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VOL. XII.
-YBasSmitJiOVBl PLATTE, MBRlSEArfFELOAY EYEOTvJAXlIIIfr'Si, 1896. '
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37""b6d-3r
-over our Great
ClothingrGents
Surprised, First at the Barge Assortment; .
i.Cn f, A . .1 Of "V "11 .
second ac tne superior iuaiity;:
Third at the Immense Yariety; -Fourth
at the Low Prices. "
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We have been some time in getting. tlie'sel.Sur
' prises here and ready for you, but at last are
able to announce
Bargains all Through the House.
"We solicit a comparison, of Goods and Prices,
knowing that you will find our stock the Best and the
Cheapest.
Star Clothing House,
WEBER & TOLLMER, Props.
CLOSING
OF ENTIRE
oots
B
atld
rAT-rz
Otten's Shoe Store
FOR CASjl
large line of the best makes of Ladies, Men and
Children's Shoes. All goods will be closed out for what
they will bring. A large line oover shoes and rubbers
will be closed out cheap enough that you can buy for next
year. A complete line of the celebrated Lewis Boys'
Shoes, . Children's Red School House Shoes the best
made, Ludlou Ladies' Fine Shoes, Lily Brackets Men's
Pine Shoes, I will sell cheap for cash to quit business.
Will also sell show cases, counters, shelves, safe, etc.
Otten's lioe StQre.
C. F. IDDINGS
AND G
Order by telephone from
LIT53BT PEED STABLE
(Old "7"a3X Doran StalDlo.) .
Grood
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EscsM
Northwest corner of Courthouse
Prices
Stock of-
Grloves. ajndn Mittens.. - -. '
SALE
STOCK OF
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Eewton's Book Store.
Teams,
Comfortable Hi'gs,
'Araiaodaliofls for lis Firming Fubk
square.
Shoes
"WILL HAVE THE FAIE.
The meeting- at tlie:,c'5jSrt house
Tuesday evening-, held for the pur
pose of considering- the proposition
submitted by the Nebraska Irriga
tion Fair Association, was well at
tended by business men and others.
The meeting- was addressed by
Messrs. Neville, Grimes Hoagland.
Park, Gantt and others, ajl of whom
portrayed the benefit to be derived
from holding- .such a fair, and
warmly .urged that it be Jheld in this
city.
The following- resolution was
read and upon motion, unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, A number of counties
jn western jNeorasiia nave associ
ated themselves together for the
purpose of holding- a fair at some
central point where the results of
irrigation can be advertised and the
attention of those interested in irri
gated lands may thereby be attract
ed to this part of the county, and.
W hereas, These counties have m
deference to our location and the
progress that we have already made
in irrigation, decided to offer to us
the location for such fair, provided
that suitable accommodations can
be offered them, aud,
Whereas, the Lincoln County
Agricultural Society have gener
ously offered the use of their
grounds, which will be suitable
after an expenditure of about $1000,
therefore be it
Resolved, That we the citizens of
Lincoln, county in mass meeting as-
semoiea, ursre upon t ue citizens or
tincoln county their hearty co-oper
ation to raise the necessary funds
to secure this fair, and to render
any assistance that may be within
their power, to the Lincoln County
Agricultural Society in securing the
necessary funds for the purpose of
betterii:r the grounds as required
by the Nebraska Irrigation Pair
Association; aud that the president
of this, meeting is hereby directed
to appoint a committee ot hve citi
zens, not members of the Lincoln
County Agricultural Society, to act
in co-operation with them in the
raising of the necessary funds.
As members or the committee re
ferred to in the resolution. Chair
man Eells appointed Messrs. War
Tier, Beeler, Miller, Federhoof aud
Laing.
It is understood that the state
law. alio ws--.the. coun ty-scommission -
ers to donate a certain amount each
year for the maintenance ot agricul
tural fairs, and the committee will
hold a conference with the commis
sioners with a view of securing such
appropration. The funds secured
from this source together with that
raised by subscriptions from people
of the city will probably be adequate
to put the fair grounds in shape for
for the district fair. .
