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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10
IMPROVEMENTS UNDER ELR0D.

Defenders Of the Vessey admins.
t~ratiOn seems to have overlooked a
little item of S190,G03.25 which was
expended by the Elrod admins,
t|ration in permanent improvements.
One would really think to read the
defense Of the present administra-
tion that it was the first one that
ever built a public building, or put
a dollar into public improvements.
The state came up to the Crawford
administration with a vast amount
invested in public improvements and
with practically no debt. In spite
Of the fact that the state taxes this
year are as much as for the entire
two years Of the Elrod administra-
ton, the state is running heavily in
debt. The stalwarts say it is time
to call a halt. The Wesley people
say that it hurts the state to call
attention to the unpleasant facts and
that the wise policy is to shut your
eyes and go it blind. The indica-
tons are, however, that the people
of the state are going to ask Gov.
Wesley to explain a lot of things
when he gets on the stump. 1t is
further very clear that the people
Of the state will seriously doubt the
ACCESSIBILITY of retaining a business
manage who is unable to make
both ends meet under double the
revenue. 1t certainly is a question
which the people will think it their
interest and duty to consider.
To get the matter upon the record
we print an itimized list of the per
manent improvements made under
the Elrod administration:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

Congressman Burke, chairman Of
the committee on Indian affairs. has
Incorporated some new features in
the Indian appropriation bill, as we'll
as Practicing economy, the amount
called for being 965G,5OO less than
the estimate of the interior depart
ment as necessary. Mr.. Burke does
not believe in making appropriations
to feed Indians who are wealthy ,
and therefore those who have large
tribal trust funds are required to
draw on those funds for their sup.
port. This innovation will prove
popular with the white man if not
with Indians. Times Tribune, Dell
Rapids,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

The leaders Of the insurgent
cause are offering a brand Of har'
mony for the sake Of saving a split
in the republican party and posi-,
bly, causing the loss Of the state tc
the democrats at the November
election. The scheme proposed is
that the insurgents will consent to
The naming Of Burke and Martin
for congress and Johnson for treas
urer and that insurgents will take
the other offices. Wouldn't that
jar you. They would support three
men against whom there is not a
breath Of opposition except out Of
a very small portion of the insur-
gent ranks and whom it is as sure
will be nominated as it is sure there
will be a primary election and in
return they only ask the remainder
Of the places on the ticket and the
support of such men as Wesley and
others whom it is very doubtful if
they could be nominated if they had
the support of both factions. They
ask the unfolding of the extrava-
giant administrations Of Crawford
and Yessey and in return would
give nothing except what they
know the other fellows would get in
spite of the hardest fight which
could be waged. The insurgents as
usual want everything and would
give nothing. This is a stalwart
year and the insurgents know it
hence the offer for compromise.
But their offer for compromise is
like their administration Of state
affails-so ~extrayagent in their
hehalf as to be rejected by all
thinking people,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10
From Andover Gazette.

l.. q. Ochsenreiter, one of Web
ster's jolly and substantial business
men, is in town today.
Miss Emma Chapman has
resigned her position in the post
Office and is now assisting in the
drug store. She is a bright young
lady and there is always room fer
such intelligence in the business
world.
w. A. Stafford, publisher of the
Journal and postmaster at Velva, n.
D., died last Thursday in a hospital
at Minot, soon after an operation for
peritonitis. At one time "Walt" as
he was Familiarity called, was a citi-
zen Of Andover, and set his first type
in the Gazette office. He was a
bright, honest young man, a true
TREND and without a Zoe. No
bronze or marble shaft, no splendor
of ancient or modern tombs and no
play of immortal genius a adorn
the memory of such manly men.
Their lives, their deeds, their infu-
ence, living or dead, and their pure
aspirations are the monuments that
will keep their names burning in the
home and the hearts of kindred and
brethren, while the flying moments
are dimming with their dust and
rust the inscription npon the bright
est obelisk in the cemetery. While
the silence of death wraps and chills
us at this moment, memories, sweet
and precious, come crowding in.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10
THE OLD

