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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1908)
S tiu r See sfe ISs 3s fils Tir 111 W B MILLS wz jmimsmW48wmmmm m m v 7 m 4erfi By F M KIMMELL Ureji Circulation in Red Willow Co ascription 1 a Year in Advance City Republican Caucuses FIRST WVRD FIRST PRECINCT The Republican electors of tho first precinct first ward Willow Grove pre cinct are hereby culled to meet in mass convention in the basement of the Com mercial Hotel Monday March 2 1908 at S p in for the purpose of selecting eight delegates to tho county conven tion to be held in Bartley Nebraska Wednesday March a 190S and tran sacting such other business as may pro perly como before said caucus C L Fahnestock Committeeman FIRST WARD SECOND PRECINCT The Republican electors of the First ward Second precinct city of McCook will meet in the Birnett Lumber Co office MDnday March 2 190S at eight p rn for the purpose of selecting eight delegates to the Republican county con vention to bo held in Bartley March 4th 1S08 and for the transaction of such business as may properly come be fore the caucus C G Orman Committeeman SECOND WARD SECOND PRECINCT The voters of tho Second ward Sec ond precinct city of McCook will hold their caucus in II II Berrys office xri v Monday evening March 2 1908 at 8 oclock for the purpose of selecting five delegates to the Republican county con vention to be held in Bartley March 4 190S and for the transaction of any other proper business Scott Odell Committeeman Notice To Parents Classes for beginners children five years of age or over who have never attended school will be organized Monday afternoon February 17 in the Jiast ward the West ward and the South buildings Parents will present their children to the teachers in these respective buildings together with a certificate showing successful vaccina tion Two weeks time will be granted for entering pupils in these classes but no one will be received after Monday March 2 G II Thomas Supt Typewriter tor Sale 11 you are interested in securing a Smith Premer Typewriter in splendid condition at half price call in The Tri bune office and see the machine It is a bargain and wil be sold because the owner has two machines Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture says that the unbounded prosperity of tho agriculturist is not due to chance but is the result of intelli gent scientific business methods A reader of The Weekly Inter Ocean has placed before him each week the prac tical and approved methods to which Secretary Wilson refers It is a good investment -Only 125 for The Weekly Inter Ocean and this paper one year SES TT - J1 - ESS raoic w earner an c of Farm Products i issasssssississsmm Phone 31 R- b simmons vjfti mzm will result in every foot of plow land being worked But you can noj do good farming with poor tools Everybody wants to FARM BETTER We have anticipated this and have just received our spring supply of John Deere Implements stubble and breakers DISC HARROWS the famous John Deere Model H and Model B We also have Rock Island and Ohio discs All of these you know so well that it is hardly necessary to mention them except to tell you where to drive to load one in your wagon The steel plow invented by John Deere was the greatest gift to man but of course you need to follow it with a GOOD DRAG HARROW These we have with from 6o to 140 teeth round or U bar We also have HARROW CARTS which are cheap er than shoe leather besides pro viding you a comfortable seat and giving you a chance to think how you will soon want to come in and pick out a JOHN DEERE LISTER either walk ing or riding two wheels or the tricycle preferably the tricycle as it has two wheels behind which pack the dirt just right but all of them equipped with the famous JOHN DEERE SUBSOILER the kind you always have wished you had on that old lister besides the Edge Selection Drop the accur acy of which is 96 percent per fect and its use has raised the average ield of corn in Iowa 20 percent We do not want to bother you unne cessarily but we would like to say about That New Wagon PLOWS Walking sulky and gang j that we still handle the New line Weber Birdsel and Bur Oak all full clip geared and poplar boxes with extra cross braces in fact built for heavy loads and dry country And there are many other things such as Manure Spreaders Gasoline Engines Wind Mills and Pumps And in speaking of Wind Mills we want to make special mention of the celebrated Eclipse Dempster and Woodmanse wind mills like those you have seen running on your neighbors farms for the past 1 8 years We put them up and guarantee their proper working But for all of this you should not forget the comfort of yourself and family and for this we have on hand brand spanking new and right from the factory the largest line of Buggies and Spring Wagons ever shown in the west and to induce you to BUY EARLY and get the sum mer use of them we will until March 15th make each purcasher of a ve hicle a Present of a 500 Bill This will help you and help us to make room for other goods arriving later And then we have Harness Blankets and Robes for every purpose all going at a spe cial low price Besides what is mentioned you wiU find in our store Everything for the Farmers Farm and Yonr Wifes Kitchen Yours for Business m iv m 3 rasa Sp m V 0k mMmmBmzmmmmmmsmmmmmsiim Silver Medal Contest The W C T U will give a silver medal contest program at the M E church Friday evening March 13 190S Supt Geo H Thomas Miss Stettor and Miss Storer have been