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Reserve Some Money
for Christmas presents of use worth
and solid comfort A perusal of the
advertisement of The Pade Furniture
and Carpet Co in this issue will show
you where to go and what to buy for
the house its queen or in fact for any
member of the household Not baubles
but the joy and convenience of a life
time
Colored and Black and White
The Tribune has for sale a nice dis
play of local view post cards in colors
and in black and white Also a -well
selected line of greeting and other post
fcarfls
Powder
4 grape cream of tartar powder
Makes pure healthful delicious
food No alum no lime phosphate
There is an infallible test by which
every housewife may detect the unhealthy
fol alum baking powders
Ttae label will fell
Study the label If it does not say cream
of tartar the baking powder is made from
alum and must be avoided
By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Thb winter meeting of the Nebraska
Territorial Pioneers association will
occur in Lincoln January 12 13 1909
in connection with the annual meeting
of the Nebraska State Historical society
Write C S Paine spcretary treasurer
station A Lincoln Nebraska for par
ticulars
Burlington Acquires the C S
- New York Dec19 Leading interests
in the Colorado Southern Railroad
company including Ed win Hawley who
is said to be the largest individual stock
holder and Frank Trumbull the presi
dent of the road announced today the
sale of the road to the Chicago Burling
ton Quincy Railroad company
Information as to the price and other
details of the transaction have not been
told The acquisition of the road by
the Burlington gives the Hill system
the Burlington being owned by the
Northern Pacific and the Great North
ern railroad companies its long desired
outlet to the Texas coast It will bear
practically the same relationship to the
Hill lines in the Gulf of Mexico territory
that the Illinois Central bears to the
Harriman system
GRANT
Alex Ellis threshed out over 100
bushels of millet seed for Jacob Wesch
and sons last week Also some wheat
for Abe Peters
There was a dance at A M Benja
mins Friday night and at James Mil
lers Saturday night before in honor of
Guy Clark and wife Fine time at both
reported
Ernest and Coleman Peters are haul
ing wheat to Traer Kansas
Gus and H H Blunck were out from
McCook last week to see John Wesch
Sr Gus has been employed in the ice
house in McCook
John Wesch and family attended the
dance at James Millers on the 12th
That must be a doodle of a hair tonic
John H Wesch has found
R F D NO 1
A number of young people members
of the orchestra practicing for the
Christmas music in the M E church
Indianola were up at the Shadeland
Sunday evening at a rehearsal
The alfalfa seed threshers have
finished at F S Loftons perhaps the
last of the season
Mrs Merle Craven of Juniata is a
guest of her parents Mr and Mrs W J
Porter arriving close of last week
Nelson Downs sold his farm last
Saturday the consideration being
6000
They will have a Christmas tree at
I tYln Trnrolni anHnrvl Vinnaa Th tirarlnfr
Until todays announcementhnwever IT
j Vacation begins on that date and will
it that James J
wns generally supposed
Hills plan to get to the gulf was by the
purchase of the Missouri Kansas
Texas railroad
Real Estate Filings
The following Teal estate filings have
been made in the county clerks office
since last report
Lillian C Snyder sing to
William D Burnett Sr wd to
lot 12 blk 10 1st McCook 600 00
Adelaide Streff sing to J A
Streff wd to nw 500 00
William E Voiles et us to
Phillip Voiles wd to lots 19
20 blk 3 1st Bartley 5500 00
Lincoln Land Co to Barnett
Lbr Co wd to lots 3 5 blk 6
Danbury 300 CO
Samuel Young et ux to Eugene
U Gallatin wd to w hf se qr
33-2-26 2400 00
Lincoln Land Co to Hazel
Hare Vahue wd to pt sw qr
20-3-29 500 00
H I Peterson sheriff to Frank
Snethen S deed to lots 8 9
pt lot 7 in 4-3-26 3500 CO
Citizen Bank McCook to
Joseph Allen wd to lot 4 in
7-4-27 100
Lincoln Land Co to Ernest H
Hibberd wd to pt se qr 19 3
29 4200 00
Hoye L Arbogast to Bessie L
Arbogast wd to lots 11 12
13 14 15 16 in F Esthers
Park 2000 00
United States to James H Bay
stoh pat to ne qr ne qr 4-4-27
continue throughout next week
Joseph Downs is improving quite
rapidly now
The shellers were at W P Broom
fields last Friday
The Christmas services of the German
Evangelical Lutheran congregation will
be held in the following order 230 p
m Friday sermon 1000 a m Satur
day sermon
A Handy Receipt Book
Bound duplicate receipt books three
receipts to the page for sale at The
Tribune office
You tax
BACK GI7ES OUT
Plenty of McCook Readers Have This
Experience
the kidneys overwork
them
They cant keep up the continual
strain
The back gives out it aches and
pains
Urinary troubles set in
