Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-01-07


Miss Mary Adams and Miss Jessie
Atwater have enrolled in the CONNER
cial department this term.
Rev. Mr.. Chaplin and Messers. A. ID.
Wood and Charles Stewart have called
upon us this week to see that we begun
the new year properly.
w. j. Daddow will not be back until
the middle of the month. Meanwhile
a couple of his fellows are looking after
his duties, at least after his duties as
fireman.
AS the old and new presidents are to
take great flights of oratory ct the
Philo installation next Saturday night,
we look for a pleasant. and perhaps
amusing, meeting.
An edict has gone forth calling the
faithful to a X. X. o. meeting some
time next Tuesday night. Lovers of
peace will please note, and make them
selves oblivious of mundane things on
that night.
Plumber Gillespie has put in a con-
denser in the laboratory to furnish dis
titled water for the chemistry classes.
1t is fed from the heating plant, and
will thus save much trouble and eX-
pense.
A. b. Gidley, '96, is contemplating
putting forth a new pair of wings and
becoming a full f1edged United States
surveyor. If he concludes to take out
his commission he will make a good
one for he has had much practical
work with the best engineers in the
Hills.
Janitor Sutherland has. as he says,
graduated" from his department. His
failing health forced him to give up
his work for a time. Mr.. Mick is now
the college knight of the broom, and
Mr.. Hand is a "Prince's" chamberlain.
They will need to hustle if they do
their work as we'll as Mr.. Sutherland
did his.
The Philo mandolin club is rejoicing
over the addition of two violins to the
roll of its instruments. These are
played, and that we'll, SO the critics say,
by Miss Jennie Pinder and Miss Lula
Mcdonald. We trust the club, as such,
| will never make the mistake made by
| some of its members during vacation.
That is, waste it's music on the desert
air by serenading an empty residence.
Pres. Lymer gave us a few very help
fal suggestions on the openingmorning.
He emphasized the Importance of tho
rough work from the very beginning of
the term, for then the end of the term
will be easy. While the doctor did not
say it, we believe that he will agree with
us that we may remember, with profit
to ourselves, that a good student will
become a broad scholar in any college;
while a poor student will never become
such in the best institution in the
world. 1t is the student that develops
his brain and becomes the thinker, not
the college. He must himself work
and if he does that he will succeed
wherever he is.
The writer of this did think that
Messers. Ladd and Anderson we're old
enough to take care of themselves and
of their property. He was mistaken,
for no sooner did he leave town last
Friday than the aforesaid gentlemen
proceeded to build a fire. The fire was
first built in a stove, the proper place
for it, in the house occupied by Mr..
Ladd but the stove was too small, and
very soon the house itself was aflame.
MIR. Anderson had stepped out for a
few minutes and when he returned he
found the inside of the house almost
gone. 1t is supposed that the fire
started from the stove pipe which
passed directly through the roof. Be-
fore the boys could get the hose cart
over and control the fire, most of Mr..
Ladd's clothes and books we're de-
stroyed. Fortunately he had some of
the former at the college, so he is still
able to appear in polite society. No
insurance on either the house, which
belonged to a gentleman in Lead, or
the clothes.