Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-06-20
sundance is to have d blowout and
barbecue on the 4th.

Ibnrbecue on the 4tl,.
Holt hotterl hottest q 2. s. Wet
wetterl |! wettestl
4 The fire steamer is Q dandy, It il
working to perfection.
4 Potter and Witcher are the two candi-
4 dates for mayor Witcher you going te
4 vote for!
Robert Boyd, Jr., Pennington county's
lord high executioner, was up on bnsi.
ness Monday.
Afdrich is no kid, yet he is the leading
shaver and hair-cutter-of the city.
Shop on Main street.
J. D. Sly sold thirty head of cattle TO
| a Mr.. Emmons, of Fall River county,
consideration about. 800.
j. j. Davenport was elected director
of the Spearfsh bank at the meeting Of
the stockholders last week.
Charles Leedy left for Pasco, Wash
ington territory, Saturday afternoon
with the Petit excursionists.
Every city, town, village and hamlet
in the Black Hills is going to have extra
"doin's" of some sort or other ON the
4th.
F. T. Allabough, the popular bonifaee
of Spearfsh, was in town Thursday ON
business connected with the firemen's
tournament.
The annual school meeting will be
held in the school house at o'clock p.
M, on Tuesday, June 26, 1883. Every
body should be there.
Reapers, binders, mowers, plows and
the like are being bought now, and the
various dealers of tho city seem to have
their handsfull in taking care of their
country customers.
Rev. J. G. Layton, father of Mrs. Rev.
E. G. Warren, is expected to arrive from
his home in Iowa today. He comes for
visit and and to assist at the White
wood camp meeting.
The fire boys are trying to arrange a
hub-and- hub free-for- all for the Fourth,
open to hook and ladder and hose teams.
If the matter can be arranged it will
make an Interesting event.
Stock day on the 3Oth. A large num-
Der Of farmers will be in town on that
day with their blooded stock to show the
people of this end of the county what
Black Hills ozone can do towards rails
ing thoroughbred animals.
If Deadwood postpones the hook and
ladder and three thread races until the
9Th of July, why cannot our committee
of arrangements get the Thurstons and
Independents of Omaha and Council
Bluffs, respectively, to stop over here on
the 4th.
In the Times of the 14th instant, we
notice the death of little Helen, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. George V. Ayres, of
Deadwood, aged months and Is days,
after an illness of week. The ADvER-
TIsER extends its sympathy to Mr.. and
Mrs Ayres in their bereavement.
Our firemen are showing conclusively
that there is good material in this city
for running team. If anyone Of the
companies leave this city to enter con-
tests elsewhere combination team from
the Hooks and Hose could be made up
that would be able to do some tall tray-
cling.
About the first remark made BY
strangers on their arrival IN our city is
"Hello! you have street sprinkler;
first one I've Seen in the Hills" OF
course the reply to the above remark is
that Sturgis has great many things
that other Hills towns cannot boast of.
Scoop will Always be at the front and it
should not surprise visitors to find her
there.
Over forty residences and business
houses have been erected in this city
during the past twelve months. Yet
there are people who have the brass
bound cheek and double-distilled nerve
to say that this city is dead. Fl there is
any town in the Black Hills that is alive
in every sense of the word, and doing
good business daily, that town is Stur-
Chadrenis rapidly increasing in popu-
lation, if the records as given by the
Journal are correct. On June 7th two
babies were born; on the 10th, one; on
the 18th, one; on the 18th, three; on
the 18th, one, and ON the 14th, one,
total of nine in one week. AS the
Journal went to press on the evening of
the t4th, no later returns can be CLEANED,
but it may be safe to say that the town