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Chicago December 2nd
ESTABLISHED 1S82
F M KIMMELL Editor
Largest Circulated Newspaper Published in Red Willow County
Entered at postoffice McCook Nebraska as second class mat
ter Published Tuesdays and Thursdays
VALUE OF NEBRASKAS
GRAIN CROP FOR 1911
Labor Commissioner Guye has this year than last year by 4
given out advance information -100000 The labor commissioner
concerning grain crop statistics says the total value of all crops
Wlli he slightly increased th
which he has compiled for the over
value of
year 1911 The corn crop this The rapid strides made in fruit
year was less in bushels than the growing have necessitated the ge
crop of last year but the price ting out of a separate bulletin on
was higher so that what was lost this susbject and the total result
in production was gained in price of the fruit crop for 1911 will
making value of the corn crop not therefore be known until
about the same this bulletin is completed
The labor commissioners Upon the five principal crops
tin will show that the production namely corn wheat oats rye
of winter wheat was greater this and barley the following is a
year than last year and that the comparative statement for two
value of the crop was greater years
Com
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Year Acreage Yield
1911 6218035 2145
190 65950S8 25S0
Wheat
1911 2951108 loST
1910 2374094 1703
Spring Wheat
1911 514657 1103
1910 358072i 1344
Oats
1911 2312610 1381
1910 2543S5S 2641
Rye
1911 S5687 1085
1910 71539 1542
Barley
1911 S5015 1080
1910 115957 2320
The estimate on valuation for
corn Avheat oats rye aud bar
lcy for 1911 and 1910 was hased
upon the current market value spectively
of crops at date of compilation
Your Uncle Sam
Besides a highly ornamental
record for divorces and a repu
tation for lynching the marvel
of the civilized world Your
Uncle Sam can now proudly
claim the altitudinous distinction
of being the huskiest booze fight
ing nation on this terrestrial ball
The government report which
comes to our table this week
states
Consuming more beer in the
aggregate tlian any other country
in the world the United States
leads all nations in the total con
sumption of malt liquors wines
and distilled spirits with the enor
mous total of 2045300000 gal
lons the department of commerce
and labor announced today The
per capita consumption of ber in
the United States was only 2009
gallons in 1910 while in Belgium
it is 352 gallons in the United
Kingdom 3144 gallons and in Ger
many 2647 gallons Germany was
second in the total consumption
of beer and the United Kingdom
third
So Your Uncle Samuel is go
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Irreverence is some times mis
taken for independence when it
only discloses conceit and ignor
ance
Whether its the high cost of
living or the cost of liigh living
or the high standard of living it
all the same on the pocket book
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Frank D Reed of the Shelton
Clipper died November 7th Thus
passed on one of the old guard
among Nebraskas weekly news
paper men
Advertised List
The following letters and cards
remain uncalled for at the post
office
Letters
Horn 3Ir 3Iilo Icenogle 3Ir E
Lepper Mrs C W McNeil Mrs
John Stalling Mr Oren Snipe
Mr and Mrs Frank
Cards
Production
Bushels
133400303
178923128
40936573
40617535
5676941
4533517
32035858
71562877
930311
82264S
918180
2333199
Value
87310196
87877546
40936573
36555751
5676941
4079968
12814343
179S9696
697733
which for 1910 was 50c 90c 25c
60c and 46c respectiveh For
1911 65c 100 40c 75c 55c re-
Tbe Youths Companion Calen
dar for 1912
The publishers of the Youths
Companion will as always at this
season present to every subscrib
er whose subscription 175 is
paid for 1912 beautiful calendar
for the new year The cover pic
ture reproduces a water color
Maine retains her constitution- d Bai tholomow and family ai
al prolubition by a majority oi j occupying the L D Goekley re
758 votes idence wliile they are away
i About ninety attended the har
The Great International Live nri TPnmm Rfinl at R J
Stock Exposition will be held in Sanders Friday night and a
seemea to eniov tnemseives i
gfltmes etc after which a fin
lunih was served
Nettie Smith was an
visitor with relatives in M
Cook
Pat Plumb arrived home froii
Ashland Friday
The sewing circle met with Mi
Blake Friday afternoon
Mrs Eifert visited relatives ii
Danbury Sunday and Monday
J n Wicks and family lef
last week for their new home a
Des Moines Iowa A C Pew tak
ing them to McCook
F M McFadden and C W
Reed were county capital businer
visitors Tuesday night
W H McEinney was electee
assessor and Harry Korb oversef
of highways- at the election Tues
day
The Tribune 100 the year
Here is a woman who speaks fron
personal knowledge and long experi
A rtz Mr J H Fowell Miss ence viz Mrs P H Brogan of Wil
More Mitchell Miss Maurice Mc- son Pa who says I know from ex
Mllleii Mr Joe Pate Mrs Hoi- iperieiLce that Chamberlains Cough
man Plumb Mrs MD RileGIr j Remedy is far superior to any oth
Everett Whitmarsih Mr Herman jer For croup there is- nothing that
LON CONE Postmaster I excels- it For sale by all dealers
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are more than a thousand
THERE varieties of wheat and
probably ts many more vari
eties of TrhlcL there are no
ords
how
It may bo interesting to know
these stt varieties occur and
the methods used in producing them
when it is desired to systematically
improve some old or well known vari
ety
It is now recognized that one of the
best ways of doing this is to select in-
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Ey L W Chase Department of Agri
cultural Engineering University of
Nebraska
When we visit our city friends and
ctep into the well equipped bathroom
