First Day-September 19, at Council Bluffs, Iowa. 4:30 P. M.-Election of officers. 5:30 P. M.-Adjournment. At night-Carnival at Omaha; the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben will celebrate the "Feast of Mondamin." Second Day-September 20, at Council Bluffs, Iowa. 9:30 A. M.-Society reconvenes. 2:10 P. M.--Special excursion train (free to members and their wives) leaves Omaha for the Hot Springs. 6:25 P. M.-Supper at Norfolk Junction, Neb. Third Day-September 21, at Hot Springs, South Dakota. 6:55 A. M.-Breakfast at Buffalo Gap. 12:00 M. Visit the famous "Plunge Bath." 2:00 P. M.-Society reconvenes in the Opera House. 9:30 P. M.-Banquet at Catholicon Sanitarium." Fourth Day-September 22, at Hot Springs, South Dakota. The day will be spent in sight seeing; leaving for home in the afternoon. 464 Hot Springs, South Dakota. Dr. J. W. Grosvenor, of Buffalo, New York, in the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal, gives the following description of this famous resort, The Carlsbad of America. He says: Hot Springs, S. D., is situated in the southwestern part of the state, at the beginning of the approaches to the Black Hills. Its main site is the bottom of a gulch or canon, thirteen miles in length and varying from a few hundred to many hundred feet in breadth. In some places the sides of the valley are quite precipitous; in others they ascend gradually into the lofty hills. Opposite Hot Springs, on the top of the embankments, are broad plateaus, which furnish eligible sites for residences and public buildings. Along this canon for about six miles, springs of warm water bubble up out of the earth in sufficient quantity to constitute a stream of pure limpid water, which is called Fall River. Parallel to the river run a railroad and a carriage road and on either side of it are hotels, business, and public buildings. Less than a score of years ago the whole region, of which Hot Springs is the central point, was occupied by Indians. They had recognized-perhaps from time immemorial-the healing virtues of these spring-waters and had brought their sick there for bathing. Marvelous stories of the trans |