b x Our Fire Proof Vaults are at your disposal Why not have a Safe Deposit Box i i which to keep your will insurance poli cies deeds abstracts notes leaese and other valnable ppers In this ma ner you safe guard yourself against any pos sible loss by fire If j ou are not familiar with the plan we will bo glad to have you call at the bank inspect tho boxes and allow us to ex plain fully this secure way of taking care of your private papers a d other valuables First National Bank McCook Nebr fo IP jfflMftfflK By F m K1MMELL Largest Qrculation in Red Willow Co Entered at postoflice McCook Nebraska as second class matter Published weekly Ed Howe wanders why Every girl r as to have an ambition to make 1 - waist smaller than is natural and k bust larger - - To whitewash Mr Lorimer would be but an incident The people ha already passed on that unsavory in dividual and there isnt enough sen atorial whitewash in Washington to make him look half way white Governor elect Aldrich says that he will enforce the laws Thats a chestnut handed out to the dear peo ple by every man elected to the gov ernorship Omaha Excelsior True and by many never referred to again Yet it will not be wise for lawbreakers to go to sleep under the assurance of Sorensens cynicism Aid rich may mean it To an extraordi nary degree he is free of obligation to lawbreakers for his election and the claim of gratitude for the past and the club of threat for the future will fall with exceptional lightness upon his head Why shouldnt he enforce the law TYTTYTTTYTT TTYTTTYTT YTYTTTTYY TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTM I AN INVALUABLE ASSET i KAAAAJAAAAAAA A AAA AAA A iAAAAAAAXJLAAAAAAAAAAAM Loyalty is one of the invaluable as sets whether it be the loyalty of a citizen to his country to the state of his birth or adoption to the place of his residence or to his vocation or employment Governments ffe staunch and en during when the citizens believe in its institutions and support them with unswerving and uncompromising de votio i A state is prosperous and progress ive when its people are united in p aising its resources and its advan tages to settlers and investors sing ing a confident song in prosperity and in hopeful note if in adversity So the unit may be reduced to the county or the community in which one lives and the same principle of loyalty holds good even to a mans business or work it is applicable and ital Nebraskans should be faithful to the proposition that this is the first state in the union We of Red Willow county should hold high and fair its banner and never neglect saying or writing the favorable word or doing that which might operate to its development or to its prosperous growth along all honorable lines The same is true of McCook may its shadow ever increase Never w ithhold the activity of mind or mat ter which may tend to its improve Omaha is apparently to be asked to give Mayor Dahlman another term as a consolation prize The Exami ner says The people of Omaha cer tainly owe it to Mayor Jim to in sist that he shall be the next mayor He led a cause for them in the late that won for him the iir0 vilification and the con- m migujup i i jWTfrftym cianuer of the sanctified Mayor Jim is not at all the kind of man the Pharisees painted him and the people of Omaha owe it to him to say so They should show that while republics may be ungrateful the people of Omaha are not Lin coln Journal A MERRY CHRISTMAS The Bon Ton Winter Menu Sandwiches Served With Our Own Mayonnaise Dressing Chicken Sandwich 15c Combination Sandwich 15c Cheese Sandwich 10c Egg Sandwich 10c Sardine Sandwich 15c Ham Sandwich 10c Peanut Sandwich 10c Dried Beef Sandwich 10c Oyster Soup 25c Soups Hot Chocolate Our Own 10c Tomato Soup 10c Vegetable Soup 10c Hot Drinks Hot Coffee Blue Ribbon special blend Sc Hat Green Tea 10c Hot Black Tea 10c Served by the Pot Served With Whipped Cream and WafferslOc Try Oup Chile Con Carne Relishes - - Ceiery 10c Picklesy - Olives 5c C Dainty Sweets Home made Cake with Whipped Cicim Pie 5c Plain Cake 5c Beef Tea 10c Cream Puffs with Whipped Cream 10c Home made Doughnuts 5c Hot Bouillons Cream of Tomato Bouillon tOe Tomato Cocktail 10c Hot Fountain Drinks I Hot Egg Malted Milk 15c Mot Plain Malted Milk 10c Hot Orangeade 5c Hot Egg Chocolate 15c Hot Coco Colo 5c He Phosphates Sc Hot Lemonade 10c Hot Gfnger Tea 10c Hot Limeade 5c Cleanliness Our Motto ment development and progress along all lines commercial educational moral religious It takes brawn and brain and cap ital to develop a new country to build new towns and cities to es tablish schools libraries churches etc in new and frontier districts to bridge its streams tmake its high ways and render fertile and produc tive its virgin soil A look over Red Willow county and McCook will convince the fair and intelligent oobserver that those who have blazed the way and stay ed with the gun have performed their part well under circumstances not always pleasing The progress already made can however be greatly increased by a lively and earnest exercise of great er loyalty and increased confidence in the future and outcome of our county and city Capital now being sent elsewhere should be kept at home and used in financing home enterprises and in investments in home farms and city property both of which have been safe and profi table in the past and doubtless will be in the future Make the big noise for home af fairs Be loyal to home institutions Stand up for your state your home and your business or make a change You can easily do worse many are not so favorably situated INTEREST IN CLARK CONTEST Committee on Committees Suggested First by Nebraska Member Washington Dec 17 Special Tel egram Now that Champ Clark who will undoubtedly be speaker of the sixty second house of representatives is out with a statement that the se lection of committee membership should not be vested in the power of one man but be controlled by a com mittee of which the speaker shall not even be a member it is perti nent to