Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-03-05

rived in Clark county, bought lands an
are preparing to farm
An Iowa farmer named Forney, 7Oyears
,f age, IL the latest addition to the divorce
colony at Sioux Falls.
Buffalo county farmers will hold n mas
meeting to discuss plans for establishing
! cooperative
A Rolla dispatch states that there is
hree feet of snow, and no trains have
been run there since February T.
Last Friday was worlds fair day in the
schools, and the occasion was observed by
he schools in most of the cities.
IL l. Guss, of Edgerly, is searching for
his brother John, who has been lost since
January 20. He is n boy of Is years.
The new Pierre band is composed chiefly
If members of the old Capital band, aud
& proposes to rank as the best in the state
The Champing Bros, who constitute n
eading Mitchell business firm, have just
.omc into $1,000 each 10y the death of
heir father.
At Valley Springs n midwintcr race
meet was held last week, and the weather
was such that the event was entirely sue
sessful.
A poultry show at Aberdeen, in which
most Of the fanciers of the southeastern
part of the state were represented, was IL
great success.
Woonsocket has become quite. q Mecca
for eastern capitalists, and exten i've in
Sestments are being made in real estate in
hat vicinity.
The Aberdeen city council cancelled its
contrac ct with the electric light company
because the lights were not up TO standard
,andle power.
The Deadwood and Rapid City papers
are quareling over the question of which
of the two cities will be the metropolis Of
the Black Hills.
A town is being laid out on Turkey
creek, twelve miles west from Centerville,
and a store and other buildings are al
ready being erected.
The splendid new Hotel Minuekahta at
Hot Springs is now rapidly rising from the
foundation and will be one of the finest in
the state, costing 100000,
The | o. o. F. will erect n brick block at
Woonsocket this summer, with stores on
the lower Hoor and n hall above large
enough to seat 600 to 1900 people.
William Fielder, of Huron, after a tour
through Kansas and Nebraska, says
many people in those states are contem-
plating removal to South Dakota.
The Day County Farmers alliance will
put ten acres into wheat, seed and labor
to be furnished free, and the proceeds will
be devoted TO the reform movement.
C.z.. ELL. f,oI. l,.4 haonpon nnol-
wood got the Blaine divorce case, and the
Jazette supposes that Mrs. Blaine went
lhere to get the deadwood on Jimmy.
The Madison council has passed the or
dinauce granting to the Sioux City, Madi-
son and Northern road right-of-way
through the city, depot privileges, etc.
Fauld county's commissioners are not
enthusiastic over the artificial rain
making fad, and the advocates of the
idea are inclined to consider them old
fogyish.
The stone quarries around Hot Springs
will be developed this year by the COM
oanies that own them, and it is expected
hat this will become n very important in
iustry.
Emma Peterson, a deaf and dumb
woman, has been at the Aberdeen hos
pital for some time, and has become vio-
lently insane. She will probably he taken
to the asylum at Yankton.
Yankton will have n first-class pontoon
bridge in the spring. The present bridge
will be brought down opposite the C ty,
new boats added, and about $1,000 ex-
pen ded in improvements.
Arrangements are making for n grand
musical carnival at the Chautaqua meet
ing at Madison this summer. The best
talent will be secured, and 81 900 will be
spent on the concerts.
A Hughes county man who has been
working up the matter says he has the
names of tw~enty-four families in Illinois
and western Indiana that will move to
hat county this spring to farm.
The Dakota Masonic Aid association
aas reelected its old officers. The associ-
alton now has $3.50 members and in 1850
paid 10000 In death claims. The death
ate was one to each 200 members.
The Woonsocket News says that the Mt
Tempt of the city counc to run water up
W iioih NV iAiii u y SAy |" 49, S'Ns
he water is flooding the country south of
The ditch and land owners are kicking.
Quite a number of claims for damages are
aow before the council.
There is much discussion Of artificial
rain producing methods, aud one paper in
the dry section that while the people
seemed satisfied In taking their chance of
getting rain in the natural way, IL has
noted that they are getting lots more
chances than rain
N. l. Hauser, OF Aberdeen, secretary OF
The first South Dakota state senate, was
recently shot in the eye while hunting In
Texas. He is now ON his way home
A Brown county officer who attempted to
eject a Russian family from the house
The mistress of the house armed with a
revolver and q shotgun, but he made the
eviction without bloodshcd.
Black Hills papers say that II recent re-
ports are true the Pacific Short Line will
be extended to that section. Sturgis
Slams that II guards the entrance to the
3nly practicable route into the northern
nills where the treasure lies rich and
deep.
Over $50, 600 acres of school land In vari-
Gus counties of South Dakota will be
offered for sale March ~. None of his
land can be sold for less than $40 M acre.
and the average price realized ut lust
years sale was over el4. In Yankton
county a part of the land offered IL semen,
tand aud Is appraised at $lv0 an acre.
Jacob r. Haber. of Madison, who has
been prominent In efforts to enforce the
prohibitory law. was arrested on n bench
warrant, charged with contempt of court
failing to appear when ~subpGnaed &c
estify In cases which had been instituted
~ him He IL charged with taking money
TO absent himself from the tiial, and the
court will make an investigation.