TH-. it raw- SIXTEENTH YEAR. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1900. NO. 21; at' A YOUR EASTER EGGS should be choice and fresh laid for breakfast, and your Easter dinner be provided with all the tempting relishes and delicacies that the ap petite craves after its lenten fast, and at no place in North Platte will you secure these with so much certainty of their purity, superiori ty, freshness and high grade excel lence, and at as low a price, as at RUSH & MURRAY'S. AN EASTER DRIVE la one of the most enjoyable of the whole year, when spring's balmy breath is coaxing the (lowers back to lite and bloom. It will be doubly enjoyable when taken in one of my handsome and comfortable Canopy Top Surreys, Road "Wagons, Phae tons or Buggies. Call and exam ine mv Easter show of up-to-date vehicles. Jos. Hershey. Dott Be ftfraid when you sample our choice vintages of Table Wines that they will be ex pensive because they are so fine. It is our aim to furnish the choicest that is made at the lowest prices that they can be secured for anywhere. Try our fine Burgundies, Clarets, Ma deira or Hochheimer for your Easter dinner and it will be a treat. Our prices are an inducement. fly. Waltemath. t The Guarantee on SLEEPY EYE Flour is as unique as it is satisfactory. It shows the unbounded confidence The Sleepy Eye Milling Company have in their products, HERE Have a sack sent home, and if x it is not the finest you have ever used your money will be cheerfully refunded and you may keep the flour. Shall wc send you a sack on these conditions ? $ County News. . BRADY ISLAND. Cards arc out announcing the wedding of Miss Anna Johnson and Fred Ericsson to take place on Monday next at the home of the bridc'B parents. Charlie O'Rourkc has had another coat of paint spread on the outside of his store. Fred bright came down from the ?lattc Sunday and returned Mon day having spent the time visiting friends. Mrs. Hcspin was a Gothenburg visitor Monday on business. W, T. Elliott moved his faintly in from the house on the Routine farm and is now occupying the Mathcw son coal office as a dwelling. R. C. Burke was called to North Platte Saturday to take the exam- nation given to company employees and returned Sunday morning. Nello Cover, who recently secured the si'uation of operator at the skimming station at Sidney de parted Friday to take charge of the station. The frame of Mr. Giflin's new residence was put on to the founda tion Tuesday. Monday evening a man either drunk or crazy frightened one of the school girls while on her way home. He was seen going west the same evening. Frank Murphy was down from the Platte, where he now resides, ihd returned Monday. Thursday evening of last week Dr. Lockhart, of Gothenburg, wait n ... it j up examining me appucauis ior he Royal Highlanders. The or ganizer has been here for some time and has secured a number of names A MARK OF QUALITY Our Personal Guarantee backs that of the Sleepy Eye Milling Company, and 50 pounds cost Si. 15 at RUSH & MURRAY'S. : Mimwifw imtmmr mm in w mmvt iff m mimwm Badger Cultivators, One Row ) LISTED Two Row CORN Three Row j CULTIVATORS. Riding Plows, Walking Plows, . LEVER HARROWS, SMOOTHING HARROWS, DISC HARROWS, Sulky Disc Cultivators, Endgate Seeders lfor sale by JOS. HERSHEY. Locust St., North Platte, Neb. iiuuiiiiiuiiiaiuiiUiiiiiiii mm iiuuuuruiuujujuMuiiFv Edisons Phonograph Hettcr than a Piano, Organ, or Mario Box, for it sings anil talks w well as plnys, nn! don't cost as much. It reproduces the music of any instrument band or orchestra tells .1 t 1 (.. 41 a nlil Anntl I am liurnnu no AxftA I n a 41m sti I 1 I n w nnnnu tt la n 1 .1 lodge will com favorable condi meet Saturday the time of their o mat tue new mence with very tionV" The Woodmen evening u ueing regular meeting. Mr. and Mrs. F. St. Marie went Saturday to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Powers at St. Paul, this state. Miss Lizzie Facka's school closed Friday and in the evening tue school .we an entertainment. Mrs. Shields returned Monday from a short visit with her folks at Willow. The Sabbath school has com menced the preparation of an Easter program. The Union Pacific painter was down Tuesday and spread a black- coat over the new iron bridge at Pawnee. BETWEEN THE RIVERS. Postmaster Prickett, of Hershey. was at the county metropolis Wed nesday on pension business. Frank Carpenter and family, who were in tue valley during uaynig last season and left for the eastern part of the state, returned overland the other day and are now domiciled in the village of Hershey in the residence recently vacated by J. F. Ware. Mr. Carpenter, wc under stand, will cultivate S. L. Funk houscr's larm just north of town the coming year. A. Neilson who has been herding about 200 head of cattle on the Feekiu land at Nichols for six weeks, moved them to his ranch in the vicinity of Sutherland the fore part of this week. Wednesday last waB hog day at Hershey and Seebergcr & Co. tool: in better than a carload, which they shipped west. I). A. Blown, wife and little daughter, of the county capital, are visiting relatives and friends in the valley at this time. Mrs. J. W. Prickitt. of Hcrbhcy, has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Al. Stensen, at Sutherland, lately. Mrs. Stensen has a very sick baby but is reported on the mend at this time. N. B. Spurrier has completed his residence over south on the Furr land where he will run his herd of cattle the coming season, Stephen Fortune and family who will reside in the house and look after his cattle, arrived from Iowa last Tucb- 4& rfi lYl ."fr. 