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TENTH YEAR. McCOOK , RED WILLOW COUNTY , NEBRASKA , FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 29. 1891. NUMBER 1.
H. LAWLER
wishes to announce that his stock of
SIIR C
are now on the shelves. He does not claim to have the
biggest stock on earth , nor does he promise
what is impossible in prices. But in
DRY GOODS ,
of all kinds , he carries a complete and well-selected stock ,
and , the quality of goods considered ,
I also carry a full and fresh stock of
GROCERIES !
and in this department also I will
Meet All Competition !
cjfg > Give a call and get my prices.
H. LAWLER
AGENT LINCOLN LAND Co.
OFFICE IN MEEKER BUILDING.
WILOOX & FOWLER
Are on hands as usual this spring with a large
and complete assortment of
DRY GOODS ,
of every description , all qualities and grades ,
which they are selling
AT BOTTOM FIGURES.
They are also well stocked up with everything
usually kept by a first-class grocery store in
Fancy and Staple Groceries.
They have no superiors in quality or prices.
Just test these statements.
WILCOX & FOWLER.
WM. M.ANDERSON
PROPRIETOR.
TRANSFER ,
M9 Cook , Neb.
PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Citizens and Visitors Briefly
Mentioned. We Have Had
Our Eye on You ,
"I Know Not What theTruth May Be ,
I Tall it as 'Twas Told to Me. "
Clmrliti Angel is at Harvard , Neb.
Jolin Majors is expected home to-night.
Mrs. 0. A\ Clark is visiting in Onarga , 111.
Judge ( /ocliran was a Lincoln visitor on
Wednesday.
Grace E. McDangh of Denver is visiting
McCook friends.
Mayor .Brewer was an Omaha visitor the
first of the week.
C. F. Uabcock was in Lincoln , the early
part of the week.
Frank Cnrrtith of Plattsmouth sojourned
in the city , Sunday.
Col. Huber graced Culbertson with his
presence , \Vednesday.
Judge Cochran held court up in Gospcr
county , first of this week.
Mayor Smith and Judge Hill were among
our Indianola guests , yesterday.
Miss Josie Billiard arrived home , Satur
day , troin her visit to Omaha friends.
C. A. Vanrelt was over from Norcatur ,
Kansas , the opening days of the week.
Commissioners Belles , Graham and Hodgkin -
kin were city visitors , Tuesday evening.
Mrs. W. H. VanHorn and children left for
Speariish , South Dakota , yesterday morning.
J. A. Cordeal had business before the com
missioners at Indianola , Monday and Tues
day.
Attorney Moore went down to Bloomington -
ton , Monday morning , to attend district
court.
Host Wolfe of the Commercial House drove
down to the county-seat , yesterday , on busi
ness.
ness.Mrs.
Mrs. J. B. Meserve is visiting her brother ,
Frank J. Taylor , in the eastern part of the
state.
Miss M. E. McKee was warmly greeted by
her many McCook friends , the first of the
week.
C. H. Eubank and Jacob Dambach o
Hayes Centre were down on business , yes
terday.
Bert Lufkhi and family left Perry precinct ,
last Saturday night , for the state of Wash
ington.
Mrs. Hocknell and Miss Lyons returned ,
Sunday evening , from their extended Cali
fornia visit. *
Manager Warren went up to Beverly , this
morning , on business for the W. C. BuIIard
Lumber Co.
wus up iiuui jjuruey , yes
terday , renewing acquaintance with his Mc
Cook friends.
John M. Gaimnill , the old IJepublican
warhorse of Frontier county was a city vis
itor , Saturday.
A. J. Pate and son Fred were down from
Denver , Saturday and Sunday , on a brief
pleasure jaunt.
Mrs. M. A. Northrup is here from Darling
ton , Indian Territory , guest of her daughter ,
Mrs. C. II. Boyle.
Sheriff McCool was up , Saturday , to see
how large a majority we could roli up in
favor of irrigation.
Clerk Koper was officially and personally
interested in the bonds election , and spent
Saturday in the city.
C. H. Meeker and G. W. Roper went in to
Lincoln , last evening , to attend to the print
ing of the irrigation bonds.
C. A. Clark left , Sunday morning , for lied
Mountain , Colo. , where some of his brothers
livp. on n. rtrnsnRp.tiner tnnr.
Mrs. Frank Harris and the children arriv
ed home , Saturday , from their visit to Dr
Stutzman's family at Davenport.
County Attorney Dodge was a participant
in a rousing Alliance picnic up in Stockville
Frontier county , last Saturday. Ah , there ,
Sidney.
Cashier Lamborn of the First National
Indianola , and his cousin , T. S. Lamborii oJ
Marshallton , Pa. , were looking over the city ,
yesterday.
Secretary Allen has returned from McCook
and reports that in all his eleven years out
there he has never seen the country look so
fine at this seison : of the year. Journal.
Secretary of State Allen was up from the
state house , Friday and Saturday , looking
after his personal McCook interests , and in
cidentally to vote to promote the cause of
irrigation.
E. H. Chrysler of Bartley dropped into our
sanctum , Wednesday afternoon , a little
while , on his way home from a trip up to
Palisade. He reports work progressing on
the Frenchman ditch , but does not look for
completion of that great enterprise before
fall. Much of the heavy work remains to be
done.
Mr. HocKnell.who has been on the Federal
grand jury at Omaha for the past two weeks
returned home , Saturday , to welcome his
wife home from California , to encourage ir
rigation , and to look after his business in
terests generally. He returned to Omaha ,
Monday night , with the prospect of a num
ber of week's jury work ahead.
GOINO KAST CKNTHAh TIMK LEAVES.
