N H P Waite Mr and Mrs Bernard Hillers family of Indianola visited with and Mrs H L Brown Sunday Bert Stevens is painting and nicely repairing his house in town which is to be occupied by Dr H J Arbogast Presiding Elder C C Wilson will preach the baccalaureate sermon in the M E church next Sunday evening Linman Wood will leave here Satur day on 12 for Farnam where he goes to assist his son on the farm near that town J A Fletcher and his men are dec orating the business houses of W F Miller and Toney Dietch with fresh paint Mr J Grimes of the firm of Crawmer Grimes has sold his interest in the general merchandise business to Mr A J Crawmer The people of Bartley and country southeast of town are anxiously hoping the new bridge over the Republican will be built before harvest Brown the druggist is selling twice as much paint as in any previous season Painting is contagious here and is spreading into the country Miss Sadie Hamilton has closed her school at Well fleet and returned home She will taach the primary department of the Bartley schools next year raKririvmvaNxw AMm m a I B HARDWARE IMPLEMENTS m a i m -1 1 i n ii ep s i it n T T ir I i 111 i mr bTi i i i 1 j mBVsmmmmmBOBgmmsmmmm g ffl J McCormick Binder 1 B JQJl i HI 1111 HI J Lil J l11 T- vrgt weaiAT KJ I llailli - i I MeCormick Mower Wo are now taking orders for bindeis headers and moweis As there will be a big demand for these goods this year all orders should be placed early to besure of having the machines here in time A few of tiie other leaden in our implement department are the Mitchell wagons the Superior drills Thompson and Bradley listers Oliver and J I Case plows Bradley di cs Brown cultivators and the Diamond two row listed corn cultivators Look over our stock before you buy r3riwrarTrisregEa3SE n rri j DANBURY Mr Yarnell is on the sick list Sylvia Remington is able to be out now Several got hurt last Sunday base ball Frank Mustgrave has moved into his - new house Dan Cashen has put a new fence -around his place Born to Mr and Mrs Robert Gotcheli -a-baby boy May 2nd A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs - Sayles Smith April 28th Mrs Adams sister from Decatur Co 311 is here visiting relatives Mr and Mrs Fred Powell visited in Danbury Thursday Miss Flora B Quick was over from Jndianola Monday and Tuesday E J Daugherty of Onawa Iowa is there visiting friends and relatives Mr and Mrs Simons of Oberlin visit ed with J L Sargent and family over CSunday Mrs Sehaney aud two of her children visited with Mrs W J Stilgebouer isst week Mrs Alfred Ashtqn and children are visiting at her parents Dr and Mrs W -A DeMay Mrs Fields has sold her town property to Mr Bates for 450 We understand 1 that she and two daughters will visit in -Iowa for a while PLEASANT RIDGE ISeveral fine rains lately - J VanHorn has sold a quarter section bf bis farm The George Brown farm has been sold vto a stranger They have a new boy at Frank Hack---encamps home A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Peter Smith May 3rd Mrs AliceMontgomery is visiting her v daughter Mrs Bessie Smith and becom ing acquainted with her new grand k dusghter Mike Snyder Oliver Mahon and Jacob Smith are new members of Camp 5416 Modern Woodman Georae Brown Jr Will White and Peter Snyder are to be 1 token in the next meeting J L Lech Jitner is an applicant for membership Low Rates to California San Francisco or Los Angeles and re rtnrn 5000 Via Portland SG250 Liberal stopover privileges allowed For particulars call at ticket office G S Scott Agent BARTLE George Wolf marketed two loads of hogs Tuesday The little son of Mr and Mrs Ira playing xvucuie is quite sick Mr Ed Shoemaker is quite sick with congestion of the lungs Mr- Sellick is having an addition built to her home in Bartley L M Eliggins went to Omaha Wed nesdaywith one car of cattle E E Smith went to Omaha wth seven car loads of stock Wednesday Mike Kooligan from north of Indian ola marked hogs in Bartley Tuesday Dorcas Chapter O E S of this place installed officers Wednesday evening John Harry is painting his barn and other new buildings on the home place Miss Moore and Miss Reiner were immersed in the river at this place last Sunday Commissioner Premer is hauling out lumber fora new house on land near his home W S Coleman from near Indianola was a business visitor in our town last Saturday Miss Kate Dietsch has closed school at Shilo school house on Beaver and returned home her the and Mr The new council was inaugurated last Friday evening Mr Dodd is Chairman and