The Saline County Standard, 1 July 1890, published in Friend, Saline County, Nebraska. W. H. Stout. Page 3

Official Directory.
CONGRESSIONAL
A.S. PADDOCK, U. S. Senator..Beatrice
G. F. MANDERSON, ..Omaha
G. L. LEWIS, Congressman.Red Willow Co.
STATE (Omitted by transcriber)
JUDICIARY
Ama?? COBB, Chief JusticeLincoln
Samuel MAXWELL, Associate??Fremont
T. I. NORVAL
FIFTH DISTRICT
W. H. MORRIS, Judge
COUNTY
J. N. VAN DUYN, county Clerk??Wilber
F. J. SADILEK, Treasurer????..Wilber
J. W. SHESTAK, Register of Deeds?Wilber
N. R? HAYDES, county judge???.Wilber
G. H. HASTINGS, County Attorney?.Crete
John BARTON, Sheriff??????.Wilber
A.N. DODSON, Clerk Dist. Court?. Wilber
Wm. FARRAND, Supt Public Inst??Wilber
D.D. LYNN, Surveyor??????.Dorchester
Dr. SHELL, Coroner???????Tobias
Herschell SMITH, Michael AHL, R. VANCE, Commisioners

The windmill business is booming these days.
Sunday last was the warmest day of the season.
The weather became a little cooler Tuesday evening.

Mr. A. J. NELSON lost one of his ponies last week.

Frank JONES is enjoying a visit in Denver this week.

Esquire ELLSWORTH has been appointed police judge.

Friend school district has 433 children of school age.

John KINTNER took in the Beatrice assembly Sunday.

Miss M. OBITZ and Miss Alice BURLEY visited Lincoln Tuesday.

Cash will be paid for some vegetables if brought to this office.

Two new members were added to the K. P. lodge Monday night.

Several of our people went to Crete last week to hear Miss WILLARD.

Charlie SANDERS will occupy Mrs. BURLEY?s house while she is away.

Rev. BARKER and wife returned from the Beatrice assembly Tuesday.

Mrs. Joseph GILMORE left for a visit at her old home in Minn., Monday.

?Sam SMALL is a greater man than TALMAGE? in some peoples estimation.

Miss Belle McKAY has returned from a few days visit with friends in Wilber.

Vergil REED, of DeWitt, spent a few days with his mother, 
Mrs. S. S. STOREY, last week.

Mrs. H. BURLEY and son, started Tuesday for Boston, where 
they will spend the summer.

Fred GUND, of Wilber, spent several days in friend last week 
visiting ye editor's family.

Al HURLBURT will put up a hundred barrel tank at the wire factory 
to be used in case of fire.

Mr. WARNER?s people, living near the school house, lost a 
five months old child last Friday.

Miss Bell McKAY and Miss Maude VAN DUYN favored this 
office with a very pleasant call Tuesday.

Drouth and dust is the weather in this section.

John JACK, of Lincoln precinct, was in town last week.

John VAN DUYN of, Wilber, spent a short time at the reunion 
last week.

Brigadier General GRIERSON has been placed on the retired 
list of the army.

Mr. and Mrs. Jas. TALLEY have the sympathy of their friends 
in the loss of their babe.

Mr. PILLSBURY, of DeWitt, expects to have business in Friend 
quite often this summer.

Miss Minnie DECKER, WHO HAS BEEN SPENDING SEVERAL 
MONTHS IN Friend, left for Illinois Sunday.

A Mr. BELDEN and a young lady from Iowa were married Tuesday 
evening by Rev. BARKER.

The general impression is that WEBSTER has been too much for 
Samuel SMALL in their debate.

kGeo. HAVENS lost the dinner he bet with Mr. ALLSMAN on 
the price of hogs, but when is the dinner?

Markets are off and farmers are not receiving as much for their 
stock as they expected at this time.

Don't say anything more about that silverware Eddie, for Mr. and 
Mrs. WOLFE are very much pleased with it.

Mr. KISELER has bought J. D. FRENCH?es residence and will soon 
move his family to our city. We understand Mr. FRENCH will move to Tobias.

On the 19th and 20th of this month J. E. REMSBURG will deliver three lectures. 
Mr. R. is an unbeliever in divine inspiration and invites all to hear him.

L. E. SOUTHWICE and wife and B. F. RENGLER and wife attended the 
Beatrice assembly this week.

Host WALKER, of the Coronado hotel, treated the band boys to 
a first class dinner on Saturday last.

Women who served as army nurses during the war sill probably 
soon receive pensions of $12 a month.

One hundred people were poisoned at Tobias on the fourth 
from drinking lemonade. No deaths have been reported.

The show is now over and those holding unused comps are 
requested to leave them with Jigadier Brindle STOREY.

The HUFFMAN barb wire factory has put in three new machines 
and will soon be manufacturing wire by the car load.

L.P. GESSELL, of Holdridge, made the STANDARD office a very 
pleasant call while in town last week celebrating the fourth.

The dirty faces of some of the celebrators last Saturday reminded 
the old soldiers of the old times they had among the southern negroes.

The Republican caucus of Lincoln precinct will be held at the residence of 
C. W. HURD, Saturday July 19th 1890 at 4 p.m. C. W. HURD Char.

Several couples of our citizens spent Sunday last in the woods. 
The weather was a little warm, but they went prepared for any thing 
that might happen.

Some unknown person tried to enter the residence of Mr. McKINZIE 
Monday night, but was met by the gentleman of the house who gave 
him a minute to 'get'.

Andrew MOFFATT, of Dorchester, gave a few orders down at camp last 
Saturday, and did more grumbling an fault finding than all the rest of the 
old soldiers combined.

Mr. LEWIS, the obliging B. 7 M. agent at this place, informs us that 115 
tickets were sold Wednesday to persons who attended the Crete assembly 
to listen to TALMAGE.

Host WALKER and wife and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. O'MALLEY drove to Crete 
Wednesday. Mr. O?MALLEY has just been taking unto himself a new wife 
and she is his traveling companion.

Mr. H. P. KING and daughter, Miss Maud, started yesterday for Wisconsin, 
where they expect to remain fro some time visiting relatives and friends. 
Mr. KING accompanied them as far as Omaha.

Sam SMALL is nearly as bad off in Nebraska as he was when the Yankees 
were chasing him around in the south. The greatest trouble with Same is, 
he is on the wrong side, the same as he was in the sixties.

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