Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-01-17
From Elk Mountain.

EDITOR CUSTER CHRONICLE:
year has made its appearance On the cal
ender Of time and an another year has
glided with its failures anu its SUCCESSES
into the remoteness of the past. The
years slip by in an unrelenting way, and
time is gone from US, the future is beyond
US, but the present is ours to do with as
we will, and being in meditating mood
will again begin the New Year by let
ting you hear from this part of our
mundane sphere, though sometimes feel
as did he who wrote:
"some writer's are greeted with favor
Dame Fortune such mortals will bless;
While others like me are still guessing
Does IL pay TO write for the press"
However, the newspapers have been
kind to us, by refraining from publish
ing things about us, We would not like to
be told about nor see in pitt, and we
are glad to be able now and then to re-
pay this kindness by furnishing infer
nation and facts for which We have no
use ourselves, but may be of value to the
press.
1t has been exceedingly cold, snowey,
windy and disagreeable since the New
Year began, and it seems as II We will
haye another one of those unprecedent-
ed winters for which this part Of Dakota
is Justly celebrated-too close TO Wyo.-
the gentle zepher has blown q perfect
gale and is Klondikey in the superlativs
degree, and when the ozone oyer here 10
feeling well and humping itself, curling
up thatched roofs and blowing the chink-
ing from between the logs of our home,
then man has to anchor himself with
q clothes-line before it is safe to visit his
hen house.
Miss Reed, our very popular, proficient
and (not speaking dsrogatory Of her pre-
decesors,) the best superintendent our
county has ever had, bravsd the storm
Of wind and snow to do her duty by
visiting our schools; she returned to
port, however just in time to avoid
squall.
A short time since while Mr.. VIM.
jerks was returning from the timber
with load of wood, he saw large buck
deer which seemed to have heavy
weight attached to his head, stopping
his team and making a more thorough
reconnaissance discovered that his bur-
den was another fellow creature, and
that the one being dragged was dead, and
the other unable to extricate himself
from his former antagonist who appar-
emily had made up his mind before the
end came, to follow the biblical phrase
"Whither thou goest 1 will Co." Not
haying a gun, but with an axe Mr.. ).
easily captured and killed the survivor
of what was evidently q desperate strug-
gle for supremacy. Upon examination
it was found that their antlers were in
terlocked with each other and held as
firmly as If they had been bound to-
gether by thongs cut from their owr
hides.
Messrs. Campbell and Coe are busily
engaged in exploring and developing
their cave, which they think will event
ually be recognized as one ofthe worlds
wonders. May their most sanguine ex-
pectations be realized.
We had the good fortune of helping to
eat most excellent New Year dinner
With Mr.. 3. F. Wicker and his pleasant
and happy family, and assure you the
big fat gobbler ceased to gobble that day,
but with his many delicious accompani-
ments was eagerly gobbled; Mrs W.
certainly knows how to prepare al ap-
petizing meal, and with the aid of their
good old mother, Grandma Wicker, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Stanton, as entertain
ers we spent an enjoyable day long to be
remembered. May they enjoy the sun.
shine of many merry Xmas, happy
New Year and jolly Fourth ofJuly is the
wish of yours as here "a.
VALE.