Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-04-18


South Dakota values it's school lands at
10000, O0o from which permanent school
fund will be created.
The residence OF Sunday School Mission.
airy ID. =. Ward was burned at Sioux
Falls Saturday night.
Hay is scarce at 20 ton at WoonsocRet,
Farmers who sold all their hay In the fall
! are now compelled to buy
Rapid City, having voted bonds for the
! building of a railroad to Hill City, is now
crying: con to the Missouri"
"Go hire u balln is often remarked, but
what would you do in Bridgewater IL this
was thrown at yout asks the Times,
! Sanborn county lays claim to being the
banner prohibition county in South Ds-
kota. 1t has not hal saloon for four
/ years.
Drs. Halford, Of Huron, and Robinson,
of Pierre, have been appointed by Cover
nor Melette as mem bers OF the state board
Of health.
! a Rapid City man pronounces the incan
descent light fraud. He tried for five
minutes to light cigar at one of the pesky
things.
Grand Forks Odd Fellows will celebrate
the seventy second anniversary OF the or
| ganization of the order a pril ~ in beiit-
/ ting manner.
/ The Mlnnehahta Herald, of Hot Springs
has entered upon its second year and by
way of greeting issued u special pictorial
edition illustrating the main features of
the springs.
The school law, from present Indications
Is daady, says the Pierre Journal. There
seems to be no provision for anything ex.
cept printing 100 copies of the supposed
enactment
The seed wheat bonds of Dickey county
were sold at a handsome premium, an
the county commissioners expect to be able
to take care of all their needy without out
side assistance.
John Mcbride, living fifteen miles north
west OF Egan, was thrown from his horse
while herding cattle and received injuries
which came near proving fatal.
J.. y. Temmey OF SuIy county, is selling
off all his live stock AMI farming machin
cry and will put the proceeds into sheep,
which lie thinks is the coming industry for
! South Dakota.
Soren Morenson, of Yankton county,
paid S53 per acre for half section of
school land the other day. Other tracts
sold as high as $40 per acre.
A postoffice has been established at
Booge, Minnehaha county, and j. II. Man.
ming has been appointed postmaster.
Alliance men in Sanborn county believe
an organized effort is making to break up
the society in that county.
Fire destroyed tho barn, fve head of
horses, granary, several hundred bushels
of grain aud all farming implements be
longing to NJ. Manning, near Montrose.
The fro started from lamp which was
carried into the stable.
| number # the patrons of the Wes-
sington Springs postoffice have petitoned
the proper authorities TO appoint Sarah |
Barrett postmistress at that place She is |
the widow of the deceased postmaster and |
has Leen deputy for three years.
Ladies of Columbia gave poverty party |
the other night for the benefit of the Con
gregational church organ fund. Every
person present was costumel rs they sup
posed they would be after two more years
of crop failures in South Dakota.
The Sioux Falls district of tie Methodist
conference has decided TO ho,d its annual
camp meeting ut East Sioux Falls from
June 10 to 22 Rev. DR. Bolton, of hicago,
will be present, as will also George ID.
Elderkin, the we'll known singer.
In spadins garden the other day,
,lLssn>a-IaslSAs. -. Ssraa~ssh s.sse sshsd ssy-
looked ut digging time last fall aud had |
been left where they grew. The earth
covering was only of the ordinary depth,
but no frost had reached the spuds.
The post Office department gives notice
to parties desiring tho prompt transporta-
tion OF their mail, that they must be care
full and write North Dakota or South
Dakota" on the wrapper. The word "Da-
kota' will not do, and the letters thus ad- |
dressed will so to the St. Paul off ce, where |
the deficiency will be supplied and delay |
Frank Sperry, of Bismarck, has in his |
possession the skeleton of IN Indian |
maiden. The head has retained the hair
which In life was bright red, but is now
faded. The skin seems to have dried 10 |
the skeleton, and the ears still hold their
decorations in the shape OF rings and other
tokens of affection, evidently bestowed on
the once fair maiden by some young brave.
of two or three days occasioned thereby.
The Pierre Journal says Capt. Milt
Yarnall, of that place, has in his posses.
sion q relic OF Libby prison, in the shape
Of piece Of the door jamb Of one of the
dark cells. He has also u nam moth Pic
ture of the Andersonville prison pen, three
feet by five feet in dimensions, which he
will present to Sully post on condition that
they procure q frame for it.
L L. Griswold, Of Canton, has made
success Of life in South Dakota. The
Press and Dakotan says: "Mr. Griswold
first visited Yankton twenty-three years
ago. passing through this city with yoke
of oxen, prairie schooner aud COW. He
went from here to Canton,
where lie located on farm.
He planted trees and from them made the
sills Of the house he lives in today. He
raised the horses which drew the heavy
slls from the place where lie hewed the m
with his own hands to the site Of the
houss.
August Felt Of Dead wood, advertised
In Swedish paper for wife and the
other day one arrived all the way from
Sweden In answer to the advertise M ent,
August having sent the money to pay her
way. When the young lady reached
Dead wood it was discovered that she was
only l6 years old and license could not
bs granted. The young mans friends
suggested the appointment OF a guardian.
which was done, and the couple were mar
ried In Deadwood Wednesday.
Sioux Falls Argus Leader: Rev Father
Engelbright, Of Luverne, who has re-
Gently arrived from Castle Garden, says
that at that place there are stuck UP, in
oil the different languages, flaming posters
running down South Dakota, advertising
her billiards and drouths, and warning
immigrants to keep away from such
stricken country. He says the posters are
doing the stat, great harm and greater
injustice. South Dakota ought to be able
to get some redress, or, at least to have
the libelous posters removed Castle Gar
den being under government control.
About New Coins.