Ai
im
How Many Bricks
Have You Sent
Away
That sounds like a funny question addressed to every cit
izen of this town and community but its really a Eerious one
Listen There is now just completed a magnificent build
ing of red brick exterior and concrete interior right in the
business heart of one of the biggest of American cities It
occupies a whole block and calls itself in a large lettered sign
The Largest Monolithic Building In the World It has
many floors with about a hundred acres of floor space The
entrances are of solid marble The floors are beautifully tiled
Altogether it is a credit to
the big city in which it
stands Oh its a Jim
Dandy
Now how many bricks
have you sent to the city
to go into this big build
ing Honest how many
Of the hundreds of
thousands of bricks put
into the walls of this
building tho city where it
stands has contributed not
a single red brick Coun
try people the people of
small towns and cities far
away from the big me
tropolis have sent in the
bricks for the construc
tion of this splendid edi
fice
You may have sent in
a few hods of bricks your
self without knowing it
Listen This magnifi
cent structure which or
naments a city you prob
ably never will see your
self is built of bricks
bought with the dollars of
people living in towns
just like ours towns that
would like to have some
Real Estate Filings
The following real estate filings have
been made in the county clerks office
since our last report
John E Hathorn and wife to
Village of Bartley wd to lots
ltol2 14 to 24 incl blk 46
Bartley S 835 00
John E Hathorn and wife to
Village of Bartley qcd to lot
13 blk 46 Bartley 25 00
Myrtie Miller and hus to Rich
ard E Hatcher wd to s hf sw
qr 33-4-23 2200 00
W A Dolan and wife to R E
and A G Hatcher wd to sw
Arnold F Wheeler and wife to
James A Finnegan wd to lot
2 blk 5 Central add to Bart
ley
V Y 2frSHa
new brick buildings themselves now and then Every dollar
contributed to the city building fund means a nice hefty
hod of bricks for this big beautiful skyscraper largest in
the world of its kind This building was put up through
the kind donations of their unknown country cousins by a
firm that ran a small store in that city a few years ago
But this firm conceived the cute idea of having thou
sands of strangers contribute bricks to build its fine large
new store
And the building is a Mail Order Store See
RED WILLOV
Miss Gladys McCool is helping
Mrs Smith with sewing
Miss Nellie Holland is at home
now
After staying with Mrs L C
Longnecker for about five weeks
Bessie Hess returned to her
home
Paul Hatcher has recovered
from his attack of the grip
Relatives of C Smith made
him a short visit on ther way
from California to their home in
Pennsylvania
Mrs Hotze called on friends
last week
Mrs Sexson is suffering with
rheumatism
The first land taken in this
section was when the exploring
party sent out by The Republi
can Valley Land and Townsite
Co located claims in the then
unorganized county of Red Wil
low and in Dec 1871 entered
them at the land office at Beat
nice when a special plat was pre
pared for the purpose The re
Gent selling of the Buck farm
leaves John Longneckers home
stead the only one which has
been continuously occupied by
and still in the possession of
the original owners
1 00
80 00
I
Geo W Jones and wife to James
A Finnegan qcd to lots 11
12 blk 48 Bartley 100 00
Miles Wholstenholm and wife
to Burt Curtis wd to sw qr
5 3 30 4800 00
The McCook Loan Trust Co
to Claude W Corey wd to
lot 3 blk 24 2nd McCook 225 00
W S Coleman and wife to F M
McFadden wd to lot 6 blk 5
Marion 175 00
Frances I Boddy wid to A H
Eldredgewd to ne qr 34-2-30 3200 00
100 For Sale 100
High scoring Barred Plymonth Rock
Cockerels 100 each J W Burtless
Phone ash 1351 1 10 tf
HAPPY W0MEM
Plenty of Them In McCook
Reason for It
and Good
Wouldnt any woman be happy
After years of backache suffering
Days of misery nights of unrest
The distress of urinary troubles
She finds relief and cure
No reason why any McCook reader
should suffer in the face of evidence
like this
Mrs W B Craven living in the
northwestern part of McCook Neb
says I contracted a severe cold last
spring which settled in my kidneys and
caused me to suffer severely The se
cretions from my kidneys were unnat
ural in color contained a heavy sedi
ment and the passages were always ac
companied by a scalding sensation I
had sharp throbbing pains in my head
and had but little energy to do my
housework and became very weak and
run down At this time my attention
was drawn to Doans Kidney Pills and
I procured a bos at McConnelPs drug
store The results from their use were
most gratifying I continued taking
them improving steadily until I receiv
ed a complete cure
For sale by all dealers Price 50
cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo
New York sole agents for the United
States
Remember the name Doans and
take no other
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twenty one columns of good reliable
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cheap weeklies intended only to sell
some article that the publisher is inter
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The McCook Tribune
ill A FALL BALLOON
Fearful and Tragic Experience of
Three Aeronauts
ONE SAVED AS BY A MIRACLE
Tho Terrific Cold and the Peculiar
Sonsations That Encompassed the
Daring Voyagers at an Altitude of
Over Five Miles The Descent
One of the most territtc experiences
in the history of ballooning was that
of three aeronauts who in 1S75 made
nn ascension in a large and well made
balloon tho Zenith In this voyage
the object was to reach the greatest
possible altitude The balloon rose to
a height of 28000 feet that is about
five and a half miles from the earth
At this point something happened
what no one will ever know since the
only surviving balloonist Tissandler
was at the time Insensible But the
balloon began a rapid fall and finally
struck the ground with such n fright
ful shock that Sivel and
nelli were killed instantly while
sandiers life was spared by a miracle
The account of this voyage i per
haps best told in Tlssniidi own
words
At 23000 feet we were stanUng up
In the car Sivel who had given up
for a moment was rein vigora ted
Croce Spinnelll was motionless in front
of me I felt stupefied and frozen I
wished to put on my fur gloves But
without being conscious of it the ac
tion of taking them from my pocket
necessitated an effort that I could no
longer make I copy verbatim the fol
lowing lines which were written by
me although I have no very distinct
remembrance of doing so They are
traced in a hardly legible manner by a
hand trembling with cold
My hands are frozen 1 am all
right We are all right Fog in the
horizon with little rounded cirrus Wo
are ascending Croce pants He in
hales oxygen Sivel closes his eyes
Croce also closes his eyes Sivel
throws out ballast Sivel seized his
knife and cut successively three cords
and the three bags emptied them
selves and we ascended rapidly
When Sivel cut away the bags of
ballast at the height of about 24000
feet I seemed to remember that he was
sitting at the bottom of the car and
nearly in the same position as Croce
Spinnelli For my part I was in the
angle of the car thanks to which sup
port I was able to hold up but 1 soon
felt too weak even to turn my head to
look at my companions This was
about 130 p m At 20S p in I
awoke for a moment and found tho
balloon rapidly descending I was able
to cut away a bag of ballast to check
the speed and wrote in my notebook
the following words
We are descending Temperature
3 degrees I throw out ballast Ba
rometer 124 Inches We are descend
ing Sivel and Croce still In a faint
ing state at the bottom of the car
Descending very rapidly
Hardly had I written these lines
when a kind of trembling seized me
and I fell back weakened again There
was a violent wind from below up
ward denoting a very rapid descent
After some minutes I felt myself
shaken by the arm and recognized
Croce who had revived Throw out
ballast he said to me We are de
scending But I could hardly open
my eyes and did not see whether Si
vel was awake I called to mind that
Croce unfastened the aspirator which
he then threw overboard and he threw
out ballast rugs etc
At 330 p m I opened my eyes
again I felt dreadfully giddy and op
pressed but gradually came to myself
The balloon was descending with
frightful speed and making great oscil
lations I crept along on my knees
and pulled Sivel and Croce by the
arm Sivel CroceJ I exclaimed
Wake up My two companions were
huddled up motionless In the car cov
ered by their cloaks I collected all my
strength and endeavored to raise them
up Sivels face was black his eyes
dull and his mouth was open and full
of blood Croces eyes were half clos
ed and his mouth was bloody
To relate what happened afterward
Is Impossible I felt a frightful wind
We were still 9700 feet high There
remained in the car two bags of bal
last which I threw out I was draw
ing near the earth I looked for my
knife to cut the small rope which held
the anchor but could not And it I was
like a madman and continued to call
Sivel Sivel By good fortune I was
able to put my hand upon my knife
and detach the anchor at the right
moment
The shock on coming to the ground
was dreadful The balloon seemed as
if it was being flattened I thought it
was going to remain where it had
en but the wind was high and it was
dragged across fields The bodies of
my unfortunate friends were shaken
about in the car and I thought every
moment they would be jerked but At
length however I seized the valve
line and the gas soon escaped from
