Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-07-14
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at Duluth.
Marshall offers a good opening for a steam
Touring mill.
Jackson IS. 70 have a sidewalk to It's depot
"a ...stance Of one mile.
Steps are being taken toward building u
church at Lake Minnetonka.
The barley crop In Rice county has been
almost destroyed by clinch bugs.
A surplus Of burglars and a scarcity OF
clews is the cause Of complaint at Pipestone.
The Presbyterian church at Curric has
voted to give its pastor SIX weeks vacation.
Funds are being raised at Heron Lake for
the purpose OF putting a steamboat on Lake
Heron.
The city council at Ellsworth has ordered
100 cars Of gravel to be used In improving the
streets.
lawn tennis pronounce ii as easy as saving
wood.
ST. Paul's Episcopal church was dedicated
at Winona last Thursday with imposing cere-
monies.
The city assessors returns at Faribault
eUON III uNiNd7tA udli Nh Soi bNNN -
the city over last year OF $4,000.
According to the assessors returns The
total value OF real and personal property 1t
Red Wing is 81, 147,917.
The p. c. Hanford Oil company, Of Chi
cago, is erecting a large warehouse near the
Northwestern railway tracks at Owatonua.
The Minnesota Thrasher company will at
once begin the erection of a new sash, door
and blind factory at saltwater.
A clever devine recently made his appear
ance at Winona and tried 10 get a draft for
5000 cashed, but it wouldn't work, so he
aed.
The salary Of the Duluth postmaster has
been raised from s., 400 TO $1,000. Duluth is
now the third tirst.class postofice Ia the
state.
Frank Gibbons, a stenogrspher in the en-
ploy of the Winona Plow company, was
drowned last Tuesday while swimming near
Winona.
Measles and whooping cough are prevailing
al Rochester and have already resulted IN an
unusual number of deaths, owing to compll-
cations.
The hotel and saloon at LeSueur known as
the Farmers home was burned last Wednes-
day. Loss, 5000, The family barely es-
capped with their lives.
DR.. Talmsge, the great Brooklyn preacher,
was TO have been present at Waseca and al
dress the Chautauqua assembly now in SEES
sion there on the Fourth, but for some reason
be failed to materialize.
Carleton college At Northfeld has just re
ceived a legacy OF s., 900 from DR.. c.. l.. Ives
OF New Haven, Conn. This is to be used as &
but deserving students.
A party Of gentlemen are at Duluth whc
are contemplating the establishment OF
another 1000 barrel flour mill. They viii
raise the capital entirely among themselves
The Minneapolis militiamen are nov think
ing of the annual encampment If the FRS
regiment, which begins at Lake city on Tues
day, the 10th inst, and continues until Satur
day Of the following week.
Mankato Is in the midst Of a lively but good
natured warfare over water works. All al
NIT the need for the extension OF mains ant
for a better supply, and the city has $4,000
voted AT the spring election for use IN Eur
thering the system of water works. Their
are two principal points Of confer tic u.
Where shall the water be taken Il ~ md
where shall the pumping station be i"ro %.
Four hundred Polifh laborers employ. ~
Winona Lumber company, struck Tlo ~.iy
They have been working twelve hours nl
day and receiving pay for a day and our
ter's work, and the company proposed t. g.
duce the time TO eleven hours per day with
eleven hours pay, and the strikers either
want the old scale or ten hours with ter
hours pay.
The clever divine who worked the conf
dence game at Waseca was in Winona last
week prior to his successful operation at the
former place and made an attempt to defraud
the Norton Land company Of that city. He
had estimates made out FOR a house which he
claimed he was going to build in GAINESVILLE
The bill for his lumber amounted to e. o. 0,
and he presented a check for So 90, request
ing the balance in cash as he wished TO go to
81. Paul to lay in farm supplies. The firm
were suspicious OF the gentleman Of cloth
and did not cash his check. The man disap-
peared and was not heard Of until his esca-
pade at Waseca.
The farmers institute, under the s%uperiu-
tendency OF O. c. Gregg, concluded its SEES
sion at Detroit Tuesday evening having had a
large attendance at It's several instructive
sessions. The professors present were Miss
Maria Z. Sanford, professor of domestic econ
oiny IN the Minnesota state university: Dr.. j.
{. Curryer, h gave . fne exhibition in
training 4 wild, ungovernable horse: Theo-
dore Louis gave o lecture on "Swine breeding
and the corn crop TO feed them on ~ William
Dickinson, veterinary lecturer, gave a dis
course on "Racing colts" and Supt. Gregg
posted the farmers on Running dairies and
to- proper care Of milch COWS" The farmers
got many good ideas from the institution,
which will be OF great service to them In
farming.
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