Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-05
Northwestern ITEMS.
IOWA

Deer and wolf nursing is said 70 be good
In the ~victnity of Crescent.
Sarah Dickinson, colored, said to be iii
years old, died last Tuesday 1t Keokuk.
The First Nr.ional bank building at Ida
Grove will soon be ready for occupancy.
There are 22s entries In the Western Iowa
Poultry show now open In Atlantic.
The graduates OF the Council BLUES high
school will organize an alumni association.
The permanent Organization Of the Y. NJ.
G.. A. at Muscatine was affected last Tuesday
evening.
The people Of Fairfield are very anxious to
have a first-class boot ard shoe house locate
In that city.
The story has been Get afioat again that .
| Des Moines man has won a fabulous sum Of
money in a lottery.
A citizen Of Ida Grove refused to take a
cent because there was a hole punched In 1t.
It was a mutilated coin, you know.
Hon. G. T. Granger, supreme Judge elect,
on Thursday last sent In his resignation as
Judge Of the Thirteenth judicial district.
Centerville's a~rtesian well is down Loo
feet and neither gas nor water has yet been
found. Work will be abandoned.
The Pioneer asserts that the doctors OF Ida
Grove can discover more malignant diseases
than those OF any other "burg' In the state.
During the past month In Mahaska county
mortgages amounting to $lS,S06 were filed
and during the same time releases were filed
amounting to S26, SOC.
The dedication of the Odd Fellows new
hall at Webster City last Tuesday night was
one of the most interesting civic entertain
ments ever held In the city.
The Fort Madison Paper company Is en-
joyihg a saving of Sc per day by using the
water from Its new found artesian well, and
is able to make better paper than before.
The teachers Of the Ocheyedan schools will
prepare a course OF study and a set OF rules
for their pupils which they will ask the board
to adopt. The county superintendent assists
them.
Rapids was the reception In honor OF the
twenty-ffth anniversary OF Mr.. and Mrs. Col.
Chas. A. Clark, which occurred last Wednes-
day evening.
The low Refrigerator company is a new
organization that is now ready TO DO business
In Des Moines. The capital is $4,000 and II
expects TO make a refrigerator that will be u
great success.
Samuel Finney, a young married man liy.
Ing near B'akesburg, Wapello county, sui
cided last Friday by shootiI & himself through
the head with a revolver No cause is known
for the deed.
Sixteen applicants for positions in the Des
Moines postofice have just been examined
under the civil service rules. Twelve Of then
passed and are now ready TO fill vacancies
should any occur.
The Davenport Democrat. Gazette declare
that with all the product Of five great saw
mills in the city there is a dearth OF sawdust
1t cannot be had at any price-that is, tn
dust Of this years make.
Early yesterday morning at Fairfax JobI
Vodeake, a Bohemian shoemaker, threw him
self under a passing freight train and was In
stantly killed. He lived alone and has m
relatives in that part Of the country.
The grand total OF building and other I'm
provements in Dubuque for the season o
1883 amounts to 81 ,67s, 700, which the Herald
says is not an annual lie like that put forth
by other cities In the state.
Drake university at Des Moines closed tn
most successful term in the history Of the in
s~titution Friday noon. The enrolment ha
reached over 430 and the prospects for thu
next term are very flattering.
A number Of business men of Council
Bluffs held a business meeting last Saturda,
and organized themselves into an association
for the purpose of holding what they tern
business mems prayer meetings.
Charles Walborg, while digging a well or
his property in West Fort Dodge last Friday
struck an ~artesian well at a depth OF twelve
feet. 1t ia claimed that this is the first artes
Ian well ever discovered in Fort Dodge.
Hugh Hawkins, a bootlegger at Manson
the pen. The United States marshal will
prosecute him for violation Of the govern
nent law as soon as his sentence expires.
While John Utter Of Clinton was iblackine
a stove a few days ago a particle Of rus,
lodged in his right eye. The eye became in.
famed and 1t vas found necessary last Friday
to remove 1t Id order to save the sight OF his
left eye.
Senator LATE Young, Of the Atlantic Mes.
senger, Is In hard luck. Somebody made off
with his Thanksgiving turkey, ard now he is
vainly searching for the individual who re.
lieved him of four pounds OF butter one day
last week.
The Gem City observes that there are less
physicians in Fort Madison than In any town
of one third it's size and population along the
Mississippi. Its health is so good tina. no
inducements can be offered the profession to
locate there.
The hearing In the case Of the o. Is. Chaplin
Hose company Of Union, Marshall county,
against a citizens committee OF Clinton for a
| prize purse Of 500 which the Clinton com-
pany claims 10 have won In the sweepstakes
race at Clinton last June will come mp for
hearing at the January term of court at Gin
ton.
A Scranton young man bought a present
for his best girl and had the amount put on
the book, and finally he refused to pay for 1t,
so the storekeeper swore cut a writ Of re
plevin, sent the constable after the present