Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
NEWS OF The NORTHWEST.
IOWA.

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umes.
Tama still has several cases Of scarlet
fever.
A Catholic church will be built at Kingsley
this year.
Twenty new buildings are going up at
Estherville.
The town COW browses In the school house
yard at Fonda.
Thu Newell "C'' suppers are the latest 1ad.
The name Of every dish served begins with
the letter G.
A dog show .busted' at Battle Creek last
week, and the CANNES we're distributed among
the citizens.
The Constitution Democrat says 200 wagon
leads OF beer were brought into Keokuk last
month.
A little boy at Benson had his shoulder
blown of last week by the accidental dis
charge Of a gun.
ALake City man caught an eel In the
Coon last week that measured two feet eight
inches in length.
A sanboin capitalist will engage In the
banking business at Lake View as soon al he
| can erect a building.
An Aurelia man was a passenger on the
| steamer anmark. He says her ma hinery
was In bad condition.
The women Of Tama are bound TO make
the cemetery attractive and are holding fairs
to raise money for IT'S improvement.
The Clarion Democrat deplores the fact
that a youth In that tow drew S2eO In a
Lottery and says 1t will cost the place $500.
You bet.
S D. Henry, editor of the Coon Rapids
Enterprise. was assaulted and beaten by
roughs because he advocated prohibition
enforcement.
-Four Mapleton men will rough 1t on the
upper Missouri for the next three months.
They expect to float down The river In a boat
for 600 miles.
There has been great improvement among
the Mississippi river boats this year AS noted
| by our exchanges. Travel and traffic are on
tn increase too.
An Ida Grove man was go delighted over
the birth of his first baby that he sold out his
merchantile business in order to devote his
entire time to the KID.
SO many ''suppers," 'socials" and teas are
given by various societies In some Iowa
towns that the resident who attends them all
is forgotten by his family.
Fourth. class postmasters appointed in1owa:
j. q. Thayer, Avery; c. w. Reading, Blakes-
burg John Fox, Dallas Center; CT. Ackley,
Marble Rock; Peter Thomas, springdale.
VIM. V. Herancourt, an Oklahoma boomer
from Dubuque, died suddenly at Guthrie on
Saturday from heart disease. He had been
away from Dubuque but about a week. His
age was 30 years.
The body Of a man was found in the Mis-
eissippi river at Clinton on Monday In an adj
vanced state of decomposition. In q pocket
was a memorandum book In which was the
name Of John McGowen.
j. NJ. Rusk, secretary OF agriculture, has
beer invited to attend the low statef this
fall. He says 1t is too early to make an en-
gagement. but that he will keep the matter In
mind and hopes to accept.
The Clinton mile have logs enough athand
to keep them running for a few weeks yet.
But unless there is q rise In the northern
waters the mills will be pretty generally out
Of business by the 1st of June.
Last week, says the McGTegor News, a son
was born to Jacob Henry, John Henry, and
also one to their father. The senior Is proud
est OF all, having become father and twice
grandfather at one stroke Ct good fortune.
Burlington vas so utterly broken up over
the change Of the Chicago, Burling.
ton and Quincy division from
that place to Ottumwa and Galesburg and
the removal of $50 employees, that 1t couldn't
get up a celebration OF the centennial.
At Onawa last week a man was tried foI
hog stealing and acquitted. Then two men
were tried for helping the first man to steal
the hogs and convicted That Is, the first
man didn't steal hogs, but the other two
helped him to steal them, says the Sentinel.
The first natural death In Guthrie, Okla
homa, was not only that OF q newspaper cor
respondent, but of an low man. The vic
tim was w. V. Herancourt, special artist fol-
Harper's Weekly. He dropped dead 10
front of his tent, of heart disease. He was
80 years Of age and his home was at Du-
buaue.
The pharmacy commission has been shak-
ing up law transgressors. The certificate OF
X. G. Morse, OF Des Moines, has been re-
voked, he having beer convicted OK Illegal
sales Of intoxicating liquors. j. W. Holli-
day, of Page, has been fined 800 for running
a drug store without a certificate, which he
| paid. And l.. NJ. Bosworth, of Ames, has
| been fned $25 for allowing his clerk, not a
| registered pharmacist, to sell poison. This
sale resulted la the poisoning Of Editor Dun
can and his wife q few weeks ago.
Fred Carpenter, Of Des Moines, is showing
his friends q very interesting mements Of
revolutionary times. 1t Is n piece OF calico
on which Is printed the head Of Washington,
still dimly outlined, s%urmounted by a colonial
flag consisting Of the stripes and thirteen
stars, and the words, "Washington and In
dependence" Below the portrait is the date
~ July, 1778." The calico is OF strong tex
ture and printed with large red, white and
blue flowers. Mr.. Carpenter says that 1t has
been In his family ever since the revolution.
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