Dont wait longer take Doans Kid
ney Pills
L H Seybold living S E Cor of
Third St and Railroad St Kearney
Neb says I can heartily recommend
Doans Kidney Pills to all sufferers of
kidney complaint This remedy acted
strictly up to the representations in my
case and proved to be a kidney cure in
every sense of the word My work
obliges me to do a great deal of stooping
and lifting and also exposes me to in
clement weather These combined con
ditions probably caused my kidneys to
become disordered and backache was
the result Though I did not take
Doans Kidney Pills as regularly as I
should have done they nevertheless
benefited me greatly and I willingly give
them my endorsement
Plenty more proof like this from Mc
Cook people Call at L W McCon
nells drug store and ask what custom
ers report
For sale by all dealers Price 50
cents Foster JMilburn Co Buffalo
New York sole agents for the United
States
Remember the name Doans and
take no other i
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Christmas With
The PickwicMans
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O chronicler of Christmas do
ings has done It so inimitably
us Dickens and nowhere has
Dickens described them bet
ter than in the Pickwick Papers
One might reud the paragraph relating
to the observance of the holiday half
a hundred times and not become weary
The Christmas spirit is everywhere
evident In tho chapters devoted to the
holiday making From the beginning
when the herd his three friends and
his faithful servant start for Dingley
Dell to the hour of their return there
Is Christmas In every sentence
As brisk as bees If not altogether as
light as fairies did tho four PIckwIckians
assemble on the morning of the 22d day
of December in the year of grace In
which these their faithfully recorded ad
ventures were undertaken and accom
plished Christmas was close at hand in
all his bluff and hearty honesty It was
the season of hospitality merriment and
open heartedness The old year was pre
paring like an ancient philosopher to
call his friends around him and amid the
sound of feasting and revelry to pass
gently and calmly away Gay and merry J
was the time and right gay and merry
were at least four of the numerous heart3
that were gladdened by Its coming
After traveling through a wide and
open country where the wheels skim
oyer the hard and frosty ground slow
ing up as they draw near a country
town where the horses are changed
then again dashing along the open
road with the fresh air blowing in
their -faces and gladdening their very
hearts within them they arrive at
Dingley Dell where we are introduced
to that famous personage the fat boy
He is an old acquaintance of Mr Pick
wick but to Sam Weller his face is
Btrange To follow this first meeting
Having given this direction and settled
with the coachman Mr Pickwick and
his three friends struck Into the footpath
across the fields and walked briskly away
leaving Mr Weller and the fat boy con
fronted together for the first time Sam
looked at the fat boy with great aston
ishment but without saying a word and
began to stow the things rapMly away
in the cart while the fat boy stood quiet
ly by and seemed to think it a very in
teresting sort of thing to see Mr Weller
working by himself
The conversation of these two char
acters is too long to reprint here but
not too much so to peruse with the
greatest interest We must pass over
the story of the wedding which was
the day before Christmas event at
Dingley Dell at which Mr Pickwick
distinguished himself by a felicitous
speech and get to the story of the
dance Dickens description of the old
sitting room is a gem
The best sitting room at Manor Farm
was a good long dark paneled room
with a higli chimney piece and a capacious
chimney up which you could have driven
one of the new patent cabs wheels and
all At the upper end of the room seated
in a shady bower of holly and ever
greens were the two best fiddlers and the
only harp in Muggleton In all sorts of
recesses and on all kinds of brackets
stood massive old silver candlesticks with
four branches each The carpet was up
the candles burned bright the fire blazed
and crackled on the hearth and merry
voices and light hearted laughter rang
through the room If any of the old
English yeomen had turned into fairies
when they died it was just the place in
which they would have held their revels
After the dance was over Mr Pick
wick having acquitted himself with
great credit the reader is told about
the doings in the famous old kitchen
Here hung the mistletoe and did its
mission well in adding to the jollity
of the occasion The artist whose pic
tures appear on his pages has done ex
cellent justice to Dickens text
From the center of the ceiling of this
kitchen old Wardle had just suspended
