Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-12

frOtracteu meetings CONTINUE al potn Vi
the M. f. churches In Montezuma.
The erection Of a $50, 900 Christian church
In West Des Moines is contemplated.
A branch OF the Travelling Mems Protective
union Is about to be organized at Dubuque.
l.. NJ. Shaw, d.. w. Kuehule and ID. w.
Shaw have purchased the Bank Of Manila.
One photograph gallery in Fort Dodge
turned out over 900 photographs last week.
The real estate market at New Providence
is reported as Being unusually lively at pres
ent.
Parties In Scranton City talk OF organizing
a wolf hunt to occur some time during this
week.
The Latter Day Saints talk of holding a
series Of meetings at Little Sioux in the near
future.
Creston is bothered by a gang Of drunken
hoodIums who attack the citizens on the
streets.
The farmers Of Adair county are arranging
for a county institute that promises to be in
tercsting.
A Clinton special says 1t ia generally be-
lieyed that there are about forty saloons In
the city.
Mrs. Owen White OF Fort Madison has been
adjudged insane and will be sent TO an
asylum.
1t is said that one of the bellies of Carroll
found a piano in her stocking Christmas
morning.
The new NJ. T.. church at Vinton will be
dedicated next Sunday. Chaplain McCabe
viii o~ficlate.
The city council at Des Moines has decided
to substitute gasoline for oil to be used In
street lighting.
During the past month forty six cases Of
diphtheria were reported 10 the beard Of
health at Davenport.
The entire loss by fire in Davenport during
the last year, according to the Democrat
Gazette, was but $500.
John Scott OF Lyons has invented a pam
cake griddle which threatens to make an
everlasting fortune for him.
The usual cry that the railroad shops will
be moved In the spring has not been heard
this winter In Grand junction.
The bar docket for the January term of the
Linn county district court contains 10 crimi
nal, 81 equity and2'3 civil cases.
The Bankers Life association Of Des Moines
has increased its deposit with the state de-
partment from $780, 00 to S2S5, 900.
The twelfth annual session of the American
Poland China Record company will be held
In Cedar Rapids January IS and II.
The saloons In Denison are being closed by
a novel process. The buildings are being
purchased and the tenants chsoged.
The stone pile has had a healthy effect on
tramps at Marshalltown and policemen say
they can't get within a block Of one.
Last Friday the city council Of Vinton
made the first test OF the pumps of the water
works. The result was satisfactory.
Col. p. G. Balllngall, Of Ottumwa, started
last Monday evening on a four months tour
Of Cuba, Central and South America.
Mayor Duncan, Of Burlington, has been
presented with a paper vest by a paper cloth
Ing manufacturing company Of Detroit.
Richard Williams, aged So years, the Oldest
inmate OF the soldiers home, died last Tues.
day night. He came from johnson county.
Oskaloosa has "holes in the ground" which
are realities. At least Sheriff Smith dug up
three gallons OF the contraband last Sunday.
A. Harvey, who for thirty years past has
been station agent for the Rock Island road
at Washington, has resigned his position.
The city council of Emmetsburg has de-
cided that heroic measures must be adopted |
to prevent and punish the illegal sale Of
liquor.
Rudolph Zuck is the name o: a lucky Ger
man who recently drew a pony in an Atlantic
rattle, and a few days later drew a gold watch
In another.
Henry 9. Spencer, Of the First National
bank at Grinnell, is delivering a series of
practical talks on banking to the senior class
Of Iowa college.
A gang OF burglars cracked the safe In
Newcomb's dry goods store In Cedar Rapids
last Monday night and secured 900 In cur
rency and a large number Of finger rings.
For the first time In the history OF the city
the time honored custom Of keeping open
house on New Years day will be observed by !
about twenty society ladies Of Iowa Falls.
The state council of the Catholic Knights
OF America will meet In Des Moines January
). Arrangements have been made for head
quarters Of the council at the Aborn house.
Miss X Anna Morris, teacher Of physical
culture In the schools of West Des Moines,
has been elected a member OF the American
association for the advancement OF physical
education.
The Sac County State bank, which less than
two years ago Was organized with $50, 900 cap
ital, has increased It's capital 10 $50, 900. With
Il surplus Of 10000 this gives a working cap
ital of sG0, 900.
Rev. W. A.. Pratt .; Cedar Rapids accepts
the Invitation extrndedby the Gazette to the
puleits OF the city To preach upon the theme.
'Can a man with a family work for go a
month and lie a Christianl'