Reporter and farmer. [volume], April 12, 1888, Image 1

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THE REPORTER. & FARMER
OF DAY COUNTY.
SUBSCRIPTION
$2-00 FJCF, YEAR.
Job Work in all its Branches.
VOLUME 7.
-A.. ID. HAISH
Emporium of Farm Machinery
•Offers tlxe
Beaver Dam TIGER SEEDERS and DRILLS also
SI ROWBRIDGE SOWERS best in the Market,
fa best HARBOWS (1 it Hi t:t,
Racine Fanning Mills the best Made,
FAIRBANK’S PATTERN FARM SCALES,
WAGONS, BUGGIES,
Light Wagons, the best made, at prices that defies
and puts Competition in the shade.
BEST COCKLE MILL ON EARTH.
Deering Grass-cutting and Harvesting Machinery
the best in the World. He handles nothing but
STANDARD MACHINERY.
C-E. BROOKS,
KSUKHT DENTIST.
WEBSTER, DAKOTA.
SESTU VOU nr ALL ns DSPA&TIQXTS.
Special Attention Given To
Msg E!T3S?,
MT °
TO W*- 7 PLATES.
FILLING IN
Sold, Platina Composition,
GuaranUed to hold and do perfect terrice.
HIM S.2TOOT,
Preaident, Vice-President
W. w. SEVERY. Cashier,
Bm of Webster.
(Incorporstoi.)
Transacts a General Banking
Business.
CAPITAL $30,000.
DIRECTOKH:
A. J. LEETUH. E. HUNTINGTON,
W.W. SEVERY, JOHN NORTON,
J. A. LEE.
Webster, - Dakota.
Boots and Shoes.
I now hire a stock ot Boots and Shoes, of
the best makes In the market .
For Sale Cheap.
i (ire specie attention to custom work uud
(usrantee good stock and a perfect fit,
FEPAIIIING promptly done.
tXU at my shop first door north of ’he (St r
eat Market.
Gu,t ITalbcrg;.
| E. ’W. SMAIL.
give •sro'cr
BARGAINS a LUMBER,
FOR COOL, SOLID.
“DOLLARS of YOUR DAD.”
H HIS STOCK COMPRISES
I EVERYTHING-
ased in building any and all kinds
of structures either in town
or country.
J BEST FENCE POSTS k
HARDWOOD LUMBER
T .V7.TLTTS ITT stock.
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OFFICIAL PAPER
Dealers in Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Stoves, Tinware. Cutlery,
Carpenters Tools, Sporting Goods. Paints and Oils. We are prepared to
do all kinds of Gutter, Tin, Brass and Copper work in a workmanlike
manner. We are prepared to give unusual bargains in everything wo
handle for cash; and we desire all people wanting anythingjn our line to
come in and examine our prices before purchasing. \\ e also sell the
Sterling Wagons, Grand Detour, Little Yankee Sulky Plows, and W ier
Sulkv and Breaking Plows. We also handle the Glyden Barb hence
Wire, both Galvanized and Painted. All goods sold by us are fully war
ranted and satisfaction guaranteed.
Remember the place, East Main Street, \\ ebster, Dakota.
TRACY BROS.
The Reporter and Far me
TRACY BROS,
WEBSTER. DAY COUNTY. DAKOTA, APRIL 12, 1888.
J. A. SVOLFE,
District Attorney,
Speaks and Writes the Scandinavian
Languages.
All Legil ta Given Prompt Attention.
Can furnish as much money for proving up purposes
and al as low rales as the lowest in Day Ooanty.
OFFICE IN COURT HOUSE.
HOME HAPPENINGS.
AUCTION SALE OF FURNITURE.
I will sell at public auction on
Saturday April 21st, 2 organs, 2
bureaus, 4 hard wood bed steads,
good wool mattresses, woven wire
springs, 2 large cupboards, 2 cook
stoves, 2 heaters, 3 tables, chairs,
and other articles too numerous to
mention.
31-2 w J. M. Barker.
—Mud and slush.
—How’s your gun?
—The snow is almost gone.
—Seeding has commenced.
—Business lively on Saturday.
—The larks and blue birds are
here.
—Hungarian Millet seed at the
Farmer’s Bazar.
—The little lakeletts are full of
water.
—Great reduction in prices at
John Norton’s.
—School opened for the spring
term on Monday.
—Quick sales and small profits
at John Norton’s.
—The creamery has . a new coat
of paint.
—The latest novelty in hats at
Mrs. Chapman’s.
