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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1897)
Witt Jfartfj NORTE PLATTE, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1897. VOL. XIII. kth ...... t - v UNDERWEAR. We are offering to the people of Forth Platte and vicinity an exceptionally fine line of Underwear in heavy and light weights at prices that are right -the Hub's prices are always right. The public is jnvited to call and examine these goods. THE HUB, W. T. BANKS, Prop. r m,mmaLJ 1 Republicans Successful Witli Part of their Ticket. 4 ! '3 Woodhurst, Eoss and Bald win Sure Winners. GREAT CLE ARI NG SALE :Fo:Ee sxor-sr iDj&ssrs zltx-tz"- g3PWe are overstqcked with goods and must unload as we need money. gBt Look and compare prices with any city in the Union. . Men's Woolen Cheviot Suits in brown and black, sizes 36 to 42, at gj Fine all-wool men's suits, all sizes, for $5,50, $6-50, $7.50, $8.50 Up to $16.50 Men's Overcoats from $2.50, and as fine as you want them. Boy's Overcoats $1 up A good heavy suit for a child for $1 , better ones for $1.30 up to $5. Boy's Long Pants Suits from $2 up to $10, ages from 12 to 19 years. Good working pants for 90 cents which will not rip; in fact everything will be sold so cheap that you can not help but buy. Please give us a call, Mldel Clothing House, - - M. Einstein, Prop. FOLEY'S OLD STAND. Returns so far Received Indi cate Election of Holtry, and Thoelecke. Barry and Weingand in Doubt. 1U . . Jt. :? The election yesterday resulted in large gains for the republican party in Lincoln county over the ote of one year ago, and particu- arly is this true of North Platte city, well re majorities or pluralities ranged from 97 to 252 for the re publican candidates. . The vote in the city was as fol- ows: SCHOOL BOAED MEETING. The board of education held its regular meeting last night and dis posed of an unusual amount of bus iness. The reports of the Secre tary and Superintendent.Mrs. Bon ner and Ebright. were read and ac cepted, alter which the regular of bills were allowed. In his report Superintendent Ebright said he had visited all of the schools one or more times this month, an4 finds tliat in every department the work is progressing" very satisfactorily. Particularly in writing and spell ing the greatest improvement is shown. Classes that a year ago ould not write a legable hand and could not write two sentences that were spelled correctly, can now do fairly well in both of these branches. The enrollment in the different schools at the end of the second school month, November l.was 793. Last month the total enrollment was 764. Mrs. Bonner, iniher report, said that she had issued warrants to teachers for salary for the month ending October 5, $1,104.97; for the month endingNovember 1, $1,122.75. On account of a mistake in Mr. Ebright's report last month, Miss VonGoetz was paid for but fifteen daj's whereas she had taught six teen, so her warrant was made out for one month and one day. The amount of tuition received up to date fram. outsiders is21.bU. (Juite a qumber of others have not paid. The new desks received from the United States school furniture company, of Chicago, for the Bap. tist church building, are not satis factory in workmanship, material and joining and the board will re quest the companj' to send a man . out here to make them all right. 1 The costs of the new desks is S225 besides $70 freight on them. Thirty-five of the desks are still at the freight office a.nd the board has re fused to accept them, as they are totally unfittor use. The bord will enter into a con- cttth ihPL TCnrfh Platte tele- o the scnool Duuaings ot tue , - rr j. 3 3 4 1 1, : 1. CC UlUCi tut. natuii uuu kuw u.. ool building. The cost of same I be fifty dollars per year. ttornevs Wilcox & Halligan .employed to push the pre- a claim against the North - m t a e national oanK, ana iu.ii " 1 . L. 1 4.1. a Inr -TI1 creiary act uuu iut the attorney fet board at each regular meeting the total amount of money expended, by warrants drawn to date, under different items of rent, furniture, fuel, repairs, salaries, books and supplies and miscellaneous, also total receipts to