with his own hands a huge branch of
mistletoe and this same branch of mis
tletoe instantaneously gave rise to a
scene of general and most delightful
struggling and confusion in the midst of
which Mr Pickwick with a gallantry
which would have done honor to a de
scendant of Lady Tollinglower herself
took the old lady by the hand led her be
neath the mystic branch and saluted her
in all courtesy and decorum Wardle
stood with his back to the fire surveying
the whole scene with the utmost satisfac
tion and the fat boy took the opportuni
ty of appropriating to his own use and
summarily devouring a particularly fine
mince pie that had been carefully put by
for somebody else
It was a pleasant thing1 to see Mr Pick-
wick in the center of the group now pull
ed this way and then that and first kiss
ed on the chin and then on the nose and
then on the spectacles and to hear the
peals of laughter which were raised on
every side
Finally we come to Christmas day
which was cold and cheerful and good
skaiting weather The party all
went to a pfetty large sheet of ice
where Mr Winkle having assumed
the airs of a man who could skalt
and having shown his ignorance there
of was smartly reproved by Mr Pick
wick Meanwhile Mr Weller and tho
fat boy having by their joint efforts
cut out a slide all hands participated
Says tho chronicler of the days sport
It was the most intensely Interesting
thing to observe the manner In which
Mr Pickwick performed his share In tho
ceremony to watch tho torture of anx
iety with which ho viewed tho person be
hind gaining upon him at the Imminent
hazard of tripping him up to seo him
gradually expend the painful force which
ho had put on at first and turn slowly
around on tho slide with his faco toward
the point from which ho had started to
contemplate tho playful smilo which man
tled on his face when ho had accomplish
ed tho distance and the eagerness with
which ho turned around when he had
dono so and ran after his predecessor his
black gaiters tripping pleasantly through
the snow and his eyes beaming cheerful
ness and gladness through his spectacles
and when he was knocked down which
happened upon tho average every third
round it was the most invigorating sight
that can possibly be imagined to behold
him gather up his hat gloves and hand
kerchief with a glowing countenance and
resume his station in the rank with an
ardor and enthusiasm which nothins
could abate
Mr Pickwick unfortunately breaks
through the ice and gats a good wet
ting but being taken on a smart run
to the house put to bed and given un
limited quantities of hot punch finds
himself none the worse next morning
when the party departs from Dingley
Dell
Thus does Dickens tell us of one of
the merriest Christmases that a reader
could desire There is no touch of sad
ness in the chronicle and all that one
could wish for is that the story were
longer Long live the tale and long
may we enjoy Christmas with the
Pickwickians
LONG WALK FOR SANTA
Tree Burned Father Goes Eight Miles
For New Toys
Gifts Intended for his eight children
being destroyed when his lighting of
the Christmas tree just before mid
night caused a fire which damaged
his home in Cleveland Alfred Ham
mermeister trudged eight miles through
snow before he could rouse a store-
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SLIDE WITH HIS FEET ABOUT A YARD APART
THE
keeper and gather another supply of
presents so that the childrens faith in
Santa Claus might not be lost
The children were asleep when Mr
and Mrs Hammermeister completed
decorating the tree The father de
cided to light the candles as a test
They burned so did the cotton snow
balls The blaze awakened the chil
dren Santy here they piped Is
it mornin The parents gathered
them in their arras and rushed to the
street Firemen brought out a lot of
fire ruined presents from the house
Santy been and gone and our things
is burned up the children cried
Hammermeister began his weary
search for an open store Ho em
ployed the infrequent street cars for
long stretches but trudged mile after
mile in fruitless search Finally he
routed a storekeeper from his bed and
burdening himself with a new supply
trudged home to turn sorrow into joy
Hunting Christmas Ghosts
Ghost hunting bids fair to become
the rulintr passiou of Washington so
ciety The fortunate owners of a
peaked house roped with ivy and
densely surrounded by trees are issu
ing cards for a Christmas specter hunt
The Christmas ghost hunt is imported
from England where the houses are
ancient enough to harbor specters who
were there before William the Con
queror The comparative newness of
this country leads some to predict that
the fad over here will fail There are
exceptions however for even in Wash
ington there is one of the treasure
