TRUE DAKOTAN

 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