Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-14

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Harrisburg's water supply will be fur
nished by springs.
The York foundry made 1900 pounds Of
castings in one day
The Polk county fair will be held at Osce-
ola September 3 to @.
TIL Alma opera house has been con-
verted into a skating rink.
An old settlers reunion will be held in
Beaver City September 12.
Grand Island has seven schools and col
ieges and fourteen churches.
Water gas is successfully used In extern
sive lime burning at Weeping Water.
Experts will examine the Dodge county
clerks books running back ten years.
Grand Islands police force is Kidding the
city of dives and suspicious characters.
Large quantities of grapes are being
Kan.
Dundy county will be represented at the
state fair with a collection of farm pro-
ducts.
The York Philharmonic society has been
organized, and its object is to study good
music.
VIM. Dame, of West Union, lost a thumb
and finger while cleaning a shot gun the
other day.
delivers the address at the st. Joseph fair
September 80.
Lots have been purchased by the Platts
mouth Turnverein society and a new hall
will be erected.
The name of Neel township has been
changed to Hiawatha, the change to be
made October /.
About 1900 is paid out weekly at Nelson
for new grain, and the farmers are not yet
through thrashing.
Last Wednesday James Van Sickle, Of
Kearney, went out and shot seventy-six I'm.
ripe prairie chickens.
]. A. Roberts, of Edgar, weighed a bee
hive and found an increase Of seven and q
half pounds in twelve hours.
James Banter, of Fairfield, is after Un-
Gle Sam with a claim for goods destroyed
by Indians at Spring ranch in 1854.
The interior of the Fremont Jail will re-
ceive a lining of three-eights inch steel to
make it comfortable for burglars.
G. NJ. Holmes, living west Of Beatrice,
challenges the state on fax raising. He
raised 522 bushels from thirty acres.
Warren Whitney, of Plum Creek, drop
ped dead in Albion Saturday afternoon.
He had been troubled with rheumatism.
Among the premiums offered by the Gage
county fair is one of SIS for the largest
family of children under 81 years of age. 4
More ejectment suits were commenced
in the district court Thursday against
squatters on the river bottoms at Omaha.
A survey for a complete system of drain
age of the Platte valley in Dodge county
has Leen ordered by the county commits.
sioners.
Examiners Of Auburn were Instrumental
in raising quite a sum of money in aid Of
starving coal miners in the vicinity of VAL
ley Springs, Ills.
Mrs. Murphy proprietor of a shirt de-
s~troying repository at Alliance, uncere-
moniously left town recently, leaving her
children behind.
A town lot will be given to any one who
will put up either a store building or a
residence in Allerton and occupy the same
within sixty days.
Arrangements are being made by the
Congregationalists of Wahoo TO celebrate
the eighteenth anniversary of the organiza-
ton of their church, September IA and Is.
The Scots Bluff Irrigating company,
capital stock 100000, with principal place
of business at Gering, has been organized.
Within ninety days work will be COM
menced on one of the largest bitches In the
state.
The following pledge is being circulated
in different parts of the state: "We, the
undersigned, pledge ourselves to vote for
and work for the prohibitory amendment
to the constitution of the state of Nebraska
In 1880"
While T. G. D~umbke, a farmer living
near Fairfield, was cutting seed corn
his little 3-year-old SON came into the field,
and, getting in front of the mower, had
both feet severed. Death resulted in
short time.
j. w. Wiley, of Alma, who is II years old.
and his son, aged is, with the help of a boy
of 10 years, raised 100 acres of small grair
and thrashed 1900 bushels of the crop,
raised fifteen acres of millet and cultivated
ninety acres of corn.
This is the way they do it at Pawnee:
z. n. Carter received notice that IL he
would retire to a lonely spot in the north
port of town at midnight on a certain
evening he would receive his watch, which
was recently stolen, upon payment of $40.
He did SO, but went without the necessary
funds. He was sent back for the money
and now has a watch to show for 1t. The
watch was valued at $50.
While S. NJ. Hart, living in the eastern
part of Saunders county, was engaged In
unhitching a team of horses in his barn
yard a few evenings ago he was shot in the
side, the bullet striking a rib and glancing
around to the front Of the body. The shoot
ing remained a mystery until the next day
when his son confessed that he was the
guilty party. He claimed to have been In
the grove a few rods from his father and to
have been loading a revolver to shoot Q
troublesome dog in the neighborhood when
1t was accidentally discharged.