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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1909)
WW Slnt If Wxt B o Hit Go TWENTY-FIFTH YEAJl. NOilTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 2d, 1909. NO 61. n TH IS SP.-VCK IS RE8KHVED FOR THE NORTH PLATTE MILL AND GRAIN COMPANY ft who will have an important announcement to make in a few days that Qf INETERESTr' TO EVERY FAM ILY IN NORTH PLATTE AND LINCOLN COUNTY, as it will SAVE THEM DOLLARS on one of the abso lute necessities in every household---"the staff of life". Oxford Sale Continues. Coupons for Beautiful Decorated China With Each Purchase. You can afford to have an extra pair of Ox- fords perhaps when you can buy them at such re- duced prices as we are offering. It is real economy J and real comfort to have a change of shoes during hot weather. Ladies' Kid Oxfords, regular price $1.75, sale price Ladies' Kid Oxfords.low heel, regular price $2.00 sale price Ladies' Tan Button Ox fords, regular price 2.25 sale prico Ladies' Tan Lace Ox fords, regular prico 2.50 sale price Ladies' Kid Oxfords, regular price $3:00, sale prico Lndies' Patent Ankle Strap Pumps, Patent Lace and Button Oxfords Tan Anklo Strap Pumps Bronze Oxfords.Tnn and Green Oxfords, regular price $3.50, saleprico... $1.50 $1.75 $1.95 $2.00 $2.50 $2.85 Twenty per cent discount on Children's, Boys' and Girls' Oxfords and Barefoot Sandals. t Small, The Big Shoe Man. f 1'i TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS Perry Carson and O. A. Bacon were among those who went to Grand Island with tho ball team. Mrs. C. A. Dill and children re turned Sunday night from Omaha, where they spent sevtral weeks. Miss Mayme Randolph, who had been siting friends at Stockton, Cal.. for sevoral months has returned home. The Omaha All Stars ball team camo in from the west this morning and will play the local team this afivrnoon and tomorrow afternoon. Fall dress goods are now shown nt Tho Leader. John LoMasters has ordered and will receive in a few days a big electric sign for his new garage and machino shop. Mr. LeMastora employs an au tomobile machinWt who is kept busy ropairing touring cars which pass th'roigh Cdwh dally. Watch North Platte 0 0 $3.15 Ladies' Patent Colt 3 button Oxfords. Russia Calf Oxfords with suede top and B.onze Anklo Strap Pumps, regular prico $4.00, sale price. Men's Patent Colt and Green Calf Oxfords, regular price $1.50, sale prico Men's Velour Calf, Tan Russia Calf Oxfords, Russia Calf and Vici Kid Oxfords, regular price $1, sale price Men's Tan Russia Calf Oxfords regular prico $3.50 sale prico $3.75 $3.50 $2.85 I Men's Tan Oxfords, reg- qj c( 1& ular prico $3, sale price. 4)4, Ju Chas. T. Whalen and son and niece, who havh bien visiting in New York. state, will start home tho latter part of. this week. Misses Minnio and Mary Lowo and Miss Mylnnder 'eft Sunday for n ten day's visit in Donver and other Colo rado points. Mrs. E. A. Garlisch returned Friday evening from a two months' visit with friends and relatives at Stanton, Neb., an(j Chicago, 111 Mike Waller, who has been "ponding tho summer with his friend Will Wal temath, leaves today for his homo in Washington, D. C. Lowell's Cowboy Band gave a fine concort Friday evening, and tho v.rowd contributed $37.00 to tho fund for uni form purposes. Brady rural route No. 2 will become operative Sept. 1st. It will servo pa trons living southeast of, that village, many of whom now got their mail through tbj Gothenburg office. for Our J. G. Heeler loft tho latter part of Inst week for Cuba, III., to visit his daughter, Mrs. M. E. Scott. Welch Bros., of Paxton, rocenlly sold five carloads of black polled cattle to Prairie City, Iowa, parties. It is encouraging to know that while t the corn cr,op in the south part of the county will bo cut short, tho small grain crop is turning out heavy, wheat running from twenty to forty bushels per acre and oats forty to sixty. Nothing is farther from tho minds of tho youngsters these days than school, but it is a sure thing that school days aro almost horc again and. tho play days nrd growing fewer. Tho school bells will ring ugain Monday, September 6. Fireman Will Esholman is out of service by reason of blood poisoning in his right hand which developed four or fivo days ago. A small pimple ap peared on one of tho fingers which ho cut open with his knife and immediately the hand began swelling. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Walker have sold the furnishings of tho Commercial Hotel to Mr. Vanscoy who h'as taken possession. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have taken apartments in the Ilinman block on Dewey street. That section of tho county from a few miks north of the river to tho Lo gan county lino was visited Sunday ovening by n heavy rain. This rain, it is said, will make the corn crop, which in that section is very good. George LeDinyt, who had been spend ing the past two years in Missoula, Mont., returned to town Saturday and will enter the vrain sorv'ce of tho Un ion Pacific. Mrs. LeDioyt and children will arrivo in a couple of weeks. Table linen and buck toweling in all widths and quality and nt the lowest prices at The Leader. