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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
B M FREES Pkes
II P WAITE V Pkes
P A PENNELIi Cash
L THORGRLMSON Asst cash
II P SUTTON C II BOYLE
By F M KIMMELL
Zm
L circulation in Red Willow Co
Entered at postollice McCook Nebraska as
second clabs matter Published weekly
t joscnption Si a Year in Advance
A moual awakening is ovpr due foi
this city
Students Recital
Wednesday evening commencing at
eight oclock students in vocal music o
Miss Elva Barber gave a recital whicl
was replete with tnrit atd pleasure
some fourteen numbers filling the pro
gram of the evening
The recital was aiven at the homo o
Mr and Mrs CD Ritchie and followint
the program litjht refreshments were ser
ved by Mic xr r
Cuunl iiUU5b NEWS
COUNTY COURT
Following licenses to marry have bee
issued since our last report
Hirry Sliowiilter 21 Cambridge Neb
Eula Kelly 21
Lou Cles 27 McCook Nebraska
Ella Colllug 29 Iudianola
A Larjre House
Monte Cristo drew a large audience
at the Temple theatre last Saturday
evening and that popular but rather
difficult production was fairly presented
The only yellow streak in it was the clos
ing part of the prison scene which the
company would do better to cut rather
than to execute in so raw and bungling
a manner For the most part however
the play was satisfactorily offered
The work of the local orchestra was
especially praise worthy
A Trip to a Beautiful Valley
Mr Joseph Schmitz and James Mc
Adams a c mpanied Frank Everist to
the great Valley of San Luis around
Monte Vista in Colorado last week re
turning Friday and stating that they
never had a better time Frank Everist
showed them through the beautiful val
ley in one of his erand automobiles
They liked this valley very well
Everything raised there was just as Mr
Everist represented it to be Especially
the wheat and peas Among one of the
grand and beautiful things seen was a
load of sacked wheat containing 20300
lbs or more than 10 tons which was
drawn seven miles only by one pair of
horses age 19 and 21 Weighed 400 lbs
each Now wasnt that great for San
Luis valley
They enjoyed their trip very much
J A Schmitz
ADVERTISED LIST
The following letters cards and pack
ages remain uncalled for at the McCook
postoffice Jan 21 1910
BETTERS
Birdsell Mrs J Colgan Miss Mayme
2 Clark Mr C G Davis Mr Edward
Kennedy Mr Jas Lerres Mrs Will
Ochsner Mr W
cards
Baker Mr C M Cahill Mr F P
Davis Mr Ray Ebright Mrs Nellie
Greene R Ah Hammonds J W Kine
Mr Ed Pemberton Ray Rupp G C
Small Mr FS Tober Miss Mae Wheel
er Mr H D
When calling for these please say
they were advertised
Lon Cone P M
Eugene McCann died at his residence
2911 D street Saturday night at mid
night of pneumonia He was fifty two
years old and had Jived in Lincoln two
months He came from Western Ne
braska where he was in the grain busi
ness He leaves a wife and five chil
dren The funeral will occur at 930
Tuesday morning from St Theresas
pro -cathedral Interment in Calvary
State Journal
THE BABY TURTLE
He Has to Paddle His Own Canoe
From the Moment of Birth
Just so soon ns a baby turtle emerges
Ixom the egg off be scuttles down to
the sea Lie bus uo one to teacli bin
no one to guide blm In bis curious
little brain there Is implanted a streak
of caution based upon the fact that
until u certain period in his life his
armor is soft and no defense against
hungry Hsu and he at once seeks shel
ter In the tnipical profusion of the
gulf weed which holds within its
branching fronds an astonishing abun
dance of marine life Here the youug
turtle feeds unmolested while Ills ar
mor undergoes ihe hardening process
Whatever the young sea turtle eats
and wherever he eats it facts not gen
erally ascertained one thing is certain
it agrees with him immensely He
leads a pleasant sort of life basking in
the tropical sun and cruising leisurely
In the cool depths
Once he has attained the weight of
twenty live pounds which usually oc
curs within the lirst year the turtle is
free from all danger After that no tish
or mammal however ravenous how
ever well armed with teeth interferes
with the turtle
When once he has withdrawn his
head from its position of outlook into
