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A V A A M
McCook LcmIro No KB A P A M moets
ovory llrat unit third Tuut day of tho month at
800 i in in Masonic linll
Chauics L Faiinehtock W M
Lon Conk Sec
n H M
Occonoxco Council No 10 It S M meets ou
tlio Inst Saturday of each month nt 800 p m
n Masonic hall
ItArru A IIaoiikro T I M
SyiVKSTKlt COKIIKAI Soc
I A M
Kihr Cyrus Chapter No 35 R A M meets
ovory ilrst and third Thursday of each monthat
8UU p in in ilafcomc null
ClAKIiNCi H GttAY II P
Clinton B Sawykk Sue
KNIOIITH TISSUIAR
St John Cominandory No 10 K T meets on
tlio fcccond Thurt day of each mouth at fa00 p
in in Masonic hall
Emkrhox Hanson E C
SVIAEBTEUConDKAL Koc
ISASTlIItN STAR
Eureka Chapter No 80 O E S moots the
second and fourth h ndayH of each moutli
800 p in in Masonic hall
Mrs Sauaii E Kay M
Sylvester Coudeai Sec
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MODERN WOODMEN
Nohlo Camp No CGJ M W A moots ovory
second and fourth Thursday of each month a
8150 p in in Gauschows hall Pay asbosbnients
at Whitn llousn Grocery
J M Smith Clerk S E Howell V C
ROYAL NEIOHllORS
Nohlo Camp No 802 R N A moots every
second and fourth Thursday of oach mouth at
2t0p in in Ganchows hall
Mrs Mary Walker Oracle
Mrs Augusta Anton Rec
w o w
Meets second and fourth Thursdays nt S
oclock in Diamonds hall
Ciias F Markwad C C
W C Moyer Clork
WORKMEN
McCook LodKO No 61 AOUW meots ovory
Monday ntfe00 p m in Diamonds hall
C B Gray Rec Fred Schlaoel M V
DEGREE OF HONOR
MrCnnk Lodeo No 3 D of II meets ovory
second and forth Fridays of each month atS00
p in in Gauschows hall
Mrs Laura Osburn C of H
Mrs MatieG Welles Rec
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
McCook Division No G23 B of L E meots
every socond and fourth Saturday of each
month at 2 J0 in Morris hall
Walter Stokes C E
W D Burnett F A E
LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN
McCook LodRO No 599 B of L
meets ovory Saturday at 730 p in
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chows hall
I D Pennington M
Geo A Campbell Sec
railway conductors
TTsirvnv Division No 95 O R C meots the
second and fourth Sundajs of each mouth at
300 p in in Diamonds hall
Joe IIegenbergee C Con
M O McCluee Sec
railway trainmen
CW Bronsou Iodgo No B of R T
meots first and third Suudays at 230 p m and
second and fourth Fridays at 7 30 p m each
mouth in Morris hall Neal Beeler M
R J Moore Sec
railway carmen
Young America Lodge No 45G B R C of A
meets ou the first and third Thursdays of each
mouth in Diamonds hall at 7 Ii0 p m
Con Kreiger C C
N II Snyder Rec Sec
machinists
Red Willow Lodge No 587 1 A of M meets
every second and fourth Tuesday of the month
atS00p m in Gauschow hall
D O Hewitt Pres
H Anderson Rec Sec
BOILERMAKERS
McCook Lodge No 407 B of B M I S B of
A- meets first and third Fridays of each mouth
in Odd Follows ball
KNIGnTS OF PYTHIAS
McCook Lodge No 42 K of P meets every
Wednesday at 800 p m iu Masonic ball
M Lawritson C C
J N Gaarde K R S
odd fellows
McCook Lodge No 137 1 O O F meets every
Mondav al800 p m in Gauschows ball
Scott Doan oec
E H Doan N G
eagles
Vr Prink Anrin No 1514 F O E meots the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
800 pm iu Diamonds hall Social meetings
on the lirt and third Fridays
R S Light W Pres
G C Heckman W Sec
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
McCook Conncil No 1126 K of C meets tho
first ami third Tuesdays of each month atS00
p m in Diamonds hall
G R Gale F Sec Frank Real G K
DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA
Court Granada No 77 meets on the first and
and third Tuesdays of each month at S p m in
the Morris ball Anna Hannan G R
Josephine Mullen F S
LADY MACCABEES
Valley Queen Hive No 2 L O T M meets
every arst anu tmru xnur uui uuuius cm
month iu Ganschov ball
Mrs W B Mills Commander
Harriet E Willetts R K
G A R
J E Barnes Post No 207 G A R meets on
the first Saturday of each month at 230 p m
Ganschows ball
J M Henderson Cmndr
J H Yarger Adjt
L OF G A R
McCook Circle No 33 L of G A R meets ou
the first and third Fridays of each mouth at
230 p m in Diamonds hall
Matie Welles Sec
p e o
Chapter X P E O meets the second and
fourth Saturdays of each monta at 230 p m
at the homes of the various members
Mrs G II TnoMAS Pros
Mrs C H Meeker Cor Sec
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GENERAL CONTRACTING PAINTERS AND DECORATORS
Not How Cheap but How Good with Us
Office and Shop west of First National Bank
Steel Ceilings Sold Put Up and Decorated
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How They Brought Law and
Order to the Unruly West
HE RULE OF THE REVOLVER
Life In the Wild Days When Gun Plays
