Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-09
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building Il double two-story brick this
summer.
Sioux Falls will pave ten blocks this
summer, the council having awarded the
contracts.
The school census has developed the
fact that there are 607 children of school
age In Aberdeen.
South Dakota's contribution to the Rus
sian relief fund was $50 cars of corn, be-
sides 1925 in money.
Rapid City will prospect for coal md is
certain to find it according TO n Goa
miners judgment.
Mitchell citizens tried sending sugar
beets TO the factory at Norfolk, Neb, but
they do not think it paid.
Scotland goes dry after July l, accord
ing TO arrangement between the mayor
and the s~aloonkccpers
Buffalo wolves and mountain ions are
said to be killing considerable stock on
the Cheyenne river, this summer.
The artesian well at Columbia which is
plugged up with clay to a depth of several
hundred feet is being drilled out
Johu Stcnson was shot and killed by
'NlNOh "a t'hIiN wy "N"iSA's -
the ~latter's wife was the cause.
The bank of Eden will be consolidated
with the Sioux Valley bank as soon as the
necessary details can be arranged.
The government snag boat Josephine,
which has been at work in the vicinity of
Pierro, - undergoing repairs.
a stone quarry has been opened up al
Calico canyon near Buffalo Gap, and it is
said to be one of the finest quarrics in the
Hills.
The best Judges predict 10000 bushels
of grain will be marketed in Aberdeen
this season, if present favorable condi'
lions continue.
Plans and specifications for n bridge
over the Missouri river at Chamberlain
have been filed at the war department at
Washington.
The oatmeal mill at Sioux Falls con
sumcs over 1909 bushels of oats per day.
A Harrison and Reid league has been
organized at Rapid City.
Salmer a. VERSIONS hardware store at
Vcrmil ion was burglarized Wednesday
night The thieves got n lot of cutlery
and rcvolvcrs--about 500 worth.
John Huss, of Madison, has IL tobacco
plantation of several ncres, near that
city, which is already in bloom and prom
Uses an excellent crop this season.
The county commissioners of Hyde
county rave decided to rebuild the court
housc ut once, on the site of the cid one,
which was destroyed by fire last week.
The court house at Highmore was set on
fire aud completely consumed on Thursday
morning. All the county records were
saved. Loss, $1,000; insurance, $1,000.
The warehouse of +. NJ Coates, at
Yankton, was entirely consumed by fire.
The building contained considerable coal
oil and gasoline and the loss will be S!,OO).
The Cement City hose team, of Yankton,
carried off the honors at the state fire.
mems tournament held at Watertown, and
were given IN ovation when they returned.
Miss Bessie Mullcnger, of Springfield,
won the Yankton college scholarship, do
mated to the pupil o. the Springfield
schools having the highest average stand.
ing.
The Consolidated chlorination plant at
Deadwood has been completed and active
operations began last Tuesday morning
The works are of 100 tons daily capacity
and the mill will be running in full force
by the lst of July.
About twenty summer cottages are tC
be erected on the ~Chautauqua grounds
rear Madison this summer. Work has
begun on several of them, and all of then
will be ready for occupancy when the
C~hautauqua meets in July.
Ward, the mronaut, made n balloon as
cension and parachute jump ut Scotland
on Wednesday. When $500 feet in the
air be discharged his dynamite. In
twcnty minutes clouds began to gather
bat rain failed to come.
At the business meeting of the Lake
Madison Veterans association, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: DR.. Parker,
of Dell Rapids, commander; f S. Buzlell,
Of Valley Springs, vice-commander; w.
II. Louclts, Of Trent, quartermaster.
a big steamboat is to be put on Big
stone lake and navigation will be re.
newell after it had been abandoned for
mady years. The wet season has filed
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condition for all navigating purposes.
Mrs. Jacob Drey, of Lincoln county, was
seriously injured Wednesday noon at Wal
Lake by a bolt of lightning. Mrs. d ey
and hor husband took refuge under n can
vas which stretched from one wagon 10
another A bolt struck the canvas, tear
1 to rags.
J. NJ Clock, of Springfield, speared a
fish recently nat weighed nineteen and
ore-half pounds and measured four feet
six and one-half inches in length, with a
bill fourteen inches long. 1t caused con.
siderable dispute as to the particular fam
lily TO which it belongs.
Worlmen are still busy Investigating
the extent of the coal vein recently dis
covered about one mile east of Hawnrden.
The drillcrs are at work. night and day
gancI, drilling prospecting holes. The
citizens feel con' dem that q paying ledge
OF coal will ultimately be struck.
Two boys and two girls of the Lindsay
family, attending school in Butler town
ship, Sanborn county, assaulted their
teacher, Miss Allen, with eggs, n club and
n knife, because she attempted to punish
one of them. She escaped to n neighbor-
ing residence and the rebellious pupils
have been expelled.
The ain makers have had a rather
rough time in setting their dates for MAX
ing their trial rain at Doland. No sooner
do they set n date than.it- up and rains
without any regard for these men.
Bob Caldbeck, of Parker, Is erecting a
pavilion II feet long by ~ wide, it'll 10.
foot center and 7.foot side posts, with a
stage 3I by 81 feet. The cover will be
made of eight-ounce duck, which will re-
uire 100 yards, weighing $50 poun ds. The
pavilion will be well built, and will be n
permanent fixture for political meetings
meetings and entertainments requiring
plenty of room
The $4,000 worth of 5 per cent twenty
year refuuding bonds of the Yankton city
independent school system were sold to
n. w. Harris a. Co of Chicago, Ill, for
$500 or S!3 'es thrn par.
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