the folds of his neck between the two
shells intending devourers may strug
gle in viiiii to make an impression
upon him Harpers Weekly
LINCOLNS LESSON
The Way He Learned to Tell When a
Thing Is Proved
Abraham Lincoln was once asked
how he acquired his wonderful logical
powers and his acuteness in analysis
Lincoln replied it was my terrible
discouragement Which did that for me
When I was a young man 1 went into
an ollice to study law I saw that a
lawyers business is largely to prove
things I said to myself Lincoln
when is a thing proved V That was a
poser What constitutes proof V Not
evidence that was not the point There
may be evidence enough but wherein
consists the proof V 1 groaned over the
question and dually said to myself
Ah Lincoln you cant tell Then I
thought what use is it lor me to be in
a law ollice if I cant tell when a thing
is proved V
So I gave it up and went back
home Soon after I returned to the old
log cabin I fell in with a copy of Eu
clid I had not the slightest notion of
what Euclid was and 1 thought I
would tind out I therefore began at
the beginniug and before spring 1 had
gone through the old Euclids geometry
and could demonstrate every proposi
tion in the book Then in the spring
when 1 had got through with it I said
to myself one day Ah do you know
when a thing is proved and 1 an
sweied Yes sir I do Then you may
go back to the law shop and I went
Tombs of Abelard and Heloise
Of the hundreds of thousands who
make a pilgrimage to Pere Lachaise
on AH Saints day few doubt the au
thenticity of the most famous tombs
One in particular is never questioned
that of Oeloise and Abelard the
story of whose unhappy love is so
grandly told by Pope This monu
ment is the work of Alexander Lenoin
the sculptor and dates toward the end
of the revolution The tomb was
built by Lenoin with fragments of a
chapel of the convent of the Paraclete
at of which Ueloise
was the abbess Lenoin managed to
bring some glass from the windows
of the old chapel and two medallions
which adorn the tomb the sculptor
purchased from a religious house in
Paris This is all that is genuine
about the tomb Loudon Globe
That Headache
This is such a beautiful treat said
the impecunious man at the matinee
where they went on her pass that I
want to take you to dinner afterward
if my headache gets better
Is your headache getting better
she asked him after the secoud act
Its terrible said he I can hard
ly see
After the third act she again ap
proached the subject How does your
headache seem to be getting she
queried solicitously
Worse and worse he frowned
Wheu the performance was over he
held his head with both hands My
head aches so he moaned Im afraid
Ill die of it
1 knew it said she as they walked
on home New York Press
Enlightened
Before I married said Mr Hen
peck I didnt know what it meant to
support a wife
I presume you know now
Yes indeed 1 looked up the word
support in the dictionary and discov
ered that one of its meanings is en
dure Birmingham Age Herald
Spoiling a Poet
He has been spoiled as a poet
How so
A judge recently gave him thirty
days in default of a ten dollar fine
How does that spoil him as a poet
Oh it gave him an exaggerated
dea of the value of his time Pitts
burg Post
A Ready Compliment
She Some day 1 want to show yon
our family tree He Cooking at her
admiringly I should like to see it I
am sure it must be a peach Somer
rille Journal
One Thing He Hadnt Done
Howell - You are getting abseutmind
ed Powell Well I never yet have
blacked my teeth and put tooth pow
der on my shoes New York Iress
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Wigwagging
I In Uncle
I Sams Navy j
WISH to see the captain said
the visitor to the big annt
transport
You must send up your mes
sage replied the trim marine oirgUuifl
duty How Why just tell the sallCr
at the gangway what you want Hell
send the word along f
The visitor did as instructed and
looked to see the sailor climb to the
sacred reservation where gold laied
authority held sway But to his sur
prise the message was not delivered
to the presence in person The jackie
merely turned on his heel faced an
other jackie wiio appeared to be par