NICHOLS AND HEE8HEY NEWS.
W. J. Crusen of North Platte
will preach at Nichols next Sunday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Calhoun are
rejoicing over a new daughter born
on the 26th ult.
Several from the vicinity of
Nichols were at the Platte on busi
ness last Wednesday.
A. B. Goodwin who will deal out
the water to the patrons of the old
canal the coming season moved
with his family from North Platte
upon a ditch tarm in Hinman pre
cinct recently.
I. M. Baly and family will move
from the W. E. Parks farm upon
one of the Paxton &Hershej- farms
north of Nichols the coming spring.
W. H, Minney will remove from
the Feekin farm soon. We have
not learned where he will take up
his abode as yet.
Rev. Pelton of Maywood will
preach to the people of the Platte
Valley school house one week from
uext Sunday.
W. E. Parks of North Platte as
sisted J. B. McKee in butchering
hogs this week.
The organization of a singing
school a Nichols failed to ma
ture last Tuesday evening. We
understand that another effort will
be made in one week tram that
time;.
F. L. Terry left fqr Omaha Jast
Wednesday night to. Ijave h.is lame
eye removed, if necessary, in order
to save the other one.
Carpenter Simmons of North
Platte is making some repairs
upon the Maccabee hall at Hershey.
Rev. Stearns of North Platte is
conducting a successful .series of
revival meetings in the Maccabee
hall at Hershey this week.
Frank Toilliou was reported on
the sick list a short time ago.
Several changes have already
been made in tenants on both the
Paxton & Hershey and on the old
ditch company's land.
Mrs. A. O. Randall is 'we are
pleased to note, rapidly coYivalesc
ingV 1
The south side ditch company un-oaded-a.car
of lumferat Hershey
this week.
C C. Banks, theHershey merch
ant, and -the old canaL company
shipped a car of shelled corn west
yesterday.
Agent Smith and bride returned
to Hershey Wednesday evening.
Wm. Funkhouser, of Hersher.and
Miss Lillian Stone, of Sutherland,
were united m marriage at the
bride's home yesterday.
The Tift boys, of North Platte
are shipping hay from Nichols
which they put up over oh the south
side.
The Maccabees decided at z
special meetiug last Monday even
ing to charge"S2.50 ;per month for
the use of their hall for religious
services in the future. Pat.
SOMERSET SNAP SHOTS.
Mr. Stevens and Mr. Clovd of
Perkins county stopped over Mon
day night with Everett Mullikin.
Wm. Griffith spent Sunday with
his family.
Elder H. P. PeltoiL of Maywood
is expected to preacli at the Somer
set school house on ..Friday night,
February 7.
Charley Jackson has .gone to take
charge of a mail route in Frontier
county.
Wt A. Latimer ancl and R. S.
Fidler were Dickens visitors Mon
day, Mr. Splinter, a new arrival of
Wellfteet, made a flying trip here
Monday.
A. Green aud wife visited friends
in-North Platte Monday night.
Miss. Edith Jolliff came up from
Curtis Saturday, returning Tues
day. Miss Hannah Smale visited at J.
F. Brittain's last week.
Norman Crandell and Miss Susie
Ashe stopped over a James Jollift's
Friday night while en route to Mr.
Gorman's, northwest of Dickens.
O. I. C.
NEBBASKA NOTES.
The Nebraska City council pro
poses to have $30 a. year hydrant
rent from the waterworks company
or a lawsuit.
The Grand Island Republican
club is putting on its coat and vest
and spurs and
getting
ready for
more than
meeting the poppcrats
half way.
Hall county has $25,000 on deposit
in the Bank of Commerce of Grand
Island, which has just closed its
doors and will soon be in the hands
of a receiver.
Forty penitents received the ordi
nance of baptism at Crab Orchard
last Sunday. The Baptists were
compelled to hire a hall to accomo
date the congregation.
