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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1904)
. Febn1clry 26 , 1904 . THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNl' : 7 - - L I . FACTS AND FANCIES BY ALLAN D. MAY. , . , I I pity him whose discontcnl ) at Has come to bc cn\'it'onmcnt , ,0 .A1\ \ all prcvading atmosphcl'c } . In which hc lives from year to yeat' . I . pity him , thc man dcnied , . . 'l'he pleasures the satiffied ; , . i v. . , ' ' Whosc nature is too deaf and blind f , 1 TT 10 correspo'td with hunHlIl-ldmt. ' ; " , I pity him whose crowning sin r } " Is brooding o'cr what might have been ; . fj. \ ' , ' ; . " ' 1' . . . ' 'Vho for his soul a temple makcs ; 1Id : , . < . Buildcd of all his last ? mistakcs . , 'i\ ' ' " I . : , ; . And therein \ sits in solitude ' . . i ; . ; . , i . : : . . . " Save for his fancy's harrying brood , . . . & + , ; , : . And gives his pessimism vent .i.i"if . ! f. . : . J .And tells his bcadsof discontent ; . . ' . ' 11 I.'ii . , : t' . . . . ' Whilc all around on either side . 1 . Is surging \ lifer unceasing tide , ' , ' f' < " ; . , . . , ' , And flung \ against his temple walls , :4 : \ ' 'l'hc voice of love and labor calls , . ' , . \Thile on the clone just overhead h V , f : , 'l'hc sunbeam's genial light is shed ; .t ' . it . ( . , ' . . Amt higher than \ thc dome is high " ; : Arches a blue and cloudless sl < , ) ' , . " . "r . I pity him whose discontent Has lcd to such imprisonment , \Thosc heart immured , may never heed Thc crying \ of a brothers nccd l I pity him whose discontent . > Has come to be cnvironl11cnt- L- I - \ 'Who frets beneath thc chastening \ rod Holds no com111union with his God , , . . As we brought nothing into - h . . , . ,1. ' t-I - , .f ' " ( I the world , we can take nothing out of it Therefore we wonder how the grim ferrymen makes . his job pay. 1 f ' A man who devoted forty years of his life ' rich ! ' 0' to getting and , t J . i& \ \ : . , twenty more years to getting , . , richer " suddcnly came to thc con- 0' , clus'.on ' that he was not having as I o , : " , . . much fun out of life as he should . ' , ' ; ' ' ' . have. His barrel of money had , t. , ' " . . ' grown to a hog-shead. ; when h.e ' ' t < ! ' paid the taxes on his land , It . ' - ! " ' 0 took the entire force in the treasurers - < urers office six weeks to make out his receipts ; every year he had I . his government bonds baled in a hay press and filed way. But . . hc had never had any fun to . amount to anything , so he decid- i ! cd that if he was ever going to t- t- J : - : - . , " , 0 have a run for his money , he ' : i , ; , - would have to hurry for he ' . " was liable to die most any fime. I ; . . , ' , So he laid his plans accordingly. t' The first thing that he did was : , : - : , . . , . . to make his will in which he wil1- cd all his property to two sons , . disinheriting' the other two. 'rhen he wrote a note announcing that , . he intended (0 drown himself in the river and then he disappeared , , going into a far country to await . results. The note di ' was covered - : cd and the river ' dragged , but although - though the body was not found he was given up for dead , and the . - will was admitted to probate. r ; { , Then the two disinherited sons , f did just as the old man thought ' . . , they would-they contested the ' \ will , and the date was set for the hearing of the big case. Then the old man who had been watch- ing the newspapers came back from the far country in a covered , . - y. wag-on disg'uised ( ilS a hon trader and occupied a scat in i the court room every clay ( luriiig the trial. 'l'he lawyers for thlplaittifTs : showed that thc fact that the old man made his will and ) at once c0111nlittcd ! suicide , proved that he was : nsanc and so thc will ] ] was : set asidc. 'Vhcn thc judgment j } was handed down , thc old man jumped upon a chair and tore off his ( lisguise and made a speech declaring that he had never enjoyed - joyed anythi ngso much in i all his life as he had enjoyed that ' trial and declarcd that he wo uld pay all the costs and he invited the judge and thc jury and the lawyers and all the spec- tators to come and take a drink Vhereupon the court adjuurned. A l + alls City man who has just returned from a trip to Kansas City , tells a hard luck story of the first magnitudc. It secms that the pavements anal walks : were covered with ice and walk- ing- , even in the level places was bad enough , but on the hills that have made Kansas City infamous it was something not to be dcs- cribed in polite lang'uag-e. As hc was . engaged : in scaling one of these pZalcs , he drove his alpenstock - stock into the ice and paused to rcst. Glancing around he saw an old woman climbing wcarilly along the trai1. She was at least ninety years old ; thc wintry witid played through the stray locks of her thin gray hair ; one bare hand gripped a stout cane while the other tugged at a very large and very heavr valise It was a piti- ful sight , and thc thought that she was som'bO"dy's mother , and away back in the past had been somcbody's sweetheart , brought tears to the eyes of the Falls City man , and they ran down and formed a long icicle on the end of his nose. All the chivalry of the mans nature was aroused , so when the old lady set her valise down for a moment , he approached - ed her and tipping his hat , said politely , "Grand mother , your valise is too heavy. Allow me to assist you up the hill , " and at the same time he reached for the valisc. Thereupon the old lady gave a scream and drew back with her cane and swatted him across the nose and knoc1ied : him down. There she placed the \ valise - lise on his manly bosom and sat on it and hollered till the police came. When the officers arrived she said that a confidence man had tried to rob her , and they put him in the patrol wagon and hauled him to the station. ' \Vhen he attempted to explain to the court , the judge admitted that the story was pretty clever but added that it wouldn't go , and he assessed - sessed the maximum tine which was paid and it is said that the Falls City man rolled all the way ow : . . . . , . . . . .IIUIIIIt\1IIaIJ"'H'1 m I".ran . . e . . taarny . r.n. . ' . . . . , . " ' _ " : ! K4il . v.iSUm I . . . , I'I. , p ' " ' ' HOLT'S I Shoe Store , hails City , Neb. , : - : : Men , CrIO-S ; : ; : . \V9nlen ; and I for Children J o \ would 1 be pleas to have you ' call . t to see our Shoe Styles I. \Vou1d also like add your name . I' 1.:0 our list of cust0l11ers. q Ch . ( drel1's SIoes : n 5 JCcnIty. : \"m'm Lined Shoes for Old FoUes. t Rubbers and Overshoes of nil Kinds. t Want to Phone , Call 23. t . . ' : : : : : . ! : .oi.il".m : .iiJ' : " " " " ; : : : : ; .o.Wr.l. : . " : . : = : - . ! . Z : illi , , . . . - Y..e r. . _ _ . . . . . . . . _ _ down the incline ill his hurry to get to the dcpot and out ur town. - - - - - - - - - - - - " - LOCAL AND PERSONAL. i\Ianforc1 Brannin of Shubcrt wa in thc city Saturday. Grant Boyd of Rube was a Falls City visitor Sa turday. I. . A. Kinsey of Verdon was in the city on business w1onday. Ruth Bowman of Stella was in thc city on bl1sincs Salurday. Mrs . diary Hoops of Verclon visited friends in this city 8un- , 1 day. ' 1L , Hall came down from crdot1 and spent Sunday in this city. city.D. D. E. Spickler of Barada trans- acted business in this city Satur- day. 1. E.Smith of Humboldt was in town on legal business the first of the week Warren Hutchins and daughter Sara went to St Joseph Saturday afternoon. Mr. and 1\11'5. Albert Tanner and son spent Sunday vis- ting i rn this city. Pearl Brock of Craig , NIo. , ar- rived in the city Saturday for a visit with friends. James B. Downs came up from StJoseph and spent Sunday with his parents in this city. 1\'lrs. N. J. Bergsma of Shubert visited at the home of her sistes , 1'1rs. O. H. . Ross over Sunday. Miss Bculah Fry returned Saturday from a two weeks visit with her sister , Mrs. Garth 1\'Iettz of Newkirk Oklahoma. A change in night operators has been made at the Missouri Pacific depot. George Pittman has been transferred to Effing- ham , Kan. , and his place has been taken by 1\1r. Sullivan , who comes from Ogdcn , . Utah. _ . - 1Ir. [ and i\Irs. : J. L , Dalbey fof Shubcrt were in town .Monday cnroute home 1'1'0111 a visit with their daughter , ] : I\lrs. 'l'iptioll of Albany , l\lissouri. NoHce. I'irst publication chntat'Y 19 , 1904. 'ro Mary A. Gilman and Joseph Gil- man her hnsba11(1 and their hcirs. You arc hereby notified that at a public tax sale of land , fOl' delinquent taxes , at the county treasurer of1icc ill , Falls City ! Richardson county , state of Nebraska , on 1 b. ' : ht c ay d Jt nc 902 , Clarence H. Wiltsc of said Richardson county for thc use and benefit of himself , his heirs or assignees did hid off and pur- chase the following describcd ( real estate - tate towit : Part of lots 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 and Sin in block seventy (70) ( ) commencing at a stone thirty feet west of thc northeast corner of block nt1 m her seventy (70) ( ) in halls City amI rnnning thence twcnty- five feet west to a stone thus south one h u nd rcd-t wc nt ) ' . f'e f (25) ( ) feet to a stone thence cast twenty-fivc (25) ( ) feet thence north onc-hundrcd-twenty-five (125) ( ) feet to the place of beginning , all being in said lock number seventy in . the town of Falls City , Richardson county , Nebraska according to thc recorded - corded Platt of said town. Being the same property ] as is described in the deed which is record on page 363 in hook No 18 in record of deeds and con- ve'cd to Mary Gilman by Isaac Min- nick and wife , Elizabeth Minnickb warranty dced. ' 1'lie same was then and there offered for sale for delinquent . qucnt taxes for thc year 1900 and there being no other bidder for thc same. The said land was taxed in thc name of Mary AGilman and said tax was assessed - sessed for the year 1900 , and that the time of redemption from said sale will expire on the twcnty-first day of June A. D. 1904. 7-3 C. H. 'Viltsc. Staple and Fancy Groceries FRUIT IN SEASON Try Our 1775 1 Coffee Highest Market Price Paid for Butter and Eggs First Door North of , Pat Office. . . PHONE 14 A. G. HOPPOCK