i HWelJ RED WILLOW The rain last week was disastrous to young chickens as it Hooded the level ground One neighbor lost 80 others in less numbers Miss Hatcher and her friend had an unpleasant experience when going to McCook they got beyond their depth in the overfiowed bottom Farmers have been kept busy repair ing fences and replanting corn that were washed out by the heavy rain 44 inches fell here House cleaning is about over but dust is as bad as ever Lewis Elmer and family were callers at Owens Longneckers the middle of the week Ben King and family visited at Lewis Longneckers the first of the week Mr and Mrs Vance and little boy were Saturday and Sunday visitors at Mrs Sawyers Dora Sawyer helped Mrs Lewis Longnecker clean house last week M r Hoagland and family were at his brother Sams on Sunday Mr Adams of Bethany Nebraska was in this community last week solicit in funds for the endowment of Jotner BOX ELDER Mr and Mrs C L Rubottom return ed Saturday night from their visit at Trenton Mrs D B Doyle Jr and children and Miss Lillian went to May wood Saturday Mrs J K Gordon and children have moved out to the farm to spend the summer Gussie Gordon had the misfortune to get his hand caught in the wheel of the cream separator Saturday F G Lytle commenced work on his new bouse Monday George Younger is the carpenter Hiring teachers seems to be the order of the day in this vicinity We had a number of nice showers Monday A W Campbell attended Memorial services in McCook Monday Mrs F G Lytle and children return ed Saturday from their visit at Alma Frank had a house already for them when tbey arrived a number of the women had helped him to arrange the furniture so all Mrs Lytle had to do was to step in and go to work t NEVER FAILS The automobile livery in south western Nebraska that always nets there and hack Trips day or niht anywhere Prices reas onable D G DIVINE Phone 166 - i Can be found at 104 WCWOK neu fief Info BusinessiorYourseK A BUCK CEMENT BLOCK MACHINE will mak you money The BUCK is the only two piece seii Dinumg seiriutt in g water proof frost proof sani tary drv air block made Takes less material and is madequicker than any other block Write to day and let us tell you all about it nd how jon can tntko from Ji5ooto 5io 00 evorr day that you work Eichi ftrrrlfbt in ech county Gel In firtt Interlock Block Machine Co CltyOfflce 24th and Paul St OMAHA NEB BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES disease with Pure Blood sajggsfssisK52sei2eBasSpflS5s Here we are a An old acquaintance back Just as happy just as snappy just as gingery just as enticing MARIUN D C Boyer of Danbury was in town Saturday and took out a new top buggy to drive on route No 2 out of Danbury which started June 1st for which he is carrier The ball game between our home team and Bethel Kas Friday was a victory for the home team Mis Ethel Redfern closed a success ful 8 months school Friday with a big dinner and a programme in the grove which was well attended in spite of the hiyh wind P H Kilzer real estate man of Leba non was in town between trains b day We had several fine showers of dust the past week but were blessed with several light showers of rain Monday and Tuesday amounting to about of an inch Our ball team went to Danbury Sat urday afternoon to play the Danbury team The score at the eleventh inning was a tie which shows pretty good for our boys Ktweral from Danbury attended the exercises and the ball game here Tues day Several from here attended the ball game in Danbury Saturday afternoon H A Bull a former resident of Fair view was in town Friday shaking hands with old friends Mrs Sena Hartzell Wallace nation al lecturer and organizer of the W C T U- was in town from Saturday until Tuesday S H Stilgebouer and family visited at the Weyeneth home west of town Sunday R S Sanders left first of last week for Bussy Iowa to visit friends and relatives for a few weeks A J Greer was a Kansas City St Joe and Lincoln business visitor last week A M Shorey was in the sick list the past two weeks but is slowly improv ing Stella Weyeneth arrived here Mon day from York Neb to spend the va vation with her folks west of town The W C T U met at the Nilsson home Monday A very interesting meeting was had and several topics dis cussed GERVER Rov Tinker of Cedar Bluffs Kansas preached for us Sunday Miss Ethel Lant left Monday for Idaho to visit her sister with the possi bility of making her home there Her brother from Arcadia Neb will accompany her Ralph Sigwing is staying with his uncle Will for awhile Frank Hahn had another dance Sat urday night Don Thompson is hilarious since that boy arrived This makes two helpers