Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-16
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music has begun.
1t is now an assured fact that Window will
have a high school.
The Northwestern Millers' association is in
session at Mankato.
The Star thinks that Pipestone should have
an electric light plant.
A pork packIng-house is what Rochester
wants and 10 talking about.
An effort Is being made to organize a pom
toon bridge company at Winona.
A Touring mill 10 what the people Of Ellis.
worth are clamoring for just now.
About Atty Of the young men Of Austin
have organized a roller skating club.
The total enrolment Of pupils in the Du-
lL:h schools during the past month was 2, 4s5.
The city council Of Red Wing has passed an
ordinance requiring all dogs to be licensed.
The work OF excavating for the new $35, 900
opera house at Pipestone is progressing rap
idly.
1t Is expected that the electric light plant
at Austin will be In operation about Febru-
airy Is.
The Legislature will be asked to ratify a
number Of changes In the city charter OF
Mankato.
The trustees OF the Albert Lea Lutheran
high school hsve decided to erect q SIS, OC0
building.
A. B. Byers was badly injured In the head
by q collision with q runaway team at Hast
ings Saturday.
W. D.. Penholt, a photographer at Albert
Lea, was held up by thugs last Wednesday
night and robbed of $50.
Measles are epidemic in many Of the towns
OF WinonA county, and some of the district
schools have been closed.
At a peoples meeting at st. Cloud Friday
night 1t was unanim ously decided to annex
the village Of East st. Cloud.
Dennis Murphy and Bridget Murphy. an
aged couple who are the parents OF thirteen
children, were denied . divorce at Hastings
this week.
Rev. F. l.. Patterson has purchased the
Chstield Democrat, and is taking az invent
DRY Of the Office and making preparations 10
take possession.
Austin sympathizers with O'Brien and Par
nell met and organized a society which will
be permanent. A committee was appointed
to solicit aid for the Psrnell defense fund.
Plainview is in q turmoil as to who will be
= the next postmaster. There are five Sppli-
cants In the held now, one q lady, and indica-
tions are that there Will be five or six more
Aspfrants.
Harry Monon, a shoemaker OF Winona, who
has been In the habit OF besting his wife with
! hammers and shoe lasts, has given the last
exhibition OF bic smuggling procllvities, for
thirty days, At least. He has been sent to
lsil.
Arrangements are being made TO guild a
hospital at Shattuck the coming season.
9 Funds sufficient have been donated by a gen
tleman who does not at present care to have
his name mentioned. The building will, when
! completed, cost between s20,0 600 and Sc, 600,
I The w. G. T. L, Of Winona, assisted By the
fire department, is planning TO give en- enter
tainment az The opera house to assist In rats
ing funds for a memorial room Ia the national
temperance hospital at Chicago as a monu-
ment 10 the memory OF the late Mrs. Thoma,
: Simpson.
The Business MEMS club Of Pipestone held
4, a rousing meeting Friday evening aud se-
lected committees to take charge Of the Corn
4. Palace 10 be built in that city next fall. They
= also decided TO give Size In cash prizes for
/, the best samp es Of corn raised in the county
These are exclusive Of the premiums that will
be offered by the fair association. The com
mittee having the matter in charge will leasl
twenty-five acres Of ground near the city ana
plant IT to corn which will be used Ia build.
ing the palace.
) The experiments that are being carried on
at the state experimental farm with frozen
wheat are attracting the attention Of the
leading grain men Of the state. This is the
first time an attempt has been made to ascer-
tain whether frozen wheat is worth anything
for seed. The results Of the experiments
thus far have beer surprising. About
Thirty samples Of frozen or frosted wheat, Of
all grades, from about No. 3 down to the
poorest sort Of shriveled, shrunken, frozen
grain, have been employed for the tests. Fifty
seeds OF each were selected and planted and
are growing In the green houses. Each sam
pie is labeled and account is taken of the
proportion Of seeds In each glass that germi.
nate and grow. The visitors found this pro
portion large. Some of the seeds were about
the next thing to mere chat, and yet many
Of them have sprouted, and, as a rule, seem
to be having a healthy growth. The stalks
are now six or eight inches high, and some OF
them are stoollpg out. 1t rem aims to be seen
whether they have sufficient vitality to ma.
ture. The experiments up to the present
point have been very encouraging.
Waseca special, 9: John Driven, a well-te-
do farmer, coming from the vicinity of Sleepy
Eye, came to this city Friday last In search
of an unfaithful wife whom he learned was
living in this city with a man named Albert
Cruise. AS near rs can be learned, the facts
OF the case are as follows: For more thar
two years prior to last spring Cruise had been
In the employ Of Driven on his farm In Brown
county. Early In the spring Mrs. Driven left
home to visit relatives. Since that time until
lately Mr.. Driven had heard nothing from