—The boys are talking of organ
izing a base ball club.
—Box elder and ash seed for sale
at J. M. Bakker’s.
—E. Huntington visited the twin
cities, starting Sunday evening.
John Norton's one price store is
the place to buy goods.
—We have some good work hors
es for sale. Day Co. Bank.
—Money to loan on real estate.
J. F. Pike. 29-lm
—Grass, farm and garden seeds in
any quantity at the Blue Front.
—White Russian seed oats for
sale. J. F. Pike.
—The wild goose and the ducks
are abroad in the lakes of Day
county.
—Buy your seed at the old relia
ble dealers, Levoy & Co., at the
Blue Front.
—August Wolff killed the first
joose of the season—it was a fine
large Canada.
Call and look at the immense
stock of John Norton. No trouble
to show good*.
1000 Corsets
—All wool imported dress goods
worth ninety cents for fifty oents at
John Norton’s.
500 corsets of every kind, make
and shape to select from at 50 and
75c, usual price SI.OO to $1.25 at
Farmers Bazar.
—Great bargains in all depart
ments of my stock.
John - Norton.
—Call and examine my stock be
fore buying, as I defy competition.
John Norton.
Go to John Norton’s for clothing
and secure the finest goods and low
est prices ever offered in Dakota.
—Leroy & Co. are nowshowirg
a beautiful and elegant line of ladies
cloaks and jackets—the finest ever
shown in this market.
—The boys of Co. “I” have a
beautiful flag, which cost about $75.
It is of silk and the richest banner
that any company in the territory
can boast.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen
The sadest of these are
We might have Ben—Harrison
If we could only rote.
—Ladies, gents and childicns
hose by the million at unheard of
prices. Call and look them over at
the Farmers Bazar.
—The next meeting of the Re
publican club will take place the
first Saturday in May. All are re
quested to be present.
—Ribbons,laces, embroideries and
dress trimmings in endless quanti
ties, sold at less than manufacturers
cost at the Farmers Bazar.
—Chas. Linquist and wife re
ceived an elegant Easter gift in the
shape of a ten pound boy aud they
are greatly rejoiced over it.
—The largest assortment of wall
naper xn the county at the Bost
btiiec. Call and see it. Paper
trimmed without extra charge. 30 C
—Elias Molee, of Bristol, was in
town on Monday. Mr. Molee has
written a fine work on language, of
which we shall have more to say in
the future.
—On Saturday morning Mr. A.
J. Leetch and wife returned from
their winter’s sojourn in Florida
Mr. Leetch looks as though the trip
had been a great physical benefit
to him.
For Sale or Trade.—One span
of good work horses, harness, wag
on, and a mule, will sell for cash,
on time or trade for other stock.
Can be seen at my barn.
2‘Jtf H. W. Boyd.
Everybody invited to
visit—Deestrick skule
no I—at Armory Hall
Friday evening April
13—tickets 25 cents.
New Brooms Sweep Clean!
AND NEW STORES
GIVE BARGAINS,
That are not found in old ones, because
the goods are not shelf worn,
Sibb Peterson,
will be found with a
General Mdmh
COMPRISING EVERYTHING THE TRADE CAN POSSIBLY
DESIRE IN THE WAY OF
DRY GOODS,NOTIONS,GROCERIES
He holds forth first door South of Nortons’ and has the
IujfYFdGrKST FRESHEST Stook, in Town.
HE INVITES ALL TO COME AND LOOK HIM OVER.
—Zephyr, Shetland, Germantown
and other yurns in endless profusion
at the Farmers Bazar.
—E. F. Loomis has two hogs
that emerged from a straw stack on
Saturday morning having been
there from the 18th day of Decern
ber, with nothing to eat but straw.
Uncle Ed says they are not any too
fat.
—Kansas is coming to the front
as a haven for strong-minded fa
males At Oskaloosa i ticket com
posed of women for the council and
a woman for mayor was elected by a
majority of sixty-six at the last
election.
—Bristol organized a republican
club on the sth, to be known as the
James G. Blaine chib. J. L. Edsel
is Pres., Col. Lewis, Secy., and 11.
11. Larson, J. 0. Tronson and 11.
11. Showerman executive commit tee.
It has a tine list of names to start
with.
—Since the frost has commenced
to come out of the ground, it has
been demonstrated beyond dispute
that the grade on Main street is
not done in a workmanlike manner.
If the snow banks on either side
were pitched into the streets it
would help things some.