for Don and none for his wife Some man dont seem to realize that their wives need help R F I NO 1 John Nahr of Sedgwick Colorado is down on a visit County Assessor and Mrs T A Ends- ley were guests of Mr and Mrs W P Broomfield Sunday Fred and Tillie Boll of School Creek are visiting in the Ash Creek neighbor hood this week Mrs Carl Schutz is visiting down in Fillmore county Picture framing The Ideal Store necir f 11 i I AlU mU q4o j I GINGER SNAPS ggpsjy II Jf Package J r U 11 NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY f fL DANBURY Gooree Fillet of Atwood was down Tuesday on professional business Heth and Madeline McDonald enme home Friday from Beaver City where they have been going to school this winter Clifford Naden was over from Mc Cook Saturday for a short visit with relatives and friends There were about forty eight young men and women over from Oberlin Sat urday to see the ball game between Oberiiu aud Daubury and to witness the play entitled The Toast Master given by the seniors of Oberlin hiah school Clyde Metcalf was over from Oberlin Saturday on a business trip Sunday was Deeoratbu day and Monday they gave the servi es here in the church The ball yame Saturday between Oberlin and Danbury was very interest- ing and would have been more eou the wind and dirt had not blown so but the game was eleven scores each up to eleventh inning when there was an awful dirt storm coming and they called the game off Ben Smiley and Jas Dolph dug out sis coyotes the other day Mrs Ben Smiley Omen and Lucy left for a visit with lieudershots at Cheyenne Wyoming The play from Beaver City entitled The Girls Secret given by the seniors of Beaver City was given Tues day night Bertha Doud is reported as being on the sick list this week and Clarence Young is taking her place in the News office We have had one of the finest rains for years this week It has rained slowly for two or three days Our new route No 2 started Tues day morning for the firdt time Allen E Boyer is putting up a nice windmill bv his residence INDIAN0LA A Lincoln Kirk gave one of his enter tainments Tuesday evening to a small crowd Memorial day was observed here by music and speeches Mrs Calhoun of Cambridge is visit ing her parents Mrand MrsW II Allen this week The First nine went down to Arapa hoe Monday ana played ball the score beine 13 to 1 in favor ol Arapahoe Miss Fox left Monday for Lincoln where she will attend school during the summer Fred Mann left Mondayfor Shickley where he will work for awhile The Rough Riders and the Scrubs played a very exciting game of base ball Monday the score being 8 to 7 in favor of the Scrubs Nora and Ethel Silvernail left Mon day morning for Lincoln where they will attend school this summer The play put on by local talent Thursday entitled Female Mnsonry dreT quite a crowd out although the weather was very disagreeable Mrs Chas Pawson of Bartley spent Mondav with her brother J C Puckett To avoid serious results take Foleys Kidney Remedy at the first sign of kid ney or bladder disorder such as back ache urinary irregularities exhaustion and you will soon be well Commence taking Foleys Kidney Remedy today BARTLEY Otto Webber and wife returned from eastern paat of the state Thursday evening Mrs I W Stevens of Fnirtnont ib here visiting her daughter Mrs Percy Oatlott Frank Purvis little daughter is here staying with Mrs S W Clark while Mrs Purvis in in Hastings taking medi cal treatment Evert Bechtol who has been working in Mr Corbins barber shop went to McCook last wenk where ho iseugHged in a ouruer anup The graduating oArcises at the opera house Thursday evening last week were the most interesting over had here Nine ladies and three gentlemen of the Bartley high school received their di ioniHS Rev C W Meyers of Hast ings marie the finest address wo have henrd in Bartioy His subject was The man that can and bo made good from beginning to end roceiving ap plause ot the largo audience Nearly 100 extra chairs were brought in and they with all the opera chairs were full many standing and some went away for want of room Friday evening was one long to be remembered bv Mr Ira Sheets aud family and a large number of the citi zens of Bartley A farewell reception was hold at the Methodist church A program of music and short addresrfl by several citizens and response by Mr Sheets Many eyes were filled with tears i f regret that Mr Sheets nnd family had decided to move to Beaver OUy where an nnrcflraent of his tim berbusiness cu 1 him The program was closed with refreshments Rev Burhl Gilpin of Edison visit d here last week with his brother-in-law C M Babbit Evangelist Adams of Bethany Neb was