Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-31
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS


stroycd by fire last Sunday.
a two-thirds majority voted for issuing
bonds for the construction OF q new hish
school building ut Greston Monday.
The Ottumwa papers claim that the popu-
lation is increasing 50 rapidly that life Is be
coming burdensoule to tn. residents.
Mayor IrYin, of kcokuk, in = long procla-
nation says he will ~lnforce the prohibition
law, though personally he Is opposed to it.
The Oskaloosa high school viii graduate a
class Of thirty-two. This is the largest grad.
uating class OF any high school in the state.
The Domestic Sewing Machine company of
New jersey will locate IN Dubuque If aided TO
the extent of 100000 in building two factor
les.
Peter Ringo, who was elected "a lrembcr OF
the city council of Montezuma, is the first
negro ever elected TO a position in Poweshiek
county.
1t is reported that a Dubuque man who bad
been afflicted with inlammatory rheumatism
for years was cured last week by the faith
process.
Thirty-six girls At the Iowa Wesleyan uni
versity have adopted a uniform consisting of
cans and loose fitting garments cross be-
tween a blouse and a mother hubbard.
A petition is being circulated for the pardon
Of the two men who plead guilty In the dis
tric. court ia grave robbery at Mitchellville,
and is being largely signed by their fliCnds.
Avoca has an COW club a Crazy Con
cert, y and the young men are talking OF or.
ganizing a sullivan Muscle Developing So
%ciety.i There is nothing slow about hvoca.
Two white swans were noticed to alight la
the river in front OF Fort Madison Friday. An
old hunter said that it had been more than
twenty years since u swan was killed ia that
vicinity.
A lamp exploded at a wedding In Humboldt
but a gentleman with presence ofmind pulled
of his coat and threw 1t over the flames and
subdued the coulagration. A number Of
wedding gifts were destroyed.
Rockwell City, at the municipal election last
week, came within twenty votes OF electing q
gentleman OF color to the Office OF Mayor.
The name Of the colored man was suggested
as a Joke at first, but be made n good run for
the Office.
Katie Wichert, Of Davenport, brought
Charles lIeitnan up standing before the
squire a day or SO ago, because he put his
arm around her and kissed her. lie he'd been
basking in katie's sunshiny stntles for some
time and presumed too far Oh his privileges.
At a teachers examination In Jones county
In answer to the question, "Wbat is hygiencI'
d young lady applicant for a certificate to
teach school answered: at IL the soft spot
on the top Of a baby's heAd which gradually
becomes hardened as the baby grows older
The scholars Of the Peiis high school struck
one day last week. Sixty OF them marched
out with banners, went up the railroad track
and had fun. They had wanted last week as
a vacation, having enjoyed 1t the past fifteen
years, but the board OF directors were against
them. Later In the eveniu. the parents
struck.
A suit for 5000 damages was begun at
Des Moines Monday by the widow of Peter NJ.
Hansen, against L. F. and ID. =. Stubbs. The
petition states that the deceased purchased a
plat Of brandy at Stubs licnOr house on the
| night before he was fouud frozen in the Des
| Moines river, and because OF the brandy he
zane to his death.
Brother Philip, one of the Trsppist monks
at the Nilleray monastery near Dubuque,
died Tuesday night, aged scventy-fve years.
He was buried the next evening in a rude
pine coffin, wrapped in the habit he wore in
no D-,tbar DIilin urDS .gpa ~ Nh. npipipal
founders Of the monastery and WAS the black
smith Of the community.
A Keokuk man recently completed an ele-
CANT residence and invited the public TO in
spect it. Last Sunday they did SO, trsmped
the lawn into a mortar bed, tracked mud all
over the floors, wrote their names on the lily
white panels Of the doors and window cas-
ings, and now the man Is mad all over that
he did so foolish q thing as to ask :hsm in.
z. c. Culver, of Madrid, celebrated his
eightieth birthday, which occurred last Mon
day, by inviting twenty-seven ladies' and gen
tlemen Of Boone county, whose ages ranged
from seventy to ninety-fve years, the ninety
fifth anniversary OF the oldest being on that
same day. A hall was hired in which u din
ner was served, and about 500 people came In
to see the old folks, who told stories Of pio-
neer days, and VIM. Ketchum, aged eighty
eight years, sang a war song, and Miss Mary
Sturdevant, aged ninety-ive, sang n sacred
song.
The KeosQua Republican says probably the
first vote ever cast by a lady In Van Buren,
county was that OF Martha Dcliart at the
school election last Monday in the independ-
ent district Of Indian creek. Vernon township.
MR.. DeHart Is a widow of family, OF refined
character, and Is held in high esteem by her
acquaintauces. Taking a deep Interest IN
schools she went to the polls and rendered
her vote and it was counted and that vote
elected James CASTOR director by one major
ity. The question may come up no. whether
Mr.. CASTOR is legally elected.
Warrants were Thursday issued for tht al
rest of II. C%onnell, u prominent business
man of Woodbury. county, residing at Correc-
tionville, but il is learned that he has gone IN
the direction of Canada. Several months ago
lie secured by from Weare Il Al,ison's bank a
loan Of 81 coo on cattle and Immediately after
wards sold them, and about that tlme his
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