Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-15

Two Fort Sully deserters were caught at
Blunt last week and taken back to the
post.
A MATCH game Of ball for 5000 side
was played last week between the Ashton
and Aberdeen clubs.
PLANS are completed for new Catholic
convent to be erected near the Catholic
church in Aberdeen.
The first creamery butter made in Bur-
leigh county was turned out at the Bis
marck creamery last week.
A, GENTLEMAN form Minneapolis has
been looking over Huron with view of
establishing a business college.
ALTHOUGH the:grass is backward, the
creamery at Marion junction shipped
$500 pounds Of butter last week.
REV. JAMES OAKEY, of David City, Ne
braska, will assume the PASTORAL duties of
the Congregational church at Pierre.
The contract has been awarded for
building the Grace church rectory at HUI
ron and the work will be commenced at
once.
"A SERIES of revival meetings is being
held at White Lake. Jesse Underwood.
the great revivalist singer of Illinois, is as
sisting.
MEssRs. GoRMLY, Spencer and Mackay,
from Yale theologica arrived at
Mitchell last week to enter on missionary
work in Dakota.
THE Jeffries prize for the best essay at
Yankton college last week was awarded to
E. D. Gray, who had written upon the
subject, Whittier"
ONE of the most interesting curiosities
at Aberdeen is a wild plum tree. which is
now beautifully blossomed out, although
there is not a green leaf on the tree.
The Deadwood hose company has nd
mittea to its membership "a gentleman
named George Brett, who,i they claim, has
the quickest coupling record in the world.
lElsE street sprinkling crisis has arrived
in Bismarck and the property owners seem
unanimous in the opinion that the city
council should consider the matter at once.
HAMILTON BARRIERS have q novel way of
getting even with overparticnlar customers.
They shave one side Of their face and then
make them seek elsewhere. to. have, the job
completed.
The bnllhead craze has taken almost
unanimons possession of the people of
Yankton, regardless of age or sex. The
streams in that vicinity ARE well stocked
and the fishers are gathering themtin.
The electric light franchise will. OCCUPY
the attention of the city council Of Pierre
at its next regular meeting, and it is. quite
probable that within few months the city
will have a $40. 900 electric light plant.
"A CELEBRATED horse train I skipped
out from Speartish the other evening and
secreted himself in q haymow until morn
ing. A shotgun in the hands of an en-
ragged husband lis supposed;to lie IA factor
in.the skip.
The citizensof Bismarck are growing
because the dog poisoner does mot do up
his work in a thorough manner. They
claim that as many as twenty carcasses
have been found in an alley in one day,
and think that he ought to bury his Vic
tins.
WHILE; Il minister at Wentworth was
nakinss!his closing prayer in Il church
large stripped cat of the masculine gender
walked np,the aisle, cody jumped .on ito
the pulpit, ssuatted himself on 1.-THE bible
and reverently gazed at the MINISTER a1ntil
he had finished.
A HENS egg was recently exhibited in
Aberdeen that weighed g. ounces and
measured.7linches one way and 81 the
other. The most incemprehensible and
hardest part of the story to swallow is the
statement that a perfectly formed hard
shelled egg WAS. found inside of TIE large
egg.
TIE funeral Of the late ". A. Selbv oe-
Cured at Grand Forks the other day fnom
the family residence. 1t was one Of the
largest ever Witnessed III iIrauo Perks
county. Knights Telnplar. members of the
chapter. G. 4. r.. comrades. w. R. c..
ladies and citizens,Mere in line. The line
OF march was thronged with citizens all
eager to catch GLIMPSE of The casket il
which rested tle remaihs OF the Anan Grand
Forks delightesl to homer while alive.
Dakota genius! has Invented s,,conveni-
ence which will greatly axe to :iile enjoy
ment Of suffering; humana'y. 1t consists
of a common pic}4et fence that 1,,.ps on
pins at the end Of sections mt the tao of
the fence. BY thinning the fence in %, out
II is lifted from perpendicular to 8 ihG'ri-
:Zontal position ans securea' tiSht :s.sld
oIioAS III tliN plice ~! HtIle IRON pla.S.
The man who has to shovel snow from! lIi.s
sidewalk in the winter aud cut the grass ,0h
the lawn next TO the fence in suismer Mill
probably brea1sse easier III ,the future.
LAST week daring tic Indian scare ill
the Black Hills country aMo ladies. Mrs.
Spencer ana Miss Lillian Mcclellan. left
the home Of the former and ,st;rted for
Rapid City tor safety. Arriving :ss the
residence OF friend who resided cn the
bank OF Spring creek, Che two ladies de
cided to remain there over night, About
IL o'clock they LETT the house to 60 to the
creek TO See how much the water had risen
This wac the last seen of them. and the
supposition is that upon arriving at the
banks of the stream one OF the ladies in
some manner fell in. and in trying to res
cue her the other also fell in. The current
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