the balloon which lodged against u
tree It was then 4 oclock On step
ping out I was seized with a feverish
attack and sank down and thought for
a moment that I was going to join my
friends in the nest world but I came
to I founa the bodies of my friends
cold and stiff I had them put under
shelter in an adjacent barn The de
scent of the Zenith took place on the
plains 155 miles from Paris as the
crow flies The greatest height at
tained in this ascent is estimated at
28000 feet W R C Latson in Min
neapolis Journal
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The Spanish Royal Standard
Tho Spnuish royal standard Is rawt
complicated The red and yellow of
the Spanish flag is said to be derived
from this occurrence In 3378 Charles
the Bold dipped hi fingers In the blood
of Geoffrey count of Barcelona and
drew them down the counts golden
shield In token of his appreciation of
the hitters bravery The shield so
marked became the arirs of Barce
lona which became part of Araou
and Its arms were taken by that king
dom Now to the royal standard In
the first quarter or upper left hanJ
part of the flag are the arms of Leon
and Castile the lion and the castle
The second quarter is taken up one
half by the arms of Aragou one half
by the arms of Sicily The upper third
of the third quarter directly under
the first shows the Austrian colors
The lower two thirds is divided be
tween the Hag of Burgundy and the
black lion of Flanders The upper
third of the fourth quarter shows the
checkers another Burgundian device
while the lower two thirds is shared
by the red eagle of Antwerp and the
golden lion of Brabant and on the top
of all this are two shields one showing
tho Portuguese arms the other the
French Considerable of a
flag that
Good Causs For Tears
A certain mediaeval sultan had all tho
mirrors removed from ids palace so
that he might avoid the pain of see
lug his own face Tills sultan called
on his grand vizier one day and by ac
cident happened to catch sight of his
reflection nis hideousness overpow
ered him an 1 lie broke into violent
sobbing In Uii outburst the vizier
joined Finally the jraUau calmed
down wiped his eyes and got ready to
smoke and talk But not so the vizier
He sobbed 01 and on Ills master tap
ping his slipper impatiently on the
cushions wailed for him to cease At
length the sultan got angry and ex
claimed
Why do you weep longer than I
vizier
Alas the grand vizier replied you
wept O commander of tho faithful
because you saw your face but for an
instant but I see it all day and every
day
A Dubious Compliment
It looks well but I am afraid it Is
dubious said a financier speaking of
a proposed scheme Yes it is dubious
It reminds me of the Turkish pasha
and his wife
A Turkish pasha lay dying He
summoned to him the youngest and
fairest of his forty six Avlves and said
to her in a low weak voice
Put on your richest costume your
most brilliant jewels Deck your hair
with pearls and brighten your finger
tips Avith henna
The young Avife blushed Even in
her grief she was flattered
A 1 hit- lrttl coii n
you desire me to make this sumptuous
toilet
So thnt death when it come3 the
man replied seeing you so beautiful
may perhaps carry you off instead of
me
Motion of tho Sun
Owing to the revolution of the earth
the sun seems to make its daily cir
cuit around us which of course is not
the case But the sun is revolving
about its center quite as truly as the
earth is It was one of the conceptions
of that most remarkable man Sir John
Ilerschel that the whole solar system
had a motion in space and was ad
vancing toward a point in the heavens
near the star Ilercules Sir Johns con
ceptionas bold an idea as ever en
tered the human mind is now gener
ally accepted by astronomers and the
opinion is quite universal among them
that the entire system is tracing out a
curvilinear path In space a course
around some mighty center probably
at Hercules
Good Enough to Charge For
When William H Scott was man
aging clerk in the early sixties for the
firm of Cleveland Titus a client
came in and wanted an opinion right
away No member of the firm was in
Accordingly Mr Scott with sonic hesi
tation wrote the opinion When his
principal Mr Cleveland came In he
explained the circumstances and show
ed him the opinion Mr Cleveland
looked at him with a smiie and then
road it with care Humph said he
pretty poor opinion but it will do to
charge New York Times
A Caustic Reply
A gentleman once said to a barrister
That was a very good sermon of your
fathers today To which he replied
Yes lie must have cribbed it from
some one But the father overheard
this remark and reminded him that the
Bible says The ox knoweth his owner
and the ass his masters crib Thte
caustic reply silenced the barrister
London Telegraph
The Rapid Rise of Clive
