The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1916-10-20
PURE WATER DISTRICT
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II. p. Wilson and Biz Nollsch call
ed ontArt Turner, Sunday.
Carmel Turner spent Sunday night
with his friend Clark Gallagher.
j. L. Hardy and family were guests
at the +. w. Schwarz home Sunday.
A. c. Morehouse called at the Tur-
ner and Palmer homes Sunday after
noon.
q. Il. Schanbacler expects to de-
horn and brand his young stuff this
week.
George and Ora Schanbacher called
at the Nollsch homestead Sunday
evening.
j. NJ. Mitchell is harvesting his po.
tato crop this week. He will have
about 800 bushels.
Miss Waltz called Sunday afternoon
at the Turner home and was a guest
at supper in the evening.
There is no argument, the saloon or
wliskey interests put out, that sa-
loon is benefit to a community.
Schumacher and Jarboe called OH
Lyon and Gillespie Monday afternoon
and later at the w. j. Palmer home.
Tom Gallagher sold fine hog to
Art Turner the first of the week.
Tom says he can spare another if any
one wants it.
Regular services will be held at the
Happy Hollow church next Sunday at
800 p. M, by our pastor Rev. Hugh
&. VanValkenburgh.
Misses Alice Lundberg and Naomi
Gallagher drove to White River last
Sunday morning. They called on
Mrs. Geo. Palmer in the afternoon.
Chas Wagner and frank Jarboe
smoked up lot Of tobacco at the
formers home Wednesday evening of
last week and didn't talk politics
much either.
Mrs. L. n. Gallagher is expected
home the last Of this week, after an
extended visit at Omaha and Garri-
son, Nebraska. Mr.. Gallagher will
meet her at Winner.
Chas. Wagner expects to erect
home and barn and move back to his
homestead just as soon as he can get
well drilled. The new building site
is about a mile east of where his old
home stood./
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter A. Petersen
served IL o'clock dinner to the follow
ing: Messrs. Peta, Bast, Nollsch and
Isenhower. They report a fine din
ner and the host and hostess most
hospitable entertainers.
NJ. l.. Isenhower of Ashland, H., is
here as a guest at the home of Nollsch
and Bast. He says he would like to
locate in Happy Hollow if he can find
a piece Of land that suits him in price
He will assist Mr.. Bast in the erec-
tion of his house, now under construc-
tion.
Last Friday, Art Turner, Lige Gra-
ham, jim Hardy and Homer Wilson
all started for the big prairie fire,
and got within mile or so of the
river before they discovered it was
still several miles away to the west.
The smoke was SO dense here in Hap
py Hollow, everyone expected to see
the flames almost any moment.
1t is reported that the Groom and
Anderson half section soldrecently to
Frank limerick at $40 per acre. If
this is a fact, I'VE heartily congratu-
late Mr.. Limerick on his good fortune
in securing that valuable piece of
land at that price. 1t not only is
near the trail, but has an abundant
Of soft water, for which our district
Is famous.
j. L. Hardy and Geo Schanbacher
called at the Ski Hi Ranch last Mon
day at noon, and OH accepting.a cord
ial invitation extended them by
Drake and Jarbee,to stay for dinner,
were mLst agreably surprised to find
the table loaded with fried chicken,
chicken stew with cream gravy, boil
ed potatoes and pot of beans, bread,
butter, fruit. cakes and coffee. After
the meal cigars were passed and the
social hours that followed were profit.
able to all.
The saloons and whiskey interests
can make no argument, which will
bear the,scrutiny of an unbiased mind
The very fact that nearly the whole
Of eupope has prohibited the sale Of
all intoxicats, since the war began, is
most convincing, that people are bet
ter off by far, without it. So will we
he, and the sooner the better. not on
iy as state, but as nation. sThe
band writing is on the wall" and old
man booze must go.-Signed John
BARLEY Corn.
| The Gallagher home which is noted
for its hospitality was filled with