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CHICAGO. BUTTE ,
ST. JOSEPH , PORTLAND ,
• KANSAS CITY , SALT LAKE CITY ,
ST. LOUIS AND all SAN FRANCISCO ,
POINTS EAST AND AND ALL POINTS
SOUTH. WEST.
TRAINS LEAVE AS FOLLOWS :
CENTRAL TIME.
No. 2. Vestibuled Express , daily ,
Lincoln , Omaha , St Joe ,
Kansas City , St. LouisChi-
capo , and all points south
and east 5:55 A.M.
No. 4. Local Express , daily , Lin
coln , Omaha , Chicago , and
all points east 9:00 V. M.
N0.148. Freight , daily , ex. Sunday ,
Hastings ana intermediate
stations 5:00 A. M.
No. 76. Freight , daily , Oxford , Hol-
drege , Hastings 6:45 A.M.
No. 80. Freight , daily , Hastings and
intermediate stations 7:00 A. M
MOUNTAIN TIME.
No. 5. Local Express , daily , Den
ver and intermediate sta
tions 8:15 P. M.
No. 3. Vestibuled Express , daily ,
Denver and all points in
Colo.Utah and California , 11:40 P.M.
N0.149. Freight , daily , ex. Sunday ,
Akron and intermediate sta
tions 6:00 A. M.
No.v77. . Freight , dailyStrattonBen-
kelman , Haigler , Wrayand
Akron 3:20 P. M.
No. 63. Freight , daily.Stratton.Ben-
kelman , Haigler , Wray and
Akron 5:00 P.M.
N0.175. Accommodation , Mondays ,
Wednesdays and Fridays ,
Imperial and intermediate
stations 8:00 A. M.
Sleeping , dining and reclining chair cars
( seats free ) on through trains. Tickets sold
and baggage checked to any point in the
United States or Canada.
For information , time tables , maps and
tickets , call on or write C. E. Magner , Agent ,
MeCook , Nebraska , or J. Francis , General
Passenger Agent , Omaha , Nebraska.
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.
Negligee , dress and working shirts.
Call and see them. The Famous.
The monthly pay-checks will be dished
out again , this evening , between trains
5 and 3.
Trainmaster Kenyon made a business
trip to Akron , Monday , returning the
next day.
Mrs. C. E. Pope and children returned ,
Sunday night , after visiting relatives in
Lincoln for a week.
John Mullen , who has not been work
ing for some time , went to Hastings ,
Wednesday morning.
John Custer and family returnedSatur-
" day night , from their week's visit with
relatives at Blue Springs.
Owing to ill health , Brakeman .Robey
expects to quit work here soon , and will
then leave for North Carolina.
Stephen Belles returned to work in the
shops , Tuesday morning , after a ten
days' lay-off with a smashed hand.
Call ami leave your order for a stylish'
spring suit. A good fit and lowest prices
guaranteed. The Famous.
W. D. Beyrer and family left , Wednes
day evening on 4 , for a month's visit with
relatives and friends in Illinois , Indiana
and Michigan.
A stock extra went through here , Wed
nesday evening , containing Mexican cat
tle. About fifty of them had died be
tween Denver and this place.
Engine 250 , which has been in the
shops here for repairs , was sent back to
Denver , Tuesdayand engine 2i6brought
down and placed in the shops.
A goodly number of the conductors
expect to attend the biennial convention
of the Order of Railway Conductors ,
which will be held in Los Angeles , Cali
fornia , May nth.
Switchman C. V. Kerr having returned
to MeCook , Yardmaster Frank Clary
has again taken charge of the Akron
yards. His house up there was consid
erably damaged by the recent wind and
snow storm.
The engine going west bursted a flue
at Beardsley , Tuesday , consequently the
train did not go down until Wednesday
afternoon. A. C. Campbell's car was at
tached to the train and he experienced
all the delights of a ride on the Sunflow
er branch. Wilsonville Review.
Roadmasters Rogers and Hagberg were
piloted out in the country by Tom Clark
Tuesday , in quest of the festive duck.
They bagged about a dozen ducks , but
the greatest catch was when Ralph sank
into about three feet of quicksand in the
river south of Bartley and had to be
pulled out. Cambridge Kaleidoscope.
James Egan , tin smith , had the mis
fortune to hurt himself , quite severely ,
last week. He was screwing up a pipe
on one of the engines when the alligator
wrench , which he was using , slipped ,
catching his thumb between it and the
fire-box , inflicting a severe bruise. He
was obliged to lay off for a few days.
