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SEVENTEENTH YEAlt.
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, MAY 2B, 1901.
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BLUE FLAME WICKLESS OIL
coal oil for fuel.
WE ARE STILL. SELLING
MAJESTIC RANGES.
Ginn
JOHN BRATT.
JOHN RATT & CO.,
Real Estate, Loans Insurance
X NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. X
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JOSEPH HERSHEY,
WINDMILLS i PUMPS
PIPES AND FITTINGS
BARB WIRE
ROUND AND HA LP ROUND
STOCK TANKS'
LOCUST STREET,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
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When You Buy Paint
Buy Good Paint...
And that means SHERWIN $ WILLIAMS'
PAINT. We have been handling this make for
many years and have found that it gives excel
lent satisfaction in every instance. It may cost
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.
AVe can furnish you any color or quantity.
A, F. Streitz, Druggist
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i Korfh f lalfe floar 5
laijUfactUirecl by Not tf Platte poller fljills
Used by economical housewifes in fifty towns in
Nebraska and Wyoming and pronounced the
equal of any (lour manufactured in Nebraska.
fl Trial Sack uiiil Coijvlijce yoii of its iTJeHt
North Platte Roller Mills
C, P, IDDINCS
Housecleaning Time
is here, and vou will prob
ably find that some pieces
of your furniture looks
shabby; that they need to
be replaced by new. "We
arc here to supply your
needs, and wc arc confi
dent wc can suit you.
Something hcrc-to please
every taste; something
here to suit every pocket
book.
STOVES for cookjngv.Uea:;
REFRIGERATORS
in several sizes.
& Weingand.
E. R. GOODMAN.
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DEALER IN
Farm Implements,
Buggies, Wagons,
Windmills, Pumps,
Merchants Report No Loss of Trade.
At the request of the Retail
Clerk's Union wc publish the fol
lowing' expressions from merchants
who have adopted the early closing
hour.
13. B. Warner The early closing
has my hearty support. No trade
has been lost on account of it. I
would not like to go back to the
old system.
Geo. M. Graham, Mgr. Yellow
Front The trial we have had ban
been very satisfactory, and 1 want
to sec a continuance of the 7 o'clock
and Sunday closing. v 1
W. M, Baskin-It is a benefit to
mc and saves me a great deal ot
ice.
J, Hahler I am perfectly satis
fied with the early closing move
ment., i
'''utntf'-SWci'ngand We arc more
than pleased with early closing and
would not return to the old way
under any consilcration.
10. P. McGrew Wc arc satisfied
with the seven o'clock clo3iug and
want to sec tt continued. We
notice no difference in our farmer
trade.
Sam B. Rosenburg The early
closing suits me all right.
Mrs. G. S. Huffman I am in fa
vor of the early closing movement
for the reason that I consider
twelve hours long enough for any
business house to do active work.
Geo. P. Buzza& Co. We arc
convinced that the closing of our
store at seven p. in, is b:ueficial to
our trade, as it enables us to do
our work in working hours, and
spend our evenings at home. Our
business is increasing and we at
tribute the same to the fact that in
union there is strength.
A. L.Davis I have been keeping
and working in store since 1878
and would say that seven o'clock
closing is one of the best things 1
have ever run across. As for trade,
it has been as good, if not better,
than it was before don't think I
have lost any trade. Jet the good
work go on.
W. T. Banks 1 am more than
pleased and hope it will never fall
through.
Harrington & Tobiu Iu reply
to your enquiry regarding the
seven o'clock closing movement will
say that we are very well pleased
with it and lavor a continuance of
same. Wc have not experienced
any Iopb ot business on account of
same and have heard no complaints
troin the country trade. We great
ly enjoy the evening to ourselves
and it gives us great pleasure to
see that our clerks have a couple
of hours to themselves after a hard
day's work waiting on the trade.
Sam Richards In regard to the
early closing movement will say
i imuK wc arc maning a great suc
cess in closing at 7 o'clock. We
unci that people that were coming
in the store to trade between o
o'clock and 10 o'clock p. m. now do
their trading between 3 o'clock and
6 o'clock p. in. It saves us lights
every evening and a lot of worry
the n,e$t morning because it k,was
not the color I thought it was." I
think if all the merchants would
close at 7 o'clock p. m, we would
make a grand success. Wc know
FUAT SMUT WAIST
Will be just what it should
in style and quality if bought
of any of our patterns in the
following1 -
TOILE DU NORD GINGHAMS
The finest cloth and best
patterns made ingingbams
to retail at 10c
SEA ISLAND PERCALES
The standard of quality
by which all others arc
measured, both light and
dark styles per yd 12c
MERCERISED TISSUES-
JIanilsoinct'then silks, just
as stylish and better for
wear, price per yd 30c
SILK MULL-Vcrv light and
thin, in black, white and
delicate shades, only needs
to be seen to please per yd 45c
FANCY DIMITIES-In all the
new designs both plain
and fancy colors per yd
from 7c to 20c
PERSIAN LAWN Fine sheer
a beautiful plain white tis
sue per yd 25c
INDIA LINON-Qualitics bet
ter by 2'j to 5c a yd than
price would indicate, per
yd from 10c to 30c
HgX-Storc open evening until
8 o'clock.
Wilcox
Department
that our trade has increased 25 per
cent since cloying at 7 o'clock. We
have a great many customers that
we did not have before. I heartily
endorse the early closing move
ment. Milton II. Doolittle I am asked
to express an opinion as to whether
or not early closing is a success,
and what effect it had on my bus
iness, and whether or not it is
working any injury to the general
business of the town. I can only
aiiBwere tnr myself. I have always
favored early closing, long before
the agitation for it was commenced
hetc. The spirit of the age is for
shorter hours of labor. Mechanics
ot qll kinds and laborers have de
manded shorter hours and got
them. Why should they expect
the merchant and his clerks to
work thirteen, iourtcen or fifteen
hours as some of them do. Wiser
men that wc have declared that
eight hours lor labor, eight hours
for the aorvice of God, and eight
hours for refreshments and sleep
was a proper division of the day.
