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Official Paper of Redwillow County
By F M KIMMELL
-Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
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There would bo no great loss to the
Republican party of the state of Mis
souri if Niodringhauss name should bo
spelled pants
The latest turn of the screw by the
patent folks is driving the weekly news
papermen to homo prints Both the Red
Cloud Chief and the Red Cloud Argus
threaten to cut out the patents So
mote it bo
CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Catholic Order of services Mass
8 a m Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday
school 230 n m Ever Sundav
J J Locghran Pastor
Chkisttan The members of the
church have given their pastor a vacation
in order that he may engage in evange
listic work Until his return there will
bo Bible school at 10 a m social service
at 11 a m No service in the evening
G T Burt Pastor
Methodist Sunday School at 10
Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m Class
at 12 oclock Epworth League at 7 00
Junior League at 3 Prayer meeting
Thursdayeveningat745 Special music
at Sunday services All welcome
M B Carman Pastor
First Baptist Church Preaching at
11 a m and 745 p m Sunday school at
945 am Junior society at 3 p m BY
P TJ at 615 p m Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening 745 p m Morning
theme Spiritual Dynamics Even
ing theme The Weakness of Christ
All invited A B Carson Pastor
Episcopal Services in St Albans
church as follows Every Sunday in the
month Sunday school at 10 oclock am
Morning prayer at 11 and evening prayer
and sermon at 8 The third Sunday in
the month Holy Communion at 730 a
m AH are welcome
E R Earle Rector
Congregational Sunday school at
10 Sermon at 11 Y P S C E at 7
Sermon at 8 Prayer and conference
meeting Wednesday evening at 8 Morn
ing subject The Constraint of Love
Eveping subject The last in the series
on Lifes Compass Trust in God and
Heaven A full attendance of church
and congregation will add immensely to
the interest in these services
George A Conrad Pastor
Four Hundred Babies
St Vincents Infants Asylum Chicago
shelters homeless waifs awaiting adop
tion and there are nearly 400 babies
there Sister Julia writesI cannot say
too much in praise of Foleys Honey and
Tar for coughs colds croup and whoop
ing cough Contains no opiates and is
safe and sure Ask for Foleys Honey
and Tar and insist upon having it as it
is a safe remedy and certain in results
Eefuse substitutes Sold by A Mc
Millen
The Tribune makes a specialty of
office stationery and type writer supplies
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in almost all the civilized coun
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If the cod fish became extinct
it would be a world wide calam
ity because the oil that comes
from its liver surpasses all other
fats in nourishing and life giving
properties Thirty years ago
the proprietors of Scotts Emul
sion found a way of preparing
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take it and get the full value of
the oil without the objectionable
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10000000 Annually for Iowa
Until quite recently the term agrono
mist has not appeared with sufficient
frequency in the public prints to win rec
ognition as a legitimate and properly de
rived English word Since the notable
achievement of P G Holden profes
sor of agrouomj in the Iowa State agri
cultural college at Ames who does not
resent being coupled with the unfami
liar title but on the contrary seems to
be rather proud of it the word has come
into such frequent use that it will very
soon seem like an old friend
An agronomist divested of the mys
tery attendant on the term is one who
is devoted to scientific husbandry It
is only within the present generation
that such a scieuce or art as agronomy
has come to the front as a factor in
American agriculture In former years
the only species of husbandry which
could be certain of a respectful hearing
was the practical and rather dogmatia
tsaching vouchsafed by a race of agricul
turists whose stock in trade was tradi
tion and whose bugbear was expefimen
tation
There is no better illustration of the
fact that scientific husbandry is in the
ascendent thaniis furnished by the re
sults obtained by Professor Holden
who in the last twelvemonth it would
appear has earned 10000000 for the
farmers of Iowa This rather astound
ing feat has been accomplished without
mystery or jugglery of any description
and the machinery employed has been
so simple that the merest tyron in farm
ing cannot plead ignorance
For several years the great corn pro
ducing plain east of the Mississippi had
been showing a decided decline both in
the quantity and quality of its leading
product This degenerative process was
so unmistakeble that the farmers of the
belt were becoming disheartened This
was especially true of Iowa which had
long stood at the head of the list as a
corn producing state Almost as a last
resort the farmers of that state appealed
to science for relief Their urgent
demand for aid led to the engagement of
Professor Holden by the state agricultu
ral college
The corn growers were rather skep
tical as to the results likeiy to be brought
about by a man who -bore such a title as
agronomist but they were willing in
