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By F M K1MMELL
U OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Thirty Years
There are those who write history and
those who make it and the makers of
the earliest history of this county have
a realizing sense of their personal knowl
edge of and taking part in the evolution
which has changed the Great American
Desert of the old school atlas into a
land of homes On lowland and upland
in canyon and on prairie are found dwell
ings churches and school houses while
towns and trade centers are convenient
to all One is tempted to become gar
rulously reminiscent but much has
been given in these columns and it is
needless to repeat what is so interesting
to us old timers
On Thanksgiving Day J F Black and
William Byfield met at John Long
neckors to celebrate the thirtieth anni
versary of the first Thanksgiving dinner
ever eaten in the county November
1871 -An account of that memorable
dinner has been given
When these three old men met every
detail is recalled and the stories and
jokes lose nothing in telling Instead
of fourteen inches of snow with attend
ing discomforts and disturbances of that
first dinner this year gave weather that
to easterners would be inconceivable and
unbelievable but to us Nebraskans it is
only one kind of our winters That
dinner of 1871 it will be remembered
was partaken of by the party which was
sent out by the Republican Valley Land
and Townsite Co while in camp near
the mouth of Red Willow creek They
located the town of Red Willow and a
number of them took claims then re
turned to Nebraska City waiting until
spring bejore bringing their families
During the winter extensive- advertising
booming the new colony and town at
tracted others some of whom reached
this place before the return of the origi
nal settlers and in several instances
claims were jumped Of those who
came early in 1872 very few are left
One coming as a tender foot bride
had peculiar experiences and hardships
but has survived them all and lived here
longer than any other woman and more
continuously than any other person
Changes of a domestic nature have
kept up with changing times Thirty
years ago newly wedded people lived in
tents dugouts sod houses and shanties
and the native population began coming
to them under very trying circumstances
Those crude homes gave place to better
and more comfortable houses and re
stricted diet was followed by an abund
ance but all this has gone so far into
the past that children born under those
circumstances remember but little of it
This year while the old parents met
to observe Thanksgiving the young
people themselves fathers and mothers
and engaged in the worlds work gath
ered with one of their number with their
own little families marking a red letter
day in their lives
In that long ago possessions came
slowly Among other acquisitions young
farm animals were welcomed with par
donable pride by their owners and on
some occasions the attention paid to
sprightly baby horses has lately been
continued in tender care to the same
dying of old age
And so Time rolls on and though The
years are many and the years are long
in living them they seem short and few
in looking back So much has taken
place in three decades what will the
next bring
Health and Beauty
A poor camplexion is usually the result of a
torpid liver or irregular action of the bowels
Unless natures refuse is carried off it will surely
cause impure blood Pimples boils and other
eruptions follow This is natures method of
throwing off the poisons which the bowels fail
to remove DeWitts Little Early risers are
world famous for remedying this condition
They stimulate the liver and promote regular
and healthy action of the bowels but never
cause griping cramps or distress Safe pills
McConnell Berry
Coming Public Sales
Ann Zimmerman announces a public
sale Thursday December 12th at her
farm ten miles north of Indianola on
Coon creek of farm implements stock
of different kinds household goods etc
Sums over S10 a credit of nine months
at ten per cent eight per cent discount
for cash sums under 10 cash Sale
will commence at ten in the forenoon
Free lunch at noon H H Berry
auctioneer
James Wood worths public sale will
be held at his farm four miles east and
north of McCook on TuesdayDecember
17th commencing at ten in the forenoon
- He offers his stock farm implements
household effects etc Sums under 10
-cash over 10 credit to October 1st 1902
- at ten per cent interest eight per cent
discount for cash Free lunch at noon
H H Berry auctioneer
Personal
Will the lady who fell in a swoon last Thurs
day in front of tho postoflic call at our store
She suffers from biliousness Dr Caldwells
Syrup Pepsin will surely cure her Sold by A
McMillen
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat
mg Powder Ar
M S Emberling is a new brakeman
this week
Way car 101 is in the carpenter shop
for slight repairs
Brakeman E J Moore returned to his
run on 5 and 12 Monday
Bins are being provided on the new
platform west of the blacksmith shop
Nick Fries machinist and wife de
parted for Chicago on Wednesday night
Conductor C E Pope spent Monday
in Oxford returning with his wife on
No 5
Way cars are draped in mourning in
