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A K St A M
McCook Lodgo No Htt A F fc A M tfi
ovory first mid iliinl TiiomIuv of tlio moiitli lit
810 t id in Masonic liall
ClIAKIKH L Faiinustock W M
Lon Conk Sec
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McCook Loclito No 4U7 U of K M I S 15 of
A muotH first and tlircl Frldnjs uf cncli inontli
in Odd Folio wo hall
dkorkkof iiokoh
McCook LoiIkoNo a D of If meets uvory
Bocond and forth Fridays or each month ut8UJ
jt in in Guiibcliows hall
Min Lauka Osruun C of II
Mum MatikG Wkilks Kcc
kaoiks
McCook Afriu No 1511 F O K meets Hit
second and fourth WlmIiiomUjs of riicli month
at 8U pm in UhiitIiowh hall S icial meet
iiiBS on the flrntand third WVdnefdais
V II Cummins V Pros
II P Phteusox W Sec
KA8TKKN HTAK
Eureka Chaiilor N JjC O E S lnoets tln
Hccond and fourth Fridays of onch month at
800 p m in Masonic hall
Mbh Sauaii E Kay W M
SYIVESTKU COKDIiAt Sec
G A It
J K Ilariics Post No 17 G A R moots cm
thi first Saturday of each mouth at 2 10 p m
Ganschows hall
J M IlENnnnsoN Cmndr
J II Yakgku Adjt
KNIQHTH OF COMJMHUS
McCook Council No 1125 K of C meets tho
first and third Tuesdays of each month at 8XI
Ii in in Diamonds hall
Fhank Ural G K
G It Gaik F Sec
KNIOIITB OK PTTIIIAS
McCook LoiIrh No 42 K of P moots over
Wednesday at8UU p in in Masonic hull
M Lawhitson C C
J N Gaauui K R S
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
St John Conimandery No 1G K T m jots on
the second Tliurs dny of each month at 800 p
m in Masonic hall
Emhrson Havson E C
SvivbstkuCoboual Rec
LADY MACCABEES
Valley Qiieon ilivo No 2 L O T M meets
every first aud third Thursday evmiiis of each
month in hall
Mus W 15 Mills Conmiiuder
Harriet E Willktts R K
locomotive enqinkkiis
McCook Division No G2 IS of L E moots
every socond and fourth Saturday of each
month tt 2 t0 in Morris hall
Walter Stokes C E
W D ItonNETT F A E
LOCOMOTIVE firemen
McCook Lodge No 599 IS or L F E
meets every Saturday at7tS0 p m iu Gans
chows hall
I D Pennington M
Geo A Campbell Sec
machinists
Red Willow Lodso No S7 I of M meets
every secoud and fourth Tuosdny of tho month
at 800 p in in Gausuhow hall
D O Hewitt Pros
II Anderson Rec Sec
MODERN WOODMEN
Noble Camp No G6H M W A maots every
second and fourth Thur day of each mouth at
830 p in in Qansehows hall
John Hunt V C
ISarnet Hofer Clerk
ODD FELLOWS
McCook Lodgo No 137 1 O O F moots every
uiuuuuy hiom p in in uansrnow s linn
E H Doan N G
Scott Doan Sec
p e o
Chapter X P E O nioets the second and
fourth Saturdays of each month at 2 30 p m
at tho homes of the various members
Mrs C W Britt Pres
wes j u acnoBEL uor sec
RAILWAY CONDUCTORS
Harvey Division No 95 O R C meets the
second and fourth Sundajs of each mouth at
300 p in in Diamonds ball
Joe Hegenbeeger C Con
M O McCluee Sec
RAILWAY TRAINMEN
C W Bronson Lodgi No 487 B of It T
meets every Friday at 800 p m iu Berrjs
hall
H W Conover M
F J Huston Sec
WORKMEN
McCook Lodge No 61 AOUW meets every
Monday at 800 p m iu Diamonds hall
Web Stephens M W
C B Gray Rec
R a si
King Cyrus Chapter No 35 R A M meets
every first and third Thursday of each month at
800 p in in Masonic hall
Clarence B Gray H P
Clinton B Sawyer Sec
ROYAL NEIGHBOR8
Noble Camp No 62 R N A meets every
second and fourth Thursday of each month at
230 p m in Ganchovs hall
Mrs Mary Walker Oracle-
Mrs Augusta Anton Rec
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Council Nol6RS M meets on
tho last Saturday of each month at 800 p m
n Masonic hall
Ralph A Hagberg T I M
Sylvester Coedeal Sec
w o w
Meets second and fourth Thursdays at
oclock in Diamonds hall
Chas F Markwad C C
W C Moyer Clerk
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NOAHS RAVENS
A Knotty Question Answered by a
Blacksmith Preacher
Mnnu rnnra ncrr lltnrn llt rwl tn nnn t
blacksmith who to his reputation for
honest work during the week added
that of being a powerful exhorter en
Sundays Held hi high esteem by his
neighbors possessed of a sullicieucy of
this worlds goods for that primitive
community he seemed to have solved
the question of terrestrial happiness
but the thorn in the llesh Is indigo
nous to all climes and conditions and
for tlie blacksmith it grew in the per
son of one Tom Bradley tall lank
mountaineer who was the wit and
wag of the neighborhood and who also
occupied the unenviable position of
skeptic in that orthodox community
Tom delighted to prod the smith with
certain inexplicable Biblical state
