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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1895)
tmi -HI ,5 , W -4 VOL. XL MRTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1895. NO. fi&j' 17 - i 5,7 a :- Sale .FOR THE-. MONTH OF JULY WILL COMMENCE AT, The Boston Store ft KB JULY 6th. LOOK FOB, GREAT BARGAINS. A Nice Hammoc k -45 -UK", : is just the proper thing in which to rest your wearied body this hot weather. Why not buy one? Newton Sells Them. 05TO- 3496, istohth: pl.tte, neb. Capital, -Surplus, S50;000.00. $22,500.00. E. M. F. LEFLANGr, Preset., ARTHTJE McNAMAKA, Cashier. A General Banking Business Transacted. SHOE SALE Otten's Shoe Store. PRICES CUT IN TiA, InTorder to swap shoes for money we will pffer our ladies.1 fine Ludlpw Shoes, Regular price $4,00 to 4.75, a,t $5,QQ; , Jlere is a. chance to have a fine shoe for a little 'money. All our Men's $3.50 Shoes at $2.25. Mmi tur Boy's fine lace and button shoes, the best made, - $2.50 Shoe at $1.65 $1.65 Shoe SI. A large line of Ladies', Misses' and "Children's Slippers . . will be sold at prices that will Save you 1-3 to. 1-2 of yqur money. Ghildren'-s Shoes, the best goods that money can buy, will v be slaughtered at the same rate. Shoes will be sold cheap for cash this month,- . Otten? Shoe Store. Dr.. N. McOABE, Prop. J. E. BUSH, Manager. NOBTH PLATTE PHAEMACY, north: PLATTE, - jSHSBR-ASKIA.. WE AIM TO HANDLE THE BEST GRADE OF GOODS, BELL' THEM AT REASONABLE BRIOES, AND WARRANT EVERYTHING AS REPRESENTED. Orders from the countryXand along tiie Hue of tne -UnioD . . Pacific Railway Solicited. ' . - . JJioaols and Eershey Hews. Several grangers are irrigating. A large amount of alfalfa hay has been stowed away in the. valley this week. Cora is improving rapidly at the present time. This country was well represent ed at both the county seat and Sutherland on the 4th inst. The overseer of highways has made a kick to the county commis sioners because they sent tiling up here by D. A. Brown recently to be put into the crossing just north of this station, and said he would re sign if they were going to. do the business, which would be highly appreciated by a large majority of the citizens in the precinct. All those who attended the picnic at Stoddard's grove on the Fourth report a pleasant time. Will Brooks helped furnish the music for a dance at Sutherland on the 4th. The Campbellite preacher is still holding meetings at the Platte Val ley school house. W. J. Crusen, ot the Platte, will preach to the citizens of this vicin ity next Sunday at the usual hour. Supt. Mary E. Hosford, of the Platte, was up the first of the week looking over the ground previous to locating a new site for the school house soon to be erected in this district, which was left to her by a vote of the electors in the district. She did not decide when here, or if she did she did not make it known. Miss Marion Campbell, of the coilnty metropolis visited friends in this locality recently. Some repairs have been recently made on the dam to the old canal. J. W. Alexander, of the hub, was up in this locality a couple of days ago viewing the crops on his farm iust west of here, which he found in a prosperous condition. Cecil Tuell, of Somerset, was up in these parts calling on his numer ous friends the other day. Captain Funkhouser returned from North Platte a couple of days ago with a new binder. The Hershey Sunday school will hold its' Children's day exercises on next Sunday at ten a. m. a business trip over ln theivicinity of Somerset and Wellfleet, He was accompanied from the Platte by W. B. Parks, of that place. W. S. Cox left Thursday for his old stamping grounds over on the north side. Supt. Seeberger, wife and daugh ter, of the Platte were up the line to-day. Several farmers have put in a few acres of susrar cane for feed this TO THE PUBLIC. North PiATTE.July 4th, 1895. Editor Tribune: . Dear Sir: Will you please allow me space in your columns to reply to the open letter signed Mer- chant" that was printed in your 's Grand Cut' Sale. paper Tuesday. I wish, to call the All our goblis. al;' fifty cents on the dollar from nowtintil Jiilj. attention of all thinking people to . . J -'C--X ' . 