I with its flowing hot and cold water to
wash the dust and grime of the trip
j frem our hands and face we invariably
i remark Isnt this great My but I
i wish we could have such conveniences
at home We seem to think that
J such conveniences are for the people
3ii me city anu tnat iney come iree
while in the country only a few can
have them and they are the big
bugs In the first place such conven
iences do not come free in town and
i in the second place it costs money to
j keep them supplied with running
water The plumbing in the average
city dwelling costs about 250 wliile
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SELECTION-
Best Method of Producing Them is to Select Individual Plants
From Field and Increase the Grain From
Each Plant Separately
in this manner developed several vari
eties of oats which were extensively
cultivated in Ireland Scotland and
England during the past century
The ordinary observer in looking
over a field of average Turkey red
wheat for example would probably
think it all pure Turkey red wheat
However if he would select single
plants and examine them carefully he
will soon discover they are all differ
ent If each one of these single plants
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EACH ORIGINATING FROM A SINGLE PLANT THE ONE LODGES
BUT THE OTHER STANDS UPRIGHT
plants from any large field
bud increase the grain from each plant
separately until enough has been se-
493 559 fcured to niake a yield test If a sin-
IglU piilllL UL WIILUL UU CHUSeil llOlU U
-- nnq field it can be increased enough so
1 nVtjr Lnat ln four years a tenth acre
Mat can be sown from the product of
painting of a bit of New England found in
a single plant
Occasionally in passing through a
field of -wheat an outstanding plant
Will be discovered If these are saved
and increased in this way they often
give rise to varieties that show much
improvement over old varieties An
excellent example of this is the Fiilta
wheat which is a red grain beardless
variety and which was selected irom
the Lancaster wheat a red variety
but bearded by Abraham Fultz of
Mifflin county Pennsylvania in 1862
The Fultz variety is still very exten
rvely giown in the eastern states
Three years after the Fultz was orig
inated that is in 1S65 Garret Clawson
a field of Fultz a white
coast giving a glimpse of the grained beardless variety
He select-
breeze swept ocean of smiling ed tnis lt anrt increased it and gave
sky of warm sunny rocks which jt tbe name of Clawson wheat This
will a iv n ltl rf nl variety is still grown in Pennsylvania
air to those who have once lived
near the sea and to those whose
life has been passed inland The
picture bohjfj in eight colors tlu
tones of the original are faithful
ly reproduced
MARIOW
Eltcticn passed off quiatly o
Tuesday
L D Goekley and wife left o
Tuesday evening for a visit wit
a daughter at Ilaigler
Guy Liest left Tuesday ft
Omaha to attend a gathering c
school teachers
L D Newberry is hauling th
i steel for a new bridge near A 1
Other experiments might be given
to illustrate this method One of the
first men to use the system of
ing single plants from the field and
increasing was Patrick Shirreff who
is planted separately and increased
it will be found that the vield of the
wheat produced from each is very dif- j
fcrent At the Nebraska experiment I
station there are now about ninety
strains of Turkey wheat which have
been selected from about two thou
sand original plants of Turkey wheat
Each of these strains comes from a
single plant In other words a field
of wheat instead of being uniformly
of one type is a mixture of types
which are very similar in appearance
some of which however are capable
of yielding far more than others
These new types which are constantly
occurring in wheat fields are what an
imal breeders used to call Sports
From time to time among animals
ond plants these new variations oc
cur Many times they are of no value
whatever and are not as good as the
original type from which they sprung
but occasionally one of these Sports
is an improvement and in that case it
should be saved and increased
keen eyed farmers who are interested
in doing something for the betterment
of their state to discover among the
various crops they are growing these
individual plants which are outstand
ing and use them as a foundation to
build up improved varieties
he should use about thirty gallons per
day per person With a family of five
which can bo considered as about the
average in the country 150 gallons of
water should be used each day As
suming that this water is pumped and
carried to the house by hand it will
take one person thirty seven and one
half minutes each day to pump the
water and twenty five minutes each I
day to carry it or sixty two and one-
half minutes each day to put the water
in the house in a pail and not have it i
where it is convenient Saying that I
it takes one hour each day to get the
each day and assuming that the farm
er who carries ths water can earn 20
cents per hour it will cost him G per
month to put the water in the house
It has been demonstrated in the farm
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A CONVENIENT YET CHEAP WATER SYSTEM
the water rent is from 50 cents to i
per month
It will probably cost the farmer
more to put in his water and sewer
system in the country than it costs
his friend in town but it should not
take nearly as much to keep it up
after once being installed
But before the farmer spends any
money for his water and sewer sys
tem he should first consider whether
it Is a paying investment In the city
of Cincinnati O the people use about
eixty gallons of water per person per
day while in other cities it is much
lower the average being about forty
gallons per person per day The
farmers work is such that he should
use as much water per day as the av