their strait to listen to anybody arid to
make a trial of any remedy The new
wonder worker began his evangel of corn
by convincing his auditors that he act
ually knew more about the business
than any of them His initial campaign
was one of education For a month at a
time he traveled over the corn growing
section of the state and talked almost
constantly of soils and preparation and
culture A special car was furnished
by the railroad companies and from the
rear platform Professor Holden deliver
ed brief and telling lectures to the far
mers who a waited jhim at every stopping
place In thisjwayhe visited from fif
teen to twenty rural centers every day
and his audiences in most of them rang
ed well up in thejhundreds
The professor did not employ many
scientific terms but clothed his ideas on
corn growing in language which could
not fail to bejunderstood He explained
all the advanced knowledge which had
been determined by experiment and ad
monished the farmers that they had
only to open theireyes to see for them
selves He laidspecial stress upon the
selection of seed To illustrate how
much depended upon this point he ex
hibited seed corn of all varieties and
stages of perfection and pointed out that
which was to be avoided and that which
would produce satisfactory results He
convinced them bynumerous reports of
tests he had made with different speci
mens that much more depended upon
the proper selection of seed than they
had ever believed possible
Then he told them how it happened
that he became an agronomist a student
of husbandry Iiike so many other won
derful things it was an accident He
was teaching a district school in Michi
gan and it occurred to him to get up a
corn growing contest among hfs pupils
He induced the boys to select the earliest
I biggest and most perfect ears from the
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field to store them carefully and to plant
only from this picked seed The result
of the contest was a surprise toeverbody
in the district The boys secured a yield
almost double that of their fathers and
the professor saw that he had stumbled
upon a matter of sufficient importance to
warrant him in proceeding further in his
investigations He abandoned school
teaching and gave himself up to the
perfection of his system In time his
fame spread and he was offered the man
agement of a 25000 acre farm in Illinois
The salary tendered him was so alluring
that he accepted Besides it was the
opportunity Jie had sought to establish
the accuracy of his deductions
The first year of his suporintendency
he planted 20000 acres of corn and
when it was harvested it was found that
there were over 100000 bushels more
than the same land had ever produced
More than that the average quality of
the grain was greatly improved Such
an achievement as this was not likely to
pass unnoticed The directors of the
Iowa State Agricultural college were on
the lookout for a man who was engaged
in experimental research along the line
adopted by Holden and he was offered
the chair of agronomy in the institution
This was a new departure in the school
and the chair was created especially for
Professor Holden Ho did not like to
give up his corn growing experiments on
the big farm but the Iowa folks prom
ised him that his opportunity for original
research should not be curtailed and he
accepted
Professor Holden began his work at
Ames by inviting the Iowa farmers to
come to the agricultural college during
the winterand investigate for themselves
the methods he employed in the selection
of seed corn and his theories respecting
germination A goodly number accepted
the opportunity and the plan bore abun
dant fruit During the early spring of
each year the professor continues his
scheme of spending a month in a tour of
education and it is thus that his theories
have been exploited in all parts of the
state Last spring his course extended
over several thousand miles Alive to
the immensely profitable result of his
tail end agricultural campaign the
railroadsjare eager to furnish him with
all the transportation facilities he re
quires
Some ofthe evidences of the college
authorities wisdom in securing the ser
vices of such an accomplished agrono
mist as Professor Holden are manifest in
the Iowa corn report for 190i For nine
years the corn crop of the Ilawkeye
State hadaveraged twenty seven and a
half bushels to the acre Last season
the crop aggregated 330000000 bushels
125000000 bushels above the yield of tne
previousjyear and the average was forty
bushels to the acre The crop is valued
at about S30000000 more than that of a
year agoand Professor Holden is univer
sally accredited with a third part of the
increase The evidence in his favor is
indisputable The regions in which he
conducted his tour of education raised
more corn than the others Those in
which he had the largest audiences did
best of all Iowa is proud of her agron
omist and she has reason to be
Charles Samuels
How to Avoid Pneumonia
We have never heard of a single in
stance of a cold resulting in Pneumonia
or other lung trouble when Foleys Honey
and Tar has been taken It not only
stops the cough but heals and strength
ens the lungs Ask for Foleys Honey
and Tar and refuse any substitute offer
ed Dr C J Bishon of Aernew Mich
writes I have used Foleys Honey and
Tar in three very severe cases 6f pneu
monia with good results in every case
