Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-02

have united In Il district fair association.
Muscatine had nearly 100000 in real es-
tate change hands during the past week.
The Keokuk high school will turn out ten
sweet girl graduates and one brave youth.
The scholars of the grammar grade at Mus.
catine will graduate and receive diplomas.
The city council at Clear Lake has ordered
a car of drain tile to be used on the streets.
The postmaster at Council Bluff r~eJoices
in an additional allowance Of 500 for clerk
hire.
The Logan high school has the reputation
Of having but one case Of hardness in $40
days.
The graduating exercises Of the Marshall
town high school this year will consume two
days.
Four thousand dollars In prizes will be
awarded at the fremen's tournament in Gin
ton.
A member OF the junior class In the State
university has resigned " go into a base ball
club.
The state convention of the fish and game
protection society occurs in Muscatine June
8 and 6.
The new $4,000 Turner Hall palace at
Davenport was formally opened last Friday
evening.
The semi-annual festival Of the Dubuque
Schuetzen-Geseilschaf will be held at the
park all day Monday.
A rat measuring twenty-five inches from
tx tip Of the nose to the tip Of the tail was
recently captured at LeMars.
lows has 700, 24O mich COWS, and it is es-
timated that the total smonnt Of butter made
last year was sc, 600, 900 pounds.
The Couacil Bluffs school board has had q
deadlock over the new building and has been
unable to do anything for a month.
The state board of nsI.rwrlt.rs has ad-
vanced the rates on business property al
Estherville from % to 33 per cent.
The city council at Gilman has passed an
ordinance authorizing the issuing OF bonds to
the amount of e., SOC for a water works sys.
tenn.
Mrs. Stuart Bailey, Of DEBORAH, the daugh,
ter Of ex-senator Burdick, is dead. She leaves
a little babe. Her husband is an editor In st
Paul.
The annual meeting Of the Congregations
church at Grinnell was held last week. The
report showed a membership Of 707, with 81
absent.
Two Germans horsewhipped each other on
the streets Of Clinton last Wednesday. When
arrested they claimed they were only Sin
fun
Sioux Rapids seems 10 be almost on the
verge OF a potato famine. Potatoes are very
hard to obtain at present, even at 81 and 81 %
per bushel.
A ball player of Keokuk says there is better
material IN Keokuk today for the organization
Of a semi-professional club than has ever
been before.
The recently organized agricultural society
at Fonda is now making preliminary arrange
ments for a fine display OF agricultural pro
ducts this fall.
The Abba Democrat says the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy is prospecting for coal In
Cedar Valley, Monroe county, and have OPP
toned several thousand acres.
The Clear AXE Driving Park association is
making extensive preparations for summer
business, and expects to make It one of the
leading features of the summer festivities.
The annual camp meeting for Sheldon dis
trict, northwest Iowa conference will be held
at Spirit Lake commencing June 2G and clos
iug July 3.
Bishop and Mrs. Perry, Bishop Whippie ard
Miss Richardson, of Davenport, sail from New
York, Saturday, for England, to attend the
Lambeth conference.
A ball player Of Keokuk saws there Is better
material in Kcobuk today for the orgauiza-
ton Of a semi-proicssional club than there
has ever been before.
The Clear Lake Driving Park association Il
making extensive preparations for summer
business, and expects 10 make It one Of the
leading features Of the summer festivities.
Messrs. Works Il Cass, 81 G~rinneli, and Mr..
Coy, OF Odebolt, are now making a shipment
of $4,000 bushels OF oats. This would make a
traiu-load Of sixty six ears of 40 600 pounds
each.
The question OF water supply Is occupying
the attention Of the business men Of Spirit
| Lake. The adoption of the tank aud wind
mill system seems To meet with universal
favor.
b. ginning with Borda and ending with
Onawa, the towns along the Maple river divl.
sion Of the Northwestern have ZOO, GEO bush
els Of corn in crib. Between Wall Lake and
Neville ere 20 900 more. When il is consid-
cred that this immense quantity for this sea
son Of the year Is IN crib IN IA strip eighty
miles long by fifteen miles Wild, som idea
Of the wealth OF northwestern low can be
formed.