No. 6.'ocal passenger 4:26. A.M.
No. ' , through passenger 5:50A.M.
No. 4. local passenger. 5:40. P.M.
No. 78. through freight 10:25. A.M.
No. 128. way freight 5:55 : , A.M.
flOING WEST MOUNTAIN TIME LEAVES.
No. 1 , through pasaonger , 10:40 , A.M.
No. 5 , local passenger , 9:30 , P.M.
No. 129 , way freight 5:00. A.M.
IHarfc , THE THIBUNE angels
I shout ,
Burlington { Go cast via the Burlington
I route ,
IPcace on earth and mercy
I mild.
( Full rates for man , half for
child.
WE "PASS" NOBODY.
Itoadmaster Jossellyn was up from Orleans
on business , Wednesday.
Mrs. J. K. Phelan of Alliance is visiting
McCook friends , this week.
Mrs. Frank Harris and Mrs. J. C. Birdsell
spent yesterday in Hastings.
Jovial Jake Burnett was up from Hastings ,
Wednesday , on railroad matters.
Frank Huddleston is home recuperating
from a severe attack of rheumatism.
E Buy a house from S. II. Colvin on the
monthly installment plan and save money.
II. B. Simmonds of the dispatchers' force
was called to Omaha , Tuesday , by intelli
gence of his sister's serious illness.
The C. , B. & Q. have declared a one per
cent , dividend , which seems to have become
the established rate for the year ' 91.
Capt. 11. O. Phillips , the presiding genius
of the Lincoln Land Co. , was up from .Lin
coln , Sunday , on water works business.
Engineer Pronger and Conductor Alvard
are in misfortune. Failure to provide proper
signals , we understand. We hope it may
only be temporary , however.
ThfiB. & M. will build two roads , this
year. One a branch from Bradley on the
Black Hill's line to Hot Springs , Dakota ,
12 miles ; and an extension from Merino to
Belle Fourche , 25 miles will be built at once ,
A telegram from Mrs. J. Hulaniski ai
Hiusdale , 111. , to her husband was received
announcing the death of her mother on
Wednesday. Mrs. Hummer visited will
icr daughter in this city nearly the entire
winter.
Residents along the line Hastings to Den
ver have about concluded the B. & M. has
shutout all their older passenger conductors ,
owing to the large number laying off at
present. If you don't get a passenger train
to run now you may never.
On Tuesday the flyer made an unprece
dented run to Akron , 143 miles in 2 hours and
58 minutes , or an average of almost 50 miles
aii hour , not counting four stops , which
would increase the average. Jack Moore
sat on the right side of the cab.
Messrs. Sam Rogers , August Droll , Joseph
Menard and Joe Snyder took a trip through
some of the irrigated nortion of Colorado.
the last of past week. Like the reasonable
men they are they all came home on Satur
day morning to vote for irrigation for Red
Willow county.
The unanimous re-election of all the direc
tors of the "Q" at the stockholder's meeting ,
the past week , indicates that the owners are
well satisfied with the management and do
not hold it responsible for the large falling
off in earnings which this line , like many
others , has of late recorded.
OLD MKS. FIDGET ( in the sleeping car ) :
'Porter 1"
POKTEK : "Yes'm. "
0. M. F. : "Now , if there should bean ac
cident or anything , i want you to 'wake me
o that I'll have time to dress properly. "
A large box car on the side track in Den
ver , used to haul wooden ware , is 52 ft. long
xnd 15 ft. from track and 4 times in height.
Some one has painted on it during its rest the
'oliowing lines :
"Poor little box car , don't you cry ,
You'll be an elevator by and by. "
PROCLAMATION.
Our love and thanks as a nation and people
for the preservation of our united country
can be expressed in no more appropriate form
in time of peace , than by showing in wha
reverence we hold the memory of our heroic
dead who fell in defense of this union. Our
gratitude for the services they rendered and
the sacrifices they made , prompts us as a free
and enlightened people to commemorate their
strugglewhich brought us greater liberty and
and a more advanced civilization. For these
reasons , May 30th is designated as Decoration
Day. and is a national holiday , at which time
all secular occupations should cease.
THEREFORE , I , C. T. Brewer , Mayor of the
City of McCook , Nebraska , do request that the
business houses and all labor occupations
cease on that day , from 1 to 4 o'clock , P. ftl.
That devotional and other appropriate exer
cises be held in our churches and public halls ;
that the graves of our dead soldiers be visited
and bedecked with evidences of our memory
and respect for the deeds they did for us while
living. C. T. Brewer , Mayor.
Dated at McCook , Neb. , May 21,1S91.
Eev. Mather , of McCook , speaks his con
victions in plaiu , unmistakable English.
He says he began preaching by using a scrub
bing brush with plenty ot good soft soap to
facilitate matters. He says he is still using
t at McCook and thereby hangs a tale. The
people inhabiting that jumping-off place
mve been accustomed to taking their medi
cine in homeopathic doses , weakly diluted ,
and when they do get some strong allopathic
doses of Methodist gospel highly seasoned
with the truth , they get sick so we are told.
Beaver City Tribune.
SPECIAL !
McCOOK , NEBRASKA.
DRY GOODS !
MILLINERY !
CARPETS ! .
THE GREAT
WILL COMMENCE
AND CONTINUE UNTIL
COME AND SECURE
THE GREATEST
Bargains Ever Offered
IN McQOOK.
Wefts
ial attention given , mail orders.
The Largest and Finest Stock !
Wishes to call public attention to the important fact that
lis stock of Spring and Summer goods now in is the largest
Inest and best assortment to be found in McCook. He guar
antees a fit and his prices are most reasonable. Opposite
Frees & Hocknell Lumber Yard.