Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-22

taking lessons IN PAINTING. Picture pairtiu.,
OF course.
Vermilllon looks forward to a substantial
growth for the coming year. No boom
about Il.
Mre. Moses Young. wife Of the banker at
Harold, Giyd At Aer home Ia that town last
Thursday.
The ut" farmers warehouse at Carthage is
nearly comp ct,i Its capacity is 1900
bushels.
Luke hcpan,ld we'll known in the Hills,
is seriously III 81 Ds4dwood with enlargement
Of the liver.
The Brown County Fair association has
decided upon the second week IN October at
the date Of the fair.
Rapid 't'y comes TO the front with n Young
r.aA rs years old who took HE frs. ride on q
railroad last Tuesday.
The Rapid City board Of education has
adopted a resolution excluding children under
8 years Of aye from school.
hey. Norman ". Cary, principal q the
Fargo academy has been elected president %
The Groton collegiate institute.
Owing 20 a lack Of room the school hosrl
at Alexandria has been Obliged to exclude
from the school all children under Z years
age.
Rev b.. J. Hens, formerly in charge u the
Catho.ic church at Colums.s has been A.
pointed 20 The charge Of a church at Miuot,
Ward county.
Al agtesian well, y fire department end a
houring mill are reckoned among the cou'em-
plated Improvements at Parkston during the
next month.
The first annual meeting Of the Ola set
tiers association Of SuUy county vas hcld iu
Clifton sn Wednesday last, and was largely
attended by people from all parts Of the
county.
The Castalia Record and Republican chron-
icies the return OF an old citizen from dis
tant lands, and remarks that Charles Mix
county is the only place that God really COM
pleted.
The mayor Of Aberdeen hs. sent for q
number Of balls and chains, and a chain
gang will soon be doing duty on the streets
Of that city.
Last Tuesday morning Elw,rd P. Purcell,
= miner OF Rapid City, shot and killed an
other miner named Lesnc. The shooting was
the result Of = saloon quarrel. Purcell Is In
jail awaiting trial.
A representative OF a large eastern paper
mill will buy fax straw at Parkston this fall.
The straw will be worked up and then baled
and shipped to the mill.
The doctors played the ministers q game Of
base ball at Grand Forks recently, 80 gays the
Plaindesler. The game stood IL to IA in
favor OF the medics.
The foot race At Dsadwood cbetweeu Frank
Graves OF Rapid City and Frank Lynch OF
Deadwsod wa. decided In favor Of Graves
who won by about twelve iDches.
John Russell captured the contract for the
construction OF the Sp-arnsh public school
building. The amount Of his bid was s., lss.
The work Is 10 be completed December 10.
The semi-annuai report Of the county trcss-
urer OF Yankton county shows a balance IN
the treasury of $4,000. The tax levy for the
ensuing year shows a reduction 81 8 nills
from that Of asst year.
E" gN0h mon inAiAN Nv MI idA
his left hand terribly iacerated by the cylinder
Of a thrashing machine, which he was feed
iug pear Ipswich last Thursday
The long battle between Mayor Griggs and
the city council Of Grand Forks has ended.
The mayor nominated Alex G. liather FOR
auditor and the council confirmed the ap-
pointment.
The McCook County Agricultural society at
q recent meeting decided t. give tn man and
woman bringing the largest family Of their
wi children 70 he fair a season ticket and q
copy Of the Dakota Farmer for one year.
II IL estimated that 10 coo hesd of cattle
will be loaded this season at Whltewood, s.
0O0 at Tilford, 10000 st Brennan, and about
10000 at Oelriche, for the east. These ship
ments srs said to aggregate $252 600 in valAr.
Miss Lille d Blake Of New York lectured
at Grand Forks last Saturday evening under
the auspices OF the NoBan's Suffrage ~sssccis-
ton. Her subject was ia is y crime 10 be q
womanfn
A Lew tsrk has been Crsanized At Hitch
cock. 1t is called the Commercial and began
business last Thursday. The proprietors are
Hazen 4 Fowler, president and cashier, re-
spectively, Of the Huron National bank.
Howard citizens offer any couple who will
get married on the fair grounds the last day
of the Miner county fair, the following spe-
cisl premiums, viz. A cook stove, set of
bed clothing, suit Of clothes, silver easter
Ru elegant cradle.
The Bookings Sentinel Office came near
up the fue ere day last week. Bone
Of the boys lighted q lamp so they might see
to play whilst. The match was thrown into a
pile Of refuse paper and vas discovered Just
n time 10 prevent n disaster.
A game Of ball, remarkable on account OF
he score, was played recently by the Park
ton and Trip club. The Parkston boys
we're al bat nine times and scored ten runs.
The TriPp Boys were 81 bat eight times and
scored fifty runs.
Geo. Dixon, a young man from Sioux Walls,
VAS arrested IN Aberdeen last Saturday for
3 cigar store. He is highly
ipokcn OF by the Sioux Fails Press, and it is
by his friends that his arrest will be
he mcans CT causing his reform before il 10
90 late.
A large harm On the Benson farm near Cas-