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SEVENTEENTH YEAK.
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, MAY 7, 1001.
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BLUE FLAME WICKLESS OIL
coal oil for fuel.
STILL SELLING
AJES
JOHN BR ATT.
TIC RANGES. M
JOHN BRATT & CO.,
Real Estate, Loans Insurance
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JOSEPH HERSHEY,
WINDMILLS i PUMPS
PIPES AND FITTINGS i
BARB WIRE
ROUND AND HALF ROUND
STOCK TANKS
LOCUST STREET,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
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When You Buy Paint
Buy Good Paint....
And. that means SHERWIN & WJLLIAMS'
PAINT. We have been handling this make for
many years and have found that it gives excel
lent satisfaction in every instance. It may co&t
a trifle more per gallon than inferior paints, but
it's cheapest in the end. It sticks and holds its
color longer than other paint.
"Wo can furnish you any color or quantity.
A. F. Streitz, Druggist.
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ai7UfactUi'eel toy Joftl) Platte oiler iTJills
Used by economical housewifus in fifty towns in
Nebraska and Wyoming and pronounced the
equal of any flour manufactured in Nebraska;
fl Trial Sack uiill Convince yoix of its fljei-it
North Platte Roller Mills
C, F, IDDINCS
Housecleaning Time
:.. i :n t.
IS HtlU, UlIU VUU Will JI1UU-
ably find tb.it some pieces
of your furniture looks
sbabby; that tbey need to
be replaced by new. We
arc here to supply your
needs, and we nrc confi
dent we can suit you.
Something- here to please
every taste; something'
here to suit every pocket
book.
STOVES for cooking. Uses
REFRIGERATORS
in several sizes.
E. R. COODMAN.
DEALER IN
Farm Implements,
Buggies, Wagons,
Windmills, Pumps,
SUTHERLAND SAYIN08.
Attorney and Dower and II. D.
Reed of Ogalalla were in town on
Friday transacting legal business.
Rus Kowles, of Lena, was on
our streets Saturday,
J. A. Robb expects to go to Utah
on a cattle buying expedition this
week.
R. 13. Darrct who now has charge
ot the Sutherland section intends
to move his family here from Lodge
Pole at once. They will occupy the
Hanson residence.
J. IS. Linn and Frank McFaddcn
of Pa.tton, delivered hogs in Suth
erland Saturday,
Clias. Cockle set out a lot of
trees around the north school house
this week.
The young folks had a howling
good time at the Junior League
social held at J. II. Donham's on
Friday evening.
Sutherland schools run at full
speed on Saturday to make up for
time lost last Friday while the
teachers were at Sidney.
C. 13. Gunnell and James Burns,
of Paxton, were on our streets
Friday.
The write up of the village in
'Western Resources" seems to be
rather limited. Only two business
houses subscribing.
Millet, Kaffir corn and cane will
be planted in large quantities by
the stockmen on the south hills for
next winter's feed. They say they
won't get caught again.
G. B. Thurber has purchased the
T. H. Thurber residence property
in the east end of town.
Water is now in the irrigation
ditches and the season of "squab
bles" is on.
Joseph Young has rented the
Holtry land south of the depot.
Shoup Bros, have placed their
cattle for the summer with J.rR.
Baldwin on the Birdwood.
Elben Dotson commenced work
for the Taylor sheep outfit at lOlsie
some days ago.
The green grass is. making con
siderable difference in the looks of
cattle and stockmen are happy ac
cordingly. BETWEEN THE RIVERS.
The frisky gnat was on the war
path during the recent warm
weather.
A refreshing rain hit this coun
try Saturday night.
B. F. Seeberger was visiting the
boys at North Platte the latter
part of the week.
A light frost is reported on Sun
day night but no damage is re
ported from it.
This week will about wind up
the corn planting lor this season in
this country.
J. G. Feekin made a business
trip to the county capital one day
laBt week on his wheel, his teams
all being busy in the field plowing
for corn and sngar beets.
W. T. MiUer is farming the Sis-
son larm tins aeaBon formerly
worked by J. W. Dwycr. Mr.
Dwyer will run his stock on the
farm the same as usual.
The most of the first crop of
alfalfa in the valley will be cut for
hay the latter part ot this month.
A. B. Goodwin who rides the old
canal again this season was at
North Platte on business the last
of the week,
J. C. Gyger of the Nichols cream
cry delivered another invoice of
butter to Harrington & Tobin at
North Platte Saturday.
