The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-04-05

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session at the city hall Monday night,
allowed few bills and made the
necessary arrangements for holding
the city election one week from next
Tuesday.
Strayed-Brown mare I years old,
branded 7 left shoulder, scar on nose,
small: white spot in forehead low car
rlage, rather crooked hind legs; $40
reward. This office.
Miss Pearl Chapman closed her
school in the Granb berg district last
Friday. A picnic dinner at the
school house, participated in by
parents and pupils, was feature of
the closing exercises.
Appropriate Easter services at
the M. r. church next Sunday morn
ing and evening, Special music has
been prepared for these services and
other features out of the ordinary
routine will render them of unusual
interest. A cordial invitation is
extended to all.
Hicks, of weather prophet fame,
says that this will be a year of great
precipitation-pl plenty of moisture all
over the northwest. Well, we hope
the old man has the thing sized up
correctly, for this part of the north
west can stand all the surplus rain
there is and then not suffer,
Ben 7. Gregory, who for several
yeafs past has been employed in the
grocery department Of the Bee Hive
has purchased a half interest in the
Dickover Diamond grocery and as
samed his duties in the new estab-
lishment last Saturday. Ben is a
rustler Of the right kind and the
handsome trade the Diamond is en-
joying tells the tale.
George Allen Of Piedmont, who
has been out on Grand river all
winter looking after their cattle,
arrived in Sturgis last Thursday.
He came in from the range ahead of
the big storm and don't know to
what extent it reached out there.
He thinks twas too short to have
done any damage to cattle and is
satisfied the good itaccom plished to
the land will more than counterbal-
ance any loss to cattle. -Sturgis
Press.
The Sanford Dodge company has
been engaged to put on the Three
Musketeers" at Library hall in this
city next Tuesday evening, the 9th.
This company is the best that ever
visited the Hills, carries it's own
special scenery and puts or the best
class of plays. It's appearance here
ought to be greeted by packed
house as the 'Three Musketeers' is
among the best plays being put on
by first-class companies. This will
be the dramatic event of the season.
Get tickets at McNamara's,
and get them early.
If anybody thinks that sturgis
hasn't some ingenious kids, they
want to call on Policeman Rouse and
examine the mechanical continuance
he captured from two of Sturgis'
young hopefuls. 1t is a 38 cal. gun,
manufactured from rubber bands,
/ cigar boxes, laths, barb wire, nails
and a four inch piece of gas pipe.
4 The policeman ran on to the two
young inventors while having target
practice on one of the vacant lots.
While the thing is more dangerous
than a buzz-saw and indescribable,.
il certainly shows considerable in
genuity in boys SO young-13 and
IA years old. -Strrgis Press.
i The smallpox situation in town
remains unchanged. To date there
has developed some ten or twelve
cases and these, with a dozen per-
sons or SO who have been exposed
to the disease, are quarantined in
the old Indian school two miles