Better Start
Now
An early start and a defi
nite plan goes far toward
assuring success to tho
young man or woman
starting out in life No
need of being stingy
neither should you bo a
spender Tho sensible
and easy method of creat
ing a fund for your future
needs is to open an ac
count with this bank de
posit whatever you can
each week or month
Stick to it and in time
your success will bo as
sured Better start now
youwill never regret it
First
National
Bank
McCook Nebr
By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Entered at postoffice McCook Nebraska as
second class matter Published weekly
Now will you be good Pontius
The Tribune fears that Brother
Brown of the Kearney Hub does not
under any circumstances intend to be
pleased with anything that Lincoln
is interested in Paraphrasing a well
known sentence the Hubs idea seems
to be Can any good come out of
Lincoln
Nebraska newspapers are prepar
ing their readers for possible not to
say probable disappointment when
the census figures are made known
Too generous guessing usually char
acterizes estimates of local popula
tion McCook will not be an excep
tion to the rule
The liquor interests of Omaha and
of the state are leaving no stone un
turned to queer Lincoln A favorite
mode of attack in fact the only one
that seems of value to that interest
is the business proposition Not
withstanding general business has
not only not suffered by the dry
situation but has prospered the liq
uor interests are slyly and persist
ently reporting the contrary Whip
ped a thousand strong at the ballot
whiskey maliciously opens a cam
paign of falsehood the next morning
and it will continue the year round
Let no thoughtful man be deceived
Frank Em rson went to wo k in the
scrap gang Wednes Jay
Mr and Mrs Will Porter are at home
summoned by the serious and supposed
fatal illness of his mother Mr3 W J
Porter of East McCook
Engineer and Mrs O G Coppon
Mrs F TV Deere and Mrs I P Hill
will leave tomorrow morning for St
Paul Minn to at end the grand lodge
meeting of the B of L F E
Miss Lenor Fitzgerald after spend
ing a week at a house party in Shelton
teturned home from Kearney Tuesday
on No 1 Miss Lenor graduated from
the higher course at the State Normal
school on May 27th and and has accept
ed the position of Principal of the Sil
ver Creek school
The Art Tint
just one of the beau
tiful mounts in brown
and gray tones new
spring styles which
we are showing and
our portraits have
a different quality
look that commands
a second glance You
cannot afford to pass
up the opportunity
E S KIMMELL
Portrait Photographer
1st Door N Commer
cial Hotel Phone
No Red 428
t Jr ytr5V
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Max Hare is clerking in Rozells
clothing store
Miss Bessie Peterson is enjoying a
vacation in Missouri
Mrs C W Britt spent part of last
week in Hastings Aurora and York
Ed Cottingham and family were
guests of Wray relatives part of last
week
Herman Pade was called to In
dianola Monday on undertaking bus
iness
John Cunningham has r oved to
Cambridge where lie z emi oed 01
tho section
MIn ic Lwecucy cZ the teach
er ccn I ror her home in Arapa
noe Sunday evening
Mrs Lottie Brewer is now the
state treasurer of the Nebraska La
dies of the G A R
Miss Christine Hollister departed
Monday night for Hartford Conn
for the summer vacation
Mrs Edna Briggs went down to
Hamilton last week on a visit to
her parents Mr and Mrs John Mar
tin
Misses Abel and Skjelver grade
teachers returned to Red Cloud
Sunday evening for the summer va
cation
Mrs Robert Murphy and children
came up from Lebanon last week
and have been visiting McCook
friends
Miss Mary Powers one of the old
reliables of the teacher corps re
turned to her Trenton home on last
Friday evening
Rev W Brueggeman late pastor
of the German Evangelical Lutheran
church of this city is now located
in Huntley Illinois
Mrs W S Morgan came up from
Holdrege last Thursday and will be
a guest of her daughter Mrs C H
Stennett for a few weeks
TV A Hall of Ohiowa this state
was here on last Saturday looking
after his real estate interests in the
neighborhood of McCook
Misses Ruth and Alma Craw who
have been attending school during
the past term returned to their home
in Stratton end of week
Mrs C I Hall departed on Mon
day morning for Salt Lake City
Utah to join her husband who went
west a week or two since
Charles Merle was out from Oma
ha closing days of last week visit
ing the family which in due time
will move to Omaha to live
Mrs D Diamond has received word
of the death of an elder brother in
London England The brother was
a professor in mathematics and had
the degree of M A