A large acreage of millet will be
sown in the valley this season for
teed.
O. W. Rich the Nichols teacher
made a business trip and returned
to the county metropolis on Satur
day. Grandma Toillion has been on
the hick list lately but is reported
better at this time,
II. II. Ilollingsworth who has
charge of the Nichols section until
the first ot thiH month has been
assigned the first one cast of Chey
enne where he is now at work.
His wife we are told remained at
Hershey.
Miss Bessie Bshleman departed
Sunday for Fremont where she will
attrnd school this season. On
Thu r.d ay evening previous to her
departure several of her young as
sociates tendered her a surprise
party at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Bshleman,
where the time was pleasantly
spent by all present in various
ways.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, George
Crosby and Miss Grace Hunter of
Sutherland will be united in marri
age at the home of the bride's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. David Hunter.
Many friends wish them a pleasant
and prosperous journey through
life.
Roy Bricsson who recently closed
a term of school at the Platte Val
ley will depart for Omaha this
week where he will take a course in
shorthand and. typewriting,
J. W. Bergman a former section
foreman at Hershey but for the
past year foreman of the one at
the east end ot the North Platte
bridge will go west this week to
take charge of a steel crew. His
family will remain on their farm
near tlie bridge.
G. B. Turner who teaches at
O'Fallon and J. M. Dwyer were tak
ing in the sights at the county scat
Saturday.
Mrs. M, Mickelson of Hershey
who went to Illinois recently to
visit a sick sister will remain there
during the coming summer.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Jones and
Grant Bare spent Saturday and
Sunday at the county scat.
'J. V. Robinson is farming a part
ol Louis Toillion's farm this sea
son. The recent local showers have
kept the earth moist and crops arc
on the boom while the tanner with
a smile on his face simply looks on.
notice!
All persons are warned against
hunting or trespassing upon mv
premises.
72 Louis Toillion.
Western Nebraska News
The State Bank of Curtis and the
Farmer's State Bank of the same
village have consolidated.
The St. George Cattle Co.. of
Sidney, received five hundred head
of Nevada cattle last week and
they haye been turned on the
range.
The ScottsblufT and Bridgeport
ball teams played an eleven inning
game Thursday with a score of five
to four in favor of the former.
They play ball up there.
Saloons in Sidney are now
rcqeircd to close at 12 o'clock Sat
urday night and remain closed
until Monday morning. This new
deal is not relished by the thirsty.
Lightning struck and burned the
barn of C. S. Lawrence near Bro
ken Bow a few days ago. Four
horses, a colt, a lot of harness and
other articles were distroyed.
Scotts Bin IT county has a county
seat fight in prospect. Scotts Bluff,
the new town on the Burlington
road, has an ambition to take the
county scat away from Gering.
Miss Jessie Greer, a Callaway
scho( 1 teacher had a narrow escape
from being poisoned with a patent
cough medicine. She was uncon
scious when u doctor was sum
moned to relieve her.
A tramp who had been dead
heading on No. 6 fell from the car
near Kimball and sustained severe
bruises, lie managed to crawl a
mile and a half to the uareut
house, where he is being cared for
at the expense of the county.
Mrs. II. M. Bowman, who was
taken to the hospital at Omaha a
short time ago for medical treat
ment for what was supposed to be
cancer of the stomach, but which
upon examination proved to be a
tumor; was successfully operated
upon and is getting along nicely,
Slie expects to get home soon.
Brady Reyiew.
The Grand Island sugar facory
has contracted about 2,500 acreB of
beets thi season, and if the crop
averages ten tons to the acre the
factory will be justified in running;
otherwise the beets will be shipped
to the Norfolk factory. In 1895 the
tonnage was 24,000; in 18, 30,000;
in 1)97, 38,000; in 1898, 18,500; in
1899, 1CC00 and in 1900, 13,000.
Will Frey of Custer county star
ted into the stock business
three years aco with one thousand
dollars worth of cows. He has sold
since then over one thousand dol
lata worth of cattle and has the
original cows and the two-years olds
left. In addition he has raised and
sold about a thousand dollars
worth of hogs.
A hydraulic engineer who has
been making a survey of the valley
of the Loup river has made a report
showing that an immense amount
of power is going to waste in that
valley which could be utilized at a
comparatively small expense. The
Loup river haB an exceptionally
uniform How and a heavy fall,
rendering the power both ample
and reliable.
The first shipment of the Gothen
burg broom factory arrived last
Monday, and was shipped to Far
mer Hiles, who is the promoter of
this new manufacturing industry.
