The Red Cloud chief., 1879-05-08
RED CLOUD CHIEF.
Taking effect Sunday. May 9Th 1879.
CITYAND COUNTRY

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More rain.
Windy sgain.
Give Us Q rest.
Hoe your garden.
Bring on your Job work.
Corn Is wnrth'40 cents a buskel.
Pay your little bills and be happy.
The successful candidates set 'em
up."
The trees are donning their coat of
green.
About 375 10 all, was raised for Mr..
Finch.
Potatoes are worth so cents a
tusbel.
Will the corn that is planted rot in
the ground?
"A number of farmers were 10 town
last Saturday.
"A. L. Bunton of Saltwater called on
rs last Saturday.
Millinery goods cheap for cash, at
Mrs. McBrides.
County Commissioners were 10 ses.
sion last Monday.
The Howe Sewing Machine is for
eale by Miner Bros.
Elder Shin, of the State Journal
called on US yesterday.
Al Tulleys is putting up quite an
addition to his house.
We saw q customer enter Baum's
store one day last week.
We learn that the scarlet fever has
broken out at Guide Rock.
considerable Of corn has already
been planted in this county.
Those Red Ribbon cards were print
ed at the CHIEF Job Office.
The American Sewing Machine can
be bought of Miner Bros.
We understand there was one little
knock down, on election day.
Miss Oriva NJ. Towne, Music Teach.
er. Residence at Levi Moor,s 39tf
ID. 7. Thomas, Merchant at Cowles,
called at CHIEF headquarters last Sat
urdsy.
Mr.. MenGenhall, one of the proprie.
tors of the State Journal, was in town
yesterday.
Last Saturday our merchants en-
joyed a good trade. and we're consequent
Iy happy.
We could not vote at the town cleo
tlon-cause our camp is outside of the
incorporation.
Greens and vegetables, fresh, at
Perkins & MitchelTs Red Cloud Grocery,
Friday morning.
The first "Garden sass'' we have
seen this season, was brought to our
Office last Saturday.
Almost a continual string of covered
wagons have passed through town, during
the last two weeks.
John B. Finch departed for Bloom |
ington last Tuesday, where he will de-
liver a series of lectures.
Mails now arrive from the east via
h. V. r. R., at six o'clock p. NJ, and
from the west at Elk A. NJ.
Potato bugs may now be seen lean
ing lazily against the fence waiting for
the potatoes to come up.
The prospects now are that this
country will be blessed With the best
crops ever raised in any country.
w. B. Ruby has on hard a stock of
green house plants bought CT W. II.
Harbett, Dubuque, Iowa. soft
John B. Finch closed his series of
lectures in Red Cloud last Monday night.
About three hundred signed the pledge.
The Plattsmouth Herald thinks that
as Hayes has vetoed the army bill, there
is hopes of making . president of him
yet.
The bsse ball crop in Thsyer county
IS . failure, it is thought the labor crop
has erowed out the tender plants
Senfind.
Fifteen easieads of ties was taken
west over the read last Sunday, to be
used in the construction of the road west
of Bloomington.
"A collection was taken up las: Sun
day night at the close of the lecture. for
the benefit Of Mr.. Finch, which netted
twenty-five dollars.
Last Menday was election day.
There was three or four different tickets
in the Geld aad considerable of interest
was manifested.
The town trustees elected last Mon
day are as follows: Robert Mitchell.
d. N. Plstt. j. L. Miner, j. A. jury.
and NJ. B. McNitt.
John B. Finch has finished bic work
here and gone to other fields. Nearly
three hundred signed the pledge and
donned the red ribbon.