Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-09-04
Hon T. D. Edwards Of the Lead City

Tribune, spent Sunday in the city.
Ed. Grantham and wife and T. w.
Delicate and wife of Custer, enjoyed
few days visit in the city this week.
Prof Ed Beckwith, of Neleigh, Neb.,
an old-time friend of George Gibson,
has been spending several days in the
city.
A. d. Clark and wife departed Tues
day night for their home ut Iowa Falls,
Ia. Mr.. Clark has nearly recovered
from his recent severe illness.
A basket social will be given at the
home of w. T. March, Cold brook, next
Wednesday evening in the interest of
the Episcopal church.
Miss Josephine Dickover left Rapid
City Tuesday evening for LaHarpe,
ILL.,, where she will attend school for
the next ten months.
Miss Elizabeth Shumate, assistant
principal of our public schools, returned
yesterday morning from two months
visit to st. Louis and Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Mrs. w. j. Thornby has been assist
ing in conducting teachers institute
at Newcastle during the past week.
She is expected to return home this
friday morning.
Children kindly cared for at reason
able rates by Martha Silcox, near SOL
diers' home.
Col. Kellar went to Lead yesterday
morning. He was accompanied by
little Bennie Wade who has been visit
ing his grand parents, DIR. aud Mrs. B.
A. Wade, for the past five OF six weeks.
The STAR force have declared them
selves in favor of the free and unlimit-
ed coinage of type metal. Under an
arrangement of this kind enough old
type could be gathered up around the
print shop to support family.
A vote taken on the east-bound B.
s. NJ. train, between Custer snd Mime
kahta, last Friday evening disclosed the
fact that there were % for Mckinley
and 10 for Bryan; including the women
tho vote stood, Mckinley 30, Bryan 10.
Ed. Monroe, of this city, and Miss
Margareth Schell, of Oelrichs, were
married Oh Tuesday, by Rev. Father
Cassidy. They will make their home
in this city.
Frank G. Thayer and Miss Bertha
Villwock, both of Edgcmont, were mar
ried Wednesday in this city by Rev. H.
V. Rominger. They returned to Edge
mont that evening where they will re-
side. The STAR congratulates.
Tommy Eastman, the little son of
Deputy Sheriff Eastman, slipped on
the stone walk in front of the Evans
Wednesday and struck his forehead
against the sharp edge of one of the
steps. cutting an ugly cash which re-
quired six stitches TO close it up.
Remember the Black Hills college
opens on Tuesday morning. September
ID. All students desiring to avail
| themselves of the advantages of this
excellent institutio of learning should
make an effort to be on hand promptly
on the opening day.
Hot Springs has been favored with
thepresence of a number of Lead City's
leading business men and society peo-
pie during the past week. Among
them we note w. E. Smead and wife,
r. H. Driscoll and wife. e. May and
wife, Mrs. Thos. Uren, Miss Hoey, H.
p. Lorey and wife, NJ S. Gilner, Mrs.
A. w. Fraser and son and Mrs. NJ. E.
Murray.
E. b. Cook is in receipt of letter
from John +. Smith, at one time resi-
dent of this city, and also of Buffalo
Gap, now residing in Crasco, Colorado
county, Texas. He is working at the
carpenter trade and is doing we'll.
Northern farmers are flocking into
Texas by the hundred, he says, and a
lively fall and winter is anticipated.
The weather has not been excessively
hot during the past summer and crops
are good. Mr.. Smith inquiries about
many of the early settlers in this Sec
tion of the Hills and desires to be re-.
membered to his old friends here.
A. j. and j. e. Davis, of Chicago, ac-
companied by j. F. Brightman, of
Rochester, N. Y, who has been a guest
at the Gillespie for the past two or
three months, started Wednesday after
noon for an overland trip to Sioux City
going via Pine Pidge and Rosebud.
The boys were we'll equipped with a
good team, covered wagon and a COM
plete outfit of camping paraphernalia.
The Messrs. Davis left Chicago last
April, outfitted at Sioux City and have
travelled through the lake region of
Minnesota and South Dakota, across
the Bad Lands of the reservation to the
northern Hills, and from there to this
city via Wind Cave.
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