Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-07-25
THE SOLDIERS HOME,
Items of Interest Pertaining to the State
Institution and the Boys
In,

Items of Interest Pertaining to the State
Institution and the Boys
In Blue.
Col. j. +. Bakrr and wife of Hermosa
came down and visited over Sunday al
the Home.
Ed. Ryan got so much better that he
went up to Redfern Monday. He will
be gone several days.
Joe Clark is painting all the dining
room chairs, they look very much bet.
ter if they don't sit more comfortable.
Jacob Hon did not stay at Sheridan
but three or four days. He found that
for comfort the Home is the place for
such men as he.
Geo. w. Grass arrived here from Sui
ly county where he went on business.
He reports crops very fine, and land
rising in price.
Quarter Master Connor went up to
Deadwood Tuesday to interview the
Timber Inspector about a timber lot
he claims near Oreville.
James Kniffen left Tuesday evening
for Cherokee, Iowa, to see his daughter
who is very sick. When he left he
was very much broke up.
w. S. Cusham is back from Sanborn
county. "Cnsh" makes about four
trips each way each year.
L. M. Hough left on last nights train
for Sheffield, Iowa, to visit his daugh.
ter, an only child. He will be gone
about 30 days.
Carl Haas returned this week from
Brule county where he had been on
furlough for the past three months
Carl carries his bigness as as he ever
did.
We hear it said the roofs of all the
buildings will be painted same color as
is the main building. We noticed
three or four big barrels of paint un-
loaded at the shop few days ago.
Jabez Spalding has got back from
Belle Fourche where he spent couple
of months visiting his children, he
says, but the boys say he spent more
time among the widows than elsewhere.
Jabez is a gay old coon, and will bear
watching when among the widows.
John Tennis, Roswell Williams and
William Saddler are all very near the
end of life. It seems impossible for
either of them to survive another day
and night, and yet they have been in
that condition for several weeks.
Wonderful tenacity they have.
Henry Moore returned Tuesday after
an absence of several months. He was
engaged at carpenter work while gone
out in Wyoming. He says he ;has got
through rambling and is home to stay.
William Chiddirk arrived yesterday
after two years absence. He spent
most of that time in the: Michigan
Home at Grand Rapids. But neither
the climate or surroundings were as
agreeable to him as here. He came
into this Home from Edmonds county.
He was member of the 10TH Michigan
Unfit, during the war, and lis now in
poor health.
Tom Black left for Kansas for a
month or so to look after his old home
stead he acquired in] 1885. A festive
cyclone pranced over Thomas land
and tore down his trees and carried
away his house. He goessdown to gaze
upon the spot where the house ought
to be-
James Boyd, of Brule county, ar
rived yesterday morning attthe Home.
1t is his first sight of the: Hills and he
is greatly surprised at the difference
between eastern Oak. and this section.
He served in the 24th Iowa during the
war.
Martin V. Townsend came in on
yesterdays morning..train from Pierre
to make his home here. He has no
family and believes!he ought to rest
awhile. He served over four years in
the 18th Ill. Infantry, was through the
thickest of Sherman's campaigns from
start to finish. He knows what war
means.
J. Edgar Mills, of Sioux City, was
the guest of Col. andtMrs. Lucas three
or four days this week. Mr.. Mills is
the manager of the Pellitiers Dry
Goods Company. He was greatly in
terested in all about the Home. The
one thing that particularly surprised
him was the age of :thel:members. He
had not thought of that feature of the
Home, had not thought of:sthe fact
that all the men who were soldiers in
the civil war are now three score. or
more, years of age, withysonly small
per cent of fan exception; and those
who have not reached 60 are very near
that point.
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