ments and these encounters sometimes
resulted disastrously for the exhorter
causing him much humiliation and
making him as he said wrassle in
prayer and cry to the Lord and spare
not
Once at the yearly camp meeting the
old man was giving his experience
iu the tone and manner that were con
sidered devotional in those part- My
brethren all he said as I was
n staudiif in my shop an git tin ready
to shoe Billy Ilites old gray mare ah
long come that son of a gun Tom
1radley ah He ast me ef I belie ed
ever thing in the Bible ah I said
everything from klver to kiver ah
Beiieve that yarn about Xoaii bein
shet up in the ark with all them dif
ferent vort of critters ah sezze Si
I done pwalleretl Jonah an the whale
ah an I wjut a goiu to gag at Noah
all Well sezze ah ef that raven
Noah sent out got lost ah where did
all these here ravens come frum ah 7
Brethren I thought fer a minute ah
that old Satan had got the underholt
on me ah an was about to thoe me
ah but thank the Lord ah I jest
thoed back my head ah an the sperrit
of knowledge plum filled inc ah an I
se sezici It was the old he raven ah
that got lost an the old she raven
was a settin on five eggs In the nest
ah an thats where these here ravens
come frum ah
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OPERA
it Appears to Have Originated In Italy
In tho Year 16G0
Thtf way Streatfeild author of The
Opera traces the development of op
ora through the centuries is most clear
and concise and leaves you with tht
Impression that upon the matter of
history at any rate he is master of
Ws subject Opera it Is shown was
the result of an attempt made by
some Florentine amateurs to revive
the lost glories of Greek tragedy They
failed to get back to the condition5 of
Athenian drama but In failing they
unconsciously laid the foundations of
a new art form which soon worked
itself into the affections of the peo
ple The beginnings of opera might
be said to date from the year lfiOO
when a public performance was given
in Florence of Peris Euridice in
honor of the marriage of Maria de
Medici and Henry IV of France This
work consists almost entirely of ac
companied recitative which was the
invention of these Florentine reform
ers and the voices were accompanied
by a violin chitarono a large guitar
lira graude linto grosso and gravicem
balo or harpsichord which filled in
the harmonies indicated by the figured
bass It is interesting to know that
in this very primitive work the com
poser tried to follow as closely as pos
sible in his music the ordinary inflec
tions of the speaking voice Monte
verde who was a contemporary of
Peri but whose first opera was pro
duced some seven veals after Eurid
ice made a similar effort to recon
cile music with speech and many
years after Giuck and still later Wag
ner tried to do so and it is amusing
when one knows how far in other di
rections music as an art aud opera as
a convention have progressed since
1G00 to think that old Peri wis prob
tibly closer to the Debussys ml Rey
ualdo Hahus of our day than all the
great men who have come between
Xew Age of London
A Big Mistake
A fool a barber and a bahlheaded
man were traveling together Losing
their way they were obliged to sleep
in the ojen air and to avert danger
it was agreed to watch by turns The
first lot fell on tlie barber who for
amureaieut shaved the poor foils
head while he was sleeping He then
woke him and the fool raising his
hand to scratch his head exclaimed
Heres a pretty mistake You hav
awakened the baldheaded man instead
of me Liverpool Mercury
Getting Closer
When I first knew that man said
the observant waiter he couldnt hav1
been making more than 1000 a year
Ill bet its 10000 now
How do you know asked the otij
er
He used to give a fifty cent tip bin
now he only gives me a nickel Phil
adelphia Press
A Mcdsl Cookbook
What You have written a new
cookbook for your wife How did vou
do It
Easy enough I wrote the name of
eaeh dish and underneath it the res
taurant where It can be had best
Fltesende Blatter
The watched pot naver boils A gas
meter la different Washington Times
Ba Trise today
fer Young
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ROAD WORK IN II
the mountain counties of Tennessee n D- Sargent Tells Of the State
Highway Building
PROGRESS MADE EACH YEAR
Twenty four Hundred Miles of Road
Already Laid Out Gravel Generally
Used For Surfacing How tho Work
Is Done
Paul D Sargent state highway com
missioner of Maine in a recent ad
