The Red Cloud chief., 1906-04-13
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Items Of News Found in The
Chief of Twenty Years Ago
This Week > -

Mrs. l.. II. Fort has returned to Red
Cloud.
G. w. Cline has his new house nearly
completed.
f. V. Taylor has moved into Mrs.
Tait's house.
Geo. NJ. Plumb is the happy father
of a bouncing baby boy.
Lima Owen and Lille Letson were
in Guide Rock Saturday.
A. Heyde was in McCook the other
day locking after his claim.
John CARRIER has laid a sidewalk on
the south side of his premises.
Miss Rena Denham, of Minden, is
visiting with +. f. Coolies this week.
Mrs. G. Wiener and Ed Wiener left
for New York City Wednesday morn
ing.
A. G. Hale, who moved to Missouri,
was in Red Cloud a few days this
week.
Belle Spauogle is teaching in the
public school in the place of Miss
Sherer.
Dick Gray has resigned the office of
depot master and has taken up the
lightning rod business.
X. l.. Tinker went to Burlington, Ia,
Saturday night to buy an extensive
line of furniture for +. V. Taylor.
News has just reached ID. +. Scam
mon that his brother, X. G. Scammon.
died at Los Gatos, California, April II.
The Red Cloud male quartet very
ably assisted in the evenings enter
tainment at the Congregational church
Monday night.
Geo. Carpenter, a former clerk in
Sherer's drug store in this city, was
recently killed by the accidental dis
charge of a gun.
w. p. Kenady of Quincy, H., has
purchased a farm near Red Cloud and
has moved his family here and will
make MS Cnelr nome
Van Benson claims to have the larg
est calf at t%wenty-four hours old of
anyone in the county. 1t weighed IT'S
pounds and is hale and hearty.
1. Frisbie had quite an accident the
other day. He was at the depot when
the switch engine came putting up,
frightening his team, and in tho at,
tempt to get away both horses fell,
one of which was badly cut up.
Mr.. Hubbell, living east of the city,
Will driving home last Saturday had
the misfortune to have his horses get
scared, and running away upset the
carriage, throwing Mrs. Hubbell out
and injuring the old lady severely.
The Rock Island surveyors are now
engaged, we understand, in locating
their line to Red Cloud, and ere many
more moons we expect that the corps
will be in Red Cloud, and later on we
will hear the whistle announcing the
fact that the trains are beginning to
move.
On last Thursday evening, while THE
CHIEF was being rapidly run off on its
steam press, there occurred quite an
important wedding in our city, viz;
Mr.. Floyd Reynolds, one of our well
known young men, was united in holy
wedlock to Miss Maggie Taylor, daugh.
ter of |. n. Taylor.
CROOKED CREEK-D. f. Tenants
house is nearly ready for the ~plastereI
......M Mrs. VIM. Dickson has been
quite sick 900. Miss Ada Howard is
teaching school in this district.
CowLEs-M. j. Turner is getting his
new store in readiness for business
900. Frank Beers, the plasterer, is
putting the Flushing touches on G. w,
Hager's residence &c. G. Bennett
left Wednesday for a visit to his ole
home in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. .....E
M. Pearson shipped his household
goods to Indianola Tuesday. .... Mrs
w. Y. Evans is visiting her mother al
Humboldt this week. zee, .Thos. Emigl
shipped two cars of cattle and n OF
hogs Monday to Chicago. ..... Married
at the brides residence near Cowles
April 10, by Rev. g. W.. Hummell, Mr.
S. b. Smith to Mrs. Hannah Haney