, 1885-11-29
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

There will be no evening services at
the First Baptist church.
Several parties are in the city from
Silver Crown bringing good reports, as
usual.
A sewer is being put in for the Marks
block, on the corner of Seventeenth and
Eddy streets.
John Doe was fined the usual amount by
Judge Fisher for a drunk yesterday. Doe
was calaboosed.
A special car load of returning Kansas
excursionists passed through Cheyenne
eastward, yesterday.
Two unimportant real estate transfers
were all that were filed in the office of the
county clerk yesterday.
There were SIC collected at the Baptist
church on Thanksgiving day for the bene-
fit OF the poor and needy.
The grand jury room in the third story
of the court house was heated up yester-
day afternoon for the Wilson jury.
The coming week of court will be a
pretty solid one for business, and several
cases are to be taken up and disposed Of
There was a very large gathering of lit
tie folks at the Keefe rink yesterday after
noon aud they enjoyed themselves hugely.
The singing at the First Congregational
church will be especially attractive to-day.
Mr.. Wilson A. Whitcomb will have
charge.
The boys are getting on their feet
again around town, although a very few
ate a little too much turkey on Thanks
giving day.
Ed Paul, a leading druggist of Fort
Collins, who is quite well known in Chey-
enne, died last week. He had been an
invalid for a long time.
Dan Brees, residing south of the rail
road track, was considerably injured by a
fall he received yesterday while adjusting
II huofe pipe NJ MS nome
United States Marshal Carr will shortly
have his hands full of business, if all &C.
counts are correct, in the way of looking
after violaters of the fence law.
The attention of our readers is directed
to the announcement of DR.. C~hynoweth,
who supplies magnetic and electric appli-
ances, whose card is published in another
column.
Two parties who do not reside in Chey-
enne are figuring on the job of putting
in the lettering and numbering work,
lately provided for by an ordinance passed
by the city council.
Mrs. |. NJ. Buckingham has removed
her needle rooms to the building formerly
occupied by the office of the Electric
Light company, Seventeenth street, OPP
posite THE LEADER office.
John McCarty, a sollier from Fort
Steele, who is witness in the Wallace
case, is to be subpenaed anew and will
be detained here in Cheyenne until the
next trial of the case occurs.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
1872; lowest, 27.00; mean temperature,
1910; mean humidity, AT per cent. high
est velocity of wind, 80 miles per mile.
Remember the "gobble'' party at the
Presbyterian church Tuesday evening.
There will be an organ recital and must
Gale under the direction of Prof. Pasmore,
and a supper served. Admission twenty
five cents, including supper.
The large new advertisement of VIM.
Myers, the dealer in dry goods, clothing,
boots and shoes, is Of special interest to
our readers this morning. Mr.. Myers en-
tiers into details and tells his customers all
about the many bargains he offers in his
several departments. The ladies, who
have seen the magnificent diamonds which
are to be given away on the LIST of Janu.
airy next, will certainly renew their pur-
chases at Myers establishment in order
to increase their chances of securing the
precious stones,
Most of the promissory notes obtained by
that enterprising book peddler who operat-
ed among the ladies here last week, are
signed by the note makers Mrs. John
Smith or Mrs. Samuel w. Jones, and
are therefore invalid and cannot be col
lected. This is fortunate-for the note
makers. Any document signed by a mar.
ried woman, to be legal, must be signed
with her full given name. as for instance
MRS. Melinda Smith" Mrs. Sarah
Lucretia Jones" 1t is strange that mar
ried ladies will persist in signing their hus
bands names and attach Mrs" to it,
when they know that it is wrong.