Rev R T Bayne of the Congrega
tional church arrived home from his
visit east Tuesday on No 1 and
regular services will be resumed at
usual hours next Sunday
Mrs S A Rowell is building a
new porch on the south side of her
residence corner J and 2nd street
east besides making a number of
other improvements upon her proper
ty
Fred Grimm of Wauneta and Roy
Scott of Palisade both members of
the junior class of 1910 in the Mc
Cook high school left for their re
spective homes on No 175 Saturday
morning
Holton Longnecker of Rollinsville
Colorado who was called home about
two weeks since by the illness of his
brother Owens departed for home on
Sunday night after the brothers fu
neral Saturday
Frank Amann of Bloomington this
state a former resident of McCook
returned to the city end of last
week to make his home here again
His brother John accompanied him
and will also remain
F M Kimmell and E Schell Kim-
mell arrived home last Thursday
night from Aurora and Lincoln Mrs
Kimmell and Mrs Meserve will re
turn shortly accompanied by the
Magee children
Miss Alice Bradbury who has been
ailing with a severe case of tonsilitis
was able to resume her position in
J E Kelleys office this week
Her mother Mrs E C Bradbury of
Imperial was with her part of last
week
Rev J S Bayne of Holdrege fath
er of Rev R T Bayne of our city
has resigned the Congregational pas
torate at Holdrege where he has
been in charge for several years
and assumed the charge at Kearney
with June 1st
City Superintendent C W Taylor
High School Principal Miss Cora
Scott and County Superintendent
Miss Elizabeth Bettcher departed
Monday night to attend a meeting
of school interests in Lincoln for
several days Mr Taylor and Miss
Bettcher are both on the program
All departments of the state educa
tional interests will be represented
in this great conference
WW
Edna Meserve Magee
Not for long has this community
and sorrow as came last Sunday
morning when the news passed from
one to another that Mrs E E Ma
gee was dead We had all known
she was sick but no one supposed
she was sick unto death Indeed
-cad Death was hovering near t
Several weeks ago the deceased
j taken with the grippe She bore
t attack well but diJ hoc fully
over from it and a faw days be-
whole intellectual and social train
ing had admirably fitted her for such
a place
Children came to bless their home
The first one Bruce was born six
years ago he is now an active boy
in school The second one was also
a boy and was born four months ago
This little fellow now so cruelly de
prived of a mothers love will be
cared for by the only sister of the
deceased Mrs Kimmell of McCook
Three years ago the family moved
to Aurora where Mr Magee entered
THE COLORADO DESERT
experienced such a feeling of loss Its Stunted Treo Forms and Its
Tiea forests
In places In the Colorado desert are
stream beds where perhaps once In
several years heavy rains in distant
mountains will cause water to flow for
a short time In these dry water
oniipcoe Rornrnl vnriotinti rf stnntnil
those nearest and dearest to her and tree forms are often found The des
the physicians who had attended her ert willow which resembles the willow
never for a moment thought that with which we are familiar though
smaller In size the vnl verde or
tree a tree ivhk h is i bright reon
from trunk to tip of I lb in every
twig and the ironvoid o dense in
fiber that it turns m i dge are the
principal varieties ic are rarely
fore her death pleurisy deeiopeJ above twenty feet high and like nil
and on Thursday or Friday of hist desert vegetation have not a leaf
week this changed into pneumonia
Even then it was not thought she
was in a dangerous condition But
They are apparently outcasts from
the two great tree divisions deciduous
and citrus for they have leaves
c ther to lose nor to keep These may
near the close of the day on
ue UMiiiu me living uujja ui iub nc u
day shortly after the arrival of Mr
funiIv We wI flnd jcre aso tue
Magee from the store a change was deiiii nons
noted and an effort made to summon
the physician but in a few minutes
she had passed away She herself
had no thought of danger She was
conversing freely and intelligently
with those at her bedside and two
minutes later she was dead It was
a case of acute pneumonia and the
heart action was not equal to the
strain
Edna Taylor Meserve was born in
Buckley 111 January 6 1872 Since
18S2 she has been a resident of Ne
braska The family home was at
McCook After a time Mr Meserve
was elected as treasurer of Nebraska
and they all went to Lincoln to live
and the deceased matriculated as a
student at the state university
On August G 1S99 she was united