ticularly inquisitive concerning the do
lugs at the gangway and began what
looked like an exhibition of Swedish
calisthenics Up and down and round
about went the sailor boys arms now
flying flail like now resting at right
angles to the body and again raised
aloft as though calling down the light
ning on the head of the importunate
person who insisted on seeing the
skipper
The calisthenics were answered by a
short whirl of arms from the second
jackie and the guardian of the gang
way turned to the visitor and politely
informed him that the captain was
very busy but would send one of the
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TALKING WITH A SHIPMATE
officers to learn the nature of the visit
ors business It was all done in a
few minutes quickly easily and with
machinelike precision The arm wav
ing was adopted by the jackies them
selves from the system of Hag signals
in use in all navies and so important
has it been deemed as a means ot
carrying on a long distance conversa
tion where the usual facilities are lack
ing that all the marines who recently
sailed for Panama with Nicaragua as
their probable objective were thor
oughly drilled in the method
The key to the signaling is a simple
one Where flags are used as in the
regular signaling by wigwaggery from
the bridge the words are spelled out
by movements of the flags each
movement signifying a letter The
jackies have improved on this method
in their private communications by
dropping the flags and using their arms
alone The movements are identical
The flags serve no purpose except to
make the wigwagging plainer to one
reading the signals from a ship some
distance away The use of a code
makes this method of signaling under
standable only to those for whom the
message is intended The jackies have
a code of their own When carrying
on private conversations not intended
to be interpreted by their superiors
the sailors use this code and for all
the quarterdeck knows the wildly wav
ing arms may be consigning all naval
officers to perdition
Just as telegraphers can converse
unknown to any one not acquainted
with the Morse code by tapping with a
lead pencil on the table and as the
wireless operators in harbor can re
lieve the idle hours by chairing each
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PASSING ALONG A MESSAGE
other from their aerial stations with
no one the wiser but themselves so
the jackies of the fleet can carry on
a conversation with the wigwagging
method of communication A sailor
will stop while passing a warship
glance up at the deck and begin a wig
wag talk with a chum He is proba
bly asking If ho can get shore leave
and come along
THE PUMA AND ITS PREY
Eaao With Which a Patagonian Lion
Killed -a Colt
The puma Is so fond oJ horseflesh
that in Patagonia It Is dlllicult to
breed horses as the colts are killed b
this American lion A native told the
author of The Naturalist in La
Plata that on one occasion while
driving his horses home through a
thicket a puma sprang out of the
bushes to the back of a colt following
behind the mop
The puma alighted directly on the
colts bad with one fore foot grasping
Its shoulder while with the other it
seized the head and giving it a violent
wrench dislocated the neck The colt
feli to the earth as If shot
Next to horseflesh the puma prefer
mutton He does not like veal al
though he will kill a calf upon occa
sion A cunning puma which on cloud
nights raided a sheep ranch used a a
place of concealment the pen where a
dofcen calves were kept while it a
waiting to attack the sheep but it ii i
not injure a calf
Pigs when in large herds defy tin
puma by massing themselves togethei
and presenting a serried fine of tusLs
The ass also resists successfully the
pumas attack When assaulted u
thrusts its head between its fore leg
and kicks violently until the puma i
driven or thrown off
One day an Indian while riding saw
a young cow watching his approach
net maimer shoed that it was in
state of dangerous excitement and tin
Indian conjectured that some beast ot
prey had killed its calf He began
searching for the calfs body While
thus engaged the cow repeatedly
charged him Presently he discovered
