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I County Commissioners Proceedings McCook Nebraska June 20th 1910 The board of county commissioners met in regular session qresent C B Gray F 3 Lofton and Edward Sughroue county commissioners and Chas Skalla county clerk The minutes of the meetings held May 31st June 1st and June 2nd were read and approved The following claims were audited and allowed and the clerk was in structed to draw warrants on the county general fund levy of 1909 as follows P S Heaton appraising dam ages road No 431 4 50 N J Johnson appraising dam ages road No 431 4 50 W M Itozell appraising dam ages road No 431 4 50 Samuel Premer viewing road No 433 7 00 Chas Skalla cash advanced to Hitchcock county for view ing road G 50 Peter Foxen viewing road No 435 3 70 Peter Foxen viewing road No 43G 4 80 J F Cordeal viewing road No 437 4 00 T A Roland surveying road No 435 and making plats 8 90 Peter Foxen chain carrier road No 435 2 00 Walter Campbell chain t car rier road No 435 2 00 T A Poland surveying road No 436 and making plats 10 10 Peter Foxen chain carrier road No 436 2 00 Walter Campbell chain car fare paupers W B Whitaker railroad fare paupers W B Whittaker meals for paupers R W McBrayer wiring in court house- S V Frazier work in court house yard M Mathes janitor March 22 to April 22 and extra work 32 50 M Mathes janitor April 22 to June 1st 40 00 Mathias Tines assessing Al liance precinct 33 00 T M Campbell assessing Box Elder precinct 39 00 A J Greer assessing Dan bury precinct and postage 57 20 R M Hill assessing Drift wood precinct 43 50 J W Randel assessing Ger ver precinct 39 00 Albert Weeks assessing Grant precinct IS 00 Fred Bamesberger assessing Missouri Ridge 33 00 P D Brooks assessing North Valley precinct and postage 43 7S W H Meyers assessing Red Willow precinct 4S 00 W T Owens assessing Ty rone precinct and postage 39 20 J C Moore fees State vs Lane J C Moors fees State vs Smith J C Moore fees State vs Quadour E F Osbom fees State vs Quadour J S LeHew fees State vs Smith H I Peterson fees State vs Smith Hazel Smith fees State vs Smith witness E F Osbom fees State vs Smith witness R M Osbom fees State vs Smith witness rier road No 43t 2 00 T A Rofcind surveying road in Tyrone precinct 11 00 T A Roland drawing speci fications for cement bridge 8 00 T A Roland cover on office desk 75 Elizabeth Bettcher salary as superintendent April 1910 90 00 Li M Higgins salary as sher iff April 1910 100 00 L II Higgins boarding pris oners and expenses April 3S 45 L M Higgins boarding pris oners and expenses May IS 50 L M Higgins postage 1st quarter 1 54 J W Dutcher summoning 15 jurors 9 00 H N Rosebush cement work in court house 41 00 C Nad en freight advanced 15 06 W B Whittaker railroad 66 7 99 50 6 60 3 60 2 10 2 10 3 15 2 10 4 50 3 05 1 10 1 10 1 10 E H Doan fees State vs Smith witness 1 10 J C Moore fees State vs Rowland 6 55 William Sigwing fees State vs Rowland witness 1 50 Earl Kelley fees State vs Rowland witness 2 SO Ed Kelley fees State vs Row land witness 1 80 H I Peterson fees State vs Rowland witness 1 10 E B Nelson fees State vs Rowland witness - 1 SO C A Rodgers fees State vs Rowland witness 3 50 C B Gray commissioner ser vice and mileage 116 10 F S Lofton commissioner service and mileage 92 30 Edward Sughroue commission- er service and mileage 109 10 C W Barnes printing notic es 1 45 Danbury News printing no tices 3 00 F M Kimmell printing no tices for treasurer 2 00 F M Kimmell printing road notices No 431 7 50 Indianola Reporter printing assessors notice 3 40 The two claims of F M Kimmell for printing commissioners proceed ings 2268 for February and March and 1734 for April all at the rate of 33 1 3 cents per square are re jected as he has no contract with the county for printing proceedings The claim of the Indianola Report er for printing commissioners pro ceedings of 2475 for March and April at the rate of 50 cents a square was rejected as he has no contract with the county for the printing of proceedings A motion was made by Lofton that the claims of H C Higgins of 3150 for January and of 8850 for Febru ary and March for Janitor fees be re jected The roll was called voting Yea Lofton Gray 2 Nay Sugh roue 1 Motion declared carried 0 The following claims were audited and allowed and the clerk was in structed to draw warrants on the re spective funds levy of 1910 as fol lows Commissioner District No 2 John Tines road work Alli ance precinct 17 25 JohnTeter