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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1904)
I tf 'f 3 ggj. ' i y-g The Price of a $5.00 Hat 13 tHe interest on $ 1 00 for a year. The pice of a GORDON Hat is the interest on $60.00. Men who wear $5.00 hats -understand interest charges and They are the men who know Style. Pretty good business to free '.$40 of your capital and get a better hat, isn't it? GORDON Hats $3.00. THE CHIEF RED CLOUD, NEMIASKA. "PUBLISH RI) EVERY FRIDAY. Gkoiuie Nkwiiou.sk, Editor. BUUSCIIIfTIOK KATES. One yer II ou Qlxraouthi 30 Interod t tno poit offlre at lted Cloud, Nob, econd clan mull mtttot. ADVKKTISINO KATES: furnlaliod on application. TELEPHONE. SEVEN - TWO Foil I'HFSIIlKNT THKODOUK UOOSKVELT, N. Y Foil VIOK I'lCKHIDKNT. C H ARLKS W. FAIRBANKS, Iud Tor Govkiinok. J. II M1CKKY. Foil I.IKUTENANT (lOVKUNOIt. E. Vr M'UILTON. Foil Skckktaky or State. A. UALUSIIA. sFoil AtJDITOK. E. M. HHAKLE. JFoit Trkasukkk. PETER MORTENSON. 'OR SUl'KHINTKNDKNT. J.h M'HRIEN. OK AlTOKNKY (iKNKUAL., N ORRIS BROWN. Jt'OB IiANI) COMMISSIONER. II. M. BATON. Ton U. S. MCNATOIt E.J. BURKE IT. JPOB CONORCSSMAN O. W. NORRI3. "Fob Henatob of 20 Di8T. E. J. PEIERSON. .Fob Repkeskntativk O. W. KAI.EY. Sfyit County Attoknet A. M. WALTERS. For Co. Commissionku .Irii. Dist , II. W. SAWYER. B.h. Dist. W. RICHARDS. Nebraska farmers this full will look -with more favor ou com buskers thun ou spollbindors. "Somo Noborskn pops mid democrats sato still trying to work on ibtit potro. JJoum well wbiub wus long ago exploded A Lincoln man wanted to marry his oloco and a Texas man bis stepmothor. Tho first was informed that i( bo per sisted bo would land In tbo ponlton .t.iary and tbo otber is in a qunudry. Ueshlos their friwal diotof rio and vegatubloi with a littlo fish tbo Jiipa meso aro teaching tho world many new fillings o nnouted with the currying on of war It is said that each so dier of --tlio Mikado has a fish lino in bis belt; -.that bo currtos a small tea-kettle, ami .ki fan. He takes a bath every chance Sie gets, and is making a very o.xtimv avo uso of tbo telepbono. It is o-ident they liavo extracted all they can out of Western clvlli.atlou and have de termined to improve upon it. Sidewalk Inspector Needed. Rod Cloud needs a sldowu k iuspee tor. Tbo city council realizes this at uilmost every mooting. Tho council Is doing much good by insisting upon permanent sidewalks, but there aro othor needed conditions to be com I Ayers For coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma, weak throats, weak lungs, consumption, take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Cherry Pectoral Always keep a bottle of it in the house. We have been spying this for 60 years, and so have the doctors. -I h tiied Ayer't Cherry J'ectorl In my fmlly for 40 Tear. It li the beit medlelno In the world, 1 know, (or all throat ami lung troubles." Mils. J. iv. .xJucno-iB, waunam, .mm. 3le.,Me..S10fl. J. O. AVKII TO., I owll, Mku All nrupK". for The Lungs Daily action of the bowols Is necos ary. Aid nature with Ayor's Pills. durod. Oio propcily owner wauls ills wu k two feet fioin bis lot line and another property owner wants Ids right up against his lot lino. Some have put down walks (Ivo feet wido when tho ordinanco cal s for four, Some caro nothing for tho appearance of tho walk so long as they can cheap en tho cost. Brick, sundstotio or comout will mako excollont walks, but they can all bo slighted and thus destroy tho Inton tlon of tho council. If tboro wero an Inspector who knew bis business tho city would cotue neaier having good walks. Tli ore is another vory important feature In this connection, and that is tbo question of grade. Each walk that is put down is laid to tho gralo of tho proper y owner's judgmoiit, and behold, judgments diirer. Many people would much piofer to bavo thoir walks put down In tho right placo if there wero any moans of know lug they wero right, but nlas, wo have no grndo established and nothing to guide us but tbo oyo. Tlioro ought to bo uniformity as to position and as to quality. Iloro is work for tho council or any public spliited citien. What sha 1 be dono? TWENTY YEARS AGO Items of News Found in Tho Chief of Twenty Years Ado This Week - Mrs.3IcBrldo has gone cast after goods. Wm. Flsk has sold hiscbooso factory to J. B. Staiihor. E. II. Smith and Walter Sherwood of Mindon wero iu tho city Sunday. P. Barkley recoivod a ori'ro kick from ono of bis horses ou