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Supply Your
Kitchen Needs Now
You cant afford to risk health
by using old
lcooklntr
tW sils worn
Aout onarocl
Vwhlcli chips oft
Vyand cause
ach dlscaser or
rusty loaky tin ware
which rdoIIs flavors and wastes
food Replace tho old ware with
1892 Pure Spun
Aluminum ftfr
one of the many
ble lines we carry
i We have just re j
ceivea a new
lot Come In
and see these
supcrio coodsand
get a souvenir free
You can depend
on anything
you buy hers
H P WaITE CO
MARION
C Rollins entertained Lis brother
and wife from Indianola one day last
Sirs Nettie Naden of Danbury was
the guest of her sister Mrs S H
Sstilsebouer one day last week
About 7G one hundredths of an
oich of rain fell here last Wednesday
evening accompanied by a terribly
strcoxg Northwest gale which tore
ip the headed grain stacks also blew
lowa a great many of the shocks
xt gjsi3n
MJss Daisy Albrecht is back again
la Dodges store after a few weeks
rest
County Attorney Sidney Dodge of
VlcCriok was in town all last week
J H Wicks and Clint Pew were
SlcCook visitors Saturday afternoon j
Somg over in the formers auto
Bonn to Mr and Mrs W H Eifert
Saturday July 1G a daughter
Several from here were to Beaver
City to the Chautauqua Sunday
R S Sanders from north of town
purchased the livery barn from W
S- Aiidrus recently
Clarence Reed of Fairview and
KaJph Smith were at Otis Colo clos
ing days of last week
The new alfalfa mill is nearly
Teady jor business which is a great
adjron to the town and country
Grandma Gockley visited in Danbury
few days last week
I IX Gockley and wife spent Sunday-
at their sons north of town
S B Gockley and family southwes
t 31cCook visited his brother T F
GotkJey of Fairview Sunday
Notice for Bids
Scaled bids will be received at the
office iof the city clerk of the city of
3VIcCfcok Nebraska until 8 oclock
p m central standard time Aug
nst 5 1310 for a contract to perform
all work and furnish all material
iec ssary for laying such sidewalks
cross walks and curbs within the
corporate limits of the city of Mc
Ccofc as the city council may order
to be laid during the current muni
cipal year Bids shall be made per
square foot for the following mater
ial Concrete Sidewalks cross
walks and curbs to be laid in accord
ance with the provisions of the ordi
nances of the city of McCook and
the specifications on file in the city
clerks office and subject to the ap
proval and acceptance of the city
engineer All sidewalks cross walks
ami curbs to be guaranteed by the
contractor for a term of two years
from tlie date of acceptance and re
aevpals to be guaranteed for a like
iexau The contractor to furnish a
-bond in the sum of one thousand
with sureties to be approved
the city council The city
estimate is as follows Side
walks per square foot twelve cents
cross walks per square foot eighteen
-cents curbing five inches thick per
foot surface exposed fifteen
cents The city council reserves the
Tight to reject any and all bids
Gated July 14 1910
CSSAL
H W CONOVER City Clerk
First publication July 14 1910 3ts
Talent of Success
The talent of success is nothing
aiore than doing what you can do well
without a thought of fame If it
comes at all it will come because It
is deserved not because it is sought
after It is very indiscreet and trou
blesome ambition which cares so much
about fame about what the world says
o os as to be always looking in the
faces of others for approval to be al
trays anxious about the effect of what
we do or say to be always shouting
to tiear the echoes of our own voices
Relic of the Past
The modern housewife if she noir
sees an old clothes pem der In ths
collection Is apt to hat is that
tor It was us pounding
clothes in a barrel on washing day
ia the everlasting fight with dirt It
S3 far removed from the modern laun
dry or the washing machine of the
resent day
EARNED FORTUNE
WITH H00PSK1BT
Joseph Thomas Enlarged Upon
Modest Bustle
INVENTOR IN MANY LINES
Death of Crinoline Creator Recalls
Evolution of Sewing Machine and Sul
phur Match Maker Was Native of
France but Lived In America For
Sixty four Years
More than half a century ago two
men sat in a dingy room working hard
to perfect a contrivance for sewing
and the result of their efforts was tho
first sewing machine One of the In
ventors was Joseph Thomas who died
recently at his home in Ilouoken lie
was eighty three years old and for the
last three mouths had been bedridden
Thomas was an Inventor of many
machines that have brought millions
to those who bought the patents and
one of his ideas was the hoopskirt
which was popular with women from
lSoO to 1S70 Thomas had always been
a keen observer and in many instances
