The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, January 18, 1907, Image 1
V j r k K a vasi&viaite43te5:.iCRjaffi!Av' X$A?&1irx,X&?Ms(itoX&&-ikx THE RED Gl CHIEF Subscription $1 a Year 1 in Advance W Eight Pages All Home Print fmB&IB2Jffl1mx2&&fiX!X!& lWWW,XW)&i.'W&t2i!!.'3f9l9im f VOLUME XXXV RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 18, 1007. NUMKElt tf f 4 I- w A. Splendid Premium K 100 EigM-Day Clocks . .To Be Given Away. . imsmssai&sa Wo want to add 1,000 now subscribers to Tm: Cmr.r's list bci'oro the first, (if Fobruary, 1007, ami to that end wo make the offer below. There will be no disappointed contestants. This Is a plain business proposition and every sohool district, every ohurch society, every lodge and every individual can secure one of those splendid Regulators by sending in ten now yearly subscriptions. rIJho retail price of this Clock is $7.00. tstisSSsikss "'7irjK i - rKHwaoiPTfc. eh3- mi BrtJl nnfiSsT'sflHB II BP&H 11 iJiHilllli Description of Clock the Height :t7 inches. Width lui inches. Dial, diameter 12 inches. Case Golden Oak. Retail price 87.00. Tun Cuihr has mado arrangements Ifor procuring 100 of tho above hand sotiio eight-day Regulators, and they will bo given away absolutely free, upon the following plan: Each person sending in 10 now year ly subscriptions to The Ciiikk will bo entitled to one of tho clocks. Each person sending in in renewals to January 1, 1008, will bo ontitled to one of tho clocks. Nobody barred! School districts, churches, seciot societies and individ uals are ontitled to enter the race. LIGHTAT US1. Current Turned On SaturtJay.-Plant n Great Succcvs. On .January l, tUOfl, thoj citizens of Red Cloud voted bonds "u build and operate a municipal electric lighting plant. On Saturday, .lathinry 12, MX)7, or one year and three day.-j later, the current was turned on utJiho lighting plant, and it was clearly uemonst rated that the plant was a grand residences and stores, and before an-1 other year rolls around the number may possibly be doubled, as there are a large number of merchants ami citi zens who have delayed putting lights Into their stores and residences until they were assured the plant would be a success. Thcte is not a town in Nebraska whose streets are So well lighted as Business College Notes Hoy Hutchison Is a new student this week. (icorge I'helps Is the llrc-huihtcf this week. success. Everyone ought to attend the higfc are those-of l!cd Cloud. The business s-hool concert tonight. section is Hirhtcd bv the 1..VH) candle! Mr. Olmsted was in town Wcdut " ' .Many well meaning perilous opposed I power arc lights, with one at the brow- day hunting a place for his daughter the issuing of the bondftl and even of the hill near the depot. At every ' llertha to board while attending tin after they were voted tho opposition ' street corner in the city there is an in- college. She enters net week, to the building of the plant was kept i candescent street light, 72 in all. audi The, new term begins next Monday up. owing to the inistnlyn idea that they make a brilliant showing. Some' and new classes will be organi.cd lit the money woidd be misappropriated i people feared the incandescent lights ' nil the courses. If you arc intending' would not have sullleicnt, power, but tc enter this winter start now. as von and the people swindled out of their money, as they had been once before. However, all the obstacles! were over come, and, though there was consider able delay in procuring some of the necessary supplies, particularly the generator, the plant was in full and successful operation in a year from the voting of the bonds. ' they are a success beyond all cxpccla lions. The power for the plant isfurnisned by a l.'U-horse power Atlas Corliss en gine, which is designed to run the big three-phase generator. In order to give the people some idea of what they are paying their money for, it is The city council was particularly only necessary to state that the plant fortunate in securing tho services of is now running at only a third its full ilohn Mart, sunerintendent of the . eanaeitv. In other words the iilmiL is Seward municipal electric lighting . capable of supplying three times the lb-go lecture course, which Is to be will li ml classes to suit you. Ed Overing made the students a vcr" instructive talk Monday morning tut Hun Yourself." lie brought out many things of interest as well as Im portance to each of ns. Well, we need only say "Mr. Overing talked," ami you would all know that it was good. All public school pupils will be ad mitted to the next, number of the col- next Wednesday, January till, for Lie. This is a treat on the part of tlur plant, to superintend thu work. Mr. amount of electric current now in use. AIurtK brought with him an ellicient The wisdom of the city administration I corps of workmen, at least one of in securing an engine and generator J college to the public school pupils and whom will remain in Ited Cloud Oscar of greater power than is necessary for j f they appreciate aiid take advantage lWirroughs, who has been appointed the present needs of the city is to be of it we may treat again, light and water commissioner. j commended, as it Is highly probable' On account of the increased work in Mr. Mart., who is fandli' with the that within the next decade the city ' the business :uege during the months- lighting system' ' i, oitios will have nearly, if not quite, grown of January.'' nary and March, Prof. i 4...... ,.r i h'ACSiiG i it .v.,1 HUM VWM ll.T Wl bit to jmv.i Cloud is the best ifv'i town in iM-b- Address all