Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-20
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of Star Readers.
H. j. Meyer, the we'll known anG
popular Omaha travelling salesman
spent Sunday at the Springs.
Fred Evans, Jr., and his little son
Fritz, came down from Deadwood
Saturday night and spent few days
in the city.
j. +. Edmunds and wife and j. L.
Bentley and wife came down from
Deadwood Saturday night and enjoyed
a few days visit here.
The city treasurer will pay the fol-
lowing current expense fund warrants
upon presentations: Nos. 112O. 1852
1851, 1928, 1145 and 1l5O.
Mrs. A. ID. Clark arrived Sunday
morning from Iowa Falls, Ia, and left
on the evening train for Edgemont
where her husband is lying seriously
ill.,
w. j. Thornby, who is taking course
in metallurgy and mineralogy at the
Rapid City school of mines, visited
Galena Sunday where he has miners
at work on some promisingground.
Frank Green was confined to his
room by his old stomach trouble a few
days following election. Frank says
he would be willing to undergo long
siege of illness and close confinement
if the cause of good government and
sound money depended on it.
w. s. Weller, who spent several
months here during the past season
taking treatment for an aggravated
case of rheumatism and was almost
totally disabled, has SO far recovered
as to be able to walk slowly around
with crutches, according to the Dead
wood Times. He has been an inmate
of the Lawrence county hospital for
some time past.
Mrs. w. 7. Bestler, of Beardstown,
who has been a guest at the Evans for
the past month or more, left Saturday
night for st. Louis, where in COMPANY
with her husband who is division
superintendent on the G. b. & O., she
will attend the annual meeting of the
Association of Railroad Superinten-
dents. She will return to Hot SPRINGS
to spend the winter.
With the return ofgeneral prosperity
eastern capital will seek safe and
profitable investment in the unde-
veloped regions of the west. Attention
is directed to the large areas of fine
agricultural land lying along the
Cheyenne river in this county that can
be placed under irrigation from the
waters of Cascade creek and Fall River
and thus made extremely valuable.
The business men of Hot Springs can
not do better than to bend their ener.
gies in this direction.
Mrs. Ed. Davis turned over to the
Woman's Relief Corps at their last
meeting on Saturday afternoon the
sum of $40 as the proceeds from the
sale of photographs of her magnificent
painting of the famous war eagle, "Old
Abe" which adorns the south wall of
the chapel of the soldiers home. Mrs.
Davis connot be too highly commended
for her patriotic devotion to the cause
of the old soldier and it goes without
saying that her efforts in their behalf
are appreciated.
Residents of Fall River county do
not, as rule, appreciate the great
advantage of an abundance of fine
timber to be had here for the hauling
unless they have lived on the treeless
prairies of the Dakotas, Kansas or
Nebraska. The timber for sheds,
fences and corrals is of immense bene-
fit to the farmers of this section: while
thousands of dollars are annually saved
to the residents of this favored region
by its abundance of free wood for fuel.
The natural resources of the southern
Hills are not appreciated by those who
have resided here for years, and those
who are seeking a desirable place for a
a home are not aware of the headvantages
offered here.
J.J. Cairnes, formerly resident of
this city, now of Kansas City, Mo-, was
among the arrivals in the city last
Thursday morning. He left here Fri
day morning for Deadwood. Mr..
Cairnes is heavily interested with
Bartlett Richards and others in the
range cattle business. He is also vice
president of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf railroad, new line backed
largely by English capital, that is
to give the western states short route
to the gulf coast. and that has already
opened up fine agricultural country
in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. The
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