guarding ghosts an out and out bucca
neer of the Spanish main variety with
cocked hat gold lace ruffles high yel
low boots red jacket and an odor of
antiquity Those acquainted with him
say that he clinks his chains of stolen
doubloons Washington Star
A Christmas Sentiment
However sincere we mav be in our
efforts to spread Christmas cheer our
charity is none the less a testimony
to our sense of the fact that peace and
good will have not come upon the
earth Poverty and wretchedness are
not to be offset by yearly gifts of bas-
kets of food and outgrown clothes
We ought to make the spasmodic
kindliness of Christmas one of the
constant forces of our industrial world
Equality and fraternity are born not
of charity but of justice
Instead of commercializing Christ
mas we ought to Christmasize com-
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Stock bnyors are going through tho country
but most farmers are witch holding on to their
cattle
Charlie Nelsons spent Sunday with John
CI ark 8
Tho Shilz boys tiro shelling corn this week
Preaching at Zlon Hill Sunday at 3X p in
DAflBURY
Chnuncy Mcssnorhnd nnjoporntion performed
on his middle linger whilo at Kuubtis City Inst
week
MM Young and family and Rogers and
family Sundayed at Hen Amnns
Several from here left for Texas Monday
ovening
Mitch Young who has been in custom Kansas
for tho past few days returned homo Monday
Robert JlcWillinms of Indiauoln was over
Monday
Thcro will be a turkey shooting match hero
Saturday Everybody come and get a nice
Christmas turkey
B B Smiley arrived Tuesday with 10C0 sheep
which he intends to feed this winter
YV C Shockley left Monday for a few days
visit nt Sioux Falls Iowa
Alyin Dow and J L Sargent of Indianola
visited at the J E Noo home Sunday
O L Ovorshiko of Lebanon was in town ou
business Friday
Emmitt Ervin who has been in the sand hills
for tho past four months arrived homo Tuesday
Mrs Davo Boyer is on tho sick list this week
Miss Kate Ervin of Lebanon Sundayed with
tho homo folks
There has been considerable mischief going
on in these parts during tho last week
J J Ynrnnll tho section foreman purchased
a new thrce wheelor
The spostoflico inspector was here Tuesday
and Wednesday looking over this office and
establishing a rurul route
fp Question mtfSP
as to the H MIL
Superiority iPlr
f Baking Powder
Received Highest Award
Worlds Pore Food Expcsitioa
Chicago 1907
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REFEREES SALE
Bv virtue of an order issued from tho District I
a decree in an action wherein Minnie Luke is
plaintilt and Anna Loiini Herman C Luke
John Luke Clarence C Beckett and William
Beckett as Guardian of Clarence C Beckett a
I minor are defendants directed to the under
J signed as Referee I shall offer at public sale
aim sen to tne niKnesc Didder lor casli nt the
east front door of the court house in the City of
McCook Red Willow county Nebraska on the
4th day of January JC09 at the hour of One
oclock P M the following described real
estate to wit Lot Number One 1 in Block
Number Thirteen 13 and Lot Number Nino 9
in Block Number Twentv one fn nil in rh
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rirst aaaiiion 10 tne uiry ot McLook
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Dated this 2nd day of December K08
J F COkdeal Referee
Boyle Eldred Attorneys
ESP ZIREFEREESISALE
ZIn the DistrictlCourtCof Hed Willow county
Nebraska k ZIZZ -
Milton H Hammond plaintiff vs James O
Hammond Lily M Hammond Ada A Ham
mond Mary E Dutlon hoy Dutton Josephine
M Hammond and Arden H Purvis defendants
By virtue of an order issued from tho district
court of Red Willow county Nebraska under a
decree in an action wherein Milton H Ham
mond is plaintiff and James O Hammond
Liiy M Hammond Ada A Hammond Mary E
Dutton Roy Dutton Josephine M Hammond
and Arden H Purvis are defendants directed
to the undersipned as referee I shall offer at
public sale and sell to the hichest hidefor fnr
cash at tho east front door of the courthouse in
the City of McCook Red Willow county Ne
braska on the4th day of January 1009 at the
hour of One oclock P M the following de
scribed real estate to wit the Southeast
quarter of Section Eleven 11 Township Two
2 North of Ranee Thirty SO West in Red
Willow county Nebraska
Dated this 2nd day of December A D 1908
J S LnHEW Referee
John E helley Attorney
Public Sale
Having sold my farm and going east
I will sell nt public auction whore I
now live 8 miles northwest of McCook
and about 80 rods cast of tho Coleman
schoolhouso on
Wednesday Jan 6 09
commencing at 11 oclock a in tho
following proporty
Three Head of Horses 1 four-year-old
about 1100 lbs 1 bay horse about
II years old 1200 lbs 1 bay horse
about 12 years old 1000 lbs
Ten Head of Cattle J good milch
