i
The Successful
Farmer
of today who does not possess
a bank account is an excep
tion
To no one is a checking ac
count more of a luxury It
solves the problem of always
having his money at hand of
making exact chango and re
ceiving a receipt in return for
th money paid
Some men even to this day
ersist Jn carrying a roll of
Ijer
currency on their persons
fchey are the ones we usually
read of in the papers as hav
ing b0en held up and rob
tbed
i A bank account is the best
burglary insurance you can
have
t This bank wants your busi
ness we will appreciate it
we prove it
The
First
National
Bank of Mccook
By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Bartley has issued an edict against
the gamblers of that burg to move on
It is related that a Maywood business
man got religion so vitally recently
that he destroyed his stock of tobacco
on hand by fire
Science das again been approved as
exact in Bpots at least A TreDton pup
and a headache specific articulated the
other day and the dog undertaker did
the rest
Uncle Sams post graduate school
the secretaryship of the treasury is
still doing business at the old stand
Leslie M Shaw is to leave Iowa soon
and go to Philadelphia to head a big
trust company
It is not denied that the present prim
ary law needs some amending But the
party responsible for its repeal will be
guilty of a backward step in politics of
the better sort and will eventually be
held responsible for such retrogression
Bartley and Indianola are in a mix
up over telephone business which
threatens dire results The Bartley
concern wants to connect their line with
the Ash Creek Mutual and Indianola
objects The Bartley Mutual and the
Havana people better get together on
this proposition
Senator La Follette is quite sure to
suffer no serious loss of popularity or
prestige with the western American at
least on account of the recent vulgar
coarse and contemptible assault made
upon him in the United States senate
by the big duffer from PennsylvaniaPen
rose of the infamous Matt Quay succes
sion and Gallinger the Boston Maine
railroad representative
One of the items which should come
off the tariff schedule is assuredly lum
ber If the duty cannot be removed
from lumber in the name of high heaven
what item can be taken off Perhaps
no other industry can so well stand on
its own feet unless it be the oil busi
ness From S2 to 350 per thousand is
nov being unjustly and unnecessarily
exacted from the people in this busi
ness Congress should cut it out
The tremendous influence now being
brought to bear in congress by the larg
est paid lobby in America should not
obtain If you are interested in thi3
measure write Hon Sereno E Payne
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee Washington D C telling him
that you favor the removal of the duty
Every western farmer ought to be inter
ested in this item
Childrens Rompers
just received in both the bloomer style
and the straight long pants Regular
price everywhere for similar goods is
50c Our price only 39c The Thomp
son D G Co Tangible undisputable
values
The Showing
of our new embroideries and laces is
causing the interest we predicted and
the outfitting is going merrily on Get
your share The Thompson D G Co
Actual cash values
The Ducks are Coming
in and you will find our stock of guns
and ammunition complete McCook
Hardware Co
McCOOK WILL HAYE THE HONOlt
Will Entertain the S W Nebraska
Educational Association April 123
McCook is to have the honor of enter
taining the Southwestern Nebraska Ed
uoationnl Association during the first
week of April This is one of the bft
educational meetings of the state Last
year the enrollment reached 600 and it
is desired to make the 19C0 meeting the
largest in the history of the association
The territory from which the member
ship and attendance will come includes
eight or ten of the counties of South
western Nebrafcka On account of the
distance from Lincoln many of the
teachers in this part of the state do not
attend the state meeting but prefer to
go to the district association instead
The annual district meeting therefore is
an important teachers meeting for this
part of the state
It is customary for the city which en
tertains the association to help defray
the expenses of the meeting by furnish
ing places to bold meeting advertising
providing places for lodging Instead of
taking up subscriptions as is usually
done the commercial club will put on
sale a limited number of membership
