Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-14
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progressive croquet club.
A number Of ladies In Fairbury have organ
lied a Mrs. Cleveland club,
The Columbus street railway was opened
to the public Tuesday evening.
The Edgar canning factory cans pears at
the rate Of 600 cans per hour.
Broken Bow voted on Saturday to bond the
town for $40, 900 to build = city hall.
The ciiy board OF equalization at Lincoln
had over 800 complaints to attend to.
Minden has two Touring mills anu claims
the title OF the Flour city Of the state.
A branch OF the American Building and
Loan association has been established at Nor
folk.
The Pinkerton slugyers have gathered
themselves and their clubs out OF Platts- |
mouth.
The citizens Of Carroll are beginning TO
worry for Gear the city water tank will freeze
next winter.
The most important event this week IN I'd
gar is the beginning of work on the much
talked Of water works.
DR.. Talmsge was not able 20 aadrrss the
CAautauqus assembly at Crete and the people
are greatly disappointed.
Thomss Mclaughlin, a we'll TO do farmer
living near North Platte, suicidea last Mon
day by taking strychnine. No reasonis given
for the act.
Eliss Rhodes, an aged resident of Beatrice,
fell Gead after making a prayer in a prayer
met ting last Thursday night.
T1e fats and leans Of Fremont arr squab-
biz g over a trife of SIC, coo, the arount Of
tie stake for a game OF base ball.
Nrhe oldest twins in the country reside ~
Brewster, Blaine ~coanty. They are James B..
Eitchey and his sister, born in lSt2.
Henry Pond, who sustained injuries by fall
! ing on 4 street in Beatrice last fall, has seen
awarded $500 by te district court at that
place.
The board OF supervisors Of Holt county
has decided to submit t. the vote Of the PEG
pie the proposition of dividing the county into
four counties.
Some OF the people who are attending the
Crete Chsutaucua think that life In a tent
would be more enjoyable If canvas wails were
non csnduct0rs'of sound.
Gosper county is on the verge of another
fight for the county seat between bonneville
and Elwood. The Lincoln Town Site com
pany favors 1he latter place.
Programs Of exercises Of the Long Pin
Chautauaus have been distributed. The SEES
sion opens July II and closes july "a. A
meeting Of unusual interest is ~ omised.
Kearney is sure Of a packing house. 1t |:
10 be ready for business by November !, with
capacity Sufficient 10 handle 8l the cattle ant
hogs raised in Buffalo AMI sd Joining ooun
ties.
The Dodge county teachers institute Is il
session al Fremont. An important thing te
be undertaken will be to arrange a uniform
course Of study for the public schools o. the
county.
1t is getting so popular now for the men o.
Fremont to shave OF their whiskers ant
lovely pustaches that children are afraid Il
go out on to the street for fear of meeting
one Of then.
Wheeler county must have = queer assess
ment. There have been $4,000 acres Of lant
proved up on and entered for taxation during
the past year and still the valuation Of the
county has decreased.
John Westberg, a restaurant man Of Ere
mont, took several four finger drinks OF alco
hol, complained Of a pain in the side and ther
dropped dead. A coroner's jury concluded
that the liquor, heat and heart disease con.
conspired to cause his death.
ID. G. Barnes Of Falls City, struck a vein OF
coal two and a half feet thick while sinking &
well nea. town. The vein,ie within forty feet
of the surface aud the coal is said to be OF
fire quaxty. Steps will be taken to develop
the find.
1t is more than probable that ice cream
will not be such a favorite dish in Boone county
this summer since thirteen persons were poi
soDed aGew days ago. The young men OF
Albion always have tried to avoid the saloons
when out walking with their best girl, and
the latter can now bs thsakful for their
thoughtfuiness.
About thirty people at David City are dowu
with s peculiar epidemic. The symptoms are
pain In the stomach, vomiting. diarrhea, with
pain In the hips and legs. 1t Is noted that
al who are SO affected partook Of ice cream
At a restaurant last Saturday evening and the
supposition is that it is a case Of ice cream
poisoning.
An innosa ton In the saloon business at
Hastings 10 the exhibition Of a glass case Of
snakes in the show window of q leading
liquid refreshment stand. This Is said to be
a shrewd move on the part OF the proprietor
to sccustom hts patrons to Seeking snskes''
so that they may not be completely terrified
when they find their boots filed with wrig-
Cling reptiles.
The lawyers and printers OF West Point
came together on the diamond recently. The
printers pasted a str!n. OF nine tsllies, while
the barristers pleaded the bags for eleven.
The lawyers rung in a professional from
Omaha, a doctor, a county official and a mill
tary student and Ave laborers with hands like
bacon sides, and watched the game at 4 safe
distance.
The board Of county commissioners Of Lam
caster county has rescinded It's action.adopts
ing Colorado red sandstone as the material 70
be used in the court house, and has adopted
the Ohio blue Amherst stone In Its stead.
This action was taken on account of the
managers of the Colorado Red Sandstone