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City Council Proceedings
Council was in regnlar session Mon
day evening mayor councilmen clerk
and attorney all present
The following bills were disposed of
McCook Electric Light Co 10G 00
JB North rupr 72 76
F D Burgess 150
Barnett Lumber Co 8 25
A S Warner 30 85
L P Chapman 4 00
JSLellew 12 50
L W McConnell 12 50
C D Custor 12 50
C B Gray 12 50
M Lawritson 12 50
HP Waite 18 75
A CEbort 18 75
W A Middloton 25 00
Bump Bush 49 80
HP Waite 15 00
Elizabeth Kline 20 00
Judges and clerks of election 30 00
W A Gold 6G 65
P D Burgess 6 75
John Ekstedt 73 50
Thomas Burge 60 00
Frank Denton 22 54
Petition of the Burlington railroad
asking the city council to declare vacant
and at an end a crossing and roadway
used by the public commencing on the
south line of section 29 township 3
north range 29 running north to North
Kailroad street south of the termina
tion of Manhattan avenue on said North
Kailroad street was read and the fol
lowing resolution was adopted by the
council unanimously
Be it resolved by the mayor and city
council of McCook
That W A Middleton clerk of the
City of McCook appoint the 13th day
of August 1906 as the day on or before
noon of which all objections to the va
cation of said portion of said street and
claims for damages by reason thereof
must be filed in this office
In the petition the company alleges
that the public has not now and at no
time had any right to use said crossing
and roadway other than by permission
and sufferance of the company
Police judges report for May was read
and referred to the city attorney
City treasurers report for May was
read and referred to finance committee
Bids for sidewalk construction were
taken up and the bid of Kosebush
Northrup was found to be the lowest
and best that is 13 cents per square
foot and the mayor and clerk were
authorized to enter into contract with
them accordingly
The sewer election returns were can
vassed and the result declared as fol
lows
For Against
First Ward 115 22
Second Ward 90 26
Total 205 748J1
Ordinance 125 was passed authorizing
the mayor and clerk to issue the sewer
bonds
Petition was read asking that grading
be done on Manchester avenue between
Denver and Dover streets
A resolution wa adopted ordering
the construction of sidewalks on east
side of Main avenuelots 11 and 12block
4 First addition lots 7 12 block 13
and lots 8 9 block 6 Second addition
also on south side of Dudley street lots
1 12 block 9 First addition and lots
1 6 block 12 lots 1 6 block 13 lot 1
block 24 Original town
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Omaha June 9 W H Ferguson of
Lincoln has resigned as receiver of the
Standard Beet Sugar company and
Harry P Dueul of Omaha has been ap
pointed in his stead the resignation of
Ferguson and appointment of Dueul be
ing confirmed by Judge Munger in the
United States circuit court Saturday
morning
WD McIIugh also has resigned as
solicitor in the receivership matter but
continues as attorney for the Old Colony
Trust company which as trustees re
presents the mortgage creditors of the
Standard company
The question of continuation of the
operation of the plant at Ames was un
der discussion by the reorganization
committee for the Standard company
and the Old Colony Trust company be
fore Judge Munger Saturday morning
A compromise probably will be agreed
upon by the representatives of the mort
gage creditors whereby a sufficient sum
may be raised by suoscription among
themselves to operate the plant this
season Special to Lincoln Journal
By order of the federal court the
Standard Beot Sugar company of Leav
itt Neb will bo leased to a syndicate
of eastern capitalists
William H Ferguson who has been
acting as receiver resigned from that
position and his resignation was accept
ed Harry P Deuel baing appointed to
finish up the affairs
At the afternoon session of the court
however the lease was granted to the
syndicate and MrFerguson was appoint
ed general manager
The company is practically bankrupt
one involuntary petition having been
filed against it by farmer creditors but
its owners have always claimed that the
business would pay if carried over the
temporary difficulty Omaha News
District Court Proceedings
The following cases were disposed of
last Friday evening before the adjourn
ment of court
Mary E Huber vs William Huber
Mrs Huber was given the custody of
the son
Ida E Miller vs John M Bradford
This involved an exchange of West Mc
Cook real estate and a Dundy county
claim The court refused the application
to have deed nullified
Zajicek vs Zajicek Divorce granted
the plaintiff Mr Zajicek defendant not
opposing
Court adjourned to August 13th
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
