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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17

until the middle of the year, at which
time class will be organized for those
who become six years old after January
| and before June /, 1912. Do not send
your child unless he meets with the
above requirements.
Only. a limited number of non-resi-
dents can be accommodated in the
grades, and those planning to attend
must enter at the opening of school, as
there will be no nonresident pupils
admitted in the grades after the open
ing of school,
A large number of nonresident pupils
can be accommodated in the high school
department, and it is to be hoped that
many of the rural pupils will be able
to take advantage of the many excel
lent high school courses offered. The
standing of the Webster high school is
second to none. The school is accredited
en- the North Central Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools, which
means our work is fully recognized by
all higher institutions in the north GEN.
trail states and that our graduates enter
any of these institutions with full
credit and no examinations except in
English, which is required of all fresh
men everywhere.
Eighth grade graduates holding a
county diploma enter the Webster high
school without examination.
The rates of tuition charged for nom
resident pupils are as follows: Up to
and including seventh grade, $500 per
month; eighth grade, $3.50 per month;
ninth grade and over, $500 per month.
Pupils on entering must be prepared to
pay five months tuition in advance,
payable to the undersigned after enroll
ment.
The South Dakota law requires reg
ular attendance of all pupils between
the ages of seven and fifteen, and this
law will be strictly enforced.
Oscar Grue,
Clerk of the Board of Education.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
New Soda Fountain
President,

c. w. Schulze, of Minneapolis, rep
resentative of the Liquid Carbonic Co.,
spent Saturday and Sunday in the city
unpacking and setting up the new soda
fountoin for E. M. Mirras in the new
opera house building which will be the
new home of the Webster Candy
Factory as seon as the building is COM
pleted, which will probably be the
latter part of the month.
Tide new fountain is handsome, elabo-
rate and of the latest and most
approved pattern, it is sixteen feet
long and the counter of white marble
beautifully finished, the work boards,
syrup founts, and other appliances are
all of silver or German silver, while the
fountain proper, is of onyx. The back
bar is of mahogany with French
plate mirror 5x13 feet, the electric
lighting devices are of unique design
and in keeping with the surroundings
to give perfect effect, it would do
credit to a much larger city than
Webster.
The merits of the new fountain are
its perfect arrangements for operating
and cleaning strictly sanitary con-
struction, dry refrigeration and the
;celess plan where drinks are always
kept cool regardless of contingencies
of the ice supply.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17

made by the regents of education and
President Slagle, and probably there
will be nothing done until the return of
the latter later in the month.
Mr.. Chamberlain was formerly a
resident of Howard, hut since he took
up the institute work he has made his
home in Brookings, where he and his
family are held in the highest esteem.
Hewill make his home in Minneapolis,
where he and Mrs. Chamberlain selected
house last week. Their new home
will be in the University district to
give the children its advantages, and
he will go to his st. Paul Office from
there daily, when not out on the road;
which will be greater part of the
time. Brookings County Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
Cut The Weeds

Every farmer living contiguous to a
road or public highway should see that
the weeds on each side are cut before
they go to seed. The appearance of
the road will be a great deal better and
in winter the snow will not drift SO
deep as to make the road impossible.
This is an important matter and should
receive the attention of every road
overseer. Rural mail carriers are not
obliged to break roads and where care
lessness in this respect is evident the
route is likely to be changed to avoid
that piece of road. Marshall County
Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
They Will Chance 1t

A very pretty wedding occurred at
the home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Swanson, in Highland
township, at 200 o'clock p. IN, Wednes-
day, August 9th, which united in mar
riage Olaf Fiksdal and Aida Josephine
Swanson, Rev. Fylling officiating in the
presence of about hundred guests,
friends and neighbors of the contract
ing parties.
The bride was dressed in white and
carried large bouquet of white roses
and was attended by Anna Swanson,
the brides sister, and Inga Fiksdal as
bridesmaids.
The groom wore the conventional
black, Edwin Hallstrom and Fritz Eng
lund helped sustain him under the try
ing ordeal. Miss Esther Hallstrom
played the Wedding March.
A sumptuous wedding feast was
served and enjoyed by all present.
Both the contracting parties were born
in Day county and have grown to
maturity here. They are among the
most highly esteemed and popular young
people of Highland township and have
hosts of friends whom we join in
hearty congratulations and best wishes
for their future success and happiness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fiksdal departed for
Chance where they will make their
future home on the homestead filed on
by Mr.. Fiksdal last spring.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17