U S Ethertou clerk The choirs of the M E and Christian church will unite in furnishing music for the baccalaureate exercises at the M E church next Sunday evening 1 Commissioner Premer has added beauty to his home by painting his house and other buildinsrs Mr inger was the artist with the brush Johnnie Cammack and his mother re turned from Dundy County near t in last Sundny morning Grandma Carmack was glad to get back to Bartley Art Steven our rural mail carrier was considerably rattled this week all on account of a ten pound boy taking pos session of his home Mother and child are doing well and we hope Art will be all right in a few days RURAL FREE DELIVERY NO 1 A E Price put up a new wind mill Monday W E Bower visited on Ash creek Tuesday LeRoy E Dutton is at Alamosa Colo on a business trip Miss Jeannette Dutton is home from Lincoln on a visit Gerald Wilcox made a business trip to Trenton Saturday J M Billings has been confined to his bed for a week is able to be about again Wm Neumann returned home Wed nesday from New Mexico where he filed on a homestead Mrs W G Dutton will attend the state meeting of the G A R Circle in Lincoln first of the week Mrs Anna Isaac of College View has been visiting with her daughter the past week she returned to her home Monday night G A Roedel went to College View Sanitarium Saturday night to be with his wife who has been taking treatment there for the past month She had a surgical operation performed on her Tuesday and is reported as doing nicely Dynamo Brlren from Car Axle The Great Western Railway of Eng land is lighting its corridor trains by electricity obtained from dynamos driven from the car axle Storage bat teries are carried for use when the running speed is slow and for stops Jft riauilbl Theory Hixon I wonder how Methuselan managed to live to Buch a ripe old age - Dison Trobably because there were no bacteria and disease germs is kb dav BURNS DjLD PENNILESS HI First Oliitunry Notice Called For j Help For III Family When Robort Burns died the follow ing obituary appeared In the Edin burgh Advertiser of July 20 179G On the 21st Inst died at Dumfries after a lingering illness the celebrated Robert Burns Ills poetical compositions dis tinguished equally by the force of na tive humor by the warmth and the tenderness of passion and by the glow- Ing touches of a descriptive pencil will j ionium u lasting monument or tue M I 1 vr iua versatility or a minu guiticu only by the lights of nature and by the inspiration of genius The public to whose amusement ho has so largely contributed will learn with regret- that his extraordinary en dowments were accompanied with frailties which rendered them useless to himself and his family The last months of his short life were spent in sickness and indigence and his widow with five infant children and in the hourly expectation of a sixth is now left without any resource but what she may Cope from the regard due to the memory of her husband The public are respectfully inform ed that contributions for tl wife and family of the late Robert Burns who are left in circumstances of extreme distress will be received at the houses of Sir William Forbes Co of Messrs Mansfield Ramsay Co and at the shops of the Edinburgh booksellers It is proposed to publish some time hence a posthumous volume of the poetical remains of Robert Burns for the bene fit of the authors family His friends and acquaintances are requested to transmit such poems and letters as may happen to be in their possession to Alexander Cunningham writer George street Edinburgh or to John Syme Esq Ryedale Dumfries It is hoped that in the meantime none of his original productions will be communi cated to the public through the channel of newspapers or magazines so as to Injure the sole of the intended publica tion GARE OF THE EAR Never put anything in the ear for the relief of toothache Never wear cotton in the ears if they are discharging Never apply a poultice to the inside of the canal of the ear Never drop anything into the ear un less it has been previously warmed Never use anything but a syringe and warm water for cleansing the ears Never strike or box a childs ears This has been known to rupture the drumhead and cause incurable deaf ness Never wet the hair if you have any tendency to deafness Wear an oiled silk cap when bathing and refrain from diving Never scratch the ears with anything but the linger if they itch Do not use the head of a pin hairpins pencil tips or anything of that nature Never meddle with the ear if a