Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-09-28

SATURDAY, OCTOBER ~, 1895.

TX PresldlnE Elder EARNS mas peeH
assigned to the pastorate OF the First
Methodist church Of Grand Island, Ne
b.aska.
special attention is called to n change
in the ad of Messrs Fitch & Willis in
tits issue, which will be of interest to
local readers.
Rev. Boswell has been absent several
days during the week in attendance at a
session of the circumference conven-
ton TT Hot Springs.
DR.. II. F. Rate il wearing a broad
and well defined smile, which has its
origin in the fact that, his wife has ad
visad him Of the very pleasing fact that
she would leave Chicago yesterday and
j in him in this place to- morrow.
The county commissioners met
in regular session on Monday for the
transaction Of business, continuing in
session until Monday evening. a con-
siderable amount Of routine business re-
suited which will appear in detail in our
issue ofnext week,
The ladies of the Baptist church an
nounce a Chicken Pie Supper on Mon
day evening Oct. l4th, at the Ward
building, one door east of Stones barber
shop. Come and enjoy a fine supper,
and a good social treat for a nomial con-
sideration.
Work is being continued on the new
CHRONICLE office, and the progress which
has been necessarily slow, has neverthe-
less been sure, ard if no preventing
circumstances, now unseen, shall inter
vene. our new home will be occupied
sometime before the close of the present
month,
On Sunday, Oct. 18th, Rev. F. T.
Drewett will preach at the Baptist
church. Subject in the morning at II
O'Clock, "Builders.' In the evening at
7:30, "The Cities of Refuge" Sunday
school at 10 a. IN. Young Peoples
meeting at 1870 p. M.
Miss Eta Drew, Custer County's pop
ular superintendent of schools, left the
city Monday morning in her OWE private
conveyance for an official visit at the
various schools of the county, a duty
which will require three weeks or more
OF her time TO perform.
]. l.. Scofeld, who will be remember
ed as a former resident of this city, and
who left last year for Spearfsh creek to
engage in the saw mill business. has
recently sold out his interests, says the
Bald Mountain News, and will shortly
remove to Terry, where he will locate
permanently.
Mrs. S~hankland, the pioneer milliner,
has received all Of the latest novelties
in fail and winter millinery. She has
lust received her second order Of a new,
novel and attractive hit in ladies sailors,
the popular craze Of the season. They
are Just too cute for anything. Call and
see them before they vanish.
Mahara's Minstrels made us think Of
the good old days of Christy's Minstrels,
when high class singing was one of the
principal features. There is nothing
like the genuine darkey song and darkey
fun, and the entertainment was full Of
them.-Reporter, Fond du Lac, Wis.
Go and see them at the opera house
next Tuesday night.
Gen. William Malone, who was re-
Gently stricken with paralysis, from the
effects of which ne had been in a state
Of Inconsistencies since last Sunday
morning, died at Washington on
Tuesday at l o'clock p. IN. aged nearly
60 years. His remains were taken to
his old home in Petersburg, Va. for in
terment.
The Bee speaks very enconragingly of
the prospects for the erection Of new
business buildings to take the place Of
those destroyed by the recent fire at
Belle Fourche. 1t says the resident
victims of the fire are not the quitting
kind, but a determined people who have
made up their minds to fight it out on
the same old line.
The CHRONICLE is informed that the
population of Custer will be increased
to a considerable extent in a abort time
by IN influx of families from the sur.
rounding country, who will take up
their residence in the city in order to
avail themse yes Of the excellent school
advantages here offered, than which
there are none better in any town Of it's
population in the west
The Lawrence County Bar Ass ocia
ton has recently been organized in
Deadwood with the following officers:
President, Daniel Mclaughlin; first vice
president. G. G. Bennett second vice
president, j. P. Wilson ; secretary, John
R. Wilson; treasurer, w. &. Rice. The
association starts out with a member
ship of n.
The ladies Of the o. L. s. gave a social
entertainment at Masonic hall on We'd
nesday evening in honor Of Mrs. s. r.
Elliott, a popular member of the order.
who viii soon depart, with her husband,
for a two months visit in the east and
south. Their first objective point viii
be Washington city, where they will
visit with friends for two weeks, going
from there to Baltimore, and later on to
Quincy, Illinois. and St Louis. Mo-. re-
turning to their home in this city about
the middle Of December. The enter
tainment was n Of the most enjoyable
social events that has eve transpired in
The city. and was thoroughly enjoyed
By all. and by none more than the 60
unable lady in whose honor 1t was
'pseially given,