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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1906)
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Get a package at your grocer's today and learn how to get FREE A Beautiful Breakfast Set m gg Qf 31 pieces With Your Initial in Gold This beautiful set of dishes will be given to all users of Defiance Tea and Coffee taking advantage of our liberal offer before Oct. 1st, 100(1. An opportunity you cannot afford to miss, because it's so easy. Full par ticulars in each package. Defiance Coffee, unground, in pound packages. Defiance Tea in -b. packages. ASK YOUR GROCER LETTS-SPENCER GROCER CO.. ST. CORRESPONDENCE s Interesting Items Gathered s by Our County Reporters LINE Corn is doing ilnely. Win, Van Dyke spent Sunday with friends in North Branch. Hoinor Fonts of Guide Ko2k visited with the Van Dykes this week. John (ialbreth, Jr., has leased the S. C. Shuck ranch for the next yenr. Al Turner has done some good work on tho Lebanon line. Farmers are cutting tho third crop of alfalfa, which is good. BLADEN Mrs. Alva McCord and children, who havo boon visiting hor parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, oast of Blue Hill, re turned homo Monday. Mrs. Win. Johnion and daughter Mabel, who havo boon visiting in Lin coln returned homo Friday. Mr. Cravnor of Hod Cloud was visit ing at tho homo of his daughter, Mrs. U. W. Cowley, Monday and Tuesday. Win, Reed drove to Blue Hill Tuoa day. Mrs. R. C. Chevalier returned Friday from a two weeks visit in Kansas. Mrs. Carrio Adams and children re turned Tuesday to their home in Hast ings. Mrs. and Mrs. Searls returned to their homo near Bloomington Tues day, after sponding several days' vistt ing friends and relatives here. Georgo Madison is visiting at tho homo of ,1. W. Wratton. Mrs. J. Williams loft Monday for South Dakota, whore she goes to visit hor son Charles. J. M. Lookhart drove over to Blue Hill Tuesday. Way no Heed and family spent Sun day at tho homo of Fred Heed. Real Estate Transfers. .1 A Saltznian to Sarah .Saltznian lots (I 10 11 block 1 Jackson add to Red Cloud vd l J no S Largcutto Webster county part se I he I U-1 -it vd r, Cl'l'luttto H.W Dedrick lot b block "il Red oloud wd alio A II lvooney to Ueo A (iiicck wS sw4 -'7 and e!i fel 28-1-U wd.. .'jyoo Horace (J Sawyer and wife to A It Davis block 1 Sawyers add to Incvrle wd 1500 State of Nob to .lames V Siuer deed net he I and el! net l(l-:t-ll sun T.ra II Jones and wife to 1 K Iturwell eli block 2 Inavale wd 17."i Maud Myers and husband to Fannie MeCuno wS el and oil ofnetlM-tl wd 2100 Vorwon Bingham to Hugh B Hunter n!i nv4 Ki-l-O wd 2S00 . f : HflitHM)MliliiUMii.lMui-.iff;.';ilifnil.i.tiiAa THE INCONVENIENCE OF SUPERSTITION E-i I'Miwiliu'in.'Wi'iuir.wrniMrii'h'IMIIU'imft OrlBlnuI. Returning to the city after a six inouths' absence 1 hastened to congrat ulate my intimate friend Tom Funk on his engagement, which he had an nounced to me by letter a few days after my departure. I found him in his den at home smoking an after dinner cigar. He listened to all the pleasant things I had to say to him about enter ing upon the happy engagement period, then, after waiting for me to light a cigar he handed me, settled back In his oiinir and sdd: "You're too late. "It's off." OffV" "Yes, off off for good." "What's the trouble'?" "There Is or was just one fault In Molly, and, though I admit there are u great many in me, her one fault Is a btnggerer." "Extravagance?" "No. Quite economical." '"'Fond of admiration'?" "No more than any woman." "Hot tempered'?" "On tho contrary, she's very ami able." "I give It up. Tell me what It Is." "She's chock full of petty supersti tions. You know how long I was try ing to get her. Well, the reason was that she was consulting fortune tellers to find out whether the match would bo a lucky or an unlucky one. The witch she had most conlldence In told her that there was a dark gentleman wanting her (that's me), but If she married him she'd be very unhappy. It took me a year to find out about this, but when I did I 11-M the witch wi'h a five dollar bill ' she told Molly she'd got the light and dark gentlemen mixed, and Molly was to marry tho dark one. This settled it, and I sup posed the coast was clear when Molly Informed me that my original proposal had been made on a Friday and I must do It over. 1 was to call and take her by surprise Just as I had d -lie on the lii'ot occasion. 