Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-31
NEBRASKA.

W. G. T. U.
The Catholics of Palmyra dedicated a new
church Thursday.
The young people Of TBremer have organ
lied a fishing club.
A disease resembling typhoid fever is prev
alent at springview.
Three thousand sheep were shipped from
Fremont Wednesday.
Madison's new county jail will soon be
ready to receive guests.
1t cost the sum Of S1,410. rs to take the as
sessment of Cunning county.
Two new grain elevators are being built at
Blue Hin in place Of three recently burned.
The fall term of the Fairfield college begins
September 10 and continues fourteen weeks.
A lawsuit for the possession Of a see bird
dog has been commenced in q Fremont
court. A $500 bond was given for the safe
keeping Of the dog.
Eighteen farmers in the vicinity of Arap
ahoe have forbidden hunting oil their prem
Uses.
The new Swedish Baptist church at Meade
will be dedicated the second Sunday in Sep
TENDER.
Many farmers of Cass county are putting
their surplus of apples into cider snd vine
gar this year.
A petition is In circulation at Exeter pray
ing to have the corporation limits Of the vii
lage extended.
One page of this weeks Arcadia Courier is
taken up with q history and description Of
that live town.
Frontier county warrants sell at 90 cents
on the dollar, while a large balance remains
in the treasury.
A Free Methodist church has been organ
lied at Imperial, making the fifth church Or
ganization there.
A veterinary surgeon discovered a case Of
CHAMBERS at Madison the other day and had
the animal shot.
The tow board of Creighton has applied
to the district court for a reaesessment Of the
town and precinct.
General Van Wyck has been invited by the
Central labor union a. Omaha to deliver an
address on labor dag.
The printers of Columbus have challenged
II pahhC w u - pah OOhtCob ~
championship Of America.
A young lady Of Harrington was out last
week In male attire, giving The young men
pointers on street etiquette.
A deer was killed last Thursday In a corn
field near Geneva after considerable skir-
mishing by several hunters.
The wild grape crop in the vicinity Of Grand
Island Is the most abundant ever known
there, and the fruit is very large.
@ Henry Harding, an old soldier of the Army
Of the Potomac, now residing at Kearney, is
happy over the receipt of 81 ,260 back pension.
At a recent school election In Wilsonville
every lady in the district marched up to the
polls and voted, while the men respectfully
stood aside.
superintendent r.. whitcomb, of Friend,
has issued a circular urging the beekeepers
Of Nebraska to make exhibits at the state
fair, promising them fair treatment.
John Long, of Beatrice, has purchased
1000 head Of sheep In Montana which he
will feen at 81. Paul, MINI. he will also feed
10000 at his ranch in Gage county.
A lady who had the nerve to ascend the
water tower at Fremont the other day at
tracted considerable attention. The ascent is
said to be more than one men In fifty can do.
At a school election In Du Bois last + riday
the proposition to erect an addition to the
present school building was voted down.
Only three ia6ivs asserted their rights by
voting.
Plattsmouth has been selected as the place
Of meeting for the third annual inter state
reunion Of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and
Missouri Odd Fellows, and August IA, 1890,
Is the date.
A large number Of grain buyers of Has
tings and surrounding towns met last Friday
and discussed plans for their mutual guild
anee and established a uniform method Of
CHASING grains.
E. Q. Cartwright and a Mr.. Chandler, Of
Springfield, ILL.,, have bought thirteen Sec
lions Of land near Eustis and will shortly
take possession with a large colony Of neigh.
bors and friends.
An avaricious saloonkeeper of Kearney,
who put a sign up over mis- place of business
reading Headquarters for Sedgwick Post,
No. l." was ordered to take 1T down, which
be did very quickly.
A boy leading q COW through the Kearney
reunion camp grounds was held up by an old
forager and a cupful of milk secured, but the
old soldier deviated from his old customs and
literally paid for he supply.
Sand hills along the Platte river, formerly
the abiding place Of coyotes, are this year
producing corn eleven feet high, which shows
that the man who spoke III Of any part Of
Nebraska IL q traitor to the cause.
+. Eggleston sent his hired man to Meade
Tuesday with a load of hogs. The fellow
sold the hogs, ~pocketed the money, tied his
team In the street and bought a tdcket to
Omaha. He has not been heard OF since.
A little nephew Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joezissen,
whilo visiting them at Mars, celebrated the
occasion Ny shooting himself with a target
rife. The ball entered the cheek ard came
out In the nouth. The wound is not cousid-
cred dangerous.
Mrs. Shires, of Bremen, last Wednesday
went into a closet for her hat, and was some
what surprised to find a large snake coi'ed
around 1t. When she knocked his snakeship
to the focr aud killed 1t II was discovered to
be a large species OF rattlesnske.
Mike Terrell, a well-to-do farmer of Knox
/ nnnpfg suddanlv harama fpaapa xha ,tha.