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First
National
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McCook Nebr
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By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Entered at postoflice McCook Nebraska as
second class matter Published weekly
The Kearney Hub claims that the
man who secured the seventh sa
loon license in Beatrice this spring
had the personal O K of the gov
ernor himself Evidently the govern
or is not seriously thinking of se
curing the temperance vote of De
mocracy if this be true And Brown
boldly claims veracity if he is par
tisan beyond common
Rumor has it that the Democratic
party in this state has persuaded a
party of Iowa newspaper men to in
vade Nebraska 20000 strong for
the purpose of launching a big up-to-date
Democratic paper Stockville is
named as the location but the Eus
tis News has been approached with a
substantial offer and the editor says
a W t ir 1 Kre w
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Itcid McKenna departed Thursday
night on No 3 for Montana
Mrs C W Britt is in Hastings
tills week visiting friends
Ralph Bosworth is down from
Denver a guest in the Gunn home
Will C Israel of the Benkelman
News Chronicle was a Saturday vis
itor
Wm Dorsey and R W McGrew of
Bloomington were McCook visitors
Sunday
Mr and Mrs Frank Brc loy iave
moved down from Hauler to irk2
their nome here
It LcCo e oi Lincoln spent Sunday
in the ci tiie guest of his daugh
n Mrs C D Ritchie
U G Etherton editor of the Bart-
ley Inter Ocean was a business call
er in the city Monday
Mr Walter Wright of Boulder
Colorado was a guest in T P
Rowells home last week
Mr McKennas father returned
Thursday night to Omaha after his
visit in the McKenna home
Attorney F L Wolff was in Hol
drege fore part of the week attend
ing the Phelps county district court
Rufus B Carlton left last Thurs
day night for his old home in Mis
souri to visit his folks before re
turning to his work in California
Mr and Mrs J W Hasty and fam
ily returned Sunday morning from
a visit with the home folks at Arapa
hoe
Mrs Ed Huber daughter and baby
boy went down to Excelsior Springs
Mo last Thursday night for their
health
The Dorcas society of the Congre
gational church meets Thursday af
ternoon June 2 with Mrs D Y
Dorwart
Mrs E S Koller and Miss Ada
line visited Mrs Rollers people in
Oxford over Sunday going down on
No 10 last Thursday evening
Mrs W E Hart and baby went
down to Hastings last Thursday
night on No 10 to visit her daughter
Wilhelmine and other relatives
William Roach an implement deal
er of Haigler was one of the pleased
visitors at the district meeting here
of Daughters of Rebekah last Friday
night
Mrs W B Whittaker who has has
been in Detroit Mich at the bedside
of her mother for a number of weeks
returned home Saturday last on
No 1
Will C Israel editor of the Ben-
Record ing
Marriage Licenses
Edward L Strayer 2S and Janet
Gay Raines 27 both of Stratton
Married by the county judge May 23
John Cashen Auctioneer
Indianola Nebr Dates bookod at Mc
Cook National bank
R F D No 1
Mrs Jennie Hughes and Mrs Eliza
Buck visited at Quick over Sunday
Mrs Carrol of Omaha daughter of
Mrs M J Stroud has been visit
ing the past few days with her
mother and Monday evening was
surprised by a few of her friends
The evening was spent with games
and music and watching the comet
and the eclipse Music was furn
ished by the Rogers orchestra
The School Creek and Bondville
base ball teams crossed bats Sunday
afternoon Score 12 to 7 in favor of
School Creek School Creek had the
Indianola pitcher which resulted in
the high score
Mrs Fred Wagner is very serious
ly ill and her son John of Jules
burg Colorado has been telegraphed
for
Mr Wilcox of Oxford is here visit
ing with his daughter Mrs B A
Frazer
Hari Meyers has sold his farm to
C A Evans and D C Hall de
parted for the west Sunday night
the former going to Portland Ore
gon and the latter to Salt Lake
City Utah
J W Hammond of the Cambridge
Clarion spent a few hours in the
city last Thursday morning to take
a peep at our new linotype He has
an order placed for the same model
President Franklin of tlie Citizens
National Bank attended the meeting
of Group Four of Nebraska bankers
at Hastings last of last week G
H Thomas of Harvard was toast-
master on the banquet occasion
Jas V White of Curtis H W
Keyes and S R Smith of Indianola
and E B Perry of Cambridge are
among the out-of-town attorneys in
attendance at the May term of the
district court
Mr and Mrs J W Hupp of Seat
tle Washington were in the city a
few days early in the week visit
ing old friends They were on their
way home from the east whither
they had been called by a death in
the family
Mrs W B Mills went to Grand
Rapids Michigan close of last week