'IT w- some of the statements h6 makes. TTe savs we are attracting a great deal of attention. That is ,true as the crowds of customers testity. The statement tnat tne oia mer chants here have extended credit ia also true, as is also the, statement that the v have to charge more for their goods to make up the losses. It is also true that no matter who you are if you buy anything of any one that does a credit business you are helping pay some one else's debts. The statement that people should patronize them even if they do charge more for their goods is not true for the reason that there are a great many people tnat pay cash for all their goods, or at least part, and it is an injustice to. ask them to pay the debts ot people that they do not even know. Then there is another reason why we sell crnnri rheaner than the old mer- o All our 1 goods go at 65 cents. All our 75-cent goods go at 3fTcts. All our 50-eent gootls go at 30 cts. Our 50-cent all-wool Challies go at 35c Our 25-cent all-wool Ohallies go at 15c Our 15-cent Challies go at 10 cents. Our 10 -cent Challies go at 5 cents. All our summer sroods must o-o and we are determined to make special cut .prices- in order to sell them out. In our Millinery, department we have decided to make the same.ee- : Auryf-'mr. UATC A HP T-J A T T7 "D"D T""C J ,1 1 1 1 4-U 4-"U , rrtmo.of uutuun. lmivJ jtxj. X 1.1 i.irX iviyju,, clllU. cUI guuua Hi LUC SLVJiC L11C acuu vajr. cvu once and secure theseybargains before they are closed out. RENNIE'S. KENNIE'S n ing this question, as it will add greatly to the wealth of Nebraska as well as our own county. Mr. Bratt has been successfully grow ing this plant for over eight years ou the Gokay island, northeast of his home ranch. The island where susrar season. Chas. Toillion was critically ill the first of the week, but is, we are pleased to note, allright again at this writing. Several farmers in this commu nity remained at home on the 4th and cultivated corn, which they considered was of more profit to them than celebrating. Pat. SOMERSET SNAP SHQTS. A. Qeen was a Wellfleet visitor last week. Corn is growing slowly on ac count of the weather keeping so cool. John McConqel transacted busi ness in North Platte last week. The annual school meeting re sulted in the election of W. A. Lati m.er as director ancl Miss jBle Mc, Craneeas treasurer, Mrs. David Artlip left last week for a visit at Council Blufts. Adam Kunkle and family visited at J. Knowles last Wednesday. A report is out that Dr. Calvert and Stephen Kendall, who left here for Arkansas, will reujn here. Several from this, locality attend ed the exercises at North Platte on tlie Fourth. 0 I. C. . Your uncle Toby Castor upcm behalf of the straight democratic fate central committee has invite Secretaries Carlisle and Mrtoi to be present at the meeting of the democratic convention in Septem ber, The free silver democratic state central committee have lieen called to meet upon the 16th inst. to fix a date for their convention. It promises to be a killkenney cat fight this year among democrats.. We Ijaye teen informed of a local attorney charging a fee of S1800 for successfully conducting a case through the courts. It would seem that times should not be .dull amgng the lawyers, when pUCh fees ?re received; but as considerable- wealth was involved this was not (thought to be extortionate. it is frrown has the ndvantnirp hf chant: We buy our goods of-houses being. sub.irri&ated, and there that sell for net cash, thereby sav- seems nQ difficulty in securing. a lnSf tUe perceniage luat 13 duueu m p.rowtl, on thp cnnHv -nnrKnn nf fl, .7 , . 1 1 I 0 J f " field. Mr. Bratt has now crowinc" the wholesale houses to cover losses which amounts to a big thing. Then it is also true that we do not pay rent on a room for each line, but use one room and one set of clerks for several lines, which reduces our expense as low as possible. And then Ave are satisfied with a small about two hundred acres on this island. Next year everybody should put out a field of alfalfa. Once More the Thistle Ed. Tribune: Permit me to sug gest that the marshal of the town profit on each articleand willing to would undoubtedly confer a favor let our sales for the year make us vu mauy Ui Lue residents ana prop- It is also true that the erv owners wno are unacquainted stores are gradually Wlth the nature and description of the Russian thistle, if he would call their