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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
THE COMMISSION PLAN
Petition Will be Presented to
The City Council at Meeting
Monday Night.

A petition to bring the proposition of
adopting the commission plan of city
government in Webster to a vote has
been circulated this week and will be
presented to the city council Monday
night. A special election will be held
to get decision from the voters of the
city.
Yankton and Pierre voted upon the
proposition last week, and in both cities
it carried by a heavy majority. The
commission plan seems to be giving
general satisfaction wherever it is in
use.
A meeting for the purpose of discus
sidg this proposition will be held at the
Commercial Club rooms at 500 O'Clock
Saturday night, and all interested are
requested to be present.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03

NormaIiteS and Web
ster Team Will Play at Opera
House Saturday Night.

Webster basket ball enthusiasts are
scheduled to have the opportunity to
witness a fast game at the Webster
opera house Saturday night when the
Webster High School girls will meet the
Aberdeen Normal team.
The Normal team has played sever
al games this season and are putting up
fast game. This will be the first
game of the season for the local team,
but the girls have been practicing dill
igently and are in shape to give the
Formalites an interesting game.
Following is the lineup of the local
team:
Center-Tenke Renkes.
Center Guard-Hazel Kidder
Guard Eulalia Wilcox.
Guard Bernice Woodwarth.
Forward Mary Perkins.
Forward-Lydia Stearns.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
Many Candidates Announce
Their Intention of Captur-
ing Some One of The
Twenty-SiN Prizes.

The Reporter and Farmer contest,
started last week, has aroused popular
interest to an exceptional degree. It
has far surpassed the most optimistic
expectations of those best acquainted
with contest openings. With the first,
announcement it has attracted more
attention, stirred up more inquiry and
enthusiasm, and received more COM
ment and favorable mention than could
have been in any way anticipated.
A score and MORE including many of
the most popular ladies and young men
of Day county have already signified
their intention of securing if possible
some one of the various prizes offered.
Others are merely waiting until some
friend of theirs shall have nominated
them. This, however, is not necessary
as anyone may nominate herself.
The list of contestants and their
standings will be published next week.
This list will show that the best people
of the county are interested in the
Reporter and Farmer contest.
There are different reasons for enter
ing this contest. The prizes are all
high grade and to be the possessor of
one of them would be appreciated by
any one. There are those who are in
real need of some one of these prizes
Many a young person has helped him
self TO get an education through schol-
arships of the kind offered in this con-
test. Some enter the contest because
of the diversion they find in it. The
collecting of votes is pleasant recre-
alton.
Subscriptions are daily coming in to
the Reporter and Farmer Office and
thousands of votes are being issued.
The merchants who issue votes are
having constant demands for the pre-
cious slips of pink paper There are
many people already realizing that
these votes will help materially TO put
themselves or their friends in winning
positions.
We wish to call attention TO one of
the rules governing this contest which
specifies that no emIloye of any of the
firms issuing votes in this contest will
be admitted as a contestant. All nom
nations sent in which do not comply
with this ruling will be destroyed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03

joke, about as big a joke as Coe /.
made of himself when he first went to
Washington and was cody taken into
camp by the Interests" against which
he had mouthed so much. Washington
and South Dakota too, will not soon
forget the laughable spectacle Coe |
made when he frantically clambered
over the fence into the insurgent camp,
after hearing with no uncertain sound
from the people of this state, who had
caught him playing tag in the back
yard of the hated plutocrats. And if
Mr.. Crawford thinks that because he
fooled ''some of the people all the time
and all the people some of the time"
he can fool the people of this state
"all the time" he is badly mistaken.
Facts are facts and no amount of ora
tory or interviews can get around them.
The people of South Dakota have had
enough of people who think with their
lungs. Brookings Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
TOWNSHIP ELECTIONS
Granville Township Goes on the
"Dry" List by Vote
of 20 to Is.