tickets at 50 cents each These tickets
will adrriit the bearers to all meetings
of the association including the three
special evening lectures It is very
probable that the last evening will be a
musical number instead of a lecture
All these three will be entertainments
of special merit
The most important duty that Mc
Cook will owe to the meeting will be the
matter of furnishing lodging to the
visiting teachers As a city we are well
supplied with first class hotels restaur
ants and eating houses Counting on
at least 400 visitors it will be necessary
for for some little effort to provide room
ing accommodations for the teachers
for three days AH citizens who will
take teachers should telephone II C
Clapp No 06 Those who do not have
phones should step into Mr Clapus
store and give in their namea
Tribune Is All Printed in McCook
You will find local or county news of
interest on each of the eight pages of
this paper every week It is all printed
at home No patent print Read all
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Mrs T H Colling has moved to
Cheyenne Wyoming
Mr and Mrs E J Kates were up
from Lincoln over Sunday
Miss Mary Powers visited the home
folks over Sunday in Trenton
Dick Logan treasurer of Frontier
county was in the city Sunday evening
T A Munson came down from Chase
county last week on a visit to McCook
friends
Mrs C W Britt arrived home last
Saturday evening on No 5 from a short
visit east
Mrs F M Kimmell arrived home
last Saturday night from her visit in
Aurorat this state
R E Divine and family expected to
leave Tuesday of this week for their
new home near Palisade
J T Hughes of Edgar was in town
Thursday looking after his land inter
ests in the vicinity of this city
Mrs Omar Doling formerly of our
city now of Oklahoma is visiting her
parents Mr and Mrs E B Smith in
Red Cloud
Mr and Mrs W B Whittaker
who have been visiting in Detroit
Michigan for the past few weeks ar
rived home Tuesday night
Mrs Hacker the eldest sister of
Mrs Z L Kay of our city died sudden
ly in Joplin Monday and Mrs Kay left
on 14 that night for Joplin
Mrs H P Sutton is in Omaha call
ed there by the serious illness of her
sisters husband Frank Boyd cashier
of the Omaha National Bank
Miss Chloe Davis of our city will as
sist Mrs Mahoney of Culbertson in the
latters millinery store this spring re
cently accompanying Mrs Mahoney to
Denver
iurs jli u iyay was summoned to
Joplin Missouri Sunday night on train
14 by the death of an elder sister who
was suddenly taken away by a stroke of
paralysis
James Malen of Mascot was in the
city Wednesday He expects soon to
depart for the San Luis valley Colora
do to farm coming year
Mrs FW Bosworth and sister Mrs
Ford came in from the east Thursday
via Orleans where they visited Mrs H
M Tyler briefly and are guests of Mrs
Robert Gunn
Nelson Rantz came in from McCook
the first of the week Evertson Foe
was down from McCook early part of
the week Fred Bortfelt and family
of McCook are visiting here Red Cloud
Argus
J M Henderson has resigned the
office of commander of J K Barnes
post of this city His resignation has
been accepted to be effective on March
6th when his successor William Long
will be installed into office
Mr and Mrs B M Frees departed
westward Sunday on No 13 affor
spending most of the week here and in
this vicinity of the state on his annual
auditing trip They will later proceed
on to California for a pleasure visit
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Keep It Plaitlo by Not Overeating a
You Grow Old l
Up to a certain ago the brain n
mains plastic enough so that If an In
jury occurs to the thought brnln tbe
person can begin over again andcre
ate new knowledge centers in the other
hemisphere
This has happened in many cases
where young people have lost certain
powers or faculties by cerebral lesions
and have afterward recovered tbese
faculties by developing new centers lu
the other braiu It rarely happens
after the age of forty five and the rea
son Is because most persons after pass
ing that age soon clog their brains
with calcareous matter by overeating
and destroy the plasticity of their
brains by filling them with food waste
If all people past the age of forty
five would live on twelve ounces or
less of solid food per day we should
soon find that one may receive new
Ideas as readily at seventy five as at
fifteen You cannot do it however If
your brain is a hardened mass of
waste matter If you overeat you will
