Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-19
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The members OF the Fonda base ball club
have ordered rs suits.
The dreaded eye disease, pink-eye, Is going
its rounds In Kingsley.
The artesian well at Upton Is 1000 feet
down and no water yet.
The Okoboji lakes are about two and a half
feet higher than last fall.
The third series Of stock in the Goinnel
building association has been opened.
The Sioux City IL Pacific railroad is having
sleel rails placed on the Sloan section.
There will be an effort made to organize ar
agricultural society In Cherokee county.
Arrangements are being made for the es-
Enlistment Of a government signal office at
Holstuin.
by wind at $3.50 p. N. Thursday. Damage
about $4,000.
The Hamilton county jail is empty and only
one criminal case on the docket for the pres
ent term OF court.
MarshalltGwn claims 10 have secured the
Firmuich starch factory Of Peoria which wilt
elaploy 100 hands.
A writer In a Msscatnc paper predicts the
seventeen year locasts will appear there the
last of this month.
1t is Il yiolation'cf Iowa, law to capture and
kill, In any manner, either bass or wall-eyed
pike between April 4 and June1.
Rev. VIM. Leayitt, formerly pastor Of the
Congregational chHrch of Monticello, is now
editingth Norfolk, Ncb., Journal.
The Harrison county campmeeting associa-
tlon met in Logan last Wednesday and de-
cided to have three campmeetings, one on the
Soldier, one az Woodbine and one &C Harris
Grove.
Bert Peters, living near Alden, recently ate
some wild parsnip, which he mistook for ar
tichoke root, and died the same evening,
He was only 10 years Of age and married only
a short time ago.
OF the ~ deaths In the city of Davenport
n April, not one occurred among persons be-
tween 5 and 10 years old; "A were between 60
and 80, and 2 were above 80 years cid; 22
males, "a females.
There is an epidemic of matrimony among
Davenport school teachers, and SO many are
resiguiDg 70 start nurseries OF their own that
IL is becoming a seriou question with the
school board how the places will be flied.
Frank Grady, an old express agent died at
Keokuk. lie was state agent at Cedar Rapids
and Iowa City before the days of railroads,
and was route agent on the Des Nome Val
ley road when it was extended into Des
Moines.
The Fort Dodge council considered that the
price paid for the electric lights is altogether
eXhorhitant for the service given, and wishes
either a material reduction from the present
rates or an addition to the number of lights
supplied at the same aggregated cost.
Prof. Trip, Of the Iowa academy, is con
templating the building Of a suitable ediflce
for his school the coming summer, The board
Of supervisors and the city council have unan-
imously agreed that should he erect such a
building 1t viii be exemptirom taxation.
A leading citizen of Martelle lately sent to
Davenport for a jug Of whisky. 1t came by
express with the proper seal Of secresy upon
its brown nose. But when the sealing wax
vas broken and the cork removed, it was
found to contain nothing but stale water.
The general association 81 Congregational
ministers Of lows will hold its forty-ninth
annual meeting at Grinne!l from May % to
- Inclusive. A good attendance is looked
for from all parts OF the state.
Fish Commissioned Carlton of Spirit Lake
received on Thursday a large consignment Of
wall-eyed pike spawn from Bay City, Mich.
Three million of these SPAIN have been or
dered for spring planting in she lakes and
streams IF the state.
A. G. spaulding, president of the national
league, writes Rev. F.. l.. wilkins, of Daven-
port, that the league distinctly prohibits Sun
day games by any Of its members. He says
that southern cities generally favor this sun
day amusement but in the north public senti-
men. runs the other way.
Excitement is still running high al Temple
ton over the Oyermire tragedy, which occur
red AT that place over two weeks ago. A
week ago Saturday night Mr.. Campbell,
Overndre's business partner, was hung in
enigy on the streets Of Templetor and trou-
bic is likely to follow in consequence.
The largest raft Of logs that has been
brought down the Mississippi from Beef
Slough wss brought dosn past Davenport by
+. c. A. Denkman. The raft was 60 feet
lo.S and 2s5 wide; there were l,200, 600 feel
Of logs in it-5,0O i0gs-and 1t will make
when eat up, ,250,0O feet of lumber.
The craze OF saving 10 cent pieces is all the
rage In a num5er Of Iowa cities and towns.
The scheme Is this: Every 10 cent piece you
receive through change Is not allowed to be
spent, but is placed in q bank for safe keep
ing. 1t Will be found that one-t,nth of ones
income will be saved.
The dead BODY Of a German laborcr, known
as Pete, was found In a ravine near the resi-
dence Of Frank Whsley, about two miles east
of Waukon. A few rods away was "a SHOT gun,
and he bad evidently shot himself. Ie had
been working for Charles Kruger. who lived
near. lie came there from Wisconsin and
had been in the county five years. He bad
been married, but his wife had died a year
ago. He was about thirty-ivc years old.
About seventeen years ago a farmer named
Gleason, living northeast Of independence,
says the Journal, one morning found one OF
his colts dead. and there was certain evidence
that 1t had been killed by some one. TIE