attention to the same our money department stores are gradually crowding the single-line merchants and the credit system out. The reason for this is ase.have stated and if the people wilt give us a call and our system of doing business a trial, they .will steer clear of every olace.that runs a book "account, or tries to get rich off he, sale. I in vite all the people to call and see us, and if we cannot satisfy them of the truth of "these statements we will not expect theirpatronage, o where it is now growing in their yards or lots. These gentlemen would in all probability take im mediate steps to destroy this pest. It has been noticed that some par ties have attempted to kiU it by mowing. This is useless, as it will produce growth from its lower limbs or shoots. The only effective way by which it can be destroyed is by t:ntting it off at the root, below the - The Greatest and Best Lino 01 Clothing, Proprietor of W ifl&x Dept. e people, as far as it.' lays m 'his Store. Alfalfa for the Sandhills Lincoln county has so -.far taken a leadinsr position on a number of questions that win greatly enhance the welfare of the state. The Question 01 now snau we utilize the sandy lands of the coun ty is one that belongs to the state as well as our own locality Suc cessful alfalfa cultivajtig.n. on these lands is now answering this question. Mr. Kunkel who resides on sec tion 14, town 11, range 31, about fifteen miles southwest from the city, has now a splendid stand of this plant growing on his land, and also on a tract adjoining-, til? prop erty pi 3 Iinccun larjd owner. Mr. Mart Halcombe, of Brady Island, has also a successful, stand on the sandy land under his canal. G. W. Mathewson has also made a actenstio of the men in control of success of his planting- o this for- it. Everything is overrun with age plant. Mj. Sturges, north of weeds, and the grounds'and build- the town, has also a splendid field ing have a neglected look, quite power, specimens or samples of the plant, as many of our people do not know the pest when they see it. Nebraska Hotes. Henry Crozier has purchased an interest in the Genoa Banner. u Peter Van Gorder of Bayard lost a horse that he valued at $2,000. Mr. Couroy of McCool sold a half interest in his trotting horse, "Lit tle Dick," for S500. The owner ol Alix was the purchaser. Henry Blumer of Chalco woke up one morning to find that four sets of harness and a saddle had been taken from his barn, during the night. The farm belonging to the Hast ings asylum, since it has passed into the hands of populist manage ment, says the Aurora Republican, presents the shiftless aspect char- Furnishing Goods, -flats, Caps, Boots and Shoes, in Fact Everything 33NT. Gents' Wearing Apparel.' -IS GOING Afl?- t Greatly Reduced Rates' -AT THE- STAR CLOTHING HOUSE WEBER & V0LMEE. , i1 i - v MOST o DELICIOUS COFFEE o IN o THE o WORLD MOCHA AND REVERE JAVA. HARRINGTON & T0BIN, SOLE ACTS, NORTH PLATTE, NEB sown this spring. Over northwest, at the ranch p.f Haskell & "Williins, on the head of the IUsniftl ri?er, there have been experiments made to learn the best method of planting this clover. On their sandy lands the principal difficulty to overcome has been the drifting and blowing of the sand. The greatest success has been secured bv sowing the seed on and then breakinsr or the gtfass and then turning the sod upon it. In this way the drifting and cutting effect of the sand have been reduced to the minimum. Mr. Mgtlpwsp.nt pf B.rady Island, states that owing to the fractious nature pf one of his horses tljat he worked pn the press, drill when he sowed his field, that he was unable to lift the shovels when he came to turn around at the end of the land, but he finds alfalfa growiug among the wild grass where this occurred. By the adoption of either of these two methods it may be possible to successfully grow alfalfa on our sandy lands if we will not be too modest we might call them sand hills. If this plant can be successfully grown in these localities it certainly rneans. that we have discovered a w-ay by which some millions of acres of Nebraska lauds can be made profitable and useful. We cannot do too much towards push- different than when under republi can management. The Norfolk Journal says there are 1,400 acres of sugar beets grow ing in the immediate