Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-27
NORTHWESTERN HENS.
IOWA

The water works at Nevada are completed
and are awaiting a test.
Arrangements have been perfected Tor
starting a broom factory In Clarion,
Some sight or ten cases Of scarlet fever in
a mile form are reported at Cedar Rapids.
Fifteen deaths from diphthcria have occur
red at Oxford junction during the past week.
After carefully reviewing the matter Clin-
ten has decided that she wants a canning
actory.
The Berean Baptist coclety ct Counc
BLUFFS has decided 10 erect a house OF worship
once.
The ladies Of Fonda are earnestly talking
up the matter Of organizing d Woman's Re
ef corps.
The amount in salaries paid to teachers
n Muscatinc county in the last year was
s4,5o3.
d.. w. Waulkner of Anita has harvested
a crop Of over 10000 bushels OF potatoes from
fifty acres Of land.
The first Democratic club ever formed at
Mt. Vernon was started Saturday night with
a membership Of 13s.
The burning OF the court house In Sac
county at Sac City has occasionec a contest
for relocation of the county seat, In which
Wall Lake and odebolt are both candidates,
Vim. Kaden, who kept a saloon at Eagle
Point the past forty years and did a land
Office business during the war when the sol
diers we're campcd there, died Sunday morn
at ! o'clock, aged 81 years.
Frank Berger, a IL year old boy at Council
" :, -. 1900 -orZ- InaN THINE.
day and IN striking the ground one OF his
hands went under the wheel and three fingers
were so badly mashed that amputstisn was
necessary.
A new clothing store, a new jewely store
and a new drug store are among the new
business enterprises that are in Immediate
prospect for Humboldt.
The North i)cs Moines water works com
pany is proceeding rapidly with the work OF
putting In q plant and lGJ ing mains. The
plant proper, it Is understood, viii cost $l@5,
900
Tho salvation army marches through the
principal street, Of What Cheer now instead
OF holding meeting on their battle grounds
The evenings are getting too cool for stand.
ing around.
w II. Hall, a brakeman o. q Chicago
Milwaukee and st. Paul freight train, was
horribly mangled last Saturday In the yards
at Perry. 1t is supposed that he fell down
between the cars.
The mail route from sherhurnc to Esther
Vile has beer discontinued. After the 2Oif
of this month the country between the twC
towns will be supplied by the Fairmont and
Esthervllle route three times g week.
TIL Iowa Woman's Suffrage association, OF
which Mrs. Margaret Campbell is prcsiden'
and Mrs. Eliza FL. Hunter secretary, held III
seventeenth annual convention IN the Metho
dist church 81 Ames October is and 10.
Young man Of Fairfield made him A para
chute n gay or so ago and jumped oH the real
end OF a high store building With IT. IL wat
thouah lat that II he had descended twice as fal
he would have gone into the ground clear III
to his ears.
Quite a number Of ladies in Council Bluff.
are trying 10 organize a school for domestlcs
1t will hardly be a success, rs the domestic
OF today is yet to be found who does not
know q great Deal more than her mistress.
You eau teach her nothing.
Dun's commercial report for September,
1883, gives the number Of business firms IN
seven Of the largest cities In Iowa as follows
Davenport, 1856; Dubuque, 754; Bes Moinee,
sS4; Burlington, 500; Council Bluffs, t55
Cedar Rapids, 565, and Sioux City $50.
The Central Union Telephone company OF
Dies Moines intends putting cables In the
business part Of the city, instei d o the large
number Of individual wires which are now
used. The cables will each contain 100 insu.
lated wires.
The Griuuell Electric Light company has
BOUGHT the wire works building and Will re-
move their plant as soon as possession Is
given. Immediate changes snd additions
will be MADE and such facilities provided
that every house in town may be lighted by
electricity.
Samuel Boone, OF Wooabine, is about to
an action for damages against the
Sioux City and Pacific Railroad company for
putting him of the train forcibly at a point
about three miles north OF River Sioux while
cnroute TO tie Sioux City Corn Palace.
The Marshalltswn Times Republican is au-
thority for the following: Doubtless the
largest man ia the world Is j. II. Craig Of
this state. He is 6 feet A inches tall and
was born IN Iowa City thirty-two years sgo,
he Is said to be the largest man In the world
at the present time. He is well proportioned,
full Of fun and as playful As a kitten. He
has weighed s33 pounds, but uses tobacco
nov to keep his weight down below 500"
Dies Moines is getting excited ever a new
puzzle watch 10 As follows: A boy was COM
niss!oned ia make q purchase at the cigar
stand In the Sayery house lobby. He went
up to the cigar agent, told his errand, and
just as TIE agent had made up the change the
boy laid down a 81 bill which had been given
hin TO make the purchase. Precisely at this
moment up steps a third party, a gentleman,
appropriates the 81 and disappears, leaving
both boy and agent unable to identify him.
Question: whose is the loss2
A Council Bluffs clergyman holds that our
public schools to no small extent pave the
way 10 crime, in that they educate only the
head, which has a tendency to make labor
degrading. thereby increasing the number Of
those who live ty their wits and who are too