Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-16
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The Congregationalists OF Hay Springs are
to build a parsonage.
1t is reported that the bank at Milford will
soon resume business.
High five parties are the correct thing now
In Tilden social circles.
McCook Is to have an electric light plant In
operation In ninety days.
Ponca's most urgent need just at present
is a system Of water works.
The new Catholic church at Belwood has
been christened st. Peters.
Stockham Is TO have a "a ZOO creamery. The
stock has all been subscribed.
Red Cloud IL to have a telephone exchange,
starting In with ten subscribers.
There is a surplus OF several thousand dol
lars in the Dixon county treasury.
A mild form of the measles is prevalent
among the children Of North Platte.
Some OF Schuyler's business men contem.
plate q trip to Europe next summer.
The enrolment OF the city schools Of Kear-
ney for the month OF January is l,1S3.
The railroad forces at North Platte have
been reduced temporarily about twenty men.
A farmer living south Of Tecumseh has lost
his hogs by cholera for four years in success
| sion.
The Times urges immediate action for the
most e~nectual use Of Randolph's railroad
prospects.
The number of pupils enrolled at the city
schools in Kearney during the month Of
January was l,1s3.
In the contest for the county seat OF Rock
county Newport won the prize by q slight ma
iority over Bassett.
The indications at Fsirbury for a spring
boom are good. At least ten business build
ings will be erected.
l.. NJ. y. Vaughan Of Blair has just
patented an ingenious little device known az
a plant propagation.
Senator Pope and Representative McNinkle
for voting for submission.
The Lincoln Paper company has just com
pleted a new brick building for the storage
OF the product Of It's mill.
The city council and board Of trade Of
Plattsmouth are considering a proposition for
the erection of a $25, O0o hotel.
An average OF twenty cars OF Ice per day is
being shipped from Creighton to points along
the main line OF the Elkhorn road.
The city council and board OF trade OF
Plattsmouth are considering a proposition for
the erection of a SIC, 0e0 hotel.
The new marshal of Wayne, In accordance
with a new ordinance, raided the barb wire
fences in town and confiscated them.
A state band association has been organ.
tied at West Point, and arrangements have
been made to hold a carnival In June.
Wymore people expect that the Burlington
and Missouri Will make extensive improve
ments al that place in the next few months
The furniture dealers of Norfolk have
stocked up heavily with baby carriages
and 1t is said that they knew what they were
doing.
The coopersge shops Of the Consolidated
Tank Line company at Omaha were consumed
BY. FIRE Tuesday morning creating a loss o.
$40, 1850.
The third annual session Of the Knights O
Labor convened at Beatrice Tuesday. The
attendance was quite large, ell parts Of tn,
state being represented.
A new directory isto be published at Rear
ney ana TIE houses numbered in the hope o.
securing, from the showing made, a free De
livery system a. the postchice.
An expert has been engaged 70 investigate
the books Of the Polk county treasurer from
the date of the organization OF the county
Ii Is a three months job.
The Harr,son Herald has been sold 70 Davi:
& Slingerlsnd, who viii unite 1t with The
Sioux Comfy Republican and issue the
Herald as Republican newspaper.
The bC0rd Of education at Fremont has
been petitioned to ALLOW the people to vote on
the question of issuing bonds for the pur-
pose Of building a new high school.
The labor element at Plattsmouth has pc
titloned the city council to pass an ordinance
prohibiting the importation Of convict labor
for use on public buildings and improve
ments.
An official count on the vote on the loca-
ton Of the county seat Of Rock county gives
3 majority to Bassett. Newport was the sup
posed victor and the citizens OF that town
have been celebrating extensively.
John Leisure, a young unmarried farmer
living near Dwight, has been putting In his
leisure moments counting Miss Myrtle Hogue,
and now be is asked to become the father of
her unborn child. 1t would seem as though
his leisure time was we'll spent.
A Pierce merchant left a travelling insur-
| ance agent in possession Of his store for a
| short time the other day, and when be came
back s6 in change was missing from the
money drawer. No arrests were made, but
the merchant has his suspicious.
A travelling man who visited Prosser,
Adams county, says that a band Of fifty
prominent ladies OF that county made a cru
SADIE on n saloon and gambling house at that
| place Tuesday night and demolished the en-
| tire establishment. The ladies attacked the
building with aprons fun Of lump coal. break
ing every window glass and cleaning out
the establishment. The inmates scattered
In every direction, some of them being the
husbands Of the assailants. The place had
been selling liquor without a license.
john Delaney a farmer living In Elkhorn
township. five or six niles cast Of Tremont js