in marriage to Mr E E Magee
Not far from the mountain range we
will come upon the remains of what
were once extensive forests of gigantic
trees now turned to stone and lying
as they fell centuries ago The great
trunks perfect In grain knot and bark
fiber cumber the ground In tangled
confusion In those places which have
been protected from the drifting sand
giving evidence that what is now a
desert was once upon a time a tropical
wilderness Travel Magazine
RUB THE OTHER EYE
And Let the One In Which the Bit of
Cinder Lodges Alone
Nine persons out of every ten with
a cinder or any other foreign sub
stance in the eye will instantly begin
to rub it with one hand while hunting
for a handkerchief with the other
This Is all wronir The richt wav is
Their home life was rich in mutual not to rub tne eyo with the cjnier in
affection in kindly sympathy and in it but to rub tho other as vigorously
similar sentiments tastes and ideals as you like
Mr Magee entered the teaching pro j A few months ago I was riding on
fession teaching in the McCtok high the engine of a fast express The en
gineer threw opou tue front window
school and was superintendent of
of the cab and I caught a cinder in
schools TTi 4 i a i i
at Fairmont and Ashland
mv eve which gave me Intense pain I
In these important positions he waS began t0 rul the eve desperately when
greatly assisted by his wife whose the eneineer called to me
Let that eye alone and rub the oth
er one
Thinking he was chaffing me I only
rubbed the harder
T know the doctors think they know
It all but they dont and if you will
let that eye alone and work on the
other one you will soon have the cin
der out shouted the engineer
I did as he directed and soon felt
the cinder down near the inner can
thus and made ready to take it out
Let it alone and keep at the well
eye again shouted the engineer
I did so for a minute longer and
then looking into a small glass the
business life They soon became engineer handed me I saw the offender
prominently identified with the busi 0n my cheek I have tried it many
ness intellectual and religious inter- times since always with success Chi-
ests of the city They united with cago Record Herald
the local Congregational church and
the deceased was one of the faithful Where History Began
visit to tne tombs or
describing a
and trusted women who do so much j
the Egyptian kings Albert Bigelow
tn nrnmntP th wplfnr nf tho oWM
- paiue jn Harpers Weekly writes of ji
tier sterling character her quiet so- the splendid tomb of Amenopnls II
ciai ways ana ner interest in what 0f the eihteenth
the church stands for made her in- in the glory
deed
death
the touching testimonials to her sarcophagus is removed and is replac
ed plato glass Just over the
by
worth is fnunii in tho fnnt tw eavy
both Fairmont and Aurora Sunday
McConnell fills prescriptions
Sfcsr
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a
dynasty who lived j
of Esrynt 1G0O B C a 1
a valuable member and her warrior who slew seven Syrian chiefs I j
will be grievously felt One of witn bis own hand The top of the J
sleepers face there is a tiny electric
globe and I believe one could never
the regular morning church services
tire of standIng tUere and looking at
were given up so deeply did each one that quiet visage darkened by age but
feel that he had met with a great beautiful in its dignity unmoved un
loss I disturbed by the storm and stress of
The father and mother of the de- the fretful years How long he has
j ceased are now living in California been asteepl The Israelites were still
Mr ln bondage wnen lie ten into tnat quiet
Meserves health will not per-
- doze and for their exodus a century
mit him to undertake the long jour-
J or two later he did not care Hector
but Mrs Meserve at
ney started
once and Achilles and Paris and the rest had
tor the east and was in attendance Uot yet battled omthe plains of Troy
at the funeral The services were
held at the home on Thursday morn
ing at nine oclock and were in
charge of the pastor of the church
Rev F D Reeves who with a ten
derness and a delicacy all his own
spoke of her who was the light of
the little home but who had been
called hence
interred in the Wyuka cemetery
Besides Mrs Meserve those present
from a distance were Mr and Mrs
F M Kimmell of McCook and Mrs
Alexander Maycock of Gillette Wyo
The sympathy of the entire commun
ity will go spontaneously to our
friend Magee
There was a wealth of floral trib
utes from relatives and friends in
McCook Lincoln Fairmont Ashland
this city and other points in all
rarely indicating a deep sympathy
and tenderest memory Aurora Ne J disciple
braska Sun