Occasioned Little Comment Yet
When There Was Always Safety In
Leaving It to the Crowd
The hold reckless life of the frontier
of the middle years of the nineteenth
century and later has been often re
called by the stories of desperadoes
and bad men but in the birth and
growth of the frontiercities is a unique
phase of American civic genius which
has been little dwelt upon
Most of the cities of the far west
have hovered close about the gather
ings of hardy miners as they came or
went on a feverish search for gold In
forty nine SO000 men from all parts
of the world reached the El Dorado
of California Some traveled 2000
miles overland others went far around
by Panama or Cape Horn In fifty
nine 100000 gold seekers stampeded
wildly across the sunburnt plains of
Colorado Only 40000 stayed the year
through Of like kinl although of
smaller proportions were all the pil
grimages that are more or less respon
sible for the cities of the west the
Qndiug of a streak of magic yellow
its story leaking out and growing
the glimpse of nuggets and speci
mens and then the grand senseless
rush to the Land of Get-Rich-Quick
Thousands of daring spirits were
drawn by the yellow loadstone intent
on nothing but the accumulation ot
wealth Then necessity produced some
weird assemblages of tents shanties
and log cabins many of which grew
into cities Often full grown towns
sprang up in a few months Far from
any state or territorial government and
composed of a conglomerated herd of
excited men none of whom had time
for civic affairs these embryo cities ex
isted and grew under conditions that
were unique and extremely wild
Our forefathers landed on the east
ern coast full of religious zeal and a
desire for freedom of thought and life
Their leaders and law came with them
They prayed and lived communistical
ly as long as they could then in
creased expanded and developed into
a nation But the gold discoveries of
California Nevada Colorado and Mon
tana brought thousands of independ
ent men to the wilderness who were
full of the hunger for gold not homes
who had no leaders no laws to which
they could appeal and nothing to bind
them together Then the leaders came
out of the crowd and the law grew as
it was needed it was omy uliml
time that any of these men came to
consider remaining permanently in the
country and it was these venturesome
builders who developed the newer part
of our nation
From the nature of things with so
much at stake among such hard living
men there were plenty of lights and
disputes There being no authority to
which to appeal differences were set
tled between man and man A six
shooter was the greatest help a man
could get toward a physical superior
ity over other men and so everybody
carried a gun and knew how to use
it The trigger linger grew nimble
with practice and there developed a
condition where frequent killings anu
shootings occasioned little comment or
criticism where men were almost in
different to the spilling of blood and
looked death square in the face with
a nonchalance that is hardly conceiv
able now Shooting affrays were the
froth of a very strong brew of the bor
der life and they put a settlement to
questions quickly and definitely If
when the smoke cleared away some
good man lay biting the dust his light
had gone out according to the code of
the time fierce and barbarous as codes
must be when man first struggles with
nature
And yet there was always safety iu
leaving it to the crowd The gener
al sentiment of the community was
very partial to fairness and honesty
during the early days of most border
towns There were no locks or keys
oiircr 111V mans credit was good to
any amount and stores and provisions
could lay untouched for months In
wholly unguarded places It was the
natural frank honesty of the virgin
west and a veritable paradise for
thieves and criminals
And they came hordes of murdering
plundering adventurers who knew no
code of morals or chivalry and resorted
to anything to accomplish their ends
They found plunder rich crime easy
and escape still easier and drifting all
over the country levied tribute from
each new camp as it sprang into being
Often these men were in such a ma
jority that a man who believed in hon
esty and justice was a man indeed if
he had the couriae to back his ideals
But there were such men men as God
meant men to be full of the sense of
right and the fitness of things and un
afraid They stepped right into the
opening and tackled some of the cuss
edest crowds in Christendom teaching
a wholesome respect for life liberty
and the pursuit of happiness to
hunches of drinking blasphemous and
unharnessed tempers The gun fight
