Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-04
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Scotia sports have organized an athletic
| club.
Wallace has q Lime Kiln club which holds
quarterly meetings.
Only three fires visited Schuyler last year,
and the net loss was $l65.
The interstate iremen's tournament Will
be held at Nebraska City May 25.
A camp Of Sons Of Veterans has been
mustered In at Superior with thirty members
The Schuyler G. A. r. post will celebrate
the Washington centennial with an old time
ball.
The Blair Pilot has entered upon its
eighteenth volume. 1t now appears in quarto
form.
Miss Rate Condor, 90 years old, &C. ".aD
is a candidate for the South Omaha post
Office.
The farmers Of Dodge county are still de-
vising plans whereby to throttle the Irvine
trust.
Five hundred old settlers will attend the
reunion to be held at Lexington, Dawson
county.
A Ravenna blacksmith found a note for
300 the other day which had been lost by a
Utica man, and promptly returned II to its
owner. BY return mail the blacksmith re-
ceived 8 cents in postage stamps as a reward
for his honesty.
The bids on the proposed First M. f..
church at Omaha ranged from $500 o to
$50, 600.
The voters Of David City have decided In
favor of building q $50 600 court house at
David City.
A Fremont man has an otter, which was
captured the other day 10 the Elkhorn river,
near Hooper.
G. H.. Jatquette, an Elmwood ~jeweler, has
been warned by White Caps to leave town or
take the consequences.
The managers OF the Gage county fair have
fixed October /, 2, 3 and 4 as the dates for
holding the exhibition.
Rev. c. II. Holden, pastor OF the Baptist
church at Hastings, has rendered his resigna-
ton, to take effect May Is.
The gross receipts Of the Fsirbury post
Office for the year ending April l were
&,410.l1, a gain Of 81 ,462 over the previous
year.
The TecRpseh canning factory has con-
tracted for the tomatoes raised on 100 acres
Of land and for corn from 8 like number Of
acres.
VIM. 8. Roberts, Of Kesrney, has begun
a breach Of promise suit for 5000 against
MINNIE Bears. Minnie married the other
fellow.
The York water works have been sold by
the sheriff, and were bought by q local firm
for $27 $50. The works have been bonded at
SC, 600.
The supervisors of Harlan county have
called an election on the question Of voting
bonds to build a 5000 jail and 1880
court house.
The two incandescent light plants Of
Columbus have formed u trust and notified
their patrons that prices will be doubled on
and after May /.
Three of the teachers In the college at Fair
field have resigned because they do not APP
prove of the withdraw al Of the institution
from the state board.
On a petition OF residents, springview was
Incorporated, but a counter petition has been
circulated asking the county commissioner
to rescind their action.
In Omaha on Thursday 1875 men employed
by the city water works company quit work
on account of a reduction Of their wages
from 81 70 to 81 80 a day.
The recorder Of Saunders county has taken
In 81, 002 20 In fees In the first Quarter Of the
year, the largest amount for a like period
since the Office was Instituted.
A young son Of ex-Sherif Van Glider, of
Antelope county, tried TO force a shell into u
gun the other day, when 1t exploded, infict
ing a severe wound in his head.
The Tribune says the Fremont postofice
fight is understood to be In statu quo
requlsescat In pace Maginnis. There are
not many postofice fights In that shape.
Sidney Is in great need Of a ieweler and
sent to Cheyenne or North Platte, and is "A
source Of much Inconvenience to the people.
While Abe Olmstead, OF Mead, was confined
In the Saunders county jail at Wahoo waiting
TO be transferred to the insane asylum, he
was attacked with a delirious fever and died.
Inc mayor OF broken bow raldeu the gam
blers at that place the other day and proposes
to clean them out. They had just victimized
a well known citizen out of several hundred
dollars.
The total amount OF taxes collected In the
state last year for the expenses Of the state
live stock commission was S44, 003. %; mum
Der Of animals killed, $50; amount paid for
condemnation, $50, OH. so.
In the libel suit Of Jailer Miller against the
World, In which $4,000 damages
were alleged, the jury, under instructions
from the court, found for the newspaper
leaving their seats.
Fl. r. Bisbee has retired from the editor
ship Of the Aiusworth News, and Is succeeded
by T. 8. Armstrong, late of the Norden
Boreslis. Mr.. Bisbee will devote his tim to
the duties Of county Judge.
The Oakdale Pen and Plow has entered
upon Its thirteenth year, and the editor re-
marks: "Under our management It has
never went to bed except on It's arms, nor hiss
it ever yet appeared except in fighting TRIM"
A petition is being circulated In Chase
county asking Attorney. General LIE. Sc TO an