Moral Suasion and a Strap
She seems to have abandoned her
moral suasion ideas relative to the
training of children
JShe has
How did it happen
Well I was largely instrumental in
bringing about the change Tou see
she has no children of her own and I
The body was taken to Lincoln and grew weary of her constant preaching
and theorizing so I loaned her our
Willie
Loaned her your boy
Precisely She was to have him a
week on her solemn promise to con
fine herself entirely to moral suasion
Did she keep her promise
She did but at the expiration of
the week she came to me with tears
in her eyes and pleaded for permission
to whale him just once New York
Mail
Confucius on Kingcraft
What is kingcraft demanded a
Confucius replied Food enough
Iroops enough and a trusting people
Were there no help for it which
could be best spared of the three
Troops said the master
Note the fact that the W C T TJ And were there no help for it
meeting on tomorrow afternoon will which could be better spared of the
be at the home of Mrs Joseph Allen
A young traveling- man named Jeff
ries lias been laid up at the Monte
Cristo since last Saturday with a
sprained ankle
Lewis Ludwick will be graduat
ed from the Nebraska Schoo 1 for
the Blind at Nebraska City next
Monday and Mrs J W Ridenour
other two
Food said the master
and J E Ludwick will attend the than they could ride a Greek goat
exercises London Scraps
From of
old all men die but without trust a
people cannot stand
Got It Mixed
An amusing blunder was made in
the case of a judicial declaration that
certain resident magistrates could no
more state a case than they could
write a Greek ode
This was made to read that the mag
istrates could no more state a case
All Muslin Un-
crwear Samole
Reduced 30 to 50 per
cent
These samples are the left overs from our Annual
January Sale and being mussed or slightly soiled we have
placed them out on our Center Counters and have marked
them
Far Below the Original Manufacturers Cost
iim rvW
if
wfikJilL ill WMJayV
in order to close them out
quick Dont fail to ex
amine these bargains and
secure your share before
they are gone
This lot consists of
Combination Suits
Petticoats
Drawers
Gowns
Corset Covers
and Princess Slips
Big reduction on All
Wool TailoredlSuits
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Our stock of suits is fast being reduced at our Mid
Summer Prices and you should call at once and secure
your garments while there is a selection tcTchoose from
Every suit is reduced nearly half
H C CL A PP
Exclusive Dry Goods Millinery and Ladies Furnishings
222 Main Ave Phone 56 McCook
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Small grain looks good
Farmers are plowing corn
There was a dance at the home of
Charles Nothnagel last Saturday
night about forty friends and neigh
bors being present Ice cream and
cake were served and all enjoyed a
fine time dancing until breakfast
time Violin and organ provided the
music
Mrs Frank Schamell and children
attended services at the Fowler
school house Sunday
C S Hawkins had some livestock
on the McCook market Monday
The fine rain of last week is keep
ing the farmers busy
Mrs C M Lofton and children re
turned home first of the week
M Austin delivered hogs in Mc
Cook Wednesday
German Evangelical Lutheran
Preaching at 230 p m June 5
by Rev Grotheer fo Oxford
Miss Bessie Peterson returned home
Wednesday on 13
E S Howell and family were Have
lock visitors over Sunday the family re
maining for a long stay
Mrs Albert Barnett returned home
end of last week after an absence seek
ing health of several weeks
LColor Combination
is
one of the effective
points about our new
CjARPETS
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
Phone Black 271 Leaders in Low Prices 214 West B St i
T T f r V T
For Sale
My residence on nth street E S rooza
house furnace heat two lots Thirtr
shade and fruit trees Good barn an
hen bouse Fine cement walk3 Ib
quire of E II Doan at McCook Mills
or at residence Phone blsck 105
Exclusive Agents Exclusive Coffee
Iluber is exclusive agent in McCook
for the unexcelled liarrington Hall
collees Priced at 20 2o and 35 conta
per ound
The Only Union Made
overalls in the city are the Carhart
Iluber is the exclusive agent Also
jackets and caps The phone is f7
For Sale
All or part of my alfalfa and frIt
farm Call or phone black 292 W M
Morrisey
John Cashen Auctioneer
Indianola Nebr Dates booked ai Mc
Cook National bank
FARM LOANS
Whittaker Gray room 3 Masonic
temple McCook Nebraska 25 tf
Money To Loan On Farms
See Rozell Sons at clothing store
Buy field garden and flower seoda
from H P Waite Co
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