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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1908)
in j f r WILTON D PURDY Noted Trust Buster Who Has Been Nominated For Federal Bench Milton D Purdy who lias been ap pointed to the federal bench of the dis trict of Minnesota by the president has won a reputation while an assist ant attorney general of the United States as one of the principal trust busters of the administration He lias had chief charge of the prosecu tion of cases under the anti trust laws and has made a record which has marked him as a lawyer of exceptional ability lie is rather young for the po sition to which he has been nominated being but forty one and the two ft Vr MILTON D TURDY tors from Minnesota favored a man of sixty three W E Hale of Minneapolis The president has adopted a policy of not appointing to the federal bench a man over fifty years of age except un der unusual circumstances hence his determination to name Mr Purdy in stead of the lawyer favored by the Minnesota members of the senate The rise of Mr Pufdy to his present posi tion of influence in his profession was not anticipated by those who watched him as a boy In Summit county O He Anally obtained a good education grad uating from the University of Minne sota and from the college of law of that institution But as a youngster he was considered rather lacking in ambi tion His father had a pottery shop and young Purdy worked in it He had no desire at the time to be anything but a maker of pots but his mother in sisted that he should go to high school and after that came college Speaking of his work in the pot shop the jurist of the future once told of his earnings there as follows I was employed on Saturdays and during vacations as a ball maker In those days each potter had a boy to weigh his clay and to work out the air bubbles by cutting it to pieces with a wire and then kneading it into a com pact mass I picked up the trade in that fashion and my father gave me a wheel and a journeymans wages If I had jugs or crocks I would make about 2 a day One Saturday I earned 3 with tops for snuff jars That was so exceptional however that I have never forgotten It A BOODLERS PUNISHMENT The House of a San Francisco Grafter Which Was Wrecked by a Bomb It is often hard to administer ap propriate punishment to persous guilty of boodling or grafting and this fact has sometimes led indignant citi zens to impose on such malefactors penalties not prescribed by the regular courts An instance of this is the pun ishment visited upon James L Gal- A i A san risANCisco nooDXirns wrecked lagher chief of iho boadiug super visors in San Francisco His house was wrecked by a dynamite bomb which shattered the front of the build ing and cwjie near killing its occu pants Many windows iu surround ing buildings vcrt broken 1 the shock The photojranh irpnviu herewith tells the story of the ven geance taken upon a recreant okii in a graphic niauuer A Tift Sicry The Ksv Dr Lyman Abbott in writ ing about Secretary Wiliiam II Taft In the Outlook ays He is not as quick in hi motion either physically or intellectually as the president but he is not le i a mas ter workman The day he wi to start for Cuba he was at his desk finishing up some last details His assistant gave him warning Train starts in half an hour All right was the reply Presently a second warning Only fif teen minutes left sir All right Finally Youve only three minutes left sir All right came back as serenely as before And in two min utes the alert secretary of war came out of the office door smiling calm Imperturbable unhurried So the story comes to me and I can well believe It The legend seems probable The FOUND ITS SOUL Story of a Violin That Was Wrecked In a Fire After the Lucky Baldwin theater and hotel Are in San Francisco years ago there were nine feet of water In the basement where the Instruments of the orchestra were stored When a lit tle of it had been pumped out August Illnrlchs leader of the orchestra hired a man to swim In and get out his fa mous Amati violin It was wrecked water soaked warp ed twisted and broken up into sixty eight pieces The hot water had soak ed out all the old glue and every piece had fallen away from its neighbor be sides a good many patches of wood put in when repairs had been done To all appearance the thing was smashed be yond recall Nevertheless Herman Muller a local violin repairer who knew and loved the old fiddle took it in hand Twice he carefully joined the time darkened pieces of wood Twice he decided that the Amati would not do So once more he soaked the sixty eight bits of wood apart Then he carefully modeled out of clay an arch such as he remembered that of