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Garlow and little daughter Jane went to Omaha Sunday night where they will meet Colonel Cody and will travel with tho Wild West show until it reaches Kearnoy on Thursday of next week. Tho primary election in Lincoln coun ty, so far as voters taking advantage of it, was not u success. Peckham pre cinct, which has seventy voters cast six ballots, Guslin with forty voters cast fourteen, Cottonwood with one hundred votes cast ten, while Vroman and Antelope cast eleven ballots. Tho total vote cast at the primary in the precincts outside of North Platte was less than GOO. Those citizens of North Platte who aro nnder me impression that nour made in North Platte is inferior to that made elsewhere, can very easily con vince themselves to the contrary by cutting out this item and presenting it to O. E. Well at the Vienna Bakery on Front street who will without usking nny questions give you a loaf of bread mado from Best XXXX or Gold Crown flour, Take it humo and comparo it with bread mado from your favorito Hour and bo convinced. Wo bellevo that "Seeing is believing". Get away from that doubting Thomas cluss; ceaue to be a knocker on home enterprise; help to buildup your town by encourag ing home untorpriae. John Lemhhr. Advertisement. and Tho county commissi n-rn completed the business before them lust week and adjourned until October lilt. Ynrdmastor Vernon has taken a brief lay-oil' and accompanied by Mrs. Ver non left Sunday fur a visit with their son Roy at Julesburg. .Genl Sup't Park, accompanied by Mrs. Park, came up from Omaha Sun day night, and spent yesterday in town and at tho farm at Nichols pre cinct. Mrs. George Lannin loft Sunday for a visit with relatives in Pennsylvania whom silo has not seen for twenty years. She will bo absent a month or more. W. II. Howard, export piano tuner and piano builder of long cxporionco, will muke regular trips hero every three- months. All work gaurantced. Leave orders nt Nowton'n book store Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Davis and Mr. Mrs. Robert Finney leave today for their futuro homo in Missouri. They havo long been residents of North Platte, and thoir largo circle of friends regret to have them leave, but wish them success in their new location. Professor Lynch has been solicited to join the North Platte Cow Boy Band to play with .'hem at tho Stato Fair in September. Mr. Lynch will play the double B bass horn for that occasion at which he has few equals. Sidnoy Tele graph. Work on Branch Extension. The Bridgeport Blade of hiBt Thurs day contained tho following article: The construction crews received ordnrs to build forty more miles of tho Union Pacific railroad on up the North Platte vulley Immediately, running tho new lino through Goring to tho Wyom ing line. Thus tho properous and enterprising little city of Goring will bo rewarded for its patient nwaiting of a railroad-. The work tra'n camo up Monday evening heavily loaded with construc tion material and workmon, and work has already been resumed. Tho railroad will not build into Bridgeport but will bo built on up tho river valley from Northport crossing tho North Platto about bix miles above thai place and thence through Goring to the Wyoming line. A temporary Y and roundhouso is boing built at Northport which will bo known as Northport Junction here after. Tho division in all probabilities will either bo located a few miles above or below Northport. It was stated by tho U. P. officials while hero last week that tho con struction work will be rapidly pushed through to Medicine Bow connecting again with the main line, and that in tho near futuro heavier steel will be laid over tho North Platte Extension and bo used na the main lino to tho coast from Omaha and Chicago. This only confirms our statoment8lhat wo will soon be on the main lino with through trains nB well as locals passing through Oshkosh, For Sale. 200 cubic yards of dirt for sale; also wind mill, tank nnd pumps. E. A. Cany, Grain Co. Primary Election Vote. Total number of votes cast 1315. DEMOCKATIC TiCKHT. Supreme Judge Dean 1M, Good 108, Sullivan 114. Rogonts Knapp 118, Newbranch 107. County JudgoElder 1, Beolor 1G, Grant 5, D. A. Baker 1. Sheriff Tridlo 22, Strowbridgo 19. Coroner McCabo 7, Longloy 3. Treasurer Bcatty 3. County Clerk-Coker 22, Ladd 19. Purveyor Welsh 14, Moyor 11. Co Supt. Miss Murray 8, Ebrlght 9. Co. Com.