Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-20
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.


The amount in salaries paid TO teachers
ia Muscatine county In the last year was
&54, 1913.
A dog show is holding forth at Creston
and all the small boys OF the town are In
clover.
Francis Snyder, aged 20, and Mrs. Lydia
Hull, aged as, were married r~esently at
Boone.
Creston claims 10 have the best freight
depot on the line Of the @ In Iowa, except the
one at Burlington.
The grand jury for Emmet county has
ound indictments for a number OF liquor
dealers and Judge Thomas fined them $500
each.
The Inter State Herald alleges that the city
council OF Council Bluffs is engaged In a sys-
tematic robbery Of the tax payers.
Tama man who was out after ducks few
DAYS ago was knocked out Of his boat by
the recoil OF his gun and was nearly
drowned.
A lady OF Usage had her pet pug buried In
the cemetery at that place last week, and
there is very iustifable kicking at such u
proceeding.
The committee on invitations has ordered
10, 600 invitations printed for the opening OF
the bridge between Council Bluffs and
Omaha.
Gov. Lsrrabee has been requested 10 APP
point delegates 10 the AN erican forestry con
gress at Atlanta, Ca, which IL to meet on
November %.
The Republicans In county convention at
Mason City passed q resolution that no person
be allowed to hold "a county Office for more
than one term.
The total enrsllmeat IN the public schools
Mt Davenport for the month Of September
wAs 3,1l7, Of which number 1870 were boys
and i,9s7 gir)s.
The members Of the Patriarchs Militant,
/. o. O r. of Council Bluffs, have arranged
to visit their brethren in Omaha on the 18th
Of this month.
At the present Term OF court In Des Moines
county the grand jury again condemned the
county jail, declaring it insecure and unftfor
the incarceration OF prisoners.
Council Bluffs wants a new city directory.
Six prisoners escaped from the jail at Mus
catiue last Friday night. They cut a hole in
tHe HoOt Oh tue Scb auu. went out ny way VI
the cellar.
Council Bluffs has indeed a serious attack
Ct bridge fever. The latest is a scheme TO
build "a pontoon bridge between that city and
Oamha.
The ministerial union at Cedar Rapids has
appealed to the city council for some action
10 reduce the alarming increase of drunken
ness in that city.
The state board OF examiners Will hold an
examination In Des Mcines for state teachers
certificates and life diplomas on December 81
and "a.
Louisa VI. Koch, OF Davenport, bias sued
George Cottrell, OF that city, for s. 60 nlleg-
ing that he has ruined her under promise OF
marriage.
The pupils and Principal Boehm of the
Camanche school are about TO issue a month
y paper In the interest OF the schools. They
set to circulate the first issue October Is.
Legal proceedings have been Instituted
against Alderman Waterman OF Council
bluffs for violation Of the city laws. He IL
charged with doing work for the city and
charging exorbitant prices.
A little merriment was occasioned at the
city councils session in Dubuque Monday
afternoon by the petition CT a certain tax.
payer for the refunding Of 25 cents overpah
taxes for 1882, which petition ended with the
grandiloquent prayer: "Let justice be done
although the heavens fall" After mature
celebration AT order was drawn upon the
treasury for the amount.
Considerable excitement has been created
over the attempt to steal the body of a young
lady inferred In the Carthage cemetery about
a week ago. The cemetery has been guarded
day and night. The young lady's death was
caused by a peculiar disease. A stranger WAS
noticed about the cemetery on the day OF the
burial and his actions aroused suspicion. A
watch was set. The ghouls made two at
tempts to steal the body, but we're frightened
away.
Ansmosa Is excited over the sudden disap-
pearsnce OF S. s. Gard, the local manager Of
Durr 81 Rugee's lumber yard. Without warn.
ing 10 employe or citizen be quietly shook
from his feet the dust of the town about ten
days ago. A member Of the firm with whom
De was cU'piDySb bhubt h1u iaoe' az tA"Hi
nation OF the books and found his accounts
straight. The Eureka says that domestic
troubles are the cause OF the change OF base.
The Des Moines Leader says: "Some oppc-
sition has developed In one .: the smaller
towns OF the state 10 an order by the local
board Of health directing q general ~vaccina-
ton of school children. The opponents Of
tue measure claim that the right TO issue such
order IL only vested in city boards OF health.
This Is a mistake. The order can be made In
The smallest villages"
Some time ago Surveyor Mclaughlin, Il
Dubuque, found that the car containing dry
goods shipped In bond from England TO w
Alexander Il Co., of Dubuque, lay at the Chi
eaqo. Milwaukee and st. Paul depot unsealed,
contrary to law. He therefore seized the
goods and held them for the duty, f263, or 40
per cent. or the cost in England, and 100 per
cent. penalty. Ghe American Despatch fast
freight line, 10 whose care the shipment had
been committed at New York, gave Surveyor
Mclaughlin O bond to secure the payment Of
the duty. The bend expired Saturday and
when W. z. Cole, agent for the company,
called on the surveyor to pay the duty and