The Red Cloud chief., 1881-01-06

patent -four.
The Holidays passed off rather quiz
city IN this burg.
The recent cold snap" wa rough
on the house plants.
Hon. ii. >. Haley departed last Sat
urday for the capital.
Now they write it 1880 and suisse
quently change it TO 81.
We arc happy now, we have the
promise? of some more wood.
Mrs. Sarah Watt. Of Guide Rock,
renews her subscription for a year.
EvaRYEoDY WELcoME;-Social at
Rev. Geo .. Yeiser's next Tuesday
evening.
The meeting of the W. c. 7. L. will
he held at Mrs. Bent's on Friday next
at three r ~.
We number Nr. James Watt, of
Guide Rock, among our new subscri-
bers this week.
ii. A. Baird, dentist, will be absent
from his Office until about the 10Th, OF
the present month.
Rev. j. NJ. Prysc will leave for his
new field Of labor, Blue Springs, Fri
day Of this week.
Tho p,orour,, ,ro ro,n,,oJ O.. 49,
been as low as 2s' ut this place one
morning last week.
Go to Roby's for your tobacco, he
has the finest assortment in town, also
the best lot of cigars to he had.
The sultry u weather that we have
had for the last few weeks has been
death on coal and ether fuel.
Last Saturday, the first day of the
new year was a very pleasant day, and
Red Cloud was full of people.
Those whose subscription to the
CHIEF expired with the advent al the
new year are respectfully invited to
renew.
Mr.. john McQuilkin called last Sat
urday and inflated our currency To the
extent of a years subscription in adj
vance.
Go to Robyis for canned fruits, dried
fruit, green fruit, ~raisins, %cilron, mac
aroni, farina, tapioca, or anything else
that nice.
Mr.. keshner, of Cloverton made
glad the heart of we editor last Mon
day 10y the presentation of a handful
of silver, on sub.
The sheet of ice which covered
everything on Wednesday morning
rendered pedestrianism anything but
Il safe or pleasant exercise.
The CHIEF is about the only paper
in the state that RETAINED from ma
king some idiotic expression about the
beautiful snow" last week. .
Owing to a great rush of Job prin-
ting at the CHIEF office the last week,
we have not been able { O give as much
attention TO the paper as we would
like.
The defaulting county treasurer of
Franklin county has gone to Can
ada, and the defaulting ex-auditor of
the state of Nebraska has gone to the
devil.
There will be a teachers association
held at the school house in Dis. No.
"a, southeast from Cowles, on next
Saturday, commencing at ! o'clock
2. NJ.
The Naponee Banner and the Bloom
ington Guard, have consolidated under
the name of the Banner Guard, and
under the management of Zediker 4
Hoffman.
The Holiday issue of the Smith
county Kan, Pioneer contained more
original reading matter than we ever
before saw in one issue of a county
newspaper.
4 number Of friends of the Rev. j..
NJ. Pryse, surprised him at his resi-
dence last Tuesday evening, after
church. The manifestations of kind
ness. were, for the most part, of a
substantial nature.
When you hear a fellow denouncing
a newspaper YOU may "bet your sweet
life" that he is in debt for the paper
and the publisher discontinued send
it To him because he was not honest
fenough to pay for il.
Mr.. W. T. Masters, an attorney from
C~uTbcrton. Hitchcock county called at
these headquarters last Friday. He
was on his way to kineoln to be pres
cnt at the converting of the legislature. |
He saws there are a number of desti-
tute families in Hitchcock county that
will suffer if they do not receive aid
from some source
The Riverton Eagle lclaims 30. have
| the nobhiest devil" in the valley, be-
| couse he wears a seal-skin cap and
icarries a Russia leather pocket book.
That's nothing, our devil wears a genu-
inc old fashioned Continental cooked
hat and an ivory handled sword, while
a string of scalps a yard long bangles
at his belt
The census shows a surplus OF near
y twenty per cent more women than
men in our population. The city OF
New York has more than twenty-five
thousand more women than men,
while Massachusetts, has sixty-thou-
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