Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-08-30
CUSTER CHRONICLE
BUY CREAM FLOUR at Garlock's

Federal court convenes in Deadwood
next Tuesday, September End.
DIR. Daley, the Hot Springs dentist,
will be in his office over the Custer Co.
Bank from Sept. 1st to Sept. 4th.
Edward Rogers was taken seriously i'll
Sunday evening and for awhile there
were grave doubts of his recovery.
Prof. l.. V. Jackson, principal elect for
the Custer public schools, arrived Sun.
day evening from Fremont, Neb.
Original homestead entries were made
in the U. s. land office at Rapid City last
week by VIM. G. Ward and p. +. Hend-
rickson Of Custer.
Dr. Conger is now at home ready to
give his entire time and attention to
dentistry. Office and residence first door
north Of court house.
The board of educa tion held a meet
ing Monday evening and elected Ethel
Strickland as one Of the teachers in our
school, vice Clara Albien, resigned.
Services in the Congregational church
Sunday, August 3lst at 8 p. m. Every
body welcome.
Katherine w. Powell, Pastor.
Makes the fires of life burn with a
steady glow. RenswS the golden, happy
DAYS Of youth. That's what Rocky
Mountain Tea does. So cents. A.. j..
Jones.
The annual conference of the Black
Hills Methodist Episcopal churches con-
venes at Hot Springs Sept. 4th. Bishop
&. Ii. Fowler will preside. At this con-
ference a minister will be assigned to the
Custer pastorate.
Judge Granville G.. Bennett, of Dead
wood, gave a lecture in the Congrega-
gational church in this city last Sunday
evening to a large and appreciative audi
ence. The subject of the lecture was
"Moses and the Exodus"
There is a pretty girl in an alpine hat.
A sweeter girl in a sailor brim,
But the handsomest girl you'll ever see,
Is the sensible girl who uses Rocky
Mountain Tea. A. j. Jones.
Myrtis Chandler Macdonald went TO
Deadwood Tuesday evening, accompani-
ed by Miss Rilla Mae Willis. Wednes
day evening, under the auspices Of the
M. T.. Aid Society of Deadwood, they
gave a song recital in that city.
Mr.. Kirkman, vice president of the
Chicago ard Northwestern Railway COM
pany, has been spending the past ten
ddIS dk DIlNoIl = II oS'oAi Ni
ed by another gentleman and two la
dies, whose names We could not ascer-
tain.
The next meeting Of the board ofcoun-
ty commissioners is scheduled for next
Monday, Sept. LIST, but as that falls on a
national holy day, Labor Day, the board
will not meet until Tuesday, the 2nd.
At this meeting the annual tax levy will
be made.
James Gillespie was killed and Tim
othy Gordon, his partner, was badly in
jured by a blast in the Honestake mine
on the 25th inst. They were drilling
and encountered a charge of powder that
to pieces and his body dismembered.
If it wasn't popular, if it wasn't loved
by the people, why do dealers say? 1--WE
have something Just as good as the Madi-
son Medicine Co.'S. Rocky Mountain
Tea" Think it over. 35 cents. A. j.
Jones.
The Pioneer.Times Of the Goth inst.
says the Custer county delegation to the
Mining Congress at Butte will be head
ed by w. f. Wright, II. Fl. Francis and
w. w. Odds, three we'll known men in
mining circles. Buel r. Wood and S g.
lBuuJtDlS are tue OtueI wv uCICSdICS ilOhh
Custer county.
Mrs. S. N. Fitch left Monday evening
for Omaha, where she was TO have met
Mr.. Fitch, who went east about ten days
ago with a train load Of sheep. She was
accompanied by DIR. G.. f. Walker Of
Rochester, n. Y, who has been visiting
here with the Fitch and Willis families
the past three weeks.
Henry Rholeder, one Of the oldest
civil engineers in the Hills, died at his
home in Deadwood on the evening of
August 25th from q stroke Of paralysis.
In 1876 he was a member of the firm of
Smith and Rholeder. He was 81 years
OF g and was well known by all the
mining men in the Hills.
C. E. Perrin and wife of Seneca, Neb.,
were arrivals Wednesday. Mr.. Perrin
is the new agent for the B. & M. at this
station. He took charge of the station
Thursday. Mr.. Magnusen, who has been
managing the station since the resigna-
ton Of Mr.. S. f. Elliott, expects to leave
o for the Pacific coast.
Peter Carr, who had been employed
by the Burlington railroad company as a
grader was i~ncinerated at Lead on the
morning of the 22nd inst. in a fire that
DESTROYED a barn. He is supposed to
have been asleep in the loft. A team of
horses belonging to the M. j. Bailey Go.
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