date. The salary of Miss Feawick was raised from $35 to $40. The in crease is made because she nov teaches in a separate room, before being but an assistant to Miss Bobbitt. The. window lights in the Bap tist f yirch school were ordered givera coat of white paint. The walks around the Second and Third school houses were or dered repaired, the walks having suffered considerable damage at the hands of the small boy on hal lo we'en. The outline ofschool work has been received from the printer and is being sent out as fast as possi ble to the different teachers. MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION. The ministerial association ot the North Platte district. West Ne braska Conference, will convene iu this- city Tuesday even ing, November 9th, and continue in season three days. The programme is as follows: Tuesday evening Sermon, Rev, B. H. Gould, followed by Uora s supper. Wednesday morning Devotional meeting, A. J. Armstrong; organi zation of association; "Pulpit Don'ts." E. H. Bryant; -Pulpit Dos." A Chamberlain; adjournment. Afternoon Opening service, J. M. Eggers; District Stewards meet ing; "How can pastors best meet their obligations to baptize chil dren," J. H. Derryberry; "How can the Epworth League be helpful to the church," P. T. Hoon; "High License," versus No License," O. A. Trabue. Evening Sermon, L. W. Chandler. Thursday morning Devotional meeting, A. L. Hughes; -Best Method of Preparing a Sermon," A. Coslet; "Should we give more prominence to the missionary col lection," R. Randolph; "Best methods of raising benevolences," D. C. Nichols. Afternoon Open ing service, B. Hornaday; "Scrip tural conversion, when? how? what?" O. F. Chesebro; "When do we give?" J. C. Bell; "Revivals, best methods of conducting," W.H. Davis: question drawer. Evening t C0MIlSSI0NEBS, PROCEEDINGS. October 29, 1897. Board met, present Thomson, Hardin, Garrison and county clerk. Claims were allowed as follows on the bridge fund: G. T. Field lumber $388.40. S. H. Bowers bridge work $11.50. Claims on the road fund were allowed as follows: P. G. Meyer surveying roads,54. 90; Alfred Weber flagman, 4.00; Wm. Johnson flag man, 2.00; John Ginaph 10.00; Isaac Dillon grader, 38.75; Joe Grace ap praiser,3.00; Wm. Grady appraiser, 3.00; D. W. VanBrocklin, appraiser 6.20, Chas. Foulk chainman, 8.00; John Johnson, flagman, 8.00; Wm. Peter.flagman, 8.00; Austin & Wes tern grader bit, 8.00; Alfred Weber chainman, 24.00' County clerk was instructed to issue an order on treasurer for 29.50 for express charges and expenses 011 ballots. The board began the selection of a juror list for November term of district court. October 30, 1897. Board met, present the full board and county clerk. The following claims were allowed: W. W. Young lumber, claimed 33.15, allowed for 29.70, on bridge fund. Chas. Suska road, work 13-00, and J. F. Anthers, damage claim for 97.50, allowed for 35.00. Petition asking for change in road No. 172, come up for fitfal action and was granted as peti tioned and the vacation ordered. The North Platte telephone com pany .agrees to put in a telephone in the county attorney's office and maintain the same tor 1.50 per month. The proposition was ac cepted and telephone ordered. Board instructed count' clerk to order four photograph maps of the city for county offices. Board completed the selection of a juror list. Coal was ordered of G. T. Field as follows: Twenty tons, more or less of hard coal to be delivered at county jail and court house at 10.90 oer ton. Rock Serines lump coal. as ordered to be delivered, for 7.00 rjer ton. Bord adjourned to meet Dec. 15, 1897. Graham lett this visit with Grand Mrs. Geo. morning for a Island friends. The election yesterday was an unusually quiet one, and particular ly was this so alter tne pons ciosea. Verv little drinking was indulged in, and no boisterous individuals were DIVIDE HONORS lvd 2wd'3wd Maj Supreme Jdge Post 8r200 89 38 Sullivan 13S 112 88 Regents Kaley 87 203 94 61 Dryden 89 202 90 59 Von Forrell.. 130 102 81 Kenower 138 102 82 Treasurer Barry...,,... 80199 88 121 Holcomb 91 84 71 Clerk Holtry 87 214 89 123 Haultman 97 83 77 Sheriff Weingand.... 