Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-30


and is now only able to sit up. Wei
are glad to see Uncle Robert" back
again but sorry to learn OF his wife's
poor health.
The Addie knieflem fund is now
as follows; sale Of tickets, 226.25, cash
contributions, 123O.5S, and 17b.09, first
quarterly payment on annuity, from
March 18th to July LIST. From that
date there will be quarterly payment
of 10000.
The fourth annual fair OF the
Dakota board of agriculture will be
held at Mitchell, Sept. gath to 5oth in
elusive. $4,000 in premiums and
$3.50 for county displays are some OF
hte inducements for this year. Mitch
ell will give you a royal reception.
=. 1t is proposed by some of the ladies
of this place to hold a series of Moth
ers' Meetings. Meetings to be held
once each month. With this object in
view all ladies are invited to meet up
stairs in post-ofliee building Wednes-t
day, April 9TH, at 2 p. NJ.
The funeral services of the late
h.. IL. Tarble were conducted by Rev.
vessey, at the washington Springs
Hotel, last Sunday at 2 p. NJ. Many
came to pay their last tribute OF re-
spect to one so widely known and high
ly respected. The body was sent back
to Vermont, leaving here last Tuesday
accompanied by Mr.. Al. Sturgis. Mrs.
Tarble is unable to travel.
Mrs. Tuntley started, Wednesday,
for an extended "trip East. She will
attend the General Conference ct the
Friends Foreign Missionary Society,
to be held at indianapolis Ind. March
3lst. After that she will spend few
weeks in Iowa attending conferences,
then she will attend the Friends year
ly Meeting in New York in May.
She is expected home in July.
Mrs. Barrett's many friends will be
sad9ened by the news of her mothers
death. She died at her home near
Stoughton, Wis, on Monday, March 10.
She was well advanced in years and
had been in very poor health for some
time, vet the blow seems sudden and
hard to bear. TO lose mother IS to lose
alifelong frieId whose place can new
er be filled. The HERALD extends SYM
pathy.
We are in receipt Of the Lomb
Prize essays upon the subjects, No. ]
Homes and Foods for the Working
Classes. No. 2 The Sanitary Condi-
lions and Necessities Of School
t Houses and school-I,ife. No. 3 Dis
. infection and Individual ProphylaXis
: Against Infectious Diseases. AnC
No. 4 The Preventable Causes of Dis
:. eases, Injury, and Death in American
e Manufactures and Work Shops, ant
: the best Means and Appliances TO,
;. Preventing and Avoiding Them
These are excellent essays and car
. be procured bv sending l0cts for No
u or 5cts for either Nos. 2 3, or 4 to DR.
{ Irving A. Watson, Secretary Of thu
American Public Health Association
L Concord, New Hampshire.
= Gard ofThanks.
:. 10 the kind friends who have don
a so much for me since my great atlllc
n ton, Iwish to return my sincere thanks
J. l will try to improve myself and be
come worthy Of their kindness.
% Addie Knieriem.
y Blosser, in last weeks Republican
- states that allidavits can be furnlshe
to prove that Harden whiskey' wa
~ used during the campaign of 1886, t
= which the Professor replies.
IL am fully satisfied that Blosser is
Shiny liar. have not the most remot
10 suspicion that any farmer OF Alpen
~ or of Jerauld county or Of any othe
q place ever told him that he ever dram
.. .. any whiskey which bought or whic
~ was bought with my money. AS a te
- Of Mr.. Blosser's statement, | VIII pa
~ one dollar each for one or five such af
u davits, and the necessary expense {
&c the justice Or notary for taking thel
- | make this offer on condition tn
of the atiidavlts shall be made in my pre-
- ence, and that | shall have an opport
- nifty for cross-examining the perjur
No WEo will swear to that. will meet N
. BlOsser and his witnesses at WesSin
q ton Springs or Alpena, as he or tn
may elect, at 2 2. NJ. of Sat. March 81
,>o ). shall consider it We'll worth Il doll
=. to look in the countenance OF the M
Ne who is ready to so swear. More Amor
~ J. w. Hardt
rs,
FRAULIEN LEHMAN, the leadi
soprano at the Metropolitan Ops
\e0 House, takes q walk OF several mi
o1 every day. Henry L. Finck, who
"n cords this fact in his review Of "Opl
'o0 in New York" in the March CoSmop
~ titan, says that she does not believe
the popular superstition that Wayne