Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-01-09
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1897.

The limit of the holiday recess nav
ing been reached, the Custer public
schoals were r~e-opened on Monday.
A Bible Institute will be held in Gus
ter next week, commencing on Wednes'
day, with Rev. c. II. Frady in charge.
Rev. T. Thirloway is "sui generis."
You may hear him at the Congregational
church next Sunday, both morning and
evening.
AT the united observance Of Week Of
Prayer, by the churches this week, the
attendance is good and the services are
increasingly interesting.
Saturday, January 23rd, is the day
decided upon for the annual meeting of
the Black Hills Pioneers at Deadwood.
A banquet at the Bullock hotel will be
q pleasing supplemental feature in
which the pioneers and their families
will participate.
At a recent session of the Black Hills
Consistory No. 3, Scottish Rite Masons,
held at Deadwood, w. G. Porter. ofthis
city, was elected Venerable Master for
the year 1897.
The application Of George Bliss, who
was sent to the nenitentiary from Law
renee county about two years ago for
forgery, has been favorably considered
by the board of pardons.
The CmRoNIcLE is pleased to acknow-
ledge the receipt of the Nebraska State
Journal Almanac and Encyclopedia for
1897, a valuable work, which, for refer
ence is extremely handy to have in the
sanctum.
X. w. Windsor, the newly installed
register of deeds, removed his family
from Pringle to this place the latter part
Of last week. He is now occupying the
Broadhead residence near the east end
of Crook street.
Alden Trimble departed on Mo nday
for Balmoral, the new town at Ragged
Top, taking with him his saloon furni-
ture, and will open up in that place in
the same business as soon as arrange
ments can be completed.
Prof. Corrin Barnes, Of Golden,
Colorado, who has accepted the position
of professor of assaying at the state
School of Mines, arrived in Rapid City
early in the week and assumed his
duties, succeeding Prof. Farman, who
recently resigned.
THE CHRONICLE notes a marked i'm
proyement in our local contemporary
under the new management. 1t now
approaches nearer the line of consistent
journalism, and its style is in pleasing
contrast with the wild, %erratic, "rip.em-
~up-the-back" manner so persistently OBJ
served in the past.
w. V. Starkweather has rented the
east half of A. Wilcox feed store where
he will conduct his grocery business in
the future. Mr.. Wilcox will continue
his business in the building as before,
having removed the bulk of his stock 10
O ware room near by.
To be interested in the Bible, is the
only qualification needed to join the
Bible Institute to be held next week,
beginning on Wednesday and ,oadrcted
by Rev. Z. II. Frody aud assistants. All
day sessions and n full program. The
evenings will be given to revival meet
ings at which Rev. Frody will preach.
William Bender, of Hermosa, the in
sane patient, held here awaiting word
from Yankton. departed early in the
week for the asylum at that place in
charge of one of the asylum attendants,
His case is not u of q hopeless char
scter. and it is belieyed that his malady
will yield readily to the proper treat
meut.
Miss Rose Elliott is the name of the
young lady recently chosen as professor
of modern languages and English in the
Black Hills College. Miss Elliott is a
graduate of the Nebraska Wesleyan
University and comes highly recon-
mended for thorough competency by
the professors of that popular institu-
ton.
The last Issue Of the Keystone Nugget
(the New Years edition) is devoted eS-
clusively to a write up of the business
men of Keystone, and the business
enterprises they represent. 1t is elab-
crate and complete and conveys a most
comprehensive idea Of the commercial
importance of that progressive mining
colorado.
Rev. j. II. Pond. resident pastor of
the Episcopal church at Hot Springs.
was among the arrivals in the city OH
Wednesday. Rev. Pond has sub-charge
at Buffalo Gap, Hill City and this place,
where services are held periodically.
He held services in this place on We'd
nesday evening at the residence of d.
". McFadden.