him for the assistance he has given us
during the year.
The official board remains steadfast,
responding Loyalty to every necessity.
Donald Mclean, through his pleasing
and inspiring methods, has given great
impetus to the Sunday school, while Mr..
Howell and the Misses Sophronia and
Esther Koplitz are very loyal to the
musical department. We are hoping,
planning, praying for great thinge for
our church. Our order of service for
next sabbath, August 20, will be as
follows:
Class meeting, 1890 a. m. w. R.
Cook, leader.
Preaching service, HOO a. m. Ser
mon by Pastor Crisp; subject ''The
Enduement of Power.
Sunday school, 1900 m. Donald
Mclean, superintendent.
Evening service 500 o'clock. Male
quartette. Everybody invited.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
Married

Frank E. Frederick and Miss Rose
Erickson were quietly married Wednes-
day, Aug, 9,1911, at the M. E. parson-
age by Rev. M. T. Habgood, the cere-
mony being performed at $50 p. m,
and was witnessed only by the brides
brother, Tamler Erickson, and Miss
Helen M. Larson, who acted as best
man and bridesmaid respectfully. And
this was the way those two young
people sprung surprise on their
unsuspecting friends.
The bride and groom are well known
to the people of this community. The
bride is daughter of Mrs. Martha
Erickson, of independence township,
Day county, and has resided here since
childhood. She has many friends in
this community who wish her every
happiness in her martial voyage. The
groom has resided here for several
years, being interested more or less in
real estate here and elsewhere. AT
present he owns a section of land in
Montana and we understand that they
will soon go to that state to look after
this land and establish a home. The
Bugle joins the many friends of this
happy pair in extending congratula-
tulations and best wishes. -Langford
Bugle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
Still Some Do 1t

Bill Nye says: "A man may use a
wart on the back of his neck for col
lar button, ride in the back coach of a
railroad train to save his money till the
conductor gets around; stop his watch
at night to save wear and tear; leave
his ''i'' or st" without dot or cross
to save ink; pasture his mothers
grave to save corn, but man of this
sort is gentleman and scholar COM
pared to the fellow that will take a
newspaper two or three years and
when asked to settle for it put it in
the potsoffice and has it marked
ssrefused -
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
Kruger to Move to Iowa

Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Drueger spent
Wednesday and yesterday in Aberdeen,
the guests of Mr.. Krueger's sister,
Miss Ida Kruger. They had come
from visit with relatives at Webster
and went from here TO Hitchcock to
spend some time with Mr.. Kruegers
sister, after which they will return to
their home in Blunt to pack up their
household goods, preparatory to NOV
ing to MarshalItown, Iowa.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
STATE SUPT. OF FARMERS
INSTITUTES RESIGNS
GOES TO GREAT NORTHERN
Mr.. Chamberlain Will be Great
Loss to the Institute Inter-
ests-His Place VIII be
to Fill. DIR. Stoner is
Mentioned a Prob
able Appointee