his wife aided him in inventions tell
ing him what was needed by women
When he was a mere boy he noticed
the bustles worn by women and when
out with his wife one day they talked
of the peculiarities of feminine fash
ions I wouldnt wonder that they
would soon have bustles all around the
skirts he remarked
Fortune In Crinoline
It was not long afterward that Thom
as launched the hoopskirt and he soon
found that even at 300 a dozen he
could not make them fast enough for
the demand He was offered thou
sands of dollars and first rejected all
offers At that time he had several
other ideas and when finally he re
ceived an offer from a Philadelphia
concern of 30000 he accepted it That
amount of money meant a good deal to
a poor inventor in those days and
Thomas was regarded as one of the
coming millionaires The Quaker City
firm made hundreds of thousands from
Thomas invention The idea went
from here to Europe and thence to Eu
ropean countries
Thomas then settled down to perfect
his other ideas and the sewing ma
chine came next He did not get any
money for that as he was employed as
one of the draughtsmen In a machine
company But he earned a big salary
and his employer made a handsome
present to Thomas and George Blees
the other inventor
Thomas left the company when he
found he had enough money to devote
himself to other ideas He realized
the necessity of a machine for the
manufacture of sulphur matches with
out recourse to the old method of dip
ping small sticks into a prepared so
lution He made the machine
Inventor From Youth
Thomas was nineteen years old
when he came to America from a
small town in the vicinity of Paris
His father had made small inventions
and from the time the boy started go
ing to school he showed a keen inter
est in all the different pieces of ma
chinery When Thomas arrived in this
country he had little money and it
was while he was working in a ma
chine shop in Paterson that he met his
wife That was sixty four years ago
Thomas was a brother of General
Thomas who fought with great dis
tinction in the Franco Prussian war
The soldier brother received the Legion
of Honor from the French government
and was retired with other honors
AMERICAN CAMS POPULAR
Malays Use Them For Every Imagin
able Purpose
To the Malay peninsula every yerr
go about 1300000 one gallon tin car
containing American petroleum Con
sul General Du Bois of Singapor
writes
Thousands of the cans are used -water
buckets The interior of a Ma
lal a Tamil or a Chinese home con
tains American tin cans of all sizes
and shapes put to some useful purposo
Sieves are made by puncturing holes
Thousands of dustpans are made from
the cans by removing one side curving
two sides and attaching a large wood
en handle Baking and cooking uten
sils of all kinds are also skillfully
manufactured from them and may be
seen in thousands of homes
For storing articles of food against
ant onslaughts the tin can is a bless
ing Hundreds of men are engaged in
manufacturing tin cans into funnels
pepper and salt casters cocoanut and
nutmeg graters lamps biscuit tins tea
and coffee pots ladles mugs cake pat
ties Chinese pipes oil pumps money
boxes and the framework for false
teeth
Sq necessary has the American tin
can become to these people that to be
deprived of its manifold uses would
cause a real hardship
Illinois to Boom Poultry
As a result of action at a meeting of
the Illinois State Poultry association it
Springfield recently a department or
poultry may be established in connec
tion with the state university at Dr
baua The members favorably passed
on a proposition to have drafted a bill
authorizing such a school and appro
priating 10000 for the purpose Gov
ernon Deneen promised his aid in bet
tering poultry growing conditions in
Illinois
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SEA
III
tri
Sloop of War Portsmouth to
Become a Museum
WILL BE SENT TO CALIFORNIA
Vessel Used by New Jersey Naval Re
serve at Hoboken to Go to San Fran
cisco Around Cape Horn Govern
ment Has Given the Tonopah to Jer
sey Sailors In Her Place
Nearly threescore years and ten of
usefulness first as a warship and then
as a ship on which fighting men are
trained the sloop of war Portsmouth Is
to end her days in peace She will be
sent to San Francisco where she will
be used as a naval museum For four
teen years she has been the home of
the First naval battalion naval re
serve of New Jersey and during all
that time she has been moored to piers
at Hoboken N 7
For several years the Jersey sailors
have been cramped for room on the old
wooden sea fighter and the United
States government has given to them
the monitor Tonopah a more modern
ship The Portsmouth will soon pro
