The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-09-07
Soft Water Town.

To THE. SrAn:-The Bar T shipped II
cars Of stock on Sunday the 26th and
our little town was full of visitors, the
most of whom came from Oelrichs.
Among them the writer's saw Mr.. e. Mrs.
Rogers, Mr.. Wood, Craven and three
young ladies, sisters of Mr.. Cravens,
Mr.. Henry Schultzc proprietor of the
Elkhorn Hpusc of Oelrichs, Ed. Blake
ly, Capt. Northraup, Eugene Garof the.
firm Of Harris & Carr of thu Tines.
Dick Dilger, Mart Snyder, Lew Powell
Ed Clark. Mitchell and Archie Brown
of the z bell: Mr.. Ed Stack was in town
looking after his new store: MIR. Stack
has his store well filled with new goods
and car loads more OH the way from
the east. Ed is doing fair business
and as soon as it becomes more fully
known throughout this part of the
county, he will probably have all the
business he can attend TO- Judge Brat
tanshas been quite sick for the past
week or so. The weather has been
warm and pleasant for some time now
and the farmers of the great soft wa
ter belt where the big coru grows,
are taking advantage of it and are cut
ting hay at a lively rate. There will
be an extra big crop Of that article aar-
vested this season. In fact the crops
of Fall River and Custer Counties. this
year, will prove to the world at large
that this is truly great and wonder
full farming country. but the soft
water belt rather takes the gilt edge off
this part of the Black Hills, that is as
far as big corn, wheat, oats. potatoes.
watermelons and garden truck is con-
cerned. and of course for drinking wa
ter, why we of the belt take back
seat for none in that line, for our pure
soft and modulatcd water cannot be
beat in any part OF the world, and this
fact is becoming widely known through
out the length and breadth of the land,
also the richness and production OF our
soil, which knowledge is causing the
belt to fill up with first class farmers.
We evpeet to have school conmenc is
our new soft water school house OH the
first of October, and will probably have
church service hereafter on Sunday.
The writer has heard nothing new
within the last week about the Smith
wicks and Hot Springs railroad. they
cannot commence work on it any too
soon to suit the people at this end of
the route. HI. A. Goddard of the z. bell
and Leiston Bliss of Troy. Pa, John A.
Inness. Canton, Pa. were in town a
number of times during the past week.
We understand tie above gentlemen
are members of the Key Stone Cattle
Co.. of which Mr.. GODDARD is the general
manager. Mrs. GODDARD and Miss
Smart were i'll town on Sunday, also
j. w. Adanlson who has fine farm
just north of the town. Mr.. Davis and
son of Oelrichs gave us call during
the week. A. ". Oaell was in town
during the fore part of the week. he
stopped hut one day at home for his
wife is quite sick. Mr.. and Mrs. Odell
have been stopping Il few weeks at Nor
folk, Nebraska, where Mr.. Odell is hard
at work introducing the Black HILLS
sandstone. He and wife are expected
home soon to stay and settle down for
good. in this country where they can
live without being sick. The locating
firm of Odcll, Cook & Co., report that
business is good in their line and the
wrirer would judge that it was so. for
you can see teams going in all directions
loaded with lumber almost every day.
Dave Smith FORMERLY of Buffalo Gap
has been in town for a few days. l do
not know whether he intends to star! a
barber shop here or not, it would be a
good move. Some of the farmers here
are talking of organizing stock COM
pany and start a cheese factory, and
another thing we want and want bad
and that is "A wagon bridge over the
Cheyenne river, so that we can get into
the Hill for lumber &C., and some OF
getting to the county seat. 1t is toe
bad with all our fine crops and think
that citizens of the county Lave not
got the git up and git" about them te
hold county fair this fall.