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Official Paper of Redwillow County
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
Everyone whether interested in univer
sities or not should read the article in
the September Atlantic MonthlyShall
the university become a business cor
poration by Henry S Pritchell this
wag an address before the university of
Michigan
This same number oontains an article
on Slaveryby William Garrott Brown
Lincolns policy of mercy Also an
article by William S Rossiter chief
clerk United States census bureau and
expert special agent for printing and
publishing the twelfth census The
problem of federal printing this gives
a map of the Growth of federal printing
from 1792 to 1904 also the Details of
size and cost of certain publications
issued by authority in the September
Review of Reviews Leading articles
of the month in the September Re
view of Reviews are as follows
How fast are the southern negroes
increasing
Are there superior and inferior
races
The international congress of psy
chology
The sinister side of Japans purpose
Do Russians themselves really ex
pect reforms
Is emigration running Italy
The terrible work of the recent
earthquake in India
The evolution of religion in France
These magazines may be found at the
public library Library hours from
1030 to 1200 oclock mornings after
noons from 130 to 600 oclock even
ings from 700 to 900 oclock Books
must be taken out and returned during
library hours only
Ida McCakl Librarian
CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Congregational Sunday school at 10
oclock Regular services
George B Hawkes Pastor
Baptist Regular services will be re
sumed next Sunday morning and even
ing A cordial invitation to all
A B Carson Pastor
Catholic Order of services Mass
8 a m Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday
school 230 p m Every Sunday
J J Loughran Pastor
Christian Sunday school at 10 a m
Preaching at 11 a m subject The
Way to God Y P S C E at 715
p m Preaching at 815 p m subject
Come and see All are welcome
L P Sanford Pastor
Episcopal Services in
St Albans
church as follows Every Sunday in the
month Sunday school at 10 oclock am
Morning prayer at 11 a m and evening
prayer and sermon at 8 The third Sun
day in the month Holy Communion at
730 a m All are welcome
E R Earle Rector
Methodis t Sunday school at 10
Sermon at 11 a m and 8 p m Class
at 12 Junior Epworth League at 3
Epworth League at 715 Prayer and
praise service every Wednesday night at
8 oclock Preaching in South McCook
next Sunday at 3 oclock Sunday school
at 2 All invited
M B Carman Pastor
Populist County Convention
The electors of the Peoples Independent
party of Red Willow connty Nebraska are
called to meet in the city of Indianola on Sat
urday September 16 1905 at one oclock p m
for the purpose of placing in nomination candi
dates for the various county offices to be filled
this fall and for selecting delegates to the state
convention and to transact such other business
as may come before the convention the basis
of representation will be one delegate at large
from each precinct and one delegate for every
fifteen votes or major fraction thereof cast for
the honorable Geo W Berge for governor in
1904 giving the following representation to
precincts to wit
Alliance 3
Beaver 5
Bondville 4
Box Elder 2
Coleman 2
Danbury 3
Driftwood 2
East Valley 3
Fritsch 4
Gerver 2
Grant 2
Indianola 6
Lebanon 4
Mo Hidge 2
North Valley 3
Perry 3
Red Willow 3
Tyrone 3
Valley Grange 2
Willow Grore 13
Total J71
It is recommended that no proxies be allowed
but that the delegates presentbe empowered to
cast the full vote of their precinct It is fur
ther recommended that the various precincts
hold their causus on Thursday evening Septem
ber 14 1905 at 730 p m and at same meeting
that their committeemen for the coming year
selected
H H Pickenb
I M Smith Secretary Chairman
Cera Botttaj la Fields
Corn Is so plentiful In the vicinity
of Chelsea L T that the farmers axe
letting it rot in the fields Twenty
