Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-20

Coal the best.
Coal the cheapest.
Transfer Feed and Fuel company.
Phone %.
Attorneys Fowler and Whitfield, of
Rapid City, are attending court here
this week.
For ii first class shave go to Gene
Lewis opposite Union depot. If
Capt. Watts left last week for a tour
through Wyoming in the interest of
DIR. Miles remedies for which he is
general agent.
Elegant office rooms for rent in the
Minnckahta block. Inquire of II. s..
Kelly. receiver.
Frank Stewart, the we'll known and
extremely popular author of .'The
Pledge of the Young Husband, or the
Check that Bound Him." was in town
Monday.
Mrs. Tyler, the venerable mother of
the late III. A. GODDARD departed last
week for the home of her son at DAY.
ton, Washington, where she will reside
permanently.
Mrs. Watts will leave Monday for an
extended visit to friends and relatives
IN Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska. She
expects to return to Hot Springs some-
time i'll january.
Rev. N. A. Swickard writes from
Aberdeen that the temperature there
has reached IA degrees below zero and
that there are two feet of snow on the
ground. He adds that business is brisk
and that the streets are full of farmers
teams.
The homo of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Chambers was blessed on Tuesday
night of last week by the arrival of
abuxom little daughter. Althoughthis
announcement is a little late our con-
CALCULATIONS are none the less hearty
and sincere.
Corrected election returns show the
election of Mrs. w. j. Thornby of Hot
Springs, as county superintendent of
Fall River county, a fact very crafty
ing to her host of friends in this city
No person in the Black Hills is better
qualified for a superintendency than
Mrs. acknowledgements Register.
Mrs. james Bradley, Mrs. j. H.
Boomer, Mrs. ID. G. Grippen and Mrs.
Frank Allen we're initiated into the
mysteries of the Womans Relief Corps
at the regular meeting held on last
Saturday afternoon. After the cerc.
monies an elegant luncheon was served
and 81 general good time was had,
Mrs. VIM. Martin, of Belle Fourche,
is here visiting her daughter Mrs. X.
II. Harris, who expects to leave next
week for Chicago to reside permanent.
~. Mrs. Martin is mourning the loss
of her mother who died two weeks ago
at her home in Illinois at the ripe age
of %. Mr.. Martin, who is now at Belle
Fourche, is suffering from a severe
sprain in his shoulder.
The faculty at the school of mines at
Rapid City is considering the aavis-
ability of admitting women to the
special course in assaying, Il v tie
DeadwoodT Times. Several applications
have recently been received from
women of this state who desired to
make a study of the branch but thus
far the applicants have been refused on
the ground that the work of the de-
partment was not suited to women.
The shameful manne in which the
deer of the Black Hills are being
slaughtered this winter calls for some
active legislation in their behalf justas
soon as the next legislature can reach
it, says the Lead Call. A law should
be enacted making it a penitentiary
offense for anyone to offer the carcass
ola deer, antelope orelk for sale in this
state. or to offer to give the same away,
The same penalty should apply to any
one found with than the body OF
one animal in their possession at one
time.
WIS. ~. 1GlSClS has ucI u~TcSSLldhluk
rooms upstairs in Phillips block, lower
town, and will be pleased to have the
ladies call and get prices before going
elsewhere.
A colored man giving the name of
William Smith had the toes of one OF
his feet painfully pinched while steal
ing a ride into town ON a brakebeam o
the Elkhorn train Monday night. liz
caught the toes of his foot between the
brake clamp and the car wheel ant
when the air was turned on the foo
from the instep forward was pressed tt
the thickness of ordinary sole leather
1t was thought that the bones wer,
broken and the flesh Of the foot badl,
crushed and lascerated, but after care
fully removing the shoe and cutting of
the sock, it was found that with tn,
exception of a slight dicoloration from
the effect of the sscloSe confinement