r The County Exchanges J I. 1 llftM mi Citirll Ia4ara4 C?aIa4a4 f w VkUVIII laifcieai Union From the Ledger. Miss Daisy Buck went to Avoca Sat urday for a few days' visit with some of her friends. Willie Frans, jr., has been the vic tim of a severe cold and was quite sick a few days, threatened with pneu monia, but Is getting along nicely. Miss May Larson returned Sunday from Plattsmouth to resume her du ties as teacher in District 12, after taking two weeks' vacation on account of illness. M. II. Shoemaker and D. W. Foster went to Lincoln Tuesday evening to spend a few days at the annual meet ings of the various agricultural soci eties. Uncle John Hewitt, southeast of town, has been under a physician's care for several days, being treated for an abcess.and is reported to be getting along nicely. J. W. nttman's condition has re mained about the same the past week, there being perhaps a slight improve ment, but his condition is yet quite serious and the result is still a matter of doubt. Mrs. Agnes Petersen of Glencove, Wash., departed for home Sunday evening. Mrs. Tetersen was here sev eral months assisting in caring for her aged parents, the late Peter Gruber and wife, until their death a few weeks ago. Charles Benedict came In from A voca Wednesday morning to visit his Union relatives and friends. When he left here several weeks ago he was carried to the depot on a stretcher,.' the result of having his leg broken by a wagon box falling upon it, but he is now able to walk with the assistance of a cane and thinks his leg will eventually be about as good as ever. A Jamaican Lady Speaks Highly of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mrs. Michael Ilart, wife of the su perintendent of cart service at King ston, Jamaica, West Indies Islands, says that she has for some years used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs, croup and whooping cough and has found it very beneficial. She has implicit confidence in it and would not be without a bottle of it in her home. Sold by F. G. Fricke & Co. and A. T. Fried. Loviisville From the Courier. Harry Boedeker arrived Thursday venirg from Huron, S. D. John McNurlin was up from Platts mouth Thursday and paid the Cour ier office a short call. Mrs. Howard Evansand littledaugh ter returned to their home at La Platte Thursday after a few days visit here with relatives. Jesse Twiss has been confined to his oed at the home of his brother E. C. Twiss, for the past week with the grippe. The wolf hunters on the north side of the river Wednesday were unsuc cessful, the wolves escaping thorugh the lines unobserved. C. G. Mayfield and family were re leased from quarantine last Saturday, after being out of the world, so to speak, for the past three weeks. Julus Ragoss' farm sale Wednesday drew a very large crowd of buyers and everything brought fair prices. Mr. Ragoss will occupy his residence in Louisville as soon as it is vacated. The Grip. "Before we can sympatize with oth ers, we must have suffered ourselves." No one can realize the suffering at tendant upon an attack of of the grip unless he has had the actual exper ience. There is probably no disease that causes so much physical and mental agony, or which so successfully defies medical aid. All danger from the grip, however, may be avoided by the prompt use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Among the tens of thousands who have used this remedy, not one case has ever been reported that has resulted in pneumonia or that has not recovered. For sale by F. G. Fricke & Co. and A. T. Fried. Elm wood From tbe Leader-Kcho. Dr. Munger reports the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Frisbee, Tuesday, January 15. Miss Bertha Hay is suffering from a very sore finger, which has beecome infected with blood poisoning. The 12-year-old son of Will Seiger slip ped on the icey ground while at school Monday of last week, sustaining a fracture of the right arm between the shoulder and elbow. W. E. Rosencrans and family came out from Plattsmouth, Thursday, to Iras 4k PmIhmbs m$ AiUaaapivUa IIVHi IMS VwlMIHHv VI W WH HI I A attend the Bailey-Cox wedding recep tion, remaining over until Monday to visit their many friends here. The many friends of Miss Nellie Cunningham will be pleased to learn that she has been left quite a sum of of money from the estate of her grand mother at Toledo, Iowa. Elder Cyrus Alton and wife have re turned from their visit with their son and family at Bayamon, Porto Rico. They returned sooner than they ex pected, the Elder's health not agree ing with the climate. We are glad to have them with us again. Mrs. Henry Roelofsz was taken very sick forepart of the week with ureamic poisoning. She suffered terribly with convulsions and has been unconscious since Tuesday night, and we are sorry to learn that no hopes are entertained for her recovery. Latki: Mrs. Roelofsz died at an early hour this morning. Funeral services will be held from the Dunker church at Alvo, at 2 p. m Sunday. Cured of Lung Trouble. 