vicinity of Norfolk, which now give promise of yielding twelve tons to the acre, giving a total of 60 per acre to the rrrnwprc 7n r-Hir- wnrdc at Ipncf been $74,000 will be paid out to the farm ers near Norfolk for sugar beets this fall. The amount paid to factory employes will be fully as much more. THE COKN PLOWEES, Bulletin No 40 of the "Wisconsin agricultural experiment station gives the result of some investiga tions that have been going on there for some years of the various methods of corn culture. The plan of the fathers imported from the eastern farms was to cultivate the corn with a shoYe.1 plow to 4,cut the roots" and encourage the growth ot the stalk and ears and to "hill up" as much as possible. Some farmers, however, have con tended, that as corn is a tropical plant, its 'habitat being where there is much sun and plenty of warmth, it was not well to cover the root deeply with turned furrows and that the idea of root pruning is oreoosterous. These farmers have cultivated as lightly as possible, just sufficient to kill the weeds and have avoided making 'mills' about the stalks. The experiments of the "Wi scon sin station have demonstrated, ac- rding to this bulletin, that the shallow culture, leaving the field level, is the best; and that a loss of three or four bushels to the acre is caused by the old method of deep cultivation and the hilling up of the plow and hoe. They have also found that "listing" results in a. decrease of 10 per cent in the yield from that following the old method of thoroughly stirring the soil and planting in the usual way. In making these experiments the same neid was used, - alternat ing rows being subjected to the different treatment so that there can be no question of the condition of soil. The amount of difference in results is sufficient to make a very decided difference in the in comes of farmers following the various methods of cultivation and the bulletin oujrht- make quite a stir in agricultural circles.. Lin coln Journal. Mr. Ruskin has written a letter in reply to the question, "Ought parents to leave a fortune for their children?" He says that parents ought to educate and maintain their children until they reach maturity. "Damned modernism," he adds, "eats its children young. "When they are strong, throw them out of the nest, but let the nest be always open to them. No guilt should ever stand between child and parent. The doors should be always open to a daughter who ;s a harlot or a son who is a thief, if they return. but no fortune should be left to them." Obituary Poem. The country editor dreads obitu ary poetry, and it is natural that he should, but he has to publish i If he refuses to do so he will have two or three indignant subscribers who will want their names taken off the books, and his rival across the street will profit by his misfor A reallj- good obituary poem is a . thing that is rare. Nine-tenths ofr , the rhymes that follow a funeral are the worst sort of rot; but thd writers generally think they are very fine. When a person dies, one! of the afflicted mourners feels it his duty to write some verses, and he does so; and then it is published , and read aloud to everybody who will listen, and it becomes a sort of a, public nuisance. Here is a verse that was written after the death of a little girl; it was one of fourteen, and is republished here without the change of a letter: Dearest Mabel, you have left us; Death occurred at half past eleven. The angels came to meet her - At the golden gates of heaven. The writer of the above is an oldK merchant in a little Nebraska town. It was the first poem he ever wrote, and he actually thought that it was a gem. The editor to whom it was given for publication says that the old man read it aloud with tears streaming down his face, and bought about a hundred copies of the paper containing it. Obituary poetry and cards of thanks ought to be abolished. They are an imposition upon newspapers and a blow at the dead, who can't defend themselves. Walt Mason. Advertised Letters. List of letters remaining uncalled for in the post office at North Platte, Neb.,, for the week ending July 5, 1895. GKXTLESIKN'. Babbitt Seymore Beach B LADIES. Gilbert Mrs W Persons calling for above will pleaso say 'advertised." M. W. Claib, Postmaster. " 4 "4 .F r - V - - a--