in our village last week and ad dressed the people at the Christian church in the interest of an endow ment for Coiner college Harry Brown has installed an electric piano in his restaurant which attracts large crowds each evening Ella Webber has purchased a new piano It is a splendid piano aud a splendid girl that owns it R Y Axtell and family went over to the Beaver valley Sunday to attend the birthday anniversary of their eldest daughter Mr Ruby Hindman Rev Hngman at the Methodist church delivered an interesting mem orial sermon at 11 a m and went with many in the afternoon to the cemetery where flowers were strewn upon graves of fallen heroes Only a few of the men who wore the blue are yet alive to attend these occasions S W Stilgebouer and wife were over from the Beaer Sunday to visit the parents They returned Monday tak ing with them a good span of mares to use on the farm Theo Faubian and Frank Doak went to Arapahoe this week with the In dianolaboys to play ball They lost the game by a nice majority Mr and Mrs G W Jones returned from Omaha Saturday evening where Mr Jones had benn for several weeks taking medical treatment Everyone would be benefited by tak ing Foleys Orino Lixative for constipa tion stomach and liver trouble as it sweptens the stomach and breath aently stimulates the livor and regulates the bowels and is much superior to pills and ordinary lax itives Why not try Foleys Orino Laxative today A McMillan Druggist DANGER IN DELAY Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous for McCook People to Neglect The preat dauger of kidney troubles is that they get a firm hold before the sufferer recognizes them Health is gradually undermined Backache headache nervousness lameness sore ness ItimbaKO urinary troubles dropsy diabetes and Brights disease follow in merciless succession Dont neglect your kidneys Cure the kidnevs with the certain and safe remedy Doans Kidney Pills Mrs M J Wyatt Minden Nebr says For eight years I suffrred from acute attacks of backache brought on bv a disorder of my kidneys My con dition was such at times that i was hardly able to stoop and to go up and d wn stairs was an action attended with much misery If I exerted myself a back would become dull aching across my come so acute that I would be forced to lie down and rest The secretions from mv kidneys were also too frequent in action and annoyed me a great deal I became tired and languid was restless at nights and arose in the morning all worn out A few months ago I began taking Doans Kiduey Pills and fouud such prompt and gratifying results that I continued their use until completely cured Plenty more proof like this from Mc Cook people Call at a drug store and ask what customers report For sale by all dealers Price 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York sole agents for the United States Remember the name Doans and take no other LIVING HORRORS Men Mado to Look Like Boasts by Chinese Methods To transfer a man Into a beast would nt tlrst seem to be impossible It Is ac complished however by the Chinese to whom nothing seems to be un known The skin Is removed In small rmrtieles from the entire surface of the body and to the bleeding parts hits of the hide of living animals bears and dogs are usually applied The opera tion requires years for its full accom plishment After the person has had his skin completely changed and be comes a man bear or a man dog he Is made mute to complete the Illusion nnd also deprive him of the means of Informing the public he is Intended to amuse of his long torture A Chlneso journal the Hupao prints n descrip tion of one of these human animals exhibited In the Kiangsl Ills entire body was covered with dog skin He stood erect although sometimes tue feet are so mutilated that the beast Is forced to walk on all fours could not utter articulate sounds rise and sit down in short make the gestures of a human being A mandarin who heard of this monstrosity had him brought to his palace where his hairy skin and bestial appearance caused quite as much terror as surprise Upon being nsked if he was a man the creature replied with an affirmative nod lie also signified in the same manner that he would write A pencil was given him but he could not use It his hands were so deformed Ashes were then placed on the ground in front of him when the man dog leaning over trae oi in Himn fivo fliiinictcrs indicating his name and district Investigation Fhowed that he had been stolen im prisoned for years nnd subjected to long tortures Ills master was appre hended and condemned to death London Spare Moments A CHEERFUL OUTLOOK Making It Pleasant For the Studious Traveler An