Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-02-15

Bartlett Richards, president Of the
First National bank of Chadron, has
bought controlling interest in the
Bank of Chadron and they will proba-
bly, be consolidated.
Judge Gardner and wife are off OIL II
visit to Kansas City and will he gone
about ten days. Some of urattorneys
are regretting his absence exceedingly
as they had important business before
the court.
Ed. Mollring, N of our former mer-
chants, came up from Alliance Sunday
morning to visit Wallie Root and wife
and attend to business. He reports
the arrival of a young son at their res
idence over which he is feeling quite
happy.
A little daughter of b. w. Franklin's
has written John Kings little daughter
that they are homesick for Hot Springs
and are making their arrangements to
move back in the spring. Mr.. Frank
lin has been sick with typhoid fever
for the last two months.
Dan Larson, the veteran quarryman,
came down from the quarries on the
Deadwood branch of the Elkhorn
yesterday and will put himself in readi-
ness for the stone work in this vicinity
Immediately. What Dan don't know
about quarrying stone isn't worth
knowing.
Johnnie Richer says this cold snap
wont compare with the one they had
here in 1882. The entire winter that
year was about such weather as we
have had for the past ten days and du-
ring the spring roundup the party of
cowboys that he was with did not get
their blankets driedtillthe 4th of July.
Charley Eastman and wife attended
the nuptials of John Colgan and Miss
Johanna Stack at Oelrichs on Sunday.
They were married by Father Webber,
the Catholic priest of Rapid City, who
had been there holding services. Mr.
Eastman informs us that Mrs. McCarty
is almost crazy over the loss of their
son.
Col. Thornby has found a few Hot
Springs people who are eligible and
who have signed the papers to become
members of the Black Hills Pioneer
and Historical society of 1877. There
are very few of them however and the
society will be smaller than was en-
pected. Their first annual meeting
will be held in Deadwood on April Z.
George Pomeroy's new goods have ar
rived and he is busy getting them ar
ranged on the shelves and will soon be
open for business. George has been in
the mercantile business in Hot Springs
almost ever since it became a city, he
has hosts of friends and his genial
manners and business like principles
will n 70 doubt bring him a good trade.
The STAR wishes him abundant success
in his new venture.
The Pringles closed their weeks en-
gagement here on Saturday night and
they had the best house of the week.
The play, "Nancy," was the best of the
week and kept the audience in a roar
throughout. The farce was also most
laughable one. They are playing in
Edgemont this week and from thence
will take in the towns along the B. &M
in Wyoming and Montana.
III. d. Clark 4 Co. have consummated
a trade between George Gibson and the
Hot Springs company, whereby the for
mer becomes the owner of a valuable
corner lot just north of Andy Traut's
residence in Happy Hollow in exchange
for ten acres of land just west of Ever
green cemetery. Harry says the land
will be plated and sold out cheaply.
1t will be known as Chautauqua addi-
ton.
w. L. Moulder, a young man repre-
senting the Northwestern European
edition of the the Minneapolis Times
is in the city soliciting advertising.
He wants the city council and the cit
liens generally to put up $500 to prop
erly advertise the city to the johnny
Bulls and the people of the east. 1t is
to be a 5o-page paper, illustrated, and
containing exhaustive write-ups of the
undeveloped resources in all lines.
There are to be $4,000 copies printed,
one half of which will be distributedin
this country and one half in England.
The quarterly meeting at the ME-
church, Sunday, was indeed a stime
of refreshing" Rev. earns preached
two able sermons. About seventy.ive
took sacrament. Miss Anderson sang
a beautiful solo from SAUL" in the
morning and at night Prof. Kinsey sang
an adaptation of "Sun of My Soul''
that was al inspiration. During the