the calf lying dead among the long
grass and by its side a dead puma uiMi
a large wound just behind the shoul
der
The calf had been killed by tin
puma for its throat showed Un
wound of large teeth The cow had
driven one of its long sharp horns into
the pumas side while it was sucking
the calfs blood
SLOW NEW YORK
It Actually Made the Hustling Western
Barber Sleepy
Why bay said a visiting barbel
from the wide untrammeled west you
folks here in New York are narrow
limited shackled contracted far lie
hind the age You think you arc the
human limit when really your gait i
veiy slow
1 went into one of your shops here
yesterday Nice shop good equip
ment everything tine and elegant but
when I saw how slow you were here
on the work it made me nervous A
good plant but not worked to capacity
They had a man in a chair with a
barber cutting his hair and a main
cure fixing his hands and a bootblack
blacking his shoes all at the same
time and I suppose you think here
that thats going some to have three
people work on a customerall at on e
but goodness me you ought to look
into my shop and see how we do things
in my part of the country
Ive got a shop thats every bit a
modern and up to date to the last lint
it as anything jouve got in New
York but out there we utilize oui
plant What do you suppose we do
when a man comes in thats in a hur
ry to catch a train Think we al lie
down and take a nap
Why we put one barber to cuttin
his hair and another to shaving him
and two mauicurers tackle his hands
one on each side We take off hi
shoes and two boys work on them
each blacking a single shoe while two
chiropodists get at him each taking
a foot and at the same time we have
one boy brushing the customers hat
and another brushing his overcoat
while another dusts the clothes hes
got on with a vacuum duster
You put three people on a man at
once and think youre doing something
We put on eleven and think nothing
about it at all and our town aint a
quarter as big as New York not a
quarter
Why honest this New York a
mosphcre makes me sleepy New
York Sun
An Old Machine
The Tubingen Morgenblatt of Oct
31 1S29 contains a description of such
a machine as then in use in the Lon
don coffee house It was in the shape
of a tobacco jar which stood on tn
table and had a slot into which a pen
ny had to be inserted to obtain a pipe
fill of tobacco The weight of the coin
depressed a lever and released a lock
The writer adds that a halfpenny
would not do the trick and the wouid
be cheat could not recover his mouey
Loudon Notes aud Queries
The Judge Agreed
It is recorded that Lord Mansfield
the famous English judge of the sec
ond half of the eighteenth century lis
tened impatiently to an argument ot
Sir Fletcher Norton upon a case in
volving certain manorial rights
M lord said Norton who was in
sufferably dictatorial I can instance
riie point in pel son I have myself two
little manors
v ir woll a ware of that re
i -
sponded Lord Mansfield seizing hi-
opportunity
Caution Extraordinary
You have a night key
Of course answered Mr Meekton
only Im so that Henrietta
keeps it locked up in the safety depos
it so that I wont loe it Washing
ton Star
After Their Quarrel
Mabel Of course you speak to Lena
when you pas herV Helen Indeed I
do not Why I dont even notice what
she has on Puck
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Special Sale
on Boys Shoes
On FRIDAY AND SATURDAY January 21
and 22 we will sell any of our Boys Shoes at
10 PERCENT DISCOUNT
A good chance to shoe your boys out with a
pair of shoes at a low price
The Model Shoe Store
McCook Nebraska
Fisher Perkins 201 flain Avenue
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Mks Eaikksov Haneon went up to
Denver Inst niuht on a visit
Postmaster Mi ekkk of Imperial was
down Ttiesdn to bee Jeffanc Fraik
Court Clkrk and Mrs C A Ronc
eus went up to Denver jo3terday co vi it
her parents
W T Heaton wife and daughter of
Danbury witnessed the production of
Monte Ciisto Saturday night last
A F DitKUKRTof the Drehert Cloth
ing Co went east on Tuesday evening
oa a business trip of two or three weeks
Miss Ruth Camiwskll went down to
Lincoln List Saturday morning to isit