dress before the good roads and legis
lative convention of the Automobile
club of Springfield Mass spoke as
follows about road work In Maine
The construction of state roads In
Maine presents a little different prob
lem from that in any other of the New
England states This Is partly on ac
count of our large area which is sparse
ly settled and our low valuation For
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A thin dejost of gravel used in road
building- is exposed in tlie ditch on the
left
example our area is within 300 square
miles of equaling that of all the other
Xew Eugiaud states Our populutiou
is about 50 per cent more than that of
the city of Boston and our valuation
about that of Massachusetts
In the matter of valuations I might
say that we have only slxty threo cities
and towus In the tato which huve a
valuation of 1000000 We have 222
towns with a valuation less than 250-
COO each aud three fourths of all our
towns are less than 500000 In
tion In many of our towns especially
the smaller ones highway taxes alone
run from 1 to 3 cents so you seo when
these towns make appropriations for
good roads they are really struggling
to improve their condition
We have however made a start in
the matter of state road building and
are making progress every year In
1901 a state road law
which was general in Its application
that is It provided that every town In
the state might have state aid in com
plying with certain conditions The
amount which any town could expend
under this original law was only 200
per year and the maximum state aid
allowed on account of such expendi
ture was 100 Succeeding legislatures
raised the amount until at present 000
is the maximum amount a town may
expend and be reimbursed by the state
for half Its expenditure
The first year of the law only twelve
towns took advantage of its provisions
while last year the sixth year of its
operation 322 towns built their state
roads and received state aid This
year 35G towns are building sections
of state road
Our law provides that when a town
makes appropriation and declares its
intention to build state road the county
commissioners shall designate in that
town the main traveled thoroughfare
which shall thereafter be known as the
state road and that said appropriation
shall be expended in improving some
section of this road Under this pro
vision for designating state roads
about 2400 miles of road have already
been laid out
Up to the close of last year about
4r0000 had been expended by the
towns and the state In this reconstruc
tion work and nearly 300 miles of
road had been worked upon The
work consists mainly in cutting down
excessive grades raising roads In
swamps and low places straightening
crooked roads taking out sharp curves
and underdraining quagmires
In general our surfacing material
consists of gravel but in many cases
only the natural soil is used for this
purpose especially if gravel cannot be
obtained within two miles of the loca
tion of the work Probably In forty
towns in the state the surfacing mate
rial Is crushed stone
The work up to the present time has
been under the direct supervision of
the various boards of county commis
sioners As the law provides for In
spection of the work after it is com
pleted and the commissioners have not
In general Insisted on one standard of
work there have been quite a good
many variations in tho completed
roads but progress is being made each
year and we are gradually approach
ing something in the lino of uniform
ity The standard which wo ask to
have maintained is for a road twenty
one feet wide which shall have at
least twelve feet of hardened track
with earth shoulders to make up the
remaining wklth
Our general specification is for sur
facing material to be eight inches thick
In the center and six inches thick on
the shoulders to be screened Into sizes
and deposited In layers and rolled
wheroTer possible We find that such
work where It Is carafully and well
done averages In cost from 30 to 50
cents per Hneal foot
A GAME OF CHECKERS
Tht Movi One Player Made and Hii
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Its your move she smiled
lie smiled back at her his hand hov
ering above the checkerboard
Really he asked looking at her
in a witty sort of way
Iluh huh she softly answered
Keally he asked again
Iluh huh she breathed and de
murely dropped her eyes
His success he
and lie felt th
been In such strong form never had i
