Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-12-22

ana VIZ injured on railroads In tnls state.
The Iowa state grange began its nineteenth
annual session in Des Moines last Tuesday.
A dolls carnival Is the latest money raising
scheme for charitable purposes in Keokuk.
Sister NJ. Francis, supervisor of the Daven-
port Sisters of Mercy died last Saturday night.
Muscatine is Going to have Camilla urso
and her violin, and wants a pontoon bridge.
It is stated on reliable authority that the
Wapello county jail does not contain a pris-
oner.
The question OF placing a clock In the
court house tower is being agitated at Storm
Lake.
Fort Dodge is experiencing considerable
difficulty In securing coal for the city water
works.
The chief Of police at Council Bluffs has
declared against playing %''shinny" on the
streets.
A 300 yard ~toboggan slide and an ice rink
are awaiting suitable weather at Marshall.
town.
"Whatsoever Ten" is the name OF a young
ladies' society In the Baptist church at Du.
buque.
1t is reported that DIR. O. X. Carr, a well to
Go farmer of Mitchellville has deserted his
family.
The Times complains because there is no
available hall In Dubuque where large dances
can be held.
A brass band threatens to organize at
Storm Lake II the citizens will furnish the
instruments.
The Niger shooter is cropping out again
at Cleston and numerous small boys are
carrying them.
The Nevada band has decided to hang its
harps on the willows until the pansies bios
som next spring.
Ths Cornell conservatory Of music at Mt.
Vernon is largely attended this year, and is
in a prosperous condition.
The Red Oak Express quotes the matrimo-
NAL market nervous and fuctuating with a
hopeful tendency in futures.
Maggie Gallagher, 20 years old, fell under a
switch engine at Cedar Rapids last Wednes-
day and had both feet cut off.
The Hawkeye expresses hope that the citi
Gems OF Burlington will subscribe freely for
stock In the new cotton batting mill.
The NJ. +. society at Sutherland is making
an effort to raise sufficient funds to cancel
the church debt before January / next.
The board Of education at Fort Dodge has
adopted the new synthetic system OF reading
for the primary grades of the public schools.
A dancing class Of Muscatine composed OF
fourteen young gentlemen took its first lesson
last Monday night. The ladies will be allowed
to participate later on.
The journal remarks that hoodlumism is
running rampant In some parts OF Muscatine.
Pedestrians are assaulted with missiles and
epithets day and night.
A local lyceum bureau has been organized
at LeMars for the purpose of furnishing en-
tertainments of a higher moral type than the
ordinary theatrical shows.
The Y. NC. A. Of Davenport is arranging to
open a night school where members for mere
ly a nominal fee may receive instruction In
the fundamental lines of study.
The 12 year old son of Alderman Kenneally
at Dubuque was seriously injured last Mon
day. A playmate pushed him into the street
and a heavily loaded dray passed over his
stomach.
The mayor Of Marshalltown has appointed
a committee Of three to investigate the vari-
Gus methods Of obtaining water In use by the
cities OF Iowa, and to give, In their opinion,
the method best suited to Marshalltown.
An individual whose education had evil
IDENTIFY been sadly neglected appeared before
Justice Duffy in Dubuque the other day and
wanted a warrant for the arrest OF a man
who has been living under a consumed"
name.
James Murphy was found dead last Sunday
about eight miles east of Greenfield near his
sons home. He had come from Kansas to
visit his son, and as he was SO years Cd and
subject to heart disease II is thought that On
attack Of the fatal malady was brought on by
the excitement incident to the expectation ct
meeting his children.
Thomas A. Davis of Glenwood in attend
snce upon the meeting of the horticultural
society now holding a three days session In
Council Bluffs, perhaps is the oldest horticul-
turist In western Iowa. He served an appren-
ticeship In the grand work OF planting trees
and producing fruits and entered upon active
work fifty. six years since, and during all OF
that time be has toiled and prospered, planted
seeds and picked the fruits, and still Is SOW.
ing that others may reap when his enjoyment
OF the fruits Of his fields shall have ceased.