Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-26
Northwestern ITEMS
DIVA


year.
lows farmers expect this to be a big fru't
year.
The revival services In Carroll have just
closed.
Grinnelps city council will spend $500 ON a
boom pamphlet.
Dubuque policemen are not allowed to
smoke while on duty.
Manson has 25O, 900 bushels OF corn aud
oats awaiting shiprnest
Ida is talking OF securing q new railroad
and government building.
Central City since it got a railroad 1. now
asking for another bridge.
Onawa is going to have an old fashioned
Fourth OF July celebration.
A headless foater was found In the river at
Fort Madison last Saturday.
South Ottumwa is now enjoying the great
est building boom 1t ever had.
A number Of professors have been added
to the faculty Of Drake university.
The city council OF Dubuque has selected
the Telegraph for its official city paper.
The Gable estate, long In litigation in To
ledo, has been settled by Judge Fairall.
Elizabeth Fountain, Of Clinton, has beer
indicted for keeping a disreputable house.
Great preparations are being made in al
the towns Of the state TO celebrate Decoration
day.
Council Bluffs expects its new fedora
building to be completed by July /.
From 20 to 80 of our teachers attended the
county institute at Wilton, Saturday.
Shere will be an effort made to organize an
agricultural society in Cherokee county.
The fifth annual reunion of the Sixth Iowa
infantry is to be held at Osceola August %
and %.
Cherokee and Emmetsburg will make a
combined effort to procure the Duluth and
Southwestern.
All he Boone churches received additional
members as the result of the Whittle meet
ings.
The Gilman dispatch proudly announces
that marriages are OF almost weekly occur
renee.
The Key City Democratic club OF Dubuque
talks of attending the ST. Louis convention
In q body.
A Muscatine man predicts that the seven
teen year locusts will appear there the last OF
this month.
The value of school houses Of Iowa this
year is above $1l ,000, 600. In 1850 the value
was $l5, 900
Belle Smith, the wife of a CouRcil Bluffs
telegraph operator, has been arrested fol
drunkenness.
The trial of Mrs. Lucinda jenkins, a widow
charged with infanticide, is now In progress
at Muscatine.
The Davenport professional base ball clut
defeated Decatur Tuesday. 1t is the firsr
game they have won.
Walt II. Butler has succeeded Mr.. Cole al
chief of the mail service department of ta'
Burlington postoiilce.
Mary spaun, an S-year-old girl living a
Melrose is dying of ~hydrophobia. She wa
bitten by a mad dog.
Thieves are abroad In Oskaloosa, and tn,
Globe wants the people there to sleep Will
one eye open for a time.
An interstate shooting match is to be hel,
at Union May % and 90, under the auspice
Of the Union Gun Club.
Ottumwa is enjoying the exhibition of tn
first circus OF the season. II is a small one
but 1t has a heavy draught.
The Davenport Magazine and Match com
pany expect to have a factory in full running
order in about six weeks.
AT Cedar Falls IA Woman's Exchange is IL
active operation and deserving women arr
furnished employment.
superintendent Q. }. Laylander, of Brook
YIN, has been elected to the superintendent,
of the Cedar Falls schools.
Lyon county is settling up rapidly. Owe
200 carloads Of immigrants movab'es cam,
into the county this spring.
A number of towns In central Iowa ar,
forming parties to attend the oratorical con
test In Des Moines, May IS.
The Council Bluffs school board has had
deadlock over the new building and has beer
unable to do anything for a month";
The Seven Day Adventists hold their an
nual camp meeting at Des Moines, commenc
ing May 2S-be prepared to Ego up"
Greene protests that it does not depend up
on the "bucket line" in case of fire, but coul(
RIG up a very respectable fire apparatus.
Mrs. Clarisa Sawyer, mother of Captain /
A. Sawyer, of Keokuk, died at Clermont, thi:
state. She had attained the patriarchlai age
of 95 years.
The Pelsey Brothers, Of Duncombe are pre-
pairing to take a herd o: from 1900 TO 1900
cattle TO the wilds Of Kossuth county next
week for the summer
Miss S. Laura Ensign, teacher of geography
and history IN the iowa State Normal school,
has just issecd the second edition OF
GEOGRAPHY, Method and Matter"
A young lady at Osksloosa was married on
May IA, which was the anniversary Of the
marriage of her parents, her mothers birth.
day and also the birthday Of her sister.
The Council Bluffs Globe says that Judge
Lootbourrow fined Dan Carrigg $500 for con
tempt Of court in violating an ~injuncti on re
stralning his selling intoxicating liquors.
The DEBORAH Republican says that during
the last twenty years there We're Isl divorce
cases granted In Winnesheik county, and that
eighty per cent had children affected by the
DEGREES.