Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-26
Northwestern ITEMS.
IOWA

Castana offers a good opening for a lawyer
and a ~jeweler.
The journeymen painters at LeMsrs are
! about to form a union.
Forty.two railroad men have been laid OIL
at Belle PLANE within a week.
The Baptist society at Grinnell has decided
10 erect a new church building.
The new reformed church at Boyden will be
dedicated next Wednesday.
The News thinks that Spencer is losing Its
reputation as a temperance town.
viii Mccarthy, a IL year old Ottumwa
boy, has been sent to the reform school.
There are four couples In Stuart who have
recently celebrated their golden weddings.
Rabbit hunting engages the attention OF
Keokuk sportsmen.
Work has been commenced on the opera
house at Humboldt.
Dubuque young men are endcavoring TO es-
ablish a gymnasium.
Fifty foreign born pupils are enrolled In
the Iowa Falls school.
The bonded and floating Indebtedness Of
Des Moines Is $S43,06S.
Y III - AoObhR 49, - N>~N-
In Montgomery county.
The Morrell packing house at Ottumwa
killed 1900 hogs last week.
No business faiiures have been recorded In
Manila during the past year.
The new high school building at Clinton 10
apidiy approaching completion.
Revival meetings In the NJ. +. church mo
nopolize pubic interest at Tama.
A griddlecake social is the latest fad with
church societies at Webster City.
The Nonpareil says there are just three
cases of varioloid In Council Bluffs.
The Muscatine academy Of science is inyes-
tigatiDg the subject OF open winters.
TIL Democrats in Burlington are about to
form a permanent Democratic club.
An unusually large amount Of hay Is being
shipped from Clarion to Illinois points.
Eagle Grove has the requisite number Of
inhabitants and is anxious to become a city.
The bicycle club of Humboldt is consider
Ing the advisability of building a club room.
1t Is estimated that a pontoon bridge across
the river at Clinton will cost 10000 or $50,
600.
The Gazette alleges that the sidewalks In
Onawa are for the most part abcminable sf-
fairs.
The Salvation army has bought ground aud
Is going to build quite an editiee in Osba-
locska.
The musical people Of Upton have formed
themselves into an association for mutual
benefit.
The Gazette declares that 1t is impossible
10 secure a first class tenement house in
Corning.
Des Moines enthusiasts are holding meet
ing for the purpose Of keeping up interest in
base ball.
Verify Keokuk is the abiding place Of the
good and the virtuous. A member Of a the
atrical company was about hunting ApoInaris
water the other evening arc he couldn't find
1t In the city.
The Fort Madison papears claim that tho
demanding OF high rents and asking boom
prices for real estate is having a tendency tC
keep people away from that city instead o.
attracting them.
The Commercial Knot company OK De
Noines has incorporated. Its object Is e
publish a paper and Go a general printing
publishing, engraving and lithographing bus
mess at Des Moines.
One of the curiosities in the lama higl
school museum Is an insect or reptile which
the 1ama Herald describes as being a eros
between the grassEopper and the horned toad
A boy caught it while fishing last week.
The business men OF Muscatine are consid
ering the feasibility Of organizing a stool
company for the manufacture of several move
implements upon which patents are pending
The movement Is being agitated by eastern
parties.
Charles s. Bird, living on Muscatlne island
has secured $50 offered as a prize for The bes
cucumber growa from seed raised by a Phila
delphia firm. The winning vegetable was L
inches long, weighed 6 pounds and was g.
inches IN circumference.
The people OF Clinton were somewhat sur
prised last Monday to find every saloon in tn
city closed. On investigation II was learne,
that it was a compact Of the keepers alone
who offer to sign a contract TO remain CLOSED
If the mayor viii not prosecute them for pas
violations.
Newton has had two business failures dur
ing the past week. On Wednesday John Rea
proprietor Of a large dry goods house, mad
an assignment. His liabilities are s. 5000; tn
assets VIII amount to 5000. On Thursda,
Henry Warren, grocer, made an assignment
Liabilities, $l,400; assets, $500.
Bill Hunter, claimirg to be enc OF To,
flames brothers gang" after being driver
from Vail for running a saloon there, al
tempted to start another at Arcadia. In at
tempting to arrest him Friday Sheriff Voiced
was Obliged TO shoot him, killing him in.
stantly. The sheriff was arrested and is 10
be placed on trial.
The board Of supervisors Of Pottawattamia
county Is wrestling with the small poy bills
which the county is asked 10 pay. These
bills amount TO about $1,000 and in most oi
them The fees demanded by attending physl
clans are regarded as exorhltant. The super
VII ors 90 not feel inclined TO pay the bills I'm
less they are thoroughly satisfied thar III,
county ls liable for them.
The mysterious disappearance Of G. "
Walgcmuth, postmaster at Commerce, ha