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Bell Telephone Service is daily bringing the people of the
city and the country more closely together It has done
more than anything else to make the smaller towns and the
country a more pleasant place to live
You will find that a bell Telephone will afford
you more comfort and bring 3011 more pleasure
than double the expense put in anything else
Bell Service may not cost as much as you
think it does
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Nebraska Telephone Co
BELL SYSTEiYl
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local nnnlications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness and that is by constitutional
remedies Deafness is caused by
an inflamed condition of the mucous
lining of the eustachian tube Whtji
this tube is inflamed s ou have a rum
-King sound or imperfect hearing and
when- it is entirely closed deafness
is the result and unless the pation
xaation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition
Shearing will be destroyed forever
urine cases out of ten are caused by
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J R A Gkeex Cshr
The Citizens Nation Bank
nt McCook Nebraska
Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus 25000
Received
Highest
Award
Worlds Pure
DIRECTORS
V Franklin A McMillen R A Green
G H Watkius Vernice Franklin
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catarrh which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous sur
faces
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case cf deafness caused by
catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure Send for circu
lars fifee
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Sold by druggists 75c
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A Moving Christmas Sermon
Twas lonely on McCooks main street
Tho throngs were passing too and fro
On Christmas eve when a country lad
Looked for some homelike place to go
The Electric Theatre drew him in
And he gazed surprised on a well known scene
A Christmas gathering at th ftrm
For i country play was on the scieen
When the absent son returned at last
Filled his gray haired fathers h irt with juv
While his loving mother laughed anl cried
As she clasped once more her long lost boy
Tears dimmed the eyes of the country lad
Yet he had a vision of far away
Of the little home where he was reared
And his father and mother old and gray
Who longed to have some vordfrom him
Who longed to see his well loved face
The boy felt a pang of reil remorse
nd rising quickly lert the place
When rose the sun on Christmas day
it brightor shone than ere before
On ihc little cottage at the farm
Fur the lad stood at his fathers door
CEMENT POSTS ABE NOW
Stone Rail and Board Fences in Nebraska Being Replaced b
Woven Wire Heavy Wires Mocii More Durable and
Cost Bui a Trifle fvlore
By L W Chase Department of Agric ultural Engineering University of
braska
T
HE question of fencing in the
prairie states is as yet quite
largely an unsolved problem
Probably there are few states in
the union where a solution of the post
part of the fence problem is more
needed than here in the states west
of the Mississippi and especially the
states west of the Missouri In the
Dakotas Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma
and Texas there is very little native
timber and only a small per cent of
what timber there is can be consid
ered as post material
Red elm has been used some hut
its life as a post is only about one
year Ash cottonwood and some of
the other comparatively soft woods
have a life of only from two -to four
years Black walnut locust and hick
ory are all used some but their life
is only about eight or ten years
White oak has about the same lasting
qualities
Of the cultivated timbers Osage
orange is the most popular as a post
timber This is a slow growing wood
hut is very hard and the heart wood
scorns almost proof against the at
tacks of the various fungi Posts
have been observed which have been
in the ground for twenty years and
only the sap wood has decayed away
The greatest objection to these posts
is their scarcity and the trouble they
give in attaching the wire They are
so hard that it is nearly impossible
to penetrate them with staples and
when the staples are driven the posts
will soon reason check at the point
where the staple has entered and per
mit the latter to drop out The best
fastener to hold the wire to these
nosts is a small wire wrapped around
both post and line wire
Some men are experimenting with