A. E. Chamberlain, superintendent of
farmers Institutes in South Dakota, has
resigned, and this week takes up his
duties with the Great Northern railroad
in connection with its development
department, with headquarters in st.
Paul. His new work will extend from
st. Paul to the Pacific coast, and will
be along the line of the Hill policy of
, assisting the farmers to develop the
territory contiguous to the Great
Northern road.
Mr.. Chamberlain sent his resignation
to the regents Of education some two
weeks ago, but the matter was not
made public at once, partially on
account of the absence of President
SlagIe, of the State college, in Alaska,
and the desire to have the resignation
reach him before it did the general
public.
Mr.. Chamberlain took charge of the
farmers institute work February /,
1906, and during the five and one-half
years that he has been at the head of
the work he has transformed the idea
from joke to one of the most popular
and valuable adjuncts to the agricul-
ture interests of the state. The depart
ment was created by the Legislature of
1905, and the work commenced on July
l, of that year in charge of M. F.
Greeley, who resigned the following
January. When Mr.. Chamberlain took
up the work it was not regarded SER
iously by the average farmer, and it
was with difficulty communities were
interested in the work. However, dur
ing the past year there have been over
one hundred applications for institutes
/ in all parts of the state that could not
be taken care of with the appropria-
ton made for the work. Mr.. Cham
berlan has attained the confidence of
the farmers and is regarded as author
ity on agricultural matters throughout
the country. 1t was while he was
addressing the development congress
in Montana and again at Spokane that
he attracted the atteation of j. j. Hill,
of the Great Northern, which resulted
in the negotiations that brought about
the change at this time.
No announcement has been made of
a successor to Mr.. Chamberlain, but
DIR. A. H. Stoner, Of Highmore, is
spoken of for the place. DR.. Stoner
has devoted some time to institute work
under Mr.. Chamberlain in this state,
and is well informed and popular with
the farmers. TheIappointment will be
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
A Bad accident

On Monday while at play Clarence,
the youngest son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Olson was SO unfortunate as
to fall and dislocate the shoulder and
split one of the bones of his arm. DIR.
Herman was called and reduced the
fracture, put the wounded member in
shape and the lad at last reports was
getting along nicely. II was a sad
misfortune and the little fellow and his
parents have the sympathy of many
friends.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
of school Ope niug

The Webster public school will open
Monday, September A, 1911. Parents
and guardians are requested to have
their children in their respective places
at the above date.
Children who are six or who will be
six years old before January l, 1912,
are eligible to enter the first primary,
such children enter at the
opening of school, as there will be no
new classes organized for beginners
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
Still on the Trail

"Klondike Bill" who claims to be
making trip on foot of $4,000 miles
on wager of 500. 900 passed through
Sioux county last week and stopped at
Hawarden to make some shoes for his
dogs which were foot sore. -Hawarden
Chronicle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
Get 20 Gents on tile Dollar

At the meeting of the Farmers
Elevator Co., held last Tuesday, it was
decided that the creditors were to
receive so per cent of their claims in
cash, ahd the balance to be paid as
time would warrant. This will insure
the opening of the elevator. -Andover
Gazette,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
Found No Snaps

Jay King and Mrs. Rose Sayer
returned the latter part of last week
from trip through the country west
of the Missouri river where they went
expecting to be able to purchase some
farm lands or stock at low price on
account of the drought out there. They
were unable to find any of the so called
"snaps" that have been told about in
that part of the state by homesteaders
who had abandoned their claims and
were passing through to other locali-
ties. Marshall County Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17

There will be services at St. Johns
Lutheran church next Sunday morning
at 1890 and in the evening at 800.
Sunday school at 1900. o. o. Hafstad,
pastor
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17


past at the recent teachers examin.
alton:
Second Grade.
Florence M. Johnson.
Ella Mae Johnson.
Sophia Johnson.
Alice Conner.
Clara N. Hanson.
Alice Moe.
Alfred Lindgren.
Ida E. Peterson.
Ben Kvam.
Sadie E. Johnson.
nj. c. johnson.
Minnie E. Cox.
Mable F. Hanse.
Gertrude Dempsey.
Charlotte Buchner.
Rose M. Fossum.
Jennie Muldowney.
Nellie Olson.
Ruby Rider.
Mancel w. Peterson.
Lettie J. Feste.
Ellen |. Hanson.
Elizabeth Tracy.
Lydia Stearns.
Aaron w. Dilley.
Mrs. Ethel Alters.
Third Grade.
Ward Johnson.
Mabel Elk.
Hazel Esterby.
Frances McCabe.
Edna J. Mathews.
Olga Sannes.
Clearance H. Sunde.
Bessie Black.
Forty per cent of our applicants
failed, forty per cent received second
grade and fourteen per cent third grade
certificates.
This gives Day county more local
,hechers than we have had for many
years.
j. H. Hetley,
County Superintendent
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17