Tuesday. J M. Chailln has returned from In diana, where ho attended tho funeral of bis son, who was recently killed in a railway accident. At C. F. Cathoi's stooksale thoothor day ovorything sold high, tho procoods belug ovor 19,000. I. B Humpton mado us a pleasant call this weok. Mrs. M W. Dickerson is recovering from her recent lllnoss. A J. Means has just complotcd his now barn, 45x15, aifd bus fenced in 200 acres of pasture Ho rocoutly bought eleven cowh from James O Ilium. During tho year ending October 1 tbo Red Cloud creamory mado 70,000 p unds of butter. L C. Micks of Salem, Kan., recently sold and do Ivorod 4.GC0 bushels of old shelled corn at Hubblo's elevator in this city. During flvo days 09 teams came in. J. H. Romsberg bought Xi hoad of hojs from Mr. Harvey tho other day. W. T. Bohror has ono of tho fluost oows wo havo seon lat ly. Business Is booming in Red Cloud and fall trado is picking up lively. O. C Coon and wife havo gone to Now York stato on a visit. 'I ho Antl-Monops. In Id their float representative convention. "Frii.' Richardson was chairman, and P. C Huhboll, F. Houohln, Kd Mocalf, L. D. Oatman, M. D. McKlnney, D. S. Ilolveru and 'I bos. Vaughn wero tho other Wobster county delegates. John V. Deary of rraukliu county was tbo nominee. Among tbo pupils who got on tho roll of honor during tlio month of Sop toinbor wero Myrtle and Gertie Kaley, Harry Lethon, Edwaid Cook, Alico Romsbeig, Afaretta Ayor.Curtlo Miner, Hugh Miner and Ella Romsberg. A imposition vfillsoou boMibiultted to thevotors of tho county to build a poor hou'-e on tiie fn-un h.jw owned by the conn1'. A now sidewalk has been laid along Webster hti eet uoi tit to bixth avenuo, tlienco west to tho M. E. church. As a result of tlio trouble with Orion's circus at Burr Oak tho other day ouo man is dead, ono probably fatallj wounded and another slightly injured. Sixteen attaches of tho circus woie anosted at Wasiiington, Kan., and bi ought back to Mnukato for trial. 'Ihoeontinot for repairing tlio Ouido Rock bridge was let to I). S. Hasty of Aiapahoo. Catlierton- C. II Rust was ordained older in the Presbyterian church.... Our postmaster recently sold eight lino sto rs to a gentleman in Hastings at ?15 it r bond. I Xoithweht Wobster-W. K. Thorno Is building a new barn. ...'I bo old soldieis are building a now houso at Wells for Rev. Hrown. South Side The com has thorough ly niatuied and will lio ready to crib in t wo w eeks .... The bask ot picnic nt II. B Simons' grot o last Sunday was a grand success. Rev. Pugb of Fair Held i leached mi excellent sermon in tho forenoon and Rev. Hooper of Kansas preached in tlio afternoon. Gin field -'1 hero is a great deal of blckness horo at present ...John Fov had tiio m bfortuuo to got his foot in a mowing machino, losing a big too. . . . 1 Another wildcat was seen lutho vicin- T GORDON GLOVES L are as Strong as they look ; they look as Comfort able as they are ; they are as Smart as they are Good. $ 1 .50. Ity of Hicks' last Saturday night.... Milt Richardson is improving nicely. Guido EockCal Moranvillo has roturned from his extonded western trip.... Tbo new M E. church will noon bodedicatod. . . .Soveral buildings re now in courso of oroctiou....Wod 1 osday tho soooud nino from Burr Oak defeated our boys 15 to 13. Lunatic en a Rampage. Stttiiiduy nii'htand Sunday morning Herman Wnbbeimin, who lives about threo miles east o( the btidge on tbo south sldoof tho rivor, caused consider able excitement in tint neighborhood. A week ago last Sttut day his brother Julius, who has been in the asylum, stnrtcd out on ft ot, "announcing that ho was going to St. LonK Nothing tins been heard from him, und it it supposed be has become demented and Is wan dering over tho tbo country. It ia supposed Hint the absenro of his brother unbalanced Herman's mind, and all Saturday night Herman kept up acontinoiis homhuidmont of thoiitiiio--pliero and malo night liiduou. Sun day morning ho startod out in March of liis hi otber, armed with two JJScali bor revolvers. He had not ptocciMlcil very far when he met ''Col." A II. Wig gins, whom he stopped and asked wberi bis bi other Julius was, threat ening to kill bun if he did not tell. Wiggins dmvo to the homo of Biid Johnson, where lio delivered some meat, and Wobbermiu cut across the Hold and met him thete, wlieieltoagniu threatened to kill Wiggins if be did not tell where his bi other was. Wiggins pacilied Wobbermln by telling him he would go in search of li ia