Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-07
Last SUNDAY afternoon, On Of tbe OIL

III Last Sunday AFTERNOON one of the ed.
y ! ltorsiyf the HERALD in company with
B fev. J. G. Campbell, visited the West
d Valley Union Sunday School held at
4 Mr. Cross fine residence at Temple
4 s|tm, About 30 persons Of all ages were
III RRlnattendance and a lively interest was
IA alf2nanlfested in the good work by all
y, present. Rev. Vessey, of Wisconsin,
preached an excellent sermon on "rem-
8fple Building after the SUNDAY School
4 exercises. On the whole we felt well
! pald for our trip across the hills. and
H ADVISE those of the HERALD readers in
Vhe vicinity Of the Springs to .do like
wise" whenever opportunity offers, as
s|!a Vlsft to,this school on pleasant Sab
oath afternoon cannot fail to afford
much pleasure and profit.
! We afel Pleased PLEASED to notice in the last
iisfihber 1ue of the Salem Register that .Jo-
mas p. R,,tan is now the sole proprie-
cor OF that journal. We remember
|. when = Jonas: first came from Pennsyl-
( sania and began the publication of his
paper setting it UP in the office Of the
writer at Sioux Falls after office hours
then beginning the publication Of lit
tle four column quarto when his office
consisted of a pocketful of stereotype
ads a hat full of body letter and a lit
lle Columbian press. We then said
that Jonas was built of the right kind
OF material and would in time reach
out in advance of those who started in
with greater pretensions. He now has
power presses run by steam, prints one
OF the largest papers in the Territory
and has tirst-class job Office, Jonas,
here's wishing to still greater luck in |
the future.
White Lake Dispatch. 'stetson talks
OF having newspaper in the spring.
In Dakota newspaper can spring up
and survive without = house in sight,
IAN exchange wisely says, Don't
grumble about syour town but roll up
yonr sleeves and do something for it
and you Will feel BETTER. 1t is the en-
ternTE!ising i .:m2eh that make the town.
Such live men may in a large sense
work for their own individual inter
ests, but in doing SO they are Indirectly
All. A town cannot have too
many enterprising men. >, The Joke is
told on Geo. Hollenback of locating
man a q. on bisown claim in buffalo coun-
ty. 1t appears George had a large num-
Der TO locate there when the land came
in market and unintentionally located
one man on.aquarter he bad "squatted"
ON for his own.
4 --
Flankinton Standard: Miss May Dix
on proved up on a quarter section of
'jera'lld county land last week and sold l.
the same for $l.20. Miss May has re-
turned to Cherokee. Iowa. The Nit
chell Mail in referring to the amount
ut coal furnished for this section says:
AS a sample OF the amount consumed.
we refer to Plankinton, where Mr.. Gill I
man checked up the business and dis +;
covered that 1879 tons of soft coal were
sold there last winter. 1t has been q
estimated that prairie fires have dam ,,
aged property in this county this fall
to the amount,of S5,Ooo. Had the peo-
pie taken onr advice and the advice of =,
every other paper. published in the
'nnnty, this loss could have been avert {
I'll. LISA hard. missionary field that t
IN editor works in. People are always d
willing to take advice, however, just
about the time it is-too late. :. On \
Monday this city narrowly escaped be- )
ng destroyed by fire. Mrs. Frank Ea- :,
on discovered smoke emerging from
he l!e, kitchen, in her house, and an inn
pehate investigation proved that the.
li;chen was on fire. by very hard t
work the fire was extingnished,; and +
he; business portion of town thus !
lved. Solne day such fire will start )
gain and how can we ever stop it S
Without any established fire protection? c
his IS an important question. +
Cemetery Association. !:
i. N. i. I! S s 1o7 60 Nov. p, 1883. a
In pprslaiice of s call a goo,uy nunl- =
er Of citizens met. at Mr. knieriem's t