Services at the Friedens church SUM-
day at 1920 a. m. Sunday school at
$3.50 a. m. All Germans are cordially
invited. C. Stretch. pastor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17

banks; addition $0O00OO
and Commercial Paper which be converted into cash
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
These Teachers Passed

The following are the applicants who
past at the recent teachers examin-
alton:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-08-17
LIABILITIES:

Capital,
Surplus and undivided profits
Nat. bank notes in circulation
DEPOSITS,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08

not mince words but does not give the
sect named any more than it deserves
Following is his editorial: THE Gas
tonia Gazette carried a disgusting
story last week about the unknown
tongue people, wolves in sleeps cloth
ing. who are out in an effort to de-
ceive the very elect itself. who are
holding forth in the suburbs of that
city. If the story carried by the Gaz-
cite be true, (and we do not doubt its
truthfulness) those engaged in the
beastly proceeding deserve to be eth
er in the penitenuary or the insane
asylum 1t seems strange that in this
age of education and Christianity that
our people will be led away by such
bosh. There are people throughout
this land who never attend service at
their own church but who become per-
fectly craZed over the damnable doc
trine of some human hyena who
breaches some new and wonderful
doctrine. These preachers are inter-
ested, not in the salvation of souls,
but in the qualification of f1eshly lust
and greed. They are taking from our
people their hard-earned money and
are giving in return insanity, family
dissensions and debased moral charac-
ters Wherever they hold forth they
burst the church aSunder, set huSDand
against wife and brother against broth
er and leave the community polluted
with sin. 1t Is time our people wake
up to the iniquitous designs Of these
people and endeavor to put a stop to
their work Of destruction" "..... The
old copper still which was captured
several nights ago by the officers near
Crowders Mountain and which myste-
riously disappeared from the court
house grounds the 50 me night has as
mysteriously turned up. Its where
abouts during its absence are as yet
unknown to the authorities. Some
practical joker has evidently been at
work
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08

A Fine Use For Lead.-The proce-
dure i'm train robbing, in which there
have recently been an unusual number
of successes was varied the other day
by brakeman on a western railroad,
who instead of throwing up his hands
shot one Of the bandits and frightened
away the others. He followed the eX-
ample, set perhaps too late in the his
tory of this industry, by James Burke,
the express messenger hero of the first
train robbery east of the Mississippi.
When a Vandalia train was held up
at Long Point, Ill.,, and the engineer
killed, Burke barricaded himself be-
hind the express company's strong
boxes containing some 100000 and
cracked away with a Winchester at
every rObber head in sight until help
came. This proved such a deterrent
to the introduction of the James boys
method from the neighboring state of
Missouri that the railroad gave Burke
money enough to buy the farm upon
which he died a few days ago.
Burke's resistance proved that the
most effective remedy against having
trains held up and looted is liberal
use of lead.-New York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08
humorous department.

None Needed.-A young woman of
Baltimore who recently entered upon
the happy state knows so little about
housekeeping that she shudders lest
the butcher and the baker and the rest
of the tradesmen discover her ignor-
ance She orders only articles with
which she has some acquaintance and
ends her business interviews as quick
ly as possible.
On one occasion this young wife was
feeling rather puffed up by reason OF
some newly acquired knowledge OF
things domestic when the ashman
came through the street uttering his
usual cry:
"Ash-ees! Ash-ees!"
AS the man neared her window she
grew more and more perpleXed. What
on earth is he saying?" she asked her
self. At last he appeared at the back
door, and there she confronted him.
"Ash-ees?" came in a husky gut
tural.
For a moment she looked at him
hesitatingly. Then, drawing herself
up with great dignity, she replied:
No, 1 do not care for any today
Lippincott's Magazine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08
THE MAN OR THE PRINCIPLE.
Prohibitionists Would as Leaf Have
One Liquor Man as Another.


