Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-09
A FREER MOVEMENT,
business logged Up by the Certainty
of Crops.

business logged UP by the Certainty
Of Crops.
Sioux FALLS, Aug. 2.-The last few
days has beheld a slight improvement
in business In South Dakota. For some
months the condition Of trade has been
decidedly discouraging throughout this
state, and money has been q cash
article. Merchants and business men
generally have been patiently waiting
for the crop to reach a point where they
could estimate with some degree Of GER
tainty the prospects for q fall trade.
Eastern jobbing houses have found fault
with this conservatism; but it was this
careful business principle that makes
the record Of failures in South Dakota
very small for 1890. The harvest has
now reached a point where there is nc
guessing about IL. In some sections il
is all that al be asked, while in others
it is far from what it should he to make
q good local trade. In the vicinity OF
Aberdeen, Columbia, Britton, Cakes
and Roscoe it will be short as compared
with points south in the Jim river and
in the Sioux valley. In this section the
wheat is the best for years. Corn is
also well advanced.
The directors of tho soldiers home at
Hot Springs announce that the institu-
ton will be open for occupants Septem-
Der /. There has been considerable de-
lay in getting this building completed,
which is explained by the directors that
the contractor did not hustle as he
should. The board have adopted the
following rules for the admission into
the home:
/. All ex-union soldiers who have
honorable discharges, or other evidence
Of the same, who are sick, disabled,
destitute or unable 10 support them-
selves shall have preference.
2. All those that arc afflicted with
rheumatism or other diseases which
treatment at the home will benefit and
desire to be inmates temporarily shall
be next in preference.
3. All those who are financially ablo
to pay actual cost OF entertainment
shall do so. 1t is believed the amount
will TOT exceed So per week. This in
'ludes all expenses.
4. Ali persons making application for
admission shall exhibit an honorable
discharge. pension certificate from the
war department of honorable discharge
to a grand Army post or the county au-
ditor and chairman Of board of county
commissioners, and from either OF them
procure q statement Of the facts, which
shall be presented TO the commandment
OF the house, whereupon he shall DO
admitted.
5. All persons applying for admission
from North Dakota shall present a Ger.
tificate from the homo in that state.
The board is very liberal with the old
veterans. Soldiers who draw pensions
arc permitted to use the money thus
drawn as they please, except in cases OF
partial imbecility or inability to take
care of the m in such cases the
c~ommandant takes charge OF the Same
and pays it to the owner or legal heirs
as they may need it.
At present no members Of the in
mates family will be taken into the
home, except in extreme cases OF help
lessness.
This home is beautifully located,
where there are waters noted for their
curative qualities. The taxpayers of
the state have shown n commendable
patriotism in the way they are remem-
bering the veterans Of the late war.
A new turn or W has occurred in the
political field within a week. Mccoy
ran against SO many snags in trying 10
get Pickler out OF the way that he has
abandoned the fight and says he will go
into business and leave politics alone in
the future. In the southern district
Clifford, Gamble, Wakefield and Lucas
are making a great race for congress-.
1t is rumored that Clifford has the Job
well in hand. lie is slow Of motion,
but a shrewd politician. Gamble. how
ever, has a large and enthusiastic fol.
lowing,
The most active campaigning is wit
messed between those after the treas
urership. Bailey is thus far somewhat
in the lead. Besides being one of
South Dakota's most enterprising men,
he is a shrewd politician, and has a
faculty Of bringing things around his
way. The abortive attempt to kill him
off by bringing him before the inde-
pendent convention has only made him
friends. ID. w. Diggs, Of Milbank, is
next in the race, and he is doing some
lively hustling.
Advices from various parts OF the
state do not indicate any great en-
thusiasm on the part Of the indie
pendent movement. Thousands OF
farmers refuse to be fooled by these
great r%eformers, and it is safe to pre-
dict, unless there is a decided change
in sentiment, that the independents
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vember election.