In his annual address before the
state editorial association Sioux
Falls President Chas. Nj. Day, edi-
tor Of the Argus Leader pays the
following tribute to "The Old Sub
scriber."
1T is the average public to whom
the editor must make his appeal,
and every editor knows that the
average nan is fair, just and appre-
c%iative. Each editor has hundreds
Of such on his list. He is "The Old
Subscriber" He is the man who
takes the paper through storm aud
sunshine.
"The Old Subscriber" is the back
bone of the newspapers support,
One of him is wofta a dozen Of
hysterical and stop.my-paper sort,
who fly into a rage when they can
not run the whole shop. l here
propose a toast to the "Old Sub
scriber"-the friend and comfort of
the editor-the mar who stands
without hitclin'-the good old
standby who pays without grumbl-
ing, differs without quarieling,
helps without ostentation, gives
praise and criticism when each fails
due, and who is welcome in every
newspaper Office in the land, whether
he wear broadcloth or overalls.
God bless THE Old Subscriber"
and may he live long and prosper"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

The World of the last two weeks
has been trying to blame the state
treasurer, Mr. johnson, OF COLLISION
with the Vessey administration in
the gross aad extravageut expendi-
lures of the past two years. 1t
would be just rs reasonable to
charge Brother Bronson with writ
ing the editorials in the Bristol
Democrat for the same period.
Governor Wesley and the insurgents
promised a reduction in the expen-
SEES of state government and an
economical administration Of the
affairs Of TIE state. The greatly
increased burdens, the increased
valuation for assessment purposes,
the new offices created, and lastly
but not the least Importance to you,
your W tax receipt, shows you
that Wesley did not make good.
johnson promised you reduced
expenditures in the treasures office
and also promised to turn over the
interest on the states money to the
state in each instance he has made
good. OF course Bronson's idea IS
that Of a regular livery team, a good
horse hitched with a poor one to
help haul the load, but in this case
the insurgents will have to get their
W horse they will not be allowed
to borrow u from the stalwarts.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

Among the subjects discussed by
the board of governors" at the
recent meeting with President Taft
vas that of safe and sane" Fourth
of July. 1t won't be very long
before several millions of youngsters
will be discussing that question also
and the statesmen might have
gained a few ideas from members Of
their own household. - Brookings
Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

When you think of voting the
insurgent state ticket at the pri-
maries, just get your tax receipt,
look it over carefully and unless you
are q hopeless believer in frenzied
finance in state affairs, no other
argument will be necessary to con-
vince you that you want no more
insurgency in South Dakota.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

Alfred Moxness spent several days
at Webster last week attending
court.
Geo. Meuer was up from the
county seat a couple of days the
first of the week.
Miss Edna Larson came up from
Webster Saturday and remained
over Sunday at her home here.
The last quarantine for scarlet
fever has been raised and the town
is entirely free from the disease.
Matt Monzel, of Morton town.
ship was here a couple of days the
first of the week visiting with his
sisters, Mrs. Freund and Mrs.
Behres.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Coin came up
from the county seat Saturday night
and remained until Monday night
with Bristol relatives and friends.
Gunder 'Paulson and Andrew
Paulson, Of Pierpont, were Bristol
visitors Friday night. They had
been attending the live stock show
and sale at Brookings.
Petitions to bring the question Of
granting liquor license, to a vote
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

