Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-13
H. A. Pratt has gone to Chicago on

HI. A. Pratt has gone to Chicago on
business.
Mr.. David Austin returned Thursday
morning from Lacrosse, Wis.
w. L. Judkins left Wednesday MORN
ing for a business trip to Omaha.
WANTEp-Fifty cords of green cord
wood at Richer Il Co.'S.
Two or three important cases against
the city of Hot Springs will probably
be tried at the coming term of court.
Miss Daisy Warren will leave for
Chicago this evening for the purpose
of completing her musical education.-
Lead Call.
Hon. j. Z. McClung arrived yestcr-
day morning with his household goods
and will occupy the Dell Clark resi-
dence OH College hill.
Judge Gardner went to Custer Mon
day morning, returning to this place
Wednesday evening. 1t was expected
that a term of court would be held
ut Custer this week, but it was evident.
ly a very brief one.
Judge Dudley has been seriously ill
with an affection of the lungs during
the past week but his condition is not
considered dangerous. He caught q
violent cold on the evening of election
day which eliminated in pneumonia.
Frank Long, of Oelrichs, was married
on Nova, at Chadron, Neb. ,toMiss Jen-
ME Ladehoff. The bride was once a
resident of this city, and the groom is
we'll known throughout the county.
The STAR extends hearty congratula-
tions.
Trains have been considerably de-
layed during the past week by heavy
SHOWS in Nebraska. Gene Gordon's
engine or the Elkhorn has been equip
ped with a snow pillow and is prepared
for a winter of deep snow and stormy
weather.
Mrs. A. B. Conner, president of the
Womans' Relief Corps, department Of
South Dakota, will inspect the corps
of the central and northern Hills dur
ing the coming week. She will be &C.
companied by Mrs. A. C. Cleveland,
department secretary.
Several sleighs and cutters have been
in evidence on our streets for several
days past. The merry jingle of sleigh
bells reminds us that the holiday sea-
son is near at hand-and also leads us
to inquire where our summer salary
has gone to.
The regular fall term of circuit court,
Judge Gardner presiding, will convene
in this place on Tuesday next. The
first week will be devoted exclusively
to the trial of court cases. A jury will
not be called until Monday, the 2sd
inst. 1t is expected that the term will
be an unusually short one as there are
few new cases of Importance on the
calendar.
Mss Grace Baker was the recipient
on Thursday of five pounds of delicious
candy as the result Of fortunate wager
with a young man at Wayne, Neb..
on the result of the presidential
election. Miss Baker is to be COM
mended for her good judgmentin cleo
ton matters as we'll as former excellent
tastein allying herself with the party
of progress and prosperity.
Mrs. Gertrude G. WEIGH, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Cleveland, arrived
Thursday morning from Kingsbury
county, this state, and will spend the
winter with her parents. tits expected
that MI. WEIGH will arrive in the course
of two or three weeks aud may locate
here permanently. MIR. and Mrs.
Cleveland are elated over the arrival of
their daughter, and are unspeakably
happy over the coming of their little
two-year-old grand daughter of whom
they are justly proud.
James A. George, as attorney in fact
for Charles D.. Mousse, a half-breed
Sioux of Minneapolis, made appli-
cation before Clerk Chesley Wednes-
day to enter forty acres of land near
Edgemont. This entry comes under a
special act Of 1858 allowing each half
breed Sioux of the Lake Pepin, Mimi,
reservation script for $50 acres of land
in lieu of land coded to the United
States, and is the first entry of the kind
in this part of the state. This Indian
has taken his land in small tracts nea,
various cities in different parts of the
country where the prospects for de.
velopment are bright, and on account
of the f~lattering prospects of our
neighboring town of Edgemont, used
his last forty acre certificate, after q
lapse of over forty years, in securing
land near that place.
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