Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1921-10-15
NEWS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

The Sioux Falls branch OF the Fed
eral department Of Justice has been
transferred to Omaha
The Aberdeen police department has
placed a ban upon youths lettering
about the city late at night
A South Dakota branch OF the Ma
tional Walther league of the Lutheran
church has been organized in Mitchell
A good frost now would be quite a
benefit to make the corn husk much
easier There has been no frost yet
and no one has started TO musk corn.
Great quantities of potatoes are be.
ing marketed in CastlewOod Hardly
an hour Of the day or night passes
that wagonloads of potatoes are not
brought in
Fire which destroyed the building of
the Nuway grocery store and damaged
the Domey & Miller undertaking par
ors in Yankton, was estimated to
have caused a $4,000 loss.
1t is reported by farmers living
along the James river in Rondell town
ship, Brown county, that there are an
unusually large number of coyotes in
that section Of the country this year
and that they are killing sheep
Mrs Don Arnold aged 10, Of Blu
cyrus, a former cowgirl and expert
broncho rider, was instantly killed
when her clothing became entangled
IN the gearing of pump at the Mil
waukee pumping station in Bucyrus.
Difficulties attending the payment
OF $1,006OO0 in interest money to the
Sioux Indians residing on the Rosebud
reservation finally have been adjusted
and this great sum will as result be
distributed among the Indians in the
near future
Howard is the scene of a real bar
bars war Incidentally hairouts have
been reduced to 35 cents and shaves
to Is cents Howard is without doubt
enjoying the distinction OF having low
er barber prices than any other town
in the country.
The skeleton Of a prehistoric mon.
ster, with ribs IA feet long, tail bones
totaling Is feet in length, leg bones
Is inches in diameter at the Joint, and
more than four feet long between the
joints, has recently been unearthed
near the O. s Chase farm 25 miles
northwest of Isabel
Andrew Johnson, rs years old, com
mitted suicide on his farm IL miles
north Of Arlington. Johnson took a
shotgun and went 10 a grove OF trees
Placing the end Of the gun in his
mouth and with the aid Of a lath he
pushed the trigger The discharge
nearly blew the head from the body
Near the Homestake mine, in the
Lead Deadwood road, spring OF
water has broken out in the side OF
hfll, and il is feared it will cause
considerable trouble and work for the
county should il develop. Already
masses of rock have fallen into the
ditch and on the roadway, the loosen.
ing OF which was caused by the spring
Published statement In a Sioux
Falls newspaper intimating that there
is or has been friction in the stat te
bonus BOARD at Pierre were pranded
as absolutely untrue by Fred B. Ray
executive officer Of the board Every
thing is running perfectly smoothly
and the entire personnel Of the office
force is giving loyal and efficient ser
vice
The South Dakota normal and in
dustrtal school in Aberdeen has Issued
report of the work accomplished BY
rhe teachers placement office at the
school during the summer in supply
ing the wants of the South Dakota
schools for reliable teachers During
the summer 32S applicants for teach
ing positions registered with the bur
eau During the same period 800 re
quests Tor Ieaehers were received,