Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-08-31
DAKOTA.


Gettysburg needs more school room.
WATERFOWL has granted a gas company a
franchise.
Hlghmore's ladies' band is the attraction
Of the town.
Aberdeen is making great preparations for
the coming fair.
Rev. Sam Small will lecture at Bookings
tomorrow night.
Deadwood's city j~anitor and attorney each
receive $50 per month.
The Redfeld band wants to play for the
Sioux City Corn Palace.
Aberdeen turfmen speed their steppers on
the main streets Of town.
W. r. Barnwell assumed control OF the
Armour Tribune last Friday.
The Sioux Falls deaf mute school opens for
business again September II.
The fire limits Of WAtertown have been ex-
tended a block in each direction.
The Rapid City base ball management is
negotiating for a Chicago battery.
A crazy man has been frightening the peo-
pie north Of Grafton the past week.
The Minnehaha county democratic conven-
ton meets in Sioux Falls the 2Sth inst.
The first can Of corn was canned at the
Sioux Falls canning factory last Saturday.
Citizens of Clark are jubilant over the
prospect Of securing the Methodist college.
Cows are permitted to battle in the new
reservoir at the Drake spring in Sioux Fslls.
With last weeks Issue Milbank's pioneer
paper, the Review, entered upon Its tenth
year.
John White, OF Bear Gulch, near Lead City,
is In jail because he sold liquor without a H.
cense.
Three Of the demi monde Of Deadwood
have been indicted for selling beer without a
license.
w. L. Miner, OF Hitchcock, is in trouble
because he sold intoxicating liquors without
a license.
Huron land agents advertise the advantages
of South Dakota by issuing $4,000 pamphlets
at a time.
A number OF Canton young ladies have
organized a society which has physical cul-
ture for its object.
. The Hector prohibition tent, with three
singers, is in Highmore. Meetings will be
held every day this week.
City warrants sold In Deadwood last Fri
day at 90N cents. Formerly prices ranged
between so and IS cents.
The contract has been let for the construc-
ton Of the new Methodist church ediice at
Gettysburg. 1t will cost $4,000.
The tailor shop Of A. c. Alexander, at Lead
City, was entered by thieves last Friday night
and $500 worth of clothing stolen.
Alight vote Was polled on the question OF
bonding Cakes for an artesian well, and was
nearly unanimous In favor Of the bonds.
The Capital Investment company is calling
upon stockholders for their first, second and
third choice for the location of the capital.
The Journal claims that Rapid City,
thoroughfares are In better condition than
those of any other town in the Black Hills.
Charlie Crawford was relieved of SIS and
two diamond rings by an inmate of a house
Of ''gilt frame'' at Sioux Falls Thursday
night.
The finishing touches are being made to
Lead City's new school building. The
grounds are also being ornamented and
sodded.
The Sioux Falls capital fund was increased
$500 Wednesday. The subscription was a
voluntary contribution from one firm-a gas
company.
The Logan county republican convention
was held Wednesday at Steele and VIM. p.
Belden was chosen delegate to the Fargo state
convention.
The editor of the Kimball Graphic says II
kota editor is In no immediate danger of
eternal damnation.
At the county convention held Wednesday
at Glendale delegates were chosen and were
instructed for Kelly for superintendent of
public instruction and the prohibition plank.
The teachers institute, under the direction
Of the territorial board Of education, con
vened at DeSmet Tuesday. j. X. Davis, city
superintendent of schools at Sioux Falls, has
charge.
Frank Allison is In the Lead City hospita
nursing q leg that is broken in two places. A
horse objected to Franks demonstrations of
affection and kicked him against a tree, frac-
turing the limb as stated.
At Minor Wednesday morning the North
Dakota constitution was burned In efigy and
a telegram ~denouncing the location of the
public institution was sent to the Sergeant
county delegation at Bismarck.
Sioux Fall is after the capital Of South Da-
kota. Few cities In the country possess the
pluck Of Sioux Falls. Away back In 1859
she commenced to hustle for the territorial
capital--Peoria Journal, Is.
There is a young man in Yankton whose
equal is hard to find. He is a barber, and
duriag his spare time IL engaged enthusiastic
ally studying Greek, German, French and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS journal.
G. ID. Decker, who was last year secretary
Of the Sioux Falls Young Mems Christian
association, and who has lately been doing
missionary church work at Palisades, has Sc
cured the p~rincipalship Of the schools at
Brainard, MINI.
A girl about % years old came to Huron
from st. Paul q few days since and entered q
house Of III fame. She attempted suicide
last Friday night by taking concentrated I've.
She Will recover. She calls herself Nellie,
but will not give her other name.
The Black Ellis Fair association hes de-
cided upon September IS, 10, 20 and 81 as the
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