Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-06
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luNalss tTAne during the past week.
Is Is now settled that there will bs horse
races at Rapid City, October ., 4 and 5.
Some OF the yoang people Of Flandrsu are
talking of organizing a dramatic society.
Last weeks Issue 0f the Gettysburg Her
aid contains twelve notices Of foreclosure.
Ladss OF Trent gave q harvest home sup
per at that place the evening Of the eth inst.
Four editors and several printers are at
tending the university NJ Vernilliss as stu
dents.
Fifteen tracts Of real estate were sold on
foreclosure by Sheriff BruAer at Onida Mon
day.
Sports OF Sioux Falls are trying to get up q
hunting party to go TO Nicaragua nsIt winter
for a months hunt.
A movement on the part OF private inditid
uals Ia on foot 10 stock the streams about
Rapid City with trout.
The Deadwood fouripg mills have several
thousand bushels OF wheat on hand and are
running full capacity.
Artcsian %reiolces over the prospect that the
Touring mill in that iowa will begin opera
lions at an early date.
T. ". Mccullough, city editor Of the Rapid
City journal, recently welded Miss Alice
Shaw Of a.lesburg, III.
The Tribune i~nsinuatcs that activity Is
threatened IN the Bismarck real estate mar
ket.
There are now ten candidates for the Office
Of sherf in Sully county and = fsw more
townships to hear from.
who lie going 10 rrpres-n' Yankton In the
legislature" is the question which agitates
the people OF that city.
The location Of the artsiAs well at Faux
tor has been decided upon, and the people OF
that town breathe easier.
La Gr,ce wants al elevator or a warehouse
for handling grain, and promises n fortune to
the man who will build enc.
There Is talk In Sisux Falls Of petitioning
the council to establish a hack stand where
these vehicles mast stand when waiting for
orders.
The threatened famine at Hernosa has
been sverted by the departure OF the aborigi-
nal song and dance troupe to It's bone at
Pine Ridge.
Tn members Of the q. A. r. at Sturgis are
getting up an entertainment for the benefit
OF = soldiers widow who lives near Spring
Valley.
A large mountain lion is terrorizing the in
hsbttsnts IN the vicinity of Boulder park, near
Deaiwood. No one ventures forth al night
without a gun.
The editor Of the Armour Tribune has lost
all faith I'm his personal charms and keeps an
alligator In his sanctus as an attraction for
the gtntlcr sex.
Arthur Wood, OF Casselton, and Albert
PranZo, Of Fargo, we've adjudged insane by
the commissioners 1T Fargo last Thursday
anu were taken to jamestown atylum.
Work on the Rapid City Fair associations
track is in progress. From the present time
antl the race meeting opens horses from
town will be driven over the track daily.
The Yankt n Herald, speaking Of hay,
makes the assertion that Yankton county viii
furnish enough dried grass this season to
supply the whole OF the New England states
aud the New England grangcrs.
The Howard Advance says a couple has
bee found in the western part Of the county
who are willing TO he married on the last day
OF the fair. The 800 worth Of presents &C
counts for the consent, doubtless.
j. K. p. Miller has made Z proposition 70
erect for the city OF DeaGwood q brick city
hall, 10 cost $l4, 0O0, and take payment ia
city bonds az par to draw { per cent. interest.
The proposition is regarded as a good one.
The business mems club at Sioux Falls pro-
poses to open the new passenger depot with a
grand ball. 1t is hiuted that swallow tail
coats, etc, will be worn for the occasion.
Deadwood brokers say that real estate Ia In
good demand and that prices offered are 100
per cent. better than one year ago.
The Yaukton board of. education has de-
cided 10 acmit to the primary schools all
children who will be : years OLD before March
/, 1850.
Two Rapid City men named Upham and
Nickerson emptied rvo six hooters last Tues
day evening In q vain attem 0 shoot each
other. The row occurred IL . saloon,
The members Of the Y. ~ c. A. at Aber
1een are preparing 10 celebrate the date of
their organization Oh the Both Of the present
f., Month.
BY actual experiment. the jamestown Elec-
tric Light company has demonstrated that
1900 pounds Of Ignite, al a cost Of S4.S713
win produce the same quantity Of steam AS
1900 pounds 81 anthracite coal costing
81. nv.
The latest leap year affair occurred ~ Can
ton last Saturday night. A number OF the
young ladies treated che gentlemen t. a
straw drive which interpreted means a
ride on a ~hayrack. The ride terminated in all
oyster supper, The girls footing all tills.
The safe ia the ticket office Of the Manitoba
| depot at Grafton was blown open Wednesday
might and the contents. consisting Of six
teen 200 mile books, ten excessive baggage
books and sl2 IN small change, stolen. Eyi
IDENTITY The job was 6oDe by experienced
rcscksuen.
An interesting contest IA promised between
the city council aud the electric light company
AZ Bismarck. The council did not allow the
bIn Of the coupuuy because the fights in sew
eral places were too low. The company takes
the ground tina: he charter2oes not empower
the council to ix the height at which the
lights shall hc suspended.
Lass Tuesday evening Ipswich came near
being consumed by prairie fire. The flames
came from tn northeast aud destroyed every