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seven and ten button Gaiters
in various colors Also Misses
and Childrens Jersey Leggins
201 Main
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Mens Lace Boots good
quality 350
Mens warm lined Shoes
many different styles
ranging in prices all the
way from 150 to 250
One lot of Mens 450
and 500 dress Shoes
patent and kid will all
goat 300
Mens heavy work Shoes
best quality box calf and
kangaroo 1 50 to 250
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Your Personality
will he less attractive and charming when there is a noticeable taint of
the teeth The direct cause of it is frequently due to decayed teeth
This is a trifle that should bo given immediate attention for many reasons
besides making provisions for good teeth and to enjoy the use of real teeth
Particular and critical people are increasing the popularity of my operotions
and work It will please to have a talk with you about your teeth
Dr H J Pratt DentiSt offIce 0Yer McConnells drag store
ANNUAL BALL
Red Willow Lodge No S8t
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Wednesday Jan 20
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MAIN LINE EAST DEPaET
6 Central Time 1027 P M
500 a m
12 715 am
14 942 pm
16 400 a r
MAIN LINE WEST DEPAET
No I Mountain Time 950 A M
a 1142 pm
5 Arrives 835 p m
13 1025 A M
15 1217 AM
IMPERIAL LINE
No 176 arrives Mountain Time 503 p M
No 175departs 710 A M
Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars
seats free on through trains Tickets sold
and baggage 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 V Wakeley General
Passenger Agent Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
Con Brening and family have moved
to Denver
General Foreman Wiehe is at present
discharging the duties of roundhouse
foreman as well
Engineer and Mrs Will Archibald re
turned home last Friday night from
their visit east
W J Kelley of Balgonia Saskatche
wan Canada has been a guest of his
sister Mrs J G Inglis since the first
of last week
Luther Flint has so far recovered
from the operation performed upon him
for appendicitis as to be able to return
to his duties as night operator at A rap
ahoe Tuesday evening Bartley Inter
Ocean
Mrs Arthur Draper and two children
of Stamford were guests end of last
week of her cousins Messrs Shirley
and Loshbaugh of our city Mr Dra
per is operator at Stamford for the
Burlington
The B M agent at Orleans was in
vited at the point of a gun Monday
morning about 630 to turn over the
cash contained in the house About 25
was received from this pressing invita
tion but as to who received the money
is still a mystery Orleans Journal
THIRD
Agent G B Hire of Dickins has been
transferred to the agency at Madrid
Engineer J G Inglis was on passen
ger during the absence of Engineer
Archibald
Mr and Mrs W I Bass have moved
into the suite of rooms upstairs in the
Morlan block
Conductor Wilbur Fisk has been as
signed to the Orleans - St Francis
branch and will move down there soon
William Conyers who has been night
agent at Franklin for some time has
boen transferred to Traer Kansas as
agent and has moved there with his
family
Mr and Mrs Wm Archibald and
son Fred who had spent the holiday
season with friends in Chicago stop
ped off in Havelock enroute to their
home in McCook and were pleasantly
entertained by Mr and Mrs W F
Ackerman Times
In order to make room for our line of Spring Goods
which will begin to arrive in a short time we are
making some exceedingly low prices on all lace boots
warm lined shoes slippers and heavy winter shoes
We cant afford to carry over our winter goods
Ladies warm lined Shoes
in all latest styles and
lasts at 150
A large lot of Ladies fine
Shoes both patent and
kid all up-to-date lasts
in all sizes and widths
at from 150 to 250
A large variety of Boys
Shoes both for work and
dress at 150 to 175
Boys High
grade at
Cuts best
250
Misses and Childrens
School Shoes -- These
are all of most excellent
quality and are built for
wear During the sale
at from 125 to 200
These are genuine bargainsa look will convince you
of this The sale lasts through the month of Jan
uary Dont fail to get some of these good things
Yours for Bargains
Makes Grateful Acknowledgement
The boys of the McCook division
proved again about Christmas time
that -hey carry their hearts in the right
place and the recipient of their good
will makes acknowledgement of the
same in the following heartfelt expres
sion
Akron Colo January 9 1909
McCook Tribune
McCook Nebraska
Gentlemen
As I received a very handsome Christ
mas gift 8100 n gold from the McCook
division railroad boys and much of the
effort was made at McCook I wish to
express my thanks to them through the
columns of your paper and especially
wish to thank Dispatchers Kleven and
Forbes for the hand they had in it I
certainly appreciated this and will al
ways remember their kindness
If you will give this a space in your
columns I will be very thankful
Tours Truly
C E Sandberg
Engine 1339 went out of the backshop
on Thursday of this week
Engines 1032 1023 and If37 are in for
a general overhauling number 3
The officials accompanied the vice
president on his tour of inspection over
t lis division Tuesday
Conductor E M Cox was doing extra
passenger work first of the week and
Ryan had his car
No 70s engine Sunday morning
died at Rupert and another engine was
sent out to bring the train in
John Trout of the boiler gang receiv
ed an injury above the right eye this
week from an engine flue striking him
System coal cars are being temporarily
stored in the big yards on the west end
owing to tne crowded condition of the
Denver yards
Conductor A G King has taken a
60 day furlough and will visit a brother
