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put you on easy street
You owe yourself the
protection a Savings Ac
count will afford you
If you are spending all
you earn it is unfair to
yourself and those who
may bo dependent on you
You have noticed tho
manner in which small
amounts expended count
up in a month a part of
such expenditures saved
will allow you to have an
account at this bank
Start with a dollar
have money in the bank
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made and still
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country in the world This is British
East Africa as the hunter knows it
C B Taylor in Everybodys
An Alibi
Th milkman stood before her nerv
ouslv twirling his hat in his hands
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Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Danbury has organized a commercial
club fashioned after the by laws and
constitution of the McCook Commercial
club with T E McDonald president
William Sandon vice president J L
Newman secretary H V Lord trea
surer
Politics have come to be quite a
game of selfishness and you scratch me
and Ill scratch you Upon this basis
tho present tariff revision seems to be
progressing in large degree Selfishness
and personal interest are not partisan
hence the Democrat having special int
erests to protect has no difficulty or
scruples in standing shoulder to shoul
der with the Republican of a similar
type Legislation for the best interests
of the most people is thus having an in
creasingly difficult task of accomplish
ment
THE LAND OF BIG GAME
British East Africa as It Appears to
the Hunter
A brown village of thatched huts
squatting In a trampled clearing of
the forest and backed by thickset trees
so closely laced with a living tapestry
of woven green that the aching tropic
sunlight can scarcely penetrate slim
naked blacks slipping like shadows
among the broad leaved bananas and
rubber trees staring furtively as your
bearers file slowly past them a lone
ly station far up or down river where
a haggard white man sits to receive
tribute in the name of his trading
company marks an outpost of civiliza
tion in this jungle land And through
and under it all are the fevered glare
of sunlight the ceaseless drowsy whis
per of the woods the hot dry scents
of the parched earth or If the rains
have come all the land about will lie
cloaked in steaming vapor the sultry
air as thick and humid as the air of a
greenhouse at home There you have
the Kongo as the white man knows It
the Kongo or the jungle of Uganda
But all of this Is only a part of what
we have chosen to call and to picture
as the dark continent
For there too is the desert widely
different in all its aspects from Kongo
land On the slope of the rising ground
that lifts from sea level at Mombasa
and climbs to nearly 8000 feet before
it drops again to the lesser level of
Victoria Nyanza is another vast waste
as typical of Africa as this jungle
country the desert as it is called the
plains of bush and grass Six months
of tin year from October to April
it lies half drowned under tropic rains
From April to Sepiember only occa
sional showers fall and tin wide pla
teau grills under tho staring sunlight
ail yoltJving in the glare Here upon
these uplands is found the great
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A BOWLDER BRIDGE
Jrotibly Piacd in Position by an An
cient Cloudburst
1 One of tho tnost remarkable freaks
or W1UU nnu erosion khowu in me
west Is to be found in one of the small
er side canyons of the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado river In Arizona
In a narrow gorge carved tllrough
centuries of flow of water and wind
driven sand down the little valley
there lies a huge bowlder as big as the
average house moving van seen on a
city street It is held up solely by
friction on the sides of the gorge and
is entirely free from any solid connec
tion with the sides of the sandstone
wails
Frdmithe sandy bed of the little
gorge to the rock is fully seventy five
feet The Indians who once roamed
over the Grand canyon country have
of course legends to account for the
location of the big round rock but as
a matter of fact it Is believed to have
rolled off the slope of a rocky and pre
cipitous mountain about Ave miles
distant from the canyon and to have
been picked up In the path of some
cloudburst years ago and rolled to Its
present resting place
The- stone hangs only by a small
projection on each side but it Is so
solid that It forms a convenient foot
bridge across the gorge over which the
pedestrian may take his way Kansas
City Journal
WATERPROOF FABRICS
Thero Are Several Methods by Which
1 They Are Treated
Fabrics are waterproofed by impreg
nating them with metallic salts by
coating them with oil grease and wax
by coating them with India rubber or
by treating them with ammoniacal so
lutions of copper The first process Is
applied to sailcloth The canvas is
Impregnated with alum or calcium
acetate and then immersed in a fixing
bath containing soap which forms in
soluble lime or alumina soap in the
cloth
The second process is used for rain
coats imitation leather etc The fab
ric passes between hot rollers and
then over a cylinder of wax etc
In the third process a solution of
India rubber in carbon disulphide
chloroform or other solvent is applied