ceed to the Pacific going around Cape
norn
Conspicuous In the Mexican War
The state of California has been very
anxious to obtain the old sloop for she
was one of the most active craft In the
Mexican war and it was through her
efforts as a blockader that California
was annexed to the Union On her ar
rival in San Francisco harbor the
Portsmouth will be moored at the foot
of one of the nrinclpal streets She
was built in 1S43 in the New Hamp
shire city whose name she bears
Three years later she broke into fame
in June 1S40 at the outbreak of the
Mexican war when her commander
John B Montgomery took possession
of the harbor of San Francisco in
which she was the first United States
warship to enter
In August 1S4G the Portsmouth
took part in the engagement which re
sulted in the capture of Los Angeles
on the 13th of the month Later she
figured in the capture of Monterey
The uext year 1847 in October her
guns and those of the United States
steamer Congress bombarded the city
of Guayainas which was reduced in a
few hours
After the close of the trouble with
Mexico Captain Andrew H Foote was
placed in command of the Portsmouth
and ordered to China to put an end to
the attacks of the Chinese on Ameri
can ships At that time the Chinese
treated all English speaking countries
as enemies
The big black ship her sides bris
tling with guns kept the Chinese quiet
for a time but there were occasional
outbreaks in suppressing one of which
Captain Foote himself led his men in
person
Earned Title of the Black Devil
It was on Nov 15 1S5G that Captain
Foote was in a cutter crossing the har
bor of Canton when one of the Chinese
forts opened fire The fact that the
American flag was flying made no dif
ference to the orientals and when the
fire was taken up by another fort Cap
tain Foote found himself in danger of
a furious crossfire of grape and canis
ter
Returning to the Portsmouth Cap
rain Foote took up a position in front
of the forts and opened fire soon si
lencing the Chinese guns More than
100 Chinese were killed and the lesson
was so salutary that never again were
Americans in danger
Through this engagement the Ports
mouth earned her title of the Black
Devil This was carried until after
the civil war During the rebellion
she was rather inactive her principal
service being at the blockade of the
Mississippi by Farragut
After the civil war having become
antiquated by the advent of ironclads
and no further opportunities present
ing themselves for her to distinguish
herself she lay at anchor at the navy
yard until the Jersey uaval reserve
wanted her and she was turned over
to it for a training ship For several
years she was moored at the foot of
Fourth street Hoboken and later was
taken to her last berth at the foot of
Fifteenth street She is 9S0 tons Ful
ly equipped she carried twenty two
guns and a crew of 101 The Tonopah
which is expected to arrive within a
few weeks will be moored at the same
place and the Portsmouth will be sent
to the New York navy yard to be pre
jared for her long voyage
New Meat Preserving Process
Good results are expected from a
new dry air process of preserving
meat The inventor of this process
claims that for 100 a station owner
can put up the necessary plant and
treat sheep at a cost of 1 cent per car
cass and after being treated by this
new process the meat may be hung in
any ordinary place and atmosphere
and kept good for a week
American Firearms In Demand
Brazil bought ii750000 worth of fire
arms in 1009 against only Sl500000
worth in J90S The American share
rose only from 100000 to 800000 or
300000 out of the increase of 4250
000 American revolvers lead in Vene
zuela Automatic revolvers sell best
k England Belgium buys American
makes
jjy Ih
ilk jjufr u tittiiiil to
forty aeris ir t ue per
t is the dHifti titstitiii
vy general l I In Philip-
n attorney general of the
i Slates and other good lawyers
I 1 liii the limitation applies only to
Mi- mds acquired by the United States
from Spain and not to the friar lands
which were purchased by the Philip
pines with their own money Mr Mar
tin takes a different view So does
Moorfield Story of Boston Personally
I have expressed no opinion and shall
not until the committee reports
Whatever may be the merits or the
demerits of Mr Martins charges It Is
significant that Secretary of War Dick
inson and General Edwards chief of
the bureau of insular affairs have
started for the Philippines to make a
personal inquiry into the matter of the
sale of the friar lands Their subordl
nates at Washington In charge during
their absence observe a policy of strict
neutrality They have nothing to say
being perfectly willing to await the re
