Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-29
DAKOTA.

A windmill IS to erected over the town well
at Gettysburg.
Real estate deals at Huron last Tuesday
aggregated nearly $4,000.
There are lightweight prisoners In the ter
ritorial pen at Sioux Falls.
Gettysburg entertained its first travelling
theatrical troupe last week.
The linseed oil mill at Groton will begin
operations In about ten days.
The capitol ut Bismarck will be illuminated
by electricity during the winter.
Mrs. Heley, OF Huron, was taken to the In
sane asylum at Yankton last Monday.
The Free Press is making an attempt to re-
organize the board OF trade at Pierre.
There are 100 cases on the calendar OF the
district court now in session at Redfeld.
The paroch!al school In the Catholic par
sonsge at Salem now has thirty-six pupils.
Madison steps out and declares herself a
candidate for the capital OF South Dakota.
The very latest craze among the young
bloods at sioux Falls IS to learn how to spar.
Sixty-seven civil and eight criminal cases
compose the calendar for this term Of court
at Salem.
Wahpeton was visited by a fire last Thurs
day which did $1,000 damage two business
buildings.
The Deadwood Licderkranz club is a recent
organization composed Of a score Of German
vocalists.
The Parkston school board has decided to
continue the school for two months after the
holidays.
Nearly 800 tickets have been sold for the
band benefit ball which occurs at Brookings
New YEARS. eve.
The elevator at Ashton belonging to the
Empire Elevator company was destroyed by
fire last Wednesday.
Deadwood Knights of Pythias are making
extensive preparations for their masquerade
ball on December -.
1t Is estimated that the Black Hills country
contributed $4,000 TO the Louisiana state
lottery last month.
There are about $50 applications for seats
in the first street car that goes over the newly
built track in Deadwcoa.
The Republican announces a possibility
that & new brewery will be started in Rapid
| City within a few months.
The Central City public schools opend last
Monday In the new school house and with a
new teacher and new books.
A few men with capital and nerve are
wanted at Valley Springs to develop the
natural resources Of the town.
The sixth annual meeting of the South Da
kota Educational association will be held at
Red6eld, Decenber, 26, % and 2S.
The last brick was laid on the mammoth
five story hotel at Grand Forks last Thursday
afternoon, amid the joyous shouts of the
people.
The Rapid City Republican is authority for
the statement that Capt. Thomas Russell has
made arrangements to start a daily paper at
Sturgls.
The Dakota Chief is the name of weekly
newspaper just published az Gann Valley,
Buffalo county. Morton Alexander is the
editor.
Two hundred and fifty invitations have been
issued for a grand ball to be given by the
Masonic fraternity at Blunt on the evening
of December 81.
Rev. +. w. Norton OF Aberdeen has ac-
cepted a call from the Calvary Baptist church
at Faulkton, and will be ordained In that
church next Thursday.
Yankton's fire department is preparing for
a fair in February, the proceeds Of which will
be devoted to the coming fremen's tourna-
ment TO be held in that city.
The sturgis social club hasn't materialized
yet, although interested parties are hard at
work at 1t. Final arrangements will prob
ably be consummated before next week.
In the libel case Of George Taylor against
l.. ID. Lyon, for an alleged libelous article
published in the Watertown Public Opinion
the jury brought In a verdict of not guilty.
The Press says: ''The syndicate that has
arranged to build up South Sioux Falls has
contracted for a complete system OF sewerage
there, the main sewer being four feet in d.
ameter.n
John G. Ashmore, for the past four years
station agent for the Milwaukee road at Bath
died last Thursday of pneumonia. He was
80 years old and had been married about
seven weeks.
1t is understood that j. H. Warren, for.
merly of the Rapid City Republican, and
Robert Warren OF the Algona, To-, Upper Des
Moines, will start a weekly newspaper at
Spearfsh In the near future.
The Press says that the real estate business
In Sioux Falls was the best Ia the history of
the city. The total number of transfers fled
for record was seventy-eight and the value Of
the property sold was s25l ,975.
A Howard correspondent says: Several
farm houses have recently been moved into
town and remodeled for occupancy and yet
there are no vacant houses or rooms to be OBJ
tanned. For this reason the Congregational
society is without a pastor"
A free reading room is talked Of at Salem.
Last Tuesday at the residence of F. NJ.
Devoe In eastern Yankton county the 9 year
old daughter OF Winden and Melinda Ken
drick drank o portion Of the contents Of a
vessel containing concentrated I've. Death
her sufIeriugs the next day.
The Z year old son Of J. X. Searles, OF Lead
City, was the victim OF a painful accident last
Saturday afternoon. While playing with
come other boys in the street he was acoi-
dentally hit Ia the eye with a small stone