Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-08
Dakot., Short Notes.

sNO oAAOEC XNONCSs
Irene is rapidly improving in business
conditions.
The ice men at Parker are at work filling
their houses.
Brookings will enlarge her electric light
plant next spring.
The best selling cheeses are those which
range between four and ten pounds in
weight.
1t is said Major Picklcr has the inside
track for the Office of commissioner of
pensions.
The Masons at Spencer are making ar
engagements to institute u Masonic lodge in
the near future.
Tne Black Hills Salvation Army will
now he managed by Lieut.. Engelke, form
crly Of Madison.
n tax receipt for a lot in the village of
Osccola takes first place as the smallest on
record. 1t was for 3 cents.
1yndall is broken up over Il postotfire
controversy. There are several candidates
and each has his particular following.
The only cattle that suffered on the
ranges thus far We're the macclimatized
southern cattle and these only slightly.
The beneficiary of Ole III. Erickson re-
ceivcd q check for $3.OM life insurance
through the Aberdeen tent. No. 9. of the
Maccabecs.
MIR. John st. John of Bookings, who
was found unconscious from all %apopletic
stroke in his Office, a short time ago. has
since died.
The Mystic Legion is trying to organize
lodges in the state through the efforts of
DIR. X. NJ. Dot, who is now at Mitchell for
that purpose.
Monday morning, Dec. %. Edward Rosa
of Gettysburg, shot and killed Il young
lady by the name of Broehl and then
killed himself.
Railroads are not a good market for stock.
y train near Hot Springs killed fourteen
head of Horses and the owner received
$l9S. or $3.50 apiece.
Frank Shaw. register-elect of Meade
County. and Miss Daisy Hartman were
united i'll marriage last Thursday at the
home of the bride in Sturgis.
The Pierce Hotel at Pierre r~cjoices in
some rather uncommon music for this
region. Mrs. S. q. Humphreys received
two mocking birds from Kansas.
The 14-ycar-old blind daughter of Nels
Nelson, q prominent farmer living near
Carthage, was found dead in bed Christ
mas morning. No cause for the death IL
given.
Every farmers wife should understand
the value of a few hives of bees on the
farm. 1t will not only furnish u deIicary
but will add its quota of groceries to the
larder.
Mrs. Casper Egcberg, living near Brook
ings, committed suicide by hanging a few
days ago. She was formerly ali inmate Of
the YanktOn asylum and was supposed to
be cured.
y new creamery has been incorporated
and is located in Fremont Township in
Moody County. The several private diaries
in that section will be greatly benefited by
the new institution.
South Dakota farmers must he tough. A
Bookings County man was kicked tire ugh
the side of his barn and out into the ward
BY a vicious horse. He owes his life to tho
armful Of hay he carried.
The Bryant militia received an evidently
fake telegram last week that war was de-
clared between Spain and the United States.
But the expected special train did not ar.
rive and the boys feel better.
The Milwaukee road intends to send
Frank Banmgartner w their road to give
to the farmers u cholera cure which cured
at Dubuque twenty out of twenty-scyep
infected hogs within q week.