be sot in your ways and a has been
at fifty Keep your phonograph rec
ords soft and receptive Nautilus
A STAGE VILLAIN
His Reputation Clung to Him Outside
the Theater
An actor in a small company was
unable one night to get accommoda
tion at the only hotel in an English
town it is said because its propriptor
a remarkably slow going person for
such a place recognized him as the
villain in the melodrama who had
stoken a cash box set fire to a house
killed a detective damaged a race
horse and betrayed the heros sister
But something like this really did
happen to George Scott manager of
the Alhambra In London In his
younger days Mr Scott was a stage
villain of the deepest dye and one of
his favorite parts was that of the
wicked Levison in East Lynne
After playing the character a few
nights in Blackpool he -had occasion
for wishing to change his lodgings
and knocking at the door of a house
in the next street was greeted by the
good lady who opened it with a shriek
and the subsequent exclamation
What Its Levison the dirty vil
lain Ye cant ave rooms in my
ouse -Get out or 111 call the peiiice
London M A P
Steel Pen Helps Forgers
The crime of forgery has been facili
tated and increased by the modern in
troduction of metallic pens gold and
steel says a writer in the Indianapolis
News The old fashioned quill pen was
smooth and pleasant to vrite with
though it sometimes balked and sput
tered but it did not lend itself to skill
ful imitations as easily as the metallic
pen does The crime of forgery doubt
less has been promoted by the almost
universal education of modern times
In an age when everybody writesjand
when many are skillful penmen forger
ies are much more frequent than they
were centuries ago when the person
who could handle a pen was an excep
tion Many modern criminals make a
living by committing forgeries victim
izing hotels banks capitalists and busi
ness men generally
Domestic Economy
Hey mon exclaimed the braw
bonnie north countryman thrift is a
wunnerful thing
Yes replied his English traveling
companion Youre right there Now
I gave my wife a ten pound note to
manage on last time I was away and
would you believe itV instead of ex
ceeding it she saved nearly a sover
eign out of it to buy herself a hat
Thats nowt replied the Scotsman
My wife gives the kids hapennies
apiece to go to bed supperless when
theyre asleep she takes the hapen
nies off on em ageean and then she
makes em do wiout ouy breakfasts
for losin em Hey mon thats
thrift London Scraps
The Mendicant
There are those who ascribe the
word mendicant to the silly appella
tion put forth as a conundrum mean
ing a poor wretch beyond the power of
mending But something very close to
the term was in use as long ago as
when Chaucer wrote his Canterbury
Tales In the Sompnoures Tale
this occurs
Therefore we mendiants we sely freres
Ben wedded to poverte and continence
To charitee humblesse and abstinence
etc
The sompnoure of Chaucer was of
course a summoner or apparitor and
a person of low estate and here we
have it is believed the origin of the
word which came Into common em
ployment later
How About a Good Back View
Auntie Liz had a hard time hav
THE SHIPWRECKER
Hlo Lfo Ms do Up cf Hcrdohlpa Ad
ventures and Accldonto
The careor of the Bhlpwrecker con
sists of a serlea of hardships and ad
ventures and accidents and narrow es
capes from the first day he enlists
with a big wrecking company up to
the time he is brought ashore from
the grim ship he calls home crippled
or fatally injured Of all the profes
sions that demand heavy toll of hu
man life none noteven mining or
powder making is as dangerous as
the one of these wreckers Every year
these daring men who brave storm and
wave and tempest to save the stranded
liner to raise the sunken ocean grey
hound to rescue the ship impaled upon
rocks and if nothing else to salve
what valuable cargo njay be removed
from helpless wrecks meet death by
the score Many of them exposed of
ten for days and nights to the icy
blasts of winter seas to driving bliz
zards and to drenching storms that
bite to the marrow succumb to pneu
monia Others at work on the pitch
ing tossing barges have legs or arms
shattered during the risky operations
of removing masts or of slinging
wrecking pumps or other castings that
weigh tons Others have hands or
feet so dreadfully frozen that these
must be amputated and still others
are wiped out of existence after suf
fering hours of untold agony and ex