—Co. IL, of Watertown, has
been selected to go to the Inter-
State drill at Nashville, Tenn. May
21st to 26th. Now what we want
to know is, what business has a
company from a Territory in an
Inter-State drill? Besides, it was a
mistake Co. “I” was not chosen, it
would knock 'em all out.
—Hon. J. A. Leo arrived home
on Tuesday morning from his ex
tensive tour through southern and
central California. Mr. Leo is not
overly in love with the state, though
he saw some fine country during his
absence. He looks as if the hours
of recreation and travel he has en
joyed had done him a “power” of
good.
atSOai. cheap
The lecture and social at the
M. E. Church last Saturday night
was largely attended and the lecture
was considered a rare treat by all
who heard it. The social features
of the entertainment were fully up
to the average given by the ladies
of that church, which is saying a
great deal for it. We hear nothing
but the highest encormiums on
every side.
—An enterprising grocery firm in
Kirksville, Mo., makes the follow
ing offer: “Any man who drinks
two drams of whisky per day for a
year, and pays 10 cents a drink for
it, can have at our store 30 sacks of
flour, 220 pounds of granulated
sugar and 72 pounds of good green
coffee for the same money and gel
12.50 premium for making the
change in his expenditures.” This
is a temperance lecture in a very
few lines.
—Our County Superintendent,
Mr. A. E. Barker, is feeling re
markably well these days, owing to
the fact that it has at hist fallen to
his lot to swell the ranks of the
school mam’s of Day county. On
Thursday evening last Mrs. Barker
presented her spouse with a fine,
bouncing, 14 pound girl baby—now
you can understand why A. E. has
such a wide out smile. The Re-
PORT3R congratulates the happy
parents and hopes the little one
may grow into a womanhood that
shall be a crown of glory to their
lives.
—Jug. Gibblin was in town last
week and came in and renewed his
subscription to the Reporter for
1888. lie came to this country in
1881 and settled on the land wheie
he now resides, where he has 120
acres under cultivation, off of which
he raised 1900 bushels of wheat,soo
of oats, 100 of barley, 2?0 of pota
toes in 1887, Ho has 13 head of
cattle and 5 head of horses and is
rapidly becoming independent. He
came to this country with compara
tively nothing, and, having taken
the Reporter ever since it started,
and followed its sound advice, he is
prosperous and happy.
—Revenue legislation originates
in the house, and during the past
twenty-two years, the democratic
party has had control of that branch
of congress during eleven years,
the republican party controlling it
the other eleven years. Under dem
ocratic control the revenue reduc
tions were less than $7,000,000.
Under republican rule they were
reduced over $300,000,000, and that
without crippling the working peo
ple employed in manufacturing and
agriculture, by forcing them to
compete with the pauper labor of
Great Britain. Yet the democracy
is yelling itself hoarse trying to
make people believe that it is the
party of reyenue reform.
—Golden Hungarian Millet feed,
best in the market, on sale at the
Farmer’s Bazar.
CARD OF THANkS.
We desire to return to our friends
and the citizens generally our
warmest thanks for the helpful con
sideration and assistance we re
ceived during the illness and at the
burial of Mrs. Chapman.
C. L. Chapman,
D. A. Chapman,
Kert Chapman.
NOTICE TO ASSESSORS.
'l'bo Assessors of Day couunty are
requested to meet at the Court
House in Webster, on Monday,
April 23d, 1888, at 2 o’clock p. m.
to receive the books and blanks for
tho coming assesment, and to dis
cuss and agree on matters pertain
ing to the same. A full attendance
is earnestly requested.
T. Brioham, Co. Aunitor.
—IOOO different styles of buttons
to choose from, at slaughtering
prices. Call and make a selection
*t the Farmers Bazar.
—On Friday afternoon John
Severy landed on his native heath,
having spent the winter in New
Mexico. He is the same old John,
only he talks mule now, which pulls
his jaw a little to one side.
—A free trade newspaper com
plains that South America still con
tinues to buy the manufacturies of
Great Britian in preference to those
from America. The reason is that
Great Britian pays in big subsidies
to steamship lines part of the cost
of freight to South America, and
the South American powers also
pays similar subsidies, which they
would gladly pay to the United
States lines if our congress would
meet them half way as Great Brit
ian has done. It is not British free
trade politics that has closed South
American ports to us, it is our
cursed stupidity in not doing some
thing to create and encourage the
growth of a homp merchant ma
rine.
for sl. at the
—Mr. Young, son of N. Young,
one of the leading fartner« of Lynn
township, was in town on Tuesday,
and in compliance with his father’s
wishes, dropped in and called the
Reporter for 1888-9. Mr. Young
came to this country in 1882, enter
ed 320 acres in Lynn township and
settled on the land. He now has
200 acres under cultivation. Last
year he raised 1500 bushel of wheat,
600 of oats, and 400 of barley. This
year ho will place the whole 200
in crop. His farm is well watered,
has a fine meadow', and is such a
farm eveiy way as would delight
the heart of an eastern farmer.
