The Red Cloud chief., 1886-01-01

1HE week OF prayer commences o
Sunday.
AvrER to-day Marsh viii be p. n. 0
Red Cloud.
RBv. GEO. Bsowy has aeain return
q 70 oar city.
THE A. o. y. w. will bold their mex
meeting on the 7th
the Methodist church held hatct
meeting Thursday night.
A. L. MITCHELL presides At the or
gan at the n. f. Church.
MoRHARr 4 yULToS have revolv-
ing sign in front Of their store.
MRs. GEO. H. Bows, we are pleased
to learn. is convslescing from her re.
cent sickness.
L. BAUM and his estimabIe wife have
returned to Red Cloud where they will
~sojourn hereafter.
Yearly subscriptions taken for any
paper, foreign and domestic. At the
post-ofice news depot.
Rev. GEO. 8. DAVIS preached . very
interesting ermo Sunday morning.
eubjec, The Star OF Bethlehem"
Mr.. J. II. SxlrH received . gold
watch for . Christmas present from her
father and q 6ne chain from her son,
Will Smith.
JUDGE GAsLIx held court in this city
this week. The Judge is a jolly fellow
and is known all over the state as the
Cowboy Judge"
j. A. LoPENAS will 90 TO Guide Rock
in q few days, to assist his partner. Mr..
Hagan in grating 100000 trees for
their nursery in this city.
20. Potter, formerly Of the Red
Cloud FIGURING Mills, and now Of
Mound City, Mo-, was shaking hands
with Red Cloud friends this week.
THERE are ZONE parties in the city
who are doing . LITTLE petty thieving
now and then. 1t would be we'll for
them to cease before they are detected.
ALL pupils Of the Red Cloud public
schools in the third reader and below,
living south of 3rd Avenue will take
notice that they are to report at tho
new school house next Monday morn.
ing. This order has been promulgated
BY the board OF education.
We hope u correspondents will
give us the news from all parts of the
county. W. now have our power
press, and from this on We shall give
the people the best and newsies paper
III the county. We trust our CORES
pondents will aid US as they have free
ly done in the past.
THEBE should be q meeting of the
business mems association for the
purpose of seeing what steps should be
taken to secure some of the railroads
that have surveyed lines into our city.
Now would be q good time to
discuss the matter thoroughly and get
the sentiments of the people.
IL mentioning the firm Of Gillian 4
Richards, attorneys at law, last week.
VI stated that Mr.. Gilman wa ex-
county judge of Webster county. In
this We were mistaken. The gentleman
is not an ex:judge but an ex-state
senator. Hence. . Law maker ~ we'll
as an able exponent of the same.
LIST of letters for the week ending
December q, 1885. A J Helvering,
Thos Killion, W B Lanius, Miss Della
Miller 2. Thos McCrsry, David Mccall,
Vim B Padgett 2, Miss Laura NJ Refs
ter, Ira L Reed, Edith Van Dine, I J
Weckert. These letters will be sent to
the dead letter Office January Is, 1886,
il not deliyered before. Exit.
WI have every reason to believe
that the Rock Island railway is fgur.
ing to come to Red Cloud, provided the
proper assistance can be given. This
road would be . great boom for Red
Cloud should it determine to make .
western division here. We hope they
will so determine. and We believe the
road would receive An abundance of
AID from our people.
ERE the next issue of The CHIEF
reaches its readers We shall have a new
steam engine In u three story wig
wan. This, with u new presses and
a large amount of new type, new ma
terial, ETC., will furnish The CHEF
with one of the best book and job
printing outfits in southwestern Ne.
braska, and will enable us to fill all
orders with reatness and dispatch.
JOIN DUcKkR, a we'll known residen,
of Red Cloud, has returned from Joli.
ct, where he and his brother George
went a few days ago to attend the fun
era. obsequies of their father. George
will remain in Joliet, while John will
run the Red Cloud store. The boys
have three stores Of their own. John
is a number one salesman and business
man. and We feel confident that he viii
be rewarded with success. We wish
! him and his store proeDerity.
IT seems almost impossible 70 ge1
our mail through the Catherton and
Wheatland post Offices, and We have
complaints from those two place.
every few days. There is no excuse fol
such negligence on the part Of officials
Our papers leave regularly by Satur
DAYS mail and should be delivere(