Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-22
NEBRASKA.

next spring.
The ". T.. society ut Ainsworth is building
a parsonage.
A new bank is a contemplated enterprise
at Broken Bow
sewerage system.
1t costs David City 500 per month for cleo
trio street lights.
Alumber y ard would fill a long felt want
at Nemaha City.
The Tilden State bank has been started
with a capital OF $4,000.
The First National bank OF Albion Will
open for busin ESQ this week.
The butter and cheese factory just com
pleted at Geneva cost $500
so far as known there are at present no
contagious diseases In Omaha.
John Scheve, a Gage county ranchman, Is
dehorning q herd Of 500 cattle.
The Tilden State bank has incorporated
with a capital stock OF $50, 0OO.
The contract has been let for the extension
Of the water works at Columbus.
An anti-swearing society has been formed
by the Broken Bow school boys.
The Herald would be happy II barb wire
fences were removed from Wayne.
The public schools of Plattsmouth have
been closed on account of %diphtheria.
The question of organizing a dramatic COM
pany Is being agitated at Harrington.
There Is talk Of converting the old court
house at Madison into an opera house.
The Fremont packing house is doing up an
average Of four carloads OF hogs per day.
The Exchange bank of ord opened Its
doors for business last Thursday morning.
A resident Of Union attended church last
Sunday for the first time In eighteen years.
A clothes wringer successfully amputated
one finger for a Niobrara infant the other
day.
1t is claimed that $50, 600 has been paid out
for city property in Norfolk during the past
week.
The fact has just been revealed that nearly
all the kids at Lincoln carry razors and re-
v~olvers.
Nebraska City is infested with a gang OF
petty thieves who are successful in eluding
the police.
A company has been organized and money
has been raised to build a creamery at Hebron
next spring.
The establishment Of a canning factory at
Ulysses is now a certainty, and officers have
been elected.
John Bell and G.. w. Poflinbarger, OF Blue
Springs, have been arrested for selling liquor
without a LICENSE.
The Methodist Sunday school OF Shelton
will have a snow mountain instead Of a tree
on Christmas eve.
The Nance county supervisors have been
permanently enjoined from purchasing a
steel cage for the jail.
The Omaha and Council Bluffs Motor Rail
way company expects to have the line in
operation by Monday.
T. D.. Connell 81 Co.'s hardware store at
Scotia was burned last Friday morning. Loss
$4,000, insurance $4,000.
Free mail delivery will be started in Ne
carriers Will do the work.
Tecumseh boasts that 1t has more light
weight males and more heavy weight females
than any other town IN the state.
Superior has signed a contract for a $1,000
creamery and cheese plant. 1t is to be in
running order early in the spring.
The people Of Cherry county will vote on a
proposition to issue bonds for funding the
loating Indebtedness December %.
The general store Of Grady d Egan, A.
North Platte, was seized last Friday by cred
itors. Total liabilities, ST., 900.
Mrs. Orpha c. Dinsmoor, Of Omaha, died
last Friday of apoplexy. For many years she
has been prominent In all matters OF charity.
Nebraska has a new lady attorney in the
person Of Miss Jennie Davis, who was adj
mitted to the bar by Judge Gaslin, at Hol-
drege.
The voters Of Blaine county will open the
new year with a special election on the ques-
ton Of funding a debt of 5000 and issuing
bonds to the amount Of g., 800 for a court
house.
Blair was happy a few nights ago when a
company exhibiting IN that town charged go
much for admission that the hoodlums were
excluded and the hall was occupied by the
swells.
ID. Helm, manufacturer OF gloves and NIT.
tens at Fremont, has made an assignment.
The liabilities will about equal the indebted
ness.
l.. X. Lerbaugh, a blacksmith employed by
Porter Hand at Nebraska City, skipped out
Saturday night, leaving nothing but his
debts.
The authorities of North Platte refuse to
accept the water works because the wells
we're not sunk to the depth specified In the
contract.
The arrest Of a woman for shoplifting who
haa a bank certificate Of deposit amounting
to g., 900 was one Of the shifting scenes In
Omaha life last Saturday.
In order to encourage the population of
Sioux county the Harrison Herald offers
prizes for the first three pair of twins born In
that county. The competition will close Jan
uary l, 1919.
Broken BOWS canal scheme shows occa-
sional evidences Of life. The board of trade
has prepared articles OF incorporation and
sent out q committee to secure subscriptions
to the capital stock.
The Fremont National bank has ust In
vested In shares Of the l.. s. Guarantee Dep
ositors' comrany. which concern secures every