Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-24
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS
DIVA

IOWA.
Sheldon needs another school house.
Apples are a drug on the market la Monroe
county.
Thu first tennis club has been organized In
Ottumwa.
The old Julien house at Dubuque was
built in 1874.
The personal property OF Iowa is valued at
s14s, OOO. COS.
Thrsshing has commenced In earnest In
lama county.
A blue racer snake feet long was killed
in Muscatine Wednesday.
The Des Nome papers complain OF the
number Of false fire alarms.
A savings bank has been organized at D9-
rant with q capital Of $4,000.
The new Pilgrim Congregational church at
Des Moines is nearly completed.
The Mississippi editors found 1t difficult 10
purchase whisky In Storm Lake.
The hunters OF Keokuk complain that
woodcock are p~henominally scarce.
A seed company with a capital OF sl5,Vp
has been organized in Independence.
The Northwestern Iowa base ball league
Aa1
has disbanded, Sibley being In the lead.
The new hotel at Sheldon, now being com
pIeted. has been christened the Arlington.
Work has begun on a new German Mefho-
dist church at Hartley. 1t will cost $1,000.
A Dubuque policeman found a drunken
man fast asleep In a slop barrel Wednesday
night
A party OF seven business men has started
rom Ida Grove with a view Of locating In
Texas.
The nurses association Of Davenport is al
ready supplying trained nurses for towns at a
distance.
A large sand bar is forming In front OF
Muscatine and seriously interferes with river
navigation.
Ottumwa has set apart a square In which
farmers may hitch their horses when they
come to town.
The Tama Free Prees says there are too
many drunken men on the streets OF that
thriving town.
The city council of Davenport had a picnic
last Friday and were hauled to the woods In
the patrol wagon.
ut hCOhu Iilk NohhNi A"S
macademizing done on the streets over the
veto of the mayor.
The second reunion of the Tenth Iowa Vet
eran association will be held at Independence
September ID and IA.
Four young bicyclists arrived at Clinton
Wednesday from st. Paul, having covered the
400 miles In five days.
give natives of Samoa passed through o
the other day to fill an engagement with a
Chicago dime museum.
The members of the Thirty-ffth Iowa in
fantry viii hold their second annual reunion
at Muscatine October 2 and 3.
Alice l.. Clark, of Des Moines, is winning
literary fame by a series OF original stories
running In Harper's Weekly.
The sheriff Of Jones county arrested four
Mechanicsville sports last Friday for killing
prairie chickens out OF season.
Leo Lewis, an alleged author, OF Dubuque,
has sued his motber-in-law for the theft OF a
portrait of his deceased wife.
The annual reunion OF the lows state asso-
citation OF Mexican volunteers will be held at
Des Moines September 3 and 4.
The Benton County Times wants some of
the creeks near Vinton stocked with trout
from the United States hatcheries.
Oats average sixty to seventy bushels per
acre and weigh from thirty-eight to forty-two
pounds per bushel about Hubbard.
The Burlington papers complain of the logs
turned loose In the Mississippi seriously In
terfering with steamboat business.
In boring a new ~artesian well for the Mar
shalltown water works an .nnense pressure
was struck at a depth of a few feet.
The second annual fair OF the Carroll Driv-
ing Park and Fair association will be held at
Carroll September 16 to 10 inclusive.
The engine of a thrash!ng machine went
through a bridge at Fairfield Tuesday and
Henry Carroll was crushed to death.
T. NJ. Bowen, a Cedar Rapids contractor,
dropped dead Saturday morning while sit
ting In a chair trsnsacting business.
Numerously signed petitions were presented
to the Glidden city council opposing the
licensing Of billiard and pool tables.
Cedar Falls business men are almost unan-
imous In the opinion that an electric road be-
tween that place and Waterloo Is not wanted.
Secretary Shaffer, of the Iowa State Fair
association, announces that no pools will be
sold on the grounds of the association this
year.
The soldiers of Polk, Warren and adioin-
ing counties will hold a reunion at Warnick's
grove, near Avon Junction, August 81, %
and %.
The officers Of the First Iows regiment
want 1t generally understood that the pro
posed reunion at Dubuque has been aban-
doned.
Burlington is greatly stirred up over the
disappearance Of a young man who was to
have figured as a bridegroom last Friday
evening.
Theodore Stratton, single, aged 45 years,
hanged himself In Jackson township, Craw-
ford county, Wednesday. No cause assigned
for the act.
The residence Of William Richardson. at
Shelby, was struck By lightning Thursday
night. The house was completely shattered,
but no one hurt.
Citizens Of Independence have quit boast
ing Of the phenomenal trotter Axtell, and
are now toastipp of George Cobb. the great