Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-15
Northwestern ITEMS.
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There are about 200 pensioners In Potta-
wattamie county.
Davenport public schools opened with al
enrolment of 4,002.
Timothy hay sells In the Keokuk market
for 81 TO $40 a ton.
The Crawford county fair will be held Sep
tember IS, 10 and 20.
Burlington tteatergoers are complaining
that they have no show.
The Belmond Herald says corn Will be out
Of the way Of frost in three weeks.
The Hamilt n county fair will be held at
Webster City September %, %, % and 2S.
The druggists Of Webster county have
Termed q pharmaceutical association.
Much Of the corn In the vicinity OF Eldora
is already beyond danger OF an early frost.
The Central Christian church in Des Monies
has made q choir out Of twenty-five children.
Davenport will be represented by eighteen
young men In the state university this fall.
Oats In Clay township, Grundy county, are
yielding sixty to seventy-ave bushels TO the
ere.
IL is said 5000 people attended Barnum's
fuOW II N'
ny.
One hundred and fifty Dubuque factory
girls were photographed in a group the other
day.
The brick paving In Burlington, the Hawk-
eye says, is unanimously said to be a fine
thing.
The advance in lumber rates, the Herald
.a,s A., m a1vantana tn nph,rUua Ynanufaa-
turers.
Last Sunday LIS foot passengers and ga
teams crossed the government bridge at
Davenport.
Des Moines papers say that go 600 Is a con
servative estimate OF Wednesdays crowd at
the state fair.
The Sentinel thinks as much as "A, 600 or
IS 1000 a month are paid out In Iowa Falls for
butter and eggs.
For the fourth consecutive year Richard
son Bros Jersey herd has proved victorious
ut the Iowa state fair.
Chrlstoph Glab, father Of eX-Mayor Glab,
OF Dubuque, died at his residence on Sunday
at the age Of 81 years.
The Christian church at Carthage was
dedicated last Sunday. Amount OF cash col
lected and pledged, $1,000.
Benton county sweet corn, which the farm
ers have been busy marketing, averages two
and Il half tons to the acre.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and North
ern depot at Shellsburg was burned on the
4th inst. Loss, about $1,000.
NJ. b. Cox has begun a newspaper at Mis-
souri, Valley which he calls the Eye. II may
prove an eye opener to Mr.. Cox.
Davenport had put out 1,o40 dog checks up
TO noon of Wednesday last, and dog owners
were said to be just waking up.
The Council Bluffs Herald notes the death
OF an old citizen who 'leaves a wife and eighl
childred all of whom are grown"
Frederick Whitland, a resident Of Potta-
wattamie county for twenty-five yeats died on
the Sd inst. at the age Of "a years.
II. u. Hoey, ~weighmas.er of the Rock Isl
and road at Des Moines, was run over by the
cars Tuesday and instantly killed.
Gen. Geo. w. jones arrived at his home in
Dubuque last Tuesday, after an extended TRIP
through the western states and territories.
The Keokuk cannery put up 10000 three
pound cans of tomatoes on Tuesday, being
tie largest days work the company ever did.
Webster county electors will vote on the
question of spending $4,000 in bridging the
Des yoines river In Dayton and Badger town
ships.
At a preliminary meeting In Cedar Rapids
IL was resolved to form a lobbers' association,
II sufficient names can be secured for that
purpose.
The Chicago syndicate must put up $l6O,-
600 right away IL the deal for the purchase of
the Davenport, Rock Island and Moline street
railway system is to stick.
"Such corn has seldom been seen, y gays
the Ottumwa Democrat. The Democrat
means that 1t Ia good.
The Era says ida Grove is getting TO be a
regular New England town; that Is, about
four young women to one young man.
Numerous tramps congregate in the rail
road yards at Ottumw eagerly watching for
an opportunity to take a pals"" box car.
There are twenty-three subscribers TO the
Young Mems Christian association building
In Des Molnes for an aggregate amount OF
$4,000.
The school census Of Lake City shows 1853
boys and $50 girls, a total Of 372 children Of
school age. This is an increase of about GU
par cent. in q year.
The Emmetsburg Reporter says that a num-
Der OF the farmers of Palo Alto county are
losing the greater part Of their hogs from
some disease for which they have not yet
found a name. The animals seem to lose the
use of their hind legs and soon fall over and
lie. 1t is not believed to be a hog cholera.
Miss Alice Clark, a handsome young lady
of Dubuque was pulled out OF the Missis-
sippi river last Thursday morning just in
time TO save her life. She had taken a boat
for a ride. James Lipsey saw her fall into
the water and he pulled his skif up TO her
when Just her nose was above water. He
aught her by the arms and called for help.
She said LET NE go; Pm not afraid"
Spectators thought 1t was a case OF suicide,
but later In the day the young lady, who
seemed to know nothing of the gossip, ex-
planned to a lady friend: 81 had an accident
this morning. she said. 81 was standing In
the boat when a wave threw me into the
water but 7 kent near the boat and was not