Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
VIII our exchanges please note the
iact that LIE HERALD's p. O. address
Is Elmer, Jerauld county, Dakota.

Harvest your pumpkins ere it's too
late.
chas. Stephens is visiting friends in
Iowa.
M. w. Young. OF Parsons, Joined the
HERALD family this week.
Make your final proofs before Chas.
w. Mcdonald, Clerk of District Court
Thursday was a delightful day, after
the recent cold weather..
Washington Springs needs a bank,
grlst mill, creamery, etc.
Trains have changed time on the jim
river division Of the e. NJ, .,& st. p. Ry.
The stages from Woonsocket now
arrive at the Springs in time for din
ner.
III. d. Fisher has gone to Iowa to re-
new his visit interrupted by the organ
izing of the county.
A good tree claim for sale 3 miles
from town: ten acres broken and 300
walnut trees growing. Ford & RICH.
Our friends from the country are of
the'opinion that few more hitching
posts on Main street would be an inn
provement. <
A jolly party met at Rev. Campbells
Tuesday evening, to make arrange
ments for grand concert Further
particulars later. -
Ford & Rich have put out new
sign informing the people Of their law
and land Office. Give them time and
they will get there.
The accumulation of ice in the street
where the water congeals from the
pipe looks beautiful if it does remind
one of the cold, cold winter.
Aparty of sight seers from 1O6-63
was in town Thanksgiving day looking
over our requirements and taking
notes of oulSfuture prospects.
E. S. Waterbury, postmaster at the
town of Waterbury in the western part
OF this county was TN agreeable caller
at the HERALD Office Thursday.
All Master Masons residing in this
vicinity, interested in the formation of
a lodge at washington Springs are re-
quested to meet at the HERALD office
next Saturday evening, December 1st,
at 1880 p. m.
a private letter from Michigan says
the farmers there are blue enough on
account of the early frost this fall and
the late frost last spring. The only
remedy we can suggest for them is to
move to Dakota,
n. j. Wolcott has now Il full assort-
ment of lumber at his yard in Woon-
socket and can also furnish coal r. r.
Co.'S coal house at $3.50 per ton.
n. j. WOLCOTT.
32-4 Wounnocket, Nov. 5, 1883.
Make your final proofs .'beTort Chas
w. Mcdonald Clerk of District Court.
The exact status Of the proprietor
ship Of the Salem Register is to be de-
termined by the courts. Jone Ruton
has built upa good paper by years of
hard work and we should be sorry to
see him lose the results Of all his la
bors now.
The News Says thut Waterbury lies
on the route of the Southern Minnesota
railway, which is being built westward
from Woonsocket to the Missouri Riv-
er hence we can reasonably expect that
Waterbury will in the near future, be-
come Of th- best towns in southern Da-
kota:
1t is runore1 that a wedding took
place at the residence of Thos. Biggar
at Twin Lakes Thursday. a daughter
of Mr.. Biggar was one of the contract
ing parties. We trust they may al
ways he able to return thanks for the
venture as often as Thanksgiving day.
returns.
The Thanksgiving dinner at the
church last Thursday was attended to
the extent that the crowd got away
with the dinner provided; evidently
the committee either did not calculate
on so large AN attendance or else they
overlooked the fact that people here
have Dakota appetites.
The White Lake Dispatch in speak
ing If the officers appointedin in Jerauld
county says: "4Altogether we are of
the opinion that Jerau'd county is
starting out with splendid set Of men
at her head and shall expect to learn of
much prosperity, at least rs long as
they ho;u the reins."
There is an old saying that where
there is smoke there must lie fire: on
this principle Washington Springs is
liable to be hit with a railroad from al
most any point of the compass. The
latest re have heard in this li1teis that
party Of engineers viii survey u