The Red Cloud chief., 1885-11-27
CITY NEWS.

MORE sidewalks are needed in Red
Cloud.
DISTRICT court will convene in De-
cembcr.
CHRISTMAS is the next holiday. Pre-
pare for il.
Mrs. DIR. EMIGH has returned from
her visit IN Kansas.
RED CLOUD wants more railways, and
anti them seriously.
CONGRESS- meets nextmonth. Politics
will then be comparatively warm.
ID. c. MYERS and wife have adopted
a three year old child from the Home
of the Friendless.
JONI PARKEs' children are sick with
diphtheria, but are getting along nice
ly under careful medical treatment.
A u At many strangers are coming
INTO our city now. and are attract
cd here no doubt 70. tho purpose OF
buying land.
A LITTL touch of frost has come,
A taste of winter ices,
And every farmer in the land,
VIII new realize better prices.
MEsDAMEs Howard and Warren
have returned from their visit in OHIO
Their husbands are both extremely
. over their return.
IN all probability Webster county
will soon have Il chance To vote bonds
for some one of the three railroads
that are heading this way.
NJ. s. MARSH has purchased the
Waterman building in Riverton, with
the saloon fixtures, and Will probably
start a saloon in that town in the
spring.
WE understand that the Webster
county agricultural society Is doing its
level best 10 pay off all claims against
il. and that our criticisms last week
were IN n measure unjust.
THE Il. & NJ. railway have let the
contract. SO the rumoI goes, to build a
bridge across the Missouri river at
Rulo. after which trains will be ran
throug to Denver VIA Rulo.
THE dime reading. which was to
have been held in the Congregational
church last Tuesday evening has been
postponed indefinitely postponed on
account of the serious illness Of Mrs.
Akin an.
Mrs. u. KING, inspector for the w.
X. c. gave q lecture In IN NJ. r.
church Friday evening. taking IA her
subject Home Building" She Is re-
ported as being an able talker and
very interesting.
lr is to te hoped that the board of
supervisors will, by all means, endeav-
or TO arrange matters so that within
the next twelvd months the county
warrants will be cash on presentation
to the treasurer. If il il lays within
their province TO do SO We hope It vii!
bS done ut once.
Red Cloud needs An artesian we'll,
and with it water works would be a
comparatively easy matter. In case
Of fire good water works might DO the
means of saving the city. As it now
stands We are comparatively unpro-
tected. Therefore people should do
all they can to help build up the fire
, company. and talk up good works. We
. need them hotn.
THE board OF supervisors should. by
all means, aim 10 have = bridge fund
started as o o "a possible. If there is
one thing that Webster county needs
above all others il is good and sub
stantial bridges. The idea Of continu-
ally repairing worthless structures is
simply prepostesous. and should be
stopped as soon as possible, and new
bridges constructed at once, or as soon
as practicable.
THE other day a satchel belonging TO
parties from Illinois, who were stop
ping at the Gardner house was pur.
Joined by a woman, living at or near
Cowles, so the story goes, and the con-
tAnse rif1ed. The woman boarded the
Arain for home and followed bv Will
: Barber. ~Suspecting that she was follow.
ed she carefully threw the contents
along the track where they were found
afterwards.
OK last Saturday afternoon two
young men. who ought Il have known
better. INDUCED in q free fight, and
during the melee m Of the combatants
drew . knife and tried Ia infict a seri-
CPS wound on his antagonist. and had
it not been for an elderly lady rushing
between them he probably would have
done an act that he would have been
very sorry for ter minutes afterwards.
They were finally parted without doing
each other any serious injury.