The election held in Grenville town
ship Tuesday was a surprise to many.
This township has been in the wet
column for several years, but at the
election Tuesday the usual majority
was reversed and the township was
placed in the dry" column by a vote
of 20 to Is.
Following is the list of township of
ficers elected.
Supervisor, l year, Larry Dolney;
Supervisor years, Anton Miotke;
Clerk, Frank Miotke; Treasurer, A. w.
Lehman; Justice of the Peace, Jos.
Pekron; Assessor, +. B. Lehman; Con-
stable, Aug. Glombioski; Overseers of
Highways, John Snaza, Frank Boik,
Jos. Pekron, John Ewald; Poundmas-
ter, Frank Kurkoski.
WHEATLAND
Supervisor, Henry j. Svien; Clerk, j.
J. Fosse; Treasurer, John Hansen; AS
SCISSOR, N. M. Tweed; Justice, o. r.
Howell; Constables, 2 years, VIM.
Long; year, Wyman Rider.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
Some Good Advice.

Before listening to the complaints of
your children about the general fiend-
ishness of the teachers and getting all
worked up and excited over it, it is
better to reflect little Remember
your one or a half dozen cherubs drive
you crazy about half the time, and
bear with the teacher who is making
for you intelligent men and women out
of as unpromising raw material as you
were twenty or thirty years ago. Re-
member that besides your boy, who, of
course, everybody knows is an angel,
she has to contend with that awful boy
of your neighbours and you know full
well what terror he is. Exchange.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
SENATOR C0E |. CRAWFORD COMMENCES
TO BLOW OFF STEAM AGAIN

paid by the state, so where is the saw
ing of the taxpayers money? He for
gets that during his term of office as
governor he maintained his residence at
Huron and travelled back and forth to
Pierre at the expense Of the taxpayers,
who not only had to pay his transpor-
tation but his hotel bills.
Mr.. Crawford says that "a splendid
state capitol has been erected" which
nobody will deny, but he forgot to
mention the fact that the erection of
this splendid capitol in no way effects
the finances of the state, as the cost is
being paid from the proceeds of the
sale of capitol building lands, as the
Press took occasion to show a few
weeks ago.
He would make us believe that men
ton of the extravaganza and misman-
agemet of his and succeeding admins
trations is mere bogy, gotten up by
his opponents out of spite to pro
gressive republicans. 1t remains to
be seen just what the taxpayers have
to say on this subject.
Mr. Crawford dwelIs on the fact that
the legislature of 1907 passed a law
requiring separate assessments of the
terminal property of railroads, and he
has the audacity to ask for support on
the ground that this law was enacted
in the interest of the taxpayers. AS a
matter of fact, this law was a railroad
measure pure and simple. 1t had the
sanction and endorsement of the big
railroad interests, and was being advo-
Gated by the tax department of at least
one of the leading railroads in the state
six months before the legislature that
enacted it convened and months before
any member OF that legislature was
even elected.
A more iniquitous piece of Legislation
it would be hard to conceive, for it
gave the state board of assessment
power to juggle assessments and favor
certain railroads at the expense of
other property. 1t is reported that the
two leading railway companies of the
state profited to the extent of not less
than one hundred thousand per year
during Crawford's two years as COVER
nor and to about the same extent
under Gov. Vessey's administration.
In speaking of his own work at Wash
ington, Mr.. Crawford ennmerates five
measures which he is going to intro
duce and support, none of which are in
harmony with any of the six bills which
President Taft is trying to get through
congress. If Mr. Taft is successful in
having enacted certain legislation what
show has Coe |. Crawford?
Altogether, the interview is a great
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
South DakOta's Encyclopedia of
Political Information En-
deavors to Defend the Gre
fOrmO Adm Illustration

