The Red Cloud chief., 1895-08-16
BREVlTIEs.

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week.
c. Wiener leaves in a few days for
the east to buy goods.
Nelson Phelps presented this office
with some fine sugar beets.
Mrs. Belle Perry Of Kearney is the
guest Of Mrs. V. b. Fulton this week,
T.. f. Ladd's barn, Of %Inavale was
by lightning this week but no
particular damage done.
Lightning struck Thos. Emigh's house
this week aud knocked some plaster of,
bu. no other damage done.
Hon. G. n. Fowler, congressman for
New Jersey. was visiting with Hon. Jas.
McNeny and family this week.
$. Ba,les will have plenty OF saue
kraut this season, having over 1000 head
on a little patch where he lives.
Joseph Fogle's residence nea Cowles
was struck by lightning on Tuesday
night and burned to the ground.
Mrs. IIettie Stubs and daughter
Myrtle of Percival. Ia are visiting with
Mr.. Lewis Hummel and family this week.
BY the change in the supervisor sys-
tenn the county will saw $50 per day
when the board is in session as the new
law lays off ten members.
ID. +. Scammon brought to this Office
a sample of red beets that he raised in
his garden one Of which weighed 615
pounds.
1t was rumored that a lady by the
name II Petit was killed in Guide Rock
this week by a horse falling on her. The
report could not be confirmed.
Mrs. A j Carey and granddaughter
left this week for Beatrice for an extend.
ed visit. Mrs. Carey expects to go to
the mountains before returning home.
Prof. l.. S. Wilson Of Des Moines, Ia.
has been elected superintendent OF ouI
public school by the board Of education
Miss Lulu Potter was elected a teacher
Red Cloud has had few postmasters al
accommodating 40 Postmaster Cowden
Frank is alwa! = ready to care for thu
public and many times puts himself ou'
to do 30.
Geo. w. Nummel brought in a speci
men Of fine c. II this week. Also A. j
Carey some ninety day corn, that wa
matured. Nelson Phelps some excellen
evergreen com.
Chas. Rinkcr and wife living north o
~Inavale buried their three weeks oil
baby last Thursday, its death beinI
cansed by an overdose by Of laudanun
administered by the parents.
The republicans will put in nomina
ton next Monday the winning tickle
this fall. You can safely bank that tn
party of protection, prosperity and pre-
gress will make no mistakes, not eve
in a county convention.
Peyton Roberts, OF Monmouth, Ill
one Of the eastern land agents excursio
party to Nebraska, while reading
newspaper with one eye, and looking on
OF the car window with the other at tn
immense growing crops, suddenly bt
, came crosseyed, and contemplates enteI
I ing a damage suit against the state c
Nebraska for 2 1000.
] Following is the program for the ope
air concert Saturday evening:
l March ............ Ben Hur Chariot Rae,
oVertur'. LAYING flcturt
Schottische. ............. Little Alabama Coo
oeiecuoh' J. ahcies Hh'ot'
VALUES. 3. Forest Par
z March ......,.. .....,... .HlKn ScnOOl taut
= Il. MCNITT, Leader.
The list Of letters remaining at Tn
= post office uncalled for up to Aul
I lost, 1895:
Coltrin, Adamson Ford, Mrs. DIR.
Mapes, Efiie Ranzel, j, A.
: Silverman, Geo. Wilson. T.. +.
The above letters will be sent to til
dead letter office Aug. %, 1895. II nc
called for.-FRANK CowDEN, Potsmaste
a Elijah G Stewart, a resident Of thi
county for ten years, died at the res
dence of his sister, Mrs. Peter Albrigh
August 18th. He vas born In Pennsy
vania in '33. In the sixties he took u
arms in defense OF the flag and serve
his country well, but received %injurie
q that untitled him for the active dutis
Of life. He resided in New York Cit
after the wal for a number Of yea,
where he made quite a fortune. ii
made many friends in this country VIII
will be sorry to hear Of his death. II
8 was Ga years OF age. The funeral Sc
o vices occurred on Tuesday from the re
D idence Of Mr.. Peter Albright, conducte
!, by Rev. j. A. MaXfield.
I Fatty Wilcox, the junior editor
our up stairs contemporary, still insist
that we have been managing the NatioN
Fatty has always been a democrat, an
I 80 has his ancestry back Of him for gel