cents s busel is all they can get for
it and they do not think
pays for harrastlng
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carnival close of past week
W V Miller of Marion had business
in the countys capital Wednesday
R P Loomis of the Willow has gone
to Bloomingdale Miuh on an extended
visit
Mrs A L Knowland and Mrs L J
Culbertson are Denver visitors this
week
wedding march plaved by Miss Vashti
Moore the little niece of the bride Im
mediately after the ceremony a three
course luncheon was served The bride
was gowned in cream colored silk creton
The bride came to Lincoln from New
castle Wyo a few months ago to make
her home with her sister and has made
many friends here The groom came
i here from Madison Wis and has been
H A Graham was one of Danburys in the service of the Burlington Mon
citizens at the carnival end of last days Lincoln Journal
week
T A Erb of Akron is operating a
boarding train between McCook and Ox
ford now
Mr and Mrs J A Wilcox and Miss
Mabel are attending the reunion in Den
ver this week
Mr and Mrs L H Lindemann went
to housekeeping Monday in the John
Selby dwelling
Mrs E D W Pogue and Marjory
expect to leave for Evanston III their
home tomorrow
Dollie Pennell is attending school
in Lincoln being a pupil in the convent
ical school there
Mrs E O Scott returned to Repub
lican City Tuesday after spending
carnival week here
Mr and Mrs C P Lehn are among
the Colorado visitors expecting to be
absent about two weeks
Dr William Hamilton is a new
member of the local corps of U S ani
mal industry inspectors
County Treasurer and Mrs B G
Gossard are visiting in Denver this
week during the reunion
Tom Whitmer formerly of Coleman
precinct but now of Iowa is spending
a while with us this week
L W McConnell has been in Lin
coln part of the week to buy holiday
goods from an eastern drummer
F M Wood a brother of Mrs J C
Predmore is here from Belfast Ohio
-returning home from the reunion
Ed Reed has sold his dwelling to Ed
Howell head of the blacksmith force
who has been renting the place recently
Mrs C K Coleman came down from
Colorado last week and has been visit
ingJMcCook relatives and friends since
M R and T H Allen of Mulberry
Indiana uncles of L C Foster are
visiting him on their way home from
Denver and the reunion
Miss Mamie Fitzgerald visited her
uncle P Walsh briefly first of the week
coming up from Lincoln Sunday and
returning home Monday
Mrs C B Sawyer andtMiss Kate
will return to University Place close of
this week and Miss Kate will resume
her studies first of next week
Mrs J B Meserve went down to In
dianola Monday morning to attend the
I wedding of Miss Delia Andrews return
ing nome on o Tuesday evening
Mrs Anna Stayner departed on No
12 Wednesday morning for Guilford
Indiana to be absent a few weeks Mrs
Stayner and the girls accompanied her
as far as Omaha returning home on No
3 some night
Advertised Letters
The following letters were advertised
by the McCook postofiice Sept 7 1905
Mclntyre Mrs J B Schmidt Lillian
ODell Sidney P Polly Mr O S
Reader Mr Adam Roberts Mr C J
Young S A Scott Mr Lee S
When calling for these letters please
say they were advertised
F M Kimmell Postmaster
COLEMAN
Mr and Mrs C DGriffiths were Den
ver visitors close of last week
W M Rozell has cane twelve feet
high It was put in with a press drill
H B Wales and Miss Mabel returned
home Tuesday from visiting friends in
Iowa
C H Boyle and C H Meeker of Mc
Cook were in this precinct one day last
week
Mother of H H Bandy came in from
Missouri Wednesday to visit her son
awhile
Joe Menary of Iowa will visit friends
here for a week or two He came in
Wednesday
Mr and Mrs H H Bandy saw the
sights in Denver a few days close of last
week and fore part of this
Thos Whitmer of Iowa was in these
ends of the county Tuesday and Wed
nesday He lived here twenty years
On Thursday afternoon Myrtle Bates
got hold of a bottle of medicine and took
a big dose Dr Easterdy was called
and after several hours the little girl
took a change for the better and the
prospects this Friday morning are that
