Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-13
NEBRASKA

a large ball Is being erected 10y the veterans
of York.
There are only BOZ prisoners in the state
penitentiary.
Omaha intends 10 organize q hon-opathist
society.
A new school district has been formed at
Strang.
The Sunday schools of O'Kay contain Us
scholars.
The military garrison at Sidney contains
1900 men.
There are 30a prisoners In the state peni-
tertiary.
The Ponca high school has a natural history
museum.
A Masonic lodge Is to be organized at
Springview.
Mrs. Harrison Giliet IS so III that her death
is hourly expected.
A benefit ball viii shortly be given by the
police OF Lincoln.
The Baptist state anniversaries were held at
Hastings last week.
Forty-tlve thousand sheep are feeding in the
vicinity of Fremont.
A pumpkin raised on a farm near Holdrcge
weighs 1913 pounds.
Richard liargraves, Omaha, entered suit
for divorce Thursday.
There is q general scarcity OF farm hands
throughout the state.
The Ord Quiz wants the star routes changed
rom North Loup TO Ord.
The September receipts of the Valentine
land office were 3 5,453.S7.
Arrangements are being made 10 organize a
Baptist church at Bassett.
The new Catholic school house at Platts-
mouth Is nearly completed.
The first caisson Of the Rulo bridge over the
Missouri Is dow eighty feet.
Potatoes are bringing 80 cents a bushel in
the southern part of the state.
Cholera killed a herd of go hogs, belonging
to Crew X Martin, near Ponca.
Custer county citizens are talking Of divid-
Ing the county into four new ones.
A gang Of rowdies from Hastings broke up
aDonnelly meeting at New Trier.
The corner stone of the new Swedish church
al Lincoln was laid last Sunday.
A farmer near Fremont has taken up the in
dustry of raising Shetland ponies.
The question OF erecting a building for the
Lincoln Y. NJ. G.. A. is being discussed.
The new iron bridge at PaYnessille is almost
completed, whereat the people are pleased.
On THURSDAY the formal inspection of the
new insane asylum at Norfolk was made.
The people Of Brown county are agitated
over a proposed division Of the county.
Corn is so plentiful and cheap in Holt coun-
ty that farmers will use it for fuel this winter.
The Northwestern railroad company have
decided not to change the name of Newman
Grove.
The surveyors Of the Sioux City and Denver
road reached Plainyiew, Pierce county, last
week.
The military garrison at Sidney contains
four thousand men under command of Gen.
Morrison.
Nearly one thousand tons of hay were con
sumed by "a prairie fire near North Platte last
week.
The livery barn OF 5. VI. Pisley, Of Howard.
was burned recently and TWENTY-FIVE head OF
horses consumed.
The burned block in Norfolk viii be re-
placed by a better one as soon as arrange
meuts can be made.
The Elkhorn Valley association of Congre-
Norfolk last week.
A citizen OF Omaha has purchased six thou
sand acres of land on the Platte river near
O'Fallon, which be proposes TO turn into a
mule farm.
At Blue Springs, on Thursday. a barbecue
adm celebration was held il honor Of the com
pletion Of the Blue Springs roller mills, plan
Nc mills and foundry and machine shops.
The Sunday musical dinners at the Windsor
owing partially to the excellent Music by the
Northwestern orchestra.
There are no idle mechanics in Oakdale. In
fact the supply of all classes OF workmen does
not seem equal to the demand, and the pros
poets for continuous work all winter long is
good.
The b. and NJ. is vigorously pushing track
laying on the new extensions. The branch
from Holdrege to Blu Hill is ironed, and
work commenced on the extension throughout
Keith county.
The commissioner of land offices has de.
cided to allow no more final proof notices to
be printed in papers that are geographically
careless. The action is occasioned by much
annoyance through misspelled words.
There is a suggestion OF retributive justice
In the announcement that the ~thoughtless
boy who frightened to death Anna Studeville,
of Brownville, by throwing a toy snake or her
has fallen from . freight train and broken his
leg.
Ord Quiz: Fully twenty buildings are now
In the course of erection In Ord, costing all
the way from $500 to $4,000 each. Still Ord
doesn't boast Of a boom. This city has had a
healthy growth from the start and warts no
other.
Bishop Worthington says In his last pub
lished diary: eve have been hearing of new
churches TO be built in richer and Older towns
in Nebraska, but unless some Of these rectors
and ~vestries make haste Valentine will far
outstrip them in all that indicates active
church life"
The farmers Of Adams county are sgitating
the matter of building and operating an ele-
yator, with a capacity OF about 300, 600 bush
els of grain, on the cooperative plan. The
building proposed will cost about 100000, and
will, If decided upon, be erected either at