for eign body enters it Leave it absolute ly alone and have a physician attend to it All He Needed A number of Wall street men at luncheon one day were discussing the remarkable ability of a certain opera tor in the street to weather any finan cial storm Why said one of the financiers that chaps a wonder I dont know how many times theyve had him against the wall yet he always con trives to get away I have heard it said observed an other that Blank is resourceful enough to make a living on a desert island Yes he could do that too affirmed the first speaker if there were an other man on tha island Harpers Weekly The Perfect Spanish Bcggnr There is a calm dignity about the Spaniard of every class which will strike a stranger Even the beggars of whom goodness knows there are plenty seem to stand on a higher plat form than their confreres in other lands In our country the statutory ad dress is Could you spare me a cop per but a Spanish beggar thus ad dressed us at a railway station and we give his address as typical of his class O senorito da me un alimos nita y rogare por su feliz viaje which may be translated into English thus Oh little gentleman give me an alms and I will pray for you a happy journey Chambers Journal A Slnsnlar Epltnph At Annapolis N S and in the mili tary cemetery attached to old Fort Anne is a tombstone with the following odd inscription Here Lyeth the Body of Margaret Winiett Born the 6th day of April 1723 and Dyed the 2Sth of February 1722 The singular part of the epitaph Is that the child according to the engrav ing on the headstone died nearly a year before its birth Interpreted Father asked the youth what Is your understanding of the saying The race is not always to the swift Practically my son replied the wise father It means that In the race of life the fast men dont usually come out ahead Catholic Standard and Times The Decline of Chivalry Wife drearily Ah me The days of chivalry are past Husband Whats the matter now Wife Sir Walter Raleigh laid his cloak on the ground for Queen Elizabeth to walk over but you get mad simply because poor dear mother sat down on your bat WONDERFUL MIRAGES TIiomc Seen In the Winter Twllllt In Northern AInka The most wonderful mirages ever be held by mortal eyes are those that are seen in the twilight winter days Jn northern Alaska These remarkable ghastly pictures of things both imag inary and -real are mirrored on the surface of the wuste plains instead of upon the clouds or in the atmosphere Mimic lakes and water courses fringed with vegetation are to be seen pictured as real as life on tha surface of the snow while grassy mounds stumps trees logs etc which have an actual existence some place on the earths sur face are outlined against mountains of snow in all kinds of fantastic shapes Some of these objects are distorted and magnified into the shapes of huge ungainly animals and reptiles of euor ninni tiuinl lria rrlwi frwrro itil liifca iiuiiuiiiuiii aiii iv0o uiiu are driven across these wastes by the winds and as the objects referred to loom up in the flying vapors they ap pear like living creatures and seem to be actuallj moving rapidly across tlie plain At other times they appear high in the air but this is a characteristic of the northern mirages that are seen near the seashore When the vapors and mists are driven out to sea the Images mirrored in them appear to be lunging through the waters at a terrific rate of speed dashing the spray high in the air while huge breakers roll over them ami onward toward the mountainous islands beyond and against which they all appear to be Caching Monstrous serpents appar ently several hundred feet long some times with riders on their backs men on horseback thirty to fifty feet in height animals and birds of all kinds of horrible shapes and colors seem to ba scurrying past racing and chasing each other until they are lost in the twilight fogs or dashed to pieces upon the rocky islands mentioned above and which are twenty miles out to sea THE RED SQUIRREL He Stores Very Little Food For Use In Winter In Maine in fact all over New Eng landred squirrels do not put by great hoards of any kind for winter use When a Maine red squirrel has filled itself with acorns and beechnuts it will hide a few here and there under leaves in hollow logs in cracks of rifted trees and among stone heaps An average red squirrel having the run of an oak grove in the fall of the year may in the course of two weeks hide away from two to four quarts of acorns though they will be in perhaps