road work Alli ance precinct 6 00 Casper Vontz road work Al liance precinct 16 50 P H Callan road wonk Al liance precinct 9 00 George Teter road work Al liance precinct 23 00 Hamer Harry road work Al liance precinct 13 50 James K McDowell road Alliance precinct 25 00 Virgil Brush road work North Valley precinct 0 00 J M Brush road work North Valley precinct 9 SO Lucian Harte road work North Valley precinct 9 00 Jack King road work North Valley precinct 1 50 J W Arbogast road work North Valley precinct 1 00 August Magarin road work North Valley precinct 21 00 F M Jennings road work North Valley precinct 33 25 Fred Bebe road work North valley precinct 9 00 Charles Albee road work Fritsch precinct 6 00 Martin Bergin road work Fritsch precinct 3 00 Frank Blake road work Fritsch precinct 6 00 Frank Hill road work Fritsch precinct 5 00 George W Wheeler culvert work East Valley precinct 15 00 Elsie Bush culvert work East Valley precinct 12 00 Charles Kerst culvert work East Valley precinct 1 S7 J C Fritz culvert work East Valley precinct 1 S7 D W Bush jr culvert work East Valley precinct 2 64 Fred Wilson culbert work East Valley precinct 6 65 W P Elmer culvert work East Valley precinct 16 00 Commissioner district No 3 John L Schilz road work Coleman precinct 6 00 Mike A Schilz road work Coieman precinct 24 00 Philip Moore road work Coleman precinct 9 00 Mike Moore road work Cole man precinct 6 00 D B Reisher road work Per ry precinct 6 00 H K Bixler road work Wil low Grove precinct S2 37 Lee Arnett 2 road drags 39 56 W N Rogers 100 loads of reck 75 00 J F Sellin road Avork Wil low Grove precinct Road district No 2 cinct 2 00 Alliance pre- BURTON THATCHER 18 is almost phenomenal as a musical genius He has sung In grand opera juid in the most celebrated oratorios of the land With his clever pianist Miss Mary Wilson Cook he will de liver a lecture recital at CHAUTAUQUA J K McDowell road work 10 25 George Teter road work 12 50 Road district No 3 Fritsch pre cinct Charles Albee road work 9 00 Martin Bergin road work 9 00 Ben Cobum road work 9 00 Len Coburn road work 9 00 Clarence Hill road work 3 00 Frank Hill road work 7 50 Road district No 10 East Valley precinct Geo W Wheeler sharpening grader blade 150 Geo W Wheeler supplies 150 Geo W Wheller road work 31 92 Guy Ritchie road work 2 22 Elcie Bush road work 14 25 F A Hadgkin doad work 3 37 Road district No 11 Tryone pre cinct F A Ho lgkin road work 3 37 1908 1 50 Road district No 14 Valley Grange precinct John Peabody road work 9 00 Dert Shields road work 9 00 Gleen Shields road work 6 00 Otto Hesterworth road work 13 50 Henry Hesterworth road work 6 00 Will Nothnagel road work G 00 Sam Hughes road work 2 50 On motion the county treasurer was instructed to refund to David M Stern the sum of 2160 being the amount of 1908 taxes illegally levied on west half southwest quarter of 19-3-29 by reason of a clerical er ror on the assessment list On motion the county treasurer was instructed to refund to C F Lehn the sum of 277 being the ammount of taxes illegally levied against lot 17 block 10 original Mc Cook in 1906 when aaid lot was city property said taxes being er roneously 8old to C F Lehn On motion the claim of W S Coleman for 4800 for the special sidewalk assessment levied by- the city of Indianola in 1909 against- lot 13 block 29 Indianola and paid by him under protest was rejected On motion the board adjourned to meet June 21st 1910 Attest CHAS SKALLA County Clerk C B GRAY Chairman McCook Nebraska June 21 1910 The county board of equalization met pursuant to adjournment pres ent C B Gray F S Lofton and Ed ward Sughroue county commission ers T A Endsley county assessor and Chas Skalla county clerk The minutes of the meeting held June 16th were read and on motion approved A motion was made by Skalla sec onded by Lofton that the valuation of the improvements of 35000 on lot 6 in section 29 3 30 of Chas W Kneeland be stricken from the assessment list as there are no im provements on said land Motion car ried unanimously A motion was made by Skalla se conded by Lofton that the valuation of the improvements of 10000 on lot 3 in block 2 1st addition to Mc Cook of Mrs Mae Trammell be stricken from the assessment list as there are no improvements on said lot Motion carried unanimausly A motion was made by Endsley seconded by Skalla that the im provements on parts of lot 9 in block 11 West McCook of John Condon be raised from 10000 to S0000 said John Condon having been not