posure before the eyes of their helpless
comrades Appletons Magazine
we can walk
but even if I
game there i
somebody -walking
ii -
consent to
seems to me
a device for
ing her picture taken today said her than the
nephew who had just opened a photo- j where
graphic studio and had very cour
teously asked his aunt to come and
pose for a new picture
Why what was the trouble asked
his brother
Well you see when I told her to
look pleasant she didnt look natural
and when I told her to look natural
she didnt look pleasant Ladle
Home Journal
Not a Romance
Dear heart she murmured
Only 20 cents a pound explained
the butcher
I think Ill take some liver
Louisville Courier Journal
Let no man presume to give advice
to others who has not first given good
counsel to himself Seneca
HICCOUGHS
l Simple Treatment by Which
They
May Be Cured
Did you ever take nine swallows of
water to cure the hiccoughs Do you
remember the time some one scared
the hiccoughs away by telling you of
a whipping due for some meanness
Well science has been studying hic
coughs and caught the hiccoughs by
the nape of the neck The nine
swallows of water had a little science
In it and so did the scare cure The
scientific hiccough cure consists in
pressing down to numbness the nerve
that connects the stomach heart lungs
and brain the pneumogastric nerve
The pressure partially and locally
paralyzes this nerve and of necessity
the hiccoughing must cease
Have the hiccoughing patient sit
down and be at ease with the muscles
of the neck relaxed as much as possi
ble Grasp both sides of the neck
somewhat toward the back part and
press down steadily and as hard as the
subject may permit for about one min
ute having the patient work the head
from side to side Within about one
minute the nerve will be numbed and
rested and the spasmodic motion will
cease Tt may require longer pressure
in some cases but the result is sure if
patience is maintained Ohio State
Journal
A Thirteenth Century Drink
Thirteenth century tastes in food
had few limitations Besides the fowl
of Africa and the rare gadwit of
Ionia mentioned by Fitzstephen
gourmets in the time of King John
used to regale themselves on herons
cranes crows storks cormorants and
bitterns Some would wash their
meals down with wine but the ma
jority drank mead or metheglin Mead
according to Ilolinshed Avas only the
washing of the combs after the honey
had been taken from them and so poor
a beverage that it had to be spiced
peppered or made palatable with
sweetbrier or thyme But metheglin
contained one hundredweight of honey
to twenty four gallons of water and
must have been much more intoxicat
ing than the strongest old ale of the
present day London Chronicle
Calling the Deaf
To waken a deaf person who wishes
to be called at a certain time in the
morning is about the hardest proposi
tion a hotel -clerk runs up against
said a member of that fraternity To
ring the telephone is useless l jiusp
the man cant hear Knocking fT the
same reason is fitile Now an 1 tV
a guest who has lost his he ring ug
gests that he le ve his d or i s
ighr in and sha e hi i
does ipar to le Vnl
iiny eh t -
s th u our lve
i th it we Tt
i ie expedier It
l hi wh ran pitent
waking tht de if is sure-
of fame and foiiime not to mention t In
gratitude of I he brut ierhco1 of hotel
clerks Eelai e
To Scve the Tsblccloth
Nothing is iuiro proing to the
careful housewife than to have a per
fectly liberally be
spattered vith gravy the first time it
is used Gt a large table
to ma tell the if possible
and pie o r white oilcloth an
inch shortoi and an inch narrower
nankin rhi e rio oilcloth
the meat dish will stand and
spread the napkin over it The gravy
cannot penetrate through the oilcloth
Thus there is a considerable saving in
the washing bill
How It Looked
I think you ought to turn the lights
tip a iirtle when your beau comes
said the boy who is beginning to use
big words to his older sister I
wouldnt sit in the dim light if I were
you It looks too conspicuous New
York Press
Why
The Real Reason
dont you go down
Mill
street
Well youjee on one side of it lives
my tailor and on the other side my
shoemaker while canal runs through
the middle Meggendorfer Blatter
SOHE INTERESTING FIGURES
affairs just now and
exhibited incounty
There 1 more or less interest being
b
to public attention which are illuminating
some figures arejboing brought
comparison as between the years 1908 and 1907 For instance 1NrEEAHE on
ICO8 197 ECBBASB
VVUjmON
