Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-12-13
THE DAkOTAS,


berlsin's new $4,000 school building.
The Presbyterian ladies of Brookings
realized about 1926 from their recent fair.
The Sioux Falls district conference OF
tie NJ. +. church is in session at Madison.
Several of The people of Ipswich have
'rmed a society for the study of Amer
an history.
The Spearfsh fire department received
S57.6I as its proportion of the insurance
tax dividend.
Mike Hefron. OF Deadwood, has "A tree
in his dooryard that is all budded out and
ready to leaf.
council TO hav the parade of the Salvation
army abated.
The young ladies of the Montrose Bap
list church realized S35 from their Thanks
giving concert.
Ipswich Gazette: What the Dakotans
want is drilling machinery and they will
find the water.
The Milwaukee railroad company runs
a weekly refrigerator car from Minueap.
oils 10 Aberdeen.
Marion proposes to sink a test well, 500
feet deep, to see what the prospects are
for an artesian flow.
Rev. J, V. Willis, of P~lankinton, has &C,
copied the pastorship of the Congrega-
tional church at Custer City.
1t is said at Sioux Falls that a chap from
Sioux City is ~peddling liquor by the drink
"a sort of curbstone bartender.
There Rave been about 100 cases of diph-
theria in and about the town of Garretson,
but the epidemic is now subsiding.
Custer claims that more buildings will
be erected during the coming year than
have been built there during the past FIVE
years.
A pound social was given Rev. Mr.,
Hager and wife, of Madison, Thursday
evening. II was q complete surprise to the
recipients.
Sioux FAILS at last has its great 5000
0OJ gallon pump, at the new water works
plant, in operation, and pure water is
finally assured.
Martin Gunderson, of Lincoln county,
convicted OF highway robbery and son
tencei to ten years, was landed in the pen.
itentiary Friday.
Some scamp recently entered S. Z, Viii
sons stable at Hot Springs and cut the
name off and shaved one side of his valua.
bic baggy horse.
Governor Mellette has decided TO refer
all matters relating to contributions for
the destitute to +. II. HRgerty, OF Aber-
deem, commissioners OF immigration.
Mr.. and Mrs, Byron Ripley have retired
from the superintendency of the Samsr-
itan hospital at Aberdeen, and Mrs. Old,
of Mcpherson county, is now in charge.
q. Scofeld, republican senator from
Custer county, says that no no.ice of con-
test has yet been served on him, and that
the time for serving such notice is now
past.
A state dAirymen's association will be
formed at DeSmet on the 18th inst. The
State Horticultural society holds its an
nual session at the same place December
10 to II.
John Clodfelter is under arrest at Mitch
ell for receiving a bride. In the Brokaw
contest case he swore he received money
on election day by which his vote was in
Huenced.
The Congregational church has been
asked to sit as a council at IroQuois De-
cemDer Is, TO advise as to the expediency
of ordaining to the ministry c. NJ. Daley
and Mrs ]. Drake.
The Whitewood Sentinel has suspended
publication. A n%eighboring contemporary
attributes the cause of suspension to insult
icient support from the town and the pros
poets Of a hard winter.
Felix Posnanski has commenced suit
against the Black Hills and Fort Pierre
>Railroad company for $2S, 000 damages, for
injuries sustained during n collision of two
trains on defendants road on September9.
A. NJ. Seebold, Of Hot Springs, was get
ting out some wood when a tree that was
being dragged out turned quickly, one of
the limbs hitting his right arm just below
the elbow with such force as to break both
bones.
Governor Miller ras appointed Samuel
Dean, of Mayville, as "a member of the
board of directors of :ha zta!e normA.
school, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation OF Judge Cochane, of Grand
Forks.
The Methodi Isl church at Custer is under
going marked improvement. A new annex
is being constructed, and the ceiling. which
was not as high as desired, is being raised,
all of which will greatly add to the APP.
pearance, comfort and convenience of the
building.
Montrose has organized an immigration
bureau of it's own. 1t is the intention to
send "a man into the eastern states to use
such inducements as may be offered to set
tiers, and bring in a colony here this win
ter and early spring.
John p. Bedding, administrator of the
estate of Merritt J. Bedding, deceased,
has commenced an action in the circuit
court against the Black Hills and Fort
Pierre Railroad company, to recover $780,
90 damages for having caused the death
Of Merritt j.. Bedding, of Lead City, by
negligence while running its trains from
Lead City to Piedmont, on the 18th of last
September.
Mitchell Republican: Last winter J. X.
Smith sold John Titus a farm of l60 acres
in Badger township, with 100 acres
broken, for $3.50. He assumed a mortgage
of $500 against the land and gave his note
to Mr.. Smith for 1850. He sowed the 100
acres TO wheat and raised a good crop,
Out of the proceeds he paid off the mort
gage a few days ago at the Security bank,
and paid Mr.. Smith the $3.50. That was
buying a farm and paying for it out Of one
crop.
There was a game cock fight In Yankton
Friday night. A red bird was pitted
against . silver gray fowl, and the red
bird had the best Of IL all the way through.
After fifteen minutes Of fighting, how.
ever, the silver gray fowl, by . lucky
stroke, thrust one of the steel gaffs on his
feet clear through the red birds head, and
the red bird could fight no more.
Little Harry Smith, the adopted son Of
DR.. Smith, of Bridgewater, is a candidate
for the reform school. He has been steal
ing small sums of money, and recently OBJ
tanned possession of the doctors pistol and
attempted to shoot him.
A collision occurred between q buggy
and dray wagon in Sioux Falls Wednesday
evening which came very nearly causing
serious injury to the occupants Of the
buggy, a lady and three children. As it
waa the LADY was fhrawn out m The Daya.