Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-25
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year.
The stand Of corn In Cass county was never
better.
II. s. Olmstead has purchased the Liberty
Journal.
Colfax county has 2,l12 boys and 1895 girls
OF school age.
Thirty -four states have copied NebraskA's
arbor day idea.
The Osceola creamery has been sold to .
company of capitalists.
The andertskers' convention and . 500, 900
hotel cast . melancholy shadow In Lincoln.
camp OF Sons of Veterans has been mas
tered In at Table Rock.
Fourth of July schemes are already bud
ding In country towns.
hastings natural gas well appears to have
dropped into the tureen.
A malignant epidemic Of tranps is spread
Ing through the country.
The Fillmore County Republican is vigor-
ously edited-with shears.
Madison has q school population Of 4,Ss4,
and seventy-f four school districts.
A system Of water works costing SIS, 600 Ia
bDRA uSAAl solhphStiSh ~ eoisO
The contracts have all been let for 4 sixty
barrel roller mill at Republican City.
Milford is making a struggle TO secure the
location OF the Masonic orphans HON
Burglars rsided the Pacific hotel at Nor
folk and secured a varied assortment of tick
ers.
The farmers Of Chadron precinct, Dawes
county, have so IN $40 acres to wheat and
oats.
O The Fairfield Call is urging the lovers o.
base bali in Clay county to form a county
league.
The Bank OF Rsvenna Is soon to be merged
with the First National Of the same place,
With a capital of $50, 600, and o. NJ. Carter,
OF Omaha, will be president Of the new insti-
tuition.
The movement for the Sunday closing Of
saloons has struck Valentine, and steps are
being taken to enforce the law.
The Nebraska Editorial association Is pre-
pairing for a summer raid In the northwest
The date has not been determined.
The Bohemian hall at Verdigre was de-
stroyed by fire. but whether II was caused by
lightning or incendiarism IL not known.
McCook's melancholy heap OF ashe. piled
up last week, represents ~, oO8, about half
Of 1t belonging to the insurance companies
The Masonic lodge 81 Tecumseh 10 In q
nourishipg condition, with . membership Of
1G2, and the number increasing each month.
The Dawson County Herald, after . pre-
longed mental struggle, reaches the esl
~clusiOn that 1--WE arc not here fm suI
health"
The numerous rumors of new enterprise
OF that place and they have organized q
board Of trade.
The wife Of 8. W. Tinkhan, of harrington
disappeared mysteriously the ether night
and her husband is hunting for her In neigh
boring towns. He believes MIST abe Is in
sane.
Aurora now has five banks, and the Elk
change bank will soon be reorganised with
paid up capital Of SIS, zoe and become the
Aurora State bank, opening for business
July /.
Nebraska corn Is two weeks ahead of the
record this year, and most OF 1t over ground
The outlook In the country never was better
nor the farmers In a more cheerful mood.
Notwithstanding contradictions and de-
malls, reports show that the Omaha road Il
determined 20 extend from Harrington tc
Ysnkton. Agents are buying the rig ht Of
way and survey ors are at work on the line.
T. Il. Delah yde, OF Bike Hill, made
trade the other day and secured a fine resi-
dence, but before he had been its owner
twenty four hours e streak Of lightning came
along and smashed the house into flinders.
Mr., Lockerby, residing near Mankato
picked last season ninety-tbree bushels Of
Brandywine raspberries from l 93s stalks
covering al era Of less han Il ree-fourths Of
An acre. II ) sales amounted to about S400
Evidence CT neglect OF duty Is accommodating
against the police OF Schuyler. The Herald
reports son Monday night, a large tree was
clown down on one OF our p~tincipal streets
and neither OF the police was there to pre-
vent it.u
Jeweler Arnold, OF Columbus, ia the pet o.
THE yes and burglars. He had scarcely col
ieCltu tnt jewels eioltu Ny -NOidnu, huu us
tributed In Council Bluffs, when another raiC
was made on his store. The thief was halteC
with a bullet and jailed.
A white cap letter has been received by c
A. Schooley, owner Of the Harrisburg towr
site, county seat Of Banner county, wsrninG
him to desist In prosecuting the editor Of tn,
World, or he would be "shot down like deg
and his town laid In ashes.
. The Talmage Tribune tells Of a case Of
cussed meanness near that town, a watch
tinker smashing up his furniture with an AZ
just to spite his wife. The woman, however,
plead SO hard with the editor that the name
Of the man was suppressed.
One of the yeurg Los At the Genoa Indian
school, on being reprimanded for swearing,
was told by the teacher that "God said We
must not swear,' "Did He4" asked the
youngster, ale Amt never told mi that. BE
aia't never tola me nothing"
The Clarion Democrat sings merrily Of the
progress and prosperity Of the town. 1t Is
only three and a half years since the town
site was laid out, and 1t now contains 4,OO(
Inhabitants, with handsome and costly bust
- ,z.l. eor 900 5000 r. eNo I. ~