joining Mr Mills who has been at
the bedside of his sick mother for
some time A private letter to
friends states that the condition of
the invalid is by no means reassur
ing though at present she seems to
be holding her own
Junior Normal
The institute week this year of
of the Junior Normal promises to be
of unusual interest to all teachers
Besides the regular faculty two ex
tra instructors have been provided
Mr E G Weaver head of the de
partment of penmanship and draw
ing of the Perry Normal College will
give two weeks instruction in these
subjects beginning June 6 In addi
tion to this he will give one illus
trated evening lecture Prof N A
Banks of the University of Nebraska
will give one week of special work
on the subject of geography Two
Henry Hofman the consideration be- of his special lines of work will be
ing 9000
A surprise on Leon Rogers was
successfully perpetrated Wednesday
night About forty friends gathered
at the home for a general good time
Refreshments and games were the
order of the evening
illustrated by use of the
con These two lines of work are a
study of the geography of Nebraska
and industrial geography Besides
these two lines he will also have a
class in elementary physical
J raphy
G00D IN SPOTS
One Msjn Who Discovered That War
Vas Not Wholly Bad
Lem Jackson loved to loaf He lived
In the mountains not far from Green
ville Tenn with his wife and a large
brood of children Lem had a noun
laws that he set great store by and
he spent most of his time lounging in
a runway waiting to shoot a deer driv
en In by old Hose or sprawling on the
bank of a stream Ashing In that way
was a good provider after a fash
I m but not all the urging scolding
I -raring and brootnstiekiiig m his
r wife could drive him to work
fin led the lazy lift of a Kip Van
Winkle until the outbreak of tin civil
war and then he joined the Confed
erate army At the end of six mouths
Lem was shot through the right thigh
and it was long before he was able to
limp out off the hospital and back to
his regiment In the second year ho
was shot in the left shoulder and when
he returned to duty his left hand was
bent far back by a shortened tendon
but he was still able to raise his rifle
Early in the fourth year they got him
again a musket ball through the body
but he was back in the ranks long
before the fighting was ended Every
one wondered at Lems persistence in
sticking to the terrible trade of war
Dr Girdner met Lem hobbling down
the street in Greenville one morning
In June 1SG3 still pale and weak from
his latest wound his right leg short
and wabbly his left hand stiffly bent
back
Glad to see you alive Lem said
the doctor I suppose youre glad to
be home again
Waal Lem admitted without en
thusiasm I spose I had to git erlong
home Giural Lee he surrindered us
down to Appomattox an we all had
to go home
But arent you glad to be away from
the dangers of war
Why doc war haint so bad cried
honest Lem war haint so bad
Theres lots of dajS when you dont
have nothin to do Harpers Weekly
A GAME OF BALL
How It May Strike a Stranger Who
Sees It For tho First Time
Nothing has set America so high in
the estimation of foreign nations says
Ellis Parker Butler in Success Maga
zine as the adoption of baseball as the
national sport If a foreign spy wan
ders into America seeking to fathom
our real inwardness and sees a game
of baseball any feeling of contempt
for our newness gives way instantly
to awestruck admiration At bis first
glance baseball is to him a mystery
and it remains a mystery to him He
sees 30000 men and women suffering
the tortures of the lower regions on
hot grand stands He sees a man pick
up a small white ball as hard as a piue
knot Facing him is another man who
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uemd iNe wiruimie uuiibucieu hanls Bdnnd tuig secQnd man ig a
business m McCook Saturday re-
in all probability he will sell Alma maining for St Elmo in the even-
308070 for Red Willow County
According to State Superintendent
Bishops compilation of the amount
to be distributed to the various coun
ties from the temporary school fund
Red Willow county Avill receive
308070 These semi annual appor
tionments are based on the school
population of the state found to be
371452 and the fund at this time
amounts to 3242GGS9 being derived
largely from interest on school and
saline lands sold and leased and in
terest on bonds The rate Der
scholar is 8729 and Red Willow
countys share is based on a school
population of 3529
third man whose face is hidden behind
a birdcage Suddenly the man with
the ball raises one foot in the air and
shows the man with the bat the sole
of his shoe The man at the bat sees
that there are spikes in the sole of the
shoe and it angers him and he raises
his bat to throw it at the man with the
