Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-13
NEBRASKA

works.
Howard City's new Touring mill is nearly
completed.
Holt county has o balance in her treasury Of
nearly $4,000.
Ogalalla will build o school-house to cost
$1,000 in the spring.
3 A $500 Touring mill is approaching COM
pletion at Howard City.
The town OF Mead, Saunders county, shipped
1900 cars Ut corn last year.
O'Neill is talking Of putting up q ~tobogyan
slide at an expense OF $1,000.
Charles f. Wilson, bookseller Of Beatrice,
has failed. Liabilities, $1.S25.
A man at Waco hit he'd his horse to a rock
ing chair and took o ~sleigh-ride.
About SO, 900 has already been subscribed to
the charity ball project at Omaha.
Nearly 10000 people participated In the
coasting carnival at Omaha Saturday night.
Omaha is preparing to furnish free text
books to the c!ty's school children next spring.
Ground has been purchased for the new
public building at Nebraska City at a cost Of
: $1,000.
A new town, to be called Lancaster,
eighteen miles south OF Lincoln, has been
plated.
The Hastings bachelors club is in the throes
of dissolution. The members are suffering
with cold feet.
A maj named Schepen was gored by a bull
at Harvard Friday and so badly injured that
he cannot live.
A religious revival was begun on Sunday
night at North Platte. The meetings are
largely attended.
Three small store buildings were burned out
in Hastings Friday night. Loss, $1,000; in
surance, $4,000.
The clandestine marriage of a young CIR,
only IA years OF age caused quite a sensation
at Salem last week.
The Episcopal society Of Grand Island has
secured $500 as a starter for n new church to
be erected next summer
The latest estimate Of the cost OF water
works In Hastings is 500, 10. The source Of
supply will be drive wells.
The business men of Humboldt will con-
slider the subject Of a canning factory at a pub
lie meeting Wednesday evening.
The Exeter postoffice sold 81, 1913 worth Of
postage stamps and issued money orders to
the amount of $l6,0 24 during 1885.
Plattsmouth will vote on the 4th OF March on
the question Of making a contract and appro-
priating money to construct waterworks.
The scheme for a canning factory at Exeter
has fallen through, owing to the failure Of
the township to make up the required bonus.
1t Is rumored that the postoffce inspectors
have found the postmaster ut Kearney short
In accounts and the bondsmen must make 1t
good.
The editor OF the Milford Nebraskan disap-
pesred suddenly last Monday. He was found
a few days after driving into town with q bride
by his side.
1t is reported that the Burlington and Mis-
souri, company has purchased a section Of coal
land at Omio, near the Kansas line, and will
test the coal vein thoroughly.
Twenty. eight full-bloo led %Sloux-men, wo-
men and children were doused In Porcuplne
creek recently. 1t was the preliminary bath
before embracing salvation on the Episcopal
plan.
"Shall we have water works 20 Is the conun-
drum worrying Graftonites just now. 1t is
proposed to form q stock company to lay out
$4,000 In a tank, tower and the proper con-
duits.
The managers OF the Elkhorn Valley road
have accepted the estimate Of the right Of
way through Fremont, and the work OF build
ing will begin in the spring. The estimate is
$4,000.
The wife Of Chss. McNair, the Lincoln man
who had his fingers frozen off last week while
drunk, will shortly begin proceedings for dam
ages against the ssloonkeeper who sold Nc
Nair the liquor.
An amateur named Bell appropriated a
horse from the stables OF the widow Canaan,
living near Neigh, but failed to dispose Of 1t
before capture. The young rascal belongs to a
respected family In the neighborhood.
William Hawke, Of Nebraska City, asks the
court to grant him a divorce frorn hts wife on
the ground OF extreme cruelty az desertion.
The parties were married Sept. II, 1884, and
two days after the bride gave her ,oige a black
eye.
Preparations are being made 81 Coleridgc to
erect a Presbyterian church next summer.
There has been some talk of building one but
no arrangements have been made. 1t is to be
hoped Coleridge will succeed in her enter
prise.
Eugene Blaisdell, a farmer living south Of
Humboldt, WAS suddenly killed Thursday
evening by a tree falling on him.. He was cut
ting the tree for wood. 1t lodged, and while
cutting out the supports he was crushed to
the ground.
While Mr.. and Mrs. O'Pelt, of Nebraska
City, were absent At Lincoln on Tuesday, their
daughter and Mr.. j. Lidel were married. The
BRIDES parents were opposed to the match,
and the lovers watched the opportunity TO
steal a march upon them.
John Purcell, one OF the leading business
men Ct North Bend, died last Thursday. He
had resided In North Bend thirteen years.
The whole town is in mourning, as Mr.. Pur-
eel was a general ~favorite, and had always
given aid to all public improvements.
A little SON NJ Aupust aim who lives ahout