, 1885-11-18
SHORT STORIES
Gathered by Asking Everybody
What Do You Know"
Things Which are too Little to
Carry a Head.

Temperate weather.
Printers ball next week.
Our petroleum is a fat take.
Wyoming will boom next spring.
The Collins sidewalk will be splendid.
The Methodist festival last night was a
success.
Social worship at the First Congrega.
tional this evening at 7: 30 o'clock.
Christmas goods are beginning to show
up, especially in the book and fancy
line,
The usual PRAYER meeting this evening
at the First Presbyterian church at 1880
o'clock.
Chas. L. Joslin, of Alrin Darts fame,
is said to be the best advertiser in the
show business.
One of old time zephyrs, which are get
ting to be very unusual here, blew for a
time yesterday.
There will be a meeting of st. Marks
Guild this afternoon at . O'Clock at the
residence Of Mrs Gannett
John Conway, a brakeman on the Union
Pacific, well known here, is lying at Lara
ME suffering from a crushed foot.
Col E P. Snow will occupy the hand
some little brick which is being built on
the Baptist church lot for his insurance
Offices.
Reynolds post G.. A. R., will have a
big tine next Friday evening. -Four dis
tinguished ex-soldiers are to be mustered
into the post, and there will be a banquet
during the evening.
The Sun is informed that Archer
wasn't killed by the Indians when Hill
was, as stated in that paper yesterday.
He was badly wounded, but recovered.
Don t muddle history.
Hundreds of people in Cheyenne are
laying low for the new town which is to
be built in the neighborhood of Fort
Fetterman. All kinds of business will be
numerously represented.
| can furnish desk room for three or
four persons if application is made i'm
mediately. Central location, ground floor,
heat and electric lights. Address Lock
Box, 2,l65.
Next week will be loaded with enter
taiuments. Two nights of the Mz,ado,
then the b%rakemen's ball, the printers
ball on Thanksgiving night, and social
affairs for the remainder of the week.
The Signal Service officer reports that
the highest temperature yesterday was
52.3'; lowest, Bose; mean temperature,
42.0i mean humidity, So per cent high
est velocity of wind SO miles per hour.
Peter McCourt, manager OF the Tabor
grand opera house of Denver, telegraphs
The LEADER that the Thompson opera
company, playing MBado there, made a
great hit in this new opera. The COM
pany will be here next Monday and Tues
day nights.
The plays which are called musical
absurdities, are getting to be too alb
surd for any use. The last one is always
the worst. The public will force the vari.
ETY. element from the stage in a little
while and the good old legitimate will
come to the front again.
The Colorado, Utah and New Mexico
Stock Growers Association will go to st.
Louis via the Wabash railroad. This
line is making special arrangements fort 4 c
comfort and well being Of the delegates.
and IS the f%avorite Short Line from Coun.
ell Bluffs to St. Louis aud from Kansas
City to st. Louis.
Alderman Harrington wa prepared
last night to move that a red light lie
placed at the corner Of Seventeenth and
Ferguson streets, SO that people passing
in the night might be enabled to see the OBJ
structions at the Collins corner. and also
the electric light in front of Poets bank.
But the council adjourned before the
motion was submitted.
Ask some men for an advertisement,
says an exchange, and they will say that
they don't believe in advertising, as adver-
tisements are never read. If one of thes-
same men is caught kissing his neighbor
wife, or engages in a warm political dis
cussion and gets a black eye, he will climb
to the top Of a fourteen story building, il
the printing Office happens to be there, to
beg the editor not to mention it in the
paper. And if the merchant determine.
to sell of his goods at cost. and advertisei
the fact in the proper way, il If but a few
hours until everybody in town knows il,
and his sales are consequently much in
creased. Now. everyone knows this is
true, and yet there are those who say that
advertisements are never read.
Our tailoring department Is now com.
plete with all the late novelties in fine for
eign and domestic fabrics. b. lIellman
The celebrated John Van wrought iron
family ranges, at Arp 4 Conveys.
Order the Harsh all CO0l