ified by the county assessor to ap pear before the board Motion car ried unanimously A motion was made by Skalla seconded by Sughroue that the as sessment of the McCook Electric Co be fixed at 4000000 Motion car ried unanimously A motion was made by Endsley seconded by Lofton that the follow ing changes be made in the 1909 as sessment of horses Alliance precinct add 20 to horses Box Elder precinct add 15 to horses Driftwood precinct add 15 to horses Grant precinct add 20 to horses Lebanon precinct add 15 to hors es Red Willow precinct add 20 to horses and 0 to mules Tyrone precinct add 10 to horses which raises will not bring these pre cincts above the county average of horses as returned by the pre cinct assessors The roll call result ed Yea Lofton Gray Endsley and Skalla I Nay Sughroue Motion declared carried Motion was made by Endsley se conded by Lofton that we reconsider the action taken by the board in the matter of the McCook Electric Cos assessment The roll call resulted Yea Lofton Sughroue Gray Ends ley i Nay Skalla 1 Motion declared carried A motion was made by Endsley seconded by Lofton that the assess ment of the McCook Electric Co be fixed at 3250000 The roll call resulted Yea Lofton Gray Ends ley 3 Nay Sughroue Skalla 2 Motion declared carried A motion was made by Skalla sec ond by Lofton that the board of equalization now adjourns until the srnte board of equalization and as sessment has completed its work and I made its report to the county board fnr thpm to mako the levy The of the chairman and clerk Attest CHAS SKALLA County Clerk C B GRAY Chairman McCook Neb June 21st 1910 The board of county commissioners met pursuant to adjournment present C B Gray F S Lofton and Ed ward Sughroue county commission ers and Chas Skalla county clerk The following claims were audited and allowed and the clerk was in structed to draw warrants on the re spective funds levy of 1909 as fol lows Commissioner district No 3 L H Vollbrecht running grad er with engine 210 00 W T Clark road work with grader 34 60 Road district No 7 Willow Grove precinct H P Waite Co road plow 14 00 Road district No 14 Valley Grange precinct H P Waite Co road plow 16 00 Robert Johnson road work 12 50 Road district No 13 Goundville precinct H P Waite Co road plow 16 00 On motion the board adjourned to meet July 5th 1910 Attest CHAS SKALLA County Cterk C B GRAY ClraHsnaa Real Estate Filjrjrjs The following real eatate fillings have been made in tlie ttourtty Clerks office since our last report Alrin Anderson sing to J J Klein wd to 3 in 6 6 Mc Cook 275 00 H J Johnson et ux J S Wunderlich wd to se qr nw qr ne qr sw qr 56 in 6-3-57 1 00 Charles F Lehn et ux Gen evia Stansberry wd 4 in 7 7th McCook 250 00 Joseph Stansberry et ux Car son Wood wd to 3 in 7 1st McCook 1600 00 Joseph R Stansberry et ux to Addie Russell wd to 2 in 4 7th McCook 1S00 00 Lincoln Land Co to Joseph R Stansberry wd to 10 in 11 2nd McCook 2 3 in 4 and 2 in S 7th McCook S50 00 William L Zint et ux to V Franklin wd to w 50 ft 13 14 15 in 21 McCook 2500 00 Samuel D McClain et ux to V Franklin wd to same as above 2500 00 James E Ludwick sing to J Wesley Ridenour wd to 10 in 14 2nd McCook 2250 00 The Safe and Easy Way is the Best To do housework thoroughly takes time and strength but theres no need of using more of either than is actually required Save a little of both Half an hour saved here and there makes a big difference at the end of the day Throw away all your oldfashioned cleaning com pounds that contain caustics acids alkalis and grit Use Old Dutch Cleanser for all the things for which you formerly used scouring bricks washing powders and scouring soaps You know what these things are the cleaning scrubbing scouring and polishing you usually dread Try Old Dutch Cleanser See how it digs down and brings forth a spot lessly clean surface with half the work you ordinarily put into clean ing Then youll know why Old Dutch Cleanser is the favorite with millions of housekeepers McConnell for drugs Letters on Poorly Printed Stationery Go Into the ptep ill 21 jCrfwj M iH jS A classy looking letter head wins atten tion and puts the recipient Into a pleasant frame of mind for the letter underneath We Print That Kind of Stationery BURNING THE DEAD A Custom That Can Be Traced Back to the Earliest Ages Cremation has been practiced by most of the nations of the earth from the earliest ages and although in pa- I n smmftfnu If- ntni Itnvfk tnLnn fill meeting shall be subject to