Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-12
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The Ice skating rink at Norfolk is not q
bowling success.
Omaha is rapidly catching up with Chicago
as a divorce center.
The improvements made during the year a,
Columbus amount TO 1926, 900.
One OF the most urgent wants OF Niobrara
just now is correct standard time.
The building OF the Wesleyan university a,
Lincoln In now entirely completed.
Only two marriage licenses have beer
granted In Lincoln since Christmas.
The Sherman County Banking company
made an assignment last Wednesday morn.
ing.
Ainsworth yearhs for a system of water
works and is taking steps to procure one.
Lawyer Wright Of Scotia, received his com
mission as postmaster last Saturday night.
la a few weeks two famed revivalists will
swoop down on Omaha and begin operations.
The number Of building permits issued
n Omaha during the year 1855 was l,ss7.
Miss Rebecca May has been admitted at
Beaver City to practice in the district courts.
An opening is offered at the Nebraska City
stock yarks for wide awake commission men
Elijah +. Calkins, an aged and respected
citizen OF Fremont, died last Sunday morn
ing.
D%!phtheria, which was thought to have
been subdued In Plattsmouth, has broken on,
again.
Tho total pyp,har ~ ,niao ~ ra;lroaI b,,f1t
In Nebraska during the past year was
437 80.
Mrs. George Brownell Of Sutton, aged 81
years, died OF heart disease last Sunday
morning.
The gentlemen of Wayne invited the
sonic hall.
The entire Park addition to Norfolk was
sold last Wednesday morning to a syndicate
for $50. 600.
The Chronicle wants TO know what has be
come of the real estate agents who used to
infest Madison.
The Journal declares that next to the water
nuisance the postotfice nuisance Is the great
est In Lincoln.
The proprietors Of the Novelty planning
mill at Fremont expect to begin work on their
new building this week.
The twenty-third annual meeting Of the
Nebraska state board Of agriculture viii be
held at Lincoln January 5.
The Call says the Lincoln water supply Is
an absolute remedy for poison taken into the
stomach. II acts rs an pmetio
Patrick Maginnis, Appointment young black
smith of Kimball, and Maggie Marshall, aged
81 years, eloped last Friday evening.
The Call says there is a move on foot al
ready at Lincoln to get up a large three
ringed banquet for the Legislators.
j. G. Pollock, late proprietor OF the Davis
house in Beatrice, has leased the new $4,000
hotel recently erected II Columbus.
1t is reported that large quantities of tim
Der are being removed from school lands in
Blaine county In defiance of the law.
VIII Powers, aged IA years. stole a gold
watch and 81 in cash from the residence of
Mrs. Hubbard In Norfolk last Sunday.
On Christmas eve the incandescent plant
with over 800 lights was pat in operation at
Holdrege. The whole town celebrated.
The Republican remarks that one of the
philanthropic citizens OF Omaha treated the
newsboys and bootblacks to a Christmas din
ner.
f. l.. Gernhart, the II year old son of re-
spectacle parents at Nebraska City, has been
bound over to the district court on a charge
Of burglary.
During vacation work is in progress at the
University OF Nebraska at Lincoln on altera-
terations authorized at the recent meeting Of
the regents.
The citizens Of Pawnee City are jubilant
over the news that the Chicago, Kansas and
Western Railroad company is about to build
a round house there.
The Republican remarks that the ancient
custom OF exchanging calls on New Years
day and seeing double before nightiall has
passed into oblivion In Omaha.
Sheriff Barton OF WILDER is organizing ex-
cursions to the penitentiary. On Monday he
took six criminals to that popular resort SEN
fenced for six years and under.
The News calls attention to the fact that al
though Norfolk has $50 more pupils In her
public schools than Columbus, Columbus en-
ploys one more teacher than Norfolk.
Rev. W. j. Harsha of Omaha, preached a
sermon to reporters last Sunday. He has
made the discovery that three-fourths OF the
reporters in Omaha are clergymen's sons.
AT an election held last Saturday on the
question Of issuing sl4 OCO bonds to pay the
outstanding Indebtedness OF Cherry county,
the bonds were declared carried by a major
ity OF IL.
N. Barnes, ex-county treasurer of Merrick
county and recently convicted OF embezzle-
ment, decamped from Central City Christmas
night, leaving a heavy judgment hanging
over him.
The Tribune claims that there are several
otherwise worthy men in Fremont who neg
lect to leave whisky alone for whole weeks at
a time and are n:sNing physical wrecks of
themselves.
The event Of the season at Brownsville was
the wedding Of A. r, Dawson, a banker OF
Denver, Col, and Miss Cora Gates, a well
known vocalist, which occurred at Browns
vile Tuesday evening.
A ten mile go as you please pedestrian con-
test will occur at Nebraska City next Thurs
day for $500 a side. The contestants are +.