't. .'t'. rf1. T. . t. 't' T rtb itt iTI i? 'X' '4- 'X 'X wtf V A H 4i y X ' " 'V ' " " V 'V " " " t V V TXTTP yp EASTER OPENING AT . . THE LEASER -Mk twsfoh Wednesday and Thursday Api 11 1U, 11, C9 In charge of Miss Gumbort, of ChicaRO. All ladies are cordially invited to attend. Special Prices During this Easter Salo on Kid Gloves, Tailor-made Suits, Capes and Jackets, Dress Skirts, Ribbons, Bolts. The Leader, J. PIZER. 111 M m m r m m m I m m m 4 m day and will Boon enter upon their duties. Xavier Toillion loaded his house hold effect, a wagon, buggy, team of horses, etc., at .Hershey Tues day last for his new home at Fre mont, this state. He accompanied the car and his family left on No. 6 the following Thursday. N. A Davis and Geo. Hammond, of the county seat, were Hershey visitors on Monday. The most of the small grain for this season is sown in the valley. While the acreage of wheat Is not as large as in former years that of oats and barley far exceeds that of any previous year. Maurice Fowler, of North Platte, and a horse buyer by th'r name of Taylor, of Iowa, were up in -the valley the first of the week looking for those who had horses tor sale They found a number for sale but only succeeded in purchabing a few head. Dr. 15vee, of Hershey, attended a session of the pension examination board at the county seat Wed uesday. Wc understand that II. B. Hun- gerford has quit the Paxton ranch and will seek other fields of labor. Geo, 10. Sullivan, of Nichols, who has been confined to the house by illness for the past two months was greeted by a number of his gentle man friends at his home last Tues day with teams and farming tools. They plowed about twelve acres of laud and put it into small grain. ,4A!friend in need is a friend indeed." Miss Katie Wetzel entertained a number of her young friends last Monday evening in honor of her twelfth birth anniversary. A good time is reported by those present. Frank Lawrence is arranging to break out his land one mile west ol Hershey. Ed. Kwcl, chief agriculturist of the American Beet Sugar Co., waB in Hershey Wednesday, MYRTLE NEWS. The farmers are putting in wheat. K. J. Menzic was a North Platte visitor Saturday. Ed Wright is farming the Stod dard place this year. Mae Derby visited at Brady Is land Sunday. John Moore of Maxwell was in our midst Sunday. H. Philips has rented his place to a Mr. Keslar and will go to Kansas for a visit this tu miner. A number from here attended the basket social at Ncsbit. The bas kets were sold at auction and the neat sum of $17 was realized . from the sale. Duncan McNicol and family ar rived from Chicago Saturday. Mr. McNicol will farm Erastus Dichl's place. Many rolls of readinz matter were receiyed from caBtcm Sun shiners during last month. Also scrap pictures, cards and crctonnee for Junior work, (ireetings were distributed to all Senior members TUB FAIREST LILY OF EASTER Will be the maiden who has chosen her or matron Easter Gown, Waist, Gloves, Shoes, or other attirt: fioni our superb stock of Ladies Apparel. Our stock is bright with the newest fashion thoughts that should be seen now. Wilcox Department Store and twelve rolls of reading mat ter and many magazines were "passed on." Curds and scrap pictures were given to Juniors in terested in book work. Money re ceiyed 8 cents for postage, Mrs. Stearns; 13 cents postage F. H, A box of greetings for Easter were sent- to the Wood lawn, Oregon, branch, Miss Mac Br unit paid her dues for 1900 by contributing a picture frame to be sent to Oregon, Miss Mattic Kcid paid her initia tion fee by nassincr on canceled tamps, Other actre workers in the Tunior branch arc Andrew and Annie Philips, Edna Keslar and Clevc Derby. New- members en rolled during mouth were Mattic Kcid, Mrs. Ben Wilson and J. h. Davis of North Platte. Lon Combs and family are now ivtng on the John Moore place, Will Lanc lost a horse recently with pink eye. AUalfa hay for sale by W. F. Cody ranch. Place order at' Har rington and Tobin's store, or at my residence. Mrs. W. V, Cody. Telephone No. 56. An unusual large amount of mail, the bulk of it being soldiers' mail irom Manila, was brought in on train No. G Wednesday morning, Three extra mail clerks were brought up from Omaha on train No. 5 in order to properly handle it. The new Portland service of the Union Pacific will not mean an added train oi: cither the North western or the Union Pacific. The business will be handled by trains No. 3 and No. 2 on these roads but a new train with a very fine equip ment will be added on the O. S. h to make connection with the Union Pacific trains. T. A. Davies, who has been iu the employ of the Union Pacific iu various capacities for thirty-three years, recently severed his connec tion with the road and will go to Southern California to enjoy a well earned rest. He started on the road as a fireman and gradually worked his way up till he became a master mechanic. Lately he has been acting as round house fore man at various points on the Wyoming division.