IF we can't beat Governor Blease
next year with a clean, pure man who
is tooth and toe-nail against the whis-
ky ring we might as well go down in
defeat. Blease is as good as any of
them. and If we are to be governed by
that element we had just as soon it be
Blease as ybody."-Gaffney Ledger.
That is just about the size of it.
The only way to lick that element is
TO come square out in the middle of
the road and put it up to them. We
shall never have any better times in
South Carolina until the liquor crowd
are driven into the woods. They have
got a mighty strong hold, and so has
old nick, but that is no reason why
the good neOple of the country should
sit down quietly and let them run
rough shod over everybody and every
thing
When a few more newspapers come
out as the Gaffney Ledger does we
shall have better times. But jus
long as they condemn Blease and hold
up for a business and men who carry
it on that are just as rotten as they
can be there is little hope of an imme-
diate revolution. Coleman Livingston
Blease is just as good as the liquor
houses that robbed South Carolina
and he is just as good as the ones
that are now robbing it and debauch-
ing her citizens. And he is just as
good as the crowd that make it possi-
BILE for this meanness and rottenness to
exist.
The liquor ring have been given a
heavy back set in the country, but
they are fighting for dear life and
some people who tear their hair cry
ing out against Blease and grafters
seize every opportunity to herald
abroad any apparent victory for the
element that are at the bottom of all
lawlessness. and seek to give them
comfort and encouragement by talk
ing about the decline of prohibition
sentiment and the return to local op-
Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08

Summer GirIs-and Boys.-"A sea-
shore summer would be ideal if all the
engagements really ended in mar
riage."
The speaker, Admiral Schley, stood
on the beach at Atlantic City, says the
Washington Star. With a smile, he
resumed:
"A jewelry salesman once entered a
seaside jewelers..
~ must sell YOU he said, a con-
signment of wedding rings. Look,
your stock of them Is down to three or
four, while here you have a whole big
trayful of engagement rings
Young man. said the jeweler If
you had been a little longer in the
business you'd know that it always
takes at least one trayful of engage
ment rings to work off three wedding
rings.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08

An Antidote Handy.-The woman
was the author of a cook book that had
been published at her request with
wide margins and occasional blank
pages for notes and additional recipes.
Often she had expressed a wish to
see an old copy of the book and find
out to what use the blank spaces had
been put. One day in a secondhand
book store her husband unearthed an
old volume. Noticing that it had been
annotated freely, he bought it. After
a day or two he said:
How about the notes in that cook
book? Were they interesting"
NO" she said curtly, they didn't
amount to anything"
When he got a chance he looked
through the book himself. Every note
the book contained was a remedy for
dyspepsia and stomach trouble.-New
York Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08

A Quaker Girls Yes.-A young
Quaker had been for some time
casting diffident glances at a maiden
of the same persuasion, while she, true
to the tenets of her upbringing, had
given him mighty little encourage
ment
However, one day the opportunity of
placing the matter upon a more stable
footing presented itself to Seth, and
he shyly inquired:
Martha, dost thou love me?"
why Seth, we are commanded to
love one another" quoth the maiden.
"Ah, Martha, but doth thou feel
what the world calls love?"
Il hardly know what to tell thee,
Seth. l have tried to bestow my love
upon ALL but have sometimes thought
that thou vast getting more than thy
share"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-08

Proof of His Honesty.-Oliver H
Curtiss, sociologist of Omaha, accord
ing to the Detroit Free Press, said
recently:
Our slums are much cleaner than
the old slums of Europe. Our slums
denizens are cleaner, too.
Among us it Is unusual to sew up
children in wooden underwear for the
winter-not so abroad-and I once
heard in Hungary Of a case that you
will hardly credit.
"A man was arrested for stealing a
pig, and they told him that he must
take a bath before entering his cell.
What! Take a bath the man
cried, Mortified.
Yes said the jailer. How long is
1t since you've had a bath?'
$50 help me- said the prisoner, SOL
emnly, I never was arrested before
never!'"