Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-16
DAKOTA.

over CUU eCnOiAr8 are enrOlleU III tue LtAu
City schools.
There 10 talk OF organizing an Odd Fellows
lodge at Eden.
A wooden mill is the latest enterprise talked
of at Tilford.
The Baptists OF Deadwood propose to erect
a church building.
A move Is on foot at Vermillion to lay out q
park on the island.
Iroauois is expectsntly locking for q big
boom In the spring.
The Desdwood city council has purchased a
site for the city hall.
A camp Of Son OF Veterans is being organ
zed In Chamberlain.
At the Rowens stone quarries $500 per day
is paid out for wages.
The linseed oil mill at Groton will hereafter
be ran night and day.
A business mems religions service is new
feature at Pisnkinton.
There are sixty-three members Of the
Mitchell board Of trade.
A nsil route is to be established between
Deadwood and Ruby camp.
A stock company has been formed to pros
p.ct for coal near Montrose.
The soldiers at Fort Sully will indulge in a
military ball March IL.
The horse breeders Of the Black Hills talk
Of forming an association.
A movement is on foot for the erection OF a
cold storage building at Mitchell.
The Express says that smuggling is the
~favorite pastime Of the young nobility Of
Egan.
Minnehaha county will have large
amount OF baled hay to ship east In the
spring.
The citiZ ems OF Artesian are considering
the feasibility Of starting a creamery In the
spring.
Yankton college has nearly completed ar
engagements to build an observatory next
summer, and mount therein the big telescope
recently purchased.
The Union Banking company has been or
ganized at Aberdeen with q capital stock Of
s2Oo, 900.
The Union Banking company Of Aberdeen
has been organized with q capital stock OF
$500, 900.
Onida claims to have more literary and So
cial societies than any other town Of its size
In Dakota.
A new set Of boxing gloves furnishes
amusement and exercise for the young men
of Flandrau.
The Masonic fraternity at Deadwood is ne
gotiating for q lot on which to erect q hand.
some temple.
The Times says that the Deadwood real
estate market is decidedly active and the
prices are advancing.
The Courier News thinks that a new city
hall at Watertown would give an impetus to
the building boom In the spring.
Elaborate plans are being made fer the
banquet to be given by the university in Yer
million on the 22d Of this month.
Artesian wells have lost their novelty In
: Glenwood township, Clay county. They are
being discovered lmost every day.
, The Queen City Mail, a weekly paper pub
! lished at Spearfsh, has made It's appearance.
I j. II. and L. II. Warren are the editors.
There are thirty-ive common schools nov
In session in Jerauld county, with an average
attendance Of seventeen pupils to each.
2 The Methodist subscription list at Leols
has reached the sum Of $3.50. The amount
necessary 10 build the church Is ~, 500.
{ The Record thinks that al elevator al
Sturgis controlled by a company able to bug
wheat would be worth more thar anything
= else.
A new postmaster has been established IN
Blendon township, Dawson county, about
eight miles from Letcher. A. II. Locke is
postmaster.
The Tribune says that a s. 900 brick school
building Is one of the needed improvements
Mayville viii have in the not very distant
, future.
The enrolment Of the Madison normal
school this term reaches $50 students. This
attendance is drawn from thirty-seven coun-
ties In the territory.
The Press says that an Iowa firm OF WOODEN
mill men is desirous Of establishing a second
wooden mill at Yankton and is making IN
quiries about water power.
The biennial report Of the directors Of the
Yankton insane asylum shows Lawrence
county has furnished eighteen patients, the
greatest number from any one county.
III pctthiOu annibS that i"o tOhiullsslOucl
districts be added TO Pennington county has
been laid aside because it is forty-ive names
short Of the legal requirements.
A Christian prohibition league is the latest
organization under way at Washington
Springs. 1t is composed Of young men, and
has a membership at present OF twelve.
The Methodist miaister of Highmore, la
his Sunday sermon, severely censured the two
local papers, and stated that they we're dan
gerous to the community's morals. The
papers probably rubbed him some time and
be is trying to get even.
South Dakota will send q train to Wash
ington to help inaugurate President Elect
| Harrison. The train Will start from Sioux
Falls and south Dakota will be well repre-
sented By prominent people who are expected
to take passage.
The farmers of Walsh county who are In
distress are being relieved as fast as possible
but the situation of many is still critical.
| Flour and other articles of FOOD have been
| distributed but the quantity was meagre and
soon gone.