selected as judges Following is the program Overture Sunshine nnd Flowers P Hans Hath Freys Orchestra Invocation Rev Hawkes A Stray Sunbeam Mildred Doughertv The College Oil Cans Veda Cadman Intermezzo Cupids Garden Max b HiUgene Freys Orchestra Deacon Beans Confession 06SSlt3 oHlltU Y s Im Guilty Mabel Ilegenberger Vocal Solo Selected Mrs Burton The Two Glasses Vera Fitzgerald Grand March R B Hail Freys Orchestra Presentation of Medal Rev Carman Song America Audience Benediction Rev Burton Gentlemen Entertain the Ladies Notwithstanding the privilege of the season the gentlemen of the M E S club entertained the ladies of the club Wednesday evening in Ganschow hall themselves serving a neat two courso lunch besides providing music dancing games and fortune telling by Mr Ray Shriner which was worth the full price alone Union Temperance Meetings The churches of tho city will unite in temperance services in the Baptist church next Sunday afternoon at three oclock and in the evening at 8 Miss Nesbit state W C T U treasurer and field worker will address both meetings It is hoped to make this a great rally Be present - i MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE Mns Nancy Faiinestocic 19 quite ill L M IIigoixs of Bartley spent Sat urday irfthocity F E Caiisov is confined to his home with an attack of rheumatism W E Cakson nnd Ed Flitcrnft went up to Cuibertson first of tho week Mrt and Mns Wm McCallum of Indianoln woro McCook visitors Satur day Miss Hazel Kikkiikidk of Alvn Okla is a guest f ier cousin Miss Ilattio Woolard John Green camo down from Waun eta close of last week for a visit over Sunday with relatives and friends P E PoTTKii will be carrier on rural freo delivery routes 3 and i on which service will begin Monday March 2 E R ONeill returned homo Wed nesday night From Wilcox Rk1 Cloul and other points in that neighborhood M B Cakman was called to Harlan county Wednesday to perform a mar riage ceremony for former parishioners James A Tidvman 33 nnd Hazel Coons 31 both of Mnywood vere mar ried by County Judge Moore February 24th Gko W Snider of Ogalalla Neb came down Thursdny evening on busi ness nnd to visit in the family of C A Snider Miss Nellie Rked the Stratton mill iner spent Wednesday in tho city home ward bound from consulting tho latest St Joseph modes Hans P Petersen late of tho firm of Petersen Lineburg departed on Wed nesday night for Omaha his former homo where he will relocate Mrs Z L Kay went up to Denver Inst Friday on No 13 to meet her son Jud who is now the happy guest of the family at the Commercial house Mrs Lottie Brewer entertained about forty lady friends Thursday after noon at high fiva in honor of Mrs C M Noble Lunch sorved in two courses F M Kimmfll arrived home Wed nesday night from his Pennsylvania trip onjoying tho sessions of the Ne braska Pressi association in Lincoln fore part of the week en route Mrs J W Holliday a former resi dent of years of our city now of Den ver became a guest of Mrs F W Bos worth Tuesday evening who is enter taining a company of lady friends this afternoon in her honor Mns Selma Noble Downs will de part for her homo in Iowa tomorrow morning Her mother Mrs C M Noble will leave for Oklahoma Monday morning After a visit of a few weeks much enjoyed by their friends of the olden times Mrs J E Kelley was the clever hostess to about fifty ladies Wednes day afternoon at a Kensington given in honor of Mrs C M Noble and Mrs M B Downs The refreshments were elaborate and there was a boundless and spontaneous social time Mrs J A Gunn Mrs P M Kimmell and Miss Nelle Gunn entertained a largo company of young friends at cards on Miss Luira McMiilon and Mr J R Mc Garl won the respective honors Mrs A L Knowland was hostess at a unique Washingtons birthday was sorved the guests by the ladies of the Methodist church at a privato table in the Brotherhood room of the church The guests wore fichus nnd caps and powdered hair after the manner of the times Aftor dinuer the ladies indulged in a few games of high five at the home of the hostess Mrs C M Noble win ning the honors J A Scott is just home from a visit back in Taylor county Iowa He comes back with several stories worth while about the roads of that section at this time of the year He takes a fare well shot at tho roads by making affida vit at this office that when he started to ka they had to take scantling along with which to dig the mud out of the spokes of the wheels when they mired down every now and then John W Randel comes home with a bigger story from Illinois where he claims they actu ally mired down on the public road and I had to abandon the wagon in the middle of the road and get out on horseback Stand up for Nebraska Only two worthful items enter into the value of advertising namely quant ity and qualitv that is how manv and how good The McCook Tkibcne is in a field by itself locally on these two points Wo challenge and invite in spection and comparison We can give you from two to three times the value for your money that any other Red Willow county publication can offer you A weekly newspaper that publishes twenty ouo columns of good reliable news each week is rare in these days of cheap weeklies intended only to sell some article that the publisher is inter ested in Credit is due Tho Weekly Inter Ocean for keeping its columns filled with fresh and up-to-date news Give it a trial by subscribing through The McCook Tribuke j OT f Do You Appreciate A Strict Up-to-Date Stock of Merchandise Of course you do and especially when these high class