Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-06-13
HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA. FRIDAY l3, 1902
Miss Beath Huebner returned from
Madison Thursday.

Madison Thursday.
Mrs. w. w. Stewart and mother ARE
expected home Saturday.
d. W. Julian, formerly publisher of
the Times Herald, spent Sunday in the
city.
Mrs. w. HI. Stanley and son, Stewart,
will arrive Saturday for visit of sew
eral weeks.
'Shorty" West came over from Edge
mont Wednesday to meet the round up
he being foreman.
Mrs. j. B. Parks, who was very i'll
for few days during the past week, is
now getting along nicely.
The Hospital items we're received too
late for publication in this issue but
will appear next week.
Ward and Elton Stanley returned
from Minneapolis Wednesday, with
their grandmother, Mrs. r. w. Stanley.
Andrew Erickson has purchased a
lot east of w. w. Smithson's place and
is building a small residence thereon.
Miss Kitty Osmotherly returned
Thursday from Ardmore, where she
conducted a very successful term of
school.
w. L. Judkins, formerly an esteemed
resident of this county, came up from
Chadron Tuesday and spent several
days in the city.
The South Dakota Railroad Com
missioners will inspect the Burlington
line in the Hills this month and hold a
meeting at this place.
Mrs. Dollie Bowker, nee Thomas, is
visiting her parents. MIR. Bowker
spent Sunday here and went to Lead
where he will be employed in the band.
Charley Richards came up from
Chadron Tuesday night in response to
a message announcing the serious ILL
ness of his wife, but we are pleased to
to state that she is now greatly
improved.
j. s. Cromwell and wife, formerly
Hot Springs residents, returned few
days ago from Council Bluffs and ex-
pect to spend few months here, in
one of Mr.. Cromwell's cottages on
Park avenue.
Spontaneous combustion came near
causing conflagration in the store
room of Riordan & Highley, Thursday
morning. A fire was just getting un.
der headway when discovered, about
five o'clock in the morning.
w. T. White and wife of Lincoln,
who spent few weeks here three
years ago, arrived Friday and we're
here over Sunday, then visited the
Northern Hills, leaving for home
Thursday night. They we're just re-
turning from journey to California.
Sam Williams will open paint shop
next to Jensen's livery next Monday
and will be prepared to attend to the
wants of his many old-time customers.
Sam is quite an artist as painter and
paper hanger and cordially solicits the
patronage of his old friends as we'll as
new ones.
The county school board met Tues
day and selected school text books for
the ensuing year. They made a con.
tract again with the American Book
company, where the county purchased
during the past five years. The Amer
ican Book Co. seems to have captured
nearly the whole Hills, securing con-
tract with all the counties excepting
Butte. In this county they got the
contract for everything excepting pri-
mary arithmetics and copybooks.
The STAR family is under great obli-
cations to Fred Noerenberg for a most
delicious basket of strawberries. fresh
ly picked from his great, big, nice patch
son the Rhine Fruit FARM, as he
happily calls it. No country ever pro-
duced finer fruit than this, and not
many men understand fruit raising
better than Fred. But these berries
this year are just simply delicious
the finest you ever tasted-and they
sell in a hurry. Everybody prefers
native berries, and Fred will not have
any trouble i'll contracting all he
can get on the market. He is going to
have all kinds of fruit in few years
and will be we'll repaid for the years of
hard work that he and his good wife
have put in on that pretty little farm.
A. b. Connor always thought he was
one of the best cribbage players in this
part of the country and he had every.
body afraid of him, but when he re-
Gently made the trip to Sioux Falls
DR.. Jennings tackled him for a game.
and now A. B. don't have so much to
say about his proficiency in the game.
After playing all the way down and