A process has been discouraged
according to an exchange, to manu-
facture lumber out of straw, a ton
OF which will make 1000 feet OF
quarter inch boards. This will
afford a demand for straw and will
sell for perhaps So a ton. 1t is said
that the new lumber is knotless and
without sap and almost indestruct-
IDLE. The lumber will be very
desirable for interior finishing on
this account. Railroad companies
are considering the use Of this lum'
Der for the interior of their coaches
This new discovery, il extensively
utilized, will mean much to farmers
who usually burn or give away a LOT
OF straw each year.--Armour Herald
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

other reason THAI the loval support
given to President Taft as he
endeavor8 to put into operation the
principles and pledges embodied in
the republican party's national plat
form. The insurgents, who sup
ported Mr.. TAFT only as a political
exPedient, and who seized upon the
Pinchot incident as an opportunity
to exhibit their venom under the
guise Of being with the people, will
have a hard job to explain the
inconsistency of their position
Brookings Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

have been circulated in both Bristol
and Valley townships, and it is
reported that a %sufficiento number of
signers have been secured in both
townships. A similas petition has
been circulated in Bristol this week
and enough slgners have been
secured to assure the citizens that
they will again have the opportunity
to determine whether the town will
be "wet" or "drv."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

The 'nsurgent newspapers Of the
state since the Huron meeting have
been busy trying to create an
impression that the result was the
turning down of Kittredge and a
break between the senator and
congressman Burke and Martin.
This would really have been good
news for the nsurgent cause had it
been true, there could then have
existed a reason FOR supposing that
the insurgent cause might win again.
But unfortunately for the insurgents
and very fortunately for the other
residents OF South Dakota, no such
d~issention existed and no such break
came. There was a diversion of
opinion as to how to nominate a
ticket and the matter was adjusted
amicably and to the entire satisfac-
ton Of everybody present and the
congressman and the senator and
;aearly every delegate departed to
their homes with the knowledge
that a full ticket would be nominated
In the state and an effort made by
the state organization-which was
perfected at the Huron meeting-te
have county stalwart tickets put VI
in every county. The only break Al
the Huron convention was the ont
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

When Governor Wesley was
elected they told us he was a good
business mani Now they are
defending his administration. Does
this mean that the governor runs
a quarter of a million behind in his
grocery business every year?
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

Nov comes the complaint from
the southern part of the state that
the prairie chickens are eating up
whole fields Of corn, and farmers are
applying to game wardens for pro-
lection.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

Miss Matte Wade left last week
for Webster where she will visit her
many friends for several days.
Miss Emma Seefeld returned to
her home in Webster Saturday night
after a weeks visit at the home of
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

Six insurgents walked out of the
republican house caucus. This
method of leaving the. party has
been tried before and always resulted
in a lack of standing in any party.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

that broke the back of the insur,
gent 10y the decision to nomi
nate and enthusiastically support a
state ticket at the primaries.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

Secretary Twamley of the corn
growers association of Mitchell,
says ninety per cent of the corn
picked after the frost of October IL,
is unfit for seed and will not grow.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

her brother, NJ. j. and family.
ALI Butler returned from Web.
ster Monday morning where he haf
been for a few days visiting with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harri-
son Butler.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10
HOUSE and Lot For Sale.

House 2Sx2S. addition l2x2c; hot air
furnace. Lot 50xl5o feet, all fenced inI
Number Of fruit trees and large cistern.
Will sell at Il bargain. Inquire at Drue,
the tailor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

The meat boycott is spreading.
Well, letter spread. Its getting
pretty close to the lenton season
anyway.-Groton Independent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10
From Butler Herald.

G.. w. Butler, who has been in
Webster attending court, returned
Friday evening.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-02-10

The Stalwart ticket will be a win
ner in the June primaries, if for no
Newark post., 1910-10-26

