The Red Cloud chief., 1880-01-29
THE CHIEF.
LOCAL MATTERS.

Office.
Sept. Pope veut to Lincoln las,
Mooday.
%. c. Case l. sgain able 10 be 10 his
Office, and stsend to business
-Seversl wagon loads of hogs we're
brought 70 town last Tuesday.
III has turned several degrees colder,
and wood and coal is 10 demand.
Promises Of wood don't warm up
our Office worth . cent this cold weather.
Every week additions are made to
the number Of pupils 10 the select school.
Regular trains on the r. V. X. r.,
how run u far west "a Republican City.
Yesterday was . singing cold day.
the mercury is still coquetting with zero.
-JUsT REcEIvED-A nice lot of wall
paper At Browns furniture store. 2w
The CHIEF Office now has about q
hundred fonts" of new job aud alvcr.
Using type.
just received-anotber large lot of
stationery and printers stock, at the
CHIEF alice.
There win be Eve Sundays in the
month Of February. This occurs but 3
times 10 . century.
Mr.. John Keppler of Beloit, Kan...
has been enstsIled Is foreman of the
CHIEF establishment.
We had the pleasure of forming the
acquaintance OFFS number of our brother
quilLdrisers. At Lincoln last week.
Tho Free Pres thinks that tight
lacing should be encouraged. It kills
of the foolish girls and leaves the sensible
ones.
1t is pretty generally known among
the newspaper fraternity that it cost
Senator Paddock SLIPS to get control Of
the Kearney Press.
-STRAYED:-From the premises OF
MI. Liddy in Red Cloud. one little black
SOW pig. Anyone returning it will be
suitably rewarded.
Large quantities Of wood have been
brought to town in the lset few weeks.
We should like to receive some that is
promised Us on subscription.
-Chattel mortgages, warrantee deeds,
leases. bills Of sale, Justices blanks &c i,
sre sold at the CHIEF Office as cheap as
they can be bought in Lincoln.
Fred Nye's ''pome" read before the
Nebraska Press Association, at Lincoln
last week was q good 'un. 1t is too long
for our columns, or we would publish it.
We believe the CHIEF job Office is
the most complete in south western
Nebraska, We may be mistaken but we
challenge comparison in quality of work
and prices. all the same.
We have recently made some costly
additions to our Office in the way of pew
type, q new paper cutter &C., and hope
those who " vi on job work &C., will
pay ss promptly as they can.
"A number of typographical errors
crept into the last issue of the CHIEr.
which may be attributed to the fact that
in the absence Of the editor, the proof
reader neglected his business.
Mr.. j. L. Elliott brought to this
Office last Monday, q bushel of Nebraska
grown peanuts. They are as nice and
plump as any that are shipped from the
sunny south. and had ought to CON
mand as high a price.
Red Cloud post Office is now a third
class office and the postmaster is ap-
pointed by the president of the United
States. McNitt who has held the ap-
poinfment from the Postmaster General
for several years has been re.appointed
by the president.
Providence permitting, a series OF
sermons on Temperance will be preached
by the Ministers of Red Cloud, at the
Court House, on Sabbath evenings.
Rev. j.. A. Dixon will preach the FIRST on
Sabbath evening, February lst, 1880.
All are cordially invited to attend.
Some tine ago we promised that we
would publish the names of parties who
Jumped the country" and forgot to setds
their little bills At this Office. Since ther
We have had to advertise two or three
dead beats, and now it comes the turn Of
MI. James Davis who owes us 90 90 70,
:he CHIEF, and whose paper is returned
to rs bearing the suggestive words,
skipped out"
Remember that the CHIEF Office j,
ready at all times to turn out Job worI
in q sa~tisfacfory manner, at prices a,
low as can be had in the west. Our jol
type is all ofthe latest styles, and we ar,
constantly adding new fonts. The oh
type that was used in the CHIEF ofi,e /,
year ago has nearly all been shipped bacl
to the foundry, and bone but the bes
efylcs of new type is used iu our jol
department
We publish elsewhere q letter from
the department. Of the Interior to tn,
Registers and Receivers, on final proof
which We recommend to the notice O
our readers who have not yet proved II
on their claims. 1t wiil be noticed tina
it seems to be the object Of the Depart
ment to give the homestesders all tn
trouble possible, and it would not sur
price Ms if they would eventually get tn
lsod cfdce matters so complicated tia
the honesteaders AID pre-cmptors coul