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National
Bank of Mccook
is Iho oldest NATIONAL BANK
in Southwestern Nebraska
and in point of Capital
Surplus and Undivid
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OFFICERS AND DIHECTORS
B M FREES Pbes
H P WAITE V Pkrs
F A PENNELL Cash
L TH0RGRI3VIS0N Asst cash
II P SUTTON C II BOYLE
By F M KIMMELL
L ireM Circulation in Red Willow Co
Entered at postollicc McCook Nebraska as
second class matter Published weekly
Subscription i a Year in Advance
To the victors belong the spoils in
Phelps county very particularly in
Holdrege
Hkrks p t Commander Peary can
make a better showing Weve got to
kep that Nrth pole
Secretary Ballinger of the interior
department asks for a thorough investi
gation and ho should have iljsans white
wash
The Umver ity of Copenhisen op
clares that Dr Cook has failed to estab
lish his claim to having discovered tht
north pole
Omaha seems to persist iu her fruit
less effort to make a virtue out of viola
tions of law which are punished as
crini3s elsewhere throu ho Nebraska
Who sajs this inn a lucky world
after all King Leopold of Belguim
died and -President Zelaya of Nicaragu
resigned both on one and the same
day
It is a nasty blot on the federal es
cutcheon this promotion and protec
tion of liquor interests in dry states
Strength and power and success to the
movement to keep fiovernment permits
out of prohibition territory
If Lincoln should insist too strongly
on moving the capital building out onto
a farm it might result in the people of
the state taking some cards in the
game and the relocation of the capital
some where more centrally in the state
following the westward star of empire
Eh Omaha
Taxation and dtratn still have the
call on ultimate certainties even gold
proving false to our hopes and claims in
being measurably responsible in its re
cent abundance for our alarming and
exorbitant high prices according to
President Taft To this cause of grief
to the consumer President Hyde of
Bowdoin adds the high tarriff and mon
opolistic tendencies of both capital and
labor
The disastrous results of strikes are
shown by the desperate labor situation
in Sweden and by the extreme action of
the legislature in Sydney N S W
Australia in passing a bill making
liable to a years imprisonment both
strike leaders and employers who insti
gate or aid a lockout or strike Work
men are leaving Sweden by thousands
on account of demoralization and stag-
nation of business incident to their re
cent stubborn strike And incidentally
the consumer pays most of the freight
ADVERTISED LIST
The following letters cards and pack
ages remain uncalled for at the McCook
postoffice Dec 21
IETTERS
Brady Mrs Ethel Clark Cook
Messrs Carpenter Mr Roy Churning
W G Eisenock Hatel Leavy Mr
Minor Mr D B McCourtney Mr Jas
Pickard Miss Lillian Phillips Mrs
Ann Peterson Steve Sathrop Mr Ben
CARDS
Farman J S Klinzman Mr L L
McFarland Mr Albert Rose George
Spaulding Miss R E Wood Mr Wal
ter Woods Miss Dorthy Windland
Miss Martha
When calling for these please say
they were advertised
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MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Vklma Sutton is homo from Omaha
for vacation
Mifes Leah Pknnkli is homo for tho
holidays
Mabel Hegenhekger was a Hastings
visitor Monday
II II Berry is confined to the house
by bodily infirmities
Vivian Jones vifrted Stratton friends
Monday and Tuesday
t
Mrs Viola Bailew has returned
I from her trip into Iowa
William Hykikm has joined tho wife
and obildren in California
Roy Newell of Cambridge had busi
ness in tho vulhjrt finest -Saturday hint
Alex F Dkeimkt has been confined
to the house for several daja with il
uess
Miss Anna Dulanky is down front
Denver on a visit gue tt of Mrs John
Hunt
Ray Jordan is now occupying a desk
in the Morlati Ritchie WollF law
offices
CBGray left on No 2 Tuesday
miming on a land inspect
ha visit
Miss Fern Roherson arrived from
Lincoln Wednesday on 5 to spend the
holidays hero
Mrs S R Rankin and son Oak have
been down in Kansas for a week or two
for Oaks health
Mr and Mrs J P Crouse went up
to Denver today to spend Christmas
with his brother in that city
Mrs J F Utter vis ted Ho drej e
friends Tuesday Ivan and Gladys are
sp mding the week in Denver
Beit Sutton is here from Fort Mor
gau Colorado to ba the guest of II P
Sutton and family over the holidays
Miss Louise Donisthrope went down
to Geneva Saturday morning last to be
with the home folks duriog vacation
Alex Mehaffey on Monday night
left for Pittsburg Pennn to vnit brit fly
nis aged father who is in failing health
Catherine Brady arrived
Mor day for the holidays from Loretto
Heights where she has been attending
school
T E Tirrill is here from Basohor
Kansas to be with the pareuts Mr anr
Mrs J E Ti rill during the glad Christ
mas time
Alma and Ruth Craw returned la
Saturday morning to their home m a
Stratton for the Christmas vacatiou ot
two weeks
Mrs J D Hare and Mrs E O V
hue returned Monday from their ab
sence of several weeks in Chicago anr
elsewhere east
D F Dorwart wife and children de
parted Monday night for Victoria
Texas to be absent two or three weeks
in the Lone Star state
Miss Ruth Malone of Lincoln ai
