The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922, April 06, 1900, Image 1

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SIXTEENTH YEAR.
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1900.
NO. 21;
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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.
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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.
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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
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lodge will com
favorable condi
meet Saturday
the time of their
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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-
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EASTER OPENING
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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.
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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.