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

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factory in George would be a paying invest
ment.
A new green house is among the improve
ments booked for Marshalltown In the
spring.
The members of the Free Methodist church
at Burlington are building a handsome par
sonage.
Woodford, the Ascending station sgent OF
OF Sheffield, has been heard from. He is in
Canada.
An establishment for the manufacture OF
mouldings, blinds, etc, is about to be built at
Denison.
The grand jury at Iowa City has indicted
some twenty parties for dlsposing "budge"
illegally.
Hardin county taxes for 1889 are a little
over sl40, 900, Of which $63,500 Is for school
purposes.
The Iowa Grain and Produce company Is a
new corporation at Burlington. Its capital
stock Is $50, 600.
The Express thinks that the prospects for q
system of electric lights at Red Oak are by no
means fatteripg.
The three papers at Carroll have been
| chosen the official papers OF the county for
the coming year.
The Sentinel says there are at least 1000
fst cattle Ia the vicinity OF Onawa, waiting
for higher prices.
The band boys at Kalo have raised $500 and
will erect a hall in which public meetings and
dances may be held.
Two Ottumwa men were recently fined for
turning the water from a hose on some boys
who were tantalizlng them.
The ministerial association at Des Molnes
Is moving against the indecent pictures used
for advertising In that city.
The Dodge Light guards at Council Bluff.
are making an effort to gather a museum OF
curiosities for their quarters.
A man was arrested in Council Bluffs las
Saturday for impersonating an officer. Th'
Nonpareil remarks that any man who vii
impersonate a Council Bluffs officer ought tC
be pulled.
j. W. Bennett OF Koto has received a pail
OF ine wooden blankets from a clothing firm
In Des Moines as a prize for the fourth largest
ear Of corn raised in lows and exhibited II
their store.
At Logan last Monday the jury in tie cas-,
Of John Richardson, charged with the murder
Of Leonard Harker, returned a verdict of not
guilty. The alleged crime was committed
last September.
The Gazette hopes that there will be node
lag in the construction Of the new jail a. Bur
iDgton, and adds that a new $50, 900 building
will be a good starter for the boom that Il
lowering over the city.
The marshal Of Oxford Junction was tlacd
80 and costs for neglect OF duty In not ar
resting the violators of the prohibitory law,
information having been fled against him
by a resident of the town.
The new county physician to look after the
poor and insane at the poor farm and attend
upon the c%ounty's charges in the city of Red
! Oak ia q lady, DR.. Rebecca Hanna. She con
tracts for a year at $l50.
Everett Bee, a young man employed in the
auditors department Of the Burlington road,
at Cedar Rapids, was drowned last Friday
night while skating on a slough nesr the
city. His home was in Fredericksburg, 10.
The Council Bluffs Electric Light company
will erect a brick building adjoining the
present plant. The building will contain dy-
namos for the incsndescent system the com
pany proposes TO put In within the next sixty
days.
Mrs. Geo. Bryson Of Council Bluffs was
knocked Town and run over by the fast mail
train on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
While walking on the tricks Near the Main
street depot last Monday night. Death soou
relieved her sufferings.
IN one year Frank Davis, r. Des Moiucs
youth, got into jail, broke cat, saved two boys
from drowning, discovered aud put ont 4 fire,
had his arm broken, stole a horse, shot at u
burglar and put out his broth RS eye. If he
lives to grow up he win be a hustler.
A number of Spirit Lakes fleet young men
now and then spend an evening testing their
endurance at circulating around Beacon hall
on a sawiust track preparatory 20 a ten mil
race which VIII come Off in the near future.
Several walking contests are also beiog
planned.
An Abel man has discovered that three
forties in his county have never been patented
by the government. He has RENTED 81. %
per acre 10 the general land Office and the
present occupants and supposed owners are
liable to have some difficulty IN retaining |
possession. 1t is said that there is ether
land IN the county which has never been pat |
ented.
Papers were recently issued committing II |
II. Mayne Of DEBORAH, TO the ineane asylum
at Independence. When the sheriff went
after him he pleaded for q few DAYS
Ia which 10 fix up his house. This favor was
When next heard from h hsd re
ported At tie institution. He had cheated
he sheriff out Of his mileage.