twenty different places and in no in stance which we have noted has anj nut been shelled The squirrel which plans a hoard of nuts and makes deliberate preparations for winter is the little chinmunk or striped squirrel which seeks winter quarters soon after heavy frosts and which remains in hiding all winter The chipmunks often hide as many as two quarts of shelled beechnuts in one place Their storehouses are as a rule under the ground in sloping and sandy soil the burrows having been dug with true engineering skill so that no fresh et can drown them out It is believed that most observing woodsmen will say that the red squir rels of this vicinity seldom make large caches of provisions for winter con sumption and never shell the stored nuts In fact the red species have no need to pay much heed to such matters as they are abroad and active in the coldest days of winter as much as they are in midsummer so precautions for food are not demanded As the red squirrels subsist for a good part of the year upon the cones of pines and spruces which hang to the limbs they do not care how deep or hard the snow may be feeling secure in finding all the food they want among the tree tops Bangor News Conragc The greater part of the courage that is needed in the world is not of a he roic kind Courage may be displayed in everyday life as well as in historic fields of action There needs for ex ample the common courage to be hon est the courage to resist temptation the courage to speak the truth the courage to bo what we really are and not to pretend to be what we are not the courage to live honestly within our own means and not dishonestly upon the means of others Smiles Indian Ocean Serpents Among the most venomous serpents in the world are the marine snakes of the Indian ocean They are the dread of fishermen and It sometimes hap pens that vessels are obliged to thread their cables through barrels to pre vent the reptiles from swarming on board Great numbers of them may often be seen floating on the surface of the water as if asleep They are exceedingly fierce and will commonly attack human beings without provoca tion When the Raven Wa Milk White According to Mohammedan belief the ravens which Noah took with him on the ark were both pure white When the ark had been riding the billows of the flood for thirty three days one of the giraffes died and the carcass was thrown overboard No sooner had It struck the water than the ravens pounced upon It For this Noah cursed them and since that day they have been coal black The Disappointment May It was too bad that Miss Trills disappointed the audience at the ama teur performance Elsie But she didnt She was able to appear after all May Yes but it was generally supposed that she would not be able to appear McCook Market Quotations Corrwteri Friday aftoraoon Corn i 35 Whoat 60 Outs 2 Rye 40 Barley 25 How 5 E 1 GoodBnttoi 15 NOTICE OF SCHOOL BOND ELECTION Notice It hereby given to tho QniiliUei elect ors of The sicliool District or McCook also known as School District Number bevutoenin Ked Willow county lu the Stuteof Nebraska Unit upon tho written request of at least ono third of the qualified voter or said school dist rict uud two thirds or members of the Board or Education or said school district requesting I miuunfiiiir rliurntlt mi nlnr tillll Will DO IlOlU at tlio usual place or voting in mid School Dist rict to wit The basement or tlio Commercial hotel in tho first ward in the Citvor McCcok and In the hose house in the fecoiil ward In sulci City or McCook on thf lirst tiny ir May A D lJW between tho boars or nine o clock a rtl and seven oclock p ill on said day Tor tho pur1 poso or votinB on the following proposition which is hereby submitted to the qualified elec tors or said School District Shall tho Hoard or Education of The School District or McCook in itod Wflhnv county in the Statu of Nebraska issue the bonds or said School District in tliu sum of thirty six thous and dollars for tho purpose or building uud furnishing h school house for said School Dist rict Said bonds Ui be of the denomination of five hundred dollars each daUd on the first day or July A D 1WX5 aud to bear interest at tho rate or not over Tour and one half per cent per annum interest payable himi anuually on tho firstday of January and Inly of ench year until paid interest and principal to be payable to bearer at the Fiscal Agenci of th State or Nebraska in the city of Now York said bonus to be offered in the open market aud sold to the highest bidder for not