she will recover
On Wednesday night when No 3
stopped in McCook and the conductor
was assisting an old lady to alight a
man stepped up and said to her I will
take charge of you You come and go
with meyour name is Sharp She look
ed at him closely and said Who are
you I never saw you before He re
plied Oh my name is Sharp am your
boy the one you have come to see The
mother and son met for the first time
in nineteen years
A Studied Slight
She How that woman we just pass
ed does hate me
He She looked pleasant enough
She Thats all done for effect but
If you noticed she never turned to take
in my new suit and hat Detroit
Free Presa
A Plausible
Hlxon I wonder
managed to live to
age
Dbcoa Probably
Theory
how Methuselah
such a ripe old
because then
wre no beteria and disease censi la
u tr
MAIN STREEt MCCOOK NEBRASKA CARNIVAL WEEK AUGUST TWENTY EIGHTH TO SEPTEMBER SECOND
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Miss Ora McElvain has gone to Den
ver
Mrs V O English is here from Au
rora
Mrs H C Kjser
Superior
is visiting in
Mrs Anna Blatt of Lincolu
the city part of the week
was in
Anna Cott Married
A quiet but pretty wedding took place
at the residence of the brides sister
Mrs A P Moore 135 South Tenth
street at high noon yesterday wheu
Charles Blucker and Miss Anna E Cott
were married Miss Georgia Ostrander
was bridesmaid and Charles Crooker
was best man Rev J H Salsbury
officiated The bridal party descended
J E IIorton of Lebanon took in the the stairs and entered the parlor to the
Mrs John N Smith Dies In Omaha
Mrs John N Smith who was taken
to Emmanuel hospital Omaha about
three weeks since for treatment and op
eration died in the hospital last Sun
day morning September 3rd at eleven
oclock no operation having been per
formed however The remains were
brought to McCook on Monday night
Funeral services were held in the Baptist
church Wednesday afternoon at two
oclock conducted by Rev M B Car
man of the Methodist church in the ab
sence of the pastor A large gathering
of neighbors and friends from Coleman
precinct and from the city as well as
sembled in the church to pav their trib
ute to the memory of the departed
Burial followed in Longview cemetery
of this city A husband and two daught
ers and many friends mourn her death
Lucinda Witter was born in South
Bend Indiana March 10th 1832 Was
united in marriage with John N Smith
May 3 1868 Came to Red Willow
county about twenty years ago and bet
tied in Coleman precinct
RURAL FREE DELIVERY NO 1
G F Randel followed the crowd to
Denver this week
Mrs W E Bower was reported quite
low on Thursday
Mrs W E Bower is a victim and suf
ferer with rheumatism
Will Bloomfields little girl was re
ported very sick Thursday
Vida Smith went home with her sister
Mrs Miller for a months visit Sunday
T A Endsley will commence school
in the Pickens school house next Mon
day
John Brittain is seeing the sierhts at
the Nebraska state fair in Lincoln this
week
Mrs Nettie Lutz and son left for their
home in Marietta Kansas Tuesday
morning
Mr and Mrs Will Broomfields little
girl has been quite ill but is better at
this writing
Miss Nettie Endsley opened her school
in the North Star school house on Mon
day morning
Louie Jacobs went home with her
sister Mrs Mary McMullen from Hayes
Center Sunday
Miss Roxy Byfield commenced teach
ing school in the Fitch schoolhouse
Monday of this week
Mrs A D Johnston returned home
last week from a three months visit
with her brother in Oregon
Mr Guthrie of the Singer Sewing
Machine Co had a lucky runaway Mon
day in East McCook without damage
or injury
Mrs Myrtie Wright and family and
Mrs Mary McMullen and family visited
with the home folks Mr and Mrs H C
Jacobs carnival week
Miss Genva Fitch arrived home Wed
nesday from Colorado Her aunt Mrs
G B Nettleton accompanied her and
will remain until after the Old Settlers
picnic any way
Valley Grange and Bondville people
have been strongly represented in Den
ver this week among them are Mr
and Mrs Henry Hesterworth Mrs H
Hari Meyer Mr and Mrs Henry
