Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-08
SATURDAY, JULY s, 1893.
Try Diamond S. Baking Powder.

afioat.
The Mccormick all Steel Harverters
and Binders and Mowers.
j. f. Stewart,
Buffalo Gap, s. d.
Fred Heidepriem is putting up a large
one story addition to his residence on
Eighth street.
Every kind of produce taken in ex-
change at the Reder commissary, near
the planning mill.
Walter Upper is holding down The
position of assistant postmaster at the
Custer Office.
Good table butter 90 cents per pound
at the b. & NJ. Meat Market.
The laying of the foundation for W.
F. Wells building was commenced this
week. o. Il. Ebey is doing the work.
Delicious biscuits are made with the
Diamond S. Baking Powder. Sold by
NJ. j, Bailey & Co.
The funeral Of Frank r. Davis, Of
whose death mention is made else
where, occurred yesterday morning at
Mays Landing, n. J.
Odo Reder carries a complete stock of
staple groceries, also hay and grain Of
every description. Call at the commits
sary.
NJ. II. Taylor, a former Custer boy,
and a son Of Mr.. and Mrs. J.. c. Taylor
of this place, is braking on the passen-
ger train which runs between Edgemont
and Deadwood.
Try the celebrated Diamond s. Baking
Powder. Satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded. NJ. j. Bailey & Co.
Judge Smith convened county court
on Wednesday of this week, but as the
cases on the calendar were not ready
for trial he adjourned court until next
Wednesday.
For purity, strength and healthfulness
the Diamond S Baking Powder is un-
rivalled. Sold by NJ. j. Bailey d Go.
The board of county commissioners
has been in session during the past
week. The greater part Of the time has
been devoted TO equalizing the years
assessment.
We keep constantly on hand an I'M
limited quantity of hay, corn, oats, bran
and shorts, in fact everything in the
line Of feed. Odo Reder.
The coay residence of Ct. w. Kimble
is being materially enlarged this week.
A brick addition l4xl4 Is IN progress of
erection under the supervision Of Con-
tractor Shope.
II. A. Piper has purchased the Christ
ensen stock of hardware at Hill
City, and will conduct the business in
the future. He has been in Custer this
week setting up the furnace in the base
ment of I. V. Garlock's store.
Chas. Baty, who resides on the out
skirts of this city, has one of the finest
looking crops Of barley to be seen any
where in the country. The grain was
standing two feet high the first of this
week. and was very thick and heavy.
The Custer county teachers institute
has been in session at Buffalo Gap dur
ing the past two weeks and will be CON
Guided to-day. The talented Prof Shan
conductor, and the attendance has been
very fair.
Four candidates for admission to the
NJ. L. church o fCuster were baptized last
Sabbath morning, three by immersion
and one by sprinkling. The ceremony
was performed on the banks Of French
Creek, where it flows through the old
Maynard ranch.
N. Hart, the gentleman from Alliance,
Nebr., who quite recently became inter
ested in Custer county mica, will make
this city his home for an indefinite
length of time. With his family he is
now occupying the residence vacated a
few weeks ago by Henry Richardson
and family.
The attention of the readers of the
CHRONICLE is called to certain changes,
made this week, in the ad of Odo Reder,
Clusters lumber merchant. Mr.. Reder
has recently extended his business, and
now in addition to his mammoth and
complete stock oflumber, he is handling
staple groceries, flour, hay, grain and
other produce.
The first cheese from the Custer fac
tory was put on the market this week.
A liberal sample was left at the CHRoN-
icLE office and we take pleasure in testi-
flying to its excellent quality. We un-
derstand hat a number of the Custer
merchants will handle as much of the
product Of the factory as they can find a
market for.
County Surveyor j. w. Mcintyre re-
turned on Wednesday from the eastern
part of the county, where he had been
engaged in making surveys for several
weeks. He informs US that the crops in
that section OF the county have suffered
very much from want Of rain, and that
even with the most favorable weather
during the season the harvest will be
light.
About four weeks ago Col. Richard
Lee, owner Of the General us. Grant"
lode, proprietor Of extensive peacock
coal deposits in southern Kansas, and
agentleman of considerable prominence
in the community. purchased a supply
Of soda crackers, a pound of cheese and
a couple of dozen eggs threw that long
suffering overcoat over his shoulder and
sauntered jauntily forth in the direction
OF the Hills. Since that time none OF
our score or SO Of iynx-eyed reporters
have heard of him. and 1t 10 feared that
the philosophical Colonel" has met
with some mishap. His dog returned
70 his old haunts in Rapid City about
zen days ago. but his owner yet fingers
amid the mountain fastnesses.-Ra2id
Republican.
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