Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-12-10
THE DAKOTAS.

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is about completed.
Alpena has prospects of "A fiour mill ant
an artesian well next spring.
The postotfcc at Rockford, Hanson
county, has been discontinued.
OF the eight editors in ~Brookings county
not one of them is "A bachelor.
Sioux Falls complains of n scarcity OF
girls for domestic homework.
Augustana colledgc. in Canton. is talk
ing of erecting a new building.
Captain Silas Il. Nugen. an old settler,
died at kimball at the age of II years.
Eureka has shipped ont S2i cars Of grain
since the wheat buying season com
nIonred.
The foundation is being laid for the new
passenger depot and freight house al
Mitchell.
The office Of the Kimball Kimballite has
been removed to a building opposite the
postoflice.
The ladies of Wilmot have begun a war
ON the Illicit sale Of liquor by the drug.
gists of the town.
Mitchell has outgrown her school ac'
eommodations and is obliged to hire a hall
FOR the overflow.
'CN' VI va biholas q
was elected president of the National
Devon Cattle club at a meeting of the club
In Chicago.
Dead"ood's city council has under con.
Sideration thea dvisability of lighting the
council chamber and fire department with
tncandescent lamps.
I Nermillion's waterworks are reported
TO be entirely inadequate in case of a fire.
This was demonstrated at the recent dis.
astrous conflagration.
The knights of Labor at Deadwood pc.
titioned the council 10 pay g.. 80 for street
labor and the city attorney was instructed
to draw up "A resolution TO that effect.
The Eureka Independent and the Nc.
Phcrson County Herald have been c~onsoli.
lated and publisher Ronayne, Of the lat.
ter, assumes management of both papers,
John Hudson, employed in IA livery
barn at lankton, accidentally shot him.
self while drawing a revolver from his
hip pocket, The lower extremity of the
spinal column was shattered.
The average country editor has given
the labored editorial on Thanksgiving
the go-by this year and as "a substitute
The Parker Democrat remarks: Give
thanks. but don make "a sideboard out OF
yourself and then have the family physi-
sian to attend you for a week afterward.
The ianSton Herald Is authority for the
statement that "A prominent business man
II that place. who has made every dollar
he possesses in Yankton. refused 70 sign
The Sioux Falls railroad guarantee be-
cause the town is SO wicked that he wants
20 take himself ont of Il before it meets
with the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.
DIR. w. A. Burleigh, state senator from
iankton county, was suddenly Frustrated
by a stroke of paralysis and il In a crit
zeal condition. II he RECEIVERS il is hardly
possible his physicians will permit him to
attend the session Of the legislature this
winter and a special election To name his
5uccessor is probably inevitable.
The Black Hills mineral congress will
be held In Deadwood sometime in Decem-
Der and will be attended by representa-
lives from all over the Hills country. A
thorough discussion Of the mining laws of
the state will be held and any needed
amendments to present laws will be
framed in a bill TO be presented TO the leg
stature AT its mex session.
South Dakota Is up 10 the standard in
ler newspapers and shows an Intellectual |
development that keeps even pace with
he material growth of the state. There
ire l2S towns in which newspapers are
,uolishco, rurry--rvcn OF trirni v-iny
county seats. There are 26l papers pub
ished, t~wenty-onc are daily, two semi
weekly, 22l weekly, n semi-monthly and
sixteen monthly.
Social life in Deadwood possesses n pi-
iuant charm. At a recent soirec a few
members of the opposite sex INDUCED in
IN animated tete-a-tetc, whercupon, to
Iuote the choice language OF the Dead
Sood Pioneer, the incautious manager in
;erfered and was "swatted on the snoot
~ one Of the ladies sailing under the
.therial name OF st. Claire"
A new and quite novel swindling scheme
las been exposed, says the Parkston Adj
lance. Two %sharpers travei together;
me has a fine bicycle, which he rides into
own and offers it for sale at q sacrifice
because of some alleged misfortune. His
,al, unnoticed, witnesses the sale and the
pext day secures an officer, identifies the
wheel and captures II. The pair are $40
3r $50 better of and retire for the next
victim.
Thu vote of Pennington county cast at
he recent election being less than 1900,
he law requires u reduction in the salary
If the county Judge. The salary for this
,ffice for the past three years has been
Fl 900 a year. Had sixteen more votes
been east in Pennington county the salary
would not have to be reduced, but as the
Jaw is mandatory, the next incumbent
will be compelled 10 work AT reduced
wages.
Rev. d. b. Scott, Of Sioux Falls, was the
.ecipient of a package, which gives that
gentleman great pleasure. Rev. Scott for
he last eight years has been chaplain Of
he Clinton post, having been during the
var chaplain Of Company II, Seventeenth
illinois cavalry. When Rev. Scott
preached his farewell sermon in Clinton,
october %, the post attended in a body
md at the conclusion of the sermon filed
lpon the stage and sadly said to their pas
.or and comrade "A goodbye. The token
sent by the comrades of this post is n G..
4. Il. gold medal bearing the insignia Of
the order and the inscription, Presented
by G. a. r. Post No. Ga. Department OF
Massachusetts, ID. b. Scott, October %,
1891
A lightning rod fiend worked a slick
scheme on the trustees of the Congregu.
ticnal church ~ Spear6sh. II appears he
gut up "A cheap conductor on the church
building, but on whose authority no ona
Knows. And now the trustees have to
face a judgment for $500 recently rendered
n the circuit court. This Judgment seems
to have been obtained In 10 somewhat In
'egular manner, as it cannot be ascer-
aimed that any notice was ever served
lpon the trustees or any other person
having any connection with the society.
An investigation is now being instituted
20 find out, II possible, by what means TIN,
said Judgment was obtained.
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