advantage of all these for the better
ment OF the schools, an establishment
of valuable town library and all
means Tor the spread OF education
among the young and old. The stran-
ger who has attended the college de-
bates, oratores and lectures and found
the halls deserted with the exception
of the few seats occupied by college
students and profess sors, cannot but
regret the lack Of patronage on the
part of the people, as much for the en-
couragement OF the students as Tor
their own benefit; one who sees those
deserted halls, who has attended the
many interesting and uplifting church
sermons, has read the many enlighten-
ed articles from the press, cannot but
think that efforts are not lacking on
the one side.
shall not begin new chapter on
woman's education in Delaware.
Strange, indeed, does it seem to the
new conner who learns that Delaware
is the only State in the Union which
offers no opportunity for women's S
higher education, for white girls at
least, for the colored girls, | am told,
have right to enter Delaware State
College, Dover. 1t is claimed that wo-
men need no higher education because
they may perchance get married soon
after the completion OF their college
course, as if those who were to build
up the homes and make up the next
generation were not as much entitled
to the enlightenment OF their ideas,
broadening Of mind, improvement of
health, and as if the State could not
afford to pay for the expense of those
enlightened mothers who were to
|rbring up their sons in the right path
'of citizenship.
1t is only as the college and town
will go hand in hand, the town inter
ested with the welfare OF the college,
and the college with the develonment
OF the town that al these mistakes
will be remedied. The source OF all
neglect in Newark is due again and
ara.n to lack OF cooperative work
Newark people have little faith in one
another. There does not sufficiently
r prevail a communal idea; every one is
too much to himself.
We must not fail to mention that the
Newark post., 1910-10-26
THE NEW INDUSTRY

is 1T possible that the Board OF
Trade is going to let the shirt factory
proposition die without further effort?
1t seems to us that il another meeting
were held and the subject thoroughly
discussed that, with concerted action,
something definite could be done. A
prominent business man said this last
week that no results would come un
less the matter was made thoroughly
plain to the people. In spite Of the
election excitement, we should not ne
glect this opportunity. Mr.. Diggs,
the proprietor of the industry, is
waiting to hear the verdict of the
Board. What will they do? The citi-
zens are waiting to hear the verdict
before confirming the suspicious of
the inactivity heretofore displayed.
Many of them are willing to help you
what do you wish'
Newark post., 1910-10-26
BELVA LOCKWOOD

ONE of the sweetest gifts bestowed
Jpn us by the Creator is the power of
appreciation.
The expression OF it enriches the
one who may express, the pesron to
whom the expression applies and rad
iates where we do not dream.
To depreciate is to degenerate; to
appreciate is to elevate.
1t is as sad loss to ourselves as to
others whenever we allow to slip an
opportunity to give reward, where
reward seems due. And reward so
often consists in just few words
How gladly the friends of Mrs. Belva
Lockwood must show their apprecia-
tion of her worth and how sweetly the
words must have fallen upon the ears
Of the woman who has reached the
eightieth milestone of such an inter-
Roya.ton, N. Y, she was graduated at
the National University Law School,
in Washington, in 1873, and is claimed
by Washingtonians as their most dis
tinguished woman of affairs
She secured the passage by Con-
gress of bill giving women employed
in government positions the same re-
muneration as men doing equal work.
She also secured the enactment OF the
law admitting women to practice be-
fore the United States Supreme Court,
and in February, 1879, she was the
hrst woman attorney to be so admitted.
In 1884 and 1888 she was nominated
BY the Equal Rights party for Presi-
Newark post., 1910-10-26

A. MAN may stand on the street
corner and with brazen trumpet pro-
claim his goodness, and yet not be a
whit better than the simple folk who
60 about and honestly perform their
duty. And just because the Star,
the only paper in the State smirched
by that abominable colored supple
ment, makes weekly display of ink
accusing the Republican papers as ad-
vocating or condoning bribery, does
not make it SO, nor does it add glory
to its Bell-toned editorials.
The Star" does not uphold bribery.
That is good. But that does not mean
that the Star has a monopoly of poll
tical cleanliness of the State. nor does
it mean that the little and more mod
est country weeklies OF Republican
tendencies are disgracefully negligent
of the duty of clean press.
There are Republican papers in this
State whose editorials have stood for
right, with just as much force and
character as ever was the privilege OF
Our friend The . tar. and the men
back of those eii,G3;g,3 have been
tried and found II stand for the best
in the community and State just as
much as the man Behind the Star desk.
The Newark POST is young and
claims no superior notions OF journal
ism-but in the matter OF b ibery we
yield first place to no paper. We stand
with the Star, its intimate friend the
Every Evening or any other paper for
clean elections, and what influence we
NAV have shall serve 10 that end
Newark post., 1910-10-26
BOOKER WASHINCTONS WORK