William Wilkie Collins 1824 89 was
the son of an English portrait painter
As a young man he engaged in com
merce but later studied law and was
admitted to -the bar His own tastes
however inclined him to literature and
even while in business life he wrote a
historical romance Antonina
Becoming acquainted with Dickens
he was encouraged by the latter to give
up his profession and devote himself
entirely to novel writing Dickens at
that time was editor of the magazine
called Household Words and in its
pages there were published the short
stories by Collins afterward collected
into a volume entitled After Dark In
another magazine also edited by Dickens
All the Year Kound Collins scored
his first great success with the serial
story The Woman in White which
was read with the keenest interest by
tens of thousands In it Collins showed
himself to be a great master of con
struction The plot was so intricate as
to hold the reader in suspense until the
end while the mystery and horror of
certain parts of it were masterly in their
execution Collins in fact ranks in
English with Gaborian in French for
the ingenuity with which he elaborates
a plot and this special gift is seen also
in Armadale The Moonstone and
No Name For a long time his
stories were almost as widely read as
those of Dickens himself and in 1873
like Dickens he visited the United States
where he gave readings of his own short
stories
Please do not bring books to the
library and leave them in the hall when
the library is not open
Library hours Morning 1030 to 12
oclock Afternoon 130 to 6 oclock
Evening 7 to 9 oclock Sunday after
noon 2 to 5 oclock
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COURT HOUSE NEWS
COUNTY COUBT
Licenses to marry have been issued as
follows since our last report
Jake Lenhart 21 and Lydia Wagner
19 both of McCook June 9th
George Heinrich 23 and Katharina
Rosenthal23both of McCookJune 9th
Clifford E Cox 28 and Ida M Bush
20 both of Bartley Neb June 12tb
Henry C Giese 28 of Leavitt Neb
and Nettie E rielm 25 of Red Willow
Neb June 14th
In the estate of Jacob H Short de
ceased Juno 18th 1906 at 1 oclock p
m was the time sot for hearing final
report of the administrator
Notice to creditors given and commis
sion to appraisors in tho estate of Wm
H Benjamin deceased
When the baby talks it is time to
give Hollisters Rocky Mountuiu Tea1
Its the greatest baby medicino known
to loving mothers It makes them eat
sleep and grow 53 cents Tea or
Tablets L W McConnell
Pat Did you ever see the like in your
loife Niver butonctand that was in
Chicago I mean those fine turnouts
at the McCook Livery
Chang en From a Fifth to a Bird
The story of the early life transfor
mation and final death of the Chinese
quail Is the most remarkable that is
found In the ornithological literature of
the world The narrative in all Its un
reasonableness is found in the story of
om chung -which Is the name the Chi
nese quail Is known by -when at home
In the Flowery Kingdom Celestial au
thorities on bird lore declare that no
specimen of om chung was ever known
to live a year that they do not lay
eggs as all other known species of
tilrds do and finally that their pro
genitor is a slimy four jointed worm
which has a red head and a sting on
the end of its tail This queer seacoast
worm according to the curious legend
of om chung lays 100 eggs annually
Fifty of these become fish and the otli
er fifty are worms of the same species
as the parent The fish that has come
Into existence In this curious manner
also lays 100 eggs a year Fifty of
these become water denizens after the
Image of their parent and the others
become birds of the famed om chung
family These om chungs or Chinese
quails never breed and are only
brought Into existence as above related
We give the above not as a literal fact
but as a specimen of the Chinese idea
of evolution
Biographies as a Stimulus
We cannot help living in some degree
the lives of heroes who are constantly
in our minds Our characters are con
stantly being modified shaped and
molded by the suggestions which are
tlius held The most helpful life sto
ries for the average youth are not the
meteoric ones the unaccountable ones
the astonishing ones like those of Na
poleon Oliver Cromwell and Julius
Caesar The great stars of the race
dazzle most boys They admire but
they do not feel that they can imitate
them They like to read their lives
but they do not get the helpfulness and
the encouragement from them that
they do from reading the lives of those
who have not startled the world so
much It Is the triumph of the or
dinary ability which is most helpful as
an inspiration and encouragement
The life of Lincoln has been an in
