Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-06-07

SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1902.
Custer will celebrate the Fourth.

BUY CREAM FLOUR at Garlock's.
Fourth of July celebration at Custer.
Edward Rogers is confined to his home
with illness.
The glorious Fourth of July will be
celebrated in Custer.
School closed yesterday for the sum
mer vacation and the kids" rejoice.
Phil Goehring's saloon building was
treated 10 u fresh coat of paint this week
Augusta Sager made final proof on her
homestead before the clerk of courts
Wednesday.
Samuel r. Maddox Of Pringle has
been granted an increase in his pension
20 $40 per month.
The Society of Black Hills Pioneers
will hold their annual picnic at White
wood next Thursday, June 18th.
Born, nine miles west from Custer, on
Tuesday, June 8, to Mr.. and Mrs. Morse
Gri6is, an eight pound baby boy.
A game Of ball between Custer and
Hill City is scheduled for Sunday after
noon, June 9Th, at the latter place.
Hail stones that measured 6inches in
circumference fell in Deadwood last
Saturday. So reports the Independent.
You've got to hustle all the time to
keep in the swim. Ii you are slipping
down the ladder of prosperity, take
Rocky Mountain Tea. Makes people
strenuous.
w. G. Ward, who has been confined
TO his home with an attack Of pneu-
monia, is able to be out and around
again.
A report was circulated in town early
in the week that Ed Lindsey had died
at his home west of Custer from hemor-
HORACE. The report. however, proved
TO be a fake.
Tell us why a druggist offers you a
substitute for the Madison Medicine Co.'S.
Rocky Mountain Tea. Does he love you
or is he after the bigger profit. Think it
over. A. j. Jones.
E. +. Rogers left Sunday evening for
Canton to attend the grand lodge Knights
of Pythias, which was in session there
Wednesday and Thursday. He also
took in the republican state convention
In Sioux Falls.
Mrs. w. j. Rees arrived in Deadwood
last Tuesday from johannesburg, South
Africa. Mrs. Rees will spend several
weeks in the Hills visiting with rela-
tiyes. She is q daughter Of John Bueter
of the Caledonia mine.
Wise is the girl whose sense of self in
terest prompts her to take Rocky Noun
tain Tea. II fills her full Of vigor and
there is always honey in her heart for
you. A. j. Jones.
Among the outgoing passengers sum
day evening were S. G. Lummis, N. s.
Tubbs, Z. E. Rogers and Alb. j. Jones,
who were on their way to represent Gus
ter county in the republican state con-
~yention, and the state republican league
convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID. Elliott departed
Wednesday for their ranch at the Slim
Buttes. Miss Ida Poland accompanied
them. She will remain with Mrs. Elliott
this summer. Miss Ida will be missed
very much among the young folks here.
-Whitewood Plaindealer.
Perry Bertscby came in Tuesday from
Denver. Since leaving Custer about two
months ago he has spent the greater part
of his time in the east on mining bust
ness. He left again yesterday for Gill
hin, Colorado, where he will assume the
superintendency of a mine.
There seems to be pretty good grounds
for the beliefthat Chamberlain will have
railroad connections with the Black
Hills within a year. A number of rail-
road extensions are on the tapis now in
the state and among them are two from
the Missouri river to the Black Hills
Chamberlain Register.