Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-15
Northwestern ITEMS.
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The college project at Red Oak is being re-
vived.
A case OF diphtberia is reported at Fort
Dodge.
A Touring mill would fill a long felt wan
at Marcus.
The Corning hose company, No. 2, has beer
organized.
The Acme cheese factory of Sheldon is In
corporated.
The Catholic fair at sanborn last weel
Melted 1898.
Coke is rapidly becoming popular for fue
Grinnell.
Red Oak Is making a move to secure a can
ming factory.
The new Catholic church at Rock Rapids l
nearly completed.
The Dubuque county poor house has sixt.
inmates at present.
The price OF hay at Fort Dodge has dropped
1t is now 81 per ton.
The Catholic church at Nicola viii be dedi
Gated December IL.
A movement IS on foot TO establish bricl
and tile works at Rolfe.
The machinery In the water works at Corn
ing was tested last Tuesday.
A number Of German singers at cenisor
have formed a singing society.
The X. Of p. at Audubon will dedicate their
new castle hall next Wednesday.
Algona yearns for a board Of trade or some
other organization to boom things.
The State Bank Of Manning has been incor
porated with II capital stock of $4,000.
An Atlantic correspondent declares that
the city needs better church buildings.
Playing cards in church Is one OF the latest
pastImes INDUCED in by a few hardwood
boys.
they can control the diphthcrla IN suther-
land.
The average small boy of Primghar IS net in
his element unless he nayigates on a pair OF
stills.
There is war among the PrimEhar coal
dealers, and consumers are exceedingly
happy.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Grundy Centel
have skipped eighty-two carloads Of potatoes
this fail.
Fred Buss Of Palo was kicked by @ horse
last Tuesday afternoon and died In a shor
time.
An epidemic OF runaways struck Dubuque
last Tuesday. FIVE teams participated In tn'
festivities.
Dubuque has forty deaf mutes and i
making a move to establish a school for dea
and dumb.
The council at Sac City "a putting up
building in the public square to be used for
hose house.
The prisoners In the county Jail at Council
Bluffs we're treated To a turkey dinner b,
Sheriff O'Neill.
An editorial association, composed OF TIL
editors Of Humboldt and Poaahontas coun
ties, is talked of.
The average daily attendance Of pupils o.
the Creston public schools during the past
month was / 1872.
There are about thirty cases Of poisoning
at Brush Creek from eating headchcese. None
of them are serious.
Articles Of incorporation have been filed
with the secretary of state by the Alpha
Farmers Creamery company OF Alpha, To-.
with a capital stock Of $4,000.
The city council at Dubuque is considering
an ordinance which provides for extending
the term of city ofiiceholders to two years,
The 9 year old child of Andrew Cooper, o.
Holy Cross, Dubuque county, fell into a ket
tie of soap last Sunday and was scalded tC
death.
Physicians OF Fort Dodge report a regula'
epidemic Of influenza in that city and vicin
ity, and one doctor reports fifty cases on hi
hands.
a new postofice has been established a
East Per, Madison county, during the pas
week. The one at Last Chance, Lucas coun
Is, is discontinued.
The telephone company has commence,
placing the immense cables which will sup
plant the hundreds OF wires which line th
business portion Of Des Moines.
A number OF Musquakie Indians ar,
camped on the banks Of the Wapsfe nca
Wheatland. They will spend several week
In the vicinity In hunting, fishing and beg
glng.
Miss Addie G. Sherman, who resides with
her foster parents I'm Council Bluffs. has
fallen heir 20 $50, 600 In cash by the death OF
her father In Mexico.
Three bids were made for the old state
house at Des Moines. The highest was 81, 100
and the lowest was $500. Tie executive
council deemed the bids too low, hence the,
were all rejected.
While a party Of drillcrs were digging
well a few days ago on the farm OF j. Cook
near Wayerly they tapped a yeritabie geyser
The well spouts a stream twelve feet higI
and eight inches in diameter.
The lows soldiers monument commission
appointed by the Twenty. second general as
eemb!y, viii meet In Des Nolnes in a fe,
lays to take the initiatory steps for the ereC
ton Of the monument on tho capita
grounds.
A. Dewey, a well known citizen Of MAJ
shall county, who has been deaf for twent
years, has perfected a continuance which en-
aoles him to hear ordinary conversation dis
~tinctly. SO far as he knows his invention
does not conflict with any discovery Of q SINH
lar nature, and he is keeping it's features Il
himself until he can make formal application
for q patent.
The Wright County Monitor has discover