finitely greater Inspiration to the worM
than the life of Napoleon or that of
Julius Caesar O S Marden in Suc
cess Magazine
Bulldogs a Menace to Health
The bulldog is a menace to health
We have this on the authority of a
noted French physician who says that
because of his large mouth the bull
dog Is a great purveyor of disease es
pecially of consumption diphtheria
and the like as the dribbling from the
heavy loose jaws is incessant Those
who fondle bulldogs do so at a great
risk lie traces many cases of in
fectious disease especially among
young children to households in which
bulldogs are kept as pets When we
add to this the Invariable ferocity of
the beast the danger to which children
and other Innocent and defenseless
people are exposed whenever he roams
the streets or highways we have an
argument in favor of his disposal that
cannot be gainsaid Away with bull
dogs
GLASSES UNBECOMING
It used to be very good form to say
Glasses are unbecoming to me and I
will never wear them and there was
some reason at that time for this
statement as glasses were not made
for the young being worn mostly by
1 agU Now however there has
been teh an advancement made that
we are able to fit any peculiarity in
nose or face with becoming glasses
Glasses are made so much lighter now
adays and those delicate skeletons
either in nose glasses or with wires
to go behind the ears are considered
in good taste and very stylish for
young and middle aged people If you
would have the up-to-date lenses sea
the Kryptoks which are noted for
their elegance They bring youth to
the eyes of the aged both in appear
ance and visual power If you have
never worn bifocals and are now
ready for your first pair do not fail to
secure these lenses Send for book
let describing Kryptoks Made and
sold by the Columbian Bifocal Co
Temple Court Denver Colo
Her Version o It
But didnt you promise when nr
were raarried that I should smoke la
the house whenever I pleased
Yea tut you never please by smok
ing In the house Yon displease me
THE NAMES OP WALES
FIVE DISTINCT WAYS BY WHICH
THEY HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED
Until Sonic fix or Seven Generation
Ago the People Ilnii No Sur
nnmcN nt All anil They Ivneiv Each
Other by One Name Only
Take any casual list of Welshmen
and tick off Jones Williams Davis
Evans Thomas Grillith Morgan
Llewellyn Hughes Iloberts Lewis and
Richards and In some parts of the
country especially you will practically
have exhausted the roll In a column
of names now before the writer drawn
from all parts of the principality there
are GOO names and 31 of them are
Evanses 45 Willianises 70 Davises
and no fewer than 10 of them are
Joneses
It Is commonly supposed that the
predominant Welsh names represent
the effects of Inbreeding so to speak
in clans that are very ancient The
Welsh are an old nation and from
their geographical position they have
been very much Isolated and hence it
is supposed this tendency of certain
names in the course of long cen
turies to multiply to the exclusion of
almost all others This however as
regards the whole country Is quite er
roneous Until some six or seven gen
erations ago the Welsh had no sur
names at all As is the use with most
primitive peoples they knew each other
by one name only and it was not until
intercourse between Welshmen and
Englishmen became greatly developed
in the sixteenth and the early part of
the seventeenth century that the Eng
lish use of a second name began to be
adopted by the more important Welsh
families
There seems to be hardly a surname
in AVales traceable back beyond the
sixteenth century but before the mid
dle of the seventeenth all merchants
professional people and the richer
classes generally had adopted the pa
tronymic Where there are half a doz
en David Joneses in the same village
it is absolutely necessary to find some
appellations that will be distinctive be
tween them and it is commonly done
in the ancient fashion One will be
David Jones wyn white David Jones
that is another will be David Jones
llwyd or David Jones the gray man or
David Jones Sais signifying the man
who speaks English
There are five distinct ways In which
Welsh names have been arrived at
One class comprises names purely per
sonal and native such as Griffith or
Rhys Roes or else imported from
England such as Thomas or James
Such are strictly individual designa
tions and from them surnames seem
to have been evolved by a custom fa
miliar to readers of the Old Testament
Thus Hugh ap David in the first in
stance means merely Hugh the son of
David who may be David ap Thomas
Hugh the son of David the son of
Thomas The conventional dropping
of the ap makes the individual Hugh
David which looks like a Christian and