D I x ai 070 B74 99 8 88561081 109126 118
fl Wo19 IP
Total3 8313771693 206342100 8107422598
019 85 100 022 mills
County and state levies
Again the total amount of levies of 1908 and 1907 with increase or decrease
reveals the following figures in total from the several funds
and for 1907 was SU833094 or an increase
The total levy for 1908 is 815834158
total it is disclosed that these
crease of 83990064 Condensing these figures
taxes are levied and controlled as follows
Taxes levied and controlled by the state 8 1963338 S 1448051 S 515287
Taxes levied and controlled by the county
commissioners iUIOu
Taxes levied and controlled by tho people
through road overseers school elec
tions voting school and city bonds 2o13161
city and village tax 10231308 7688147
Totals 815834158 11838094 3996064
If tho reader will take time to consider theso figures it will appear to him
by the use of the simplest arithmetic that tho people themselves have voted
these taxes on themselves for the most part over two thirds of tho total
There are other interesting figures available too For instance there are
country precincts in this county in which the railroad pays over half tho total
taxes of the precinct We do not mean by this that tho railroad pays too much
butassuredlyjthe other fellows are not paying their full share
Closed Last Sunday Evening Appreciated Patronage
A successful Episcopal mission closed Having disposed of my business to
here last Sunday evening three Messas Rodgers Modrell I want first
ces being hold during the day Rev J of all to express to the people of McCook
Mr Hayes the missioner from Trinity and vicinity my keen appreciation of
church Lincoln is an able and the liberal patronage accorded mo dur
plished preacher of the New England mg the years I have been in the meat
type He addressed increasing goodly business in this city and in the next
andiences during his stay here Sunday instance to express the hope and wish
services being held in the Advent that my successors Messrs Rodgers
church to better accommodate the hear- Modrell may be given as generous sup
ing port by all my old friends and that
Sharpies Tubular and
Blue Bell cream harvesters Two of
the best cream separators you cannot
make an investment that will pny you
more profit than one of these at the
McCook Hardware Co
High School Assembly
TKq Fnllnminn nrnrrrnm wua nninvpfl fit I inrr
Eclipse Wind Mills Have
few equals then we have the Dempster
open mill which is such a favorite in
4 liir nnunf r i fc nnn v t thnni Vial l FT I
A NEW FIRM
at an Old Stand
i many new patrons may bo secured by
them Thank you
D C Marsh
McCook Neb Feb 26th 1909
Not Heretofore
have we offered such handsomely de
signed and trimmed dress skirts and
such irresistible waists as are now
Do yourself the justice of looking
the high school essembly this morning us through The Thompson D GGo
Piano duet
Helen ochwab I
Recitation Mable Randel White Muslin Underskirts
Vocalsolo Alma Wpidenhamor Our new line is now open and is an
Select ion High School Boys Glee Club aI1tsar a9aortnient containing more
beautiful styles than ever before Prices
from 65c to 250
G Co
The Thompson D
by the recent storms McCook i BEGGS CHERRY COUGH
rdware Co SYRUP cures coughs and colds
WE ENJOY FIGURING A BILL
Its natural for us all to want themost and thojbest our money
will buy But when you buy a bill of lumber without getting an
estimate from us how do you know that you are getting the best
bargain that is possible for you tojget You simply cant tell a
thing about it You dont know whether youre losing money
or not The best way is to always let us make you an estimate
on what you want We have complete stocks of everything and
years of experience along selling and building lines that we are
willing to give you the benefit of
We are more portly than the above picture shows us but just
as keen after your business right now as when wo posed for the
above picture
Stansberry Lumber Company
We wish to make known to the people of McCook
and vicinity that we have purchased the DC Marsh
Meat Market All we wish to add at this time is
thatwe shall make it our earnest and utmost effort
to maintain the present high character of the market
for the best of everything in season at the very low
est cash price We wish the continuance of your
patronage and shall endeavor to merit your con
fidence and trade
RODGERS MODRELL
at Marshs Old Stand
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