rived in the city Friday last on No 1
to be the guest of Miss Addaline Koller
daring the holiday vacation
John McMillen of Hagerstown Md
spent Sunday as guest of his ccusin
Wallace and Albert McMillen He was
on his way to California on a visit
Mrs P E Reeder ai rived from Kan
sas City Tuesday morning for holi
days Mr Reeder arriving a day or twe
later
William Shean collector for M Ru
mely Co Lincoln was in the cit
Tuesday on business of the company
they having a foreclosure matter in this
vicinity
Miss Pearl Roberson student at
Grand Island Business College arrived
in the city Thursday night to be with
the home folks during the Christmas
vacation
C L Markwad and family departed
last Friday for Westboro Mo in whicl
neighborhood he will farm in the future
It is the hope of many friends here that
they will prosper
Miss Elva Barber doDarted on las
Friday for her home in York to be ab
sent over the two weeks of Christina
holidays indulging in some social func
tions in Lincoln enroute
A G Bump arrived home Sunday
from his trip to the Gulf Coast of Texas
He mentions oranges strawberries etc
as being about ready to harvest anr
that whole section of the state as being
an almost enchanted land right now
Miss E Gertrude Storer of Chicago
spent the time between the arrival of
No 5 and the departure of No 3 Mon
day night in the city guest of Mrs
Sarah McCarl She was accompanied
by a Miss Fish of Chicago and the
were enroute for Tacoma Wash
Mr and Mrs W T Coleman and
children and Mr and Mrs C E Cole
man departed on Saturday morning for
Iowa to visit the old home and relatives
Afterwards they will go to New Orleans
and other points south returning to
Seattle via the coast They will be ab
sent about three months in enjoying the
Sunny South and in boosting for greater
Seattle
Mrs Smart mother of Trainm st
Smart has returned from Kansas Cit
where she has been visiting for the pas
few months
Drink Wedding Breakfast coff
and be happy At Hubers only
other fellow
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ADVERTISEA1ENT
CI I I IN
STATE OF
Ml
The prohibitionists argue upon the
ory the license advocates argue upon
lessons of the practical effect of pro
hibition Anti prohibitionists contend
that conditions in Nebraska under the
license system are far and away bet
ter than conditions In Maine under
the prohibition system The only way
UTTER FAILURE
Portland Daily Argus Nov 20 1909
The utter failure of prohibition tc
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GIENT
OF PROHIBITION
PorJjv Oregonian Oct 30 lJOO
The Oregonian stands for strict
regulation of the liquor trade and for
strict enforcement of the regulations
It opposes prohibition because it does
not consider prohibition reasonable or
just because it authorizes and pro
vides unnecessary restrictions upon
that such argument can he proved is personal conduct and private right
to present facts about conditions in because it forces a secret trade that
prohibition states
Many Maine newspapers are now
is more injurious than the open trade
under regulation because it strikes
condemning prohibition in pursuance t a blow at many useful and important
of a campaign for the resubmission of industries because Its enactment by
a constitutional amendment for the any state is a sign of narrow provin
repeal of prohibition in that state cialisra and Oregon ought to he kept
These newspapers do not hesitate to out of this class of states To enter
condemn prohibition in the strongest it would be hurtful in many ways to
terms Their recent utterances would her reputation for sanity and in
more than fill a newspaper page In many ways hurtful to her business
this connection is given only a brief and Industry A prohibition state is
editorial paragraph from The Port- a small wrangling community Wash
land Daily Argus of October 29 1909 ington and California will not be pro
The Argus comment was predicated hibition states Should we adopt pro
upon like comment in the Lawrence hibition it would be one of many other
Telegram and in the Haverhill proofs that we were falling behind
ord The Portland Argus is the chief in the race of progress that the
daily newspaper of the state of Maine j dry rot had not only struck us but
The quotation is as follows I had sunk deep No pun intended in
Maine police officials are beginning the phrase about dry rot
to send liquor dealers to jail for Hie 1 On this subject now a year in ad
gal selling If they are not careful vance of the time when the vote on
they will spoil the business down state prohibition is to be taken The
there Lawrence Telegram No Oregonian uses the opportunity to de
danger Maine people will have their clare its position It knows it must
rum laws or no laws Haverhill declare its position frankly on the
Record i subject and it cannot shirk the duty
Maine people will have their rum It knows moreover that its readers
laws or no laws Well that comes who consider this subject from a
pretty near being the basic facts of reasonable point of view will agree
the Maine situation It is a fact with it that others who simply con
demonstrated by fifty years of sider the subject from the standpoint
cal prohibition failure in the hom6 of their opposition to a trade that