ratalpas for fpnee posts They are a
quick growing tree and make a fair
post at the end of fifteen years and
have a life of from ten to twelve years
When a grove has been cut it is al
lowed to grow again then the sap
lings are trimmed so that only one
grows from each stump Those who
have tried them say they can make a
profit on land valued at 100 par acre
by raising catalpas on it
Cemen posts are being used consid
erably of late These posts cost from
23 to C5 cents eah depending on tho
lze of the post the kind of reinforc
ng and tho rost of labor and mate
rial These posts as commonly
Miade are not as strong as the avorauf
wood post but do very well tor fieKI
and pasture fences Because of thj
sharp corners on these posts thf
stock especially horses seem t m
joy rubbing on them more than on
tound posts For this reason it is
well to put the posts on the opposite
side of tho fence from where thr
horses run In a line of sixteen posts
thirteen were broken off in the lot
where horses were running while in
a line of the fence twice as long and
wiiere cattle were running on boti
sides no posts were broken Th
horses rubbed the three posts whirh
were not orouen until tney leaner s
inches and they were set thirty inches
in the ground
At one time red cedar posts were
used a great deal but because of the
increased cost these posts are being
replaced with white cedar a post ma
terial which is not proving very dra
bc
Although barbed wire has ruined
sufficient stock in the prairie states to
pay for enough woven wire to make
all the fences in that section of tj
country it is still the stand by zr
fence material It is not onlv the
fence for the poor but it is a fenc
for the rich and both use it
Stone walls rails and board fences
rc being replaced by woven wire
The latter is fully as durable far
more sightly and much cheaper In
buying this fence however farmers
are making a great mistake in getting
too light wires The heavier wires ac
much moro durable and rost hit a
trifle more No 3 line wire should i
tlr minimum size and it would be b
or if all tho cross wires were t
size
Mr H E Horton a noted fanr
man from Chicago is quoted pertnn
ing to a fence made up of No 9 vftr
top and bottom with No 11 intormorii
1 ate stays nnd line wires and a fenf
made of all No D wire as follows
Cost per rod for a wire fence
Lieht
Fencing 30c
Posts 18o
Setting nost and fence 5c
Total 5Cc
Ileavy
AZc
c
Tb heavier fonre in place cost r
ror r Hiit moro while its life is svri
hundred per rent more
CONCRETE FEEDING FLOORS a total of 2502 which would be SI
By L W Chase Department of nore than they cost when made of
cultural Engineering concrete with cement at cents per
It is hard to talk feeding floors to sark or 117 more than the concrete
any farmer who has never used onefioors wou1 ffsf at 17 cents per sac
hut whenever he has once experienced Morft farmers have thr own sand
and sravel pits so that all the sand
the of
pleasuro feeding hogs on a con-
crete floor or ven a plank floor he is inmI sravel would necessarily cost
oivnrc v ni ita nrieoc to would be the handling Ordinarily t
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Ell
THE GENERAL PLAN TO FOLLOW
IN MAKING A CONCRETE FEED
ING FLOOR
his neighbor There are no figures
showing the saving of feed by the use
of a good feeding floor neither can we
find any figures showing that hogs do
better when fed upon a feeding floor
yet very seldom do we find a farmer
who has evor used a feeding floor
1iit who will say that a feeding floor
-jives its own cost in feed every year
Recently several concrete feeding
floors were made on the university
farm and a definite record was kept of
the time and material on the two
floors which were made first The
doors were laid upon four inches of
cinders tho rough concrete was Kj
inch thick while the top or face was
i inch thick The proportions of the
material for the base or bottom of the
roncretc were 1 part cement 2 parts
sand and 5 parts 2 inch stone The
top was 1 part cement l parts sand
and 2 parts stone It took a man and
team two hours to haul and place the
cindeis which was figured at 35 cents
It required in hours common labor at
17J cents and 5 hours time of a me
chanic at 30 cents All told the labor
amounted to S483 5500 pounds of 2
inch stone which cost 1014 cents per
hundred on the ground at the works
5800 pounds of sand which cost 5
cents per hundred on the ground 1000
pounds of chip which cost 10 cents
nn the ground and 21 sacks of cement
were used which cost 45 cents per
sack on the ground making the mate