Kisker Mr and Mrs Vontz and others
Mr and Mre Will Miller and daught
er Merle from Trenton came down last
Thursday Woodmans day Will re
turned home the same evening Mrs
Miller and Merle visited her parents Mr
and Mrs W H Smith until Sunday
5T S2KSCS
Mos mchaietts 31ncl Tx Jrfpooit
At the coming session of the Massi
chusetts legislature a bill will be offer
ed giving to each city and town the
privilege of raising money for munici
pal purposes- by such methods as the
town or city may deem best This
the single tax proposal which was de
feated in the last bay state legislature
Dynnino Urlven from Car Axle
The Great Western Railway of Eng
land is lighting its corridor tiains by
electricity obtained from dynamos
driven from the car axle Storage batt
teries are carried for use when the
vunning speed is slow and for stops
V- -T
Modern and Progressive
Forepaugh and Sell Brothers Worlds
Greatest Shows which will -exhibit in
McCook Fridav September 15th have
been enltird upon such n broad scale
of liberality as to almost preclude tho
depiction of i t a magnitude on paper
Forepaugh and Sells Brothors always
modern and progressive have had for
years the biggest and best show on earth
yet this season they have more than
doubled their immense amusement enter-
ipnsa uy cne nnaition oi complete new-
trains hundred of horses and people
and by ec tire new snows ine crown-
1 inj featuro of theso almost unlimited
additions is the grand spectacular and
I pantomimic production Panama or tho
I Portals of the Pea in which is shown
1 ten hundred characters and a special
1 trainload of magnificent costumes and
sc nen This s nectacle is shown in the
1 largest tent over made for a circus a
vist canvas theatre arena and norial
enclave brillantly lighted
d iting 12000 people The monster free
street parade a glittering pageant fully
three miles in length is alone worth tho
amouut charged for the circus proper
It is replete with new and novel proces
sional attractions displaying beautifully
j carved and decorated iloats
tive of everv country on theglobe richly
attired horsemen from every known na
i tion and monster herds of elephants and
camels with a dmsion for the children
j and a full hundred cages of tho rarest
wild animals known to zoologists In
tho arenic performance Forepaugh and
Sells Brothers introduco 375 performers
oach one a premier artist There are
mora than 200 acts in the circus pro
gram and most of the acts are
jsively novel and sensational In tho
j trained animal display Forepaugh and
Sells present three herds of huge ele
j phant actors squadrons of cute little
pouies in acts that never fail to please
the children Captain Webbs wonderful
performing seals and cake walking and
high school horses in exhibitions of the
highest type of equine intellegence and
marvelous new conceptions The circus
performance is given on two stages in
three rings and on a wide quarter mile
hippodrome track These wonderful
shows will exhibit here one day only
and give performances at two oclock and
at eight oclock Admission tickets and
reserved numbered chairs will be sold at
Forepaugh and Sells down town ticket
office L W McConnells drug store
circus day at exactly the same price
charered in the tinkpt u nrmnc nn tha
i show grounds
A Car of California
Peaches
Pears and Plums
in McCook Now is your chance to get
same FOR CANNING Ask your mer
chants for them If they cannot supply
you come to the car on second track
south of Freight Depot
The H Q Phelps Commission
Company
Comfort and Service
Last season we were told so many times by
mothers that our School Shoes were the best
they ever bought The children did not com
plain of their shoes hurting them and they
wore so well We ordered again the same line
for this year and now have them in ready for
you If you will drop into our store we will be
glad to explain other features of the shoes that
look well feel comfortable and give such good
service
The Model Shoe Store
A E PETTY Proprietor
McCook Nebraska
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