General John C. Cowin , special counsel
for the United States government in the
foreclosure suits of the government
against the Union Pacific railway , says
he sees no obstacle in the way of fore
closure , and thinks that the event will
come along as quickly as the necessary
legal papers can be issued by the courts.
He believes that the foreclosure decree
will undoubtedly be issued in May.
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salvo
Cares Piles. Scalds. Bares.
Awarded
Highest Honors World's Fair ,
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A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free
from Ammonia , Alum or any other adulterant.
40 YEARS THE STANDARD.
Onion sets , all vari
eties , at Knipple's.
Conductor Brown moved into the
George Kainie property , 708 Main street ,
Thursday.
R. B. Simmons and children , Miss
Florence and Master Rodburn spent Sat
urday in Lincoln.
Mrs. D. Magner , who has been visiting
relatives at Ravenna for the past ten days ,
is reported to be quite sick at that place
and unable to return home.
Frank Harris and Emerson Hanson
went down to York , Monday evening on
4 , to attend a meeting of the Home
Forum. They stopped at Lincoln on
their way back and transacted some bus
iness , returning home , Tuesday night
on 3.
Senator Cbandler of New Hampshire ,
who is the determined opponent of rail
road pools and trusts , introduced in Con
gress , Monday , a bill in the nature of an
amendment to Senator Foraker's rail
road pooling bill. It is entitled , "A
bill abolishing competition in trade and
production and authorizing combinations
to enable merchants , manufacturers and
producers of commodities subject to in
terstate commerce to maintain prices and
make profits notwithstanding business
depression" .
A Map of the United States.
The new wall map issued bv the Bur
lington Route is tbree feet four inches
wide b3T four feet long ; is printed in six
colors ; is mounted on rollers ; shows every
state , count- , important town and rail
road in the Union , and forms a very de
sirable and useful adjunct to any house
hold or business establishment.
Purchased in lots of 5,000 the maps
cost the Burlington Route nearly 20 cents
apiece , but on receipt of 15 cents in coiner
or stamps the undersigned will be pleased
to send you one. Write immediately , as
the supply is limited. J. Francis , G. P.
A. , Burlington Route , Omaha , Neb.
Call for Sealed Bids.
Indiauola , Neb. , March 19 , 1897.
We will receive sealed bids for the
printing of 1,000 premium lists and 1,000
speed programs. Said programs to be a
small folder containing the speed list of
four , possibly six , counties , as we are
now in a circuit. The one who gets the
contract to have all he may be able to
make out of the advertisements. Bids
will be received up till May 1st. Print
ing to be done by June 1st , 1S97.
W. A. McCool , Secretary.
Hogr and Cattle Fencing.
We have just received a car load of
Page Woven Wire Fencing for hogs and
all kinds of stock , which we will sell at
lowest prices. Barxetx Lumber Co.
Lots for Sale.
Lots 9 , 10 , 11 and 12 in block 25 , Second
end addition to MeCook. Make me an
offer on these lots. Address :
W. E. Datjchy , Topeka , Kansas.
Dr. Z. L. Kay. '
Office , rooms 4 and 5 over Leach's
jewelry store. Residence , front rooms
over Ganschow's shoe store.
For Sale.
Lots 1 and 2 , in block 23 , original Me
Cook. Write to G. W. Jacobson , Free
dom , Illinois
For Sale Cheap.
Residences in town and 160 acres south
Of MeCook. S. CORDEAL ,
Office over Farmers and Merchants Bank.
WANTED AT ONCE : Active agents
for each county. Exclusive control and
no risk. Will clear 12 to 25 hundred dollars
lars a year. Enclose stamp for full par
ticulars , or 25c for $1 sample. Big Rapids
Mineral Water Co. , Big Rapids , Mich.
April 2-2mo.
Hog Fencing : .
We have just received a shipment of
extra quality hog fencing. And we are
selling it at the remarkably low figure of
20 cents a rod. Have also a large supply
of chicken fencing in stock. .
S. M. Cochrax & Co.
Personal The gentleman who annoyed
the congregation last Sunday by continually
coughing will find instant relief by using One
Minute Cough Cure , a speedy and harmless
remedy for throat and lung troubles. A. Mc-
Millen.
Croup and whooping cough are childhood's
terrors : but like pneumonia , bronchitis and
sther throat and lung troubles , can be quckly
: ured by using One .Minute Cough Cure. A.
McMillen.
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