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ITEMS FROM STRINGT0WN
Otto Tilgner is taking a trip to Lewel
len Nebraska to visit his father
Otto Tilgner allows it takes a pretty
big town lad to bluff him Otto is
little but oh my
Everybody had a -big time at tho
dance at Henry SchamePs Thursday
night of last week
Ill brave the storms of Chilkoot Pass
Ill cross the plains of frozen glass
Id leave my wife and cross tbe sea
Rather than be without Rocky Mountain
Tea L W McConnell
As He Saw The Valley
W II Stowell formerly editor of the
Auburn Post recently made a - trip
through the Republican Valley and in
part writes the Lincoln Daily Star about
it as follows
The people who reside in the eastern
part of Nebraska are inclined to think
that section the only habitable place of
the state A recent trip over the Bur
lington railroad through the southern tier
of counties has proved to the writer most
conclusively that southwestern Nebraska
has a great future before it The coun
try is improving rapidly values are in
creasing and tho people are prosperous
and contented All the conditions that
prevail in that section are a flat contra
dictibn of the doleful stories told by a
few peoplo who have gone there staytfd
a short time become homesick and re
turned
At Superior we strike the fertile Re
publican valley From there on west
ward there is nothing to indicate that we
are in a drought stricken country or that
the people are in a half starved condition
On tho contrary good farm 1 ouses and
barns well filled with farm products ap
pear here and there The stock grazing
in the fields was sleek and well fed
In the semi arid counties of the ex
treme southwestern part of tho state far
mers have learned to raiso crops that are
adapted to that climate Cane is almost
certain to be a sure crop and cane seed
brings a good price Winter wheat is
another of the sure crops The town of
Trenton in Hitchcock county shipped
252 cars of No 2 winter wheat last year
The farmers ara becoming interested in
Campbells soil culture and as they
adopt his methods of cultivating tho laud
they find they raise better crops One
farmer near Culbertson raised seven con
secutive crops of wheat on a piece of
irrigated ground and his average yield
was forty bushels per acre Any one
crop would have more than paid for the
original price of the land Water rights
cost 350 per acre
Red Willow county the third east of
the Colorado line was the banner wheat
growing county of the state in 1902 The
average yield per acre was twenty six
bushels The last year they claim that
their wheat crop was a failure as it yield
ed but eight to 20 bushels per acre In
eastern Nebraska this is considered a
fair yield
Around Culbertson tho irrigating
ditch and sugar beets are making the
farmers money From ten to forty tons
of beets per acre are raised on land that
cost the owners from 5 to 20 The ir
rigated beet land around Culbertson can
be bought today at from 25 to 60 per
acre Land in the same section of the
county not irrigated can be bought at
10 per acre and up About 2500 acres
of sugar beets wore raised in the vicinity
of Culbertson this year From that sta
tion alone nine hundred cars of beets
were shipped to the factories at Grand
Island and Ames Russians are set
tling in and around Culbertson and the
farmers contract with them to do all the
hand work of beet raising such as hoe
ing thinning pulling and toping for 21
per acre while they do the team work
themselves The price of beets ranges
from 1 to 5 per ton One farmer on
thirty five cars of beets made a net
profit of 1800 or 3145 per aero The
beet crop alone will bring 100000 to
Culbertson this year
For forage alfalfa is fast taking the
place of buffalo grass It is getting a
hold on the divides but as yet the most
flourishing fields are found on the bot
tom lands The high price of alfalfa seed
makes this the most profitable crop that
the western Nebraska farmer can raise
If renters who are paying two fifths of
their crop or from 3 to 5 per acre for
high priced land in eastern Nebraska
and other places would settle in the
southwestern part of the state and
make up their minds not to yield to home
sickness the first year or two the would
soon have homes of their own and be
surrounded with as many of the com
forts and luxuries of life as the people
farther east W H Stowell
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 25c
Falling hair means weak hair
Then strengthen your hair
feed it with the only hair food
Ayers Hair Vigor It checks
falling hair makes the hair
grow
druff
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completely cures
And it alwavs
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restores
color to gray hair ail the rich
dark color of early life
3Ir liair was falling out liatilr and Itvas
afraid I would lose it all Tlien I tritd Avcrs
Hair vicor It quickly stopped the falling and
made my hair all I could wish
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SOUTH SIDE -John
Burtless is drilling a well near
tbe house
G H Rowland purchased ufino bunch
of shoats recently
Look out for the Red Willow county
atlas and prepare your 1500
Mrs W S Fitch returned homo from
her Colorado visit last Fridny morning
Zen Spickelmeyer is harvesting his
sugar beets theso days and feeding
them to the calves
An eastern horse buyer visited this
community and purchased a three-year-
