Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-03
northwestern ITEMS.
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Wild turkeys are being shot IN the Elcluilv
of Burlington.
jefferson is in need Of more dwelling
houses; so the Bee says.
A stenogrerhers' association has been or
ganized In Council Bluffs.
Creston is TO have q reunion Of all Ohio cit
liens In that neighborhood.
The Ida County Publishing company has
incorporated with a capital OF IS ,0O0.
The Ashton band gathered In sixty-three
new members last w~eek-Band Of Hope.
The mail boxes throughout Council Bluff
are to be replaced by now and larger ones.
There Is a man n years old In Blchanai
county who has no gray hairs In his head.
Missouri Valley now has a carriage ~factory
and a canning factory and wants a dreamer.
at once.
The horse men OF La Porte city have 4 trach
nearly completed aud will give Il series oi
mstinees.
The Congregational church at GrInnell has
decided not to accept the resignation OF DR..
Stafford.
The citizens of Council Bluffs want TO kno"
why they are charged such outrageous insur
ance rates.
The ladies Of the NJ. L. church at Waverly
ave purchased a fine Brussels carpet fer tn.
parsonage.
The amount In salaries paid to teacher
n Muscatine county In the last year was
t54,593.
The Chronicle declSres that it is almost I'm.
possible to rent q respectable residence IN
What Cheer.
Blairstown has two vacant store buildings
and wants two entcrprlsing business men to
occupy them.
The diphtheria scare at What Cheer has
about subsidized.
The Atlantic Messenger says that the peni
Tertiary yawns for some men who have been
bootleg ing whisky in that city.
The ladies OF the w. X G. at Boone are
x-tively engaged in preparing for their fair,
which occurs November 81 10 23.
The trotting races which were to have oc
urred last week at Boone have been inded'
nitely postponed on account Of unfavorabl,
weather.
The Dubuque Picking works Is packing
100 barrels Of sauer kraut per day with the
new circle machine recently introduced IN tht
aetory.
The North Das Molnes Water Works con-.
pany Is employing so hands Oh the work OF
putting in mains, building lite engine house
tower, etc.
The general store of w. S Barton at Ma
one, also the postofilee, which Ia In the sam,
~ AZ - I-.A1k.,I H. U,.oln xI.i
CT some merchandise and { 5 In stamps.
The residence OF +. A. Selple, telegraph
editor of the ID g Moines Register, was almost
totally destroyed by fire Taescay morning
through the careltsaness OF the kitchen maid
In filling a gasoline stove.
Secretary shaffer Of the Agricultural scct-
ty, On Friday last forwarded to Bowman
Bros , of Waverly, their premiums on horses
during the last state fair. They consisted oil
four diplomas, two silver medals and s4sl In
cash.
The Methodist folks st Cherokee have
adopted a new scheme for raising church
funds. Subscription cards are to be circu
lated for the purchase Of bricks, each sub
Gerber buying anywhere from ! 10 100 Of
more, as he NAV desire, at 5 cents each.
Miss Alice Cahil, a popular girl at a Cres
ton boarding house, was heard recently Il
remark that an elegantly trimmed hat At on
of the millinery stores made her wish she wa
wealthy. SO the railroad boys who boart
there bought the hat and sent 1t to her as
present. She Is bewildered over the band
some gift and wonder whore 1t came from.
There are Indications that the social bone
OF contention in Burlington as to which IL the
real aristoeratic hill viii rage more f~iercel,
than ever his winter, 1t is new rumsred
that Hiaernia and Gernania, both good hills,
will enter the arena for social prominence.
An Irish baron and a German duke have been
discovered In these localities, and they prom
ise to boom their localities.
Chris Haas, u bookkeeper In the Cedar Rap
Ids Savings bank, while In a lit Of dellrium
resulting from typhoid fever, jumped from
the window OF his room on the second floor OF
a boarding house and fell to the ground be-
low. is nurse, Miss Campbell, hravely II led
to prevent him from injuring himself and
managed to catch him 10y the leg as be went
ont of the window. She was too exhausted
to hold him until help could arrive. He suf'
fered no serious injury from his fan, but Il
will lessen his chances for recoverery from
the fever.
The Council Bluff Eonpsreil tells OF a mar
IN tina part OF the country who had 4
plate for the Id OF the coffin Of hi:
mother bearing the words, Our Mo'h'
err engraved thereon. The plate was
worth about 80 cents, tut the man carefully
stipulated with tie undertaken that II should
be removed when the coffin was 10 sered into
the grave. No, he was not stingY, but
economical. IL he continues such strict
economy and is car full to beg his tobacco he
may yet be rich, but It Is likely that hts little
soul will dry up br'ore that time comes.
George Moore. son OF Wesley Moore, an
old citiz-n OF Des Moines county, met with a
terrible accident Monday. The young man
was OH the road 70 the timber 70 procure q
load of WOOD He was riding on the running
gear OF the wagon add holding the TX in his
lap, when through some cause not ltar1ed
che handle was str Ivk by enc OF the wacei
spokes and the SHARP tool was forced into bis
bowels, cutting a hor ihle cash tie fun length
of the blade. The entl clement OF the handle