Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-08-24
The HERALD THREE MONTHS

Is heard in the land.
Miss Kara Smart will teach in Me
dia township this fall.
-Messrs McGinnis and Mundie will
run steam thrasher this fall.
Our public school commences Sept
Bird with Mrs. Anna Nordyke, teacher
Will not our old subscribers try
very hard to pay us some cash this
month?
Miss Jessie Blowers commences
school one week from next Monday; in
Mr.. Miles district.
Have you consulted \. M. Matthias
concerning the loan you want on your
place? lie will give good terms.
Mr.. Outcult the gentIemanly life
insurance agent who has been in town
several days. went over to Waterbury
Wednesday.
Rev. II untleyc allied at the HERALD
bilice Wednesday. he is building an
addition To his house and otherwise
improving it.
Miss MIRA Miles and her sister
Mrs. Lou Gay have recently arrived
from Pierce, Nebraska ard are visiting
their parents Mr.. and Mrs. L. Y. Miles.
Ed Campbell slid from a grain
stack and penetrated his thigh with the
fork tines. 1t was quite a serious
injury but Dr. Matthias reports him as
i'm proving.
James Osborne now holds the
lines and tlourishes the whip over the
prancing steeds that draw the Woon-
Socket stage. Jim will make a good
and obliging stage-driYer.
frank Moore; Of Woonsocket, who
owns a fine claim in eastern Jerauld
was over last Monday, making final
proof. He and wife We're guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Chapman.
e. II. Ford's bay mare low owns
line large colt. II is of enormous size
and if it does well Mr.. Ford will in b
few years have q carriage horse Of
which anyone in Da!Sot;. may well be
proud,
Which annoys the honest(?j scru-
pies Of the True Republican manage
ment, the most, the $5,0O0OO shortage
of w. J. Williams or the $4,000 which
they pretend to believe Sheriff Spears
u1lawfullY retained?
Bring your best vegetables to the
fair so that the best Of our county's
products can be selected for the Terri
toral Fair. Jerauld county can, just as
well as not, capture one OF the cash
premiums offered for county exhibits.
Let our farmers do their best.
MIR. Tolllemire is one of the men
whom this country could not very well
get along without. Theyounger ard less
experienced men have kept him pretty
busy stacking grain, he having stacked
about 27S acres this harvest Over 100
was loose grain at that.
An entertainment will be given at
the NJ. i. church on Wednesday eve
ming, August 29th, for the benefit Of
the kindergarten department. Of work
of w. G. T.. U. Everybody invited to
be present.
Mrs. i. II. Ford, Supt. Of kin
dergarten work OF Pioneer W. c. T U.
, Prot. j X Freeland wishes us to say
that the fall term Of the Washington
Springs Seminary will commence Sept.
18th 1883. 1t IS important that every
scholar who is to attend be present on
that day. An able corps Of teachers
have been engaged ard it is expected
that the work of the school will be
pushed with renewed vigor
Gray hairs and experience are in
good demand during;9 Dakota harvest.
Grain must be well stacled, and in this
country of young men, there are but
few who can do it properly Even
Sheriff Spears was drafted into the har-
vest force by Geo. Chapman, this week.
Look out Sheriff! some one will think
you are going to run for Office.
r. t.. Tofllemire has one quarter of
an acre of ground which he says, yields
what is worth more to him, in furnish
ing his table. with variety, than ten
of the best acres of his grain. He re-
fers to mis- garden of small fruit from
which he obtained 80 quarts of straw
berries and a good yield Of currants,
red, white. and black; rasberries, Coos
berries etc. Every farmer can afford
ito devote one-fourth acre and time to
cultivate it when the products do so
much towards furnishing the table
with healthful dainties.
Judge Francis reports {. pleasant
;chat with o. Z. Murrey the other day
iat Woonsocket. Rev. NLUrrey is the
first graduate from Mitchell Z University
land will now take a theological course