It is a single skein machine and
will be run by electricity. Of
course it will not turn out a car of
brooms a day. but it will keep from
tour to five men employed, which
means considerable. Gothenburg
Independent.
Considerable seed has been
shipped in to this town for plant
ing for forage crops. Kaffir corn,
millet and cane seed have been
shipped in large quantities and will
be planted ou the south Bide. The
farmers are making preparations
for ther stock for next wiutcr and
do not expect to be caught without
feed. The lesson taught by the
cold wet spring has started the
stock raiser to making preparation
for winter and they will go into the
winter in much better shape than
UBiial. It is dollars and cents to
the farmer to sec that bis stock is
well cared for during the winter.
Sutherland Free Lance.
There has been more blue grass
seed sown this spring than usual.
It Iiub been sown principally for
pasture, The alfalfa pastures
have not giyen entire satisfaction,
owitnr to the danger of bloat in
cattle and the further cause that
it will not stand the constant
tramping and cIobc feeding of
heavy pasturing. Blue grass haB
proven itself capable of not only
giving the desired amount of pas
turing but it stands the tramping
that follows heavy pasturing.
There has been a continual demand
for a better graBB for "pasturage
than alfalla and blue grass seeniB
to fill the bill. For a hay crop al
falfa yields an immense tonnage
and leed and it makes excellent for
age for hogs but its usefulness as
a pasture cropia not giving general
satisfaction. Sutherland Free
Lance.
B. W. Deuel has been appointed
roadmastcr of the Julesburg divi
sion of the Union Pacific, with
office at Sterling, Col., in place of
Charlie Rankin, who has been ap
pointed roadmastcr between Den
ver, Col,, and BUib, Kan.
Since the 4th of March, 1897.
when President McKinlcy took his
seat in the executive chair vacated
by Grover Cleveland, the deposits
in the banks of the country have
increased from about $1,650,000,000
to $2,750,000,000. The increase
is about one billion one hundred
million dollars, or seventy per cent.
is.
Wc have now on sale
This Year's Styles,
ranging in price from
40c to $2.25.
Wilcox Department Store.
Shirt was
A train of fifty car loads ot pea
nuts left Norfolk, Virginia, the
other day for Chicago, It is the
first chapter of the new peanut
trust, established by some pluto
crats in that city. The Bpccial va
rity of goober that the Chicago
syndicate has cornered is the
"Spanish" nut and it is said that
prices have already gone wild.
The trust is Rending out automatic
nickcMn-thc'stot peanut selling
machines to every city and village
in the country.
We Sell
Kearney Home Muslin per
yd 05
American Ituligo Blue Prints
per yd 05
Table Oilcloth per yd 15
J. & P. Coatcs Thread per
spool 04
Cotton Tape per roll 01
Linen Tape per roll 03
50yd Corticelli Sewing- Silk
per spool 04
100yd Corticelli Sewing- Silk
per spool 08
10yd Corticelli Button Hole
Twist 02
36 Sheets Writing Paper 05
Envelopes per bunch 03
bquarc Envelopes per bunch. .05
6 Slate Pencils for 01
7 inch Metal back Comb 08
Vaseline per bottle 05
Wilcox Department Store.
COMING SURE.
The Great Eastern
Rail Road Shows
AND
Columbian Exposition
WILL KXHiniT AT
Monday, May 20.
Tho Inrgoet and most couiploto tontod
exhibition ovor organized in tho world's
history. Holding in its nll-erabriicing
vnetnoBB ovorythiug thnt ploneoB nnd in
terests tho people.
Among tho most nttrnctiyo fontures
iiro our snlondid groups of many kinds
ot trninoil and
Educated fliflrjais
Charming and intolhgont oronturoB
whoso bowildoring performances tiro
without n parallel. Compotont nnd ox
porionced trainers nro employed tho
your round in dovoloping and expanding
bruto odiiuutiou.
All-Star
Performing Artists
20 funny clowns to plonso both young
nnd old, DO acrobatic), gytnnnatio nnd
aorinl porformora from nil parts of tho
globo.
Don't Tail to Witness tho
Big Ftfee Moflning $hotog
Given Prior to tho Opening of Big
Show,
Two porformnnceB, nftornoon nnd
ovoning.
Doors open nt t p. tu. nnd 7 p. m.
This show novor dlvidoB nnd poeitivu
ly oxhibts ALL.it odvortlsoB.