1 agreed, and do you know I struck the thirteenth day of the month. I hail to wait a few weeks In order to surprise her again, and this time I didn't strike any bad luck. I proposed for the third time. "Stupid ass that I was, I wont off nud bought an opal engagement ring. When I offered It Molly almost faint ed. She said that even to offer an opnl would Involve a never ending chain of bad luck. The engagement must be broken and we must begin all over. This made me tired, but I was very much In love and consented to what I couldn't help. It took us two mouths to get around to where I could give her another ring. I bought one with a number of stones In tho setting, a big one In the center, with two outer circles, the whole forming a cluster. As soon as she saw It sho be gan to count the stones and in another moment turned palo and dropped tho ring. " 'What Is the matter now?' I gasped. " 'There are thirteen jewels.' "I swore. Then I told her that sho must either wear that ring or go with out one. Her amiability conquered, nnd I consented to begin over oncq JOSEPH. MO. more. The next time Tgot ahead of tho fates by giving a solitaire dia mond. That was four months after she had accepted me. "I wns invited to her house to a dinner to celebrate our engagement. Molly and I sat side by side. I acci dentally upset the saltcellar between us. " 'Throw It over your shoulder, quick!' she screamed. I grabbed tho heavy cut glass saltcellar and, throw lug It over my shoulder, smashed a mirror on the sideboard. "The salt! The salt!' sho cried. 'Not the saltcellar.' '"Confound the salt!' I blurted. "She grabbed a list fill of the salt and tried to throw It over my shoulder; but, being in a hurry, she threw It Into my eyes. Great heavens, how It smart ed! I lost my temper and said a lot of things that shocked my prospective mother-in-law, but the fathor-ln-law looked at me approvingly, and 1 knew he was on my side, though he didn't dare say so. "Molly wet her napkin in a finger bowl and wiped tho salt out of my eyes. She was so lovely about it all that 1 qttieted down, and, though tho rest of the dinner was not exhilarat ing, there was at least no bad feeling. "Of course I Insisted on replacing the mirror, ami, of course, I was not per mitted to do so. My own celebration of our engagement was to bo a party to tho opera. I paid $L"i for a box and Invited the whole of Molly's family seven persons. Everything looked promising, the weather was tine and we had every reason to believe wo would have a good time. But just as we were entering the opera house Molly and I both stubbed our toes on a half step between the entrance pas sago and the foyer. Do you know, that girl turned and led the whole party out on to the sidewalk, where she declared that nothing could In duce her to go In again, for the opera house would burn down If she did nnd there would bo a holocaust. So wo all wont home. "I treated her so coldly after that that I supposed she would break tho engagement. She bore It all beauti fully. But I had had enough of it aud determined to get my freedom. I went to a seventh daughter of a sev enth daughter and paid her well to give mo an unlucky horoscope. She said that I was born on lie? unlucklest day of tho year at the dark of tho moon, with .dl tho unlucky stars In tho firmauK.it in the ascendant. 'JJhls I sent to Molly, who in a tearful letter broke the engagement. Thank heaven I'm a free man." RUSSELL TITORNE. ElnNtlclty of Splilem AVI. Did you ever watch a spider's web on a windy day? If so, you will notice how wonderfully It accommodates Itself to the swaying of the twigs to which It Is attached. It Is In fact elas tic of the very finest quality. Were It not for its elasticity the poor spider would not long survive. The first breeze would rend the silken meshes of the web to atoms and the owner's stock of new inateral would very soon be exhausted In repairs and renewals. Besides Its elasticity, the spider's web Is very sticky, a property which ac counts for tho ease wherewith It holds Insects when once caught. combined with plain figure prices steadily adhered to, has brought us a constantly growing business. Quality first, price next. Nothing but standard made, reputable goods at lowest