Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-20
SATURDAY, MARCH 90, 1897.


Location Certificates for sale at this
ofice.
The Custer Dancing Club announce
another enjoyable hop at the opera
house on Tuesday evening, the 23rd
inst.
The managers have put off Easter to
the latest POSSIBLE day for the current
wear. II is billed for the 25th day Of
April,
The Graves (colored) Minstrel troupe,
Of Rapid City, played before a small
an ience at the opera house in this city
on :lturday night.
Lead has been made the distributing
Office for the Preston postofice which
supplies mail to Ragged Top, Balmoral
and surrounding country.
Pending the revocation Of the timber
reserve order of President Cleveland.
the IIomestake Mining company will
use Sheridan and Newcastle coal for
fuel.
Daniel Allen and Allen O. Underhill,
a brace Of worthy old vets of the late
war, residing at Hot Springs, have re-
Gently been granted a pension by the
government.
The Christian Endeavor Society expect
Prof. Warren, President Of TIE Iankton
College to give one Of his able lectures
in this city about April End. He is a
most able lecturer.
The third quarterly meeting for the
Custer charge will he held Sunday,
March 81. Elder Clough will be present
and preach Sunday morning and even
ing. Sacrament of the Lords Supper
will be administered Immediately after
the morning sermon. All are invited.
The Rapid City Journal is informed
Of the probable change liz the deanship
of the State School of Mines. 1t is in
timated that dean McGillycuddy is to be
removed for political reasons, and that
DR.. d. w. Flick. who is an aspirant for
the position, will probably be his sue.
cessor.
The house cleaning season is rapidly
approaching. and so far as the Klee-
mann House is concerned. it has already
advented, forty rooms Of that comfort
able and eommodious c~aravansary hav-
ing already received such attention,
preparatory to the long delayed, but
now confidently anticipated early min
ing boom.
Col. Carlton has issued an order pro-
hibiting the appearance of U. S. soldiers
in the Salvation army while encased in
Uncle Sans blue clothes, He said that
one army was enough for one man to
belong to. Not long ago-a few days
the sal~yationists were the guests of
honor at a dinner in b troop quarters at
the post. This is also q thing Of the
past.-Sturgis Record.
The Preston townsite company deny
the report that the three towns of the
Ragged Top camp are to be consolidat-
ed. The company express the h CHEST
degree of satisfaction with present con
ditions, having the post office, assurance
of railroad facilities etc, but all The same.
to the man in the tree top, it looks very
foolish to maintain three town organi-
cations upon the same quarter section.
The prospects are that the Burlington
railroad company, which seems de-
termined to cover the entire Black Hills
with branch lines. will extend a feeder
to Galena from Englewood, a distance
Of about fifteen miles. Galena gives
evidence of becoming, eren the presen:
year, a rival of the very best camps in
this country, and the Burlington pro
poses to be on the ground first, accord
ing to the policy of this company since
entering the Hills.-Dsadwood Journal
The promoters ofthe proposed smeltel
at Belle Fourche spent a day in the city
last week, investigating more fully the
water supply and other resources need
full to the success Of the enterprise
They express themselves as fully salts
fed with our own as q location for the
mill. and went so far as to state thai
something different will be known in
short time. 1t IL more than probable
that when the move is made, both
stamp mill and smelter will be erected,
Belle Fourchs Times.
A petition, which 10 said to be meet.
ing with general approval. is being cir.
.culstsd in Galena having for Its object
the change Of the name Of the town to
Union Hill. The change is desired by
the members Of the Union Hill Mining
company who are doing 70 much to
further the interests Of the town, and il
10 therefore entirely probable that the
citizens will accede to their wishes by
discsrding the old, and adopting the
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