Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

Mitchell Capital: ID. A. Scott stop
pea in Mitchell few days this week
on his return from Washington Springs
lie appears well satisfied with the ac.
d tion OF the commissioners in organiz-
ing Jerauld county, and in locating the
seat of government at his town. The
townsite company donated $1,000 in
real estate which is to be used for erect
ing court house in the spring. Mr..
Scott feels confident that the Huron
and Southwestern will strike his town.
and ne reports a number of other i'm
provements under way. If the Springs
secures railroad within a year 1T will
make one of the bright towns of Da-
kota.
I q. w. Kellogg of Sioux City, one of
the boys who came TO Dakota twenty
years ago. was rdn tcNHslast Monday
looking over the situation. Wash"
has seen the Territory grow from a
wilderness to one of the most flourish
ing commonwealths in the Union, and
has doue his full share in making the
Territory what it now is; he expressed
his opinion in regard to our town SUBJ
stantially like this; "That for beauty
oflocation and desirableness for home
Washington Springs is without rival
in all of southern Dakota. That in
point Of natural advantages, no town
in southeastern Dakota, unless it be
perhaps Sioux Falls, has anything that
will compare with washington Springs.
That so far as future prospects are con-
cerrled-whether for railroads, COM
mercial or political preferment and
honors, no town south of the 46th par
allel stood any higher than Wessing-
ton Springs" With all Of which the
HERALD of course agrees.
The Waterbury Herald takes this pa
per to task for not advertising the
western townships of the county in our
article published January 4tb, and
charges that it was because the people
here are enviuus Of them; are opposed
to them; and are trying by every means
toannihilate their town and disparage
the cotiftry surrounding it. This HER:
AID has never he'd any such thought,
wish, desife; Or intention; It has sought
no quarrel with any paper or with any
section of the county: Coming here
for a home we have labored as faiths
fully as we could to build up the entire
county, attending strictly to our owh
business, fully realizing that we can
never build up either our own business,
our town, or our county to any great ex=
tent by pulling some one else; Or some
other community, down. 1t business
comes to us we try to transact it
promptly and faithfully; if the bust
ness goes to some one else wedo not
complain, neither do we say that some
one is trying to "run us cut" We have
always 'aiined to treat every one kindly
and courteously, knowing full we'll that
what helps our town or county in a de
gree at least helps tis,
AS regards the omission of which the
Herald speaks wehave only this to say:
we were unacquainted there-the
means at cur command will not allow
us to pursue the plans Of James Gordon
Benhett-so we had to depend on the
mail facilities FOR information. We
wrote to parties living in Waterbury
who are as much interested in the
place as the editors of the Herald, but
they did not get our letter until it was,
too late to be of use in that issue of the
paper. In other words the omission
should be charged to our pecun1ary dis
abilities, and notI to onr desire to
leave them out.
We acknowledge the implied Gem
pllment of the Waterbury Herald shat
a mention Of their town in the WEs-
s1NGlON SPRINGS HERALD would be
greatly to their advantage and would
say that cur columns are always open
for articles of the kind published in
our issue of January 4th, from, any
part Of the county.
The County Seat.
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