This process is used for mackintoshes
and bathing caps and is applied to
thread
In the fourth process employed la
the manufacture of bookbindings and
Willesden canvas cotton cloth is run
through a solution of oxide of copper
in ammonia which dissolves the super
ficial layer and on evaporation leaves
it In the form of a uniform coating of
cellulose The process is completed by
passing tho cloth between rollers
There are still other processes but
these are the most important Scien
tific American
His Kindly Act
In a Sunday school class recently
tho teacher sought to impress upon the
small boys the virtue of kindly and
helpful deeds
Now said she let every boy here
try to do some kindness during the
week and next Sunday report what he
did
Next Sunday arrived and the teach
er proceeded to listen to stories of good
deeds done Finally she reached the
smallest boy In the class His age is
nine
Well Willie she said have you
done any kindness for any one any
thing really helpful during the week
Yesm
What- was it
I let another kid copy me rithmetic
lesson off me book in school
A Billion
Great Britain clings to its own nu
merical system and regards a billion
as a million times a million But
America differs a billion in the United
States being only a thousand millions
This is porhaps the only instance in
which a thing is bigger in the old
country than in the new One has to
go ouly a little way from England
to Calais to find the billion lessened
for France dignifies a thousand mil
lions with the name of billion They
are wasting a word in France in this
connection however inasmuch as
there is already a word milliard to
designate this number Chicago Record-Herald
Caterpillars
The green and yellow tints so fre
quently to be found in caterpillars are
stated to be due to coloring matter de
rived from their food and passed
through the blood of the spinners By
Impregnating leaves with artificial col
ors the experimenters caused some
species of caterpillars to produce silk
of bright orange yellow and fine rose
hues By the aid of the spectroscope
the presence and nature of colored pig
ments in the blood of the little crea
tures were established London Tat
ler
A Postscript
Wiilie aged five had delivered a
message from h3 mother to a lady
but did- not seem in a hurry to go
Being asked if there was anything else
his mother had bidden him say he
replied No maam only she said r
irasnt to ask you for any cake but if
you gave me any I was to take it and
thank you He got the cake
So she said sternly you have Information
come at last I where j0 au vcu Americans live
Yes madam You sent for me I
jjlquilTo lue European
believe lie replied Auout -1000000 of us live in New
-1 wished to tell you that I found ayorkV answered the cansUc American
minnow in the milk yesterday morn5aiul tne reSt of 11S in caves
ing Louisville Courier Journal
I am sorry madam but If the cows
will drink- from- the -brook instead - Always there is a black spoti our
from the trough I cannot neip it gungijine it is the shadow of our-
selves Carlyle
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MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Mrs H D Stewart visited in Linc
oln Wednesday
William Richardson was down from
the farm near Haigler Tuesday
Mis Viva Phelan has been visiting
in Alliance since last week her sister
Mrs Marks being ill
Miss Maude Vanderpool visited her
ancles Frank and Earl Calhoun last
veek in Cambridge
Miss Josephine Phelan has been
dsiting in Denver since last week guett
f her sister Mrs Gage
Mrs Mary A Whittaker is back
Otis Colorado and will make her
iome here for the present
Mrs H A Beale has been visiting
Natives in Lincoln this weekj going
own tothe capital city Sunday morn-
g last
MrsJ G Stokes departed Satur
fy morning on No 2 for Hamburg
Iowa on a visit to her sister Mrs Simp
son Fiunell
Mr and Mrs J H Grannis depart-
d Monday night for Texas to look
vera proposition in the Pecos Valley
vhere they may decide to locate
Hugh W Cole came out from Gene
seo Illinois last Thursday night on
business and to see old time friends in
the city his former home for a number
of years
L D Vanderhoof departed last Fri
day for Haigler to take up his resi
dence on a farm in Dundy county
having disposed of his home Lere to J
P Crouse
Mrs IiM Copeland was the guest
of her daughter Mrs J G Schobel
earlyjjin theweek coming up from
Minden last Saturday evening and re
turned home Tuesday morning
G W Snider came down from Ogal
alla close of last week on some matters
of business driving over to Madrid from
his home and coming here via Holdrege
by train He is considering building a
home in our city and making his future
home here
Alex F Drebert returned to the city
r ljse of last week to look after his
merchantile interests here He expects
Mrs Drebert to join him here in about
wo weeks when they will go to house
Keeping in the Peterson cottage on
mrth Main avenue
Mrs Len Bennett departed Monday
night for Quincy Illinois to join her
husband who is playing in the Quincy
base ball team this season Miss Alice
Bradbury succeeds Mrs Bennett in the
water companys office where she has
been a confidential employe for years
Eev W J Kirwin O M I of St
Patricks Catholic church returned on
Inst Fridiiy nieht from his trip to Rome
cveiitig tho past two monlhp a notable
j mrnpy and visit His re urn is