state of prohibition Out of all the in irresponsible hands becomes an in
humbug and pretense and hypocrisy strument of abuse and must be sub
of Maine prohibition the truth sticks jected to correction of law statutory
out that the people of Maine are very and moral will not agree with it
like people elsewhere that about the The appeal is to the larger and wider
same percentage of them and it is a judgment The appeal is to those
very large percentage use liquor in who understand the expression of the
its various forms or abuse it have moral poet of two thousand years ago
done so all through the prohibition who exclaimed What can laws avail
regime and will do so as long as it when the customs of the people their
lasts The demand for liquor Is sc social conditions and wants the
large and so insistent that apart from rious requirements of their business
the legitimate sources of supply it and industry do not call for the legal
can and does maintain a great illicit enactments In such cases laws
trade a trade that has never been are not only vain empty that is to
stopped for a single day throughout say but in many ways may be
the half century of Maine prohibition tively hurtful Morality is not based
notwithstanding all the pains and pen on law but law on morality They
alties piled up in the statute book who desire to prohibit in their own
Maine is in favor of prohibition in localities have the opportunity now
party platforms and stump speeches in local option
but agin its enforcement or in fa The opportunity has been abused as
vor of enforcement only against the The Oregonian foretold it would be
by enabling the rural districts to
force prohibition on the county towns
that didnt want it This forcing pro
cess is now to be attempted on all
Oregon on all protesting towns and
cities and communities in the state
f is the opinion of The
the indictments of the system Its
positive evils are even more demoraliz
ing than its negative evils What it
does is worse than what it does not do
The crop is abundant Law violation
leading to general disrespect of all
law the debauching of politics the
promotion of bribery and perjury
the hypocrisy and humbug engendered
by it the snivelling cant on the- one
hand and the sneaking methods on the
other that are fostered by prohibition
these and many more evils are what
follow the futile attempt to compel
abstinence by law On the single mat
ter of perjury Chief of Police Har
mon of Biddleford this week gave
damning testimony that is worth
noting accompanied as it was by a
vigorous denunciation of the prohibi
tory law Chief Harmon has headed
the Biddeford police force for many
TOiiro finrl nn nnp will nnoctinn thnt hoi
the trial of a liquor case in the muni
cipal court Chief Harmon declared
that the Maine prohibitory law had
made more liars and perjurers than
all the other laws on the statutes com
bined He denounced the law as be
ing wrong in principle and in its work
ings and even went so far as emphat
ically to declare his belief that a man
treasury officials the internal revenue
reports are bounding upward For i
October the figures show 23094434
an increase of 1616735 over the
corresponding month last year and
that there will be some additions to
the receipts credited to last months
account
So far this fiscal year up to Oc
tober 30 the internal revenue receipts
have run 457599 ahead of the same
period last year the total since July
1 being 897S3037
Distinctly Different
Portland Argus
General Fred Grant insists that he
Is still in favor of restoring the army
canteens It appears that General
Oregonian that it will not succeed
but should it succeed the consequence
will be injurious to the state in many
ways in a multitude of ways ma
terially industrially and morally by
giving the state an undesirable repu
tation in company with the narrow
ness of Maine and Kansas by keep
ing people out of our borders who
have breadth of view and want rea
sonable freedom of action by gener
ating a secret traffic and setting the
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BARTLEY
Ward Orman a soldier in the U S
army was homo on a furlough extend
ing over the holidays
Prof Cockle principal and Mibs Mil
ler assistant of our high bchool have
gone home for the holidays
Miss Babbitt of Cambridge and Miss
Potter of Atlanta are here assistiug
Mr and Mrs C M Babbitt during tho
rush in the holiday trade
Mrs Shell wife of operator Shell is
in Oklahoma for a visit with relatives
and friends during tho holidays
Mr and Mrs G W Jones left Tues
day evening on No10 for Hot Springs
Arkansas where Mr Jones hopes to re
cuperate his health
Everett Olmstead is home from Lin
coin to spend the holidays with rela
tives and friends
Miss Dyer has installed a nice piano
ia her jewelry room
G W Jonesbefore leaving for the
South made arrangements for excavat
ing a cellar and hauling a large lot of
sand preparatory to putting up a nice
business buildiugg25x70 just south of
the Webber building
Will Reiner is home from the State
University isiting friends and relatives
during the holiday season
There is to be nChrlstmas tree at the
Opera house Christmas eve
Shoemaker and Son are putting up a
large supply of good ice fir the coming