surname though they are really two
Christian names of two generations A
second way in which eventually the
surname has been arrived at has been
by absorbing the ap or ab Into the
second name Thus Thomas ap Rich
ard becomes Thomas Tritchard and
Hugh ab Evan resolves into Hugh
Bevan A third way is one already in
dicated in which some personal charac
teristic such as white or gray thin or
stout at first an individual nickname
as it were is handed down from father
to son and finally becomes the family
name
But it has been said that three fourths
or four fifths of modem Welsh names
have been reached by the adoption of
a custom from England at a time when
the Welsh craze for the fashionable
surname put invention on the stretch
and led to something like a regular
system of production Englishmen had
been accustomed to take as their sur
name the possessive case of the pa
ternal name Thus Thomas the son of
Hob or Hick became Thomas Hobs or
Hicks and these finally became simply
Hobs and Hicks
Now the Welsh have no genitive
case Possession ownership is indicat
ed by the relative position of words so
that they could not give exactly the
English possessive termination to their
names and this stage was consequent
ly omitted and when in the sixteenth
century everybody of consequence
was feeling about for the dignity of a
surname they adopted the English
practice of appending the possessive
s without the apostrophe which they
did not understand Thus Thomas ap
David who had already become Thom
as David which by the position of the
words really meant Davids son Thom
as exactly the same as Thomas ap
David took the English s and be
came Thomas Davids from which
finally emerged the name of Davles or
Davis
David the pious Welsh of course got
from the Bible and it was a very fa
vorite name with them hence the great
army of Welsh Davises But a still
more popular name was the New Tes
tament John which however poor
Taffy not having any j in his alpha
bet could not spell or pronounce as
we do He had to use sh for our J
and John with him became Shone
to which when he wanted to become
fashionable and make a cognomen of
it he added the letter s like his Eng
lish neighbor and the great tribe of
Joneses was thus born in a single gen
eration They are not therefore the
ancient race they are sometimes taken
for but merely a large body of fashion
able Johnnies who first aired their
gentility about three centuries ago and
have been multiplying ever since Lon
don Globe
Ladies of the
Junior Normal
We are pleased to welcome you again to our city and
trust that while here you will find time to call and ex
amine our extensive stock Our store is filled with
new and up-to-date goods and we can certainly please
you
SUMMER GOODS
consisting of beautiful Lawns Silk Tissue all colors
Eolienne Voile Soie sette Challis Fancy Prints
Arnolds Biege and all other popular materials in the
most fashionable colors and patterns
WHITE GOODS
EVERYTHING IN WHITE for dresses waists suits
and underwear White hosiery belts collars neck
ties handkerchiefs gloves fans parasols and canvas
slippers Fancy half sleeves in lace and net will
match most any waist Just the thing to slip on and
attach in a moment when you dont want to wear
long gloves Very neat and convenient
JUST RECEIVED
a new and large line of all over laces embroideries
and insertions corset cover embroideries with em
broideries for waists skirts and dresses
AND DONT FORGET
to see ovr line of Queen Quality shoes the shoe that
looks graceful most perfect fitting beautitul styles
and assure you the best wear
Not only can we supply you in dry goods but we also carry a
complete line of GROCERIES
John Grannis
ciy church announcements
Episcopal Services on Sunday at 11
a m and 8 p m Evening prayer at
730 oclock Wednesday All are wel
come to these services
E R Earle Rector
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 Loughbak Pastor
Baptist Sunday school at 1030 a m
B Y P U will meet at 7 m Special
song service Sunday evening A A
Holmes will preach at 11 am and 8 pm
Prayer services every Wednesday at 8
A A Holmes Pastor
Congregational Sunday school at
10 a m Preaching at 11 a m and 8
p m Christian Endeavor at 7 p m
Morning sermon lecture onThe Growth
of Christianity Evening subject Son
Remember A cardial invitation to all
to attend these services
Geo B Hawkes Pastor
Christian Sunday school at 1 and
Christian Endeavor at 11 a m and 8
p m W E Rambo a returned mis
sionary of Japan will speak Morning
subject How shall the heathen know
God Evening subjectThe Rationale
of Famine Orphonage work in India
Elder Rambo was in India at time of
the great famine and his sermons will be
very interesting
Methodist Sunday school at 10 am