rial cost 1917 or the two floors cost
a total of 24 which means that it
cost 75 cents per square foot If the
cement used in this floor had been 30
cents a sack as it is now the two
floors would have cost 2085 If the
floors had been made of 2 inch plank
which cost 26 per thousand the ma
terial alone would have been 22 and
costs about 50 cents per yard to hail
sand from the pit a distance of U to Yt
of a mile Since there are about 4
yards to these two floors it would
have made the cost of the sand and
stone amount to only 200 thus reduc
ng the cost of material from 19 17 to
11 -15 therehv reducing tho cost of
bo floors from 2400 to 10 20 or
814 each
PROFESSOR J H FRANDSON
Professor J H Frandson has recent
ly been elected professor of dairying
in the University of Nebraska He
also has charge of experimental work
in dairying in connection with the ag
ricultural experiment station Pro
fessor Frandson graduated about ten
years ago from the Iowa state college
at Ames la receiving a Master of
Science degree from that institution
He was later connected with a large
commercial creamery at Portland
Ore as chemist in their experimental
laboratory Four years ago he went
to the University of Idaho at Moscow
Ida as professor of dairying and
has built up a strong department in
that institution Professor Frandson
was Induced to accept a position in
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In the County Court of Red
Willow ec untyNebraska In the
matter of the Estate of Stephen
Bcillea doc eased Staite at Ne
braska Red WilloAV County
To all persons interested in the
eslate of Stephen Bollcs deceas
ed
Yen are hereby nctficd that
jlarilla Bcllce executrix of the
hnst will and tc stamnt of Steph
en Bollee deceased has filed hei
tinal account in saiid niaifctor and
a patitJon for final settlement
and dTiharge and tliat the resi
due of said estate be assigned in
accord mce with the terms of
said will Said final account and
petition will l3 heard In the coun
ty court room in the city of Me
Caok in said county on the 29th
day c January 1912 at one
oclock p in and you are here
by oited to appear and show
caus if anv such exists at the
time and place abave daaiginaited
why saiscl account should ncit be
allowed and sasid patc tion grant
ed
Wiitntss m hand and the seal
of sadd court this 5th day of Jan
uary 1912 -
FRANK M COLDER
Seal Oounty Judge
First publication Jan 8 6ts
Notice
To itlie creditors of the estaite
of Cajrrie M Farnswortli deceas
ed
You are hereby notified tfchait
the time for filing claims against
said estate expires June 29 1912
and rthat the oounty judge of Red
Willow county Nebraska will sit
on the first day of July 1912 at
the hour of nine oclock a m
to examine all claims against said
estaite with a view to- their ad
justment and allowance
Dated December 23rd 1911
Seal J C MOORE
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PROFESSIONAL AND
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Your combings
made into switches and puffs
MRS L M THOMAS
Phone Ash 2354
JENNINGS HUGHES CO
Plumbing Heating
and Gas Fitting
Phone S3
Estimates furnished freeBasemect
Postoffice building
ROLAND R REED M D
Physician and Surgeon
Local Surgeon B M
Phones Office 163 residence
217 Office Rooms 5 6 Templa
building McCook Neb
DR HERBERT J PRATT
Registered Graduate
Dentist
Office 212 Main av over
Connells drug store Phones
fice 160 residence black 131
DR R J GUNN
Dentist
Phone 112
Office Rooms
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building McCook
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R H GATEWOOD
Dentist
Phone 163
Office Room 4 Masonic temple
McCook Neb
DR EARL O VAHUE
Dentist
Phone 190
Office over
Cook Neb
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Lawyer
Bonded Abtracter and
Examiner of Titles
Stenographer and notary In office
McCook Nebraska
JAMES HART M R C V S
Veterinarian
Phone 34
Office Commercial barn McCook
Nebraska
L C STOLL CO
Jewelers Opticians
Eyes tested and fitted Finn rt
pairing McCook Neb
H P SUTTON CO
Jewelers
and Opticians
Watch Repairing Goods of quality
Main avenue McCook
JOHN E KELLEY
Attorney at Law and
Bonded Abstracter
Agent of Lincoln Land Co Of
fice in Postoffice building jIc
Cook Nebraska
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Real Estate
and Insurance
Office 305 2nd st East Phone
black 252
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keep a complete line
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symptom hoarseness Give Cham
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