axons supply
Will Sheets has finished moving the
de at Cambridge and will take a
neighbors by weakening personal
ti after Christmas
and moral responsibility among those j rtat
of the argument which perhaps may
be developed later particularly as to
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Is an expert witness In the course or
whom the state would undertake to
coddle and to protect or kill with
kindness Character neither for in
dividuals nor for states is made in
fViio itrmr PoT CrtTinl rocnnncihilitv ic
the offensive intrusion of clericals and
Driests who use their argument as
an instrument for holding the ascend
ancy of dogmatic pretension over the
general mind
Dry Only in Name
Portland Daily Argus
The roads are getting passablp and
the people around Bartley can come to
town again They are taking advan
tage of il e improved traveling and aie
doin a ar hoiday
shoPPiS
basis of all There are other features keeping
our merchants very busy see their
smile
Some of our large dailies speak of
King Leopold as a great promoter of
Christian civilization It is strange
that death brings out great virtues not
thought of while the deceased was liv
ing If there was anything Christian
or Christianizing in the life of King
That an increase in dry territory
TinnnnlH histnrv hB fnilprf tn m i
so called does not indicate a
arrested for violating the prohibitory sponding advance in temperance has BeuBUBUl uu un
law was justified in going into court been demonstrated again and again baucbeT are of equent mention Our
and committing perjury in order to Missouri furnishes the latest sympathies should noCallow us to set
clear himself This is the view of an tion of this fact In that state this P fr an example to the world one as
official who has been chief of police in year more than half the counties are good where the opposite was true
Biddeford for sixteen years ample without licensed saloons but accord-
experience for a thorough knowledge ing to a report just filed with
of the prohibitory law its operation nor Hadley by the state beer in-
and its resultB And the conclusions speotor the collections under the beer
of Chief Harmon are the conclusions stamp law are nearly 19000 greater
of about every sheriff and police chief this year than last when the area
in the state if they would express of wet territory was much larger
their honest convictions as to the re- This report covers a period of ten
suits of their experience months including October and the in-
creased sales indicated by it as the
Internal Revenue Increase j Boston Transcript points out must
Associated Press Dispatch have been of beer consumed in the
Washington Nov 1 Surpassing state because that made for sale out-
the most sanguine expectations of the side of it is not subject to the tax
Infringes a Sacred Right
Press Dispatch
Mobile Ala Sept 21 In the In
ferior criminal court this morning in
the trial of alleged violators of the
Fuller prohibition law Judge Jules Al
ford bound the defendants over to
was unconstitutional in that it denied
the right of trial by jury This after
noon County Solicitor Stallworth filed
with Judge O J Semmes of the city
court a petition for the issuance of a
mandamus to compel Judge Alford to
try the cases
Juvenile Crime in Kansas
Pittsburg Kansan
The reign of lawlessness among
Grant is a temperance man instead boys seems to De iainy inaugurated
of a prohibitionist as has been re- Petty thieving and holdups by boys
ported Haverhill Gazette Is an everyday occurrence and
A difference with a distinction burg has more than a fair share of
which prohibitionists wholly ignore these young offenders
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320Acre Homesteads a Specialty
Snap Relinquishments
I have a fine bunch of claims would be
glad to show you 7 to 20 mi from town
No 21320 A A fine farm for some
one Price SS00
Nos 25 262 dandies all level fine
as silk 320 A each For a short time
300 each
Nos 320 A each or 960 A
A chance for three parties to locate to
gether All three for 31000
320 A deeded land all level 2 mi
the city court declaring that the law to R R y mi to town
She is a
die Price 10 per acre
Have you any land to sell or trade
I have two stocks of hardware to trade
for land one 66000 other S11000 stock
A 87000 stock general mdse to trade
for lsnd A mill and a hotel Two fine
store buildings
What have you to offer
Call and see me
L E BARGER CO
Room 3
over McConnells Drug Store
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Seasons Greeting
At the close of another year of
business activity and success I
wish to express to my patrons my
appreciation of and thanks for
their continued confidence and
patronage
To extend them one and all
heartiest and merriest greetings
of the Happy Christmas tide and
the Glad New Year
And to bespeak the continued
Good Will and patronage during
the coming year
H P SUTTON
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For Sale Choice thoroughbred Ply
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1004 Main Ave
Good barn for rent 702 Third street
east
For Rest Two - ioom furnished
house Close in Phone 43 Mrs J
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