goods are sold you at the same and often below prices that are asked you for the more ordinary common place goods So Here Is Good News Preparatory to opening up our ReadytoWear Department in our newly completed addition we are now visiting the larger eastern markets buying the latest and very best Spring Patterns and Styles in Millinery Princess Dresses Silk Shirt Waist Suits Jacket Suits Dress Skirts Fancy Waists 5 f and in fact a complete and large stock of don Telegraph adles Furnishings We are sparing no time or expense in making this the most up-to-date MILLINERY and SUIT Department in South western Nebraska and believing the ladies of McCook and neighboring towns will appreciate our efiorts we gsk you to await the earl announcement of Our Grand Openin Don t plan your spring sewing or go elsewhere for your HATS DRESSES or SUITS until you have visited this new department Our stock will surely please you Our reasonable prices will add to your approval Yours for business 7r ri I II Clapo Exclusive Dry Goods and Ladies Furnishings Thursday evening at the home of Mrs was on my way to a bazaar Youre Gunn to meet Mrs Selma Noble Downs first ancl theres a end of it Lon- Modern Plays and Playors We no longer demand that a man or woman play a part We insist that the tion last Saturday evening Dinner Part flt llie man or woman This con- dition no doubt is largely tho fault of managers who instead of requiring impersonation pick performers for their likeness to the characters to be assumed Have you a father one can imagine them inquiring of a can didate Yes Then you wont do This mans father died twenty years before the beginning of the play Tho First Christmas Gift Book In the General Advertiser or Jan 9 17o0 appeared the earliest known an nouncement of a Christmas gift book and in this caso it was undeniably a gift book Given Gratis By J Newberry at ine liioie and go to town to take the train for Churcljyard 0 north door of tho church only paying one penny for the binding Nurse True loves Christmas Box or The Golden Plfivthtn r ittla rMiilli r 1 jj Sweet oranges Phone 56 Walsh Block McCook u vviav3yyyfc tte vaw tss First Come First Servtd A minister who sets his face against bazaars once related nu Incident em phasizing his feelings on the matter Once upon a time he said a man was going along a dark street when a footpad suddenly appeared and point ing his pistol began to relieve his vic tim of his money The thief however apparently suf fered some pangs of remorso Its pretty rough to be gone through like this aint it sir ho inquired Oh thats all right my man the held up one answered cheerfully I MINOR ITEMS OF NEWS McMillou prescription druggist Fresh lettuce Ask Scott about it Ask Scott about it Scmething new in celery about it Ask Scott Apricots nectarones and silver prunes Ask Scott about it McMillens cold tablets will cure your cold and stop your cough Last sale of the season Winter goods must go 14 off Rozell Bargpr Double - strength Heinz vinegar imitated by all equaled by none for sale by Magner Stokes Wellerette cigars sold only in drug stores the best 0 cents will buy For sale at Woodworth Cos Magner Stokes keep their grinder going seme these days and have plenty of ground bone for chickens Genuine grocery bargains are offered in our advertisement appearing in this ltsue of The Tribune Dont fail to read the prices note tho goods and come and sea the line New goods high grade goods and at prices you cant resist J A Wi lcox Sov 1 T Kdy Mr Stella 2 Kennedy Joh thev mav loarn tlo IM ltr r I Vncdy il Ida Moore Mr Fred mv snuu mu timjvv uuY IO US- have so as to make everybody love them adorned with thirty cuts Lon don Mail Reason For Objection Fond Mother Why dont you like your roommate at college Reginald The professor told me he would be a good companion for you because he studies so hard Young Collegian But mother he uses so many sesquipedalian words Fond Mother That settles it m son I dont want you to bo contami nated by association with anybody who uses such dreadful language Baltimore American Voice of Experience In mailing an article to a ma zine asked the literary tyro Is there any peculiar way of arranging the stamps so as to convey the idea to the editor that I am an old hand You bet there is answered Per colluni Be sure to arrange enough of them on tho inside to prepay tho return postage if you expect ever to see the article again Chicago Trib une Myers Mr Taul Veniick Mr A L Wilson Mr Clas ADVERTISED LIST Tho following letters cards and pack ages remain uncalled for at the McCook postoflice February 28 1907 LETTERS Allen Mr G K Hrunkavcntln Miss Chaiine Mrs II E Edwards Mr Simp Forbes Mr Frank Haner Mr W E Hinkel Mr Einil Hess Mr John Norman MrsSopkroHia White J L CARDS Ioton 3Iiss Theresa Dolpli Miss Dosie Fnrnice Carl V Frefcricfcson Mr Alfred IfasRard Miss Lela Hamarinkel Fred Kennedy Mr Stella Ray Mr Dave Ray Mib Mary Williams Mr Percy When calling for these please say they were advertised S B McLean Postmaster SCHOOL LAND AUCTION Tho following described lands in Red Willow county will be offered for lease at public auc vS t oe ntiy trcurers ollice McCook Nebraska Tuesday March 24th at 2 p m Ierrnof IeainK and appraised value may be had on annhcntinn tn ihnn McCook or to the commissioner at Lincoln The yct half and west half southeast quarter IS no northeast quarter Tf M v- Com Public Lands and Buildings YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE J M Rupp F0RALLK1HD50F Brick Work P O Box 131 McCook Nebraska J - - x avh 1 Hi