ball But ah ha the man with the
ball is too quick for him He throws
the hard white ball at the man with
the bat with all his strength The
man with the bat waves defiance by
swinging the bat in the air The ball
proceeds The batsman never flinches
Will the ball kill the man or will the
impact crush the ball But see The
ball finds man unflinching the ball is
panic stricken the ball dodges around
the man the ball is lost buried in the
huge leather chair cushion that covers
the hand of the birdcage man behind
the batsman Strike one says the
umpire Thirty thousand cheers
Why
Grub Streets Pawnshop
If the Aram is not the oldest and
best known pawnshop in the world it
deserves to be It has been in exist
ence erer since the days of Shake
speare and Ben Jonson It is in Fleet
street Grub street and has been the
poor writers uncle for all these cen
turies and years It has an old legend
something like this Old Literary
Friends Nerer Forgotten There are
many sourenirs sayings and tradi
tions of the greatest men on earth
who going broke had to patronize it
Outside of its own name it is well
known as the Grub street pawnshop
London Mail
Unspellable
The Newfoundland seal folk for some
reason not given by the St Johns
correspondent of the New York Sun
describe their greasy spoil as swoils
and they also say they spell an ob
ject when they mean to carry it One
can imagine the amazement of the
young cleric who on one occasion ask
ed a burly hunter how he spelled
swoils
We dont spell em we hauls em
was the bewildering reply
The Retort Courteous
I hate to press this bill Mr Slow
pay said the tailor taking a much
wrinkled memorandum of accounts
from his pocket but
Oh dont bother Snip said Slow
pay genially You dont need to press
It 1 dont mind the wrinkles in it at
all Fact is Ive got a dozen fresh
copies of it at home already Judge
A Wide Waist
Miss Thynn I saw Jack put his arm
around you Miss Plumleigh You
didnt either Miss Thynn Well then
as far around as he could get it Bos
ton Transcript
CONSIDERATE
Ho Spared His Guest the Unpleasant
Littlo Detail
Two friends one a prosperous look
ing business man and the other at
least well dressed chanced to meet
not long ago and the second gentle
man remembered that It was his turn
to buy the dinner so they were soon
repairing to a fashionable restaurant
Their orders were generous and they
lingered long over the good things not
forgetting cigars at the end
When they felt tint tr y really had
to leave or else pty lMt the host
Fhowed a bit of tdct ess and re
quested that the other g outside and
wit for him that there was an un
pleasant little detail he wished to
discuss with the proprietor and could
net think of embarrassing his friend
by having him overhear it The
friend did as requested stepping out
side and waiting at the nearest corner
lie had been waiting only about five
minutes when of a sudden the door of
the restaurant flew open and his erst
while host shot through it as from a
catapult followed by some most un
complimentary terms
Whats wrong was the first in
quiry of the waiting friend
Oh nothing much was the an
swer except that the unpleasant lit
tle detail I had to discuss with the
proprietor was that 1 had no money
to pay for the dinners Pittsburg
Gazette Times
A FAMOUS GOOSE
Peter the Pet of the English Cold
stream Guards
Possibly the most remarkable crea
ture ever attached to a regiment was
Peter the ever famous goose of the
Coldstream guards This curious pet
was presented to the Coldstreamers
when they were in Canada by the late
Hon Adolphus Graves and soon it ac-
quired a fame which eclipsed that of i
all rivals in the way of pets in the
arm-
When the guard was mounted of a
morning Peter always marched off
with them It- is recorded that one
night the goose sared a sentrys life
by flying in tho face of a rebel who
was just going to fire at the soldier
Peters timely aid disconcerted the
rebel who fired at random The sen
try immediately responded by shoot
ing the rebel dead
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worf nnnrtorpfl in TTnnrtnn nn of thn RW
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out was to see Peter strutting at thejgj
head of the battalion till they passed J ffl
me uarracK gate wuen ine goose re-
Old English Laws About Buttons
Buttons have engaged the attention
of legislators even more frequently
than hats Vive acts have been pass
ed to protect the button industry of
England and some of these are still
unrepealed An act of George I in
flicts a penalty of 40 shillings on any
person using or selling buttons made
of cloth serge drugget frieze or cam
let
This law says the London Daily
Mail was a source of intense annoy
ance to foreign visitors and the author
of Le Parisien a Londres a guide
written in 17S9 is careful to explain
its provisions at considerable length
