m m m m l l t it t it it it it b it it) it i 0 it 0 0 it it it it it "it it it .M it d r VOLUME XXVII. IlED CLOUD, XEBKASKA, JULY 11, 18!)!), NUMlJEIt 28 i::::fe: Tfc iaiaaaiHV.l",,,,,,,",,,""i i-...r. ivimtrt BHOTHERS, RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA. E SPECIAL - SALE ! ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGURES. When we advertise ''sTDecial'; we mean a "A SPECIAL SALE" A SPECIAL VALUE," in every article advertieed. Sewing Machines. We have just unpacked another large invoice of Field and Vindex Sewing Machines. These goods were purchas-' ed before the recent strong advances, we give you the benefit of our success ful buying. THE FIELD, 5 drawer, oak finish, high head sinplicity one of its cardi nal points sold by agents at $30 to $35 our price, $20. Same finish, drop head, $25.00. Dress Goods. We are making Special Challenge Clearing Sale Prices on Dress Goods. Challenge Clearing Sale on Summer Dress Goods. 20c grade of White Gopdc at 15c. Fancy colored Piques, special, 12c. i2c lawns, special at 7c. Organdie Suise, regular i2c, special 7c. ioc Lawns at 7c. Figured dotted swissisc, special at 12c. Fancy Figured Dimities, regular 20c special 15c. Linen Lawns at ioc. Corded Delta Betiste, regular 20c, spec ial, 14c. 28-inch French Dimities, regular 15c, special ioc. "Locksley Batiste, regular i5c,spec'l ioc. One lot of 50 Umbrellas. We place them on sale at 97c; they would be values at $1.26. We bought them very low, consequently the price of 97c. Baby Buggies. To close out stock special discount of 30 per cent. Paper Patterns. NEW IDEA PATTERNS EXCEL. ANY SIZE ANY STYLE. ij&0? lOets. a fin xfnP 484-no' .Middy Jacket 61ics4, 6, t, llljiart. 861-OIRLS' APRON. ' Sln4, S, B, 10 ears. These patterns are proving a great success. Shirt Waists. To close out our entire line of shirt Waists at one-fourth off. That means a 50c waist for 38c; 60c waist for 45c. zzzzzzz: msmk We have taken about 100 pairs of Ladies shoes from our stock, consisting of goods from lines which we have discontinued handling. They must go. In order to get the room they occupy we place them onsale at 50c per pair. 50 pairs Men's Shoes from lines we Have discontinued handling, at $1.00 per pair. One-fourth off on all Bradley Metcalf shoes that we have on hand. We have purchased, for fall, one of the finest stocks of shoes ever shown in Red Cloud,. As these goods are to arrive in a short time, we must have room. We guarantee the best shoe valaes in the city, Trunks. Special clearing sale on trunks. Our entire stock of Trunks one-third off regular price. All goods marked in plain figures. Furniture. prices, petition. We are showing the largest line of fur niture we have ever shown. We buy di rect from the manu facturers, thereby ob taining better goods with no middleman's profits. CarJoad ship ping secures for us JGttftr rlicrminfc iml We guarantee to lead all com We make the price. Miner Bros., Red Cloud, Nebraska. l(ff(fHI((H(fKflf((HUti:CUCtCcrrr,. MINER BROTHERS. RED CLOUD. NFRPAcju- , illiiMIMIIiiiilMlMiMJHilliiiiiiiHjKi, (0 m m m m m m m m m m m m m it it it) it t it it it it it it it it it 0 it 0 0 0 it 0 it it it 0 0 0 it it STATE CREEK. More rnlii and mororest. Oscar Provalt lias u now buggy. Clias. Davis sold his work nitilcs for $100. Mr. Hcrndcn sold his lino black horso for 1-15. L. N. Fitxgerald was homo last woo k from tho railioad. Mr. Henry who is quito sick at his son Hub's is no bettor. ZAIbortSurivncrund Samuel Mount ford have bought a lie v binder. Dan (irowcll of McCook is visiting relatives in our part this week. Wheat .uid lyoare ripe and are being cut. Oats will soon bi-ripe; soino me turning. Mrs. Clias Davis and daughter visit ed with her daughter near' Ueamsvllle last week. Potatoes aie nearly inado, soinuiif out iiuihbi.i 1 niivo them m iiug as gooe eggs. Grass in p-nuiios novor wa butter tlian at preM-ni, and tlio iiiondowvniu ready to mow ' Kli Karius and Mr. McOoriniek of sou'hwest Smith county was on this cicok a few days ago on olllciul busi ness. Miss May Uoscncraus received two nice presents on her 18ih birthday, a now buggy and watch, given her by her parents. At least thirty per cent of our farm ers have bought riding listers and cul tivators and now wind milfs during tho spring and summer. Mrs. Dr. Elliott died at tho homo of her son Davo last week and was buried in the Oriole cemetery. Sho was eighty-two years of ago. Tho recont showers havo made corn grow so fast that tho farmers will havo to rustle if they get through their last plowing. Somo of tho earliest corn is out in tassel and silk. Occasional. LINE. Harvesting is tho order of tho day. Cultivating corn is a thing of tho past. Good growing weather and corn do ing well. W. J. Hnskins lost 0110 of his best horses this week. Wheat is short but will average 10 bushels per aero. Tho potato crop is better th-in it has boon for several years past. The Fourth of July with its usual amount of noiso has coino and gone. Mr, Allen Carpenter was on a busi ness trip to Amboy 0110 day last week. Will Aubushon is on thosick list and under tho caro of Dr. Uock of Hod Cloud. Tho Bchool board of District No. 8 has engaged Miss Shopardson of Hod Cloud to teach, Professor Shannon reports his Sun day school a grand succoss. Tho aver age attendance is forty. Miss Ucssio Carpenter of