the call fa -- - -- form of lire worshiping there can be c it clerk but at of the chairman and ndopUon by thj least three days notice of such dents wag fQr the mosJ part nrompt meeting shall be given to all ed by otner tmin reiigj0U8 reasons hers of the board Motion carried un Greeks ascribe its introduction to Her- animously and the board of cules who huving sworn to transmit znttnn ndlntimpd subiect to the call the bodv of Artrus to his father thought this the most convenient way of fulfilling his promise According to Homer the burning of the dead was a common practice among the Greeks long before the Trojan war but the earliest record of it Is amoug tin Scythians who inhabited the vast re gion known under the name of Tar tar Slender accounts handed down concerning the manners of some of tin ancient natives of Hindustan also al lude to the custom The Idea of puri fication by lire was in nil ages univer sal and with good reason Some be lieved that the body was unclean after the departure of the soul and it was therefore deemed necessary that It should be purified by fire Ovid ex pressed the general opinion of his time when he said that the soul was not completely separated from the body until the latter was consumed on tin pyre The Athenians invariably after a battle burned the slain WHIPPED BY MACHINERY Automatic Fhjggers Used by Several European Armies Automatic flogging machines are In use amcuig the military forces of sev eral EunopeiMi nations For many years the whipping was always done by soldiers- under the comtnnud of an ofifcer andlhft punishment varied ac gokHus to th if njeiwuimi relations rsul sfstingjbetwiu the soldier uujljjhtsnle tmi 4tiwas to correct tills disaflvau togetiatthe dodging inacJxIne was in vented Tiietuncriii fe automatic An ngtlou and lis soon HsthoeulmTt Ls Jasteneil in position a arcing ia tightened or IoohuI to gAAigu the exact force 7l OF A loi rter is moved over a dlUl to tlie loiilo number of ti okus and the nvelitttt lKiu Is started With perfect regularity the victims back is scourged by tle throngs the handle of the whip being moved by i screw device after each stroke so that the lash docs not fall on the same spot throughout the punishment Each blow is of uniform severity and as soon as the required number has been given the machine comes to a rest and the offender is released with the assurance that the exact pun ishment ordered has been meted out to him Harpers Weekly The Last of the Ruffs In 1702 the rage for ruffs such as are seen on many monumental effigies be gan to decline A writer in the Lon don Chronicle of that year says of gen tlemens dress Their cuffs entirely cover their wrists and only the edges of their ruliles are to be seen It is said that a distaste for ruffs Avas first created so far back as 1G13 when a woman named Turner wore them on her trial for the murder by poison of Sir Thomas Overbury The French revolution of 17S much influenced British fashion and the picturesque cocked hat and rallies then gave way generally to round hats and small cuffs The period of their final disuse cannot be easily determined as men of old fashioned or eccentric habits have worn rallied shirt fronts within quite recent memory similar to those which according to Planches His tory of British Costume originated in the seventeenth century The Conductors Baton According to the investigations of a Frenchman the credit of inventing tha conductors baton belongs to Lully tw composer who eventually had rause to regret his invention Ilefore he adopt ed the baton conductors were in of pounding on jorr with their feet or c piig their hands to mark the time Lully found it weari some to keep his foot eos ly in mo tion and so usil a stick to sirike the floor and beat ti ut II- us tl a tue six feet long 0e uy he broui down the pole Vv th s it i struck his four t -- wound lie paid no t nrri to t matter The wr e ultimately hw deirn Alter his time eondm tors tiled more ami more to improve the b toti and it was ultimately i roia o s ---it fri They wok- t America af er a EroiK ai Ifnryiroou ConrTT j rt nHv - hurt Over on tin ulii side you de clared 1 was a jewel and you haven repeated it since - have mm aboard Hfat eauricr d Jeorge iltx up a warning finger If I declared you a jewel I might have to pay duty You know these customs men are terribly strict these days Chicago News Quiie Yilling Tardon me governor began the street beggar Certainly dear fellow answered the gentleman from