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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1911)
7--. V r 8tu-j .J'VJ'v ,. JEBanMW"' mflmmvmivn- U llisMii-l'i-il S ol ty " SSim!tH.. , -,-rrr..Vj , ? 1 K II1 !' s" h ? i -i9!fi&tP'ay!& 1'ui.tlLZitfiBfcSiEES .?Mg- ,cfc bBmBEBJv' a "flBlBMHHMBlBMWTBBBBBBJlBBiiM&v" "--tfcsSjjfcStrs VOLUME XXXV UII A DAY OF TROUBLE ! aot so greatly dreaded If .von h.ivo one of our deposit books with it good sum to your credit; la f.ict. it nv'S to be the "friend Indeed " Do not neglect this Important mattei: e to tatoueottiat you start ii dmnU ojunt, however small, aud then a.'d all you can spare to it. Remember, the rainy day Is bound to eome. Interest paid on Time Deposits. Webster County Bank, RED CLOUD, NEB. CAPITAL $25,000 B. F. Mizer, President, S. R. Florance, Cashier. DIRECTORS: B. F. Mizer, C. J. Pope, Wm. M. Crabill, Wm. H. Thomas, S. R. Florance. GARFIELD Will Kis,her took a load of hops to town Tuesday. Little Ethel Fisher was on the sick list Saturday night. Pretty dry in Garfield and no rains to bother In plowing corn. Wheat Is most ready to cut but the oats ia getting shorter every day. George Smith called ou folks over the river Sunday. Ask ticorgo who she Is. Fred Harris and wife and Harry Harris and wife called on Al Smith and family Sunday. Guy Haines and wife and Lee .Smith and wife called on (leorgo Jennings and family Sunday. Mr. Simpson aud sou of (iiiidc Uock tire putting in a new cement bridge on the bottom road and the road is closed for this week. I F. NEMWISE, Pry Goods MUST. IN UNDFRWRARI Ladies' White .TbTbTbTbTbTbTbTbTbTbTbTbTbTbV Ladies White Skirts with three rows lace insertion and lace edge, $1.00, $2.00, $3.25 Ladies' Nightdresses Ladies low neck Nightdress, with 2 A 1 Cf rows insertion and lace edge in neck, R I III I 3 rows ins'n in sleeve, sleeve lace-edge H7 9f Ladies' Nightdresses with 3 rows emb. in- J 1 AA section in yk, yoke edged with emb., atP ' vv La dies' extra large Nightdresses, insertion K CC in yoke. and embroidery edge, at - - P vv All three lumbers are bargains at these prices. Sole Agents for Butterick Patterns TElTEPHONES: Independent, 53; Bell, black 41. I a i ja :' best rmENpl IBBBBTC tsKfaaamaaaaaamamamamaamawmaamamM bhBBV917v''JBBhBhBhBhBhBhBhBBBBhBb - IhiEHb? ! Miss Hattlo Smith and Mr. Henry Emcrtou were united in marriage Monday and came out home iu the evening. A large crowd of the neigh bors gathered and furnished music with cow bells and shot guns for an nour ana cnterraincu mem. con gratulations Henry. May you nnd yoqr wife live loug and happy. . gx J L.CZ Mrs. Or. Briren arrived home S--- . Ties- day from a vNit in Illinois. hid Whito was out to his farm Mon day repairing liis wind mill. Mr. Hildreth and family of Trenton are here visiting friends tiurt relnthes. Nick Thomas shipped a car of cattle to St. .lop Monday accompanying the s ime. Adolph (iottt and family of Red Cloud were visitiug friends in Covvles Wednesday. Skirts With 6-inch em broidered flounces and cluster of two tucks, $1.00 xrri Mutes' Muslin Drawers Misses' Muslin Drawers, 2 tucks with I -inch embroidery, sizes 8 to 12, at 25c 'W A INew&aeaw That (lives The News Fiftytw Weeks Each Year Fer $1.50 RED CLOUD, U EBB Mr. Fulhvlder of Blue Hill is phis I teriug the Fuller .V Dennett house east of town. Miss Maud Hay.e came home Tues day from Stratton, where she has clos ed a year of successful school. The M. K. Sunday school had a pic nic down lu the grove south of towu Wednesday. They all report a line time. There will be a social at the lawn of the Christen church Friday evening. Ice cream will be served. Kveryoueis cordially Invited Wednesday afternoon there was n base ball game here between the Guide Rock team and the Covvles team. Tho score was 0 to 4 in favor of Cowles. "The best luck i ever had was down" on the Ninneseah one time," said Rob Kerr to a Hutchison (Kas ) Gazette re porter. "I had been walking all day without seeing anything- to shoot at. As I was getting pretty tired I sat down on the river bank to rest. Pretty soon I looked up the river and saw 500 ducks. I pulled back both ham mers and took aim at the ducks. 'Just as I was going to pull both triggers, I heard a noise down the river. I looked iu that direction aud saw 5,000 geese, so I thought I would rather have the geese than the ducks, so I took aim at the geese. 1 whs ready tosuoot wlioumy attention was called to u slight rustling noise just in front of me. I looked down aud not three feet away I saw a big rattlesnake with its mouth wide open and ready to bite, so 1 thought the best thing to do was to shoot the reptile. "1 raised my gun aud took aim at the snake. I pulled bnth triggers and let go both barrels. The blamed gun bur.sted, The right barrel Hew up the river and killed the fiOO ducks, the left barrel ilew down the river and killed the r.,0l)0 geese, while the ramrod How down the snake's throat and choked him to death. The gunstock Hew back and kicked me over in the river and I came out with my boots full of llsh." The Danville (Iowa) Enterprise. I Children's Muslin Drawers With hemstitched ruffle, sizes "' - w v, ai - - i j. With embroidery ruffle, ages from 2 to 1 2, at - - 25c Children! Bloomers bX ' Made of a good grade of Black Sat een,,ages from 2 to 12, at 25 ASKA, J U X 12 15, 1911. Plea for a Sane Fourth of July Celebration OMIee of State Fire Commissioner, Lincoln, Neb., June ft. The time is near at hand when the oeople of this state will eolebrate In dependence day. The patriotism of both young and old on that day is usually aroused to the highest pitch and there seems to be as many d lifer ent ways of showing one's apprecia tion of the freedom and liberty that they enjoy as there have been ways aud means of showing it. Tho most common, usually, among the boys aud girls seems to be the lire-cracker, the torpedo, the toy pistol, the Roman candle, tho sky-rocket, aud like ways of mitklng a loud noise or a bright light. I'Mitilly the boys and girls iu whose hands these deadly articles nre placed have no idea of the danger that attends them, and it is not until afljer the deadly worlc has been ac complished that tlit'v fully realize they havo been playing with death and destruction. On July 4, lltlo, there wore a,l2:i per sons injured, of which 1,'U died; G7 deaths were due to tetanus and 10 were caused outright by firearms; 11 by explosion of powder bombs or tor pedoes; 6 by cannon or similar con trivances. There wore 72 caes of loci: jaw; 40 people lost their sight; SG lout arms, legs or hands; Ul lost An gers, while '!