recall that this committee on committees was originally sug gested by George W Norris repre senting the Fifth Nebraska district Judge Norris on June 16th last in troduced the resolution which was referred to the committee on rules pioviding for a committee on com mittees and defining the manner in vhich members shall be selected Lincoln Journal His Chance to Vote Tbe chronicles Jt our vice presidents are notoriously burren of incident This probably was the reason for the way Adlui Stevenson secured the exercise of a constitutional prerogative It was one sleepy dy toward the end of bis term as vice president The United States senate was plowing through the calendar and passing many bills Bills are considered agreed to In the senate if no oral objection is raised after they have passed through the preliminary stages but the usual form of asking for the yeas and nays Is followed by the presiding o Ulcer The vice presi dent had said Senators in favor of the bill will say Aye Pause Contrary No Not a single response The vote is a tie announced Mr Stevenson The senator In chargeof the bill paused on bis way to the cloakroom and looked surprised In case of a tie the vice president may cast the deciding vote In the ex ercise of his constitutional privilege the vice president votes Aye The Sun Drawing Water The phenomenon commonly known as the sun drawing water is due to rays of sunlight between the shadows of clouds It is seen to best advan tage when the atmosphere is some what hazy and when the sun is whol ly or partly behind a cloud and is not in the higher part of the sky Patchy stratocumulus clouds are most favora ble for the formation of these rays and they are probably most distinct when seen in the part of the sky be low the sun when they appear to ex tend either directly or somewhat obliquely downward It is in this form that the effect Is most commonly called the sun drawing water But such rays may extend in any direc tion so that they diverge from the sun as a center No rain need be fall ing anywhere near the observer though it is not Impossible for the rays to be visible at a time when rain streaks also are visible in part of the sky The rain streaks however do not diverge from the sun but are In lines of the falling rain St Nicholas The Pillory The pillory in England was abol ished as a punishment except for per jury In 1815 and was totally abol ished in 1837 The last person to suf fer at the Old Bailey was one Peter Bossy for perjury June 22 1830 Not withstanding the fact that this mode of punishment was supposed to be only for the lighter offenses it often hap pened that the pillory meant death to those placed In it the culprit frequent ly being stoned to death by the heart less mob New York American QU NOT FEUM PARIS It Has Taken Americans to Originate the Suffragette Suit Those wlm lim ui idea tlist t mily the Parisian dressmakers ran turn nil unique and stmlcintr Hot lies for the lr sex must now take off their hats to the Amerkn tailors wlm have ju t evolved a costume for women that will make even Paris gibp This is the suffragette suit which was recently exhibited in New York at the annual meeting of dressmaker t the show were also i new ieio ine costume American made and designed and the 1910 by American Press Association THE SUFFRAGETTE SUIT most beautiful gowns imaginable but it was this suffragette affair that at tracted the most attention The suffragette suit will no doubt solve that much mooted question as to who wears the pants for if the suf fragette adopts this novel costume she will have a pair of trousers that will put fathers to shame The suit is of rough gray mens suiting fashioned into what Its designer modestly styles a divided hobble skirt In reality the trousers are about the style that Pres ident Taft wears when golfing They are big and loose fitting and have the raining In London turn up at the bottom Two pockets side pockets such as men have to swagger in were added by the thoughtful tailor to the suffragette suit PORTUGALS NEW LEADER Dr Theophile Braga a Scholar of Ir ternational Fame The placing of Dr Theophile Braga the one Portuguese scholar of interna tional fame at their head was n shrewd move of the revolutionists or Portugal It follows the curious Latin fashion of bestowing political power on literary men but it also declares to Europe that the true men of progress t - DB THEOPHliE BltAQA the men of education and of position are directing the revolution and not the street rabble of Lisbon Dr Braga Portugals provisional president besides being a man of let ters extensively educated and politi cally powerful has the reputation of being thoroughly upright and honest and is said to be the best man in the country to whom the chief office could be trusted at such a crisis He is about fifty live years of age and when a young man took up the study of medicine He holds a professorship in the Curso Superior de Lettras at Lis bon and is a member of numerous academic bodies in various countries of Europe He is also accounted a poet of originality and power His work both in poetry and scholarship has won the commendatory notice of Anatole France who presided at a fete in bis honor a few years ago About three years ago Dr Braga be came president of the committee of seven a position which gave him enor mous political power and prominence in his organization For many years he has been intimately associated with Dr Bernardino Mnchado one of the leading professors In the Lisbon uni versity who has been mentioned for the first permanent president of tbi new republic I I Kli Practical I Illteft I SP I Christmas WAY OF SOU AND cnAitATRgn uy Gifts For Practical Man or Boy And no where can you get better ones than at our store For Father flother Husband or Friend Rozell Sons 115 West B St Phone 280 f THE NEW L W McCONNELL Druggist I By applying two coats of WTUGHTS CONDENSED SMOKE directly to the meat with a brush after the meat has gone through the salt it 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