Walt Mason says that a Beatrice
man deaf in one ear, wore a handker
chief blessed by Schlatter.for a few
weeks and now his well ear is as
deat as the other.
Miss Katie Barron of Papillion
has sued Sarpy county for $1200,
images because she fell from a
county bridge not properly protec
ted by side railing.
Sixteen employees at the. state
rpenitentiary have had their wages
cut to fit the democratic and, popu
listic times and, they are vbeening"
horribly about it.
C. S. Raymond, the well-known
Omalia jeweller, has just turned his
face to the wall. He Weathered the
financial storm a good while, but he
couldn't play against five aces in
the hand of Adversitv.
Lotuer University, the state
school of the Christian church, lo
cated at Lincoln is playing to very
hard luck. It has just been- given
bills of sale to teachers to whom
salaries of long standing were due.
There are a thousand cases on the
dockets of three district ,judges ot
Lancaster county, and yet some
people contend that litigation is in
jured by hard times., the sme as
the grocery and hardware business.
self-binder almost new was
sold at auction the other day in
York and brought only $10. This
leads an exchange to remark that
the blessed, era of democratic
cheapness has been fulfilled to the
uttermost and the world is coming
to an end next week."
"In return for a severe chastise
ment, a bad boy of Banner county
took after his father with a six
shooter and kept him pretty busv
dodging bullets till he found refuse
in a neighbor's dwelling and threat
ened to reply with a repeating rifle.
At last reports the boy was mak
ing tracks for Dakota. S
Three B. & M. employees at Lin
coln who. hold Position nf mo
importance, have b.een discharged.
The cause of it is said to be be
cause they borrowed small sums of
money of the men under them and
then persistently neglected to pay
it back. It was polite blackmail
and when the superior officers
learned of it their heads dropped
into the dripping pan.
Tf TIT I r i
j. ue iews states that out ot a
total of 715 farmers who raised
beets for the Norfolk factory last
year, 155 are located within hauling
distance of the factory. Although
there was considerable ill feeling
among them in the earley part of
the campaign, at the outcome Ihe
large majority were well satisfied
with the crop and the treatment re
ceived from the sugar company.
The report of Secretary Furnas
submitted at annual meeting ot the
Nebraska Agricultural society
shows that the receipts of the last
fair amounted to $1089 more than
the expenditures. This is keeping
its nose a little above the water.
With weather having dirt in the
air not more than a foot thick it is'
certain that the fair at Omaha will
be a hummer with three horns.
In 1895 we soldahnost 6.000,000
bushels less wheat and 1,680,000
barrels less flour to foreign coun
tries than 1894. The money loss
exceeded $10,000,000 notwithstand
ing the fact that the average price
of wheat was about 9 cents a
bushel higher last year than in 1894.
Before the first battle of the civil
war was fought Spain
recognized
the Confederate states as
belliger-
ents. This may be kept in mind as
an illustration of the fact that
Spain is more precipitate in such
matters than the United States has
ever been.
The 36,000,000 people in South
America have an object lesson in
the partition of Afrjca. They
should cultivate self reliance and
the arts of defense, as well as look
to the Monroe doctrine for a gen-,
eral guarantee of their territorial
rights against foreign invaders.
She Kept Her Word.
A detective was 'bringing a woman
whom he had arrested at Bcralogne-rar-Seine
upon x steamer to the prefecture,
when at the Concorde bridge a well
dressed man threw himself into the riv
er aud was drowning. The detective is
an excellent swimmer, and it cost him
a painful struggle to see a fellow crea
ture lose his life. "If only I wero
alone, " he said to his prisoner, "I would
jump into the water to save him."
