The Red Cloud chief., 1894-06-15
AROUND TOWN.

week.
Charley White was in Blue Hill this
week.
Harry Pond is acting deputy sheriff at
present.
There was a rainfall OF 81 Of an inch
last Friday.
Robt. Martin and wife are homo from
Island, Kansas.
M. Il. Bentley was on the sick list
this week, but has recovered.
Mrs. A. G. Hosmer, and children are
visiting In Missouri for q few weeks.
]. W. Runchey, our very estimable
was a Lincoln visitor this week.
The board Of supervisors were in SEES.
sion this week equalizing the various as.
sessments.
Mrs. A. II. Brown has gone to Utah
Territory. to visit her daughter. She
will remain several weeks.
Ed Story while out riding Sunday had
the misfortune to hove his team run
away, throwing the occupants out and
slightly injuring me-.
The total assessed valuation Of Web
ster county land is q little we 100000.
Surely Webster county is worth more
than that amount. Something wrong
with the assessment.
Bathing In the river near the bridge
ought to be stopped. II is q %pernicious
habit and someone should be made an
example Of. 1t is surely destructive to
good habits and morality.
Sem West is q great hoer. The
other day he hood up a fine lot Of pep.
pers that his wife had planted, suppos-
that they we're weeds. Sans head Ia
not balanced right just now.
Mrs. Alex Bentley and children. for.
mer residents Of this place but now Of
Lincoln, arrived in the city Wednesday
evening to visit friends. Her main stop.
ping place will be at the residence Of E,
II. Jones.
There will be a meeting Of the repub'
lican county central committee at this
place Saturday, June 23d, In the after.
noon, at the hall Of the republican club
over State bank. Please try and be
present. r. McNitt. Sec'y.
Rev. G. w. Hummel had an immense
grove meeting at Smiths lake last Sun.
day. He bsptised DC and administered
communion to 100. Over 1000 people
were estimated to have been present
He was assisted by Revs. Hancock ant
Blackwell.
Mrs. Bradford. daughter Of Mrs. Tai
bot, while on her trip to California. wa
just in time to strike the Pueblo flood an
was detained there three days and nights
only able to leave the cars on the lss
day as the flood reoeded. They wer
compelled to depend on the ranchers 70
eatables.
Sargent Cole Of broom fame, q resider
Of Bloomington was visiting friends i
Red Cloud this week. The old brothe
claims to have received 400 ~ wound
on his body while fighting yellow jacket
at the battle of windy Point" or som
such place. The Sargent 10 one OF th
%jolliest men that ver ate bareback
carried q canon.
Mrs. G.. Z. McKeeby was called
jamestown, Kansas. this week by tel
gram, announcing the serious illness
her mother, Mrs. F.. T. s. Ansdell, WI
died before she reached there. Mrs. M
Keeby had just returned from a VIE
with her mother and the news Of h
, serious condition was q great eusprif
She has the sympathy Of her mai
friends in Red Cloud in her great b
q reavement. Her mother was II years
age.
l.. A Coon SHowING.-The Mode
. Woodman Of America, Of which r
Cloud, has a most prosperous camp
Q doing nicely these days. At q reguI
meeting on Last Wednesday night tn
initiated four candidates, and had II
% plications to act on, making now
q members. After the ceremonies b
a been completed the members pres
had a fine banquet served by G. M. c
mes. The neighbors feel Iubilant o
!. the success Of Red Cloud Camp No.
and feel that the society Is passing
records az far az new members are Q
cerned. It 10 among the best NUT
benefit societies in existence, and I
CHIEF wishes the neighbors success
that they may continue to saw VI
-, rapidly.