The Red Cloud chief., 1898-08-26
THE WEEKS HAPPENINGS.

Ruins Miksch Is do Nn with typhoid
j. ID. Fulton Of Riverton was down
this week.
Mrs. Alex Bentley Is in the city the
guest Of friends.
Will Cozad OF Long Island. Kansas,
was here this week.
T. 4. Penman and wife are home
from the exposition.
Will Brewer was visiting old friends
In McCook this week.
A fine baby girl arrived at the home
Of Charley Reigle on last Sunday.
{ The barber shop Of Ward Hiatt has
bee n treated to q new coat of paint.
X. L. Potter returned home today
from a two.months visit at Salt Lake,
Utah.
+. z. Walters has been changed from
station agent at Inavale to. Lebanon,
this state.
Miss Villa Gather and brother Ros.
coe left Friday evening for an outing 10
the mountains.
rvern Olmstead, while playing ball.
had the little finger OF his right hand
badly bruised.
Charley White arrived home from
Omaha Wednesday, and is at home
sick with typhoid fever.
Miss Rosalie Squire Of Joplin, Mis-.
souri,, arrived in the city Sunday night
on a visit with Frank Smith and wife.
Uncle Billie Fuller, formerly a resi-.
dent Of this city, now residing in Ar.
ka nsas, is visiting friends in the county.
VIM. Douglas, a former well known
residentof this city, but who has been
engaged in the drug business at Su.
perior, is dead.
John Burton who has been running
the switch engine here while james
Swearingen was laying of on sick
leave, returned to McCook last night.
Write to j. Francis, General Passen.
ger agent Burlington Route, Omaha,
for handsome 82.page pamphlet de.
scriptive Of the Trans Mississippi Elk.
position. free.
j. H. Smith writes combined insur.
ance for a term of five years at 3 per
cent. On schools houses, churches and
farm property on the installment plan.
Drop him a card at Red Cloud, Neb.
While M. G. Sherman was coming
from Guide Rock during the storm last
night q brand new side curtain was
blown away. Finder will please leave
at Grice's drug store and receive re.
ward.
Mel Sherman was Ia Guide Rock las,
night giving notice to witnesses to ap'
pear on Monday in Justice Yeiser's
court TO give testimony in the assault
and battery case brouy ht from that
place.
Mrs. Thomas Beal, one Of the old and
well known residents of the county,
died at the home of her son w. V. Beal
this morning at the advanced age OF
80 years, 4 months and 4 days. The
funeral will take place at her sons
home near Cowles tomorrow morning.
The many friends of John f. Kesler
and Elizabeth M. Potter will be sur
prised to learn, as we were, tina; they
were the contracting parties to a wed
ding which occurred in this city on the
evening of Saturday, August 18th,
Rev. 6. w. Hummell officiating. The
newly welded couple are we'll and ia
vorably known here, and THE CBIEi
Joins with their many friends in offer
ing congratulations even IL we are
little late in finding out about the hap
ply event.
Meagre reports have reached thi
city of a tragedy which occurred a
Fountain, Oklahoma, about two week
ago, in which a daughter Of j. Nj. Guth
. RE, who formerly lived southwest O
this city, was shot and killed. From
the reports, which are very meagrs
it seems that a young man from Kan
sas accompanied the Guthries to thei
Oklahoma home when they move
overland about a year ago from thi
place, and becoming enanored wit
Miss Guthrie, who was a young lad,
some twenty years old, and his atten