The woman, who had been sentenced
to 15 days' imprisonment for assault
upon the police, at onco replied : "Do
so. I will wait for you at the pier and
will not run away." The detectivo
thereupon plunged into the stream and
seized the drowning man by his clothes,
wheu a boat struck agaiust him violeut
ly and mado him Ioso his grip. He dived
again, but in vain, and, quite exhaust
ed, he was pulled ou board a small
skiff, which was nearly smashed by a
6teamer coming from the opposite direc
tion. Capiaumont; as the brave fellow was
called, was enthusiastically cheered by
the onlookers. The body of the man he
bad tried to save was recovered a few
hours later. On her part, the woman
who had been in custody acted quite as
courageously, for, true to her word, she
waited for the detective at the Pont
Neuf and handed, to him his, coat, in the
pocket pf which was the warrant upon
which she had bees arrested. It is satis
factory to add that when the chief of
the department was apprised of her
conduct . he immediately ordered the
woman to be set at liberty in recognition
of her devotion. Paris Correspondence.
Thomas Carlylo.
Carlyle ceitainly taught us to have a
keen scent for cant and to abhor it,
though his horror of cant certainly some
times became a cant of his own. The
habit of denouncing cant is very apt to
blind us to tho caut of denunciation.
Until men leave off eloquent generali
ties and look quietly into their own
ftearts without "blast of trumpets and
glorification of themselves for stripping
themselves of "caut they will not strip
themselves of the very habit which most
endangers their truthfulness and sincer
ity. Carlyle taught us to despise cant,
hut hardly to detect it in ourselves.
His genius was a$ impatient as ha
industry was patient. There was no toil
y?hich lie would not go through to mako
is books workmanlike, but n great
many of his carefully compiled facts
proved to be more or less adapted to
spoil the effect of his impatient epi
grams. A great part of Carlyle's genius
was a genius for happy exaggeration,
though it was a kind of exaggeration
which brought out, as nothing else could
have brought out, the real drift and sig
nificance of social and political facts.
Never did any man preach the duty of
submitting to wise authority more elo
quently, but never was there a man of
genius who was less inclined to subju
gate bis own mind to the authority for
which ho professed so Platonic an. affe?b
tion. He has flashed all manne? of bril
liant lights upon character and history,
but he has not found for us any coherent
pode of wisdom or any valuable avenue
o religious truth. London Spectator.
A Poetess' Farmer. Gtat.
"They say Ella, heeler- Wilcox be
lieves in reincarnation," observed the
maiden in the fur jacket, "and thinks
she was once a cat."
" jly opinion is," said the damsel in
tho yellow buskins, "she's mistaken.
She was, a salamander. ' ' Chicago Tribune.
PRICE REDUCTION
That makes the people "repeat ithropular
saying . . . . .. '-:.yM
"There's no Place for Bargains 7
Like THE FAIR": .,
7Z TRUTH THKT GROMS EVERY DKY, y "
OUR FAMOUS MONEY SAVING JANUARY SALE
Of Ladies' and Gents' FinejShoes
Always establishes a new record for cheapness. It will do SO more
than ever this year. For six months we have been gathering, buy
ing, comparing apd figuring with, several shoe manufacturers of conse
quence. The result of our effort has never been so gratifying and is
sure to win the admiration of our many customers. We wish to bear
particularly upon the excellence of our makes and emphasize the fact
that there are no shoddy goods in this stock, also that -the qualities
are extraordinarily large and olentv for evervbodv. Wp wicb tn -na.r
ticularly impress the fact that
qualities can dc oDiainect tor elsewhere.
READ OUR PRIOER AND BE CONVINCED. -
All of our Ladies7 Dongola Kid Shoes
formerly)
S1.5Q,
1.65,
1.75,
Ml I A
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Kangaroo calf shoes, suitable for skating at St 25.
former, price L65, 1.75 and
All of our Men's Shoes
iormerlyl
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V
$1.50,
Z' afc
1.75,
2.00,
J
Our best $2.50 shoe at $2. 09.
shoes, sizes from 12 to 2, in heels and spring heels, at $1.00. regular
price i.6$t 1,85, and 2.00- Remember all our shoes are warranted to give
good wear and are repaired free of charge in case they rip, tear or crack.
The Fair Store
PEOPLE MUST EAT,
WeJ3on't Blow Much,
But when it
clean goods tor little money we are m
it'' just as extensively as any dealer.
