Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-12-16
Only ten moro days belore Chn.tmas

F.. }. DELANEY. PM
Only ten more days before Christmas
Buy Red Cross seals to seal youl
Christmas packages.
T. V. Garlock has received another
car load of Ford cars.
Save high transportation charges by
shipping your Cream to the Hill City
Creamery Company.
Mrs. Lintz and daughter, Of Spokane,
took charge of the Parkson confection.
cry store December 7th.
After Jan lst, 1917, the price Of horse
shoeing will be $3.50 per team.
A. X. COWLES & son.
Ricedorii handles all kinds of fresh
and salted meats, buys cattle, hogs,
poultry and hides. Call at Meat Market.
Mrs. A. X. Cowles returned Tuesday
evening from a several weeks stay in
Lead. She was accompanied by her
son, Ralph.
Acting Forest Supervisor JAS Conner
and Assistant Forester Richard Phillips
were in Keystone and sheridan Tuesday
on an inspection trip
Three car loads of oats were shipped
east from this place the forepart of the
week The purchaser was man by the
name of Graves from Provo, ). D.
Assistant Superintendent c. c. Holt
orff, of the Burlington, attended the
inquest held over the remains Of the
late W. S. Flutter in this city Monday.
Allen Binkley, of Rapid City, was
Custer caller last Saturday soliciting sub
scriptions for the Black Hills Booster,
one of the live publications Of the Black
Hills.
States Attorney Percy H. Helm and
Attorney f. W. Sellers, who we're at
tending circuit court in Rapid City the
latter part Of last week, returned home
Sunday evening.
Tony Miller, who underwent an oper-
alton for stomach trouble at the Mayo
Brothers hospital at Rochester, MINI,
two weeks ago, is reported to be inn
proving satisfactorily
A crew Of railroad men came mp from
Edgemont Monday morning to attend
and testify at the inquest of the late w.
). Flutter, who was killed at Argyle on
the night Of December 9th.
Better be Insured, than wish you
were. Farm Insurance specially Call
or write
c. A. KNEELAND,
Custer, So. Oak.
Mrs. Percy II. Helm returned yester-
day from New York, where she was
called some time ago by the death of
her sister. Mr.. Helm met her at Broken
Bow, Neb., and accompanied her home.
Mrs. r. r. Harris and son, John, Of
the IA ranch, were Burlington passen-
gers to Terry Wednesday morning, be.
ing called there by the death of Henry
James, a brother-in law of Mrs. Harris.
Mrs. Clara Tisdale has returned from
two weeks visit with friends in Lead
She is making ten days visit with Mrs.
j. X. CrusoD, and other friends Mrs.
Tisdale before her marriage was Miss
Clara Albion.
The Ladies Aid OF the Methodist
church have received handkerchief
from Mrs. Woodrow Wilson which will
be put up at auction Saturday, at the
Kubler building at four O'Clock in con-
neciion with the bazaar.
Mrs. J. N. Wright left Tuesday morn
ing for Custer where she will live on
the ranch they have recently got in that
country. Mr.. Wright is already on the
place and has everything ready for his
wife -Edgemont Express.
Governor Byrne has appointed C. b.
Baldwin, Of Rapid City, as member of
the state board Of pharmacy, to fill the
place made vacant by advancing Floyd
w. Brown to the position of member of
the state board OF charities.
j. A. Foerstner, Of Cleveland, Ohio,
secretary and treasurer OF the Cuyahoga
Mining Company, was an arrival in
Custer on the Burlington Tuesday on
company business. He expects to re-
main in this vicinity and in the Hills
week or ten days.
Ralph V. Cox, formerly in the service
as train dispatcher of the Burlington
company at Alliance, Neb., has been
transferred to Custer, and is now hold
ing down the position of station agent
here for the company He arrived with
his family December 7th.
The ladies Of the Congregational Aid
express grateful Acknowledgement to
the public for. generous patronage De-
cember 8tb, at their bazaar and cafe
luncheon. II was great success and
the treasury OF the society was replen-
ished by $ll4.00 ever and s5ove all
expenses