Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-13

The Hot Springs public schools will
enjoy a vacation Thanksgiving day and
Friday.
j. G. Richer & Co. were awarded the
contract for furnishing fifty cords of
wood at s2.47 per cord in general fund
warrants.
Feed vendors and furnishing goods
merchants r jubilant over the de-
cidedly wintry weather of the past
week. Trade in fuel and clothing lines
has been unusually brisk.
Il. S. Kendall, of the ChadronS Signal
Recorder, was in town Monday enroute
to Custer. He says the republicans
elected the prosecuting attorney in
Dawes county but everything else went
pop.
Col. Kellar visited Lead on Monday.
He was accompanied by Bennie Wade,
the little son of DIR. aud Mrs. n. NJ.
Wade, who has been visiting his grand
parents in this ploce for several weeks
past.
Sam Harris. who is teaching the
Pringle school-and by the way, giving
excellent satisfaction-was visiting
friends IN Hot Springs Saturday. Sam
has some valuable mining property
near Pringle that will make him a for
tune sometime.
A new wagon road is being graded
from the main road to the power house
at the falls. It. is proposed also to
scrape away the loose dirt from above
the power house to prevent any further
damage from that source. j. B. Parks
has charge of the work.
The tenth anniversary of the wedding
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Lennon was cele-
brated at Rapid City on Wednesday
evening of last week. Mr.. Lennon
has many friends in this portion of the
Hills who wish him and his cstimable
wife many returns of the delightful
occasion.
Store room for rent in the Mime
kata block. Inquire of Z. S. Kelly, re-
ceiver.
Ed Phernetton this week started on
a tour with his graphophone through
Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin. He
puts up an intensely interesting enter
tainment and will doubtless draw good
houses. Tho Mckinley and Bryan
speeches with other s%pecialities as
given ont by his graphophone have
been a feature of many political meet
ings in this city during the campaign.
Perhaps it is not in order for the
STAR to offer advice or suggestions to
the incoming popocratic legislature
but all tho same we again desire to call
attention to the fact that our able and
highly respected townsman Col. Al.
Kellar is the best qualified and most
admirably equipped for the high office
of United States senator of allthe popo-
cratic host.
According to the Oelrichs Times o.
3. Chesley has lost sl5 by being so slow
about getting married. 1t seems that
he wagered a sl5 overcoat with Frank
Long that he would be married first,
and now that Frank has taken unto
himself Il wife and o. B. is still in a
state of single cussedness it looks as
though Chesley would have to buy the
o%vercoat or else swear that he has been
married for more thanten days at least.
Owing to the excitement attending
election week we neglected to mention
in our last issue the delicious supper
served by the ladies of st. Luke's Guild
at the Gillespie on the evening of cleo
ton day. The supper was all right and
many enthusiastic McKinleyites ate
with a better relish, as the encouraging
returns came in, than at any time for
several months past, Notwithstanding
the reverses in county and state.
Senator A. j. Kellar, of Hot Springs,
was in town for q short time. He made
a splendid race for the state senate in
the district comprising the counties of
Fall River and Custer. and is now
prominently spoken of by both the
democratic and republican papers of
Hot Springs as a candidate from the
Hills for the United States senate. He
is a man of ripe experience and would
make u state a creditable represen-
tative in the upper house of our nation
al legislature Lead Call.
Alderman Gibson,o of tho Fourth ward.
scored q triumph at the council meet.
ing Monday night of which he is justly
proud. He succeeded in placing on
its second reading and having passed
his pet measure, an ordinance provid.
ing for the election by the fire depart.
ment of the chief engineer and the
assistant chief engineers who
shall hold their respective offices for
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