Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-10-21
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 81, 1898.

Il'NA SltNtSSihl N'dNl ltlNs iI's ttl'il
commenced a three months term of
school at Folsom, this county.
Our enterr rising boot and shoe mer-
chant, II. +. Lake, occupies one page OF
the Chronicle supplement with an at.
tractive advertisement, this week.
d. F. Shope and A. J. Mills have been
awarded a contract for the erection OF
a neat cottage for n Mr.. Savage. an en-
ploye of the b. q W., who resides at
Edgemont.
l. s. Rue and his assistants completed
the stone work Of the basement of the
Hanley building, Thursday afternoon.
Contractor Alfred Johnson will put up
the building.
c. W. Robbins, who has been out in
the Hills all summer looking after his
mining interests, and incidentally doing
a little placer mining, is once more
making Cu ter his headquarters.
The city tax list and an unusually
long record of the proceedings Of the
county commissioners make it necessary
for US to issue a supplement in onnec
ton with our regular edition, this week.
During the absence from town Of Au-
ditor Wood, T. /. Wheeler is perform.
ing the duties Of the Office, and Tom
wcThsin the official harness as natural
Ia. n q tInt,-l, lao Ial haan f1,.ra 1acNrn
An entire change in the ad. Of Jas.
Cochran, dealer in hardware and gro.
ceries, will be noticed this week. The
cash stem is becoming quite popular,
and Mr.. Cochran is the latest convert.
The express car which was a part of
Tuesday evenings south bound train,
was guarded by two or three heavily
armed men, AMI it was rightly c%onjec-
tured that the Homestake bullion was
aboard.
The young people Of the Congrega-
tional church Of Custer have organized
a literary society, and at present Rev.
Shingler is leading them in the study Of
English history. The society meets
every Wednesday evening.
Rev. Brown, superintendent of the
Congregational churches Of the Black
Hills, conducted divine services at the
Custer Congregational church last Sab
bath morning. He departed on the
south bound train the same evening.
Felix Poznansky returned to Custer
Wednesday morning, accompanied by
Fred I. Evans, Of Hot Springs. They
occupied the day with a trip to the Min
ME May gold property, and while there
is evidently a deal on, the public is
not yet on the inside Of it.
"ghe best in the world" This is What
W. D. Wooiring, of Boardly, KY, says
Of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He
spoke from personal experience in the
use Of it, himself and family having just
been cured of bad coughs and colds by
it. For sale by all druggists.
When troubled with pain in the
stomach, bilious collie or diarrhea give
Chamberlain's collie. cholera and diar-
rhGa remedy a trial and You will be
more than pleased with the result. It
is pleasant, safe and reliable. % and
so cent bottles for sale by all druggists.
Rev. Baker, formerly pastor of the
Central City and Terraville charges, but
now a student in the Black Hills Col
lege, occupied the Custer NJ. +. pulpit
last Sunday morning and evening.
Rev. Baker is a young man, only a tri-
fe over twenty-one, and he has made
remarkable progress in the ministerial
profession, for a nan of his years.
7. f. Blanchard. state tax commits.
%sioner, spent the first half of this week
in Custer, examining the tax records Of
the county. Mr. Blanchard did not find
any of the collected taxes due the state.
but he says that here, az in most of the
other counties of the state, the list Of de-
~linquents is larger than it should be,
and must be reduced.
Fo1r thousand pounds of the product
of the Custer cheese factory was shipped
80 the northern Hills this week, w. r.
Bond and ID. d. Tubbs each going over
land with a load. The merchants who
are handling the Custer cheese say that
it is equal if not superior to the article
offered by the wholesalers, and the
home factory is building up an extern
sive and lucrative business.
The dwelling house owned by Mrs.
w. Ward and occupied by Mrs. T.
SchafFer, caught FIRE from defective hue
last Saturday morning, and bnt for the
prompt action Of three or four citizens
residing in that neighborhood, the little
structure would have been destroyed in
a few moments. No general alarm was
sounded, as the FIRE was under control
in a very short time after it was d.scov.
cred.
As a popular secret order, the Knights
OF the Orient are taking the lead in Gus
ter just at present. This order has now
a membership of fifty or more, and il
the recent initiates speak the gospel
truth all the wonderful possibilities of
life on this mundane sphere cannot b.
realized until one becomes a full fledged
knight. To say the least the weekly
meetings have furnished bushels of fun
for those who attend them, and they say
there is more to follow.
NJ. j. ScaLlon, of Hcrmosa, who until
recently acted n administrators Of the
estate Of Emma J. McCloud. appeared
before Judge Smith last week and rem
dered an account Of the husiness trans
ected by him In the interests of the
heirs. Mr.. Scanlan's accounting was
satisfactory TO all concerned. and he
was released from further responsi-
tits probable that the isppoint-
Dent ofD w. Webster as temporary
administrator will be made permanent. !