Lesson Luke 92S 36 Preaching at 11
a m and 8 p m Dr D W C Hunt
ington Chancellor of Nebraska Wes
leyan University will preach both
morning and evening and address the
Mens meeting at p m Junior League
at 5 p m Epworth League at 7 p m
Prayer meeting Wednesday night at 8
p m Sunday school and preaching in
South McCook next Sunday
M B Carman Pastor
BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER
CURES catarrh of the stomach
Dressmaking
We desire to announce to the
ladies of McCook and vicinity that
we are now ready to receive work
When you wish something new and
strictly up to date in dresses or
mantaus you will do well to give us
a call We will satisfy your wants
efficiently and with all the dis
patch consistent with the best of
work And too you will find our
prices very reasonable We guaran
tee satisfaction and respectfully sol
icit a share of your patronage
Brown Bell Phone 289
Room 2 New Walsh Building
McCook Market Quotations
Corrected Friday afternoon
Corn 33
Wheat BC
Oats 25
Rye 4N
Barley 25-
Hogs 5 iO
Eggs Yl
Good Battel 15
NOTICE
To whom it may concern
Notice is hereby given that on tho 12tb da7 oJT
June 1906 the Chicago Burlington and Quincy
Railway Company presented to tho mayor anrii
city conucil of the city of McCook in Red Wil
low county in the state of Nebraska and filed
in the oilico of the clerk of said city a petition
praying that the avenue and lane within the
limits of said city hereinafter described be
closed to the public and no further or longer
use of the same be allowed to the public and
that the same be declared vacated and at an
end to wit The crossing and roadway about
one hundred and ten feet wide botween North
Railway street and the south line of Section
Twenty ninein Township Three Range Twenty
nine in said city Said crossing and roadway
commencing on said section line nearly sonth
of where Manhattan avenue terminates on said
North Railway street thence in a straight line
north to North Railway street and crossing tbe
main line aad right of way of said railway
company nearly south of where Manhattans
avenue terminates on said North Railway
street Said avenue and lane is now used and-
for many years last past has been used by ihfc
public at a highway and crossing over tlu right
of way of said railway company
The clerk of said city with the approiai a
the mayor and city council has appointed the
13th day of August 1906 as the daj on or befort
which day all objection to the vacation oL
such avenue ad lane and the closing of saidi
crossing and claims for damages by rescue
thereof must be filed with said city clerk anii
all objections to the closing of said crossing
the vacation of said roadway and claims for
damages therefor must be filed in the office oE
said clerk on or before noon of said 13th day of
August lJOG
In witness thereof I have hereunto sstr
hand and the sea 1 of said city this 13th daj oK
June 1905 V A Middleton
seal June 15 lts Citj Clerk-
SIDEWALK RESOLUTION
Whereas the resident lot owners butting ors
certain streets herein after more fully describ
ed have petitioned for sidewalks and the prayer
of their petition has been allowed
Therefore be it resolved Bv the mayor and-
council of the city of McCook that sidewalks
be built and are hereby ordered constructed
within thirty daj s after the publication of this
resolution at the established grade to be furn
ished by the city engineer upon application to
wit On oast side of Main avenue lota Hand 12
block 4 First Addition lots 7 8 101112
block 13 and lots 8 and 9 block 6 Second Ad
dition Also on south side of Dudly street lot
block 9 First Addition and lots 1 2 31516
block 12 lots 123456 block 13 lot L block 2V
Original town all in the city of McCook
The material to be used in the construction
thereofshaIl be either Hag stone vitrilied brick
or concreteFor flagstone 3 inch thick laid on
solid foundation well tamped and surfaced
Vitrified brick must be of even Eize laid in twer
inches of dry sand upon a well tamped and
solid foundation Lay brick diagonally across
space to be level on surface 1 inch lower on
the out side of walk-
Concrete to be made 1 part Portland cement
to 2 of sand and 4 of crushed stone laid upon a
solid well tamped foundation tamped well and
surfaced with 2 of cement nnd 2 of sand
All walks to bo of a uniformed width of 5
feet all brick walks to be curbed o n each side
by brick set on end
Said walks to be built under the supervision
of the committee on streets and alleys and the
city engineer in accordance with the provisions
of Ordinance No 113 as amended
Passed and approved this 11th day of Jcmev
1906 H PWaite Mayo
W A- Middleton
seal City Clerk
Our publication June 11 06
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