erage city inhabitant but it is not
generally the case that he does so in
Ibis computation we can assume that
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The Ralston
is a foot moulded shoe It is
made to fit the foot the foot does
not have to shape itself to the
shoe till something gives or you
give up
Plenty of the breezy daring
shapes which appeal to young
men and also many models that
are popular with the more con
servative dresser You re sure to
he suited whatever your taste
Whether you want Tan or Black
Button or Lace we have them
A GALUSHA SON
The Home of Hart Schaffner Marx Clothes in
McCook
ing for the equal distribution of the
There is great opportunity here for among all regularly organized banks
therein which shall agree to pay month
ly to said city interest at the rate of
three per cent per annum on the daily
average balance placed therein andfjvo
band to said city in a penal sum
not less than the estimated receipts for
the current municipal year upon taxes
and special assessments levied and to
be levied by said city and to repeal any
and all ordinances and parts of ordinan
ces in conflict with this ordinance
Be it ordained by the mayor and coun
cil of the city of McCook Nebraska
Section 1 The City Treasurer shall
kaep all money now on hand or hereaf
ter received in each fund in his hands
belonging to said city equally divided
among all regularly organized banks in
said city which shall agree to pay
monthly and pay monthly to said city
interest at the rate of three per cent per
annum on the daily averago balance
placed therein and which shall have on
or subsequent of the current municipal
year executed and delivered to said city
bond in not less than the
a Penal sum
amount of water which should be used
mechanics laboratory that 1 cent of
gasoline under normal conditions will
pump 153 gallons of water from a well
forty three feet deep making it cost
only 31 cents per month to put the
water in the house and it can be put
any place it is needed
It is not always essential that the
house be completely modern to be
convenient One farmer who couldnt
make his house modern put his stor
age tank in the wash room in such a
manner that when it was full the float
closed the valve and the windmill
pumped the water to the horse trough
This outfit was very cheap probably
not costing over 40 including tliq
labor The bathtub doesnt need t3
be enameled in order to be service
able although a cast iron tub is prey
ferable to a tin one
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estimated receipts for the current mu
nicipal year upon taxes and special as
sessmentsjlevied and to be levied by
said city which bond shall in no event
be less than 2G000 with good and suf
ficient sureties resident free holders of
said city in such number as the maor
and council may require which number
Shall be the same for each of said banks
and which bond and sureties shall
be approved by the mayor and council
of saidfeity in his monthly reports to
said mayor and council said treasurer
Shall state the amount of money iueach
iund in said banks
Section 2 Any and all ordinances
End partsof ordinances in conflict with
this ordinance are hereby repealed
Section 3 This ordinance shall take
effect and bo in force from and after its
passage approval and publication accor
ding to law
Passed and approved this 4th day of
November 1911
JAMES McADAMS Mayor
Attest
L CISTOLL City Clerk
seal
All persons interested in the
estate of Elisha A Dodge de
ceased are hereby notified that
on the fourth day of November
1911 Myrtle Hartman adminis
tratrix of said estate filed in the
County Court of Red Willow
county Nebraska her final ac-
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ODINANCE NO 211 j count as said administratrix and
An ordinance prescribing some of the that said imal account wall be
duties of the cit treasurer and provid
heard in said court at nine
oclock a m on December 1st
funds of the city of McCook Nebraska 1 1911 and are hereby ordered to
appear at said time and place
and show cause if any such exist
why said final account should not
be allowed
J C MOORE
County Judge
RITCHIE WOLFF Attorneys
First publication Nov 6 6ts
All persons interested in the
estate of Mary A Whitaker de
ceased late of Red Willow coun
ty Nebraska are hereby notified
on the 27th day of Oetoher
1911 Jennie Ilendershot Mabel
E Colling and George A Whit
aker filed their petition in the
county court of said county for
appointment of George A Whit
aker as administrator of said es
tate and same will be heard at
county court room in said county
on the ISth day of November
1911 at 9 a m
Seal J C MOORE
County Judge
RITCHIE WOHFF Attorneys
First publication Oct 30 Gts
Margaret Davis William S
Davis Mildred Davis and Sarah
G Lamb formerly Sarah G Ed
monds also known as S G- Ed
monds defendants will take no
tice that Frank E McKinnis
plaintiff has filed his petition
against you in the district court
of Red Willow county Nebraska
the object and prayer of which
is to obtain a decree of said court
quieting his title to the north
of the northwest of section 21
township 1 range 30 in Red Wil
low county Nebraska against
any claim title to or interest M
or lien upon said land that either
of you may have or claim to
have to have his title thereto de
clared to be absolute to exclude
you and each of you from any
title to or interest in or lien up
on said premises and to have a
certain mortgage thereon held by
said Sarah G Lamb by assign
ment to her as and in the name
of S G- Edmonds declared null
and void and no lienupon said
premises and for equitable relief
You are required to answer
plaintiffs petition on or before
Monday December 11th 1911
C H BOTLE
Attorney for Plaintiff
First xmblication Nov 2 4ts
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