The Red Cloud chief., 1918-07-04

visited here Saturday.
Eyes tested, glasses fltted.--J. c.
Mitchell, the .Jeweler.
l. W. Edison of Oxford visited W.
d. Edison and family this week.
Geo. Holt of the Cow.es Auto Co.,
was Red Cloud visitor Monday.
Miss Marie Harwood is home from
Omaha on visit with her parents
Farmers Union meeting at Kellogg
Hall every Thursday night at $50. If
G. Z. Emerson of McCook was in Red
Cloud on b, g. q business the latter
part of the week.
Webster County Fair to be held at
Bladen, is dated for August 10Th to
22nd Premium lists and program
are being distributed.
G. &. Bennett, was in from Hastings
Monday, looking after the interests OF
the Lincoln Telephone company, OF
which he is Il travelling representative.
New prices on wheat are announced
as follows Minimum for No. wheat
aboard in the intermouutain district,
81; at Omaha and Kansas City 8? j..
Rev. w. O. Oliver and Mrs. Oliver OF
Galena, Kan, visited with Mr. and
Mrs. w. IL. Thomas and other Red
Cloud friends the latter part of the
week.
| Webster County Teachers, Institute
will be held at Red Cloud during the
week Of August l2th. &. A. Fulmer
OF the State Board for Vocational Edu'
cation and Rose Shonks of the city
schools, will be-the instructors.
Don't let it escape your mind that
the greatest patriotic Chautauqua ever
put under tent Is coming TO Red
Cloud this month. President Wilson
says the people should support the
Chautauquas. The dates are July "a
to Both.
} John Throckmorton, enroute to east
. ern camp writes that the people easI
/ OF the Mississippi are more demoustra-
, tive than they are on this side of the
big river; that the easterners are
absolutely wild about the war;" Per
haps we "western" fellows are no,
quite so "wild" but it is noticeable
that we are sending large numbers o.
, our best young men to the front and
that those who cannot go are doing
. their bit every hour Of the day ant
, every day of the week.
4 j. NJ. Timmons, of Clarence, Mo
was in the city Sunday, the guest o
. Mr.. and Mrs. j. +. Edwards, hi
cousins, j. NJ follows the profession
of horse and mule buying and on hi
" rounds hit Beaver City to sec if ther,
was anything doing in his line Mnle'
and horses were scarce but he founC
= four new Fords waiting purchase
aud bought them instead. j. NJ. say
there is more money in Fords than il
d mules although in other respects they
n are at times very much alike.
Chas. S. Ludlow, Cooperative obser
. yer, U 5. Bureau of Agriculture, Rec
= Cloud, makes the following report OF
! June weather: Average temperatur
n; high l02, on 18th aud 10th; low A
on 30th rainfall lS7 inches; days clea
21, partly cloudy ., cloudy /; thunde
y storms on 9Th, 25th, Goth. Prevailini
wind 5. w. days. The rainfall TO
June was 2,6S inches less than normal
This looks like dry time until con
! trasted with June last year when tn
rainfall was 0.76 inches. Average 70
| June past ten years is 75 inches.
H On July l6 an effort will be made {
make AS many homes as possible, i
Red CLOUD, 100 per cent in Red Cros
Membership for 1918 The Junior Re
Cross is largely educational and its aC
tivities will be carried on, entirely /
the schools as part 81 the schoc
work. Junior Red Cross membershi
does not count on 100 per cent in Tn
Senior Red Cross drive. Renew you
Red Cross membership for 1918 \
annual members, or those who pai
membership fee OF 81 90 In 1917 shoul
renew their membership for 1915. Jul
10th is the day