Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-01

The melancholy days are coming.
Will Dudley and family are enjoying
camp life about Sylvan Lake.
Fresh groceries aud fresh fruits at
Fargo's always.
The family of J.F. Parks is enjoying
an outing at Cascade this week.
E. s. Ames and family returned.
] Wednesday from their visit to friends
4 in Nebraska.
Col. Skinner and family, of Rapid
City, arrived in the city Tuesday even
ing. Mrs. Skinner will remain some
time.
Mrs. NJ. r. Barnes and little daugh-
ter left Wednesday evening for Kan
sas City, where she will continue her
studies in osteopathy.
1t makes but little difference what
you want, if you can't get it at Fargo's
you might as we'll quit searching in
the southern Hills. Finest goods and
reasonable prices.
A genuine southern house party is
being enjoyed this week at the home
of Col. and Mrs. A. j. Kellar. Among
the guests are Mrs. II. p. Cheairs, and
Mr.. P. o. Ankeny, of Deadwood, Miss
Mary q. Bechel, of Omaha, and Robt.
Moulton, of New York.
L. NJ. Severns, who has had charge
Of the Evans laundry during the sun
mer, will next Monday open the old
city steam laundry on Minnekahta av-
enue. JAS. S. Hill will be associated
with Mr.. Severns. They propose to do
work in first-class shape and solicit
the work and cooperation of the city.
They are splendid gentlemen and
worthy of encouragement.
Mrs. Basford has the finest line of
stationary in town at lowest prices.
When Cy. Gordon was coming into
the city Thursday morning to make his
regular milk delivery one of his horses
broke through the bridge just above
the Plunge bath and %huondered about
untiLhe fell off the end of the bridge
into the creek. Cy. had quite a seri-
Gus time in getting the horses I'M
TANGLED. The horse was badly bruised
up and the harness broken.
l.. S. Ellsworth returned the first of
the week from Il trip to Omaha where
he had a cancer removed from his
lower lip. 1t was only a short time
ago that he discovered he had a can
Ger, which he had supposed was only a
little sore. 1t began troubling him
about six months ago, but the doctors
say the cancer is about a year old. 1t
was taken out slick and clean aud Mr..
Ellsworth will soon outgrow any evid.
ences OF having lost much lip.
In some unaccountable manner a
fire was started in a ravine west of the
city last Friday afternoon, south of
the Springer ranch, and soon spread
to the timber. On Saturday Com
mandant Linn and a number of mem
! bers of the Home, together with 9th
ers interested, fought the flames for
several hours and prevented their fur
Their spread, and the fire among the
last %smouldering logs went out Sun.
day. 1t was fortunate indeed that fur.
Their spread was prevented, for it was
not only destroying the range and
much fine timber but the beauty Of
the landscape as we'll. If the person
who set the fire could be made an ex
ample of it would be a good thing fo,
the country.
Col. A. b. Conner, senior vice com
mander of the department of South
Dakota, G. A. R., will leave Friday ev
ening for Philadelphia to attend the
national encampment. There will be
three or four hundred South Dakota
veterans who will make the trip to
gether, leaving Chicago by special
train overthe Lake Shore road Sun
day afternoon. This will be an i'm.
portant gathering of the veterans and
Hot Springs is interested in again hav.
ing resolutions adopted endorsing the
work of the committee appointed by
the national G: A. r. last year and
continuing the committee for active
work during the coming year. Col
Conner will will be absent little over
two weeks, visiting his brother, r. f
for a few days at Chicago and another
brother at Indianapolis.
r. E. Talent has this week been de-
livering the history of the Black Hills
written by his mother, Mrs. Annie d
Talent. Its title is "The sBlack Hills
or The Last Hunting Grounds of the
Dakotahs." It is a beautiful volume
of over seven hundred pages, besides
fifty handsome illustrations. It is
said by those who know to be a very
accurate history of the Black Hills
from their earliest settlement to the
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