THE visit OF Booker r. Washington
to Wilmington last summer aroused
considerable interest in this State in
his work in Alabama Few persons
perhaps know the good that he is
doing and the extent OF his labors
They may have heard something of his
school at Tuskegee which is larger and
more important than most people
think.
The annual report OF the institute
shows that last year 1862 colored stud
ents paid $I4,457 in fees. This sum
does not include board, which was
partly paid for by labor. The total
receipts of the institute for the year
were $4,000 and $IIS,ooo of this
amount came in the form OF donations.
The endowment fund is $1,4oI ,44o, and
the annual report says that an endow
ment of $4,ooo,ooo is needed. The in
stitute owns almost 20 600 acres of
coal lands and has prospects of great
many legacies.
Principal Washington declares that
the institute intends to make farming
in all its branches the chief work, and
it has five demonstrators busy in var
iOuS parts OF the South.
There is school for training nurses
and which can answer but one half the
calls made upon it for trained nurses.
Principal Washington says that al
though the monetary needs of the in
stitute are still very large the interest
of the general public in the work is
increasing. Colored people in various
parts OF the country are beginning to
contribute to the support of the col
lege, one New York colored woman
having given during the past wear $I2,-
7SI.
The institute is looked upon with
high favor by the white people of Ala
bama. The Birmingham Age Herald
says that the spirit OF self-help is
spreading among the negroes through
out the South and Tuskegee is pro-
noting that spirit to the utmost
Self-help is the keynote OF DR..
Wsshington's addresses, and it is the
main solution OF the so-called negro
problem. The colored people in the
end will have to work out their own
economic salvation and Principal
Washin ton is doing much to help
tn III Qr~sp that important fact.-Even-
ing Journal.
Newark post., 1910-10-26

churches in Newark are perhaps the
strongest factor in uniting the people
among themselves. However, the
aim and scope Of the churches is con-
fined to spiritual matters in which they
have no doubt, through the efforts OF
their able ministers, greatly succeeded.
But there is also life on this earth,
and it is now for Newark people to
unite their efforts for the betterment
of physical condi,lons, and lend their
interest to the college activities for
our own intellectual development and
that OF the younger generation.
ESTHER IAUBLNHAUS.
Newark post., 1910-10-26

THIS afternoon, before we go to
press, we have received an advertise
ment from the Anti-Bribery League
with urgent request that it be inserted
in this weeks issue.
Agreeing with everything in this ad-
vertisement and wishing to put Our
stamp of approval on its object, we
gladly release our space. AS we said
in reply to the Every Evening on July
goth in their wholesale denunciatiop
of the Republican press for falling to
properly appreciate the object of
Booker Washington's visit-the cor
ruption in Delaware politics as else
where traced to its original source, in
regard to the negro, can be found in
the illegal use OF money by Demo-
Gratis (and Democrats have used
money! and the free use of Democratic
grog. Without these, with few ex-
ceptions, the negro would vote with
unfailing regularity the Republican
ticket for the colored man in his nor
NAL state is not an ungrateful creature
and without the lure of the dollar or
the temptation of the election bottle,
he would remember his best friend,
w It'll ulSNuSSillS tHC DuyulS VI tIlC
negro vote, trace it to its source)."
And present indications out here
around the hills show this to be timely.
Without the use of money and grog
at the coming election, the Republ-
cans will roll up a good majority.
With this advertisement and citizens
facing the crisis OF election debauch-
ery--the men who SO conduct election
we warn them
HAVE A CARE