brother as soon as he bad somo breakfast, and Wobbemin went borne. Sheriff McArthur was'notitled and in cotnpsny with Doputy Sara Foe and Tbad Saunders started out to round up tho demented man. When tboy were within about half a mileof Wobbormin's homo thoy met him on the road. The sheriff stopped and shook hands with Wobbirmin, and atttnipted to retain his grip on him. Wobbermln broke loose and stared to draw a revolver which he was carrying on his left fide attached to a ttring. Saunders had dismounted from the carriage, and when Wobbermln attempted to draw bis revolver he grabbed him from behind and disarmed him. Wobbermln had soother revolver in his inside coat pocket and attempted to draw that but Saunders and Foe succeeded in captur ing the gun. To add to the excitement tho sheriff's team ran away and did not stop until they reached Wobbermin's place, where they ran into a mowing machine and upset the carrisge, slightly damaging tho top. Wobbermln was landed in thecountv jail about noon on Sunday, and on Monday morning at 8 o'clock ho was taken befnro the insanity board for trial. After a brief hearing he was ad judged insane, and Sheriff McArthur and Deputy Foo took him to the asylum at Lincoln on Monday. Sunday evening Sheriff MoAithnr and his two sons went out to Wobber min's place, and found a loaded double barrel shotgun sitting beside his bed. Ho evidently meant business. m Aid Society Entertainment. Sonu'tinie ago tho membeis of the L'idles' Aid society of the M E. church each pledged themselves to earn a dol lar for the new church fund. Noxt Friday night the money will bo turned over to tlio treasurer of tho society a'nd each lady will tell in what manner she earned her dollar. Thoir experiences promise to be both interesting and amusing. Thoro will also be a splen did literaiy and musical program, fur nished by the best tnlent of tho city. An admission fee of 15 cunts will bo charged, and tbo placo for holding tbo entertainment will Lo announced tho tiist of ntxt week. B. 8 N. Changes. In accoidaiico with the policy re cently adopted by tlio Chicago, Burling ton & Quinoy Railroad company of changing the name of tho B & M. to thuC B. & li West of the Missouri River, B. & M. engine No !Hf has been repainted, tottered and numbered and is now "C. B. & Q , No 1281 " The B & M engines riinningoutof McCook ate all being repainted after tbo above manner. Business Change. Harry J. Eagles, who is well known in Red Cloud, has purchased the T. E. Penman jewelry stock and took pos session tho first of tho weok. Mr. Ea gles U tbo son of Wm. Eagles, presi dent of tbo Red Cloud Cieamery Asso ciation, nnd is woll qualilied in tho lino of work in which ho is engaged. We wish him surcess. That Settle's It. When a Colorado sand stono walk is laid that settles it. Seo Overing Brod. & Co. for prices. Do Not buy that Suit or Overcoat untill you have looked over the New line I am showing. I am satisfiied that I can "Suit you or Coat you" and that you will be Satisfied too. The Store is full of good things. There are plenty of clerks to show them to you. The prices are "PLAIN FIGURE" prices and "No Monkey Business". I want to see You and you Ought to see me. PAUL To the Public Having purchased Chas. Wadoll's meat market, wo extend to you a hearty iu vitutlou visit us and becomo better acquainted and also, when looking for good first class meat, wo ask you to give us a trial. We are satisfied we can we can please you. Yours for business, FEIS & SEARS BEST 15c MEAL IN THE CITY Ice Cream and Cool Drinks HHLE'S RESTAURANT Old Postotltco Building. Insurance Agency The German. Insurance Co. of Freeport. III., and the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Co. of Nebraska have over nine hun dred policies in force in Webster County. Look up your policy and see me. O. C. TEEL, .fit ' Phono 03. mmmiitl r r St STORE Y, The Clothier. I B. F. MIZER, D. J. MYERS, A. B. SELLARS, t President, Vice President, Sec. and Treas. Don't fail to see us before you buy a farm. We hare a large list to select from and can suit you, or Make a Loan DOINT FAIL TO SEE US. - K-C-f- S-(-fr c s fr If you are going to make a farm loan call on us. We can make you a long time, optional loan at a low rate. (- c- s c- List your farm with or trade It for you. I THE $ED GIiOUD The 4UkUUiUiibbUi"aitiitiU(U(UittiUiiaia(tiaiubviiUiiiUiaaid(iiiaui(iibdaitbtk 42 Piece Dinner Sets Given FREE. 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