her sister while Mr Kates is absent in
Chicago
Banker and Mrs Sam Pattkkson
were among the Arapahoe people up to
see the Jeffrie3 Gotch aggregation Tues
day evening
Conrad IIofman who recently re
turned from Pocahontas Arkansas tins
gone to Hemingford up in Box IJutto
cjunty to live
John Green of the Bank of Wauneta
force spent part of the week with his
parents Cashier and Mrs R A Green
of the Citizens National
Mr and Mrs Frank Boyd of Om
aha became guests of Mr and Mrs 11
P Sutton Tuesday He returned the
same nigut but Mrs Bod will remain u
short wuile
Mrs Albert Barnett who has been
in Atchison Kansas visiting Mrs J D
Youny nud at the Excelsior Springs
Mo for a few weeks arrived home last
Friday niyht
G W Gockley and son of Aurora
Illinois visited relatives here last week
going up to Haigler Thursday to spend
a day or two and reluming on Friday
iighton his way east
Dr Mackechnie Postmaster McCool
Banker Dolan Deputy Sheriff Dutcher
an iVerchant Uerling weie among the
Indianolaites t the Jeffries Gotch ex
hibition Tues lay night
William Shean collector for the M
Rumeley Co of Lincoln was in the city
last Saturday on a forclosure case for
the company and arranging for the
shipment of the threshing equipment in
volved to Lincoln
Supt C W Taylor arrived home
Monday on No 1 from attending the
meeting of school superintendents and
high school principals in Lincoln close
of past week He was one of the active
participants in that important gather
ing
Mifcs Elizabeth Bettcher county
superintendent attended the big educa
tional gathering in Lincoln closing dajs
of last week being one programmed to
discuss the report of the committee ap
pointed to recommend safe and sane
industrial subjects to be taught in the
schools of Nebraska
R E Lant arrived from Boise Idadok
end of last week to reside hero again
J A Schmitz has gone down to Old
Mexico on a land beeing visit on the gulf
coast
Oscar Hammond was a city visitor
early in the week afttar an absenco of
several years
W W Barritt wont to Central Gily
Saturday to visit his parents Mr and
Mrs A F Miller
M S Parkks headed a bunch of near
ly a score from Red Cloud Tuesday to
se the bir follows at the Temple
Miss Fanme Eastman arrived from
Grinnell Iowa Saturday and is tho
guest of her sister Mrs E S Waite
Real Estate Filings
The following renl estate filings have
been made in the county clerks ollico
since Inst report
Fanny Young to William S
Yung qcd to o hf nw qr U-
I 2d 1 00
William FJones et ux to Oral
M McCJure wd to G in 2o
2nd McCook lGoO CO
Linda Arnold wid to George
II Siminerman wd to 2 3 in
9 2nd McCook 2500 00
Taylor E Burt et iu to William
Harris sw qr J54 1 27 3200 00
George II Siminerman et ux
to J II Mitchell et al wd to
se qr 4 1-1-30 s hf 2 1 30 and
land in Frontier county 11028 00
R F D NO 1
John Leibbrandt who has been suf
fering from the effects of a tooth extract
ed some time ago beinir confined to bed
for a few days is now able to be up and
around
The new addition to tho German Lu
thean Parsonage has been delayed for
somo time by the weather
Mike Fritz Phillip Breitlinj and Mrj
JBFiechtner were going to Mike Fritzs
home Tuesday evening to be rady for
an early start to School Creek Wednes
day morning Mike Fritz was driving
and in turning a corner too quickly Mrs
Fiechtner was thrown from the back
seat of the spring wagon and quite pain
fully hurt it being necessary to call a
phys ician
Mrs S Joyce Claremont N II
writes About a year ago 1 bought
two bottles of Foleys Kidney Remedy
It cured me of a severe case of kidney
trouble of several years standing It
certainly is agrand good medicine and
I heartily recommendlit
A McMillen
Pneumonia Follows a Cold
but never follows the use of Foleys
Honey and Tar which stops the cough
heals the lungs and expels the cold
from jour system A McMillen
WHITTAKER GRAY
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IKE T PRYOR 100000 ACRE RANCH
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2750 Kansas City 2500
Lands for sale in Nebraska Kansas and Colorado
Irrigated Lands near Laramie Wyoming for from 1250 to 2500 per
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