Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-10
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pany don't get at 1t.
On Monday tAe two and q half miles OF
mains for the Vinton water supply were test
ed. A pressuretof 100 sounds to the inch was
made. The test was satisfasso ry to the coz
tractors.
The contract for the new electric light
plant at Grinnell hiss been signed and the
machinery is to be liz running order within
sixty days under q fo-feit for every days de-
lay.
The Catholic society at Rock Rapids will
hold a fair commencing November 20 and
continuing one week. rs object will be to
raise funds for the purpose Of furniehing the
church.
The new hospital for the Insane at Caarinda
rs nearing completion, and something more
than 200 inmates wiz soon be removed 81 II
from the overerowded institution at pit.
Pleasant.
An attempt was made Friday morning to
burn The calaboose at Mapleton, but the blaze
was discovered before much damage was
done. The fellow who set the fire was not
discovered.
The Spirit Lake Beacon advifes girls who
want to marry TO apply for q situation in the
family Of Auditor Carlton, as five girls who
have doue homework for him have married
within a year.
The Hartley Record says that since O'Bricn
county scored such a signal victory at the
Corn Palace there is a regular scramble among
people IL their haste to get into that extra
ordinarily fertile county.
Ed F.. Schneider, the Albany druggist and
jeweler charged with robbing his owD safe of
81 ,120 belonging ia Lewis Il Kerps OF that
place, has been CONVICTED snd sent to the pen
i~tentiary foT three years.
The colored people of Fort Dodge have
completed arrangements for the erection of
O neat little church which Will be located In
the eastern portion Of the city, Wors On the
structure will commence al once.
1t is alleged that a well known merchant at
Sheldon purchased v cat he supposed 70 be q
knocking bird, the other day, paying a fancy
price therefor, AID 1t now develops that his
bird Is a most ordinary woodpecker.
Greene county 10 working up quite n repu.
tation for ~artesian wells. The Jefferson Bee
says that hardly a week passes of late In
which some fortunate farmer does not end
living water almost at his very door.
The corner stone of the NJ. e. church at
Blakesburg was laid last Saturday, Rev. ID
Murphy, Of Ottumya, preaching the sermon.
The building viii be pushed to completion
as early as possible and be dedicated some
time In December.
A party Of young men from the country
were returning home on horseback last Satur-
day night from Muscatine, when one CT them
proposed 10 race. The horse bearing Scott
Rhoads stumbled and fell while galloping,
and threw its rider head first to the ground,
His skull was crushed aud he died in a few
moments.
Last Monday evening a large number of
business meu o. Council Bluffs assembled at
the residence OF +. J. Evans, general man.
ager Of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Bridge
company, and presented him with an elegant
gold watch. chain and lccLet, the cost of
which was $500.
The hod carriers at the new high school
building at Clinton struck Monday. with the
exception OF one, who could not talk United
States. They were promptly paldof. About
an noun after a new gang was at work, and
the masons, who had been compelled to tend
themselves during that hour, were again
waited on.
A somewhat remarkable dog case was tried
in Des Molnes last Thursday. Two parties
claimed a large black pup and one Of then
tried to replevin it. Fi,leen witnesses were
examined. Seven OF them swore that the dog
belonged to the plaintiff, while eight Of then
were sure It was the defendants property
The majority ruled.
Mrs. Leindecker, OF Keokuk, was arralgnet
In the supreme court al Keokuk on SATURDAY.
and pleaded guilty to eight counts for selling
intoxicating liquors. She was fined $50 auo
costs on each count. Her husband Is wanted
for the same ofrensc, but the Cficers did not
succeed in finding him, and it is presumed he
Is out OF the city.
During the first ten days OF October new
warming apparatus was placed In the base
ment OF the First Methodist church at Du.
buque at a cost Of 81, 200. At the conclusion
of the first service last Sunday a statement
concerning the Improvement and expense Of
II was made to the cougr cation by one Of the
trustees, and the sum Of 81, 1870 was raised in
fifteen minutes, leaving only $40 to be secured
to wipe out the furnace debt.
The Creston Gazette notices the unpleasant
state of feeling existing among editors a
Council Bluffs and then e~cliloquize5 ~ FOL
lows: "Now Creston editors never invit,
each other 70 fight, but get along as smoothly
as six peas In one pod. They are frequently
seen together at CHURCH and often lie awake
nights thinking Of something good to say d
each other. Indeed, they could sleep four II
a bed, unless the reports are true that Roht
sncres in his sleep, Sidey has cold feet are
Brewster a dissgreeable habit Of kicking OF
the covers.n
The lows Messenger says that OF the thirty
Trappist monks who founded the abbey oi
New Mellary, in Dubuque county, only one
remains, Brother Kairian. For tbirty-sevsL
years in that one SCOT the days have passet.
by for him in rsyer snd toll. He has not
seen the great world that lies b yond n,
limits OF the lands belonging 10 the abb Y
He does not snow Of anything which Ia
happened during al that time. He has mo-
read n rawsDaner ar talked V nh Depfi. from