communications to run CHIEF PUBLISHING CO., Red Cloud, Nebraska. BANK BUSLDIINU SOU). Sale of Lots to Satisfy Judgment Aftalnst F. tt M. Banking C. Wednesday, at 2 o'clock p. in., at tin east door of the court house. siherltV Hedge sold the lots included in the judgment in favor of the city against the Farmer's V Merchants Hanking Company. The lots sold much better than was expected, bringing S721 in cash above the taxes. Nearly all the lte sold were subject to liens of oiie kirtd or another, mostly for taxes. The most valuable piece of property in the list was the Farmers X Mer chants Hank building, adjoining the Potter building 011 the south. Tin city hud been olVored S.tOUO for its equity in this building before the sale, and as the bidding was not very spirited it was bid in by the city for S-.TiOO. Thereat something over $70(1 in taxes against the building. The city also bid in lot 8, block tl. for S'.M). This lot is located just north of the Moranvllle building, and there is but about S20 in taxes against it. As indicated by the plat of the city, part of the Moranville stands upon the lot. Lots I to I. block Hi. were bid in by (ieoorge .1. Warren for SIO.I. These lots are located just north of the home of A. C. Ilosmcr. oil Cedar street, and are nice resilience lots. Lots S to )8, block- '.'. (iarbcr's second addition were bid in by Win. Wolfe at 5110. These are the lots in the block in which the er-amery is located, and there are SHU) taxes against them. Lots 1, 7. S and u, and I. 'I to :.'!, bloc-kit, same addition, were bid in by Mrs. Henry Dledetieh for 17. Lots I and .1, block (, same addition, were sold to D. L. Oroat for h'i. Mr. '(Smut already had a title to these lots. Lots HI to 21, block ((. were brought by II. W. iSulliford for S. Lots 111 to 21, block 7, same addition were sold to Win. Wolfe for $11. Lobs 10 to 20, block 7, original town, were bid in by E. .1. Overing Tor the Congregational church at t?20."t. These five lots are just north of the Congre tional church. Lots ir and Hi, block 27. were sold to II. W. (Julliford for 810. Lot 8. block 28, was bid in by (Julli ford at 10. Lots 20 to 21, block 28, also went to Julliford for 10. Lots :i and . block III, original town, were sold to It. C. Cather fm- SI0. These are the lots just south of the Christian church. Lots 17 and 18, block 21. were old to lieruard McNeny for 10. Lots 1 1 and 12, block .'10. also went to McXeny for 31. Lots (J and 7. block 17. were bid in by E. l Overman for the Methodist church at S17.'i. These lots are just north of the M. E. church. Undivided half interest In lots 2 and .1. block . 'I. were sold to II. W. (Julli ford for Sl.. These are the lots next to the corner just north of the old Sul livan lumber yard. Several lots included in the judg ment were not offered for sale, for the reason that the city had m- title in them. The original judgment of the city against the I X M. Hanking Co.. was for sJ.V.MH), and the interest has accumu lated until it would now amount to between 5-7000 and SOIIO. On this judgment the city has al ready 820011 in cash, and this sale, with the proceeds from the bank building when it is sold, will more than pay the face value of the city's judgment. At torney .Mc.N'eny has already received his fee for conducting the suit and the city will come out about even 011 what at llrst appeared to be a total loss of S.V.'liO. Atone time the city adminis tration seriously considered abandon ing the'suit, and was on the point of doing so. but upon the advice of Mr. McXeny the suit was finally carried on to a successful termination. up to the plant. 1 Dietrick ha -mid to decline to till any The imnrovement in the annetirance mure b-oliirc dates i-M-i-nt tbnse Hint raska. He does not say this because of lied Cloud within the last three have already been set. lie urged he had charge of the installation of years is almost transformation. Krom 1 teachers to take this up h t fall, and the plant, though he has reason to be a town of rotten sidewalkes, dark and many did. and he is sorr.Vhlo refuse; proud pf his work. At all times he gloomy streets, we have emerged into ' now, but overwork is ntft.any bene was given the hearty support of the a hcaiitifuT 1 title city with miles of nt to a person. , city administration, whose members cement and brick walks, streets bril- j-(f. Dietrick "ave a recital ('.' placed implicit confidence in his judg-' liantly lighted with electric lights, and1 j,.s southeast, in Kansas, l-'rldnv nient and integrity, and the result scores of handsome residences lining ' nj.ri,t, and another in the North shows that their confidence was not the street. i llranch academy Saturday night. Ho misplaced. The city adminstration j The work of the future lies in iiu-' ,l(j j-t,j 10uscsnt both places, ltotlt and the people of Red Cloud stand Improving the water plant, building a ,lluijt,m.e.s were appreciative and at ready to recommend Mr. Mart, to any sewerage sys'tem and providing better tt.ntivc. The professor was sorrv that city that is contemplating tho the in- school buildings for the accomodation j,jh vojc.c. wtLS ; such poor shape, lmt stallation of a lighting plant. j ()f our children. it wus worsi. Sunday, when he wii From a financial .standpoint the in-1 l-et's stay awake, now that we are hardly able to speak above a whispi-r.-vestment bids fair to be a paying one t last awakened. ( - . ... for the city. There are already over (Jet one of those clocks we are giv- 2,000 "inside" lights installed in the Now is the time, to subscribe. 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