In the guise of a dispatch from
Washington, dated February 10th, the
junior United States Senator from
South Dakota, Coe |. Crawford, in
dulges in two column TRADE against
the rank and file of the republican
party in this state. Mr.. Crawford is
one of those statesmen who are easy
meat for the average reporter. but
anyone conversant with his record, both
in South Dakota and Washington, will
take but very little stock in his remarks.
Not in single instance does Mr..
Crawford mention President Taft and
appears to be piqued because the repub
leans of the state, in the conference at
Huron on February 1st, Made a
declaration in favor of the Taft admin
istration." AS the Press has repedly
stated, Mr.. Crawford and the insurgent
element in this state merely supported
Mr.. Taft for the presidency because
they knew that the rank and file of the
republican party demanded that Mr..
Taft be elected to the position, and Mr..
Crawford and his followers, knowing
that the only way they could get the
offices was by supporting Taft, did so,
not from choice but for political exped-
iency. LaFollotte or some other insur-
gent radical would have suited them
better, but there were the offices, and
so Mr. Crawford manfully disregarded
his own personal dislike for Taft and
acceeded to the wishes of the great
majority of republicans-fOr the offices
only.
Mr.. Crawford utterly disregards the
facts in talking of affairs in this state
and with his ''old time boldness, auda-
city and assurance" seek to deceive
the people, just as he did when on the
stump. But by this time the people
have discerned the wolf under the cloak
of lambs wool and the facts, and the
facts only, will prevail.
For instance, Mr.. Crawford says that
his legislature passed laws reducing
passenger rates in this state. Maybe
they did, but we are paying the old
rate of three cents mile just the
same. And the immediate effect of the
Legislation regarding express rates was
to make them higher, and it has only
been since the first of the present year
that express rates have been lowered.
He says that state officers pay rail-
road fare now, whereas travelling on
passes was the rule before the insurg-
ents went into power. But he forgets
that now, not only do they draw sala-
ries, but their travelling expenses are
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
SCHOOL OFFICERS MEET
Large Number of Day County
School Officers Attend
Meeting Wednesday

The meeting of school officers held at
the court house Wednesday afternoon
was largely attended, and was one of
the most successful meetings of the
kind ever held in Day county.
Prof. Willis of the Agricultural De-
partment of Agronomy at the Brook
ings College gave an interesting and
instructive address along the line of
educating our country boys and girls to
stay on the farm and emphasized the
fact that the best crop that can be
raised on the farm is the boys and girls.
Prof. w. A. Thompson of the Web
City Schools gave an address in the
afternoon on "The value of the good
teacher" He bore strongly upon the
fact that many of the boys and girls in
our country schools were used by poor
teachers a great many times to prac-
tice upon in order to learn how to
teach. He also attacked the unsanitary
water pail which is commonly found in
the country school house, and that his
remarks along this line were not wasted
was shown by the fact that number
of school directors returned home bear
ing sanitary water coolers to install in
their school houses.
Practically every school district in
the county was represented at the
meeting, and those present were unani-
nous in expressing the opinion that
they had received much valuable in
formation in the line of school work,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
Take Notice.

expect to retire from business in
Webster March ], 1910, and to have my
buzinessa affairs entirely Strengthened
up BY that date. Any person knowing
himself to be indebted to me will con-
fer favor by calling and making set
Element at once, an early compliance
with above request viii be greatly
appreciated.
+. A. Bauske.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-03-03
! A new BUSINESS FIRM
u. y. Weller and w. 4. Ross
= Organize The Webster
EIcctric Company.