source of much rratifivafion to t lie pr
ishioners of St Patrick where his pop-
ularity increases with his rppidence
amongst them
Mn and Mrs Mosk Colfer rnnw
down fromDenver close of last week
tospend some time in this part of the
state for the Jt Lefit of Mrs Colfers
health she recently having undprgone
a serions operation They will visitin
Franklin county and-other-places before
returning to Denver-
ANY TIME YOU FEEL LIKE MAKING
a test of our claims that we offer more value for
your money m clothes than any other store we k
like having it made the more you know about clothes the better for us
yH Vio InnUnn nvrm nJ unt nhnnso hero first or last VOull COVfie here pi
last and buy some of our PRINCETON Clothes Best Tailored
Mrs C L FAHNEiTOCK left close
of last weekiforjIllinois on a visit
Mr Charifs Arnold of Dps Moines
is a city visitor guest of Miss Pearl
Beatty
Miss Winnie BROWNfreturned Tues
day night from a weeks cvisit with
friends in Denver
Dr J A Coifer is attending the
meeting of the Nebraska Dental society
in Lincoln this week
Mrs Rebecca Stillman visited
friends in Stratton last week returning
home Wee ne day night j
C A Rodoerp clerk of district court
who has been in Omaha for several
weeks arrived home on Tuesday night
Mrs W G Jones and Vivian went
down to Lincoln last Friday to attend
the wedding of Jtheir relative Miss Chris
tiansen
Mrs G W Norris attended the
state gathering of the Pythian Sister
hood in Hastings last week represent
ing the newly organized lodge of our
city
W E Bower came down from Den
ver last Sunday morning and spent
the week here on business matters and
visiting members of his family He re
turned to Denver yesterday
Dr C C Copeland and two young
sons were over from Bpaver City Sun
day guests of his sister Mrs J G
Schobel Thev returned home on Mon
day morning in his auto
Mrs C D Ritchie and Miss Edna
Waite went down fo Lincoln Wednes
day morning on No 2 to visit and par
ticipate in some of the sorcrity events of
the University commencement period
Dr E R Sisson of Grnenfield Indi
ana and daughter Mabel arrived in the
city last Friday on a visit to his cousin
Mrs J G Schobel The doctor de
parted Monday night for home but
Miss Mabel will spend her vacation
here
Mr and Mrs M L Rem and Mr
and Mrs William Snare of our city in
dulged in a flying trip to Oberlin Kas
Thursday and Friday of last week in
their auto -stopping over night with
Thomas Ruby They made the return
trip about 40 miles in two hours
Mrs W G Dutton arrived home
first of the week from the Department
Convention of the Ladies of the G A
R held in York last week The con
vention adopted her for a candidate on
the Council of Administration in the
National Convention to be held in Salt
Lake City in August
COURT HOUSE NEWS
COUNT COURT
Licenses to marry issued by the coun
ty judge since our last report
Arthur Drew 33 and Livonia Cole
40 both of Laird Colorado
Legal Blanks Here
This office carries all kinds of legal
blank forms and makes special blanks
to order promptly awl nninately
If Your Tastes Are
too fine for letter prets printing if they
demand engraving and steel die em
bossing come and get our figures on
3Uch work Dont send a way or tive
your order to sume traveling shark
that is dont do it before you have seen
our tttm pita of such work f l gotten
our figures
Do
rst or
Well show you that in this store you can get more
real value for 1 0 to 25 than you ever believed
possible a wonderful demonstration of unusual
value at these prices Theres nothing like it in town real merit in fabrics m
linings in insides smart models best colors and patterns all the latest
styles in this seasons PRINCETON Suits Best Tailored
THIS store ought to be your headquarters for underwear as we are ex
clusive agents in this city for the celebrated MUNSING Union Suits and
our stock is now complete Priced 125 to 300
YOU will come here for your hats also if quality counts
with you An especially fine line of TIGER Hats at
300 All shapes and styles Stetsons at 500
Others at 200 250 300 350 and 500
EVERY week brings new patterns ii the
celebrated IDE Shirt and we recom
mend the Ide as the Best Tailored
Shirt that you can buy
NEW Neckwear constantly arriving Ask to see our new stripes in summer ties
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PRINCETON Clothes Best Tailored MUNSING Underwear IDE Shirts TIGER
Hats SIGN Ah Union Made Overalls and Work Shirts
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jfej of difference to the value of lumber We put quality ill a
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g house or barn you want to build so that you can El
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g Call in and get our Bungalow Book with pictures H
HI of homes so cosy that it is a pleasure to look it over IH i
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The Insurance Safety Stoves
The INSURANCE is
the only stove in which pro
vision is made to prevent
the escape of gasoline should
the burner be accidentally
blown out or left open It is
Safe Simple
Durable Economical
Examine this stove before you buy and have all its points
explained to you See it in operation and we feel positive
uu n uC atubucu mac me INSURANCE is all
I claimed for it and the only stove to
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