The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31

De, mis- living near Blaine 5 sawmill.
Thi is the first instance we remem
Der Of that the county physician
took enough interest to visi. a
patient in the Hills. DR.. Waidron
is performing his duties well and
the county should retain him
Hill City News.
Mrs. r.. w. McNown died of con
gestion of the brain at her home in
Baskerville last SATURDAY at the
ages OF 81 years. She leaves a hus-
band and three grown children to
moarn her death, and the whole
community will miss the kind minis
trations of her willing hands, which
have ever been extended to those in
trouble within her reach. She
was widely and %tavorably known
throughout the southern Hills and
her death is keenly regretted by all.
Funeral services were held Sunday
and the remains laid to rest in the
cemetery near Rockervllle.
Willis G. Bower, late clerk Of the
.dispensary house of misrepresenta-
tives at Pierre, criticizes the COVER
nor's vetoes at length in an inter
view in the Sioux City Journal. If
Bower had been as competent to
conduct his W duties as he as
sumes to be to pass Oh the gove"-
nor's course, the business of the
house might have been conducted
with more expedition and accuracy
than it was.-Thos. FL. Ayers in the
Vermillion Plain Talk.
Col. Wright of Rockerville, one of
the old pioneers of the southern
Hills, was a caller at THE UNION
sanctum Monday. The Colonel paid
his dollar for this paper a year and
the Farm Journal five years, and
told us to go ahead and knock the
bark clean off the goldbugs.' W.
hasten to assure the colonel that his
| alvice will be followed out to the
letter and that We will knock the
bark off, those fellows before We
get through with them.
A meeting will be held at the G
A. R. rooms on Saturday afternoon
April l, q, 3 o'clock, for the pur
pose Of organizing a Womans' Re
lief Corps. All ladies over Is year
Of age are invited to be present
The membership will not be con
fined to the wives and daughters Q
the veterans, but will be open to all
The relief work will also be genera
in its character. Turu out and bel
start the organization.
Uncle H. r. Beach hands TIL
UNION a dollar as a renewal of hi
faith in the paper. Uncle Beac
has had about as much good, har
experience crowded into the sixt
years he has lived as any man i
the country and during all thu
time he has been a close observer
the general trend of national eventt
Using his experience as a basis ft
intelligent judgment, he commend
the course and policy OF The UNIos
SEED PoTAToEs!--I have a fe
hundred weight of pure early s.
, Weeks potatoes which | will ha,
for sale at J. p. Bucks grocer
store in Rapid City about the fir
Of April. They will be sold at 81.
per hundred, sack included.
5 these potatoes are planted early
+ April a fair crop may confident
3 be expected in spite Of dry weathe
Otto Anderson, Rockerville, S.
Miss Maggie Forbes closed a We:
successful term of school at what
known as the Mccain school hou
on March 25th. On the evening
!. the Oath she, with the pupils und
i her direction, rendered an excelle
and highly creditable program
i the school house 10 a goodly thro
v of people. The UNION was asked
publish the program entire, but
unable to do so owing the crowd
!, condition of its columns.
A public meeting in the intert
Of the crusade against vice was ht
at the Methodist church Wednes1
evening. Plans were formulat
fer action at the polls at the q
8 election to be held on April Is q