Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-13
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.


All the officers of the Clinton county fair
association have been reelected.
The Clinton base ball club challenges any
nine In Clinton county for SIS or $50.
The young people Of Grirnell are suffering
from an attack of the dancing craze.
A castle Of Knights OF the Golden Eagle
was organized at Marshalltown Tuesday night,
The Bin Nye aud James Whitcomb Riley
combination intend visiting Des Moines ia
the near future.
Fourteen saloon keepers at Lyons were
fined sl4,s IS each for keeping open saloon on
Sunday.
George Overton, a colored man from n
ton, is under arrest at Des Moines, charged
with bigsmy.
Boys have been raiding the vineyard Of the
mayor Of Lisbon and be announces that be
has loaded his shotgun.
City iaborers work eight hours in Fort Mad
ison, but they receive only 81 per day and
cams are paid only $3.50.
A party OF capitalists from Akron, O., IL
engaged In looking up o site for a paper card
board factory In Dubuque.
The thirty-third annual session Of the Iowa
State Teachers association will held In Des
Moines December 1920.
Ottumwa claims to have n real live eon-
nambulisi, who climbs around on his kitchen
roof in the dead hours OF night with the agil-
ity of a cat.
The Grundy county board Of supervisors
failed TO carry out the provisions Of the law
in relation to the appointment Of IA soldiers
relief commission.
Bart Z, Linehan of Dubuque has offered to
donate Ave acres Of lard 10 the capitalists
who are intending to locate a card board fac
tory in that city,
L. NJ. Waite, a Burlington engineer, has
been arrested at Keokuk on the charge OF
threatening to shoot Il. s. Collier, one Of the
striking engineers.
The Independence Natural Gas and Coal
company have fled an amendment to their
artic es OF incorporation which increases the
capital stock to 1913, 800.
II. w. d er, of Rockwell City, while talk
ing through the telephone at that place last
Friday after the storm, received q severe
shock from lightning.
Six responses have already been made by
A. O. U. w lodges OF Iowa to call for funds
in behalf OF the yellow fever eufTerers. The
fund is now over 800.
Miss Emma Dobb and Miss Nellie Jordan,
two members OF the Creston Chautaucua cir
Gle, graduated and received their diplomas
last week.
Gov. Larrabee on Tuesday appointed John
&. %sherwin, Of Mason City, judge of the
Twelfth district to I'll the vacancy caused by
the resignation OF John G, Cleland.
The Muscatire Evening Journal SAYS
"More people celebrate their golden wedding
anniversary in the vicinity of Muscatine than
In any other locality In the state"
z. L, Smith Of tones county Is in Dubuque
looking up his wife. He stated to several
parties that when she nsde herself scarce she
took $1,000 Of his money with her.
The Miilers are crowding the Smiths in
Davenport and the Jones are going to the
rear in numbers. In the new directory there
s,1iths, 81 Millers and % Jones.
A. l.. straub, OF Msrshalltown, formerly
connected with the Salvation army, has
caused the arrest of G. l.. Myers, Of that city,
charging him with adultery with Mrs. Straub.
bo1lh VI suIIlNlNOtS VI Adlloul
county this week passed a resolution and
order fer the plating Of the public square In
Lake City for the purpose Of selling 1t out In
business lots.
L. i. Ayers, telegraph editor CT the Des
Moines Leader, oafly Sunday morning was
stricken with paralysis and fell from his bed.
His left side was psrslyzed. but the doctors
say he win recover.
The discovery was made on Friday that the
large span of the new Council Bluffs ard
Omaha bridge was just three inches out OF
place and the immense mass weighing ESQ
tons had to be moved.
James Mccall OF Irwin, a cattle herder,
was found dead Saturday afternoon with a
rope tied on his arm and a mule tied to 1t. 1t
is supposed he tied the rope 10 his arm and
the mule ran away and billed him.
A base ball game between the Omaha deaf
and dumb boys ami the second club Of the
Iowa In stitute for the ldeaf and dumb was
won by the latter club by "A score Of 2S to 10.
The game vas Played last Saturday ut Coun-
ell Bluffs.
The Des Moines News alleges that auo OF
the big churches In that city ID infested with
huge bedbugr, which Turk like savage, blood
thirsty bandits In the dark recesses under the
cushions and At unexpected moments rush
out upon the unwary worshipers, bury their
fangs deep in their quiyerIng flesh and rush
back with their mouths full Of the smoking
yenison TO share and deyour Is anmolested In
their lafrs.
At the Butter county fair last week a num-
Der OF young Wayerly speculators undertook
10 break the wheel OF fortune, with a result
quite the reverse from the usual outcome, for
in about ten minutes the operator Of the wheel
was penniless and the Waverly crowd had
distributed among them his eriire fortune,
about $3.50. The spring by which the operator
controlled the wheel refused to work, as he
Informed the boys when they
loaned him money to start again In business.
One of the primary teachers Of Cedar Rap
ids a day or we ago gave her pupils a lesson
In colors. Holding a small piece Of red silk
before the school she asked each pupil to
bring, the next morning, something Of the
color. The articles brought made quite ]
a variety. One little girl came with nearly =
yard Of red calico; another, who thought she