Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-03-17
Soldiers Home Department.
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~. p. CAMPBELL, Editor.
The contract for putting in tee.
phone has been let to connect us with
the outside world and then you, MIR.
editor, can listen very frequently to
our dulcet Hello
An extension has been added to the
smoke stack, and now after it has
drawn The wrong way all this time the
engineer, Ed Short, says he will keep
the the thermometer at 20 with some
regularity.
Comrade Joe Clark, who was so SEE
riously Ill down in town during early
February has quite recovered al our
hospital and races around the man
building as spry as anyone in the
home. Go to! This is the pyramidal
home oe them all, and we shout it in
one glad, joyous acclaim.
We were pleased, nay delighted to
grasp our senator, Col. Thornby's 5
hand at the Evans, on the eve of the
9th inst. Col. Thornby comes out of
his legislative scrap smiling and gay.
He had only arrived the day before.
He has the well-earned thanks of all
his supporters and we hear on all sides
the hearty "well done thou good and
faithful servant"
Everyone in the home is pleased at
the generous appropriations from our
legislature, and considering all the ur-
gent demands made upon it from so
many and important sources we feel
that we have not been sliShted-but
on the other hand have been royalty
cared for. Now if all this generous
treatment doesn' teventuate i'll making
us all happy and contented, tell me,
We winged winds, what would?
This splendid weather gives your
correspondent desire to mention the
beautiful climate here at Hot Springs
He mildly remarks that he has been
down to the deep sea in great ships,
long years ago, sailing all through
and about the Atlantic looking for
health resorts, touching frequently
along the coast of Spain, the West
Indies, Cuba, St. Thomas, the Bermu
das, etc., and has never yet found
climate at once so healthful and in
vigorating as is this. Why it seems
to him that when the people outside
the Hills find out how equahle and
temperate the winters are here it will
lie winter instead of summer re-
sort.
The following brief record Of the
members of the home may prove of
interest to the STAR readers:
No. admitted to date. ........... 2O5
No. discharged. ................. lO6
No. deceased. III
No. present. oU
No. on furlough. ............... 6
Oldest member. ................ 16
Youngest member. r........... 45
No. pensioners. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 62
Average pensions per month. .SlO.5O
Average of all pensions (month655 90
Average service in months. ..... %
Mr.. Evans is deserving of great
praise for his untiring industry in
chaperoning the guests that visited
the home on the l4th inst, on theil
tour of inspection. Such attention:
are Of infinite moment, as it is impos
sible for the home, with its Limited
supply of transportations, to make j
as pleasant as they would for sucl
callers. Visitors who haye never beel
here before ought to have ready, chea
and easy access to all the points of in
terest about the Springs,and we thin
the soldiers home the object cardinal.
Hon. NJ. J. Scanlan, from Hermoss
with Col. John 7. Hodges, paid us
visit the 18th inst. and was show
about the home by Capt. Megrev
Mr.. Scanlan wanted to see for hin
self whether he had been "blowing
his sweetness ON the desert air viii
so gallantly assisting our Hon
Thornby and Burke on the appropri;
tion for our home i'll the legislator
Mr.. Scanlan, as member Of the al
preparation committee in the hous
was a wheel horse" to Thornby {
said committee in the senate. Yo
may say MIR. Scanlan saw the hon
from lend to end
One of the greatest comforts to o,