Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1914-01-31
BEAVER VALLEY AND VICINITY

J.H. Fall went to Hot Springs Satur-
day to visit with his family.
Mrs. Perl Chambers was shopping in
Hot Springs the first of the week.
Mrs. Joe Conlon is staying in Hot
Springs with her mother who is sick at
the hospital.
Charles Ottman sold his cattle Monday
to Olaf Aaberg. Olaf also bought some
from Albert March.
Elmer Drain is nursing badly cut
| finger which came in contact with the
ak and block of wood.
L. C. Williams is hauling wood to the
Springs this week. He has about all the
wood sawed at the last setting Of his
machine.
The stock of the late r. H. Drain will
be rounded up this week, and the ap-
praisers will make an estimate OF the
personal property.
AL Barnes has been busy lately get
ting in logs for another run. The lum'
Der sale appears to be pretty good, as the
saw-mill men seem to keep at work
most of the time.
| This section was visited by light
snow Saturday night, and for time 1t
looked as though We might have some
sleighing, but Sunday night chinook
wind came along and took it all OH.
Monday was like summer once again.
Mrs. Norval Hamm was operated on
last week at the Sisters hospital, and
the last that the writer was able to hear,
she was in serious condition. 1t is
hoped however, that she may not be as
bad as reported, and that she may soon
be able to return home.
A letter from Jack Chambers announ-
ces that he is on the Pacific Coast, hav-
ing left Colorado about two weeks ago
on account of the strike. He reports
fine weather in all the mountain states,
and states that the most snow he saw
was at Baker City, Oregon.
Mrs. Lizzie Herring left for Sioux
City, Iowa, Tuesday evening. She says
that the Black Hills beats all the places
for nice weather, and that she expects
to again locate here. The Herring's are
at present located in Saskatchewan,
Canada, but were formerly residents OF
the Black Hills in the early nineties.
Mrs. Wolfe, who went to the Sisters
hospital in Hot Springs last Tuesday
evening, was operated on Monday, but
the doctors failed to locate the trouble.
and appear to be in doubt as to the real
cause of her trouble. At present writ
ing she has recovered from the anaesthe.
tic, and appears to be getting along all
right. Her many friends hope for a
speedy recovery.
The Railroad Commissioners have
notified the various telephone companies
that they must discontinue the habit ol
making a different rate to their stock.
holders from that charged renters. They
. hold that no company can exist under
the present law as mutual company,
and that they must all be renters alike
The stockholder must look to the divi'
, dend for his reimbursement for money
expended. 1t is also almost settled thai
different companies can no longer band
together in mutual exchange, and thai
D the farmers companies will either have
to quit business or submit to whatever
!. the Bell Company sees fit to give them
> 1t seems that our farmers have beer
l. negligent in lobbying, but few dose'
: like this is likely to awake them to {
: realization of things, and prove to then
/: that we must not be derelict to our owl
' needs. There will be Bell men at Pierre
when the next legislature convenes Il
: intercede for that company. and they
intend to try to raise the rate for switch
| ing to SOC phone. We want to sen(
some men there ourselves. We are th'
ones who make it possible for them t.
i exist, and we don't want to sleep on ou
rights.