ings lynchings and wanton spillings of
blood that spiced the histories of the
time may have been very close to sav
agery but they serve now to deepen
the respect we must have for men who
harnessed law and order on such condi
tions Outing Magazine
Good Temper
Good temper is like a sunny day
French Troverb
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BARTLEY
C E Matthews and A J DeArmond
have been appointed to tho oflico of
justice of tho peaco for East Valley pre
cinct Evil doers ploaso take notice
and save costs
II N Rosebush of McCook and his
crow of concrete workers are doing a
fine lot of work in Hartley putting in
side walks and street crossings
Calvin Hammond took out a lot of
paint Wednesday to brighten tho build
ings on his homo place
Mrs Reiner is having her farm houso
south of town painted
A L Cochran is adding anothor room
to his residence
J A Curleo is at his homo iu Lincoln
sick
Mrs Leonard Ilarsch who wont to
Omaha to consult Dr B B Davis has
not yet returned Wo are informod tho
doctor diagnosed tho diasoaso cancer of
the liver
Prof Parsons of Glasgow Kansas
was in Bartloy Wednesday Ho is now
engaged in marble and granito work at
Lovoland Colo Thirteen years ago ho
was tho professor in our high school
A car load of sulphur burned on tho
switch here Monday night about ton
oclock The fumes gave us an idea of
the orthodox futuro for earthly sinners
Mrs John Wolf will go to Lincoln in
a few days to visit her daughter Mrs
Earl Eddy
Robert Fischer is iu Denver for a
short stay hoping to improve his health
Dr and Mrs Brown made a business
trip to Indianola Monday
W S Minnick made a business trip
to the Beaver Monday
Will Sheets was at McCook on busi
ness Wednesday
D ANBURY
Quite a number of Danbury citizens
attended the musical entertainment at
Marion Friday night
R E Pogue of Bertrand made a short
visit hero Wednesday
Mrs Herman Wintjen was thrown
from a spring wagon one day last week
She was not injured very much
Mr and Mrs Oscar Thomas left last
Tuesday for their new homo in Cali
fornia
Mrs Reta Drath and son spent a day
in Danbury and then departed for the
home of her parents in Illinois
Hayes Moyers mother of Ludoll is
here visiting
S II Stilgobouer and family of Ma
rion were Danbury visitors over Sunday
Mrs Ruby is spending the week in
Marion
i
Tho Easter program at the Congrega
tional church was well attended
Tho M E church has purchased a
new lighting plant and will have it in
stalled this coming week
W J Stilgebouer was a business vis
itor in Banksville Tuesday
Mrs R E Poguo and children who
havo been visiting hero for a few days
returned home this week
Miss Laura Dewey was an Atwood
visitor over Sunday
Mrs II V Lord and family were Mc
Cook visitors Saturday and Sunday
INDIANOLA
Charley Boas was at McCook Friday
evening
Miss George visited at her homo in
Cambridge Saturday and Sunday
Miss John Dunning visited relatives
in Oxford Monday
Tressa Lehn went to Denver on No
13 Monday where she will be engaged
as a nurse
Neal Quick went to McCook Monday
Laura Miller was at Red Willow
Tuesday
Mrs Baker returned to her home in
Bartley Monday after a short visit
with her son and family
George King of Spokane Washington
is here visiting his brother Charles King
and family
Marion Powell was in town on busi
ness Tuesday
Joseph Harrison was at McCook on
business Tuesday
John Mallock shipped a car load of
cattle to St Joe Saturday evening
Dr and Mrs W D Mackechnie were
at McCook Monday evening
Mrs F Hardesty is on tho sicK list
S R Smith was at McCook on busi 1
ness Tuesday
Dr Minnick was at McUook Monday
evening
H WKeyes was m McCook Monday
Mrs Kennedy went to McCook Wed
desday morning on No 13 for a visit
with relatives
J M Pratt had the misfortune to fall
out of his wagon and get run over a
week ago Monday and broke one bone
of his foot and fractured another
Leonard Smith shipped some cattle to
St Joseph Tuesday evening
Townsite of Parks Surveyed
J R Phelan has had a townsite sur
veyed at Parks Dundy county Mr
Phelan has been spending most of the
past winter at Parks and Denver and
has just recently returned to his home
in Alliance
HERE AND THERE
Wymoro has subscribed 11130 for
races this summer
Holdrego is boosting for a 820000
Y M C A building Tho Misses Ro
becca and Ada Smyth of that city
plodgo 81000 And Holdrego went
dry
In several respects this would ho an
ideal spring for tho Burlington to put
up that Mauhattan streot viaduct
From no saloon at all to a contem
plation of four applications for license
to sell booze must mako tho averago
Indianolaitos head fairly swim
Governor Folk of Missouri doclaros
tomporanco tho greatest question before