We're after Trade,
That's what we are here for and we so
licit you to call and "look us over." We
are confident we can please you.
V. VonGoetz, The Grocer,
Otten stein Block.
Paris Omnibvisca.
Complaints that tho Omnibus com
pany darken their windows with adver
Tisem ents ara rife in Paris as in London.
In Paris, however, the offending bills
are pnfc, not in the windows of the vehi
cles, but in those of the stations, where
most people who have had experience of
riding in the omnibuses of the French
capital have spent many a tedious half
hour. It is well known that French con
ductors can set down passengers, but
cannot pick them up. The passengers
have to go to the nearest station, as on
the railways, there to wait their turn,
and there being no competing under
ground railways and an insufficient
number of omnibuses to meet the re
quirements of the traffic, they Wfen
have to wait a long time. In these cir
cumstances it is felt to be a hardship
that they cannot see the omnibuses from
the inside as they draw up, but have to
rush out in the cold or rain every time
one comes rumbling up to see whether
it is the one they want. London Daily
News.
Shakespeare and Tenaysoa.
When Tennyson was with mo, whose
portrait hangs in my house, in company
with those of Thackeray and this man
(tho three greatest men I have known),
I thought that both. Tennyson and
Thackeray were inferior to him in re
spect of thinking of themselves. When
Tennyson was telling me of how The
Quarterly abused him (humorously, too),
and desirous of knowing why one did
not care for his later works, etc., I
thought if he had lived an active life,
as Scott and Shakespeare, or even shot,
drank and played tho devil, as Byron,
he would have done much more and
talked about it much less. You know, "
said Scott to -Lockhart, "that I don't
care a curse- about what I write," and
one sees he cud not I don't believe it
was far otherwise with Shakespeare.
Letters of Edward Fitzgerald.
An Inquisitive Yohhj; 3?ait.
A Philadelphia lady dropped in unex
pectedly on a frieiad for luncheon the
other day and brought with her an in
quiring young man of 5. It seems this
child has a mania for investigating the
former condition of all eatables before
they have passed into the cook's hands.
Imagine tho horror of the guest and
hostess when the hash, which necessity
made pnrt of tho menu, was brought on
to see that child fasten his eyes upon it i
and, in tho interestsnf culinary science, !
loudly ask, "Mamma, what was that j
when it was alive?" Escksoe.
the prices are very much lower than
formerly
3.00.
3.50,
3.75,
4.00,
4.50,
afci
2.00.
formerly"
- r $3.00,
3.25,
3.50,
3,75,
All our children's Kansraroo Calf
- Richards Bros
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Even if times are a little quiet and dol
lars rather scarce. They must have
Groceries, Provisions and Flour and
they want good goods at low prices.
comes to selling fresh and
The bicycle exhibition in New
York has drawn greater crowds
than even the horse show, the at
tendance last week exceeding-,80,000.
A season of lively wheeling1 may be
predicted for 18.
Dr. Sawyer Dear Sir: I can say with pleasure
that I have been using yonr medicine, and wiil rec
ommend it to all suffering ladies. Mrs. W. W.
Weathersheo, Augusta, Ga. Sold by F H Longley
OMAHA, HEB.,
PEB. 12th and 13th.
The Union Pacific will
sell tickets from points on
its lines in Nebraska at rate
of one fare for the round
trip, tickets on sale Feb
ruary 11th and 12th. '.
See that your tickets read via
'The Overland Route."
N. B. Olds, Agent,
North Platte, Neb.
Dr. A. P. 8awyer I have had Rheumatism since
I was 20 years old, but since using yur Family
Cure have been free from it. It also cured my
husband of the same disease. Mrs . Bobt. Con
nelly, Brooklyn, Iowa. Sold by F. U. Longley.
J. R CAMPBELL
(North Side Grocer)
Invites "the attention of the
purchasing- public to his fresh -and
clean stock of
Groceries, Provision's;
Flour and Peed;
T
Everything as represented and
goods sold as Jpw as the low
est. .Remember the place
The North Side.
Give us a Call.