Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-06-16
LOCAL NOTES.
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY.

Nebb Hultz and wife of Charlton,
la, are here for short vacation. They
are enjoying our baths.
great number of country folks
with an unusual amount of produce
are in town today trading at our stores.
w. u. Caughey is expecting his sis.
ter. Mrs. Martin of Council Bluffs, to-
morrow morning to spend the summer
with him.
The engine that usually does the
work on the Elkhorn between here and
the Gap. No. &c, has been sent in for
repairs. No. AZ is doing duty in her
stead.
The town is pretty we'll filled up
with invalids who are taking baths all
over town, but we are not having as
many pleasure seekers as we would
like to see as yet.
j. NJ. Booker leaves tomorrow even
ing for two weeks visit in the neigh
borhood of Chadron, and as it is his
first visit away from town for long
time we hope he will enjoy it.
The usual grist of travelling men
have come in today to spend Sunday
with us. They are all anxious to get
to Hot Springs to spend quiet rest
full Sabbath at our good hotels.
Jos. Vincent our popular UNDER
tater leaves for Omaha Sunday night
TO be present at the Nebraska UNDER
takers association, of which he is IL
member. He will be gone week or
ten days.
DIR. B. \. Wade will leave for Yank.
ton next week to attend the meeting
of the grand lodge of the royal arch
chapter. He and Gene Lewis will do
ali they can to try and get the next
grand lodge at Hot Springs.
Mrs. G. II. Purmort of Delavan,
Wis, came in this morning to spend a
few weeks visiting her daughter Mrs.
j. NJ. Brown. From here she will GO
to Sheridan where they will make their
future home.
DIR. Hargens and S. Loudenback are
on the war path tins morning. An
other cavein has occurred in the rear
of their building caused by the water
dripping down from the fume and it
is running down against their wall.
Rev. Jesse ID. Searles, Financial Sec
retary of Black Hills College came in
this morning on the Elkhorn after six
months absence, in time to take part
IN the commencement exercises. He
has spent most of the time in Wiscon.
sin and makes good report.
The grading at the bridge near the
court house is being finished up today
The rocks and boulders there are SC
thick that it will be hard to make the
road level AMI passahle until they are
all gathered mp and hauled off. When
it is all fixed up the improvement viii
be grand one.
The water mains which will supply
the water for the Evans waterworks
are almost completed, and it is mat
ter of great congratulation that the
supply will be from the cold spring in
stead of the warm water from the La
kota spring. 1t is great pity that
the whole town cannot have good
system of waterworks.
The second hand store on Chicago
avenue changed hands last night, MIR
\. U. Duke will he the new proprietor,
lie having bought Mr.. Slytield out
Mr.. S. intends to move to Sheridan in
the near future where he will go into
some kind of business.
John Wilson and wife who are here
from recumseh. Neb., went to Dead
wood this week to see if they could
learn anything of their boy who left
home some sixteen years ago and who
was in the Blac. Hills. He had been
there some years ago, but his where.
abouts now are somewhat of a mystery,
DIR. }. NJ. Ristine, wife and son of
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are here for so.
journ Of several weeks. The doctor
will be able to tell of the healing
qualities of our waters from personal
experience when he leaves, for he has a
severe case of rheumatism that he will
leave with MS.
From Mr, Dundas Of Auburn, Neb.,
we learn that the will of the late Mrs.
Handy who owns about $40 900 wroth
of property in Hot Springs and who
died here over year ago, has been
sustained. She willed the greater
part of her property to the home for
the friendless at Lincoln. Nebraska,
and relatives tried TO upset the will.
H. d. Clark is q joint administrator Of
the estate.