Jerauld County, Wessington Springs schools and two Jerauld County townships await the 2010 taxes, paid on the Springs wind farm during 2009. Who gets what…. where will it be spent? Next week’s True Dakotan takes a look.

Hundreds of deer have assembled in the Wessington Hills near the northwest corner of Wessington Springs this winter. These were “shot” by True Dakotan Duke Wenzel the other day…. who said there are a lot more than this. They were seen around the home of Elton and Julie Kaus, who live in the Hills in that corner of town. The animals go down into town to eat corn on the South Dakota Wheatgrowers pile of corn on the dumpground road at night. They also  are causing highway hazzards with drivers who use the highway north of Springs. –Craig

 L.N. Nesselroad, a popular Wessington Springs businessman of the early twentieth century, was known as the Springs Fat Man, as this 1957 Wessington Springs Independent story/picture states. Nesselroad, who obviously was not camera-shy, was picked out of an old photograph that was brought to the True Dakotan last week. Marvin Mentzer found some glass negatives in his basement and shared them with us. Nesselroad was identified as the driver of a Cadillac automobile in what was a photograph taken in 1909 or 1910. We concluded the photo was either 1909- or 1910 by a sign above the True Republican newspaper office that said, “H.A. Short, Proprietor”. The Jerauld County history books say Short owned the newspaper in those  years. See the rest of the story in your True Dakotan next week. –Craig