital
that will remodel the old foundry of the
Black Hills Manufacturing company.
which was burned down there more than
year ago. The lack of the foundry
has been sadly felt there and other
towns are getting the most of the bust
ness in that line. J. @. O'Donnell, the
proprietor of the old foundry, is to be
one of the principal members of the
new company and will manage the
foundry. The new fou ndry will be
much larger and more complete than
the one destroyed, ard it is expected
that it will be in operation some time
during the present year, as work on its
construction shortly will be COM
menced.
Mrs. A. K Smith, wife of merchant
tailor of Garretson, is dead as result
of a prolonged drinking debauch. The
husband was gone from home and the
woman was found unconscious on the
floor of the home, with no fire, evidently
having been in that condition for at
least twenty hours. A physician
was called, but she died in the night
1t is not known where she obtained the
liquor. 1t was well known that she
was habitual drinker. having been in
the same condition before. The coroner
considered no inquest necessary The
body was embalmed and is awaiting the
arrival Of relatives from minneapolis
and Chicago. The family consisted Of
| the husband and wife and a fifteen. year.
old daughter.
| BY recent Interpretation o. the
treaty Of 1889. all married women of the
Sioux tribes west of the Missouri river
will receive an allotment of $40 acres in
addition to the allotment Of $40 acres to
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
For sheriff.

hereby announce nlyse t,eriff on the
na,e b 1Ht ticket subject to the will OF the
T TeppubIican voters Of Day county IN the
June primarss i nIe ssspre myself Ss to per-
ton anu ~ d,,tiee of the office fairly aud
imnaftiaiiy and to the best Of my a3HllKity'
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
POLITICAL announcements.
Far states Attorney.

nounce 10 the republican yot-
hereby by a onunIy, that am candidate la $,
for the Office OF states att1 nf eSe % voters
If said party. az expresseo az '"e
primaries. II WOODWORTH.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
The Dairy Cow Comes First.

The convention Of the National
Creamery Buttermakers' association
should b = eye opener TO those
Who have failed to appreciate the
importance q the dairy COW il the
Northwest. The development d
"a dairy Industry during she last
10 decades has been remarkable
MIX and cream were handled ii I
srude and unsanitary manner : geu.
suaaion ego. The product The farmer
uihnnged for groceries a ths
uuulz1 store was poor thing q
A "a obtained after much
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12

A Rank Confession


Crawford for the senate because the
legislature OF 1907 passed fellow
servant" law practically unanimously
A score of men can be produced as
witnesses who have heard Mr.. Craw-
ford, as salaried lobbyist for the
Northwestern, hold forth for an
hour before a legislative committee
--denouncing like measure with
all the eloquence at his command.
Following this introduction to the
dipping tank probably hundred
men at Pierre heard him tell in a
public address how he, the salaried
attorney for the Northwestern did a
lob in court that would be scorned
by a Digger Indian. This is no
fairy tale, but actual fact.
He described how a locomotive
had become derailed. The foreman
of the wreckipg crew or whatever
force was sent to repair the damage,
directed certain young man to
crawl under the engine for some
purpose or other, the engine mean
while being up on jack screws. The
man obeyed orders, and while he
was under the engine the foreman
directed that the jack screws be
lowered. As result the young
man was mangled to his death,
leaving widowed mother with a
number Of minor children entirely
devoid of support. The mother
sued for damages.
Mr.. Crawford told his audience
that his whole being revolted at the
occurrence but as the salaried attor-
ney for the Northwestern he prose-
cuted the suit against the widowed
mother, won it and left her and her
children charges upon charity.
Talk about old sinners getting up
in revival meetings and trying to
outdo each other in recounting deeds
Of youthful wickedness. This con-
fession beats them all.
Many will doubt that Mr.. Craw-
ford's hideous denunciation OF him
self can be true, but il he is taken
at his word he must have hypno-
tized both judge and jury into utter
disregard for existing law or no
such verdict could have been rend-
cred.
Is anybody in any walk OF life
willing to trust this manner OF man
with one twenty sixth Of the voice of
all this great nation in the decision
Of its affairss A majority of one in
in the United States senate, aside
from the president, decides every
thing. And this man openly boasts
Of having done thesethings, whether
be did thsm or not, ceasing to do
them on his own confession only
when he conceived an ambition to
become q United States senator.
Look into the face Of Senator
Kittredge. Can you imagine that
that face would confront the widow
and her helpless children in open
court and condemn her and hers to
the poor farm, in violation Of all law
In return for salary Of $500 a
year from railroad or any other
corporation for that and other like
servicesY
Look into the face Of the other.
Does il seem capable OF doing such
q "cunning' thing as Mr.. Crawford
claims TO have accomplished?
The man who by his own confess
sion swayed that judge and that
jury to condemn that widow and her
orphans TO the poor farm in defiance
Of law may be capable Of deceivine
audiences, but he cannot appeal e
The cool afterthoughts Of thinking
people. Aberdeen News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
For Sheriff.

