Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-15

The commissioners session as a BOARD
of equalization continued through the
past week.
Every kind Of produce taken in eX-
change at the Reder commissary, near
the planning mill.
I. p. Mullen's saw mill near Mayo,
has been shut down and probably will
not be operated again this summer.
Good table butter 90 cents per pound
at the B. & NJ. Meat Market.
The first watermelons of the season
were on the Custer market this week.
They were great big lucious ones from
Missouri.
Delicious biscuits are made with the
Diamond S. Baking Powder. Sold by
NJ. J. Bailey & Co.
Mrs. Helen Dodds advertises to sell
all her household goods at public NC
ton this afternoon. II. D. Reynolds
will cry the sale.
Odo Reder carries a complete stock Of
staple groceries, also hay and grain of
every description. Call at the commits
sary.
The foundation for w. f. Wells two
story building was completed this week,
and the frame work is now in course
of construction.
Don't fail to hear the guitar, barjo
and mandoline at court house July l9.
Try the celebrated Diamond S. Baking
Powder. Satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded. NJ. j. Bailey & Co.
There are few idle men in Custer this
summer. Anyone who can drive a nail,
lay q brick or stone. mix mortar or carry
a hod can find work and plenty oft.
For purity, strength and healthfulness
the Diamond S Baking Powder is I'M
rivalled. Sold by NJ. J. Bailey & Co.
The cabinet of call and lock boxes for
the new post office building were receiv
ed this week. 1t will not be placed in
position until the Office is moved to its
permanent quarters.
We keep constantly on hand an I'M
u Iduiibibs W ray WILL, Odlo, wan
and shorts, in fact everything in the
line of feed. Odo Reder.
Recent heavy rains are reported from
the country surrounding Hermosa and
Buffalo GRIP. The small grain crops are
in poor shape, but the moisture has inn
proved the prospects for corn and pota-
toes.
A. Johnson has just completed some
very fine work on the front of ID. w.
Webster's place Of business. The front
has been painted and tastefully decorat-
ed and all traces Of the December fire
removed.
Klusmann & Wilkinson, of Oelrichs,
have located at Custer, and this week
opened a blacksmith and wagon shop in
the new building just north Of the
CHRONICLE Office. Notice their ad in
another column.
Everyone should hear the choice Sc
l~ectiens of vocal music at the Cougrega-
tional church concert.
Murray Hodge, of Point Of Rocks, is
being talked of by the residents of that
locality as a candidate for postmaster at
Rocks. While the Office is an unim-
portant one, it is probable that it will
have to change with the administra
ton.
The B. & NJ. is once more running
double headers" OH the daily north
bound freights. The traffic is especially
heavy just at this time as supplies for
the Spearfsh extension, and large
amounts of coal are in demand at the
northern terminus.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leaders, Chi
a & correspondent says that the things
in the South Dakota building which at
tract the most attention are the nina.
ture building made of mineral speci
mems and presented by the ladies O.
Custer, and the big book in which visit
ors register.
1t is noised about that Miss Lucy
burst, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ]
P. burst, and George Whittecar, a young
rancher residing a few miles west Of
Custer. will be united in marriage today
at the home Of the young lady's par.
ents.
Remember the Congregational church
concert under the direction of Mis-:
Rose Bower, at the court house, We'd
nesday evening, July 10th. Tickets on
sale q. T. Y. Garlock's. Gen. admission
IS cts; reserved seats 80 cts I; children
Is cts.
Miss Rose Bower, leader of the Bower
Family Band, has been visiting in Gus.
ter for a week or ten days, and on two
or three occasions has practicsd with
the Custer Cornet Band. The band
boys are unanimous in the expression
Of very exalted opinion Of the lady's
musical ability.
The U. s. geological survey party
which commenced working in the Hills
the first of this month, reached Custer
Thursday morning, and the outfit Ia now
camped near Sylvan lake. There are
Ave or six men in the party, and they
have three or four wagons, and about
fifteen head of horses.
A gentleman who knows all the ins
and outs Of the lumber business of the
Black Hills informs us that there are
no lees than seventeen sawmills in oper-
alton in the vicinity of Custer City.
The ~preprletors Of some Of these mills
havs rscently doubled their forces and
ars now runnfng day and night. The
only drawback isths ruinously low prices
q which rough lumber 10 sold. The
monsy put into local circulation IL hasd-
~ commensurate with the drain upon
the country's timber