'It is now eleven years since I had a narrow escape from consumption," writes C. O. Floyd, a leading business man of Kershaw, S. C. "I had run down in weight to 135 pounds, and coughing was constant, both by day and by night. Finally I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery, and con tinued this for about six months, when my cough and lung trouble were en tirely gone and I was restored to my normal weight, 170 pounds." Thous ands of persons are healed every year. Guaranteed at F. G. Fricke & Co.'s drugstore. 50c and $1.00. Trial bot tie free. Ea.gle (From the Beacon.) Grandma Adams suffered from an attack of heart failure Tuesday even ing. Dr. Moyer was called down from Lincoln Wednesday, in tbe sickness of Mike Spahnle. C. W. Jester was very sick the fore part of the week, but is able again to attend to his practice. Mrs. J. T. Liston has been suffering for about a week with neuralgia and a gathering in her head. She is much better at the present writing. "Uncle Jimmie" Smith who former ly resided about seven miles southeast of Eagle, died Wednesday evening at his home in Palmyra of diseases inci dent to old age. The 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Althouse was very ill tbe first of the week with pneumonia, but reports yesterday showed him to be consider ably better. Mrs. Lou Sacks narrowly escaped be ing severely burned by an explosion of hot grease last Monday. Some water was spilt into a pan of hot grease which blazed up and set fire to her hair. Lou smothered the tlames with a towel and has made his applicaton for acarnegie hero medal. Dangers of a Cold and How to Avoid Them. More fatalities have their origin in or result from a cold than from any other cause. This fact a'one should make people more careful as there is no danger whatever from a cold when it is properly treated in the beginning. For many years Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been recognized as the most prompt and effectual medicine in use for this disease. It acts on na ture's plan, loosens the cough, relives tbe lungs, opens the secretion and aids nature in restoring the system to a healthy condition. Sold by F. G Fricke & Co. and A. T. Fried. Mrs. Pearce Slightly Improved. Through Mrs. Geo. Dovey, who has been in Lincoln with Mrs. Jack Pearce, but who returned home last evening, It is learned that tbe condition of the patient is slightly improved. The many friends of the family will be pleased to hear this news. THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE COUGH SYRUP For all Courhs and assists in expelknz Colds from the sys Q The Red Clover Blos som and the Honey Bee is on every botUe. tem ty gent;y moving tha eoweis. A certain relief for croup and whoopins-couch. Nearly ail ether cough cures are const i pat inc. esDeciallv those containi as Opiates? Kennedy's Laxative Honey &. Tar moves the bowels, contains Bo Opiates. KENNEDY'S laxative fXJNTAIMINO EYiETAInl racrAaio at mm laboratory op 1. O. DWlTT CO.. CHICAGO, U. S. A. HOB IDiR.rai(DES ClvmBaking Powder Made from pure, grape cream of tartar Makes home baking: easy. Nothing can be substituted for it In making:, quickly and perfectly, delicate hot bis cuit, hot-breads, muffins, cake and pastry. Insures tbe food against alum. Pure, Healthful, Reliable NOTE. H mixtures called baking powder are offered you at lower price, remember they are mostly made from alum, a metallic acid deleterious to bcalta. HIDDEN DANGERS Nature Gives Timely Warnings That No Plattsmouth Citizen Can Af ford to Ignore. Danger Signal No. 1 comes from the kidney secretions. They will warn you when the kidneys are sick. Well kid neys excrete a clear, amber lluid. Sick kidneys send out a thin, pale and foamy, or a thick, red, ill-smelling urine, full of sediment and irregular of passage. Danger Signal No. 2 comes from the back. Back pains, dull and heavy, or sharp and acute, tell jouofsick kid neys and warn you of the coming of dropsy, diabetes and Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys and cure them permanently. Here's Plattsmouth proof. W. T. Cole, of fi08 Locust street, Plattsmouth, Neb., says: "I con tracted kidney complaint in the army and have felt the effect of the trouble off and on ever since. My back never caused me any acute suffering but there was at times a dull heavy aching and lameness across the loins that an noyed me considerably. Retention and scantiness were evident with the kidney secretions and they were occa sionally accompanied with pain. An advertisement about Doan's Kidney Pills came to my notice and being fa vorably impressed with the claims made for the medicine, I procureda box at Gerlng & Co's drug store. I did not take them regularly and used only about one-half of a box, but I can say they made a marked improvement in my condition, every difficulty being relieved. I can vouch for Doan's Kid ney Pills being a valuable remedy." For sale by all dealers. Price 50c. Foster-Miiburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's--and take no other. Syiabus of the Murphy Case. Murphy vs. City of Plattsmouth. Appeal. Cass. Reversed and remand ed with directions to dismiss.. Albert, C., department No. 2. Duffie, C, not sitting. 