thereby announce n;ca q q she IfR" Of
can candidate 70, etle to o the will Of the
Day Day, Io' voters, as expressed at the
primaries in June next; ,cIrST RLANK.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12

For Sale-Two Short Horn yearling
bulls and three Short Horn cows, all
with pedigree. Will sell for cash or on
time or will trade for common mich
COWS Four 5-year old mares, two
5.year old geldings, two 10-year old
mares, two 10-year old geldings and
six yearling colts. Call on or address
Phillip A. Gross, Webster, s. ID.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12

Subject TO the will OF the repnplicia an
voters az expressed at the June priiiliia re
/ hereby announce mNs elt a CallH wa y
TOT the oi'ee " RYRON a. WALTON.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12
Notice.
Fol, 10 wv

A meeting of the shareholders of the
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
of Webster, South Dakota, will be held in
their office in Webster, South Dakota, on
March 10, 1908, at 2 p. m. for the purpose of
electing directors for the ensuing year.
David Williams, Pres
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-03-12

Lease of School aud Endowment
Lands.
Jan. 16 w 9.
Notice is hereby given that ON March
21st, 1908, all the Unbiased school and
endowment lands in Day county, will be
offered for lease at public auction, between
the hours of 10 ocl ock a. m. and o'clock y.
M, at the front door of the court house in
said county.
Dated at Pierre, January s. 1908.
o. G. Dokken.
Commissioner of School and
Public Lands.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21
knew NO man TILL 29, then She WE'D THE FIRST
Miss Pratt, of 'WomenS Commonwealth" Was Reared in the
Belief 1t Was Sin Marry-BelOnged to Strange
Founded by Woman Who Left Her Husband
and Formed Colony Who Saw No Men.

Philadelphia. Back of the mar
riage of Miss Adah Pratt, of 1887
Irving street, Washington, to B..
Franklin Hoover, of Philadelphia, lies
story of unusual romance.
Miss Pratt lived until she was
Twenty-Five years old without form
ing the acquaintance of man. She
was born and raised in a community
of women taught to believe that mar
riage was a sin. She was bound by
teaching and belief always to remain
single. Then she married the first
man to whom she ever had been in
troduced. She did more than half
the counting herself.
Nearly thirty years ago, in Texas,
where Mrs. Hoover's mother lived at
the Tina, Mrs. Martha McWhirter,
Of Waco, announced that she had had
visitation from the Almighty, and
had been told that it was sinful to
live with man. Accordingly, she left
her husband and, gathering about her
a small party of women followers.
went to the little town of Bolton and
there established headquarters of the
new creed.
1t was called the Womans Com
monwealth. It's members were all
well to do and self-supporting. Some
were spinsters, some had been mar
ried and some had children. Mrs.
Pratt was one of the conv1'ts of the
religion. and, leaving her husband,
she Joined the colony where, two
months afterwaed, the present Mrs.
Hoover was born. There were ten
children in the colony, all girls.
Ten years ago the commonwealth"
moved to Washington, taking up a
farm of 172 acres in Montgomery
County, Maryland, and a large house
in the city. The children were taught
to beware of men. They never were
permitted to have acquaintance with
any of them.
OF course they saw men. Mrs.
Hoover says she often had noticed
them. But she never paid attention
to any of them until she met Hoover.
This is the way she told her story:
Five of the girls grew up" she
said, land then slipped away to be
married. OF course they were re-
garded as sinners. l thought them
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21
Child's Coat.

Such coat as this one is adapted
to all seasons of the year, for it can
be made from an almost limitless
variety of materials. In the Illus
tration white pique is trimmed with
embroidery but cloth, silk, bedford
cord and all materials used for chill
dren's coats are appropriate. For the
coming season pique, linen, cotton
bedford cord and the like are much
used, while for the very warm
weather still thinner fabrics are
dainty and are very much liked,
whereas for the cooler weather cloths
are in every way appropriate. The
cape is not alone becoming, it also is
protective and desirable from the
practical point of view, but it is,
nevertheless, optional and can be
used or omitted as liked.
The coat is made with square
yoke. to which the full skirt portion
is attached. 1t includes comfortably
full sleeves that are finished with
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21