in Cuba Carmoney has his run on pas
senger and Humphrey has Carmoneys
car
The 2tf03 which had her frame broken
in the Fort Morgan wreck of few weeks
ago is ieady to go into service soon after
her repaired frame arrives from Have
lock
Vice president Willards special pass
ed over this division Tuesday in charge
of Conductor McKenna The party
went from here to the Wymore division
via Red Cloud
Supt Weidenhamer of the Sterling
division visited briefly at headquarter
Sunday evening on his way home from
Galesburg where he was called to at
tend the funeral of his mother
THE SANCY DIAMOND
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Legend of Uuis de Berquem and
the Celebrated Gem
A NIGHT LAMP FOR A KING
Checkered Career of the Brilliant Stono
After the Death of Charles the Timid
l j Some Facts About the Invention of
Diamond Cutting
Lotiis de Berquem says tradition
-was a poor Jewelers workman but
he fell In love with the daughter of a
wealthy Jeweler This avaricious fa
ther would not give his daughter In
marriage to any man not possessed of
gold Louis having neither expecta
tions from relatives nor favor at
court sought to make his fortune He
had often heard the father of his be
loved remark that the man who discov
ered a method of cutting diamonds
would become very wealthy for up to
that time they knew nothing more
than to scrape off the gravel and the
diamond was loft In Us native slate
Neiher lime lire nor the mill could af
fect the diamond
After many Investigations and deep
thought Louis bethought himself that
iron is fashioned with steel which Is
only hardened Iron and It occurred to
him that perhaps the diamond would
yield to the diamond He made an
experiment which was at once crown
ed with success
A few days later lie presented him
sglf before the rhh jeweler with two
diamonds cutlnlo facets lie obtained
the hand he sought and amassed a
great fortune by his secret which he
divulged only after he had become
wealthy
King Charles the Timid was the
principal customer of Louis de Ber
quem The fastidious enemy of Louis
XI then possessed a large diamond
since become celebrated accounted
among the finest of precious stones
But this diamond was III shapen and j
the fires which it held burned in vain
Louis de Berquem cut and polished j
this stone and nothing could equal the
joy of Gharles the Timid when the
jeweler brought him the great dia
mond so glittering with light that it
lit up the darkness and this to such
an extent that the prince said It will
serve me as a night lamp Berquem
received 3000 ducats for his work I
As for the diamond this is the one
which was found in January 1177 on
the body of Charles the limid after j
the battle of Nancy A soldier picked
It up sold it for one gold piece to a
priest who in turn sold itfor three
pieces of gold to a merchant who took
It to the Duke of Florence
passed into the possession of the king
of Portugal He sold it for 70000
francs to one of the companions of
Henri III Nicholas de Ilarlny baron
of Snncy Since this time the first
lavge diamond to be cut is known as
hie Saney
This legend leads to other considera
tions of the cutting of diamonds as
cribed to Louis de Berquem at Brus
sels in 14G3
Hardly any one will assert boldly
that no diamonds were cut before that
date but it Is reasonable to suppose
that Louis de Berquem regulated cut
ting by arranging the facets
Long before the birth of Louis de
Berquem cutting was known in India
Even in Europe we find among the
treasures of the churches thick dia
monds cut into table and culet the
Tipper sides beaten into sections In
23G0 according to the Inventory of the
jewels of Louis duke of Anjou Is
found an entire series ofcut diamonds
There is mention of a flat diamond
with six sides of a heart shaped dia
mond of a diamond with eight sides
of a lozenge shaped diamond of a dia
mond pointed on four sides and of a
reliquary in which was set a diamond
tut in the shape of a shield
History informs us that 10 years
before the first work of Louis de Ier
quein there were at Pari at ilie
of the Orrnyerie several din mend
cutters
The Duke of Dir indy alter a fas
tidious repast livei at the Lt uvre to
the king and the Kreneli rwv in 1J03
offered to his ble jruerts eiven dia
monds eirthnnt d so be vrh 7SG
pieces iof gold the ivmey of ie pe
tiod
It is hardly i Te t siruse that
these were- un uhi all of
which jres to uctvjj nJiig
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was tiot o ered that the
been assassinated in the
forest of lole and through the care
of the priest had been buried in the
village cemetery Then the Baron de
Bmcy resolved that the diamond must
not he lost In fact they found it in
the stomach of the hapless faithful
servant who swallowed it at the mo
ment that he fell According to the
Inventory of 1791 the Sancy weighed
33 4 carats
It disappeared in 1792 to reappear In
Russia Its value is estimated at a
million francs Before the revolution
It was among the French crown jew
els New York World
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Clearing Sale
of Cloaks
Overcoats
Furs and other
Winter Goods
Now On
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Piano Bargains
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We have a few of the genuine
Schaeffer Pianos
which we are going -to offer at extremely
low prices during the next two weeks and
if you have been contemplating the pur
chase ol an instrument for your home in
the next year we will make it an object
for you to buy now Come in and let us
show you the instruments and hear the
priceand terms we will make to you
D W COLSON
HH 223jMain Avenue McCook Nebraska
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