Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-01
northwestern ITEMS.


'Does Cedar Rapids wait a league club
and will her citizens take stock enough t.
make 1t q success.n is the question which al
serbs the attention of the base bail enthusi-
asts in that city at present.
j. l.. Youel, Of Fremont township, Benton
county, closes a nine years service as a uem-
Der OF the board OF supervisors January /.
The session Of the board held last week was
his last, and just before its close he gave an
oyster supper to his friends.
The Polk county board Of supervisors has
decided that all pauper and other bills pre-
scented for payment must be itemlzed as TO
the amount and kind OF goods and the price
OF each article fully set forth, and that the
order for said tens must accompany the bill.
At a regular meeting Of the city council OF
Grinnell Monday night the mayor was In
structed to give thirty days notice of a spe-
cial election to decide whether the city should
raise Sl5, 900 for a system Of water works.
A Louisa county man has drained a low
piece Of ground by drilling 3 hole down into
the rock beneath the soil and exploding a
good heavy charge Of powder in 1t. The water
now finds an avenue Of escape that interferes
with no one.
II the mother house OF the Sisters OF Char
ity, Table Mound township, Dubuque county,
twenty young LADIES entered on a spiritual
retreat Sunday evening. AT the close OF this
retreat the young ladies will receive the habit
and veil of the order.
Lake Como, west OF Grinnell, IS 70 be pro
vided with all modern improvements. 1t has
been suggested that a canal be cut connect
ing Lakes Como and Nyanza, thus furnishing
a very pleasant waterway, navigable for email
craft, around the city.
Mrs. Robert Thompson Of Waterloo left her
home in Germany six years ago 10 make a
short visit to England. She came on TO this
country, married, and has lived here ever
since. Last week she started back to visit
her old home and study music.
The Fort Dodge Messenger enthusiastically
remarks that another wedding of ore Of the
well known society young ladies OF that city
Is promised within the next few weeks. And
again the favored one is an out OF town bust
ness mar who found irresistible charms in
the Fort Dodge girl.
Some miserable mlscrcant stole into DR..
Dickinson's stable at Jefferson on Monday
night, harnessed one of his horses to a road
cart, drove Town to the depot, turned his
horse loose, cut the harness into strips and
with an axe chopped the wheels and ayletrees
of the cart into kindllng wood.
State Dairy Commissioner X. d. Sherman
will file his annual report with the governor
In a few days. In the report the commissioner
says the market for dairy products during
the past year has been active and prices uni
form. Also that there has been little dispo.
sition to violate the oleomargarine law.
The jefferson Bee says: st will doubtless
be a genuine surprise to the people of Greene
county to learn that Aaron NJ. Head, after q
close Identification with the Souvenir for the
past three years, has sold his interest In tha,
paper to a gentleman named Beverly, who, Il
We are rightly informed, halls from Boone
There is to be a meat war in Davenport
Swift, the Omaha packer, who gets after AR
mour because Armour tried to down him, IL
coming with a car load of dressed beef and
mutton IN a few days. He intends opening q
storchouse there as large as Armour's, and
better for preservation, he says. For some
tine meat will I've the cheapest table supply
ever known.
The county auditors will bold a state con
~yention in Des Moines beginning on the 10Th
OF December. The call is issued by j. G
Rathbone Of Eldora, Hardin county. 1t is the
urpose of the auditors to consider any mat,
tiers Of Importance to their work and 10 bring
out any needed changes In the law relat
ing to their work, SO that they may be
fully discussed before the next Legislature
meets.
Commissioner II X. SniGer prosecuted
Byron Sherbundy, a registered pharmacist OF
Keokuk county, for conducting a drug store
without having renewed his registration as
required by law. He had been delinquent six
months and was fined by the court $50 and
costs, the penalty for such delinquency being
$40 for each calendar month.
A . year old child of James A. Craig, resid-
ing at Clinton, was playing in the yard Mon
day, when it fell into an uncovered ~cistern.
Mrs. Craig saw the child fall and jumped in
after it. Fortunately the water was only up
to her arms, and, holding the child up, she
succeeded in getting the water out Of It's
mouth and throat. A neighbor who wit
messed the accident rescued the mother
and child, all unhurt, but terribly frightened.
An Egyptian Preservation company has
been Incorporated aides Moires with a capt.
tai Of SEQ 600. The object Of the company
Is 70 introduce a new process which 1t Is
claimed will hold meat, fruit and vegetables
In a perfect state Of preservation for any
length OF time in the open air and can be
used for transporting articles without ice.
For embalming purposes it is claimed to be
simply wonderful.
Some Des Mo!ne young ladies have been
called upon TO contribute patches to an
autograph quilt, which is now the popular
thing among the society girls. The method
Of making the quilt is ingenious. A young
lady GUS her pieces OF the size she wishes
then sends them TO friends far and near, TO
gether with embroidery silk or cotton, with
the request that they cmbroider their names
on tie pieces and return them. II is very
easy TO comply with the request, as nothing
but the skill TO embroider and a little time
are required.
Hedge Amundson Of Ellsworth, has made a