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McCOOK DIVISION FIRST ANNUAL PICNIC
The various committees in charge of the arrangements for the
employees picnic at Cambridge July 10 are putting forth every
effort to make their initial event a success and the occasion bids
fair to be a gala day for all who attend
Picnic train will leave McCook at 740 a m arriving in Cam
bridge at 850 a m Leaving Cambridge at 715 p m
All persons must have transportation Employes will be pro
vided with passes upon request to their respective departments
On acconnt of large number of passes to be issued it is suggested
that they be procured before last day Come to picnic train 20
minutes before leaving time in order to get your baskets and other
articles checked and to avoid rush A booth for checked articles
will be on ground Any employe can invite neighbors or friends not
employes but because of Anti pass law free transportion cannot
be given
PROGRAMME
Opening song America with accompaniment
by band
920 Address of welcome by Mayor
930 Response by our Superintendent
940 Quartette
955 Band
1020 Ball game Mechanical Department vs Trans
portation Department Prize box of cigars
donated by G Budig
I2I20
100
225
230
245
250
Dinner
Band
110 Short talk by J F Forbes
120 Quartette
1 45 Exhibition of strong man juggling heavy weights
155 Womens foot race Prizes 2 and 1
205 base ball throwing contest Prizes 1
- and 50c
215 Womens nail driving contest Prizes 1 and
50c
Womens lumber sawing contest Prizes 1 and
50c
Band
Running broad jump open to all Prizes 2
and 1
100 yard dash open to all Prizes 2 and 1
300 Shot put open to all Prizes 1 and 50c
305 Pole vault open to all Prizes 1 and 50c
310 Quartette
330 Costumerace for boys Prizes 1 75c
and 25 c
340 Costume race for girls Prizes 1 75c
50C
50C
and 25c
345 Obstacle race open to all Prizes 150 1
75c and 50c
355 Pie eating contest open to all Prizes 75c 50c
and 25c
400 Catching greased pig open to all Prize the pig
410 Tug of war Mechanical Department vs field
Prize 50c necktie for each winner
415 Potato race for boys Prizes 1 75c 50c and
25c
425 Potato race for girls Prizes 1 75c 50c and
25c
430 Egg race for boys Prizes 1 75c 50 and
25c
440 Egg race for girls Prizes 1 75c 50c and
25c
450 Base running contest Prize 2 1
500 Base running contest for boys under 14
1 75c 50c and 25c
510 Running backward race open
- 2 1
520 Blind wheel barrow race open
1 50c
530 Relay race for boys under 14
to all
75c
535 Boys race 75 yard run around
Prizes
to all Prizes
Prizes
Prizes 150
two posts
Prizes 1 75c 50c and 25c
540 Quartette
600 Band
640 Ball game Leans vs Fats
REGISTER FOR RACES ETC
It must be distinctly understood that all who desire to enter any
of the above contests must register in book for that purpose at
Dreberts clothing store on or before July 9th or on grounds on date
of picnic before 100 p m at which time book will be closed No
applications will be received after that time One exception to the
above rule will be the tug of war
jCireCRASKETS
Be it understood that dinner and supper will be provided by
basket lunches provided by all that go to picnic who can supply
same All baskets will be cared for by refreshment committee
who have provided checkmen in baggage car on the picnic train
Be sure to go to train fifteen or twenty minutes before the train
leaves so that you can get your basket properly checked and get
your check therefor You can then get your basket on presentation
of your checks It is suggested that all mark their dishes and
baskets with private mark as an additional precaution
H E Culbertson W F Pate and A G Smart
Committee
SOME NOTES
Ample arrangements have been made for rest room facilities
also for a tent to accommodate the provisions on the grounds
Some cots have been provided also for the little ones in the rest
room tent
The boys have been quite busy odd times in completing the
paraphernalia for the sports for the day and now have in readiness
quite an array of apparati
Indications now point to a crowd of over a thousand at the rail
road boys picnic in Cambridge next Saturday A train of ten cars
or over will be provided to accommodate the crowd
ANCIENT POISON LORE
Some Obscure Facts Revealed
by Study of Toxicology
THE PENALTY OF THE PEACH
A Document of Antiquity That Shows
the Egyptians Knew How to Make
and Use Prussic Acid The Poisons
of Ancient Greece and Rome
In the mythology of Greece there
was n somber saga which declared
that In the far north later described
as Colchis there dwelt some sorcerers
children of the sun Of these Hecate
posssessed vast knowledge of poison
ous herbs which passed to her daugh
ter Medea who administered drugs to
that dragon which guarded the Golden
Fleece and urged Jason to gladiator
like achievements
Menes one of the oldest of the Egyp
tian kings and Attalus Phylometer
the last king 6f Pergemus undoubted
ly possessed wide knowledge of me
dicinal plants Attalus Phylometer
compounded medicines and experi
mented with poisons He was famil
iar with hyoscyamus aconite vera
trum coniuin and others
Mithradates Eupator went further
than either of these however as he
prepared the famous mixture therlaca
composed of Gfty four ingredients and
which in later days sold at a great
price There is further evidence of
the chemical knowledge of the Egyp
tians as disclosed in embalming and
various technical works
The most interesting feature of the
poison lore of Egypt however is the
fact that the Egyptians were acquaint
ed with prussic acid one of the most
deadly poisons They distilled it from
certain plants and trees notably the
peach In the Louvre there is an an
cient Egyptian papyrus on which has
been deciphered
Pronounce not the name of I A O
