Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

s. e. Wilson was at Buffalo Gap
Monday on legal business.
Next Wednesday the Elkhorn will
run a mid-winter excursion into Hot
Springs.
Money talks and a comfortable bal.
ance in the Treasury is more eloquent
than q deficit.
"The Week Of Prayer" is being OBJ.
served by the various churches of Hot
Springs this week.
VIM. Knowlton, the genial manager
of I. H. Cha SEES Hot Springs store was
in Hill City last week.
Americans are so fond of fighting
that they can be found on both sides in
the South African war.
Mrs. T. w. LaFleiche, tof Belle
Fourche is here visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Taylor.
Isn't it about time for Pettigrew and
Mason to discover some new crime that
the President mas committed?
John Bulls Christmas was not sas it
might have been, but he is .hoping for
great happiness early in the new year.
Miss Villa Ross who is teaching
school in Custer, visited during the
holidays with her motherin Hot Springs
OF course, the outbreak ofthe bubon-
10 plague at Manila is entirely due to
the imperialism of the administration.
Mrs. McCoubrey and daughter have
moved to Newcastle Wyoming. We
are sorry to have these people leave
Hot Us.
Germany is beginning to growl about
the seizure of the Bundesrath. She
also growled about the capture of
Cavite a year or SC ago.
Expansion doesn't appear to be a
party question in Alabama, Arkansas,
and Tennessee, where prominent sdem-
ocrats are advocating it.
The Presbyterian Aid Society seems
to be the banner society of Hot Springs
-inasmuch as they have earned abou t
$4,000 within the past year.
Efforts made by Chairman Jones to
reconcile Kentucky democrats have
failed and it is conceded that the state
will be lost to Bryan next year.
The question is not SO much wheth-
err this is the nineteenth or twentieth
century as it is to what century fossils
like Hoar and Atkinson belong.
If the New Workers had begun the
New Year by swearing off, instead of
attending a prize fight, it would have
been more creditable to themand their
town.
We have received a copy of the first
issue of The Alcester Times. 1t starts
out with a fine showing of local pat
ronage and is a neatly gotten up, read
able paper.
Will Stewart has arrived home from
an extended trip through the east. He
reports a great deal of snow and winter
in Pennsylvania and other parts of the
country he visited and was glad to get
back to the beautiful climate of Hot
Springs.
There came near being a conflagra-
ton on College Hill Sunday. Some
ashes had been emptied near or against
the barn and some Goals in the ashes
had started a fire that had it not been
discovered in time might have proved
serious.
Mrs. ID. L. Burke, who is visiting in
Missouri writes to have her STAR sent
there. She is anxious to know what is
going on here and knows that is the
best and easiest way to learn of the
doings of the people. A newspaper is
better than any letter can be and more
regular in its appearance, The STAR
will be sent to Lamont, Mo-, SO long as
she stays there.
Burk's Big Uncle TOMS Cabin Co.
with their excellent concert band and
orchestra, will be at the opera house
one night only Thursday Jan. 18th.
The Company number % artists, 8
musicians, travelling in their own Pull
man car, giving a complete and real
istic production of the great drama
with appropriate scenery and stage
effects. Grand open air concert at
noon. Prices: Reserved seats rs cents;
General admission SO cents; Children
under II, % cents. Seats on sale three
days in advance at usual place.
While Rex Joyce was going to school
Thursday afternoon he was walking
along the foot of the embankment on
Chicago avenue, not noticing that
some children we're engaged at the tor
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