After all these years he now has a
comfortable home, plenty of stock
around him and don’t care a clam
whether school keeps or not.
—Col. Elson was here on Satur
day evening and inspected the boys
of Co. “I.” He found them all up
and coming with their guns and
equip jients in first-class trim, their
faces washed, their vests pulled
down in good shape, and with their
boots blacked, lie paid them a
very high compliment on their
efficiency in drill and the general
good appearance of the company
and the tidiness of their quarters.
Of course he tells every company he
inspects they are the finest body of
men he has seen, but when he said
it to our boys he honestly believed
what he said and so did the boys.
The Col. was a jolly fellow and
seemed to think a man with a full
beard had no business in the ranks
of the company. For a little while
it was hard to tell whether he or
Seargt. Ochsenreitcr had the ad
vantage in size and bay window
appurtenances.
—There is a tariff of fifteen cents
a bushel on potatoes brought into
this country. This, like the tariff
on wool and other agricultural pro
ducts, is in the interest of farmers.
The democratic free traders in con
gress want to take oil this tariff,
and it was the subject of disoussion
at the Farmers Institute held at
Madison, Wisconsin, last Tuesday.
A prominent democratic farmer in
the Institute declared that every
farmer should protest against this
bill, and the sentiment was echoed
by nearly every one present. Touch
the tasiff where the democrats may
and it will be opposed by ail classes
of people excepting a few politicians
who are howling free trade for poli
tical effect. At the democratic
state convention held in Georgia
last week an effort was made to pass
a resolution endorsing President
Cleveland’s free trade message. It
I met with so much opposition that
ihe tqoyer glad to withdraw it
rather than have It defeated, as it
certainly would have been. Pro
tection of American industry is
building up the Southern States,
and the democratic party down
I there is opposed to free trade. They
* will vote for pleyeland but are op
-1 posed to his destructive policy.
LEVOY & CO.
FRESH SEEDS IN BULK.
FRESH f SEEDS IN BULK
SEEDS 1 KI SEEDS IN BULK
FRESH 11 nSEEDS RAISED
FARM AND Ufl IN DAY CO.
GARDEN SEEDUI SEEDS
FA MOUS SIOUX LIZSEEDS
CITY NURSEY SEEDj\SEEDS
SEEDS SEEDS
FARM SEEDS FARM
SEEDS SEEDS
GARDEN SEEDS GARDEN
Mb Hungarian Millet
Tire Finest
ON EARTH!
SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS
Raised in
Day County
and the’ Famous
SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS
IXBIUv
AT THE
FARMER’S BAZAR.
Blue Front Building,
WEBSTER, DAKOTA.
—The ex-President of the Read
ing Railroad company. Franklin B.
McGowan, who is a millionaire,and
a man of long experience, and who
is as capable of knowing what he is
talking about as any man in this
country, and a man too, who is
thoroughly posted in all of the
grasping and questionable methods
of railway corporations, makes some
important and startling disclosures,
de says that of the $80,000,000 an
nually paid for transportation in
this country, from >50,000,000 to
>100,000,000 is taken out of the
pockets of the people and paid into
the insatiable maw of favored cor
porations in the shape of rebates
and drawbacks. We may talk and
write upon the tariff and other pub
lic and economic questions to our
heart’s content, but after all the
vital question to the farmers and
the manufactures of the country is
that of transportation.—Watertown
Courior-News.
ARM ERS«E3aZAR
—Now don’t let Arbor Day pass
without planting trees around your
homes. If every one will devote
that day especially to the business
of tree planting, benefits will accrue
to you in many ways. People who
have given especial attention to the
subject already have fine groves.
There is no unsurmountable diffi
culty in the way. Trees will grow
in Dakota if properly cared for.
The benefit to the county cannot be
estimated. There is nothing that
will add to the beauty of the country
so much as groves of thrifty timber.
