Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-02-02

A new maple floor has been laid in
the Merchants Bank.
There were four a~ccessions to the
Baptist Church last Sunday night BY
baptism.
Now that John Bull has struck his
gait, Dom Paul had better open nego-
tiations for peace.
Rev. H. w. L. Mahood visited the
northern Hills this week in the inter-
est Of the College.
The Paris Exposition is billed to open
in April, but it will probably not get
fully started before June.
1t is said that Senator Cullom, who
has held office for forty years, wishes
to complete the half-century.
The Senate is taking financial talk
in broken doses, with expansion,
anti-expansion, etc., between doses.
Only experts like Mr.. Morgan, of Ala,
can direct a Senatorial campaign at
home by speeches made in the senate.
Suppose the war does cost! How
long have Americans been counting
money or lives inthe discharge of their
duty?
The S of the elevator route to
Kingdom come appears to be on the
increase, Notwithstanding its jolly
nature.
If Col. Bryan has been informedthat
he has any chance of winning this fall,
he must be like Lord Methuen-
deceived by his guides.
While Billy Mason is presenting
resolutions of sympathy with pretty
much every body, he should not neg
lect st. Louis and the Chicago sewage
canal.
On Thursday of next week the COM
mercial Club will meet at the Evans to
elect directors and attend to any other
business that may come before the
meeting.
If English editors are wise they will
choke off the fool talk about English
objection to American construction
and control of the Nicaragua Canal.
England needs all the American friends
she can get now.
The Frankfort, KY, ministers did
we'll to set aside a day for humiliation
and prayer, but if the city authorities
can set aside the contents of all mas
culine hip pockets the answer to the
prayers will be more certain.
1t seems difficult to realize that the
woman who wrote the first message
ever sent by wire was living less thar
a week ago and she was only 10 when
she died. The words she chose for the
message were, "What hath God
wrought" The message was sent
from Washington to Baltimore, Ma
q, 1884.
There was a large congregation a
the Baptist church Sunday to hea
Rev. Catlin give his farewell sermon
He has been pastor of this churc'
three years and while the growth q
the church has not been phenomena
it has been constant and reliable an
he leaves it in good shape, spiritual
and financially. The STAR regrets t
see Mr.. Catlin leave Hot Springs.
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of The Iowa Homestead in this countr
is a matter for congratllation to til
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all the papers Of its class in the countr,
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