i u t L J i l SEEDS POLAND CHINA Z5 i L ti McCOOK NEBRASKA Wednesday November 25 200 OCLOCK P M At tlie Blue Front Livery Barn Sixty four head of Pure Bred Poland China Hogs of the prolific quick maturing easy feeding type strong in the blood of Chief Perfection II 42559 Foundation stock per sonally selected by Mr Seed from the best herds in Illinois Are closely related to the great Vexer 141 23 champion at the Iowa state fair this year Fifty spring pigs boars and gilts twelve good strong late winter boars two matured herd boars by Buster Brown 10632 1 a son of Perfection 2nd The entire offering may be seen at the Blue Front Livery Barn two days before the sale TERMS OF SALE A credit of six months time will be given purchaser giving note with approved security No in terest will be charged if note is paid at maturity if not ten per cent from date of sale will be charged Crates will be supplied at cost C A SEED Owner E J Mitchell and J H Woddell Auctioneers C H Boyle Clerk Time Card McCook Neb MAIN LINE EAST DKrAET No G CentralTimo 1027 p m 2 500 am 12 715 a M 14 9J2 P M 16 400 am main line west depaet No 1 Mountain Time 950 A M 3 1142 p M 5 13 15 Arrives Sar p m 1025 A M 1217 A M IMrERIAI LINE No 176 arrives Mountain Time 55 P M No 175 departs- 710 a m Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars seats free on through trains Tickets sold and baggutje checked to any point in the United States or Canada For information time tables maps and tick ets call on or write D F Hostetter Agent McCook Nebraska or L W Wakeley General Passenger Agent Omaha Nebraska RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS Mrs V T Lyons was an Omaha visitor Monday The company laid steel rails in the yard at Danbury last week replacing the old iron Master Mechanic II E Culbertson is in quarantine with two cases of scarlet fever in the family Conductor Wilbor Fisk returned to work last Saturday after being off nearly two months with an injured hand Trainmaster Weidenharoer and Chief Dispatcher Pate have been going over the division this week with the new superintendent L II Knoche resigned from the ser vice and departed last Saturday night for Osawatomie Kansas where he goes into the Missouri Pacific service O Ii Boman agent at Wilson ville has resigned from the service He will engage in the general merchandise busi ness at Holbrook with H G Miller James B Austin an old conductor on the Lincoln Ravenna line has been appointed trainmaster on the Lincoln division with headquarters in Omaha The wrecker in charge of Gus Budig was sent down to Sutton Monday night to assist in picking up the disastrous accident at that place of early part of the week The Burlington railroad is shortly to commence the work of installing the telephone throughout its system in the Black Hills This is in line with the policy of the road in other sections of the country where it has been dem onstrated that the telephone is more effective in running trains than the telegraph line The Burlington op erates nearly 200 miles of road in the Hills and it is planned to have the new system in operation before the spring The tender of 350 is undergoing re pairs The drop pit holds the 1092 this week The October pay roll at Havelock was about 55000 Way car 11219 is being thoroughly overhauled and repaired The 2020 is having work done on her driving brasses this wepk The agent at Akron has resigned and gone into Looniis office in Denver The dinky engine is now in service at the shops with Roy Zint as engineer in chief Engine 1461 a Denver switch engine 1572 and 350 are in the back shop for general overhaliog W E Painter formerly trainmaster at Denver has been appointed loading inspector at Lincoln Si McCreary returned Wednesday from his visit to the wife and son back in that dear old Galesburg Engine 2S14 is undergoing repairs in the round house She will receive new flues be repainted all over etc A burned off journal on the west end last Friday morning delayed traffic somewhat bnt nothing serioas George Scott went up to Akron Colo Wednesday night to temporarily act as agent at that station for a few days the regular agent having resigned and the extra agent not being at once available E E Young the retiring superin tendent of this division was handsome ly remembered by the men of the divis ion before departing for the seat of bis new activities on the Sheridan division The officers of the I A of M are Fred Laudberg president George Enoch vice president M L Search financial secretary F M Berry corres ponding secretary Joseph Kubicek treasurer It will be a matter of more than passing satisfaction to the people of Mc Cook to learn that Supt Koller of the McCook division expects to make Mc Cook his home as well as to continue it as the official headquarters of the division The Burlington had a disastrous freight wreck in the Sutton yard last Saturday morning about four oclock Fireman C F Quick of Lincoln was killed and three others -were injured Engine 2000 was demolished and ten carloads of merchandise were burned BEGGS CHERRY C0DGH SYRUP cures coughs and colds - THE WIDOW ss j A TWXSWMG EACON SILAS LAPIIAM wid ower had been paying atten tions to Aunt Sarah Hender son widow for two years Each heard that the other was stub born and each was watching and wait ing for the other to exhibit the trait Thanksgiving brought the crisis - The widow invited the deacon to dinner There was no question about tliy dea con taking the head of the table but when the matter of carving came up the widow took knife