Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-04-12
BUY CREAM FLOUR at 1arlock's
A.. c. Putnam has moved into town.

The farmers around Custer are get.
ting quite busy with their plows these
days.
See Henderson's carpet samples. They
are way up In quality and way down in
price.
The regular meeting of Custer City
lodge, No. GO, A. F. & A. NJ, occurs next
Wednesday. April 10th.
N. o. Billings closed his barber shop
Wednesday and departed for Montana.
His family will remain here until he gets
settled.
DR.. Daley, did not make his regular
visit to Custer this week as he had adj
vertised. This we understand was owing
10 sickness in his family.
The reason Walling & 20. are making
that special sale beginning Monday the
2lst is hat they are crowded for room
and stock must be reduced.
The board of county commissioners
finished their business Saturday and adj
journed. The county printing was
awarded to the Buffalo Gap Republican.
Myrtis Chandler Macdonald will give
a song recital al Hot Springs next week.
She will be assisted by Rilla Mae Willis,
accompanist and Heber Macdonald,
reader.
Rev. Father Hayes has resigned rs
pastor Of the Catholic church here and
Will remove TO Custer. Father Manning
succeeds Father Hayes here.-liot
Springs Star.
An interesting story, lots of beautiful
scenery, strong specialties and a com
pany of clever people, go to make up the
production of"The Missouri Girl" at the
opera house Saturday, May 3rd.
Suit has been brought against the city
Of Deadwood by Mrs. Otto p. Grantz for
S26, 500 damages for injuries received last
summer from a defective sidewalk. Mrs.
Grant, is the wife of the well known
mine owner OF Deadwood.
Douglas easier has disposed Of his 81
loon interest here to his partner, Phil
Goehring. We understand Mr.. easier
will 90 into business with his father in
Hill City. He left for the latter place
Tuesday accompanied by his wife.
The CHRONICLE is indebted to Con-
gresham Charles II. Burke for q large
government map of the United States
and its insular possessions. The map is
5x8 feet, Is up to date and is one Of the
most valuable references of its kind in
our Office.
A nine4year.o old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Tubbs, who reside near the North
Star mine, had his left hand severely cut
last Saturday by falling against q broken
bottle. Had it not been for the timely
arrival Of DR.. Calkins the lad would have
bled to death.
Col. Amos Patriquin, ofLead, assistant
adjutant general, will arrive on the 10:46
train this morning to muster in the Gus
ter company of state militia. All per-
sons interested in the organization are
requested to meet in the court house at
2 O'Clock this p. m.
Jesse d. Elliott came in from the
northern Hills last Friday. He is here
for the purpose of gathering up his cattle
and horses preparatory to taking them
to the range near Slim Buttes, ninety
miles north from Deadwood, where the
family intends In locate.
Frank Waugh and family were pas
sengers for Rapid City Monday, where
they will visit for a time with relatives
Of Mr.. Waugh's. From there they will
go to Crawford, Neb., for a few days visit
with Mrs. Waugh's parents, and will
then go to Deadwood to remain.
T. Thompson, wife and child, started
for the North Star mine midway between
Hill City and Custer Monday morning.
Mr.. Thompson has the contract for erect
ing a stamp mill on the property, and as
the work will take all summer he took
his family with him.-Keystone Record
er.
Mrs. VIM. Wiehe, nee Villa Ross, has
rendered her resignation as teacher in
the intermediate department of the Gus
ter schools. The board of education at
their meeting last week elected Miss
Amanda Petch to teach that department
during the remainder of the present
school term.
The Methodist Episcopal Sunday
school has decided that a piano is a long
felt want that must be fulfilled, and &C
cordingly steps are being taken to finance
the undertaking. Either a cantata OH
the comic opera, THE Mikado," will be
given in the near future, to be followed
by O series of dime ~socials.
The grand lodge of South Dakota, l. o.
o. F., and the ReLekah Assembly will
meet at Lead on Tuesday, May Goth, ate
o'clock a. M, and continue in session
three days. The grand encampment will
meet on Wednesday, May 2lst. Quite a
number of the local lodge here have sig
nifed their intention of attending the
meeting.
According to the Pioneer-Times there
were issued by the forest supervisor 304
permits to enter upon the reserve and
cut timber during the first quarter ofthe
year ending March 31st. The permits
were issued to people upon the reserve
or adjacent to it who wanted the timber
for fire wood. Captain Bullock, the for
est supervisor, says that the people living