sult of the committees investigations
Exploitation long Expected
When a dozen years ago the United
States acquired the Philippine archi
pelago as the result of a brief but glo
rious war against Spain loud mouthed
rumors were heard In the laud to the
effect that the fertile acreage of the
Filipino people would be exploited
by American trust Interests Mr Taft
was sent to the islands and made such
a record as a civil administrator that
he has become president of the United
States For twelve years the islands
have been ruled by Uncle Sam who
made efforts honest and earnest to
prove that the prophets of exploitation
were but as sounding brass Now the
cymbals have begun to tinkle Vague
hints of the onslaught of the corporate
interests are heard Congressman Mar
tin is by no means the only person in
official life who scents spoliation The
fact that his fellows in congress got a
distinct whiff of the aroma is evidenc
ed by their vote to create the commit
tee of inquiry
The friar lands of the archipelago
have been looked upon with gloating
eyes by certain interests In the Unit
ed States ever since Uncle Sam paid
Spain some millions of dollars for a
few thousand islands which had been
won in war The settlement of the
problem of the friar lands was vexa
tious and delicate Somewhere be
tween 400000 and 500000 acres was
the combined area of the lands held
by the four orders of friars or monks
For many years these lands had been
tilled 03- tenants many of whoui claim
ed ownership of the acres they occu
pied Prior to American occupation
there was much bloodshed over the
matter Priests were slain or impris
oned Parish churches were closed for
lack of parish priests The Filipino
natives rebelled
Then came the United States into
authority What about the friars hold
ings That was the ticklish problem
Confiscation was proposed but the
United States has not been doing much
in the confiscation line at any time
since the establishment of the nation
The upshot was after commissions
named by the pope and by the United
States government that the friars
lands were purchased and made a part
of the public domain
Friar lands Fertile
These lands are fertile It is said by
observers who have studied Filipino
agriculture that they are very choice
lands capable of producing more on
the average than the other agricultural
areas of the islands acre for acre The
policy of congress and the admiuistn
tion was to preserve and conserve these
lands with the rest of the public do
main in the islands for the Filipino
people That is the understanding of
Mr Martin who came to congress
years after the organic law was enact
ed It is the theory of many other ear
nest conservators
Congressman Martin believes that
not only the San Jose estate but the
Isabella and the Calamba estates
which have been sold ostensibly to in
dividuals in reality have been acquir
ed by agents of corporations
The Calamba estate is historical It
is within thirty miles of Manila by
rail and is one of the richest sections
in the island of Luzon The Philip
pine revolution of 1S9G resulted from
the controversy between the friars
and the tenants over the ownership of
this estate The Spaniards seized
court martialed and shot Jose Itizal
perhaps the most noted Filipino of the
day The Calamba estate was claim
ed by the Rizal family and their ten
ants Mr Martin avers that this
beautiful estate has passed into the
ownership of the Dillingham sugar in
terests of Hawaii which is to say it
has passed into the hands of the sugar
trust
Other Sales Criticircd
Congressman Martin takes partic
ular notice of the sale of the Tala es
tate to Frank W Carpenter executive
secretary of the Philippine govern
ment lie declares that the bureau of
insular affairs notwithstanding that
the information was demanded sup
pressed the name of the pun haser and
would not admit that the estate had
been sold at all The Colorado con
gressman quotes a recent report from
the director of lands at Manila in re
sponse to a cable from Secretary of
War Dickinson at the direction of the
house of representatives which in
dicates that Carpenter has an agree
ment for the purchase of the entire
estate as rapidly as it becomes vacant
and he says the same report discloses
the fact that Dean C Worcester Phil
ippine secretary of the interior has
approved the sale to Carpenter and
also a lease to his own nephew of
3000 acres of public lands for twenty-
t five years at S cents per acre
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CITY LODGE DIRECTORY
A P A M
McCook Lodge No 135 A F A II meets
svery first and third Tuesday of the mouth at
300 p in in Masonic hall
Lon Cone W M
Chaeles L Fahnestock Sec
B S M
