Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-11-22
THE SOLDIERS HOME.

Items of Interest Pertaining to tho State
Institution and the Boys
In Blue.
w. V. Hoisington, of Rapid City, re.
turned from furlough last week. There
are the brothers Hoisington and the
brothers Strayers in the Home. 1.-TWO
pair"
New saw dust is being banked up at
the ice house preparatory to putting
up a supply Of ice for next year. 1t
takes from 125 to $50 tons to keep the
old vets cool through the summer.
Albert Miner received letter on
Saturday that his wife was quite SICK.
He left on the train the same evening
for his home at Parker, Turner county.
Comrade Miner is splendid man, and
will be missed from the Home family.
John Arnold died last week after a
long siege of progressive paralysis. He
came to the Home in January OF This
year and entered the hospital where ne
remained until his death. He was a
member of the lO9th New York Infan-
try. His age was 66 years.
Johnny Barnes, the PHILIPPINE soldier
who has had such hard struggle to
live, is growing better all the time and
will most certainly be able to go on
crutches soon. He has suffered untold
pain, but his pluck and rugged consti-
tuition will pull him through, shy one
leg.
Lawrence Freeman left for his home
at Bath, Brown county, Monday night.
He goes away very much better than
when he came in June. He regrets to
leave now but believes he should go
so his wife may visit her mother in
Michigan, who is 80 years old and in
poor health.
Billy Mckinney, the barber, is the
busiest man in town. He shaves about
125 twice each week and crops their
locks when needed. 1t is safe to say
not shop in town does steaGier and
better business than does Billy, and
we fellows whose faces he scrapes
know none of them can do better job
than William.
Derrick Huck, of Sturgis, has Joined
the Home family. He is German, as
his name indicates, and will add to the
German colony now presided over by
"Chris.' There is "Chris," "August,'
"Karl," "John," "Paul," and now l"Der.
rick" all from the "Faderland," and all
good solid fellows, too.
Col. John Pattee is quite sick with
his old affliction of heart failure. The
colonel was robust and powerful man
in his prime, his mind is vigorous and
active now, but his physical strength
is not so. He said to your reporter
Sunday, 81 guess my career is nearly
ended"
The commandant left on Sunday't
train for Omaha to meet his daughter
and husband who are on their way te
: California to reside in the future
Both are in poor health and go to the
Pacific slope with the hope that .
change might be of benefit. The col
onel went to bid them good bye ant
god-speed.
At the meeting of the bible class, o.
reading, the goodly number of "a wer,
present and all seemed very much in
terested in the study of the old bibl,
history of Moses and the journey o
the Israelites AS we looked in on tn,
9 assembly we we're reminded of an OLE
fashioned school.
y Andrew Gartley died Monday morn
ing after about four days illness. HI
had been suffering from cancer of tn
= stomach for several months. He wa
sergeant of the Home until sicknes
= compelled him to give up the place. H
was good mau. During the war b
was member of the First West Vii
:. ginia Battery, one of the fighting bal
:, teries of the army.
. The report sent abroad in the paper
that member had been expelled fror
~ ~ the Home for using disrespectful lar
gnage toward Pres. Mckinley is SCI
= sational story. Your reporter is il
- formed by the management that ther
. is no truth in the story and we kno
there is no one missing from the men
bership. 1t is as provoking as it
queer, how such stories get abroa,
A. This one originated in the fertile brai
s. of some one in Sioux Falls, as the di
patches were dated at that place.
Israel S. Welch, is very poorly vii
heart trouble. The origin of his afili
es tion was caused by bullet. striki1
a his chest in the battle of Kennesaw
ad 1864 He had a bible and several ii
ed type photographs rolled up in a sms
a handkerchief and the bundle placed
he his blouse pocket on his left side. III
n, ball struck him square in the bundl
ly passed through the bible and phot
ry graphs and through his shirt and sto
It's at his flesh. While it did not ent
m his flesh, the bruise and shock evider
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