Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1890-08-29
Miss Ethel Roddle had a pleasant

Miss Ethel Roddle had pleasan
surprise Monday evening by a party
Of her young friends dropping i1
unexpectedly, and all enjoyed them.
selves to the utmost. Miss Roddlt
starts for Brookings, S. Oak, this
week, to attend the college at that
place.
Baldwin & Wasson have the
agency for the National Building
and Protective Union, Of Minnea.
polls. This is one of the leading
building and loan associations OF
the Northwest, and its intere It's will
be carefully looked after by Messrs.
Baldwin & Wasson.
The match between Ingalls, and
Gleason did not come off at Fargo
last Friday night as expected, owing
to a disagreement about putting up
the money. The parties met in
Jamestown and spared fifteen
rounds, the decision being in favor
OF the Jamestown man, Gleason.
Sumner L. Harris and family,
consisting Of his wife, and two
daughters aged thirteen and nine
years of age, arrived to-day from
Wahpeton and will make this their
home. Mr.. Harris is a druggist Of
IS years experience and will have
charge Of The Oakes Pharmacy.
The present manager, Mr.. Mein-
hardt, will open drug store in
Cogswell.
WE MUST IRR1eATE.-A dispatch
from A. T. Cole, at EIlendale, SAYS:
MASS irrigation convention here
Sept. Sd. Very important" This
convention should and doubtless
will be largely attended, as there is
no subject at present Of suc(, vital
interest to every Dakotan as to de-
wise ways and means with which to
irrigate our land. People are here
and they must either irrigate or get
out. 1t is cheaper to irrigate, and
now that there is chance to obtain
aid from the general government
we should take advantage Of it..
Let all who can attend the mass
convention next Wednesday at Ell
lendale and assist i'll taking active
steps to secure irrigation i'll time
for next seasons crop. We believe
the canal system from the Missouri
river to the James River valley is
possible, and the feasibility Of the
artesian wells has this year been
practically demonstrated in many
places. Let every possible plan be
utilized, and at once.
SOUTH DAKorA's SPRINGS Mr..
A. Burton, the Northern Pacific
engineer who resides in this city, has
returned from his trip to the Hot
Springs, South Dakota, delighted
with the place and we'll pleased
with the results obtained by the
use of the mineral water from the
springs. He had previously visited
the Arkansas Hot Springs and those
Of Montana but says that the six
months spent at those famous
springs did not do him the good he
realized from the thirteen baths he
took while at the Hot Springs,
South Dakota. There are three
springs now in use and the five
hotels in the place are thronged with
four Or five hundred visitors, all of
whom attest the wonderful healing
powers Of these springs, which are
truly Natures mystery situated in
her own wonderland. The town is
a place Of ten or twelve hundred
inha bitants and is beautifully locat-
ed, being surrounded with woods
and hills. The railroad will be COM
pleted into the town next month
and the Soldiers Home is about
completed. It now requires about a
thousand miles travel to reach the
place from here, although it is per-
haps not more than three hundred
miles distant. Until the new road
is constructed from Oakes to Pierre
and thence across the Sioux Reserva-
tion into the Black Hills country it
will be necessary to go to Sioux
City and from there to Norfolk,