Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-25
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
DAKOTA.

The snow is tive and 4 half feet deep In
Union county.
Hanson county has 500 more men than
women.
Stark county has a surplus cf$l3,es in the
treasury.
A mill at Yankton finds a market for it's
aour in Ohio.
Auasauerade ball will be given in Diana
New Years eve.
The Sioux Falls life insurance company en-
ploys lady agents.
The new city directory Of Sioux Falls con-
tains 2, lao names.
Over 500 per week Is paid out at Desdwood
for Laundry work.
Over 100 pupils are in attendance at the
Madison norma al school.
Mrs. Ida Waterman, OF Diana, has quite a
reputation as an elocutionist.
woonsocket is through with whisky, and
| will issue no more saloon licenses.
Sioux Falls packing company begin opera
ions for the season Monday, the 18th.
Eggs at Elk Point bring eighteen cents per
dozen and butter eighteen cents per pound.
1t is now thought that the school of mines
at Rapid City VIII be opened on the LIST o.
January.
Charlie Marshall, of Wheeler, is under ar
rest on the charge OF carrying concealed
weapons.
The Sphinx county jail has been removed
from Ashton to Redfeld, the new county
seat.
j. G. Montgomery, OF Aberdeen, has bought
the trotting horse ''Thornless," paying 81 1909
cash.
A bunch Of FIVE valuable horses were killed
by a passenger train On the road to Rapid
City last week.
Twenty ~artesian wells are In existence liz
and near Diana. The town takes great pride
in Its ~artesian wells.
A large number of Nebraska farme S are
crossing the ice at Yankton and marketing
nogs and grain In that city.
Thomas Hodge was arrested at Miller the
ether day for drawing a revolver on some
school boys whs snowballed him.
Beth the mayor and marshal, OF Chamber
lain, were recently married at about the
same time. Both took wedding trips, and
both have gone to housekeeping in the same
block.
The Catholic fair at Aberdeen netted 81,
297. IL, which will be used for opening a school
In the new building belonging to the Sisters
Of Charity.
Yankton has adopted a new plan In the
purchase Of general supplies. Contracts
good for six months arc to be let to the lowest
bidder.
A Clark county minister has a claim, and
last Sunday he gave out his text as being in
st. Paul's epistle to the Galatians, section 5,
ll5, 81.
Incendiaries tried TO burn the town of Alex
andria, the fires having been kindled in the
night, but both were happily ~extinguished in
time.
Houses are a scarce article In Roscoe.
Every house built during the last six months
for renting purposes was engaged before com
pleted.
The determination of a number of enter
prising Nebraska towns to sink artesian and
coal prospect holes augurs well for the fu-
ture.
The Nebraska beekeepers will hold their
next annual convention at Lincoln, COM
mencing January II, and continuing three
days.
An old lady named Lier, aged seventy-six,
died at Aberdeen recently from the effects Of
a fall down stairs which ruised her body
badly and broke several bones.
Mammoth snow balls cover the prairie In
Brown county, which were rolled by wind dur
ing the late storm while the snow was damp.
Marvellous weather In Dakota.
Two young men of Minot went out hunting
and shot an OK for a deer, They were arrest
ed, and 1t cost them $50 each at Burlington
for their animal ignorance.
The Dakota Horticultural society held its
second days session at Sioux Falls on Tues
day. Papers on fruit raising, evergreen rails
ing and grape growing were read.
A meeting Of the capital commission is be-
Ing held at Bismarck to prepare It's report to
the legislature and attend TO important busi-
ness relative to TIE capitol grounds.
Deadwood papers tell OF an old gentleman
In THAT village, who has a suit Of clothes in
which he has been married three times, and is
now DESTROYS Of repeating the performance.
The offspring to the lumber of half a doz-
en- Of Jown fowler, Of Castalis, have been
taken from hi, custody and care by the court
and II. T. Oldham appointed their guardian.
The scarcity Of good pure water at a num-
Der Of Dakota towns is causing a great deal
of sickness and distress, and it is feared
that cslamitous results will follow.
Farmers who invested in the cooperative
warehouse at DeSmet are congratulatiug them
selves, for their money has paid 5 per cent. a
month fer the past year with alargc undivided
balance on hand.
George Gross, a horse thief In jail at Sioux
Falls, was allowed considerable liberty, and
the other dag the sheriff sent him out for a
scuttle Of coal and George has forgotten to
come back.
Miss Celia Smith, Of La Roche township,
Charles Mix county, is the possessor of a
handsome diploma bestowed upon her as a
graduating member of the Chautauqaa liter
airy and scientific circle.
Nodlicb Schwitz, living near Mitchell, be
came ~deranged over a disappointment in a
love affair aud wandered AVA from his home.
He was tracked some distance, but finally all
trace was lost and 1t is thought that he per.
ished from exposure.
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