G. Z. Weller, who resigned his posi-
ton as superintendent of the city light
and water plant, retired from the posi-
ton March /, and has been succeeded
by Geo. Boyle, who has been employed
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
DOG KILLS BULL
IN HOURS FIGHT
CANINE AND KING OF BOVINE
HERD IN BATTLE TO
DEATH.
GETS FATAL GRIP ON THROAT
Bulldog SkiiIfulIy Evades Mad Rushea
Of Larger Animal and Awaits Op-
portunity to Get His Favor
lite Hold.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-After one of the
most desperate battles ever fought be.
tween two animals, bull dog killed
a mad bull near here Few days ago.
The struggle lasted an hour
Both dog and bull belonged to A. B.
Hawkins, who with other members OF
his family witnessed the desperate en-
counter.
The animals had been together on
the farm for some time and there was
no thought of a battle between them.
Hawkins was feeding his stock and the
dog, as usual, was at his side. Among
the cattle was monster bull. The
king of the bovine herd never had
shown tendency to be cross until the
morning of the battle, when Hawkins
struck him with a whip. This aroused
the bulls fighting spirit and he
charged the farmer. Hawkins escaped
through the gate leading to the feed
ing pen as the dog rushed to his res
cue.
Swapping at the heels of the bull.
the dog brought blood and turned the
big beast from his intended prey just
| as Hawkins slammed the gate.
Fearing the, fight would terminate
| fatally and not wanting to lose either
animal, Hawkins attempted to call the
dog Off Jack, the bulldog. had no in
tention of giving up after once being
charged by the bull, and he remained
in the fray.
| With lowered head the bull beloved
h. challenge and the dog stood await
ing the attack. The bull rushed mad
ly, but the dog leaped aside. Again
and again the bull tried to impale Jack
on his horns or crush him against the
ground. The dog skillfully eduded the
charges Of the enraged bull.
Growing more furious as each
charge failed, the bull tore at the
brave dog with roars of anger Other
animals in the herd took up the chal
lenge. but still Jack stood his ground
By this time. other members of the
family had reached the scene. The
children wept, fearing their pet dog
would be trampled to death. Jack
knew his business, however. and PAID
no attention to the commands of Haw
kins and the others. Once a horr
struck him lightly on the side. Their
the dog charged. He grabbed the bul
near the jaw, but the great anima
srook him off. A great piece of the
bulls flesh was firmly clutched in thu
dogs teeth. The taste of blood aroused
the canine instinct for battle and th'
dog ed again. Blood was flowing
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
Has "Ereah Air" Carr.

The Erie railroad has provided one
car in some of its suburban trains for
those who object to the steam heat
and stuffy atmosphere of the regular
cars. The cars carry signs reading
Fresh Air" and are started out with
the doors. ventilators and alternate
side windows wide open. Any person
riding in these cars is privileged to
close the window next to him. but has
no right to insist on the closing of
other ventilat tion openings. The will
OF the majority of those who ride in
the cars will control the turning on
OF the steam. which may be wanted
in very cold weather. Those who find
the cars too cold can always move to
other cars in the trains. This, it is
considered. Is a novel but sensible
way of solving the vexatious prob
lem OF heating and ventilating cars.
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
RAILRoADINe IN THE ANDES
American Engineers and Conductors,
But They Don't Stick to Jobs for
Long Periods.

Archer Harman. president of the
Guayaquil & Quito railroad. returned
from Ecuador to New York and re-
ported to Ned York great progress in
the building of the road. 300 miles of
which was completed In 1909 The
road connects Guayaquil on the coast
of Quito. the capital, on the Andes
plateau. 1t is one of the taIlest jobs
in railroading that has been attempt
ed. The elevation at Cotopaxi pass
is 1880 feet. Most of the engineers
and conductors are Americans. but
they do not stay long in the employ;
ment of the company. being of a ro-
wing disposition. Their places after
they think they have made enough
money to go wandering again. are
filled by other rovers. About nine
tenths of the workers on the road out
side OF the engineers and conductors
are natives. The speed of trains on
the plains is sometimes between &C
and SO miles. and in the passes abou,
IL miles.
The wageworker., 1910-04-01