1. The statute which requires an estimate of the cost of a public im provement to be made and submitted to the city council by tbe city engineer before a contract for such improve ment is let, is mandatory, and a con tract made without complying with such requirements is void. 2. Where such statute further pro vides that such estimate shall be pub lished with the advertisement for bids for making such improvement and that no contract shall be let for a price exceeding such estimate, the in hibition against letting a contract at a price in excess of the estimate can not be evaded by raising the estimate after the bids have been made and opened. 3. Any material departure in a con tract of that contractor, from the terms and conditions upon which the bidding was had, is an evasion of a statute repuiring a contract to be let to the lowest responsible bidder. 4. Where a contract with a city for a public improvement expressly pro vides that it shall not be assigned, such provision Is enforcable, and an assignee thereof cannot recover the money due thereunder, or any part thereof. Bee's LaxativeCough Syrupcontain ing Iloney and Tar is especially appro priate for children, no opiates or poisons of any character, conforms to the conditions of the National Pure Food and Drug Law, June 30, 1900. For Croup, Whooping Cough, etc. It expels Coughs and Colds by gently moving the bowels. Guaranteed. Sold by Gering & Co's drug store. New Counterfeit Out. Captain Webb of the federal secret service has received a circular de scribing a new counterfeit $10 Buffalo bank note of the series of 1903. These counterreits have been freely circulat ed in New York. The back is a darker green than genuine bills. The imita tion, however, is a good one. None of these new counterfeits have as yet been circulated in Omaha. Omaha World-Herald. y ) MRS. ADDiE HARDING. MRS. ADDIE HARDING, 810 Court street, Syracuse, X. Y., writes : "I have been a user of Feruna for the last twelve years and can truthfully say that there is no better med ioineon earth. "With me it is a sure preventive for colds and many other ills. In my home can always be found a bottle "A SURE PREVENTIVE." of Peruna. Two or three times a year I am troubled with my throat. "I always had to have the services of my physician two or three times in each case. "Although a user of Peruna, I never thought of taking it for my throat until about two years ago. "I tried Peruna to check it, and to my great delight I was not troubled with the Bmothered and choked feeling and never have since. "I can check it every time with Peruna. "I certainly would not be without Peruna one minute." The fight against consumption is be coming a national problem. Every where we bear of sanitariums established at the expense of the state for the treatment of the vast army of consumptives. The open air treatment, fresh air and sunlight, are recognized by the medical profession generally as being the great est necessities in the treatment of con sumption in all of its stages. Dr. Ilartman has for many years ad vocated the fresh air treatment for con gumption. At the same time he has recognized Peruna as a useful palliative for the many distressing symptoms which accompany the white plague. ROCK ISLAND SECURES MAIL Gets Service Away From the Burlington From Chicago to Omaha. From and after January 24, the Cni- cago Rock Island & Pacific Railway company will carry the fast mail be tween Cnicago and Omaha, which for twenty years has been the exclusive prerogative of tbe Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, says the Bee. This announcement came to the Omaha postoffice department Monday morning and indicates the transfer of Clerks Stribling and Hurst, now ap pointed to disti ibute tbe mail on train n. in. Chicago and Council Bluffs railway postal service (Chicago, Burl ington & Quincy), totrain.lo (unicago, West Liberty & Council Bluffs), Chi cago, Rock Island & Pacific, on and after January 24. This is the first break the Chicago, Rnrlinirton & Quincy has had in its exclusive fast mail service between Chicago and Omaha for twenty years. The result will be that the Chicago mail will now reach Omaha at 7:20 a. m. over the Rock Island instead of at 8:10 over the Burlington, and will be in Omaha in time for tbe second morn ing delivery by carriers. To which tbe Lincoln Journal adds tbe following: "No word of change of routing has reached Lincoln, and it is assumed here that this may relate only to Omaha mail, and may not af fect trans-continental mails." Pine Salve Carbolized, acts like a poultice; highly antiseptic.extensively used for eczema, for chapped hands and lips, cuts, burns. Sold by Gerirjg & Co's drug st r Upholstering. I am prepared to do all kinds of up holstering work: mattresses renovated and hiuh-grade mattresses made to or der. Leather Turkish couches, rock ers, chairs and parlor suits made to order or repaired. Leather work a specialty. All work will be called for. Address Will Carstens, R. F. D. No. 1 care M. Lutz. Ninety New Locomotives. The Burlington road has ordered ninety new locomotives for delivery during 1903. Fifteen of the engines are for passenger service and seventy five are for freight traffic. The passen ger engines, which are of tbe largest type, are to be 376,000 pounds in weight and more than seventy-five feet in length. MRS. Mrs. Mary Meyer, Thomson avenue, near Shell Road, Winfield, I.. Y X. Y., wTites : "I have been annoyed with a cough for years. "Often It was bo bad that I could not Bleep half the night. Many peo ple