Occcnozee Conncil No 16 It S M meets on
the last Saturday of each mouth at 800 p in
n Masonic hall
William E Hart T I M
Aaron Q Kino Sec
E A M
King Cyrus Chapter No 3a R A M meets
every first and third Thursday of each monthat
SAO p m in Masonic hall
Claeencb B Geay H P
W B Wiiittakee Sec
KNIGHTS TEMPLAE
St John Commandery No 16 K T meets on
the second Thursday of each month at 800 p
m in Masonic hall
Geo Willets E C
Setii D Silver Rec
EASTERN STAE
Eureka Chapter No 86 O E S meets the
aocond and fourth Fridays of each month at
300 p m in Masonic hall
Mrs C W Wilson W M
S Coedeal Sec
KNIGHTS OF PYTIAS
McCook Lodge J o 42 of K P meets every
Wednosday atS C0 p in in Masonic hall
J N Gaarde C C
C A Evans K R S
odd fellows
McCook Lcdgo No 137 1 0 0 F meets every
Monday ab 80 p m in Morris hall
B 1 Lane N G
H G Hughes Sec
modern woodmen
Noble Camp No 663 M W A meets every
second and fourth Thursday of each month at
330 p m in Morris hall Pay assessments
at Citizens National Bank
Jclics Kcnret Consul
HM Fixity Clerk
royal neighbors
No le Camp No 662 R N A meets every
second and fourth Thursday of each month at
230 u m in Morris hall
Mrs Caroline Kunert Oraclo
Mrs Augusta Anton Rec
workmen
McCook Lodge No 61 AOUW meets every
Monday at 80 p m in Templf
Maurice Griffin Trea Henry Moers MW
C J Ryan Financier C B Gray Rec
DEGREE OF HONOR
McCook Lodge No 3 D of H meets every
second and forth Tuesdays of each mouth at
300 p m in Temple building
Anna E Ruby C of H
Mrs Carrie Schlagel Rec
MACCABEES
Meets every 2nd and Ith Friday evening in
Morris hall J A Wilcox Com
J H Yargee Record Keeper
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS
Branch No 1278 meets fir t Moncay of each
mouth at 330 p in in carriers room postotKce
G F Kinghorn President
D J OBeien Secretary
LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENGINEMEN
McCook Lodge No 59 B of L F fc E
cneets on the first and third Thursdays of each
month in Morris hall
I D Pennington Pre
C H Husted Sc
Ladies Society B of L F E
Golden Rod Lodge No 2s2 meets in 3Iorris
hall on lir t and third Wednesday afternoons of
each month at 2 oclock
Mrs Geace Histed Mrs Lena Hill
Secretary President
a
he 1 n e
railway trainmen
C W Bronson Lodge No 487 B of It T
moets Hrt and third Sundays ut 230 pm in
Eacles hall T K Huston President
F G Kinoiioen Sec
railway conductors
Harvey Division No 9S O R C menta the
second aud fourth Wedne dny nitcIiU of each
month at 800 p in in Morris hall at 301
Main Avenue S E Callen C Con
M O McCluee Sec
BIACHIXISTS
Red Willow Lodge No 587 I A of M meotn
very second aud fourth Tueday of the month
it 800 p m in Morris hall
Theo Diebald Pro
Fred Wasson Fin
Fioyd Berry Cor Sec
locomotive engineers
McCook Division No C23 B of L E meet-
9 very second and fourth Sunday of each
month at 230 in Morris hall
Walter Stokes C E
W D Burnett F A E
eailway carmen
Yonnir America Lodge No 456 B It C of A
meets on the first and third Tuusdays of each
month in Morris hull ai730 p in
H M Finity 1 M Smith Rec Scj
S I Secy
BOILERMAKERS
McCook Lodge No 407 B of B M I S B of
A meets- first and third TIiurMiays of each
month in hall
J no Setii Pre-
Juo LeIIew Cor Sec
bag ias
McCook Aerio No 1514 F O K meets ever
Friday evening at 8 oclock in Kelley Iwildinir
316 Main ave
C L Walker W Pre-
C H Ricketts W Sec
KNIGHTS OK COLUMBUS
McCook Conncil No 1126 K of C meets the
first and third Tuesdays of each mouth at
p m in Kagls hall
G R Gale F Sec Frank Rkal K
DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA
Court Granada No 77 meets on the fcecond
and fourth Thursdays of each mouth at S p m
in Monte Cristo hall Anna Hannan G R
Nellie Ryan F S
LADY MACCABEES
Valley Queen Hivo No 2 L O T M met i
every first and third Thur day evMuiigs of eacli
month in Morris hall
Mrs W B Mills Commander
Hareiet E Willetts R K
g a e
J K Barnes Post No 2B7 G A R nn
the first Saturday of each mouth hS3J p in
Morris hall
Thomas Mookk Coajaand r
J H Yaeger Adjt
EELIEF CORPS
McCook Corps No 9 W R C meta svory
eecood and fourth Saturday of eet mooth at
230 p m in Ganschow hall friSJ
Adklla McClain Pre
Susie Yandebhoof Sc
L OF G A R
McCook Circle No 33 L of G A R- meets on
the second ami fourth Fridas of each month at
230 p m in Mnrri hall
Mrs Lottie Brewer Presineut
Mrs Kate Button Secretary
p E O
Chapter X P E O rwete the second an 1
fourth Saturdays of each mootn at 2J0 p
at the homes of the various members
Mrs J A Wilcox Pre
Mrs J G Schobkl Cor Sec
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McCook Temple No il Pythian Sister int
the 2d and 4th Wednesdays at 7 SO p
Lila L Ritchie M E r
Edna Stewart M of R C
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