The evidences of Clives genius said
Lord Cnrzon were Incontestable In
nine years he had risen from being a
poor and unknown clerk to be one of
the most famous captains of his own
or any other age
His Early Struggles
Tell me about your early straggles
grandpa
Oh I never had no early struggles
Johnny I alius took things jest as
they come Louisville Courier-Journal
Roasonably Sure
She Lois writes for the magazines
He Shall get em If she sends the
price Judge
He scolds best that can hurt She
least Danish Proverb
AWFUL CREATURE WAS
V FRANKLIN PRESIDENT
y FRAfiKLIN
A C EBERT Cashier
JAS S DOYLE Vice President
THE
CITIZENS
OF McCOOK NEB
Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus Si 2000
DIRECTORS
JAS S DOYLE
A C EBERT
QSSS VWVV
The McCook Tribune
e
Bound duplicate receipt books three
receipts to tho page for ale at The
Tribune office
Were Just
As Thankful
For a small package as a larso one
Each will receive the same thorough
and careful attention If we Ket the
former it may in time grow to tho later
by tho satisfaction you will derive in
wearing our laundered work Family
washing 5c per ponnd
McCook Steam Laundry
V C BLAIR Prop
Successor to G C Heckman
PHONE 35 West Dennlson St
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NINETY FEET LONG
Recent Grewsome Experience of a Chicago
Man Is Sample of a Series of
Such Cases
During L T Coopers recent visit to
Chicago where his new preparation
and theory created the usual sensation
many hundreds of people brought
enormous internal parasites to the
young man which had left the system
after taking his medicine
Among these people was Mr Emll
Winkler who brought to Cooper a
tapeworm that proved to be over
ninety feet in length Mr Winkler
who resides at 182 East Ohio Street
Chicago had this to say of his expe
rience For five years I have been
more or less complaining I have had
severe headaches and any food that I
would eat would nauseate me I would
have had dreams almost every night
dizzy spells would compel me to quit
work Black spots would appear be
fore my eyes when stooping over and
rising quickly I would feel tired most
of the time in fact I had no life in
me to speak of for the last five years
I tried various treatments and one
akbiV
physician in St Louis was recom
mended to me and I was under his
treatment some time but as usual I
obtained no relief
So many people asked me to try
Coopers preparation that I decided
to do so and after using it for a few
days this awful thing passed from my
system I feel much better already
and I want to say right hero that I
thank Mr Cooper a hundred times for
what his medicine has dono for me I
would not take 5000 and havo that
thing back in my system again
Mr Winkler is a fair sample of tho
experience of many during Coopers
stay in Chicago and this no doubt
helped to account for tho enormous v
sale of the Cooper preparation In this
city and others recently visited by
the young man
We sell and will ho pleased to
explain tho Cooper preparations
I A McMillen
BANK A
oSlar Per Year
TiMmiTB nrw Tim mrrrr -- Jr 3
psumoer and f
Closing Out Sale
Having sold my farm and decided to
move to McCook I will sell at public
auction where I now live 5 miles south
of McCook on
MONDAY FEBRUARY ltth
commencing at 11 oclock the following
described property
7 HEAD OF HORSES
One span black -mares 7yrs old both
with foal season paid 1100 lbs each 1
dark mare 9 yrs old 1200 lbs with foal
1 light bay mare 10 yrs old 1100 lbs 1
brown colt coming 3 yrs 1000 1 2 year
old colt 1 weanling colt
16 HEAD OF CATTLE
Seven head of milk cows three year
ling heifers 3 steer calves 3 heifer
calves
20 HEAD OF SHOATS
100 pounds each
FARM IMPLEMENTS
One lumber wagon 1 wagon and rack
1 spring wagon 1 top buggy 2 riding
cultivators 1 walking cultivator 1 rid
ing plow 1 walking plow 1 3 section
steel harrow 1 3 sectiou wooden harrow
1 McCormlck mowing machine 1 Mc-
Cormick hay rake 1 walking lister 2
sets double harness one set nearly new
1 set single harness and other articles
too numerous to mention
Free Lunch at Noon
TERMS Sums under SlOcash on
sums of 10 and over a credit of eight
months will be given purchaser to give
note drawing ten percent interest from
date with approved security A dis
count of five percent for cash on sums
of 10 and over No property to be re
moved until settled for
FRANK RATLIFF Owner
J H Woddell Auct V Franklin Clerk
Hteajnjiner
Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass
Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings
Estimates Furnished Free Base
ment of the Postoffice Buildinjr
McCOOK NEBRASKA
The best of every
thing in his line at
the most reasonable
prices is flarshs
motto He wants
your trade and
hopes by merit to
keep it
C MARSH
The Butcher
Phone 12
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