respect for the late Brakeman A II
Washburn
Ned L Grimes of the shop force has
quit the Service and gone to Blue Hill
this week
Eoadmaster Wilburns motor car is up
from Red Cloud for some repairs and
improvements
Brakeman W S Tomlinson is flagging
for a few weeks and C E Eyan is
for Conductor Branson
Harry Huet took the rip track fire
Monday and Frank Hannan is back in
the main blacksmith shop
Conductor Mose Carmony and Avife
went into Omaha Wednesday night on
6 to secure profession al assistance for
a son
Locomotive 279 is about ready to go
out on the road and 196 has Just been
pushed into tho shop No 232 will soon
be out also
Frank Dobson night foreman of the
boilermakers gang has been off duty
for a week or ten days with an attack
of rheumatism
Dick Tinker has been conducting a
sash factory this week and soon the
window openings of the round house will
be closed for the winter
That dignified and unbending bearing
of Brakeman E M Douglas is charge
able to a jolt received at Oxford when
the freight train he was on broke in two
Engineer L T Meserve wife and son
are guests of Mr and Mrs F M Kim
mell today They are enroufe to Sheri
dan Wyoming from visiting relatives in
Lincoln and Fremont
Terms of Court
Judge G W Norris of the Fourteenth
district has prepared his calendar for
holding terms of court in the eight coun
ties composing the judicial district as
follows
Chase March 24 December 15
Dundy March 17 December 8
Frontier April 7 September 29
Furnas January 27 October 20
Gosper March 10 December 1
Hay es March 31 September 22
Hitchcock February 24November 24
Eed Willow February 10 November
10
Gratifying Revival
The revival meeting which has been
in progress for some time at Spring
Creek closed on last Sunday evening
The meetings were conducted by Eev
M S Satchell of Box Elder who was
assisted by Eev L M Grigsby of our
city The accessions to the church
number 25 Fourteen candidates were
baptised on last Friday
For Sale or Exchange
160 acres well improved near McCook
Eedwillow county Neb known as the
Spalding farm the southwest quarter
of section 31 township 4 north range
29 west of the 6th P M Mortgage
700 Make me an offer Joseph Lynch
owner 509 Douglas street Sioux City
Iowa 2ts
For Sale
Lot six in Egan Park addition Five
acres improved with frame house well
windmill cistern fenced out buildings
and nice orchard of cherry plum and
apples Trees four inches in diameter
Cost 1000 Will sell at great sacrifice
Write J H Mooney at Arapahoe Neb
The largest assortment of steel ranges
at the lowest prices quality considered
also the steel cook stove in different pat
terns at S M Cochran Cos It will
pay you to look over their goods before
buying
Infant mortality is something frightful Near
ly one quarter die before they reach one year
one third before they are five and one half be
fore they are fifteen Tho time use of Whites
Cream Vermifuge would save a majority of these
precious lives Price 25 cts A McMillen
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RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
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The Finest Cake
Is made with Royal
vvays light
The following letters were advertised
by the McCook postoflice Dec 5 1901
C M Colo Mrs Will Dunlap
J J Hulbart Mr George Lemon
Mr James McDowoll C A Rydberg
Mr JWilliam Ranee Oscar Sampson
Esther A Witer
When calling for these letters please
say they were advertised
F M Kimmell Postmaster
Susan The pimples sores and blackheads are
danger signals Take Rocky Mountain youll
give a farewell reception to your troubles 35c
Ask your druggist v
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CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Catholic Mass at 8 a m High
mass at 1030 a m Sunday school at
230 p m Sermon and benediction at
730 p m Eev J Daly Pastor
Methodist Sunday school at 10
Preaching at 11 Junior League at 3
Epworth League at 630 Preaching at
730 Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 730 L M Grigsby Pastor
Congregational Sunday school a t
10 Christian Endeavor at 7 Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 8 No
preaching services morning or evening
It is expected that there will be a pulpit
supply Sunday morning and evening
aweek Pulpit Supply Committee
Baptist Sunday school at 945 a m
Preaching at 11 and 8 Young peoples
meeting at 715 topic The Eight Use
of Ability Matt 5 13 16 Mrs White
leader Prayer meeting Wednesday ev
ening at 8 G L White Pastor
The annual roll call of the church oc
curred Wednesday evening Though
the weather was threatening a goodly
number was present to enjoy the boun
tious supper served in the church par
lors A business session followed at
which the treasurer was able to state
that the church owes no one a cent and
that a considerable balance is left in the
treasury The church is grateful to all
who have made this encouraging report
possible by their liberal subscriptions
About 25 members have been added to
to the church during the year The fol
lowing officers were elected for the
coming year
Deacons C C Calvert T J Pate
John Porter
Trustees Mrs V Franklin Alex
Johnston Mrs Otto Ballew
Clerk L B Philipps
Treasurer Miss Vernice Franklin
Supt Bible School Eev GLWhite
