Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-01

There Is u scarcity Of tenement houses In
Centreville.
The Woonsocket Touring mills are running
| night ana day.
The Hand county teachers institute is in
session at Miller.
The Baptist church at Gettysburg was aed-
icated last Sunday.
Hot Springs wants a Touring mill with all
the latest Improvements.
The receipts OF the Catholic fair at Yak
ton last week were 1880.
Memo now has o population Of 700, and is
thinking OF incorporating.
1t IS alleged that Sioux Falls harbors a
champion 'umb bell swinger.
Mitchell complains OF the scarcity OF help
for domestic and farm work.
The banquet OF the Aberdeen Press club
will be heid Thanksgiving eve.
A telegraph school is among the contem-
plated enterprises st Sioux Falls.
Night ana day forces are constantly en-
ploycd on the ~artesian well at Faulkton.
Patrick Murphy, aged 50 years, died at the
residence OF his son, near Mitchellville, last
Saturday.
Petitions are being circulated ct Brookiogs
asking the next legislature to grant women
the right Of suffrage.
Henry Reed, one of Blsmarck's well known
men, aud Miss Mary \. Gardner of that city
were married last Saturday evening.
y number OF young ladies al Watertown
have organized a society to be known as the
ST. Agnes society Of the Trinity church.
Amu~!cel Entertainment under the direc
tion of Prof. W. Il. Evans was given 10y the
llighuore institute last Saturday.
Memo was left without Il Justice Of the
| peace in the late election, owing TO a misun.
Outstanding in attending to the matter.
Robert, sol OF }. b. Eberle, a farmer living
| near Bryant, accidentally shot himself In the
side with shotgun last Wednesday. He will
probably recover.
a. +. Van Epps Of Aberdeen died at his
home in that city last Sunday of typhoid
fever. He was 80 years of age, and FOR ten
years had resided at Bismarck.
Rev. Stewart sheldon, for many years Con
gregational missionary in Dakota, and a rest
dent Of Yankton, has been appointed field
secretary OF Yar&ton college.
The promoters OF the Deadwood Central
railroad scheme are working all the force
available 10 finish the road 70 Lead City be-
fore the ground freezes too hard.
Next Saturday O.. T.. Bailey, champion
Splinter OF Faux county, and NJ. L.. Steadman
OF Hand county will run a foot race at Faux
ton, 100 yards, for $50 a side.
The Argus-Leader says that a mammoth
brush and broom factory Is now an assured
thing FOR South Sioux Falls. Machinery will
be In operation by Tie 1st Of June.
\ dramatic club has been organized a,
Flandrau and avows its intention OF raising
funds for a benevolent cause. Just what the
cause is 1t refuses to tell at present.
The new Methodist church at wildwood
will be dedicated Sunday, November %. Rev.
j. B.. Carnes, superintendent of the Black
Hills mission, will conduct the services.
The first marriage service was performed In
the new VI. +. cEurcl at Watertown last
Tuesday evening. 5. W. Richie and Miss
Clara Waterbury were the contracting par
ties.
DR.. !. VI. Wcstfal OF Watcrtown, and Miss
Stella Marsh Of Muscatine, To-, were married
on 9 passenger train last Tuesday afternoon
between Palmer ANA Waterfowl. Judge
Buell. oficiatei.
A live beaver, caught in the James river
near Redfeld, was purchased by ONE enthu
siastic Republican citizens last Tuesday and
expressed to President Elect Ben Harrison
with the compliments Of the city Of Redtleld
The Presbyterian university at Pierre Is so
| overrun with students that lodging room IS
noe al a premium, and arrangements are ~.
foot for the erection Of another wing or dor
mitory to the college.
Chas. Martell and Mrs. Sullivan Of Grafton
were married last Monday. The groom Is "a
years old and the bride has tarried on this
earth for 10 years. She gave the young man
$500 and promised to leave him her entire
fortune when she dies.
A wagonload Of Trevor s in the parade at
Deadwood on Saturday night by som mys-
terious means became ignited. The display
was brief but brilliant. Though rockets and
roman candles were discharged In every d.
rection no one was hurt.
The Bismarck Tribune remarks that the
"new opera house" proposition has become
somewhat Of a chestnut, but there is good
| reason for a revival of the subject. If the
prospects are not deceiving, Bismarck will
have a hrst class opera house before 1890.
The Aberdeen steam brick company turned
out 300, coo brick during the season, and so
great was the demand for burned clay that
the company found IL necessary to ship in
l50, 600. The yards give employment to
about twenty men during the entire season.
The Lead City Herald says: 1T is esti-
mated that fully 2,500,0 600 have been sent
into the Black BILLS alone, this season, In re-
turn for the cattle shipped ont, 500, 600 OF
which went into the pockets OF farmers and
small shippers"
A. a session OF the North Dakota Millers'
association held in Grand Forks recently il
was decided TO send IN ogent to the eastern
markets 70 look after the interests Of Dakota
millcrs. There are eighteen mills represent
cd in the association and all ship flour east.
When shipped east The -four has invariably
lost its identity and become known under the
brand Of some Minnesota or Wisconsin MIL.
To prevent this the nillers will engage a
special agent TO handle their Hour irom the