Every owner of real estate should
see to it that the day designated,
April 25th, does not pass unim
proved. Let hardy trees that will
produce speedy and permanent re
sults be planted. Do not plant
large trees. Unless they can have
special attention in way of being
watered by artificial means, seed
lings are the best. They will make
a more thrirty growth and better
looking trees. Older trees in this
climate will require several years to
overcome the evil effects of being
transplanted, and are liable to at
tain a scrubby growth.
—“Will 1888 be a year of war?”
queries the Philadelphia Inquirer,
and it makes in this connection the
following interesting chronological
statement:
The present year is the fifth year
of modern times in which the ag
gregate of the figures is twenty-five,
and there will tic but five more years
in which such a combination is pos
sible prior to the year 2599. Prob
ably but few have ever heard of the
old prophecy, which runs as fol
lows:
In every future year of our Lord,
When «um of the figure* Is twenty-five,
Some warlike kingdom Ail!draw the sword,
But peaceful nations in peace shall thrive.
Students of modern history will
readily recall how faithfully this
prophecy has been fullfilled in the
four previous years to which it
applied,
In 1699 Russia, Denmark and
Poland formed the coalition against
Sweden which inaugurated the great
war that ended in the disastrous de
feat of Charles XII, at Pultowa.
The year 1789 will ever be mc
monabie on account of the breaking
out of the French revolution.
1798 witnessed the campaign of
Bonaparte in Egypt and the forma
tion of the second European co
alition against France.
In 1879 war broke out between
England and Afghanistan, followed
by the invasion of the latter country
by British troops.
In what manner the prediction is
to be verified in 1888 remains yet
to be svon, out the present condition
of Europe seems to promise an
abundant fulfillment of the proph
ecy.
Hugo Menzel, a brother to
Max, clerk at the Lion drug store,
arrived here from Odessa, Minn.,
Sunday, He goes into Sibb Peter
son’s store as clerk.
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PINE AND HARD WOOD LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES,
& Coteau Lumber and Fuel ard. 3
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- MAR POSTS! 4000 CEDAR POSTS! >
•< You want a pasture. I have a few
9 Cedar No. 2. Posts such as have be-
, fore cost you 15c here, but which I £
can sell at 10c in lots. Yet these
uro not the cheapest posts to buy in ra
- the end. I have No. I. sawed and ’
zu round posts, cut green a year ago,
seasoned one year and so in best
77 possible condition. These I can 9
sell in lots at a shilling for the q
77 smaller and 15c for the larger. W
<1 When quality is considered these
L, these posts for cash and must sell 1-3
O for cash at these prices. '*
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SASH, BLINDS, DOORS, MOULDINGS AND POSTS.
Great Bargains in Furniture
CLEARING OUT SALE
Commencing March Blh,
WE HAVE A GREAT MANY ARTICLES IN STOCK, THE
NATURAL ACCUMULATION OF FOUR YEARS
BUSINESS, WHICH WILL BE CLOSED OUT AT
Greatly Reduced Prices.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR CUSTOMERS AND TO AID US IN
CIOSING OUT OUR OLD STOCK,
WE WILL Jft To Aft PER I?TON ANYTHING
GIVE FROM IV CENT, vt £ WE HAVE IN STOCK,
ACCORDING TO THE AMOUNT OF BILL PURCHASED
AND QUALITY O F GOODS
Mer! This Ofc’ Bl fc Last Long!
AVAIL YOURSELVES OF THIS
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
AND BL Y YOUR BED ROOM SUITS, UPHOLSTERED GOODS
ROCKERS, TRUNKS, ETC. NOW.
Bring in Your Repairing,
CHAUi GAINING AND I’ICTTItB FRAMING.
ESTEY ORGANS & PIANOS
BEST IN THE WORLD—
SOLD ON TIM E, MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS OR FOR CASH.
COME IN AND SEE OUR $75.00 ORGAN, OR IF YOU WANT
A CHEAP ORGAN WE WILL SELL YOU ONE FOR $55.00
WE WILL FURNISH ORGANS TO CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES
AT THE WHOLESALE PRICE.
BENJAMIN BROS.
H.C. SERENSON,
Agricultural Machinery,
ASKS FARMERS GENERALLY
TO
COME & SEE
SEEDERS
HARROWS,
Before Buying'.
Wagons and BuggiesClieap.
STIRRING AND BREAKING
PLOWS,
THE BEST IN THE MARK
Our Facilities For Doing
PLAIN ANS CRROWiC POSTER WORK
Are Unequalled in
central zdjlieot-a..
Oive us a Trial and be Convinced.
Tiook and .Tob Work % (Specialty.
DEALER IN
UIS STOCK OF
NUMBER 31.