under the penalty of the peach
This is supposed to be a death warn
ing to those who might be tempted to
reveal mysteries in connection with
the religious rites of the priests
It is certain that the Romans learned
of prussic acid from the Egyptians for
history has it that in the reign of Ti
berius a Roman knight accused of
treason drank poison and fell dead at
the feet of the senators
In ancient Greece poison was the fa
vorite method of capital punishment
and suicide and it is of interest that
self destruction was considered by the
Greeks as an exemplary means of free
ing the soul from the body Valerius
Maximus relates that he saw a wo
man of quality in the island of Ceos
who having lived happily for ninety
years obtained leave to take a poison
ous draft lest by living longer she
should happen to have a change in her
good fortune
NIcander of Colophon 204 138 B C
wrote the most ancient works extant
on the subject of poisons In one
treatise he described the effects of
snake venom in another he considered
the properties of opium henbane cer
tain fungi colchicum aconite and con
tium and recommended antidotes for
them
Dioscorides 40 90 A D described
the effects of cantharides sulphate of
copper mercury lead and arsenic He
described poisons under three heads
animal poisons poisons from plants
and mineral poisons
Poison lore poison lehre as it was
long called was considered a forbid
den subject for many ages Gaten in
his work On Antidotes remarks that
the only authors who dared to wiite
of poisons were Orpheus Theologus
Morus Mendesius the younger Helio
dorus of Athens Aratus and a few oth
ers Unfortunately none of their trea
tises is now in existence
The sacred writings of India show
that the art of poisoning was used for
suicide robbery and revenge and here
we learn that the original cattle poi
soners lived In India The Asiatics
knew arsenic aconite opium and other
poisons
The ancient Hebrews were acquaint
ed with certain poisons and vosch
and enema seem to have been the
words used as general terms for poison
The death of Socrates Demosthenes
Hannibal and Cleopatra testify to the
pharmaceutical knowledge of the an
cients Phrysa poisoned the Queen
Statira in the reign qf Artaxerxes II
B C 40i5 359 by cutting food with a
poisoned knife
The professional poisoners arose early
in the Christian era It is recorded
that Agrippina A D 2G refused to
eat apples at the table of her father-in-law
Tiberius through fear of poison
New York Times
How We Change
Did you notice that womans ex
pression just then queried a traveler
on an elevated train and he pointed
to a handsomely gowned woman
whom the exigencies of transportation
had placed directly opposite an aged
and not too cleari man The old man
was about to conceal a big red hand
kerchief
That old fellow continued the
traveler just took a pinch of snuff
and took it vigorously and the opera
tion appeared to give the woman nau
sea Disgust was written all over her
face Think of It A habit condemned
universally by refinement today and
once the habit of king courtier and
social exquisite The jeweled snuff
boxwhat a treasure it was And
nbw well wje do change dont we
New York globe
The taxidermist makes an honorable
riving at a skin game Philadelphia
Record
Certain About It
Once upon a time not so long ago a
couple of cowpunchers found them
selves guests In the home of a minister
of the gospel whose custom was to
hold fnmiij worship of a morning and
to conclude the same by asking each
one present to give some quotation
from the Scriptures One after an
other repeated some text until at last
it came the turn of Jim Bulstoke of
the Crowfoot ranch
My dear 3ouug friend said the
dominie as he saw the latter hesitat
ing surely can recall some verse
from the Bible V
Jims face was bathed with profuse
perspiration but at last there came to
him some approximation of a memory
of something he had read or heard at
some stage of his life about the first
chapter of Genesis At last he broke
out God made the world
The dominie lifted a hand to hide a
sudden smile but bowed to Jims
neighbor In the circle Curley was
even -worse off than Jim had been and
for the life of him could not think of
anything At last remembering the
occasional virtue of a good bluff he
twisted one foot around his chair leg
and with all the confidence he could
muster remarked He shore did
Recreation
Last English King In a Battle
The battle of Dettiugen in Bavaria
on the 10th 27th O S of June 1743
between the British Hanoverian and
Hessian troops 52000 men under
command of George II and the
French troops GOOOO men under
Marshal Noallles which resulted in
the victory of the allied troops was
sthe last occasion on which an English
king fought on the battlefield His
majesty continued the whole time in
the heat of all the action which was
said by those who witnessed it to have
been as fierce a conflict as had ever
been known
On the morning of thet battle the
king appeared In the same red coat
he had worn at Oudenarde thirty five
yearfi before taking his place at the
head of the seven battalions of guards
About noon he ordered a general ad
vance and during the movements it
entailed he was very nearly taken by
the enemy but was rescued by the
Twenty second regiment who in re
niembrauce wore a sprig of oak in
their caps upon the anniversary of the
battle for many j ears afterward Lon
don Tit Bits
The Children of the Great
There is a tendency for children of
exceptional parents to regress toward
the average stock Galtou terms this
tendency filial regression This the
London hospital points out applies
equally to exceptional physical and
mental characters Thus though tall
stature may run in certain families
yet there is always a tendency to re