the American people and Governor
Hanley of Indiana seconds tho no
tion
If Doc Razeo isnt tho first man iu
Nobraska to successfully aviato it will
be because ho cant manago that mar
velous pair of wings ho is now assid
uously sprouting
McCook is doing her share in seeking
to relievo drouth in surrounding
towns McFann Cox havo petitions
in for licenso in Bonkohnan and Indian
ola besides tho local petition
Bartloy is to havo an Advont church
material for same being now dolivored
on site
T I U- rl
J UilVU OCUll illl 1UVUIU1IIIU IUU UJ
fail at tho sight of a woodpile
Eustis recently suffered a 830000 lire
loss and is now figuring on voting 15
000 bonds for water works
Easter edition of tho Arapahoo
Pioneer was issued in three colors
hand painted Foxy
GRANT
Clara Cunningham closed a successful
term of school in district No 51 Fri
day April 17th She was well liked by
everybody
Henry Blunck is working for A A
Towle this week
John II Wesch has loased tho Row
land threo quarters for two years
Tho Prairie Dog ball team came over
to play tho Grant ball nine on tho Grant
diamond Score 25 to 29 in favor of
Grant A program was given by Clara
Cunningham and pupils after tho ball
game Everybody had a good timo
Gust Blunck is hauling wheat to
Traer Kansas for John Wesch
W II McBrien and R E Adams
will pitch for tho Grant bail team this
season
Bert Benjamin has the misfortune to
have his pump give out every day thus
giving him lots of work driving his
stock to water in tho neighborhood
Roy Albrecht took a load of hogs to
Cedar Bluffs Wednesday
Some rain Wednesday night but
more is needed
Dead Horses
If young fellows who are pursuing
their dissolute courses could be con
vinced of the evil they are storing up
for futuro days they would reform in
a body and the millenium would be
here tomorrow morning
The youth who is a jolly good fellow
for a season or two when life is young
pays for it all through his autumn and
winter and finds that ho is paying
usurious interest without recourse
It is one thing to stand in a bar room
in che golden evening of youth and
sing Marguerite and pay for every
bodys refreshments and enjoy famil
iar conversation with the bartender
it is another thing to pay for dead
horse3 in old age when dollars come
hard and dimes look unconscionably
large
The country is full of old men who
are needy and miserable doing hard
work that is almost beyond their
strength who might bo spending their
age in comfort even in opulence had
they not been jolly good fellows when
they were young It is the winter of
their lives and the darkness is closing
in and they are paying for the horses
that aied long ago
What the world needs is a preacher
so compelling so forceful so eloquent
and sincere that he can show the jolly
good fellows wherein they are fools
and impress upon them the lesson of
the dead horses
We have preachers enough who can
describe tho journeyings of John the
Baptist in the wilderness and tho for-
titude of Daniel in the lions den but
I John and Daniel are dead and nobody
cares much about what happened to
them in tho wilderness or tho men
agerie while the country is full of jolly
good fellows who are going hellward
with their heels over the dashboard
and they are worth saving for most of
them have good material in them
To one who is growing old and who
is still paying for dead horses there
is nothing sadder then the spectacle
of a young man going wrong the wrong
road is taken so buoyantly so gaily
that the wandering youth looks like a
victim decked with flowers for a hea
then sacrifice And there is no power
great enough to turn him to convince
him of the ambush and the avalanche
That is the pity of it Emporia Gazette
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special dates in April to California
as follows April 25th and 2Gth
Illustration only SCO round trip
The coast tour is the finest rail
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rates during April
To Colorado and
the Rocky Mountains
Plan now for your summer vaca
tion in Colorado Wyoming the
Black Hills or Yellowstone Park
Very low and attractive summer
tourist rates to the cool mountain
resorts after June 1st
Homeseekers Rates
First and third Tuesdays to the
west generally
The Biff Horn Basin
Auction sale for choice of the
newly irrigated lands under the
Oregon Basin or Wiley ditch
near Cody Opening in May1903
Also splendid chances yet for
homesteading government irrigat
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Write D Clem Deaver Lancseek
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days of each month through the
summer Excellent busi ness
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