the old Amati to have had and for nine weeks kept the bits of wood bound to it until they had gained the proper shape Once more he put the bits of wood together Then for five weeks more he patiently varnished and polished the more than 200 year old fiddle until it shone Then Hlnrichs once more drew his bow across the vibrating strings and the violin spoke It sank wept bubbled with life and joy The Amati had found its soul San Francisco Examiner The JOHN AND HIS IDOLS Chinaman Is Utterly Devoid of Reverence In His Religion now the Chinaman regards his idol Is told by the Key John MacGowan The Chinese is a person utterly de void of reference sentiment or devo tion in his religion With him it isra matter either of fear or of business but mainly the latter A house is plagued with sickness which is put down not to bad sanitation or other natural causes but to the presence of evil spirits This leads to a visit to the nearest temple to get the idol to drive them away A new business is going to be commenced but before doing so it is deemed essential to get the sup port of the idols If one idol says it will not succeed another is appealed to for its opinion and if it is favorable it is at once accepted as the correct one Should the venture turn out a fail ure no reproach of any kind is uttered against the god whose prediction has been falsified The man takes the blame upon himself His character has not been pure he says or he was born under an evil star or he was naturally unlucky and so was bound to fail in anything that he undertook Men never dream of thinking about their idols as we do about God No affection Is shown for them It is most amusing to watch the faces of the Chi nese when you ask them If the idols love them The eyes gleam the face broadens into a wide grin and soon hearty laughter is heard at this most facetious and side splitting Chicago News joke A Remarkable Church At Stivichall near Coventry Eng land 1here is a unique place of wor ship In 1S10 John Green a stonema son of a strongly religious turn of mind laid the first stone of the edifice and seven years later he completed the building In all that time he had as sistance from no one doing all the Avork with his own hands until the church was ready for its interior fit tings Wooden and even brick build ings erected by one or two men are not uncommon but this is the only structure in England and probably in the world of which every stone was laid by one man The building accom modates quite a largo congregation and the church derives a considerable revenue from the contributions of sightseers who are drawn to the place through curiosity The Equinox Storm Fable The United Slates weather bureau has denied that the coming of the equi nox brings Avith it a storm The be lief it says that the old fashioned peo ple put in this theory is all misplaced Any big storm that happens to occur within a week or two of the time that the sun is crossing the line say the weather men is dignified by the name of equinoctial storm when as a matter of fact there is generally some atmospheric disturbance every week or two and those that occur about the time of the equinox are just taking their turn and are not the result of tho crossing of the sun A Fine Pair What do you think of the two can didates asked one elector of another during a recent contest What do I think of them was the reply Well when 1 look at them Im thankful only one of them can get in London Telegraph Through Her Head Bugby gets out of all patience with his wife He says she cant get a thing through her head Thats funny lie told me every thing he said to her went in one ear and out of the other Hot Water Hyker Troubled with indigestion eh You should drink a cup of hot wa ter every morning Pyker I do but they cal it coffee at my boarding house London Express The collection of coins and medals In the British museum consists of over 250000 specimens Remembered the Dead Veterans The members of J K Barnes postthe ladies of the circle and reliefs corps and tho citizens of McCook and vicinity paused last Saturday from tho ordi nary avocations and duties of life to pay a fitting tribute to tho memory and deeds of the old soldiers bivouacked in our cities of tho dead In the morning at ton oclock a pro cession was formed and the post and auxiliaries marched to Itiverview ceme tery wherein mobt of tho old soldiers repose and here the formal ritualistic services were held at tho monument erected in this burial place Tho G A R and W R C in charge at tho monu ment and the Ladies Circle at tho monument to tho unknown dead Committees of four from each of the organizations performed tho oflico of decorating the graves In Riverview cemetery tho