Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-10-26
South Dakota Eotes,

Dwelling houses are In great denand
at Emery.
The new gas plant at Egan is near
ing completion.
A curfew ordinance has gone into eff
feet at Bcresford.
A shortage OF school teachers Is re-
ported In Sanborn county.
A new Methodist Episcopal church
has been dedicated at Onida.
The Catholic congregation of Hecla
parish expect to build a church next
spring.
w. h. Webb, a leading business man
OF Worthwhile. proposes starting a bank
at Webster and Is there looking the
ground over.
a telephone line Is being constructed
between Kimball and Platte, the ter
minus of the Charles Mix county extern
sion Of the Milwaukee railroad.
Charles Foreman and Anton Berg
hofer have purchased the general mer-
chandise stock of John KaCZmarek at
Elkton, and took possession this week.
The Lennox roller mill has resumed
operations after being shut down for
more than a month while new n i'm
proved machinery was being placed In
position.
O'Neil & Gilmer, formerly of Grace
Vile, Mimi, Is a new firm which has
opened a general hardware, furniture,
undertaking and plumbing business at
Sisseton.
Peter Wahl of Memo went out be-
fore breakfast the other day and sold
240 acres OF farm land to Iowa parties
FOR $35 per acre, clearing 1920 on the
transaction.
Andreas Wollman. q Hutchinson
county farmer, just completed thresh-
Ing 200 bushels Of wheat, and, In adj
dition to this. has nearly 5000 bushels
of old wheat In his granary.
j. S. Mueller has resigned his posi-
ton in the Hutchinson County bank at
and is said to have pur-
the interest OF Christian Remp-
fer In the machine business OF Remp-
fer d Doering at that place.
The proprietorS of a mill at Irene
offer. to put In an electric light plant
and operate in connection with their
mill If the citizens will agree to take a
number OF lights. The offer is
looked upon with favor and probably
will be accepted.
The new town of Artas on the Soc
has grown from are prairie In two
weeks to n place where most OF the
lines OF business are represented. TWO
elevators and a warehouse are takin
In grain and the business men are we
p%atronized by the farmers.
Some of the Sisseton Indians who
visit ~neighboring towns are making
themselves very obnoxious. They are
in the habit of taking farmers teams
are tied to hitching posts, without
and driving home with them
in order to save themselves a walk.
The Union hotel at Estelline, which
has been run by Mr.. and Mrs. T.. ID.
for many years, is soon to change
The property has been pur-
chased by w. S. Carpenter. who In
turn has leased ii to A. II. Nickerson
Of Tracy, Mimi, who will conduct 1t In
person.
Commandant Lucas OF the state SOL
5iers' home at Hot Springs a short time
applied for two steel rifle PARROT
They have arrived from the
at Rock Island. The two guns,
their carriages, weigh 1890
and have been placed in front
Of the home.
Mrs. l.. p. Hauser of Aberdeen was
one OF the two members of the
executive committee Of the national
Women's Foreign Missionary society
Of the NJ. T.. church for the Minneapo-
is branch, which embraces Minnesota
md the two Dakotas. She will attend
the meeting of the committee at Phil
adelphia on the 30th.
Two fires are reported at Sisseton
The building known as Indian
police headquarters was burned to the
The fire was started from a
stub which had been carelessly
thrown among some finder. Davis
Faribault, an Indian, also lost his barn
md a horse from the same cause, light
I'd cigar stubs having been thrown on
his hay,