his wit been so keen or his manner
so engaging His spirit soared and
The Watchful Rangers and the
They Fight tho Flames
In almost any of the western moun
tains th traveler sees the fire warn
ings of the forest service and he is
likely to meet some of the rangers
You will find them crossing the high
Sierras iu California iu the Crazy
mountains of Montana among the
Olympics In Washington or following
the old Apache trails along tlie mesas
wits passed i In Arizona Wherever he is the ranger
keeps a keen lookout for the smoke of
forest fires and in the clear weste i
atmosphere even a little smoke column
can be detected from afar As soon as
he discovers It the ranger takes his ax
and shovel and goes as only a western
horse and rider can Many small fires
are stopped by this watchfulness but
there are others which take many men
many hours to subdue A lire in a
chaparral so thick that a man can
hardly force his way through it and
parched by six mouths of drought
makes hard and trying lighting Then
there are fires in the big timber among
the dead trees of old windfalls and
overhead fires that spread faster than
a man can run If unchecked they
will burn for weeks over thousands o
acres of timber
And all this destruction may be caus
ed by a carelessly left campfire or a
match dropped from horseback The
sheep men used to set the forest on
fire purposely for the year after a fire
the burned acres yield fine forage
Happily this practice is discontinued
Sparks from locomotives now set more
fires within tlie national forests than
any other cause Camping parties are
the next worst offenders Indians
stockmen miners and lumbermen who
travel continually in the forests very
seldom leave campfires to spread and
do damage They know too well the
results For a time almost every year
the citizens of Portland Ore lose sight
of some of the great mountains around
the city on account of the smoke from
the burning forests There is little
doubt that sine the white man settled
in the west more timber has been use
lessly burned than has been cut and
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Applicant Um You dont want an
ordinary burglar What you want is
a newspaper reporter Ufe
Two Powers
Tommy Pop what is the difference
between firmness and obstinacy Tom
mys Pop Merely the difference be
tween wUJ power and wont power my
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at nisi j
There she asked giving his
lation the appearance of having bucn
conceived in subtle humor There
There lie repeated
They made eyes at each other and
she moved one of her men He brisk
ly moved one of his
Xo no she faintly niunnurivl
You must take me
I must what he cried making a
motion
Take me she whispered
Take you
She nodded hwr head without looking
up and the next moment he had taken
her and two hearts beat as one
And will you always think of me
she asked as lie was bidding her good
by after he had measured her finger
for the ring
How could I help it he asked
Always site insisted
Always he repeated
Will you think of me as you go
home tonight
Every stej of the way
They parted at last
lie loves me she whijwred to
herself Oh he loves me I knew it
from the first Maybe this wont make
some of them jealous And Im the
first girl lie ever loved and its to be
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troubled face up to the moon halted I colus s ouSu ivcmcuj
suddenly and addressed tlie night
When she began that funny busi
ness about taking her I ought to have
sat tight and kept my fool mouth shut
thafs what I ought to have done
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FOREST FIRES
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have done more than all else to make it a
staple article of trade and commerce ovti
a large part of the civilicd world
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INSURANCE
on your life on jour property
Why not insuro jourBrdf against
adverfcity in the future by invest
ing your surplus funds in a bank
account Allow it to accumulate
until a time comes when ou need
it badly that is when jou will
appreciate its true worth
Jubt as the value of jourlife in
surance increases a joti grow
older so will our lunik account
grow as you add to it weekly
monthly or yearly In fact tho
possibilities of our b ink account
is limited only by your earning
and saving capacity
An account with this bank is
Good Insurance
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