Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-29
LOCAL LACONICS.
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BUSY PEOPLE.

COMPILED AND CONDENSED FOR
BUSY PEOPLE
Uncle Fred Willor isn't much better
and has been moved up to the soldiers
home again.
The Bee Hive is strictly sin it,
Miss Julia Pomeroy left Tuesday
on the B. & Nj. for her work in Chi
cago. She has spent very pleasant
vacation with her parents on the
Cheyenne.
The timber fire in the upper Hills
country Wednesday was fearfullv des-
tructive, and for time threatened the
whole country. About $4,000 worth
of property was destroyed.
DIR. Hargens reports the arrival of
fine young son at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. w. Smith in Plerce's addition.
They are strangers in our city but will
always have something to remember
Not Springs with.
D. B. Florida has secured position
as travelling salesman for a wholesale
cigar and tobacco house in Chicago
and will take the road just as soon as
his samples arrive and he looks for
them every day. We wish him
abundant success.
S. H. Stearns who has so long and
faithfully occupied the nosition Of
book keeper for the Hot Springs Co.
and Fred T. Evans has resigned. The
STAR is not informed whether he will
leave the city or not, but sincerely
hopes he may still remain with us.
The amicable settlement Of the
Catholicon matter is much to be de-
sired by the citizens Of Hot Springs,
\sor by It the sum Of $l7. 600 in round
umbers will be turned into circula-
.on in our city to laboring men and
business firms, just, where it will do
the most good. But if the company
should conclude to get to work on the
sanitarium. which we understand they
intend to do. it would make plenty Of
work this winter. Let us all sincerely
hope Mr.. Ferguson may do just the
right thing and the matter may be
fixed up.
To sell right. you must buy right;
The Bee Hive knows how.
At the recent meeting of Presbytery
in this city the matter of organizing a
Presbyterian church at Lead was
discussed. A compact exists be-
tween this denomination and the Con.
gregationalists that neither one shall
enter field already occupied by the
other unless there is room for both. A
committee was appointed to investi-
gate and confer with the Congrega-
tionalists and if it is deemed advisable
to organize church there, Rev. Peter
son of Rapid City has been appointed
totake charge until some further ar
ranyements can be made.
The report of Surgeon McNary of
Leavenworth National home ON the
detail of invalid veterans which was
sent here TO try the virtues of our
waters has been received by DR.. Jen-
nings. 1t is very voluminous docu-
ment, consisting Of over 80 pages of
type written manuscript. He gives a
complete history of each case from the
time the patient was received into the
home there; the condition on leaving
the home for Hot Springs, and also
the condition on the day after return
ing. This latter examination was
after two days of hard riding with
stop over at Lincoln and the drinking
of their artesian water. which had a
debllitating effect on the veterans.
The report however is highly satlsfac-
tory and DIR. McNary pronounces it
decided success. In every case of rheu.
matism. lumbago. nervous prostration
and diseases of that nature, there has
been marked improvement and great
many have been entirely cured. The
doctor wishes that no medicine had
been administered so that a more
perfect test of the virtues of the
waters had been given. DIR. Jennings
tells us that scarcely any medicine was
given, and then only when it was abso-
lutelv necessary. By their own
surgeons report this test has proved
highly satisfactory and what more
could be asked. We believe 1t is great
card for Hot Springs even if we did
not look for anything else. To bring
"a lot Of old, worn our, half-dead men
here whose vitality had been sapped
by excesses and hard ships and send
them back in good condition as these
4 men were, speaks great things for us.
Most Of the men said that they be.
/, lieved that longer stay would have
{. .resulted still better and DR.. McNary
thought 20 himself.