Jerauld County, SD News.....Editorial August 26, 1887
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Wessington Springs Herald August 26, 1887
En Route for Aberdeen

Editor Herald:

    According to promise I drop you a few notes by the way, but find that
speaking every night and taking the train every day is not conducive to literary
effort. When I tell you that I was stunned by lightning this morning, you will
probably be more lenient in your criticism. While sitting up-stairs, in the
south room of my hostess, at Northville, with "almost" a cloudless sky, and no
thought of danger, a quick, sharp report like the crack of a pistol on my left
shoe heel, at the same time a sensation in my foot as though some one had given
it a quick, hard blow with a sledge hammer, followed by a bewildering, blind
feeling, before I realized that I was struck by lightning. My first thought was
of my little boy who was down in the yard on the same side of the house. After
blindly stumbling down stairs, I met him and my hostess, who had both been
stunned and were rather pallid looking, but no serious results to any of us.
Only the stinging queer sensation in my heel reminds me of my narrow escape. The
heaviest stroke took in a house about 100 yards from my boarding house,
completely riddling the roof and siding in one end.

    I find the prohibition booming all along the route. Even the rush of a busy
harvest does not dampen the ardor, and the prospect is that there will be a
desperate fight between this and election, and both armies are making
preparations for the fray. Spink and Faulk counties are both no-license
counties, but having incorporated towns, saloons flourish in such towns against
the wishes of the majority of the people.-Consequently the people see the
necessity of working for local prohibition under the local option act, which
grants no special favors to incorporation. I have heard of the superior class of
people of Faulk county, and I must say, "the half has not been told." I never
looked in the faces of a more cultured, refined, earnest set of people than
Sabbath eve. at DeVoe.

    Spink county supports a brewery in spite of the wishes of the
majority.-Shame on a government that carries on a partnership with a business
that destroys the people of that government, and directly contrary to their
expressed desire. "How long, oh Lord, how long?"

    The counties are not only carefully looked after by the W. C. T. U., but
prohibition leagues are organized in all precincts and in good working order,
with money pledged to carry on the work.

    I hope our own county will not lose her banner through a feeling of
security. I find whisky votes are made every day, and our people will have a sad
awakening too late, if they do not rouse to vigorous action.

    The anti-prohibitionists in Jerauld county are having a "still hunt", and we
must be prepared to meet any sudden emergency that may be sprung upon us. More
Anon.

    Yours for home-protection.

                                              Mrs. Nettie C. Hall


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