Ihvh than par value or each dollar Coupons diall be attached to each or said bonds for each semi annual install ment or interest which said coupons shall be signed by the President ami secretary or said hoard All or said bondc shall mature on the first day or July A D 1926 ami interest begin to run on the first dny or Jul v A D lKMj Pro vided that should mi id bonds or any part or them be sold subsequent to their daf the amount of interest then due shall be endorsod as a credit upon tho coupons lirst dun on said bonds Said bonds to be nu ml Hired consecutive ly rrom one to seventy two and issued in three series series one shall consist of thesuid bonds numbered one to twenty four inclusivo and may be redeemed by said School District at any time after the first day of July A D 1911 Series two shall consist or the said bonds num bered twenty five to forty eight inclusive and may bo redeemed by said School District nt any time after tho first day of July A D 1916 Series three shall consist or thesuid bonds num bered iorty nino to seventv two inrlusivo nnd may bo redeemed by said School District at any time after the first day or July A D 1921 Said bonds shall be signed by tho President nud counter signed by the secretary or said board Shall there bo levied annually upon all the taxable property in said School District a tax in addition to nil other taxes sullicient to pay the interest on said bonds as it accrue- and to create a sinking fund to pay said bonds when they may become due Said proposition as submitted on tho ballots to be FOB the Proposition to Issue School Dist- rict Bonds aud Tdx AGAINST the Proposition to Issue School District Bonds and Tax Submitted and authorized by the Board or Education of The School District of McCook also known as School District Number Seven teen in Bed Willow county in tho state or Ne braska this firth day or April A D 1905 The Board of Education of tub School District of McCook in Bed Willow County in the State of Nebraska- Attest CWBarnes ByE II Donn Secretary President NOTICE Notice is hereby given that by virturo of a chattel mortgage executed to tho Huber Manu facturing Company an incorporated company uuderthehiwsof tho state or Ohio of Mariou in the county of Marion aud state or Ohio by Jolm P Beiter dated the thirty first ay of August JStfi and filed in the ofiice or tho coun ty clerk or Bod Willow county in tliestateof Nebra kn on the fourth day of September 190T upon which default has been made and upon which there is now duo the sum of S14fiSt th said Huber Manufacturing Company will ox pose for sale at public auction and sell to the high est bidder on Saturday the second day of June 1900 between tho hours of ten oclock a m and -four oclock p in of said day on lot Eighteen i in block Thirty three in the original town of Indiauolaiu said county of Bed Willow in the state of Nebraska tho property mentioned in said chattel mortgage as follows One Huber Traction Engine IS horse power Number 7183 One Huber Separator with 32 inch cylinder and 54 separating part Number 8658 together with all belts and tools pertaining to the use of said machinery One Huber Wind Stacker Number 2327 and One Huber 32 inch Self feeder Number 2913 Dated at McCook Nebraska this 11th day of May 1906 The Huber Manufacturing Company By W S Morlan Its Attorney Mortgagee FOLDEN WIMER PAINTERS AND PAPER HANGERS First class work guaranteed in all lines Would be pleased to consult with you with reference to colorings effects and styles Phones Black 302 Red 213 BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach BOX ELDER N Tubbs is on the sick list Much credit is due the ladies who raised the money and bought the carpet also those who cleaned the church and laid the carpet The services at the tchurch Sunday morning were well attended and the lit tie folks did their part well considering that the oldest was only six and the youngest scarcely three years old The officers of the Sunday school were elected last Sunday morning Miss Ida Modrell was elected Superintendent Mrs J K GordonAssistant Supt Mis3 Ida Gordon Secretary and J A Md rell Treasurer SCHOOL CREEK Mrs Emerich has a new incubator Another wedding booked for the near future Everyone is busy listing corn between showers Ollie Grays team ran away breaking his lister Geo Wheelers house is nearly ready for occupancy Mrs Konrad who has been sick is bet ter at this writing AlMillicent made his usual visit to Ash Creek Sundav Leonard Harsch and Fred Fritz were McCook visitors one day last week