He adds howerer that foreigners
who are able to prore that their
clothes were made in their own coun
try escape the penalty when first sum
moned on the understanding that they
change their buttons within twenty
four hours
Lively Times In Billville
turned Unhappily Peter s fate was Rg
unheroic His end was ill in accord k
with his martial career for he
run over and killed by a cab and
Well sir said the Billville citi N
zen ef they aint a power o confu
sion in the skies after awhile Ill give
It up
Whats the trouble he was asked
Well over yander is Deacon Jones
prayin fer rain an jest crost the way
is Elder Brown pertitionin fer dry
an the whole poperlations crowdin
roun bettin whichIl win An the
high sheriffs done sarred notice to alJ
of em to appear in court an answer
to the charge o gamblin in futures
an he says hell git enough cash out
o the gang to finish the artesian well
an paint the town hall Uncle Re
mus Magazine
Guarded His Beard
As Sir Thomas More laid his head
on the block he begged the executioner
to wait a moment while he carefully
placed his beard out of reach of the
ax for he said it hath not commit
ted treason which reminds one of
the story of Simon Lord Lorat who
the day before his execution on Tower
hill bade the operator who shared him
be cautious not to cut his throat as
such an accident would cause disap
pointment to the gaping crowd on the
morrow English Magazine
Small Audience
Bacon Did you say the professor al
ways counts ten before he speaks
Egbert No he only counted eight at
yesterdays lecture Yonkers States
man
His Proof
Mrs Youngwife What hare you
ever done to prore your lore for me
Mr Youngwife Darling Pre contract
ed a lorely case of chronic dyspepsia
Judge
Remember you must die Let this
not startle you but let it soften you
while there is yet time to do some
good in the world I
not eren a taxicab It was a poor f
kind of an end for a bird with such
a record London Telegraph
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IMPORTANT IF TRUE
Unfortunately in This Case the
Grouch Skillfully Evades All the
Facts
Some weeks since an indiridual
traveling under the literary title of
Dod Gaston appeared in this city
burdened with the purpose and duty
of a special literary stunt which he
performed largely by proxy After
the story was prepared time seems
to have hung heavily on his hands
At his own solicitation he was shown
McCooks handsome modern theatre
building which he approved heartily
adding that it excelled those of his
own town a city of considerable pro
portions
This is the only fact in the case
There was no committee Those who
showed the gentleman the theatre
were doubtless no less wearied than
was Mr Dod Gaston who seems
to be pretty much fool and necessar
ily tiresome There was no delega
tion of prominent citizens and no
sensation that a prominent citizen
was being shown Just a common
act of courtesy and a self sought one
at that one that the recipient was
too boorish to appreciate as the fol
lowing article from his pen discloses
At McCook Xeb the other day a
delegation of prominent citizens took
McCook
Color Combination
is one of the effective
points about our new
CARPETS
Like a discord in music
poor color combinations
are disturbing
We really feel that we have exceptionally well selected
Carpets and Rugs
Do not fail to drop in when in our vicinity and see our
fresh and elaborate stock of Superlative Carpets and Rugs
Linoleums 6 and 12 ft wide Imported China Mattings
Portieres aud Lace Curtains
Drew Furniture and Carpet Co
Leaders in Low Prices
214 West B St
me through their new opera house
Now I have seen a thousand theatres
more or less and I didnt care a
dang about the one at McCook I
had been working hard all day was
tired and perspiring and what I real
ly wanted to do was to go to ni3
hotel take a bath and lie down and
rest until my train came But the
committee felt it their duty to show
me their opera house and although
I was bored to extinction I had to
put in a weary hour being polite to
people for whom I cared nothing and
who cared nothing for me inspect
ing a thing in which I was not inter
ested in the least Nearly every
town in the country bores its visit
ors by showing them the local sights
The more prominent and important
the man the more he suffers in that
respect This department will here
after be devoted to the working of
a reform in this matter I shall
openly advocate the policy of keep
ing away from visitors and allowing
them to dc as they blamed please
I believe the town will make friends
by adopting my policy The average
man has seen everything there is to
see in Topeka a thousand times
Why bore and annoy him by compel
ling him to look at them again
McConnell fills prescriptions
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