Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-22
JOSEPH KUBLER. , PUBLISHERS
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
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James w. Trew OF Dubuque has been
granted q patent on a pillow or harrow attach
ncnt.
pleton Press, have purchased the Boone
tandard.
d. Comgisky, Of Dubuque, 10 years Of age,
took q mouthful Of chloroform In mistake for
brandy. But the old man is now believed TO
be out OF danger.
The Sioux valley Baptist association will
meet at Storm Lake on the 2Sth inst, and
the Sioux Congregational association win
meet there the first week in October.
The ladica Of Msrshallt wn are In earnest
about aholisning hats a. the opera. The male
member Of the community viii undoubtedly
purchase me dals FIR them.
The Mirror says that more building IS being
done in Clear Lake at present than FOR years
previous MOI a carpenter or mason in the
vicinity but is W with work.
The city ministerial association OF Daven-
art has agreed upon a union revival, which
10 be entered upon In November, with an
minent evangelist from the east 10 conduct
II.
Martin Kearney, two miles west OF Will
liams, Hardin county, broke his neck the
other day In n fall from Il hay stack. He was
~ years OF age add leaves n wife and seven
hildren.
Said an old farmer 70 the Dunlap Reporter
man the other day: "What we lose by rust
ing of wheat ana oats we shall gain by the
bar and cnr,or1, II ypnl hu about ~.
thing after all"
Geo. T. Williams, OF the Pioneer, has been
granted by the city council Of Ida q owe n
franchise for $40 e%lectric light plants With his
banking business and all, he must be getting
TO be a blosted bondholder.
Miss A. K.glin, colcr ., committed suicide
At Iowa Falls Sunday evf.irg by drowning Ia
the river. She had threatened several times
to kill herself, and was severely whipped by
her mother during the afternoon.
The ttuuwa Courier says that new houses
are loom ng up In all directions around tsvn
fast that IL cannot keep the ran Of them.
building boom will increase the popula-
Ottunwa very nearly 1000 this year.
Cerro Gordo county has two women candi-
dates Cor the position Of recorder, Miss Liz
zie Fitch, the present incumbent, and Miss
Perrott, Of Rock Falls, a graduate Of Ames
college. Miss Fitch has held the ONCE for
eight years.
A pleasing incident OF the Maple Grove
church dedication at Marshalltows is that
every emb Of the board Of trustees and
the minister who performed the dedicatory
rites had served as soldiers In the union army
during the war.
The seventeenth annual Sunday school con-
yention Of Pottawsttamle countv win convene
n Council b uTs September 10 and 30. A
fine program is being prepared. Able speak
ers and Sunday school workers from abroad
have promised to be present.
Last week 10 Donald made one OF the fast
est runs ever made on the Fort Dodge dlvts-
ion OF the Rock Island road He made the
run from the CHI, ago, Rock Island AMI Pa
ciic crossing at DIS Moines TO the city limits,
nineteen blocks, or Eve miles, IA six minutes.
The city council OF Dubuque has placed the
assessment Of the Julien house property at
&0, 600, and recommended that 1t be held at
that figure for ten years, conditional that the
contemplated improvements be made as soon
as possible.
The state board OF health has received sam
plesio milk from the Deaf aud Dumb lnsti-
tute ut Council Bluffs which they purchased
from the diffrrent diaries around Council
Bluffs, The c1cers want an analysis made
OF 1t so that they may know which dairy to
tparonize.
Miss Lou N. Wilson, superintendent Of the
West Des Moines schools, and Mrs l.. T.. Nor
row, principal OF the high school, have def
nitely determined TO resign their positions In
order to establish their permanent residence
n Paris, where they will open IN English
school.
TIL report Of the warden, fled with the
auditor Of state, shows that during the month
of August there we're 243 ~convicts In the Ana.
mosa penitentiary. The warrants issued by
the auditor are for salaries Of oAcers and
guards, 81, 1897. "A, and for improvements,
l2,019.
A young son Of Mrs. . J, Hassell, Of To
ledo, raR into the house the other day and
told his mother ihe top Of the cistcrn was OF.
When she locked In she was horrifei to see
the bedy Of a child In the water. 1t proved
TO be the 9 year old daughter of Frank Rus
yell. By prompt efforts, by the aid Of doc
the child was rescued aud resuscits.ed.
The Council Butts Herald has raked up q
, rotten state Of affairs existing in the cree
ton OF a new school house. 1t accuses the
Lumber company and Contractor
with violating the requirements OF
the specifications regarding toe lumoer put
into the building. The contractor WAS not
with the write mp and SO he thumped
the reporter.
A runaway saddle horse In Keekuk Mon
day evening dashed through a plste glass
window and fell para. yzed on the floor of s
store room. The animal had been saddled
Tor = man named Bent who intended to pur-
1t from Harry Dolan. The owner ofthe
glass front was aux Gus to ascertain who
owned the horse in order to collect damages
Bent claimed that the purchase Of he animal
lad not been completed, while Dolsa ID I
Jared that 1t hal. /
An unfortunate little affair Is said to have :