thought I had consumption. CONSUMPTION WAS FEARED. "A woman recommended Peruna to me two years ago. I began to take Peruna and now 1 am perfectly free from a cough. "I am glad to say that Peruna cured me entirely. I take Peruna occasion ally when 1 do not feel well and I also give it to my children. "Peruna is the best medicine for coughs and colds. I have told many people how much Peruna has helped me." Peruna tends to lessen the cough, de creases the expectoration, strengthens the patient, increases the appetite and in many cases procures sound, refresh ing sleep. But the value of Peruna in the treat ment of a case of consumption is not ho great as it is in the prevention of con sumption. Since it is well known that consump tion begins with a common cold or ca tarrh, any medicine that can be relied upon to relieve these must be regarded as a preventive of consumption. Thousands of caeea of incipient con sumption, or chronic coughs, or settled colds, have reported Perun as being a safe and reliable remedy for these ail ments. Supply Yourselves With Stamps. Patrons of the rural mail delivery route seldom buy postage stamps. In stead they include two coppers with each letter they put in the mail box. A country paper publishes this ad monition: "Before you put your let ter with two pennies into the box just think what it means to a man whose fingers are already chilled by several hours' exposure to pull off his gloves and fish out those pennies, repeating this process perhaps forty or fifty times in one day's delivery. It is ap parently a small matter, yet it means a great deal to the carrier. Keep a supply of stamps on hand and thus save the already overworked and un derpaid carrier much additional hard ship." The Right Name. Mr. August Sherpe, the popularover seer of the poor, at Ft. Madison, la., says: "Dr. King's New Life Pills are rightly named; they act more agree ably, do more good and make one feel better than any other laxative. Guar anteed to cure billiousness and consti pation. 25c at F. G. Fricke & Co.'s drug store. MRS. MARY MET EH. WASTING STRENGTH Women who suffer from unnecessary, disagreeable," painful, weakening, female complaints, will find that Wine of Cardui is a safe and pleasant remedy for all their ills. It acts directly upon all the delicate, inflamed tissues, purifying the blood, throwing off the clogging matter and relieving female disorders such as irregular, scanty, profuse, painful catamenia, prolapse, etc. Also relieves headache, backache, dizziness, cramps, dragging pains, nervousness, irritability, etc. If you need advice, write us a letter, telling us all your symptoms. We will send free advice (in plain sealed envelope). Address: Ladies' Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT IN $1.00 BOTTLES WINE OF "I WROTE YOU for advice. nd by follotrinr It and taking Cardui. ir.y Female Trouble wer cured." Mr. R. S. Wallace, Lavaca. Ala. Jl FRANCES WILSON. Mrs.Prances Wilson, .'' Nelson street, Clinton, Mass., writes: "Had you seen me at the time of my illness and now, yon would not wonder that 1 take delight in sounding the praises of Peruna. "My ailment was a severe cold which attacked the bronchial tulea arfd lungs. "1 followed your special directions and after using six bottles of Peruna I was on my feet again. "I think Peruna a wonderful medi cine." The promptness with which Peruna relieves a fresh cold, and even removes chronic colds, that have Income thoroughly established, is well- known through out the entire country. Thin ranks Peruna aa a CONSUMPTION PREVENTED. reliable prophylactic against consump tion. Mr. Wm. Swain, A'2A- Ktiles street, W. Philadelphia, Pa., writes: "IJefore I commenced taking Peruna I had used almost everything I could think of for catarrh. "I felt so tired when getting up in the morning and my lungs felt dry and sore. No one who has not experienced it can imagine how I suffered. "I tried nearly everything recom mended, but nothing did me any per manent good. "The first tottle of Peruna did me so much good that I continued taking it until completely cured. "I cannot praise Peruna high enough. I wish every one could know of it." Those suffering from colds can do nothing letter than to procure a bottle of Peruna and give it a fair trial. Clear up the complexion, cleanse the liver and tone the system. You can best do this by a dose or two of De Witt's Little Karly Risers. Safe, re liable little pills with a reputation. The pills that everyone knows. Rec ommended by V. (1. Fricke & Co. Some Meteorological Records. f'iiitriliit-(l.) The year Hi was known as "the year without summer. " From Phila delphia northward frost occurred every month in the year. Snow fell to the depth of three inches in New York and Massachusetts in June, and on July 5th ice formed to the thickness of common window glass in many parts of New York. All crops were a failure on account of cold weather. In 188.1 Krakatoa, an island in tbe Strait of Sunda, was shattered by a volcanic eruption and disappeared be neath the sea. In l&M, 502 people were killed and 880 injured by light ning in the United States.and 82.000,000 worth of property destroyed. Kn(4n1 For Indigestion. X JLVVAA Relieves sour stomach, palpitation of the heart. Digests what you ea u