Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-03-06
SATURDAY. MARCH 6, 1897.

Location Certificates for sale at this
onire.
Easter occurs this year on the 18th
day of April. Save mp your hen fruit
Civiliz ton is already sprouting at
Ragged Top. The people are laying
pans for the erection of a church.
Mr.. Cornwall, of the e Black Hills
= telephone system, reports over one
hundred instruments now employed.
The Sixth annual convention of the
Sari,, Dakota Dairy Association will be
held ut De Smet OH Tuesday, Wednes.
da, nj Thursday Of next week.
Tive Martins Valley Stock Company
are out with an elegantly engraved cal.
endcr for 1897. a copy Of which has been
received b. the CnRoHicLE. Thanks.
The receipts Of the Office of register of
deeds in Lawrence county forthe month
of February was nearly 81 500, an in
crease of about 500 oven the month
preceding.
The present monthly pay roll Of the
Union Hill Mining company at Galena,
ranges from $4,000 to 100000, winch
promises to be more than doubled be-
fore the close Of the current year.
There will be special meetings at the
Baptist church every evening next
week. The special service will begin
on Sunday evening when the pastor will
preach a special ermon Subject, "A
Narrow Escape" All are cordially in.
yited.
The many friends Of Mrs. Samuel
Coats Of Hill City, the widow Of II Of
the most popular and highly respected
old soldiers of the rebellion, will be
pleased TO learn that she has recently
been granted Il pension by the COY ern-
ment.
The Strauss Dancing Climb enjoyed a
delightful hop at the opera house ON
Wednesday evening. The members
have enjoyed these pleasing entertain
ments twice Il month during the winter,
from which a high degree Of social EN-.
tcrtainmcnt has been derived.
The entire population of the town of
Preston. in the Ragged Top camp, is
said to be supplied with water from a
single well, which seems to fully satisfy
all demands in this direction. The
toNn is evidently long Oh saloons, and
short on !aundries and bath houses.
Mike King, the well known southern
Hills prospeetor, who has been absent
in Arizona, Mexico and New Mexico
since last spring, has returned to the
Hills, which region he is convinced
offers more solid inducements to mining
men than either of the countries visited.
The weather during the week has been
mainly pleasant. While there has been
times when an overcoat might have
been desirable for bodily comfort, such
periods were brief and in%frequent, the
normal condition Of Custer weather be-
ing OH tap during the greater portion of
the week.
Mrs, f. l. Grantham received q tele.
gram on Thursday announcing the
death Of her brother, George Morris, at
S,andbury, Mo-, on Tuesday last. The
message was as unexpected us it was
sad, and brought deep sorrow upon the
recipient, to whom many friends ex-
tend siucerest sympathy.
Invitation cards have been received
by the friends Of Mr.. and Mrs. Odo
Reder, requesting their presence at
their CRYSTAL Wedding" on Friday
evening, March 18th, Mt their residence
on Seventh and Harvey streets. The
occasion promises to be one of excep-
tional interest and highly enjoyable to
all participants.
Mrs. Fred. Gillespie died at her home
in Hot Springs of p%eritonitas oh We'd
nesday morning last. The deceased
leaves n husband, numerous relatives,
and a large circle of friends, who Will
tteeDiy IDDNIn lCI Eau uS'hioS' ii'i
remains were sent to her old home at
WATERFOWL, New York, for interment.
Word was received week before last,
too late for announcement in the CHRoN.
IcLE, that President Hancher would
lecture in Custer The following Friday
evening Though the announcement
was not widely circulated, yet at $50
O'Clock the Methodist church was filled
TO OVERLOOKING with people anxious to
hear this renowned lecturer. DIR.
liancher is without n peer as a platform
speaker in the northwest, end is very
popular in Custer, hence the crowd.
His theme was the Real Boy" and is
pronounced by many to be his best
lecture. 1t was an earnest appeal for
higher education, and cannot fail to be
Of great benefit to those who heard it..
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