tourist traveling on foot through one of our mountainous re pious studying the people asked a man whom he met to direct him to a certain cabin at which he had been advised to stay overnight Going thar said the man Well Toms a first rater take him just right but hes mighty queer What do you mean asked the traveler Well its like this and the man looked at the stranger In a calm Im personal way Hell be setting out side most probably and hell see you trll rl n 11 fnrifl lunk ilt mince words here NOTMADEBYTHETrUJSjj rO 1 DU JET BAKING POtf CHICAGO GALUMET BakiflgPowder must give you satisfaction It must prove that it is the equal in every way and superior in some to all other baking powders or you must have your money back You cannot set your standard of quality too high to suit us Tniiit on Calumet and dont let your grocer give you a Substitute Received Highest Award Worlds Pure Food Exposition Chicago 07 you and you dont suit him he may uven By taking Chamber- thp rter on vou Ef he dont and 1 nn4 liir xirtrii rum liiii xi v i 11 1 uu wm it 1111 nkiaa 7 - t rr just like he may throw you down and 1 abletS yOU Can improve troinp on you But ef youre too care- both lhey cleanse and in fill in vour talk on the other hand 10a liniilo to take vou for a spy and t ic nri fnct ntwl liMtpn to nations afterward improve the digestion But its no use trying to get by without stopping concluded the man with evident relish of the prospect he was opening up to the stranger Ef you was to undertake that twould bo all up with you for hed think you was proud and biggetty Ef you want to come out of the mountain whole dont go past Toms cabin without stopping whatever you do Youths Compauion The Unemployed Lack of employment is not a new question Says the Liverpool Mercury of Kh 14 1S12 It is of tne highest Importance that a legislature should immediately inquire Into the causes of the present want of j employment among the laboring class j es and whether means miuht not bo found in a nation of which the reve nue is immense by which a succession of public works etc There were at that time 1UO0O unemployed in Liver pool The same writer after asking Is war the only employment that the state has to give the poor goes on to show that the pyramids of Egypt and tin elegant edifices of Greece were built with the object of giving con tinual employment to the laborer Womens Work and Infant Mortality In eisht Industrial towns where the proportion of married women of child bearing age at work in the factories was 43 per cent the infant mortality rate for ten years averaged 1S2 per 1000 In eight industrial towns of a 1 different type where the proportion of married women at work was only 3 per cent the infant mortality was only lo0 per 1000 The excessive rate in the first group Is not due to bad wages nor to bad conditions but to the ab sence of the mother London Post j A Financial Genius Pa will you please tell me what a financial genius is A financial genius my child Is a man who can spend money that he has never had and which the people wlio think they are getting it will Record Herald never see Chicago His Music Mrs Nmrrrer The noise you make at night is very unpleasant music Mr Nacger Do you call snoring music Mrsf Nagger I should say so sheet music arranged for the bugle Chica j go Record Herald Tallevrands Reoly w noleon once said to Talleyrand I wish I had the keys to hell for I could then put you in there The reply was It would be better sire that I should have them for then I couia let you out He who knows little soon tells It Get man Proverb Your complexion as well as your temper is rendered miserable by a disordered you get to talking Iains Stomach and Liver anvthing he dont vigorate the stomach and a n Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right TfTfrvrrriPTTiM i i11 J11 f Dr J O Bruce OSTEOPATH Telephone 55 McCook Neb Office over ElecricTheatreon Main Ave I f ll liiii IJtl AiteU committee of the J l J VAHUE DENTIST Of ace over McAdams Store Phone 190 6 3 5 i s n i WSI ft fs Offico Uilffift DENTIST P 2 Rooms 3 anil 5 Walsh Blk McCook Dr J A Colfer DENTIST Room Post office Building Phone 378 McCOOK NEBRASKA R H Gatewood DENTIST Office over McMillens drug store Phone 163 McCook Nebraska feJjUljJ ta iiilf tiJi JOHN E KELLEY ATTORNEY AT LAW and BONDED ABSTEACTEB McCook Nebraska jAeut of Lincoln Land Co and of McCook Vater Works Office in Postoffic buildinx 7 H Boyle C EELD2ED BOYLE ELDRED Attorneys at I aw LonK Distance IKone 44 Rooms 1 and 7 second floor Ncb flICLQO Postoffice Bnildina Middleton Ruby PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING All work guaranteed Phone 1S2 McCook Nebraska