cows somo fresh now others will bo
in soon 1 heifer coming in soon somo
little calves
Five Head of Hogs
sows 1 male pig
4 good brood
Farm Implements 2 McCormiok
binders ono nearly now 1 gang plow
1 riding lister nearly new 1 riding and
and 1 walking cultivator 1 sod plow 1
good disc 1 threo soction harrow 1
horse stalk drill lwagon with rack 1
good Empiro cream separator household
goods and other articles too numerous
to mention About 20 tons of good cano
and some foddor
FREE LUNCH AT 1130
Terms S10 and undor cash on sums
oyer 810 a credit of 8 months will bo
given purchases to irivo bankable nanor
I drawing 10 percent interest from dato
I until paid 5 percont discount for cash
on sums over SH No proporty to bo re-
moveu untu settled lor
B TOBEN Owner
J HWoddell Auct F A Ponnell Clk
Double - strength Heinz vinegar
imitated by all equaled by none for
sale by Magner Stokes
ORDEIt OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR
APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR
In tho County Court of Red Willow County
iSebraska
State of Nebraska County of Red Willow ss
To the heirs and to nil persons interested in
the estate of George G Snoke deceased
On reading the petition of Samuel Snoko
praying that the administration of said estate
be granted to Donnld S Snoke as administrator
It is hereby ordered that you and all persons
interested in said matter mny and do appear
at tho county court to be held in and for said
county on thoaith day of December A D 1908
at nine o clock a in to show cause if any
there be why tho prayer of the petitioner should
not be granted and that notice of tho pendency
of said petition and that the hearing thereof bo
Kiven to all persons interested in said matter by
IlUDImhinir innv F Hc r1n ti r
a weekly newspaper printed in said county for
three successive weeks prior to said duy of
hearing
Witness my hand and seal of said court this
8th day of Deccmbor A D 1008
seal J CMooke County Judge
Boyle Eldrcd Attorneys
Court of Red Willow county Nebraska under ORDER OF HEARING ON PFTITTON FOR
APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR
Tii the C ounty Court of Eed Willow county
Nebiaskn
State of Nebraska County of Red Willow ss
Jo James G Wygant and Sarah E Van Wie
and to all persons interested in the estate of
Mary Ifabcock deceased
Onreading the petition of James G Wypant
prnyng that tho administration of said estate
bcKrantcdtoJ W Habcock as administrator
His hereby ordered that you mid 11 persons
interested in said matter may and do appear
at tho County Court to be held in nnd for said
county on the 20th day of December A D 1908
at One ocloek P M to show cause if any there
be why the prayer of the petitioner should not
be granted and that notice of the pendency of
said petition and that the hearing thereof be
given to all persons interested in said matter by
publishing a cony of this Order in the McCook
a weekly newspaper printed in said
county for three successho weeks prior to said
day of hearing
Witness my hand and seal of said court this
thdaj of December A D 1908
VscrAVli County Judge
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Royle Eldred Attorneys
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The State of Nebraska Red Willow county
ss In the County Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Isabelle Saund
ers Deceased
To the Creditors of said Estate
are neercDy nouiied that I will sit in the
saiu estate with a vmw tn thoi
oom m -cook 1 said County
on the 29th day of May 1909 at 1010 oclock A
Jv to rcccivo and examine all claims acainst
Off S1C
and allowance The tinio KmirHrl rr
entation of claims against said Estae is Six
JfSlths1fronthe28thday of November A D
iios and the time limited for paiment of debts
is Oneiear from said 28th day of November 19C8
Witness my hand and the seal of said County
Court this 21th day of November 19t
seai1 J c Moore County Judge
Royle Eldred attorneys 11-27-It
TAKE THE BLUE BELL LINE TO HEALTH
THEY MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A BLACKSMITH
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bLUL3ELL Stomach Tablets Diarrhoea
Croup Nerve Cough Hay Fever and Catarrh Blood
General Tome Bright Sunshine Heart Worm Kidney Headache Summer Complaint Soothins
Tablets for Children Liver Female Regulator or Quinsy Tablets
Sold by AMcflHLLEN McCook Nebraska
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That is the No of ONE of the best Lumber and Coal Concerns in a
No ONE town which is located on ONE East Street But if you cant
find it call phone No ONE when you will be informed that you can get
No ONE lumber No ONE coal No ONE service No ONE treatment
in fact No ONE first last and all the time
Bullard Lumber Co
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