Tennessee What are you guilty of Buffalo Express In the Swim Congratulations old chap You are seen everywhere with Lord Bunk hurst Yes I have rented him for the sea son Louisville- Courier JournaL Self respect Is the prnerstone of all We Are Ready to Print Yours virtue HerscheL JLa i Incorporation Notice Notice is hereby given that the McCook Irrigation Water Power Company a corporation heretofore incorporated under and by virtue ot the laws of the State of Nebraska has changed and mended its Articles has changed and amended Its Arti cles of Incorporation as hereinafter stated Article V of said Articles of Incor poration is amended to read as fol lows to wlt The capital stock of said Company shall be Fifty Thousand Dollars 5000000 and shall be divided in to Five Hundred 500 shares of One Hundred Dollars 10000 each Certificates of such stock when is sued shall be signed by the Presi dent and Secretary and shall be transferable only on the books of the corporation and at all meetings of the stock holders each share shall be entitled to one vote which vote may be cast either in person or by proxy The capital stock may be increas ed or diminished by vote of three fourths of the issued shares thereof at any regular meeting of the stock holders or at any special meeting duly called and held for that purpose Article XI of said Articles of In corporation is amended to read as follows This corporation may incur an in debtedness of Thirty Thousand Dol lars 3000000 and shall not at any one time permit its indebtedness of all characters to exceed this amount Rrovided that such indebtedness In excess of Ten Thousand Dollars 11000000 must be authorized by a vete of three fourths of the issued stock of the Company These amended articles wdre filed in bhe office of the County Clerk of Red Willow County Nebraska on the 3rd day of June 1910 Dated this 3rd day of June 1910 W H FERGUSON President JOHN H KELLE1 Sec and Treas Sea First publication June 9 4b In the county court ol Red Wil low county Nebraska In the matter of the estate of Winifred Glynn deceased To all persons interested in the estate of Winifred Glynn deceased You are hereby notified that on the 20th day or June 1910 P F McKenna administrator of the estate of said Winifred Glynndeceased filed in said court his final account as said administrator and his petition for a determination of the heirs of said deceased and the distribution of said estate and for his discharge as such administrator that said fi nal account and petition will be hear on the 9th day of July 1910 at the hour of ten oclock a m at the county court room in McCook in said county at which time you may appear and show cause if such ex ist why said account and petition should not be allowed It is hereby ordered that notice to all persons interested in said estate shall be given by publication of this order in the McCook Tribune a news paper printed and published in said county for three successive weeks prior to the day set for said hear ing Dated this 20th day of June 1910 J C MOORE County Judge Seal First publication June 23 The State of Nebraska Red Wil low county ss To all persons interested in the estate of E Ralph Earle deceased Whereas Ella M Earle of said county has filed in my office an in strument purporting to be the last will and testament of E Ralph Earle late of said county deceased and said Ella M Earle has filed her pe tition herein praying to have the same admitted to probate and for the issuance of letters testamentary which will relates to both real and personal estate I have therefore appointed Thurs day July 14 1910 at the hour of nine oclock in the forenoon at the county court room in said county as the time and place for the hear ing of said will at which time and place you and all concerned may ap pear and contest the allowance of the same It is further ordered that said pe titioner give notice to all persons in terested in said estate of the pen dency of this petition and the time and place set for the hearing of the same by causing a copy of this or der to be published in the McCook Tribune a newspaper printed and published in said county for three weeks successively previous to the day set for the hearing In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this 21st day of June 1910 J C MOORE County Judge Seal CORDEAL McCARL Attorneys First publication June 23 1910 3t Received on Account Paid Out Cash Credit slips etc for sale at The Tribune office Per 1000 50c i N lM