Another Tourist Excursion to California
To accommodate the increasing travel
to California the Burlington Eoute has
added to its service another weekly ex
cursion in tourist cars personally con
ducted The Burlingtons through car
service to California is as follows
Standard Sleepers daily Omaha Lin
coln Hastings and Oxford to San Fran
cisco connecting at latter city with fast
train for Los Angeles
Tourist Sleepers personally conducted
very Thursday Omaha Lincoln Fair
mont Hastings and Holdrege to San
Francisco every Wednesday and Thurs
day Kansas City St Joseph Wymore
Superior and Oxford to San Francisco
and Los Angeles
All these cars run via Denver and Salt
Lake City passing the grand panorama
of the Eockies by daylight
If youre going to California you will
be interested in our new 40 page folder
California Tours 1901 2 It is free
J Francis
Gen Passenger Agt Omaha Neb
To Cure a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All
druggists refund the money if it fails to cure
E W Groves signature is on each box 2ic
Notice to Subscribers
As fast as time and opportunity will
permit the publisher will send out notices
to the subscribers of The Tribune noti
fying them of their standing on the sub
scription book of the paper up to the
first of January 1902 It will be ex
pected that all who can will pay up
to that date We will be mindful of
the local conditions and will make no
effort to distress subscribers at home
It is however the purpose to collect
all subscriptions out of the state up to
that date and every proper effort will be
taken to accomplish that end
The Publisher
Foils a Deadly Attack
My wife was so ill that good physicians were
unable to help her writes M M Austin of
Winchester Indiana but was completely cured
by Dr Kings New Life Pills They work won
ders in stomach and liver troubles Cure con
stipation sick headache 2 cents at McConnell
Rerrys drug store
Advertised Letters
IflENT UMBEELLAS
THEY FIGURED IN CHURCHES IN THE
EARLY CHRISTIAN DAYS
When First Adopted by flic Public
Tlujy Seem to Have Dcen Utilized
Solely an Snn Protectors Onee nn
Attribute of Dignity
In the early Christian churches a
large umbrella usually hung over the
priest and it Is said that oin this
custom It became one of the attributes
of cardinals appointed from basilican
churches For years the doges of
Venice carried umbrellas cf state and
in 128S Pope Alexander III declared
that these should he surmounted by
golden statuettes of the annunciation
Michael Morosini was the first Vene
tian layman to carry an umbrella
which consisted of a small flat square
of green stuff over which was a cop
per spiral Soon after the umbrella
was adopted by fashionable Venetian
dames According to Coryats Crudi
ties 1G11 the Italian umbrella was
a small canopy and was made cf leath
er extended bj a series of wooden
hoops lie says umbrellas were used
by horsemen who resting the handles
on the thigh as they rode bore them
so that they should minister shadow
unto them for shelter against the
scorching sun
In the Harleian manuscripts now in
the British museum there Is in manu
script No 003 a crude illustration
showing the figure of a yoeman hold-
ing an umbrella over his lord which
leads me to infer that umbrellas were
known in England even in the early
Anglo Saxon period
Beck as quoted in the Drapers Dic
tionary asserts that at the time that
Stephen usurped the crown of England
twelfth century umbrellas were in
common use among the English The
first mention of the umbrella in Eng
lish literature Is in Florios World of
Wonders 1598 where it is described
as a kind of round fan or shadowing
that they use to ride with in summer
in Italy a little shade
In 1G5G an umbrella wasexhibited in
the Museum Tradescantianum or
Collection of Rarities Preserved at
South Lambeth Near London by John
Tradescant which was known as
one of the wonders of the ark
In the church of Cartmell in Lanca
shire England there was preserved
until a few years ago an umbrella said
to be over 300 years old which was
used chiefly to protect the host
References to the umbrella are to be
found also in Blounts Glossographia
1G74 and Phillips New Worlde of
Words 1G7S In the first the refer
ence reads Uinbrello a fashion of
round and broad fans wherewith the
Indians and from them our great ones
preserve themselves from the heat of
the sun and hence any little shadow
fan or other thing wherewith the wom
en guard their faces from the sun
The second runs Uinbrello a screen
against the suns heat used chiefly by
the Spaniards among whom it is known
by the name quitasole
The imaginative Dean Swift in the
Tale of a Tub 1G9G depicts Jack an
ever resourceful type making use of a
parchment copy of his fathers will as
a nightcap when he went to bed and as
an umbrella in rainy weather Did
the worthy Ilanway take his cue from
this or from Kersey according to whom
the umbrella was a broad fan or
screen commonly used by women to
shelter them from rain The last ref
erence made in 1709 is the first men
tion of it as a protector from the rain
Later Bailey who in his dictionary
1737 called it a parasol defined it as
a sort of small canopy to keep off the
rain
Small Iijrbt umbrellas came into
fashion among the ladies of the French
court in 1G75 and these were carried