A very large hat with dropping
brim rolled slightly at the left side
and medium-tall straight crown, COW
cred with miroir velvet il. tobacco
brown. Binding of the velvet fin-
ishes the brim; draped velvet. held
at the front by diamond-shaped
brooch set with mock moonstone,
surrounds the crown, and posed at
the left of the back is radiating
tuft OF three demi-short ostrich tips
in chartered.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21
Z OIL N(lbNs

New York City.-The over waist
that is made with loose sleeves is
one Of the best liked and is always
charmlngly attractive. This one Is
distinctly novel, giving the effect of
separate guimpe while in reality
the entire blouse is made in one. In
the illustration tafreta is trimmed
with banding and is finished with em-
broidery on the yoke and the cuffs
while It is combined with chemi-
settle OF tucked mousseline, but al
most all the wasting materials are
appropriate and the blouse will be
found quite as satisfactory for tho
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21

! bad. But about a year ago I went
down town with girl friend and she
introduced me to Mr.. Hoover.
Somehow or other | could not get
him out of my mind l found myself
wishing | might see him all the time.
| knew it wasn't right; at least, l
thought it wasn't. Later | met him
down town again, and several times
after that. Then he told me he was
going to leave the city and asked me
to write. | told him | would"
From her story it seems that Hoov-
er, who is a hotel clerk, went to Chi
cago, then came to Philadelphia, and
wrote his intention to Miss Pratt in
Washington.
II was crazy to see him." she adj
mitted, land decided to risk the fear
of my mothers displeasure. So /
slipped quietly out of the house in
Washington and came here. When l
found Mr.. Hoover he was greatly sur
prised.
",Why, Adah, have you come up
here to marry me?' he asked.
81 don't know that / thought
much about that, l replied, L just
felt had to see YOU again
Well. will you marry me?' he
asked. 1t took me by surprise, al
though 1 was not wholly unprepared
for it,
" I'm willing, said finally.
Right away?' he asked. This
was so sudden it took my breath
i away.
>tCan't you wait until tomorrow
night?' / asked him, and he said he
would
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. ]. b. G. Pidge, pastor of the
Fourth Baptist Church. at the parson-
age. The same evening the bride
wrote to her mother, but has not re-
ceived an answer as yet.
I'm afraid she never will forgive
me- she said. She always was very
strict with me. There are still three
unmarried girls atthe commonwealth.
They are twenty-three, twenty-eight
and thirty-threc years old"
Mrs. Hoover is tall, of striking
figure and stylishly dressed. She has
a wealth of chestnut hair, brown eyes
and an expressive smile.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21
The Field OF Sports.

Adam Ryan, the Chicago light
weight, is being side-stepped by all
the lightweights in Philadelphia.
Ryan can make 1870 pounds.
Fifty-five trotters have been en-
tered to compete at Hartford on La
Dor Day for $4,000 Charter Oak
Purse for horses Of the 2.09 class.
Il see that EngIishmen think no
game develops singleness OF purpose
and directness OF method so much
as cricket" says the baseball enthu-
siast. THAT may be, but it struck
me that what it developed mostly was
the tea drinking hahit.3
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21
Feminine Notes.

A royal decree has been issued in
Holland abolishing the rule promul-
gated three years ago which forbade
women employed in the postal tele-
graph Offices to marry.
Miss Helen Cannon, daughter Of
the Speaker, has been elected honor
airy president of new patriotic Sc
ciety to be known as Daughters Of
Senators and Representatives.
Letitia M. Snow, a graduate of the
Woman's College of Baltimore, is at
the head OF the department of BIZ
ology in the State Normal School Of
Farmville, Va.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21

Now that walking skirts are cut so
short, women are giving good deal
of attention to their footwear. The
patent leather vamps, with high but
toned tops of a color matching or
contrasting with the material of the
suit, are much favored, all the seams
being covered with strappings of the
patent leather.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21
$7,OOO,0OO Plans of Obscure
Young Architect to Be Realized.

London. The London County
Council has decided to proceed with
the building of the proposed County
Hall on the site selected on the banks
of the Thames at Westminster. 1t is
estimated that 1t will cost $1,000, 900
and take seven years to build.
The architect is Ralph Knott, who
till he won that position by competi-
tion was an obscure assistant in the
city architects Office, He Is twenty
nine years old. His fees as architect
will amount to about 100000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-04-21

the danger which they will run. 1t
is possible that volunteer officers and
men will man the tower. One of the
twelve-inch guns has been taken from
the turret of the monitor and stub
installed in its place. The stub will
be fired at.
A heavy plate Of armor has been in
stalled between the other gun and the
stub to prevent injury to the gun,
and a bullet head has been constructed
in the forward part of the vessel so
that should it be struck at or below
the water line the vessel will not sink.