old colt of Frank Freolovo consideration
12000
Mrs J W Andrews who has been
sojourning in Indianola the past two or
three weeks returned home Saturday
evening
W G Dutton J W Andrews Joseph
Schmitz and W S Fitch are making
preparations for hot weather by filling
their ice houses
Quite a number of South Side peoplo
attended the funeral of R M Wado at
Prospect Park Mr Wade is an old
York state resident Was in his 77th
year and for tho past few years has been
quite feeble He leaves an aged wife and
four children to mourn his loss
People engaged in tho ice traffic should
see that the largo chunks of ice strung
along the public highway are removed
It is dangerous to those driving colts
and fractious horses and is liable to re
sult in serious accidents Tho road au
thorities should give it their attention
Mrs Gerald Wilcox was quite severely
burned about tho face and head by the
explosion of a self sealing can into wihch
she was fixing some cotfeo preparatory
to sending with a lunch to tho men
working in the timber The suction
drew the lid on tightly excluding tho
air and an explosion was the result
PLEASANT PRAIRIE
C M Lofton and wife were at the
county capital Monday
Flora BQuick county superintendent
visited our school first of this week
Mrs Shephard and son Archie were
visiting with friends in this locality last
week
Sherman Williams bought a fat hog of
William Relph Monday for home con
sumption
Bud Richardson C M Lofton and
N J Johnson had their corn shelled
J E Dodge doing the work
The graphaphone exhibition given at
the school house Friday night was not
very well attended although a very cred
itable show was given by Mr Kemp
The grip seems to bo doing business
right along in our neighborhood Nearly
every family has been visited making
the attendance at school very irregular
COLEMAN
Frank Coleman hauled straw this week
Now is the time to Mil that ice house
II H Bandy is out knocking around
theso days got well
Dorsey Shepherd shipped a big car
load of hogs Monday
C Hackencamp was in McCook Mon
day with a load of hogs
The Rev M B Carman pastor of the
M E Church in McCook will preach
at the Coleman school house next Sun
day at p m fast time
lie IooJcoil It
A ridiculous but amusing story used
to be told of Charles lleades dramati
zation of Tennysons poem Dora
We do not however vouch for -the
truth of the anecdote Dora was be
ing performed one night years ago
and when Mary Morrison made her
exit to bring on her little Willie aged
about four she -was shocked to find a
lubberly boy of at least fourteen and
as he -was the only Willie at hand on
he had to go though he -was well nigh
as big as his mother The Former Allen
of the play being equal to the emer
gency instead of inquiring How old
are you my little man enueavorea
to remedy the matter by saying Llow
old are you my strapping boy But
It was a failure for the boy who was
Instructed to say from four to five
said it in such a hoarse sepulchral
tone as to drive the good natured
grandfather to exclaim Forty five
You look it my boy you look it
Golden Penny
Wontlerfal Sense of Smell In Dorts
It has often been proved that dogs
are able to track their masters through
crowded streets where it would be
Impossible to attribute their accuracy
to anything except the sense of smell
alone Mr Romanes the naturalist
once made some interesting experi
ments as to this wonderful power as
exhibited in his own dog In these tests
the naturalist found that his dumb
friend could easily follow in the tracks
of his master though he was far out
of sight and that too after no less
than eleven persons had followed step-
ping exactly in the tracks made by Mr
Romanes it being the deliberate
tion to confuse the senses of the poor
dog if possible Further experiment
I prbved that the animal tracked the
boots instead of the man for when Mr
Romanes put on new footgear the dog
failed entirely
QnicUIy Snbdncil
Von Blumer roaring with rage
Who told you to put paper on the wall
Decorator Your wife sir
Von Blumer Pretty isnt it
Many people buy everything on cred
it and never ask the price until they go
to pay Then there is akick Atchison
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A Good Investment
15 acros adjacent to city of McCook honso
frame stable granary lion house well hoff
pons etc 2500 pencil trees All in cultiva
tion G0O cash Write for complete land
list E J MITCHELL
McCook Nob
Old Rubber Copper and Brass
Highest Market Price Paid in Cash
Block West of Citizens Bank
McCook - Nebraska
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Poultry Co
Buyers and Shippers of
Poultry and Eggs
For the next 7 days
wo will pay cash
For Hens
Springs
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Turkey Hens lie
A Sound Argument
The one that blows without any
thing to blow about wastes time and
energy The excellence of our goods
and delivery service warrant us for
blowing Always tho best always
the greatest variety always the
highest quality
DAVID MAGNER
Phone 14 Fresh and Salt Meats
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Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass
Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings
Agent for Halliday Waupun fcclipse
Windmills Basement of the Meeker
Phillips Building
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The best of
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