Riverton, Nebraska, was tho guest ef Miss E. Victoria Haskins last week. Tho VanDyko brothers how havo tho creamery routo which was former ly attended to by Tuflt Sutton. Ponny creek Sunday school, district fJo. 8, roporlo an average attendanco of twonty-fivo for tho last quarter. Rev. Ilorton of Red Cloud will preach at Penny creek on tho 10th at 8:30 p.m. A cordial invitation is given to all. William, Benjamin and M. II. Van Dyko spont tho Fourth at tho camp meeting near Womer, Kansas, and re- port a good meeting. Tho meeting at Ponny crook was largely attonded last Sunday, ltuv. Campbell of North Urauc-h delivered an ablo sermon on tho higher lifo. Tho Sunday school at Penny creek District No. 8 was organ i.cd last Sun day by electing Mrs, Aubushon as su perintendent. School moots at U p.m. OU SKTTI.KH, w. Superior furniture and piano luster for sale by F. P. Hadley, Manfaotured by Red Closd Litr Co. If Dot had played with common soap What wreck thcre'd be to-morrow! . Her hands all chapped, her dress past hope, Her toys a tale of sorrow. But mother lets her play like this And wash whate'er she chooses, For not a thing will go amiss When Ivory Soap she uses, IVORY SOAP- 99o PER CENT. PURE. ecnrmaHT iM ir thi moctih . uwi co. cincmmti u -Vis iV$ v GUIDE ROCK. Dick VanWoort came in from Wyo ming Thursday. One-rourth of an inch of rain on the 12th at this placo. Tho tolophouo company commenced work hero Thursday. A. A. liushee was down from Hold rege tho first of thr week. Dwiglit Jones started for Pennsyl vania Monday night in response to a telegram. M It liontloy was down from Hod Cloud Monday looking after his inter ests in this vicinity. Row ii. Chiuiuol, grand chaplain of tho I. O. O. F. preached at thu Raptlst church Sunday evening. K. Parkor, Clias. Udgerton, Thurman Dillon and K. Crarv stalled for Colo 1 ado with a toam Wednesday . Mr. Reoves from Missouii isstopplug horo for the presont plating silverware. Ho lived north of this town seme lifteen years ago. F. W. Matton anil J. Miller of Illue Springs and A. Smith of Cadams worn hero looking over tho country with I. H. Colvin this weok. A lady lecturer at tho Raptist church on tho UJth, a boy orator at tho same placo on tho 14th and a Holiness camp meeting in town this weok. As Wm. Holu's boy was coming to tho croainory with milk Tuesday morn ing tho toam becarao frightened nt a horso with a blanket on and took a short run, but no damage resulted. Amidown. GARFIELD. Mrs. King still lives but is no better, Mrs. Jamos Amack is sick nt this writing. Well, onr good farmers aro dono plowing corn. Oats aro a good crop and aro almost ready to harvest. Mr. Jones is harvostlntr his wheat on thoGullifnrd farm. Chas. Amack had it cow killed by lightning Friday night. There will bo proaehimr at thu Uretli- ion church Sunday, July 10th. M. 0. Sherman was in our township a few days ag canvassing for a nur sery. Wo haven't had rain for a week and pnoplo aro getting afraid of a drouth. P. S, It rained Wcdnesdav nhrht. Joo Smith and Jud White aro run Bing their new binder. Suppow tkey will get tho bulk of tho cutting in their neighborhood. J.J. Campbell from North Branch was visiting his brother J. D. Camp bell. TltAII!'. How Dr. Howe Stopped the Small-Pox. Dr. Charlio Howo who lias boon at Ledora, a month, taking enro of tho small-pox patients, returned homo last night, the disenso having boon entirelv oiadicated. Norton county will nav Dr Howe live bundled dollars for his services, and lie mado one hundred dollars during the month in private lees. Mill ho earned the money. When ho arrived at Lonora a month ngo, Dr. Fuller and Dr. Drown, thu homo doc tors wcio dying with black small-pox and woro in a terrible condition. Both died within three days after tho ar lival of tho Atchison man, and ho was compelled to lay them out, haul them to tho cemetery, hury them and lit! up their graves. Tho people woro in tt state of panic, and Dr. Howo was com pelled to sleep in tho olllco of ono of tho dead doctors, and eat his meals under a tree, whoro they woro carried and loft for him. Four other doctors visited Lonora before Dr. Howo ar rived, but fled. Tho two doctors who died had no medical attention, and part of tho time no nursing. Conduc tor J. C. Brouso, of tho Contral branch, who caught tho diseaso from tho tramp who took it to Lonora, lay a weok without a nurso. Part of tho time ho was delirious, and said his wholo fear was that during tho delirium ho would go homo and expose his family. Dr. Howo introduced his vinegar treat ment at Lenora and thoro was not a single caso after his arrival. Tho vin egar treatment consists of taking four tablespoonfuls of tho best cldor vinegar to each adult, daily in n glass of water. Altogethor, Dr. Howo had twonty-two cases, all of which recovered. Tho diseauo at Lonora was black sniall-pox, nnd voiy bad. Atchison (Kan,) Globo. Telephone Notice. Tho tolophono oxchango will bo open to lecoivo nnd amwer calls from 7 a.m. to p.m. Culls for doctor, op nn,n,. emergency calls, may bo sent at any nine, nigni or day. During thunder storms no calls enn bo sent as tho wiies aro grounded or shut off at sueli times for reason of safety. G, J. Waiciuin, Managor. Mr. and Mrs. B. Lackamp Elston, Mo writes: "One Minuto Cough Cure saved the lifo of our little bov when n.ri- "ed with croup. O.L. Cottiig. 1tl vV