Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-01-25
LOCAL MENTION.
From Saturdays Edition.

From Saturdays Edition.
Judge Dundy will hold the February
term of U. S. court in Deadwood.
d. B. Cook. of Odell, has moved to
Buffalo Gap again and will occupy the
Silkenson cottage.
The A. o. U. W. of this city contem-
plate the organization of a degree of
honor in the near future.
NJ. Liebmann came down from Dead
wood last evening and is looking after
his mercantile interests here.
We understand that Mrs. Cheney
and her boys will 60 to Iowa on an
extended visit and the doctor will go
to Sturgis.
The schools in the mineral district at
Hill City have been closed up because
the Harvey Peak company and others
refuse to pay their taxes.
We understand that the farmers of
the county contemplate putting in a
big acreage of crops this spring. Hope
springs eternal in the human breast.
Mrs. True Parsons returned from
her visit with friends at her old home
at Delhi, Ohio, on Wednesday morn
ing. She reports a very pleasant visit.
j. A. Clark sold his herd of sheep to
Ed. Phillips who is attending Black
Hills college. Ed. is getting right to
the front and we heartily congratulate
him.
Conductor Campbell, formerly on
the High line, has been transferred to
the run from .Edgemont to Billings
and Conductor NJ. E. johnson will take
his place.
Frank Evans expects to start to
Chicago in the neal future to take a
course i'll an electrical school. Frank
Allen will take his place on the electric
light work Oh Monday.
w. w. LaFleiche and wife have re-
turned to their home after a long visit
at their old home in Fond du Lac,
Wis. They are both much improved
in health and are glad to get back
home.
l.. G. Burr and d. E. Thompson, two
of Lincoln's most prominent capital
lists are in the city today OH a little
private business. Mr.. Burr says the
people of Nebraska are in pretty hard
lines this year but he thinks the cry of
suffering is considerably overdone by
some of the political howlers of that
place.
Ed Sarver, the B. & NJ. engineer, re-
ceived one of the handsomest BIB cor
nets today we have yer It is
of the celebrated G. G. Conn make, is
gold plated, with ivory tipped keys and
handsomely engraved. 1t is an instru-
ment anyone could be proud of and Ed
says he is going to learn to play as we'll
as Jimmie Baldwin, or split her wide
open.
DIED-At her homein the Catholicon
addition at 8 o'clock last evening, Mrs.
Jacob Gable in the Goth year of her
dk0s Vulos SuUlc Has OCCA SICh 1Ol
months with v~alvular trouble Of the
heart, and though her case has been a
hopeless one, her death is a sad blow
to her husband and children. Her re-
mains will be taken to her old home in
Nebraska for interment. The bereaved
ones have the sympathy of a large
circle of friends.
The ladies of the I. o. o. Il. of Gel
richs have given us a most cordial invi-
tation to attend "a novel entertainment
they expect to give on Tuesday evening
Jan. %. at the Odd Fellows hall in that
place. for which they have our sincere
thanks. They took occasion to en-
close Il little pink carleton sack tied
with a blue satin ribbon and a little
verse of poetry inviting us to bring or
send in it as many cents rs We are
years old, and they call it ''our' birth
day party. They promise to feed their
guests well. It is safe to say those who
attend will not be very old. The STAR
hopes they may make it a success.
Everything is looking up at the
grease factory. especially the smoke
stacks. The machinery placed there
last year is still there. no evidence of
it's having moved. or evinced a dispo-
sition to do so, being apparent. The
massive piles of mica stacked up in the
main building to give tone and effect
to the otherwise empty surroundings,
still serve as Il mute but potent index
to the earnest intentions of the COM
pany to produce grease galore at some
future period in the gray haired hence.
1t isthe ardent but superannuated hope
that mt some time in the golden gilded
after a while. it may be possible to OBJ
tain, in case of actual need, a box of
axle grease in Custer-and we, your
petitioners will ever pray.-Custer
Chronicle.