Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-22

SATURDAY. APRIL %, 1898.

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Sheriff A. NJ. Willard and wife visited
Hot Springs and Buffalo Gap the first Of
this week.
May 1st one week from next Mon
day, is the day fixed for the annual
town election.
Miss Cora Weir is visiting in the
northern Hills, the guest of Deadwood
and Lead City friends.
S.N. Fitch was in the northern Hills
or s5-4s sfness-tfe c arst of this week. He
returned home Wednesday evening.
Mrs. A. II. Smith returned Thursday
morning from ST. Louis, Mo, where she
had made an extended visit with rela-
tives.
Merton Taylor, assistant agent at the
r. & NJ. depot, has organized class in
telegraphy, and is giving lessons to q
number of prospective mahipulators of
the key.
The familiar face and figure Of genial
Daye Butcher have been noticed on the
streets ofCuster this week. Mr.. Butcher
has been home on visit to his wife
and children.
We are informed that \. s. Tuhls
is preparing to open cheese factory in
this city. When operations will be
commenced and what its capacity will
be, we have not learned.
DIR Gordon and wife, of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, came into Custer on the
Wednesday morning B. & NJ. train.
They passed the day in the scenic city.
the guests of DR.. and Mrs Fisher.
The Hermosa Pilot is authority for
the statement that in the future an
auxiliary will be issued from the Office
of the Buffalo Gap Republican, and that
twill be known as the Fairburn Record.
Services at the NJ. f. church. Sun
day school 10 a. M, preaching II a IN.
Subject. Roll Away the stone" Even
ing service $50. Subject, THE Glory of
Young Manhood" Everybody vel
come.
The Ladies Aid Society of the NJ. f.
church will give social at the parson-
age next Wednes day evening, April
26th. An excellent supper and an even
ings amusement, all for twenty-five
cents.
- G n n. 4peboe. sheriff of Johnston coun.
", Wyoming, was in Custer last Satur-
day. He very quietly transacted some
important business with Sheriff Willard,
and departed for Buffalo on the evening
train.
II. D. Peynolds went over to Rapid
City, Wednesday, to conduct the auction
sale of the stock belong to the Rapid
Valley Horse Co. Three or four hun.
dred head of horses were put under the
hammer.
Messrs. Carrigan, Rogers, Wood and
Kubler, the four gentlemen who were
in Deadwood last week, learning more
of the mysteries of Masonry, returned
home, each one by himself, on Satur
day, Sunday and Monday.
The United States circuit court hat
granted the Homestake Company new
trial in the damage case bro ght agains
it by VIM. Fullerton. Several months
ago the first trial occurred and Fullerton
was awarded $4,000 damages.
w. G. Porter informs us that he ha.
secured a new trial in the case Of the
Union Mercantile Co. VS.. w. S. Wood
as sheriff of Custer county. The mo
ton was argued before Judge Gardner
last week and the application granted.
Attorneys w. G. Porter and b. r
Wood went down to Hot Springs las
Saturday evening TO meet j r. and S
L. Wilson, and if possible effect com,
promise in the pending suit brought by
w. A. Smith against two fire insurance
companies Mr. Smiths attorneys
would not accept the amount offered as
a settlement by the companies and the
case will have to be settled in court.