and fork in hand and said I can do it so much better than you you know I fall to see how or why ho re plied Because I have always carved It was an eccentricity of mine even when I was a girl No doubt you can slice ham or pork but when it comes to carving a turkey I have carved thousands of them s - immm V vCit 5 Ssal W8 4 THE WIDOWER By Caspar Dullon Copyright 1908 by American Press Association ft -ft -ft r5 - f - o l iv1 i i as you must know interrupted tin deacon with considerable asperity Dont jab the fork into the bird like that Thats like a hired man jabbing a pitchfork into a heap of hay I was not jabbing -In order to start carving you must get a firm hoKi of the bird Then take it by a leg Never How would you look hold ing the bird with one hand while you sliced away with the knife If you have always carved that way I have and its the only way to carve There you are jabbing again One would think you were a soldier bayoneting an enemy Deacon Silas Lapkam you are talk ing like a child When I think I need to be told how to carve a turkey I will call on you for advice I simply get a firm hold with the fork and then And then jab jab jab A woman has no business with the carving knie and fork when there is a man present I will carve this turkey I beg your pardon but you will sit there and see me carve it Dont for get that I am in my own house and that I am still my own boss You invite me to dinner and then humiliate me do you shouted the deacon as he shoved back his chair Now dont be a schoolboy chideu the widow as she flourisipd the kivfo around Having got a 1rm hold with the fork I now proceed to cut around the thigh joint thus But you are sawing Instead of cut ting No Im not Widow Henderson Deacon Lapham If I was a swearing man Youd get off a swear word on this occasion Yes you look as if you were swearing to yourself this minute I haint sworn a single swear but when a man has to sit here and seo a Thanksgiving turkey jabbed and poked and stabbed and sawed and butchered the Lord would surely forgive him for one or two swear words Deacon Silas Lapham she replied as she rested from her labors I said I could carve a fowl Then why dont you I am doing it and if you would keep quiet for five minutes I This is too much widow too much said the deacon as he started for his overcoat and hat You invite me here and then insult me I heard about your obstinacy And I heard about yours And your wretched temper Same to you But I thought it a slander Now however I can no longer doubt Neither can I It was ray place to carve that tur key In your obstinacy you continued to saw and jab and butcher without regard to my feelings My only re course is to bid you good day and take my hat and leave If you will act like a boy I cant help it And never come again finished the deacon as he got on his over coat The widow ate her Thanksgiving dinner alone but that turkey was never carved to form a part of It After the deacons departure she re turned to the carving knife and even tually managed to saw off a piece of the meat but she had no sooner tasted it than she started for the kitchen to interview the hired girl It was throe or four days before the mystery was solved for there was u mystery The turkey which had been killed three or four days ahead of time and hung up to freeze had been cut down and devoured by cats and to save himself from reproof the hired man had killed a peacock and hung it In its place And so you see I had to saw and jab explained the widow as the wid ower was sent for I see Mii sv U 7 1 tXiT i N is m - ffipw f And you would also have had to saw and iab And though you went away you didnt miss your turkey N o And all things considered Yes all things considered The deacons fur had to be rubbed the right way for a time but he purred at last and on this Thanksgiving day he will do the carving and his wife will pass the cranberry sauce Our Thankfuiest Thanks By ROBERTUS LOVE Copyright 190S by American Press Association H we are thankful for manifold blessings Thankful for life and for home and for health Thankful for turkeys with savory dress ings Thankful for progress and wisdom and wealth Thankful for corn and alfalfa and clover Thankful for money and faith in the banks Thankful so thankful election is over That is the source of our thankfuiest thanks One year in four is a leap year remember This is one of em and many a man Sworn to stay single if this were Decem ber Now would give thanks to be freed of the ban Yet theres a bother thats still more dis tressing One year in four all the rest it out ranks Namely election which keeps us Now that its over our thankfuiest thanks Man can escape from the maiden pursu ing Man can resist the Importunate miss Simply a system of shunting and shoo ing That will avoid matrimonial bliss But there is never a man so evasive He can escape the political tanks Always a drip with ralaver persuasive Now that theyre quiet our thankfuiest thanks Season of roaring and ranting and raving Period when it is perfectly plain Every mans uppermost duty is saving Washingtons country from bondages chain Time when your friend or your father or brother For his opinions you class with the cranks Now for four years we cannot have an other So let us offer our thankfuiest thanks Maybe twas tariff and maybe twas labor Maybe twas courts that so split us apart Maybe the trusts so affected your neigh bor That he dissevered himself from your heart Maybe injunctions or guaranteed banking Any or all 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