Jerauld County, SD News.....Notes on the Way (con't) September 7, 1888
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Wessington Springs Herald September 7, 1888
Notes by the Way

Editor Herald:-

(Continued from last week)

    After speaking to an appreciative audience at Norfolk, we hurried away to
Oakdale, a very pleasant town of 3,000. House packed in the evening and full
next afternoon. Was entertained at the home of one of Huron's old residents. The
Elkhorn furnishes water power here also. Cow boys seem to flourish as well, as
one RODE into the store adjoining the one owned by my host, frightening the poor
old man who was proprietor. It was done simply to carry out a wager. I find more
mud in this valley, notwithstanding it is sandy. Corn fields everywhere, oats
rusted. I have found no crops better than our own. This Elkhorn Valley is
attracting much attention but it is no more worthy of it than our own, had we
railroad facilities.

    At 6 P. M. we boarded a Pullman Palace for a night's ride, and this morning
found us just on the boarders of our own Territory, Chadron, Nebraska, which
receives most of its trade from the Black Hills. When we peeped out, our first
thought was it had snowed as the ground was partially covered with something
white, which I find they call "gumbo" in this country. I saw good sod-corn all
around this place and am told that some in six feet tall with four or five ears
on a stalk.

    The scenery is beautiful, queenly shaped mounds and hills follow each other
in quick succession crowned with just trees enough to look like an old orchard.

    One of the grandest things in this booming town is a young man, an editor
who dares to come out boldly and advocate principles of true liberty. His office
was raided one night by some drunken men, but as he was at prayer meeting was
not harmed. Our cause is bound to win when youth gives all its strength and
noble manhood to the struggle. I'll venture that young man had a good mother. I
speak here this evening and tomorrow hope to view the Hills in all their beauty
and picturesqueness.

    Yours, more than ever in love with Dakota.

                             Nettie C. Hall


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