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Kp f V RECAPITULATION : Showing the amonnt on hand July ist , 1S96 , the H > / .collections since made , -warrants redeemed , and amount remaining on hand at the RjS ? ' close of the 19th day of December , 1S96 , in each and all of the several funds and Hft * accounts of J. B. MESERVE , County Treasurer of Red Willow County , Nebraska , S * ! together with the total amounts of the several items stated : HHH\ onTand Amount Disburse- Amount \ Kljvns Total. - BV Jast since ments now H | settleme't.colecteci ! - on hand. Hk ' Statk. fr General $ 00953 S 1 S29 79 $273932 $273932 T Sinking S774 17206 259S0 25980 B ) School 137 74 276 So 413 86 413 86 H University 67 98 i . 'uoi 20462 20462 V Capitol. 32 S3 115 115 flRV Reform School 22 57 79 79 BIT Institute for Feeble Minded 22 72 4 ? 69 68 41 6S 41 U Relief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2253 4520 6773 0773 M- Live Stock Indemnity V School Land Interest 32412 01699 1241 11 1 241 n 3m B School Land Lease 7140 72009 797 49 797 49 l pK , County. | H | General _ Q1462 93719 4 S5181 399512 85069 Kt . BridRe , 81268 104362 185630 105986 19644 * . . . . * A Bondlnterest : " . . 340970 7 167 348137 27500 320637 . / County Road 16601 230S8 39609 3046S 9221 M DistnctRoad 31272 24SS3 56155 24604 31551 Soldiers'Relief 43557 9470 53027 12972 40055 1 Road Receipts " 7043 97643 97643 E Sinking Hf School 500 500 500 * j H K District School Bond 74S484 270621 1019105 395098 024007 H District School 403975 65S969 1062944 811395 251649 HR Interest 99905 99905 90905 * Ht Advertising 17905 17905 17905 H K Bank Interest 32644 32644 32644 „ H North Valley Precinct Bond 207799 A 99 21209S 122S91 89207 f East Valley Precinct Bond 69624 270 69894 60S 94 Br " Willow Grove Precinct Bond 241397 3S02 245199 151420 93770 Hp " Indianola Precinct Bond 130169 165S 131827 12360 119467 JE Bartley Village Bond 4310s 2007 451 12 Sooo 371 12 H Bartley City - 3268 0628 9896 0S00 96 3 McCook City 2ir8S 1 2446 173634 159908 13726 " " . . . - f Insane.- Indianola City . - . - - . . . . . . ; . . . . 12939 ' 34 75 70 26414 jq 16703 jg 77II Received Tax Sales 465 S3 114053 160636 067 73 63S63 J High SchooL 1230 1230 1239 fM Judgment Fund School Dist. 29 85 S5 85 sl ' " , " S2698023 $2455083 $5154006 S32 75Q ° 3 $1879003 X • ' , . - > , = , = = | - iHl / Ki " * . . . , . • / , ' " * I • If J v ; T r' ? * > - - - / • RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS. _ Switchman C. P. Ball has returned to duty. B. L. McCarl is in Iowa on leave of absence. Mrs. M C. Wayson is in the east on a lonij visit. * Road master C. A. Parson vas down from Akron , Wednesday. Conductor Tim Foley has Bronson's run during C. W. 's absence. Night Yardmaster Thomas Burge is back from his holiday vacation. C. W. Britt was called away.this week , by the serious illne-s of a brother. Conductor Mose Carinony aud family are back from their Red Cloud visit. Will Brown came up from Orleans , Thursday afternoon , to attend the B. of R. T. ball. Retrenchment has taken an engine and freight crew off the Orleans and St. Francis run. Sherman Honnold has been transferred from Atlanta to Wellfeet and gets an in creased salary. Mrs. Max Anton and children came home , Tuesday night , from visiting friends in Oxford. Assist. Supt. D. F. McFarland was down from Holyoke. Tuesday night , on bbsiness at headquarters. Miss Lucy Rogers arrived from Peoria , Illinois , Wednesday night , and is the guest of Mrs. Kingsbury. Arthur Douglass was down from Den ver , close of last week , visiting his friends here during Christmas. Wednesday , No. 150 had a few cars off the track at Eckley , caused by rails spreading. Small damage. Section Foreman Nate Bowman of Hudson , Colo. , spent Christmas holidays with his parents at Wilsonville. Yardmaster Frank Clary and wife have been down from Akron , this week , visit ing Brakeman L. E. Gilchrist and wife. Mrs. J. F. Forbes and children spent the close of last week at Bartley as guest- of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Tom- blin. Miss Maud VanSickle came up from Orleans , Thursday afternoon , to take in the B. ofR. T. dance , visiting Miss Ma bel Perry. Little Fay Stayuer celebrated her fifth birtbdaj' , Monday afternoon , with the assistance of many , little friends , in a very happ3' way. Wednesday morning , 142 broke in two near Long Island , coming together at that station. The damage will not ex ceed a few hundred dollars. C. M. Shonerd , late agent's helper at Alma has been 'transferred to Yuma , Colorado , as night operator.Vesle3' Kenned } ' succeeds him at Alma. The company has ordered a new sup ply of the regulation caps for conductors and brakemen , and tne trainmen will soon all be wearing that bright and chip per headgear. The Hastings Tribune is objecting to the Burlington running trains into and through their city limits at a speed fas ter than six miles an hour as prescribed by city ordinance. SUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES. Operator "Terry" Kick is assistant agent at Republican at present. W. W. Green spent a day or two with his daughter , Mrs. T. W. Benjamin , last week. He returned home on Monday morning. Doc. Mathison , agent at Kanona , was presented with a bran new baby , by Mrs. M. , on Saturday night. Mother and child are well. Little bit late for a Xmas present , Doc. Conductor Cromwell was the fortunate recipient of an extra run to Red Cloud and return , on Monday. Conductor Benjamin is holding the sack with the usual success , he says. W. J. Mallory , agent at Oronoque , ac companied by his estimable wife , spent Christmas with relatives and friends at Washington , Kansas. Geo. Hughes manipulates the Co. 