profit prices. A ways zvilling to and compare prices or Chicago houses. Newhouse Bros., Jewelers and Opticians. B. 8. M. Watch Inspectors naAaaaVnaAvA Proposed Constitutional Amendment. The following proposed amendment to the constitution of the State of Ne-, braska, as hereinafter set forth in full, ( is submitted to the electors of the State of Nebraska, to be voted upon at the general election to be held , Tuesday, November 0, A. 1). WOO. j He it enacted by the Legislature of the t State of Nebraska: j Section 1. That at the general elec tion for state and Legislative otlicer.s to be held on Tuesday, succeeding the the first Monday in November, 1000, the following provision be proposed ' and submitted to the electors of the State as an amendment to the consti tution. Section 2. There shall be a State , Railway Commission, consisting of three members, who shall be first elected at the general election in 1000, whose terms of otlice, except those chosen at the first election under this provision, shall be six years, and whose compensation shall be fixed by the Legislature. elected, the one receiving the highest' number of votes, shall hold his otlice ' for six years, the next highest four year, and the lowest two years. The powers and duties of such com mission shall include regulation of rates, service and the gen eral control of common carriers, as the legislature may provide by law. Rut in the absence of specific legislation, the commission shall, ex ercise the powers and perforin the du ties enumerated in this provision. Section 'A. That at said election in the year 1000, on the ballot of each elector voting thereat, there shall be printed or written the words: "For Constitutional Amendment, with ref erence to State Railway Commission" And "Against Constitutional Amend ment. With Reference to State Rail way Commission." And if, a majority of all votes cast at said election, shall be for such amendment, the same shall be deemed to be adopted. 1, A. lialusha, secretary of state of the state of Nebraska, do hereby cer tify thai the foregoing proposed amendment' to the Constitution of the State of Nebraska is a true and cor rect copy of the original enrolled and engrossed bill, as passed by the Twenty-ninth session of the legisla ture of the State of Nebraska, as ap pears from said original bill on file in this office, and that said proposed amendment is submitted to the quali- flwl Vdti'l's. (if tin. stllti' of Whi'iislcii for their adoption or rejection at the ' general election to be held on Tuesday the 0th day of November. A. I). 1000. In testimony whereof. I have here i unto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the state of Nebraska. Done at Lincoln this 2-Uh day of July, ih the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Six, of the Independence of the Fnited States the One Hundred and .Thirty-second, and of this state the Fortieth. A. C.ALUSHA, (skai.) Secretary of State. Notice. Ia tho District Court of Webster County, Ne braska. Thomas J. ItodBors, Plaintiff, ) vs. Lorcttn Hoilk'tTM. Defendant. ) To l.orettu UodKors, Non-resident Defendant: Yon are hoiebj- notillcd that on the 13th day of July, 19M, Thomas J. ItodKers filed a peti tion aurtlust you la the District Court of Web. ktor County. Nebraska, the object aud prayer of which are to obtain n divorce from you, on tho ground that you havo willfully dctcrted and abandoned tho plaintiff, without j;ood cause, for the term of two years and moro last pat. You Hre required to answer sdld petition on or beforo tho 31st day of AuKust. 19 . THOMAS .1. itODGKHS. By Kcen?y it Baylor, his Attorneys. auglO show our goods with either local PEED PLUMB Has just received a complete line of FRESH , Bilk Garden Seeds Also handles Flow Feed Telephone 51. Miss Jessie Wert INSTRUCTOR OF Piano, Oigan and Voice Studio at Mrs. Josie Moran ville's, two blocks east of school house. Phoho 2GM. DR. W. S. SMITH OSTEOPATH LINDSEYiBLOC K RedUCloud, Neb, I HAVE Six Companies 800 policies represent ing over $2,000,000 in surance in Webster county. . Now is the time to get in the Band Wagon. O. C- TEEL, Insurance and Notary. Telephones: Country, No. 30; Boll, No. 98. ' To Cure Cold a In One Day. Take. Laxative Bromo quinine tab lots. Druggists rofund money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 20 cents. f X . ( ii