Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-27
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telephone.
new Knights of Pythias lodge will be es.
tablished ut Omaha.
Ainsworth will probably secure q dity.barrel
steam Touring mill.
A recent census shows that Plum Creek has
q population OF l, 1923.
The expenses OF the fire department at
Omaha are 81, 900 a month.
Plsttsmouth Is to have a system Of water
works that will cost 100000.
The Cherry County Republican is q new
paper published st Valentine.
The recent sale Of school lands In Keith
c>unty Melted the state s14, 022.5S.
A Norwegian Lutheran church, ~ cost 81, 7C0
will be built at Harrington This year.
Fremont has, with one exception, the largest
wholesale grocery house In the state.
The Womsn's Caristisn Temperate, union
at Poncs has fitted up q reading room.
A Butler county undertaken advertises mis-
fit collins, warranted to keep IN any climate.
A company to engage In the manufacture Of
typew.iters is being organized at Blue Spriugs.
A Methodist church and a Knights of Labor
lodge are the latest additions TO Rushville's
growth.
Doan college, ct Crete, has been closed on
account OF the prevalence Of scarlet fever
among the students.
Thirty thousand dollars is the emoult need
ed TO complete the soldiers barracks begun at
Fort Niobrara last year.
The farmers Of Adams county are boycotting
the Hastings Gazette-Journal for It's opposi-
ton to Senator Van Wyck.
The special water works election in Hastings
is billed for the 18th Of April. Bono, to the
amount of $50, OC0 are to be voted.
A Jewish association has been formed OF
Hastings. A religions school for the instruc-
ton of the young Will soon be established.
Within Elk weeks after fair weather sets IN
the B. 81 NJ. folks expect to have the iron laid
on their extension from Aurora to Hastings.
The Fremont Paper company has been added
to the wholesale trade. e. d. Mari and Ham
h'Sh0 oAOp' "AS Al oVhCtSy hi6bdhCiS dliu
drummers.
The citizens of Niobrara and contiguous
towns are talking strongly of offering the
Milwaukee road cash inducements 10 build
into that region.
A school census just completed at Fremont
showsa total OF ! 1856 children of school age In
the city, a gain OF seventy. seven over the cen
Gus OF a year age.
have organized = stock company to butld a
commodious hall for the use OF the society.
The capital Is SIC, 0O0.
During the month of February 12t car loads
Of immigrants goods were unloaded at Ogsl-
lala. 1t 10 expected that during March the
number viii reach so.
TIE school officers OF Sheridan county will
meet In convention at Rushville, March 90, FOR
the purpose OF discussing matters Of vital in
terest to the schools OF that county.
Mrs. butcher, Of Atkinson, who, with her
husband, boarded at a hotel kept by che
Brooks sued the landlord for Islander and the
jury AWARDED her a verdict Of 50, 900.
The school officers of Sheridan county will
meet Ia convention at Rushvllle, March %,
for the purpose Of discussing matters OF vital
interest to the schools OF that county.
A mass meeting OF citizens was held at Cul-
bertson last Monday night 10 consider the
question of a new court house for Hitchcock
county. 1t was resolved to build a court
house costing about 5000.
During the month OF February, 1856, there
were forwarded from Pouca 4a3, $50 pounds OF
ed to 1913. 9. Febr larry, 1856, she ", 5SS,495
pounds forwarded, earnings 81, 2o6.6 80, an In
crease In shipments OF 1S5, 235 pounds, and In
earnings of s753.lO.
The Johnson County Journal last week
dished up the history OF the county, it's popu-
lation, soil and cereal wealth, and other strong
fac's intended especially for seekers after
homes. The Journal Is q typographical daisy,
and one CT the brightest and strongest week
lies In the southern section.
SON., Of South Carolina, a daguerrotype picture
OF Gov. Burt, NebrssKs's first territorial GOV
ernor. 1t Is the intention OF Gov. Dawes TO
obtain the pictures OF ell the governors and
have them enlarged and framed and hung on
the walls Of the executive Lfice
The Ponca Journal ia informed that Mrs.
Westbrook says tta' i the citiz Ems will pay her
debts and the dett, - her son who was killed,
such debts amolnt!ng In all to abour $50, she
will leave, and thai II she goes the J, st OF the
family will probably also 60. Perhaps 1t
would be a good plan to do 60.
Altogether the o. g. r. V. railroad carried
80, 3l6 tons Of freight out of Butler county
last year after the crop was raised, and the
received gill ,7C6.i5 for transporting
the same. Tn b. u VI. railroad carried 90
1S2, 64O pounds out Of the county during the
same period and WAS paid 49,, 10O.76 for their
labors.
A Fairfield carpenter named Snyder Is said
to be as mad as a "March hare" actually
crazed, on account OF the ''mitten'' given him
by a budding country lass on whom he wasted
the quintessence OF affection. He tried to
shuffle of the coils OF banished hope from
round mis- nesrt with Tasi, green Ind : shot.
quo, but failed. He will be sent to the s ylum
II the doctors do not finish him.
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