Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-29
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The Adyentists OF Harlan and vicinity will
organize a church there this week.
Burglars are quite plenty IL ,Clinton. None
OF them have been captured az yet.
1t is rumored that an original package
house will soon be established at Scranton.
Fiftythree foreigners were natural.zed at
the last term Of court In MarsLalltown.
Some portions Of Dubuque are troubled by
by a band Of mouth organ MINISTRIES.
The custom Of having a recess has been
discontinued in the Dunlap schools.
The electric lights at Leon wall lie used for
the first time next Wednesday night.
The Dunlap Reporter remarks that money
seems TO be plenty in that community.
The artesian wen at the eoVrt house In
Des Moines has been put down over i0J feet.
About s. 90 worth of property was de
stroyed by fire at Grand Mound last Tuesday
night.
The school tax levied by the suuesintend-
mt OF Dubuque county is 2 mills more than
sual.
Miss Anna Dewey ia holding a series OF
r~eviyals meetings In the NJ. +. church at
Grinnen.
iAt aultIrNd't IltGdIh inns ufiilbu luat Ah
is no use to kick about the scayenger systca
of Council BluGo.
The business men Of Charter Oak are pre-.
pairing 10 put in a system Of water works for
protection against fire.
Ex-Alderman Henry Decktrt died at his
home In Dubuaue Monday. Lung fever was
his last sickr 'ts.
TI,a .ailnws, ...tI,o -. IN,.@ nalU, Inr i,oor,
settled. In the matter Of settlement couces-
sions we're made on both sides.
The latest enterprise secured for Council
Bluffs IS a glove factory. A New York gen
tleman viii be the proprietor.
A. b. Shoemaker, one Of the founders Of
Carlisle, died al his home in that town last
Saturday.
The Hardin County Citizen thinks that 81
Iowa Falls can support a base ball club 1t
should support a course Of lectures.
Vim. Jones and Tom Wilhelm Of Fort
Dodge propose to have a shooting match ia
the near future for the championship Of the
county.
The member of the old volunteer fire de-
partment of Council Bluffs are arranging 70
give a ball, the proceeds to go to the yellow
fever sufferers Ia Florida.
A young man named Leslie Neiderheiser,
IL years old, was crushed TO death in o clay
pit in the brick and tile works Ut Jefferson
asst Saturday afternoon.
The school census Of Crunch shows an in
crease over last year. But one person under
16 years Of age could be found who was per-
manently at work Ia a factory.
A lady Of Creston who was asked to act as
n judge at the baby show declined the honor,
saving she would much rather take the
chances Of going up In a balloon.
The Sioux Valley Baptist association viii
meet at Storm Lake on the 2Sth inst, and
he Sioux Congregational association will
meet there the first week In October.
The ladies OF Marshalltown are Ia earnest
about abolishing hats at the opera. The male
embers Of the community will undoubtedly
urchase medals for them.
TIE Mirror says that more building is being
done In Clear Lake at present than for years
previous. Not a carpenter or mason in the
vicinity but is crowded with work.
Martin Kearney, two miles west OF VII
Jams, Hardin county, broke his neck the
otner day in a fall from a hay stack. He was
SO years OF age and leaves a wife and seven
hildren.
o The switchmen In the Santa Fe yards at
Fort Madison struck because the company
refused to discharge o non brotherhood engi
neer. The strikers were paid off and form
ally discharged.
A boy named Elmer Holmberg was playing
W some companions at Boone last Tuesday
when one of them, Eric Lilliard, thew a stick
which went completely through Elmer's eye
ball and destroyed the sight.
Said an old farmer TO the Dunlap Reporter
man the other day: what we lose by rust
ing of wheat and oats we shall gain by the
hay and corn crop. 1t will be about an even
thing after all.n
Geo. T. Williams, Of the Pioneer, has been
granted by the city council OF Ida Grove a
franchise for an electric light plant. With his
banking business and all, he must be getting
to be a bloated bondholder.
A meeting of citizens was held In Dubuque
Friday evening, and a committee was APP
pointed to solicit subscriptions for the pur-
pose Of building a new hotel on the present
site of the J alien. The amount Of money re-
quired Is $4,000.
The report Of the warden, fled with the
auditor of state, shows that during the month
Of August there were 243 ~conyicts in the Ana
mosa penitenti8ry. The warrants issued by
the auditor are for salaries Of Officers and
guards, $2,337.7i, and for improvements,
2,0l0.
Last week 10 Donald made one OF the fast
est runs ever made on the Fort Dodge divis-
ion Of the Rock Island road. He made the
run from the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cifc crossing at Des Moines to the city limits,
nineteen blocks, or five miles, In six minutes.
A recent Friday was the hottest day In Sac
ramento, Cal, for thirty-six years. At 2 80
O'Clock In the afternoon the thermometer
stood at 107. so degrees. This terrific heat was
maintained until 3 :45 o'clock, when the glass
marked 1O6 degrees. At 5 o'clock the hea
was 104 degrees.
The Council Bluffs Herald has rsked up a
a rotten state OF affairs existing In the erec-
ton of a new school house. 1t accuses the
Chicago Lumber company and Contractor
Murphy with violating the requirements Of