94 226 99 101 Keliher 134 99 85 Co. Judge Baldwin 109 238 105 252 Buchanan 79 61 60 Superintend Thoelecke.... 102 202 102 226 Franklin 108 101 71 Surveyor Ross 96 213 89 219 Nickoson .... 69 54 56 D Coroner Donaldson ... 92 224 94 j97n , McCabe 130 97 86 ICommiss'ner Woodhurst... 88 229 92 100U Cunningham . 136 90 83 Streitz, democratic candidate for reasurer, received 43 votes in the First ward 38 in the Second and 22 in the Third. Up to ten o'clock this forenoon returns had been received from about one-half of the country pre cincts, and these' returns indicate that Baldwin for judge and Ross for surveyor are sure winners. Holtry for clerk and Miss Thoel ecke for county superintendent polled heavy 'votes in the precincts which have so tar reported, ana n they maintain their gams in the remainder of the precincts ana this they will probably do they will be elected by majorities of nearlv 100. Keliher, for suentr, ran aneaa or his ticket in a majority of the pre cincts which have reported. Barry, the republican nominee for treasu rer, is still ahead of Holcomb up to this hour. DESK, Rev. Spragueof Farnam preached at the Shaw school house last Sun day evening, A fine rain Monday night and a snow storm Tuesday evening put the ground in fine shape for winter. A. LaBounty and family are en joying a visit from Mrs. LaBounty's mother and father from the eastern part of the state, Herbert Griffith came home Fri day from Cambridge where he has been at work. J. R. Shaw went to Gothenburg Monday. William Haughtaling came home Wednesday to stay a few days. He is boss carpenter on LaRue's barn. Os Wilmeth plastered a cistern for Bob Lawrennce last Saturday. Steve McDermott and his man Friday were hunting up his cattle in this neighborhood since the storm. A. LaBounty lost some fat hogs during the snow storm. Miss Clara Shaw is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Holderman, this week. Frank Speck has traded his land to Mr. Murry of near Moorefield, who will move onto the same in the near future. William Peterson moved his household goods to Ingham on Mon day. . There will be a meeting of the Farmer's co-operative purchasing club of Ingham at the Ingham school house on Saturday evening, Noy. 16th. All members are requested to be present. Bill. (li EVENTS IN NEBRASKA. J The pay roll of the Union Pacific at Grand Island is $45,000 per month over half a million a year. W. B. Carey ot Long Pine has had four cancers taken from his face and thinks he is liable to re cover. Thomas Craffrey, a gravel-train worker, went to sleep while his train was sidetracked at Clarks, and found on waking up that he had been robbed of a new hat and $40 in cash. An unknown man was found on the U. P. near Mead with his throat cut and unconscious. He was taken o Wahoo and placed in the poor louse and he may recover. He claims to have had $50 on his person and labors under the hallucination that he was attacked by Indians. Thirty cars of potatoes, aggre gating 20,000 bushels, have been shipped from Gordon during the past two weeks and still the crop of spuds" is by no meaus exhausted. Thousands of bushels yet remain to be shipped this fall, and still other thousands are being "holed up" for spring shipment. The crop is of fine quality and the price paid is 30 cents a bushel. Sam T. Wilson, of Royal Oak. Michigan, left his home on Novem ber 1st last year for Beemer, this state, and has not been seen since. His parents and friends supposed he was there until a few days ago, when his mother wrote there, re questing him to come home, as his father was dying. The miss man is about six feet high and has deep blue eyes and anburn hair. He is about thirty vears of acre. He had several hundred dol lars with him when he left his home a year ago. Tps Space for the.,, Golden Eaaie Wat&b Royal makes the food pare, wholesome and delicious. POWDER Absolute! Pure ROYAL BMONS POWDER CO., KCW YORK. For his new book entitled "Fol loving the Equator" it is said that Mark Twain will receive $40,000, the whole of which he will turn over to his creditors, to whom he owes $20,000 more. He has been tnxritprl hv an Knrlich numishin'" ... . . 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