vert to the mean average size Simi
larly the children of a genius tend to
have somewhat less than their fathers
power but more than the average of
the race According to Professor Pear
son distinguished parents are just ten
times more likely to have distinguished
offspring that undistinguished parents
Still such cases as the Darwins fa
ther and sons the two Pitts Philip and
Alexander the Great are exceptional
Similarly also the children of a crim
inal tend to be less vicious than the
father though morally inferior to the
average man
Why He Was Unpopular
When first made bishop of Stepney
Dr Winnington Ingram was anything
but popular and indeed had occa
sionally to seek police protection
Greatly worried the bishop tried to
trace the cause and found one lady
who was able to enlighten him
Its your white shirt sir she said
We dont want no white shirted gen
try here Try a gray shirt and a
dickey like our chaps wear on Sun
day
The advice tendered was promptly
acted upon and thus the present bish
op of London made the first advance
toward close friendship with his peo
ple London Graphic
The Codex Sinaiticus
The most ancient of the New Testa
ment manuscripts is the one known as
the Codex Sinaiticus published at
the expense of Alexander II of Rus
sia since the Crimean war -This codex
covers nearly the whole of the Old
and New Testaments and was discov
ered In the Convent of St Catherine
on Mount Sinai by the celebrated
TIschendorf It is generally ascribed
to the fourth century New York
American
Ham With Jelly
Melt in a saucepan a large table
spoonful of butter and half a glass of
currant or other acid jelly Shake In
a little pepper and when hot lay in
four or live small thin slices of boiled
cold ham- Let it boil up once and
serve quickly on toast Boston Post
Too Much
Doctor Now there is a very simple
remedy for this er this er recur
ring thirst Whenever you feel you
want a whisky and soda just eat an
apple eat an apple Patient But er
fancy eating fifty or sixty apples a
day London Punch
The Eternal Motorist
Mrs Gossip They do say that her
husband has acquired locomotor ataxia
Mrs Parvenu I dont think much of
those cheap cars My husband has ai
Imported one Smart Set
Household Hint
To mark table linen leave the baby
aud some jam alone at the table for
Ave minutes Judge
You cannot lead men into truth by
tricks -Aesop
Hes From Missouri
You Have to Show Him
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Governor Folk Is from Missouri
Hes regarded as a pretty good citizen
himself See what he says about a
certain sort of citizen
I do not believe in the mail
order citizen IT IS BETTER
THAT WE SHOULD HAVE
A THOUSAND TOWNS THAN
ONE LARGE CITY If a place
is good enough for a man to
make his money in it certainly
should be good enough for him
to spend his money in The
merchants have a just right to
all the business of the town in
which they have their stores
and every good citizen will help
them to get it
Did you ever see n FINE LARGE
FACT so simply stated
BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER
CURES disease with Pure Blood
Flathead Indian Reservation
Great Northern Railway
Coeur dAlene Reservation
tickets to Spokane
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Once upon a tiuiti n man who was too
little boy to borrow the copy taken bs5l
his neighbor In his baste the boy run
over a 4 stand of bees and in ton min
uteB looked like a water Hummer squash
His cries reached his father who ran
to his assistance and failing to boo a
oarb wire fence ran into it breaking
it down cutting a handful of flesh from
his auatomy nod ruining a 4 puir of
pants
The old cow took advantage of the
gap in the fence got into the cornfield
and killed herself eating green corn
Hearing the racket bis wife ran upsett
ing a four gallon churn full of rich
cream into n basket of kittens drowning
the whole flock In her hurry she
dropped a 7 set of teeth
Trie baby left alone crawled through
the spilled milk into the parlor and
ruined a 20 carpet During the excite
ment the eldest daughter ran away with
the hired man the calves got out and
the dog broke up eleven betting bens
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Many people with chronic throat and
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relief in Foleys Honej and Tar as it
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upper northwest empire every mile is interesting
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Land Seekers Information Bureau Omaha Nebraska
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Honored by Women
wnen a woman speaks of her
silent secret suffering she
trusts you Millions have be
stowed this mark of confi
dence on Dr R V Pierce
of Buffalo N Y Every
where there are women who
bear witness to the wonder
working curing power of Dr
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which saves the suffering sex
from pain and successfully
grapples with womans weak
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IT MAKES WEAK WOflEN STRONG
IT flAKES 5ICK WOMEN WELL
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the Worlds Dispensary Medical Association Dr
R V Pierce President Buffalo N Y
Dr Pierces Pleasant Pellets Induce mild natural bowel movement once a day
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G H Watkins Asst Cshr
The Citizens National Bank
of McCcok Nebraska
Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus 25008
DIRECTORS
V Franklin Jas S Doyle A U Ebert
G H Watkins Yernice Franklin
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It is our determination to give every patron
real valuefull worth of his coin at this yard
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