The appointment of two vice-prest
dents of the Southern Pacific railroad
e. O. Mccormick of Chicago and
William F. Herrin of San Francisco.
has been announced. Both have their
headquarters in San Francisco. ac-
cording to a Chicago dispatch.
Mr.. Mccormick has been in Chi
cago since 1904. as assistant director
of traffic of the Southern and Union
Pacific, under J. G. Stubbs. He came
to Chicago from San Francisco. where
he had been passenger traffic man
ager of the Southern Pacific for a:
number of years. His elevation to-
the vice-presidency of the road was
greeted with many expressions or
pleasure by those of his associates IN
the railroad world who heard Of It.;
AS vice-president of the Southern
Pacific Mr.. Mccormick will have su!
pervision of all the traffic. both pas
senger and freight. on the Pacific sys-
tem.' embracing the lines In California,
Arizona. New Mexico Nevada, Utah
and Oregon. and will report to the di-
rector of traffic. Mr.. Stubbs.
Mr.. Mccormick began his railroad
career in 1878. in the general offices
of the Lake Erie & Western at La
fayette, Ind. Later he was employed
in the freight department Of the
Monon road at the same place. In
1889 he was appointed general pas
se-ger agent of the Cincinnati. Hamfl-
| ton & Dayton. where he remained for
| IA years. leaving to become passenger
traffic manager of the Big Four at Gin
cinnati.
| Six years later he attracted the at
tention of E. H. Hartman. and was
sent by him to San Francisco as pas
senger traffic manager of the South
ern Pacific. Since then he has been
| constantly with the Hartman lines
coming to Chicago in 1904 as assistant
| traffic director of the Union Pacific
Oregon Short line. Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company and the
Southern Pacific system.
Mr.. Herrin. also made vice-presi
dent, will have supervision of the
legal and land departments and the
corporate organizations Of the Ia
\ cific systems, and the financial bust
4 ness of the company in California. ant
will report to the president
The wageworker., 1910-04-01
ATTORNEY IN ODD POSITION
Employed to Sue Railroad Company
First for WhistIing and Then
for Not Whistiing.

On trip one day in Kansas. Stew
art Taylor. Kansas City attorney.
ran across Joe" Waters. Topeka
lawyer. at Alma.
What are you doing here?" Tay-
lor asked. Z.
We'll. I've got couple of suits
against the Santa Fe." the Topeka
man. who is brother of l.. H. Wa
ters of Kansas City.answered. "Im
going to collect damages from the
road once tor whistling and once for
not whistling." b.
81 don't quite get that" Taylor said.
We'll, it's this way. There's an en-
gineer on this run who used to court
a girl in this town. His suit didn't
prosper somehow, the girl choosing
to remain a maid. She owns little
place on the outskirts of the town,
close to the railroad tracks. and lives
there. 1t seems his rejection stirred
up the acid in the engineers dfspo-
sition, and every time he takes his
train past the house of his former
sweetheart he let's shrek out Of the
whistle. Sometimes he'd even stop
| the train to prolong it until he could
feel sure she had headache. She
stood 1t until she was nervous
wreck and then sued the railroad for
damages.
"The other suit against the road
concerns the same engineer. He
must have been saving up his steam
to let off in front of the house of his
spite, because he neglected to blow
/ tho whistle one day when he an
preached a crossing just outside OF
town here and ran down farmers
wagon, killing horse. The owner
brought suit and gave me the case;
so here I am to make the company
pay for whistling and for not
| Whistling."
The wageworker., 1910-04-01

and neither foot nor shoulder seems
to be bothering him. as they did last
year. With Fred Luderus as his sub
stitute Chance, the fans seem to think.
has fine opportunity Of gathering in
the laurels this year.
Detroit also Is showed down to sec.
ond place by the knowing ones." who
think Hughey Jennings and his
bunch have won their last champion.
ship for the Wolverine metropolis
The fans believe Connie Mack will
have the winner. There seems some
reason for placing Cincinnati In third
,lace In the National league. as Clarl
srifiith has a likely bunch of young
tiers to sandwich in with his veterans
his year. AS to Cleveland. in the
kmerican, 1t is hard to figure out how
he Maps will beat out Boston The
Speed Boys" put up rattling game
asst year and should be better thi!
eason. Cleveland has some new mel
Tho promise we'll. among them Roge
'eckinpaugh. utility tnfielder. but th'
soeton bunch will nave something Il
~ about the result. and 1t would no