The Red Cloud chief., 1897-08-20
AROUND TOWN.

VOos II iVtt nun Suuy hiOl uluk
on a trip to Lincoln.
Mrs. G. M. Wetherald of Hebron is
the guest Of s. +. Spokesteld.
Go to c. M. Gaines the old reliable
family bakery at the old stand.
Earl Arnold was here from Hastings
this week visiting old neighbors.
James Burden and wife will leave
next Monday on a visit to st. Joe.
Charley Barber Of Athena, Kansas,
is visiting with his parents west Of
town.
Ralph Ferguson of Hastings was Wis.
ting in the city the fore part of the
week.
IL you want q wheel pillow / have
some bargains it will pay you to look
after.--JAs. PETERSON.
An Epworth League convention will
be held in the M. +. church in this city
on next Friday, August eth.
A. &. Stonebreaker and wife of
Shell Rock, Iowa, are here the guests
of &. l.. Getting and family.
Ringing Bros. advertising car No. 9
was in the city Wednesday adding to
their already great display Of printers
ink.
The Union Fire Insurance Company
is the best mutual. Combine risks; in
installments 3 per cent. II. SMITH,
Special Agent.
Numerous hogs are dying through.
out the county with a disease which
no m seems able to diagnosis, and is
as fatal, or V c more so, as cholera.
b. +. Boynton of Rock Falls, Illinois,
accompanied by his wife arrived in the
city Wednesday night on a visit to old
friends and to look after property in
terests.
Rev. +. w. Mitchell of Franklin will
preach in the Congregational Church
next Sunday morning and evening ant
at Indian creek at 3 o'clock in tn,
afternoon.
Ii. +. Pond, wife and son Earl lief
this noon to attend the &. A. X. en-
campment at Buffalo, New York
They will also visit in other portion
of the state.
Miss Jeanette Dilley assisted b,
local musical talent, will give an elocu
tionary entertainment at the NJ. 4
Church, Thursday evening, Aug. 26tt
Admission 25 and 10 cents.
j. II. Smith writes combined insul
| ance for a term of five years at 8 pc
cent. On schools houses, churches an
e farm property on the installment plar
Drop him a card at Red Cloud, Neb.
D Walter Cox returned this week fror
q months visit in Kansas, Missouri an
Oklahoma. He states that it is almos
J, impossible for farmers to get help {
0 harvest their crops and it is nothin
r unusual for farm hands to receive tw
dollars a day.
y There is, what is left of a crosswal
q between the State Bank and Grice
drug store and it would be a blessin
. to pedestrians il some one would con
Y along some dark night and pull it u
and either burn it or hide it where
could not be found and put back.
Is The north we'll at the water worl
pumping station was pumped dl
It last Tuesday for the purpose Of repai
ing and cleaning the well preparation
for use. The water from the well W,
y turned down Elm street in such quaint
ties as to nearly flood the street.
,v ~ ~os>s~Wsrss&ssAzg
. Some Of our popocratic friends sa,
the Blue Earth City Mimi Post, fe
awful because sugar has gone up on
twelfth of a cent. Surely that's awfl
le And wheat's gone up, and cotton
gone up, and corn has gone up, al
n hides have gone up, and the price
:. labor is going up, and calami
" howlers are going up. Everything
% up. Shut up.-Ex.
- Don't use bill heads or statements
which you have to write your ov
name. Get them printed in an up-t
1t date style. There is nothing whit
r. will make your customers think y,
are OF the disposition to be penuriO
m so much as this. II you are stingy
one way what reason is there to /
~ lieve that you wont be in other way
lie Get your printing done right at d
,h CHIEF office.
n. The fools are not all dead yet, as W
noticed by several residents of o
city last Sunday morning when a wo
and weary traveller of Thea prail
schooner order stopped in front Ct L
state bank and tried to get water O
of tho fro hvdrant To water his taa