-A. F. Stroltzl7. ItEPUIltilCAN TICKET. Supromo Judgo Hamer 2G8, Dulllo 239, Yeiser 1G3, Sedgwick 32G, Calkins 309, Barnes 3GG, Fawcott 210, Cobboy 5. Regents-Allen 716, Whitmoro 710, Hallor 773. County Clerk-Elliott 551, Ottcn 553. Co. Troasuror Langford 039. Sheriff Mlltonborgcr 5G1, Salisbury 511. Co. Supt. -Ebright 319, W. S. Ross 5. Coronor Longloy 802. Co. Survoyor Meyer 319, Welch 22. County Com. Kocken 257, DougLs 312. There wero n few socialist votes cast, and tho nominees of that party nro: O. O. Moss for clerk, L. R. Duko treasurer, Ed Nickson county judge, Fred Donelson for sheriff, L. R. Duke for county commissioner, and Miss Laura Murray received onu voto for county superintendent. North Platte Shut Out, In tho game of ball at Grand Island Sunday North Platto was shut out by a tho Red Cross team, tho latter secur ing fivo runs, all of which wero mado in the second inning by a bunching of hits and two errors on the part of tho North Platters. HanBon, of tho Cen tral City team pitched for tho Islanders, did not allow a hit, and struck out seventeen men; while Paul was touched up for nino hits. With tho exception of tho fatal second inning tho game was a fast one. For Sale or Trade. I have n four cylinder, fivo passen gor, 1UU8 model, thirty horso power Buick automobile which I dosiro to soil This car is equipped with a too, aniitr neto, wind shield, speedometer and mud chains; it has been driven not more than 2000 miles, all of which I drove myself. I bought it now; it is as good as now; it is in perfect working condi. tion. I would consider tho richt kind of n real estate exchange. This car can be bought at a bargain I expect to be in North Platto about the 26th, 27th and 28th of AugU6t. If you are in terested write. M. S. Mclninch, South Auburn, Neb. . . ;. . ... If presont ulr castles maturo into wall of brick Chicago will Boon havo a full equipment of line railroad termin als. Four roads announco tho replac ing of tho old union station at Adams and Canal streets with a $20,000,000 passongcr station. Another fino sta tion with several roads interested is planned to tako tho placo of tl)u IJolk street station. Since its railway pass enger Buttons aro really tho front doors to the modern city such improvo mcnttf tiro greatly to Do tlcafrod. Farewell Reception. A farowoll rccoption, which camo in nature of a surprise, was tendered to Rev. and Mrs. John Selbert Frldav evening by about 150 members of tho Lutheran congregation, and at which practically every Luthorau homo wna represented. This ovidonco of crood will and good fellowship camo in view or tho early doparturo of Rev. Soibort ,nd family for Chicago, whero ho will take up work in tho missionary flold of tho church. Tho invading party, without horalds. knocked for admission at tho rectory, and when tho minister nnd his rrood wifo noticed tho number of tho invaders thoro wa a momentary embarrass ment, but this quickly disappeared and tho friends woro warmly wolcomed. Lator tho largo gnthorincr roDalred to tho parijh houso whoro tho ladies of tho party served ico croam nnd cake. Tho occasion proved a most' delightful one in nil respect, thoutrh each wna touched with tho regret that tho pastorate relationship was so soon to bo dissolved. As a memento of tho occasion Rov. Soibort was prcsontod with a hand some suit caso and umbrolla nnd Mrs. Soibort with sterling Bilvor articles. Miss Hannah Young has roturned from a two weeks' visit with friends in Californln. ivuujr uiuucu iiiiu lamuy is moving today to tho property ho recently pur chased of N. A. DaviB. 200 bedspreads, full slzo, nt 98 cents each at The Leader. A T 1. 1.1. .11 1 II.. l . . One of tho Dtenor bovs was in from Plant precinct yestorday with a load of fine appearing wheat. Ho says his crop nvQraged twenty-two bushols per acre. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Koontz ox. press Mieir thankB to tho frionds and neighbors for thoir kindnoss nnd as sistance during tho illness of thoir lit- uo son, nnu lor tloral tributes nt tho funeral. The Grand Island Frontier Days Celebration. On August 25, 20 and 27, tho entiro Choyonno Wild West showa will be nt Grand Island. This will glvo Nebraska poopln an ex cellent opportunity to aeo this wonder ful show, with its exhibitions of skill, couragound daring. Exciting races and daring foats of horsemanship by tho world's host horsemen. Union Pacific will run trains from Grand Island to tho Fair Grounds every 20 minutes, between 11: a. m. and 2 p. m. Returning, servico will bo resumed at 6-00 p. m. Fare 10 cents for the round trip. For information xelativo to train ser vice, rates, etc, call on your local qgcnt;.,."' ' . Union Pacific Railroad. "Tho Safe Road to Travel." One of tho events of carnival wook will be a boxing contest botwoen Eddio Collins of this city nnd Fred Ouimetto of Nortli Platto. This is billed for tho opera houso for Soptombor 2nd and promises rich entortninmont for those who love muBcular display combined with Bciontiflu anility, Sidney To!q prupli,