Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-07
ARE YOU READY FOR A BOOM

ready for the Boom; are you?
This continual slush aboutthe "boom
will strike us next Year. is played out
it will never strike us!
We must strike the boom!
Booms are not lying about like toads
after a rain; to be picked up by every
sleepy fool who comes along!
They're scarce!
You've got to jostle. crowd, fight for
them! You must get them as you do
nfiice-you mist button-hole, threaten,
beg, i-stretch the truth a little ut is
known to be wonderfully elastic in
election tiihe)-in fact. do anything and
aEeIything to get there!
Let us set the pot a-boiling!
Let us have a Board of Trade, or a
Committee of Citizens, who will give
special attention to advancing the in
.erests of II town!
If We expec. ever to amount to a hill
bf beahs, we must do something!
And now is the time-right now!
Reconstruction is rs much o thief
nOw as in years gone by!
Does the successful merchant sit in
his store and Northumberland for Gus
tom? No! he offers inducements for
'radei
He advertises his wares.
He beauties his place of business!
He makes himself as widely known
and as popular with the people as pos
sible!
Towns must do the same!
If the citizens stand around with
.heir hards in their trowsers pockets,
staring at Che occasional newcomer as
if he were some curiosity escaped from
a museum, the public soon learns to
shun that town.
Let us wake up, sleepy-heads!
Let us advertise our town, and offer
inducements for men with money and
brains TO come here lord knows we
iced toth}!
We CAN secure Jul share Of the
large emigration soon to set in Dako-
taward, if we try faithfully.
But we won't get a drop in the buck
ct if we don't stir our lazy shanks!
Let us do something-either adver-
tise our town and start the boom 60
ing, or else plow up our streets ard SOW
them with number one, hard!"
We're for a boomi We're ready to
commence now! But We can't boom it
very hard alone.
Flandreau. Enterprise: No territory
ever equaled it. Dakota is spending
nearly a million-and-a-half dollars this
year for public free schools:
1t is estimated that between $780,
900 and 100000 of trade dollars are
set in circulation. The remainder of
the 35,0W,@ originally coined, it is
thought, have been exported or re-
melted.
Spotted Elk, the noble red man dis
charged the other day in the United
States district court at Deadwood, says
it is too cold to go home at present, and
that he prefers to remain in Jail until
warm weather.
Bismarck Tribune: The Sweet, Sin
ger of Michigan has made oscar
Wilde" rhyme with "foster child" This
Is a little more creditable' than her. at
Tempt to rhyme ".consanguimity" with
laws a. massy," but not much.
Jay Gould gave his son George 3d.
100000 to begin: life with. If George
is economical, and places his money in
sound, paying investments, and lives
long enough, it is thought he may some
,lay be in tolerably independent cir
,umstances.--Ex.
Saginaw, Michigan, has had. O. spell
ing bee. The first to fall was the pres.
ident Of the Board of Education, who
missed the word "Altar." a. professor
SNSA ANOAptl CIls OuClIl1-
Ia" was. too warlike for q clergyman
and: Canon was too peaceful fer an
ex~mayor.--Ex.
Talk about the offensive .p~ersonali-
les Of Western journalism here is the
Iard, Conn, Post, calling Jul old and
esteemed friend, the Goldfish, a worm
eaten fraud Of the briny deep" We
shudder to think of The possibilities
should the Post make up its mind to
Jackie the mackerG.--Ex.
: General Beadle, superintendent of
public instruction, lately rendered an
important decision. that when meet
tngs of school boards are called actual
notice must be given to each member
of the board (notice that can he proved
and that allows each member time to
sttend) in order to make the action of
sssth meeting valid. Merely mailing a
tier is not sufficient notice.