following graves wero decorated David Keithley Marion H Drown Chester Ward H S Cooley Charles Fox J U McCabo John D Gerver Peter Groves Moses Hattershall William M Irwin Elias II Conrad Charles Walker Henry Walker A P Welles John Williams Daniel Clemmons Smith Gordon Charles Turner Thomas A Scott J 15 Farnsworth XV X Johnson Lyman Millur Josiah B ItoshoiiB A V SchaolTer C L Nettleton Willard Matthews V If Itanjuiiiiii Edwin Farnsworth Thomas J Pato Andrew Phillips Dr A J Thomas William Huber Sr Albert Hamilton son of etcraI Leroy Rolfe US navy B R Stewart confederate This tender ceremony over the cession returned to the city and banded until after dinner Alter dinner the ranks wero reformed and the line of march taken up to the Methodist church where the following program was had Song by the public school children Im or by Rev G B Hnwkcs Reading of orders by the adjutant Reports from decorating committee Song by public school children Reading of Lincolns address at ipttjsburg by Mrs W S Morlan General address by Elder R M AinsAortli Song America led by public school children Benediction by Rev Edker Burton The church was well filled and the Bervices were marked by deep interest and attention Elder R M Ainsworth of the Christian church appeared as orator of the occasion by substitution at a late date but gave a good account of himself especially pleasing the old soldiers by the patriotism of his address Thus bringing to a close another Memorial Day During the formal program of the day business was quite generally suspended There were some decorations but this feature might easily be improved upon Obituary Nora Tirrill Kennedy aged 28 years G months 28 days died at the home of her parents in McCook Neb on May 29th 1S08 at seven oclock a m altera lingering illness Deceased was born at LaHogue 111 August 31 1879 living there until 1SSG when she moved with her parents to McCook Neb She was united in marriage to Ira L Kennedy on September 19th 1S98 To this union were born three children one dying in infancy two with the faithful husband mourns her death the children are Vurnice age 7 years Munice age 4 years She united with the United Brethren church in 1S99 and has lived a faithful member until death She leaves to mourn her death a faithful husband two children father mother three sis ters and five brothers The sisters are Mrs Alma Overman Mrs Cora Swain and Mrs Ola Dinnel all of McCook The brothers are Haskell of McCook William of Pekinjll Arthur of Pisgah la Thomas of Basehor Kan and Daniel of McCook all being present at the funeral except Thomas The funeral was held at the home at twelve oclock May 30th conducted by Rev Smith The funeral being largely nrtpnrled bv sorrowing friends and neighbors Interment was made in Fair view cemetery Com CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to all those who assisted in the sickness and after the death of our be loved one Nora Tirrill Kennedy Ira L Kennedy and Children Mr and Mrs J E Tirrill and Family Correspondence Wanted The Tribune wants correspondence from Perry and Coleman precinct in fact from any part of the country where the paper is not now represented Write the publisher to day Call at HECKMANS BAKERY FOR CIGARS AND STATIONERY McCook Markets Merchants and dealers in McCook at noon today Friday are paying the fol lowing prices Corn S 70 Wheat Oats 5 Rye W Barley 9 Hogs 4 80 Butter good Eggs - Real Estate Filings The following real estate tilings have been made in the county clerks office since our last report Con Miller and wife to Irving R Andrews wd to pt blk 42 Indianola 300 CO Irving R Andrews aud wife to Fred Chesmore wd to w hf blk 42 Indianola 100 00 Christian G Orman and wife to John Fahrenbruch wd to lots 50 blk 3 Willow Grove add McCook 1323 00 Adam Frick and wife to Chas F Lehn wd to lot 8 blk G Gth McCook 1000 00 Isaac M Smith to Mary J Green wd to sw qr 8-1-29 4000 00 Mary J Green and hus to Isaac M Smith wd to lots 3 G blk 27 2nd McCook 2900 00 F M Guy and wife to William II Meester wd to e hf ne qr sw qr no qr so qr nw qr5 l 30 1000 00 COURT HOUSE NEWS Following are tho marriage licenses is sued siuce our last report Joseph M Skinner 41 and Mrs Min nio OCampbell 33 both of Cambridgo Charles E Thomas 30 of Lebanon and Mary Mabel Greenway 22 of Dan bury William C Downs 21 and Junio Waters 21 both of McCook William E McDivitt29 and Jeannette M Dutton 24 both of McCook Ivan B Clark 22 and Florence Z Clement 22 both of Bartley Harrison N Bortner 21 of Quick and Mrs Gertrude Wray 20 of Box Elder Married by county judge Henry G Lowery 27 of Conway la and Katie E Miller 25 of Bedford la Married by county judgo 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