(', mostly little cirls, were burned to death by lire from fireworks. This is a startling show ing, but it is a material reduction since l'.)0;i, when there were nearly double the number injured and four limes as many lives lost. The reduc tion in injuries aud fatalities has largely been brought about by the calling of the attention of mothers and fatheisand of the dealers in these deadly explosives to the results that attend them when placed iu the hands of Inexperienced persons. I wish to call upon the fatheisand mothers of all the boys aud girls of Nebraska to see to it that their boys and girls will not bo pormitted to pur chase or ignite or use any of these deadly explosives. I also wish to call the attention of the business men to the fact that, for the little profit they may receive from the sale of those ex plosives, they can not afford to en danger the lives of their customers by selling them articles that will either causo their death or malm them for life and destroy thousands of dol iar worth of property. I recently saw a picture, and under neath it was in&crlbod: "Tho Day After the Fourth." Reclining upon a a conch was a little boy about ten years old; a bandage wns over his eyes; his mother was kneeling beside the couch, her prostrate form thrown across the body of her boy, crying bit terly, while the father and the doctor stood by, igazlug upon the the little sufferer with a look upon thole faces that depicted despair. Only the day before, this little boy started out to celebrate Independence day, just as your little boy or little girl will start out on the coming Fourth of July. The little money that had been given this boy to celebrate Independence day bad been expended for dangerous explosives. He bad touched them off and his eyes had paid the ponalty. During all his after life ho must grope in darkness, the beauties of nature closed to him forerer, and instead of being a support and help to his father and mother in their declining years be will be a dependent as long as he lives. This could all have been avert ed bad the fathei and mother taken the precaution to see that their child would celebrate the Fourtlrof July In ftjans and se'hslblo way, I ask you fathers and mothers to read over the description of this pic ture and 6ee how you would feel after next Independence day if you were placed in the same position that this picture just described shows that this father and mother wero in, and then I ask you to uso every effort to avoid any possibility of an occurrence of this kind. The officers aud business men of YOIIK INTERESTS ' ARE OURS. J The Retailer in any line of business should stand for the interests of his customers. In the long run, it is on them HE must depend, CJ It is because we know this that we have always handled the BEST goods in every line, and only such as would' merit our guarantee of "SATISFACTION OR MONEY BACK" Newhouse Bros. E. H. NEWHOUSE, Prop. C aY. Q. Watch Inmpmctor. Real Estate Dan Qarber A Co. Rmd Cloud, Ntbrsska every town in this state should see to it that everything of an inflammable nature is removed, to prevent a con flagration and the destruction of prop erty by the careless use of fireworks and explosives, in several states, city and village councils have passed ordi nances forbidding the use of explo sives within the village or city limits. It is not too lute for councils to enact ordinances that will prevent the sale and use of these dangerous articles on the coming Fourth of July, aud I ur gently ask that you give this matter careful attention, as it will not. only save thousands of dollars worth of property, but.will prevent the loss of life and limb In the state. Let us all vie one with the other to inoulcate patriotism and the love of country in the hearts and minds of our children, but let us do it in a way that will reflect credit upon our citi zenship and intelligence and not leave the disgraceful scars that are left by thcuae of explosives in the hands of cliiWrok and those who have neither knowledge nor care for the results that may follow the careless handling of these deadly ageuoicB. ",.. ' .C A.RANKAU., (HHfj uoputy rire commissioner. ( -.- 1,' at ftftll fui amUd. Lftbt Friday evening the hall faus of ibis ijty met in the Commercial Club roaSms and organized a base ball club with the following officers: Pre? ident W. II. Haunders. Treasurer J, O. llutler. CaptainPat Carpenter. The boys began to practicing last night and will no doubt have a win ning team this summer. We under stand that the team will go to Guide Rock Friday to cross bats with the team at tbut place. NUMBEI? 24 awl9r an Optomatrltt. and Loans Chlof Offfcm The Real lest A FTERall,isinthe final product, for when jt comes to eat ing that's the REAL, test of Flour, wherein quality is evidence, Quality and IMPER IAL, one word. RED CLOUD MILLING CO. DR.S. J. CUNNINGHAM DENTISf Successor to Dr. J. S. BMIQH At the oM stand over the State Bank. Phone 131. alaPlm i, . ii . xw M M