by attendants Richelet tells us that
they were made of oilcloth or leather
and had ribs of whalebone A century
later they found favor with the men
who carried red umbrellas with edges
fringed with gold lace
The precise date when Jonas Ilan
way who died in 17SG introduced the
umbrella into England is not recorded
in any of the encyclopedias I have at
hand but they all state that he was
popularly known as its introducer
With the Dutch as with the Indian
grandees the umbrella was first an at
tribute of dignity and well it might
be for the prices paid for them at The
Hague in IGoO ranged from 75 to 120
each The Dutch colonists who settled
at the Cape of Good nope were not
shrvvto insist on preserving the dignity
of the umbrella for Ryk van Tulbagh
governor of Cape Colony in 1752 en
acted that No one less in rank than
a junior merchant or those among the
citizens of equal rank and the wives
and daughters only of those who are or
have been members of any council
shall venture to use umbrellas and
those who are less in rank than mer
chants shall not enter the castle in fine
weather with an open umbrella
Frank II Vizetelly in New York
Times
A Xoiifirolfers Opinion of Golf
Imagine a great fat creature who
ought to wear a turban and a long
black robe to hide his grossness whack
ing a little white ball for miles and
miles with a perfect surgery of instru
ments whacking it either with a baby
ish solemnity or a childish rage as
luck may have decided and inciden
tally training an innocent eyed little
boy to swear and be a tip hunting
loafer Thats golf H T W Wells
in Pearsons Magazine
To the Best of Her Knowledge
A lady was looking for her husband
and inquired anxiously of a housemaid
Do you happen to know anything of
your masters whereabouts
Im not sure mum replied the
careful domestic but I think theyre
in the wash Pathfinder
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doubt the evidence of his or her
senses There isnt any such reason
and thats why we ask you to come
and see for yourselves how well this
store is prepared to give you special
service and unequaled merchandise
at a great saving It is but a
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To buy where you can secure the best
and most good for the least money
Hence we urge you to try us on any
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For we are here to sell goods and
please and satisfy our customers in
every particular especially in highness
of quality and lowness of price
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If you would have nil appetite like a bear and
a relish for your meals take Chamberlains
Stomach and Liver Tablets They correct dis
orders of tho stomach and regulate the liver
and bowels Price il cents Sample free at
McConnell ifc Berrys drug store
Puts gray matter in your head Brings a rosy
glow to faded cheeks Restores vim vigor men
tal and physical happiness Thats what Rocky
Mountain Tea will do Xic Ask your druggist
A J Snell wanted to attend a party but was
afraid to do so on account of pains in his
stomach which he feared would grow worse
He says I was telling my troubles to a lady
friend who said Chamberlains Colic Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy will put you in con
dition for the party I bought a bottle and
take pleasure in stating that two doses cured
me and enabled me to have a good time at the
partj Mr Snell is a resident of Summer Hill
N Y This remedy is for sale by McConnell
Berry druggists
A Good Cough Medicine
f From the Gazette Toowoomba Australia J
I fiil Chamberlains Cough Remedy an excel
lent medicine I liavo been suffering from a
severe cough for the last two months and it
has effected a cure I have great pleasure in
recommending it W C Wockner This is
the opinion of one of our oldest and most re
spected residents and has been voluntarily given
in good faith that others may try the remedy
and be benefitted as was Mr Wockner This
remedy is sold by McConnoll Berry druggists
Xo one can reasonably hope for good health
unless his bowels move once each day When
this is not attended to disorders of the stomnrh
arise biliousness headache dyspepsia and piles
soon follow If you want to avoid these ail
ments keep yonr bowels regular by taking
Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets when
required They are so easv to take and mild
and gentle in effect For sale by McConnell fc
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CASH WILL DO
We have just received a car of fancy
Greeley potatoes and although prices
have advanced will for a few days
Since adopting the cash system we have made
reductions on all of our goods where it is possi
ble Below we give a few of our many bargains
Best kerosine oil - 20c
7 bars White Russian Silver Leaf or
Diamond C soap 25c
8 bars Sea Foam soap 25c
Ralston Pancake Flour - i0c
3 cans Gilman corn fine goods 25c
i2jc can fruit I0C
ioc can fruit -
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Best Caiifornia canned fruit - ioc
TTiiicv uwaiis nevv crup per ID cc
Yeast Foam
4c
We want to close out dishes and tinware and
will sell all goods so cheap that it will not nav
vou to buv in Denver or HatirrC y J
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