's business , mean while. No. 142 indulged in a slight smash-up at Xong Island , Wednesday morning , smashing the front end of the baggage car , and a flat car was somewhat dis figured. No damage to persons except a few nervous shocks. The St. Francis line is now shot all to pieces , only a few tail feathers left for W. J. to pull. Trains now run through to St. Francis every other day and the rest of the time turn at Atwood. Engi neer Harris and Fireman Koll have gone to McCook. Conductor Cropp is set back braking. Brakemen Neiser , Kline and Hazelbaker are retired indefinitely. For a Mere Song. A limited number of novels by best living authors for sale at this office at five cents a copy. Only a few left. S. M. Cochran carry in stock the Ger man , Riverside , Antique and Royal Oak heating stoves nothing better in the market. The prices are right. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve Carea Piles. Sotlds. Boras. 3 " ' " - 1 u • "m ' Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair , DR W CREAM BAKING PtlWDm MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia , Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. Saved by an Accident. ( JJV KTIIHL POPE , AGE II YEARS ) CHAPTER I. • 'Oh , mama , will I have to do the work on New Year dity" ? asked Nora Dayton of her mother the day before New Year day. Mrs. Dayton was a sweet , cheery little woman , but she had been very sick and was now just able to sit up , and so Nora , a girl of twelve , had three little children to take care of and her big bro ther beside. "Well , Nora , I am afraid you'll have to do it , unless wc can get Mary O'Brien to come and do it. What do do" ? "I skating you want to want to go ing with Nellie Stanford and May Carl ton ; they are going to Field's pond , and they want me to go with them" . "Get Ernest to go over to O'Brien's aud see if Mary can come over tomorrow and do the work" , said her mother. "But it will probably cost us another dollar , and we spent so much money for the children at Christmas that I don't know how we can spare it" . "Mama , I want to go so much that I'll get up early and try to do the uork be fore I go. Ernest and papa can get din ner and supper , I'll get breakfast" . "What time are you going" ? asked Mrs Dayton , "and will you take your dinner with you" ? "We'll go at nine o'clock and stay all day , " answered Nora "I don't know whether I'll take my dinner or not" . While this conversation was going on Mr. Dayton had been down town and was now coining home. As be crossed the street at Natron's' opera house six men who were fighting among them selves came upon him and dealt him sev eral heavy blows on the head. When the two policemen who saw the fight had cleaied the men away and arrested them , quite a crowd had gathered , and when two of the men came to pick Mr. Dayton up they found him unconscious. It was nearly ten o'clock p. m. , and it was too far to take him home. CHAPTER II. Nora sat up all night waiting for her father , but he did not come. Next morn ing she put on her wraps and went down town to see if she could find Irrai. She mer Dr. Stanford ( Nellie's father ) and she asked him eagerly : "Have you seen my father ? he did not come home last night" . It did not take him long to tell her of the accident and that her father was at his office , and how at first he thought the accident serious but proved to be not : > o. Nora of course did not go skating. When Ernest came home in the evening he said : "You ought to be glad that you did not go skating with Nellie and May ; Mr. Field said that the pond was safe so the girls put on their skates and went for the middle of the pond , but the ice was thin and they both went under ; the3 got them out but they don't know wheth er Nellie will live or not : May just caught a bad cold" . "Oh how glad I am that I didn't get to go , even though I'm sorry papa got hurt" , said Nora. "You're just as well off as if you'd gone , too" , said Ernest , "and I don't think if I were t Nellie or May , either , that I'd go skating 1 on such a warm day , soon again" . [ THE END. ] Absolutely pure , perfectly harmless , and 111- j variably reliable are the qualities of One .Min ute Cough Cure. It never fails in coldscroup and lung troubles. Children like it becau.e it is pleasant to take and it helps them. \ . Mc- Millen , Druggist. 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