IQarly closing lias prehaps decreased
my gross daily sale five per cent,
Certainly not to exceed that. It
ought to be worth that to any man
to have the satisfaction of giving
his clerks a chance for recreation
and improvement, to say nothing
of the pleasure he himself ought to
feel in having more time to improve
himself and get acquainted with
his family. The public will soon
accommodate themselves to the
new order of things as they have
before to iuovations. I hope early
closing has come to stay.
Max Kirschbaum I am perfectly
satisfied with the early closing, but
would like to sec it a little later in
the fall and winter. Don't know
that 1 hayu lost any business by it.
W. A. Vollmer I think 7:00
o'clock and Sunday closing is a
gondthing, want to see it continued
and do not think wc arc losing any
thing by it.
W. P. McGlonc I am well
pleased with 7 o'clock closing. I
have heard of no one that has been
iucouyenieuced by early closing.
Eleven to twelve hours a day is cer
tainly as long as any reabonable
person could expect his employees
to work.
BETWEEN THE RIVERS.
Chas. Tillion who is one of the
school directors at Nichols 'informs
us that he did not give his consent
for certain parties to hold club
dances in the school house at that
place and did not approve of it but
that the majority of the board
favored it.
The quantity of milk at the
Nichols creamery is on the increase
and J. C. Gyger the manager who
makes a first class quality of but
ter can not fill all ot his orders.
Corn, cattle and hogs arc the
three products to which the farm
ers in the valley are at this time
indulging in with success.
Pastures arc in fine condition
and stock ot all kinds consequently
is in excellent shape for this season
ot the year.
Chas. Gummcre and wife were
county seat visitors on Priday of
last week, where they were shop
ping. Prof. Ebright and crew have
finished baling hay for Lucicn
Stebbins on his land over on the
south side opposite Spuds.
A light frost iB reported last Sat
urday night but no damage re-
suited from it.
The grasshopper crop in this
vicinity is fur below that of last
season at this time.
10. P. Seebcrgcr has lately re
turned from a business trip to
Qmaha.
The late rain was a grand thing
for the sugar beet crop up this
way, which is coming along in
good shape,
Is Ilershey going to celebrate the
coining 4th of July? If so it is
about time for it to begin to make
arrangements.
Charles Toillion sold and deliv
ered a couple of loads of hay to
Liverymen Lock & Salisbury at
the county metropolis recently-
11. II. Ilollingsworth and wife
are residing at Nichols once more
where he is working on the section.
Corn cultivating in the valley is
iu full blast and the crop never
looked more prosperous than at
the present time.
G. L. Mudd on the Paxton ranch,
was at the county seat on business
Saturday.
Small grain, both fall and spring,
is in excellent condition.
HOW DO YOU
The effort to have you pull our competitors' chest
nuts from the fire and being charged by them for
the privilege. Compare these prices with those in
your pass book. Wc save you money.
We Sell
Potatoes 20c a peck, you save 20 per cent.
Vinegar per gallon 20c, you save 50 per cent.
White Wine Vinegar per gallon 25c, you save 60 per cent.
Walter Bakers Cocoa -lb can 25c, you save 20 per cent.
Search Light Matches per box .04c, you save 20 per cent.
Pearlinc per pkg .08c, you save 25 per cent.
Kingford's Silver Gloss Starch, per pkg ,08c, you save
25 per cent.
Kingford's Corn Starch per pkg ,08c, you save 25 per cent.
1-lb pkg Church's Soda ,08c, you save 25 per cent.
1-lb pkg Dwight's Soda 08c, you save 25 per cent.
10-oz Can K. C. Baking Powder 08c, you save 25 per cent.
25-oz Can K. C. Baking Powder 20c, you save 25 per cent.
1-pint bottle Snyder's Catsup 23c, you save 8 per cent.
Ammonia per bottle 9c, you save 11 per cent.
4-lb can Rex Dried Beef 10c, you save 25 per cent.
Kerosene Oil per gallon 15c.
Arbuckles CofTcce 2 pkgs25c.
Lion Coffee 2 pkgs 25c.
XXXX Coffee 2 pkgs 25c.
Yeast Foam 2 pkgs 05c. v
One Time Yeast 2 pkgs 05c.
Dr. Price's Vanilla per bottle 15c.
140-lb sack Salt $1.05.
1-lb pkg Duke's Mixture Tobacco 35c. '
1-lb pkg Old Style Tobacco 30c. .T
Horse Shoe Tobacco per plug 45c.
Star Tobacco per plug 45c.
Standard Navy Tobacco per plug 35c.
Bottle Ax Tobacco per plug 35c. f
B6X.Storc open evenings until 8 o'clock.
Wilcox Department Store.
Several farmers in this locality
are harvesting their first crop ol
alfalfa for hay. it is a heavy crop.
The country schools in this
locality have all closed for the
school year.
Chinch bugs arc said to be quite
numerous in certain places in the
valley. They are fully as distruct
ivc on small grain as grasshoppers.
Miss Jennie Ware of Hershey
who taught in the North Platte
schools for the past year has been
retained there lor the coming year.
Wc doubt if there is a station the
size of Hershey along the main line
of the U. P. that does the business
in shipping in goods and shipping
out products as that little village.
D. H. Eyerly was at the county
seat Wednesday for the first time
in several months.
J. M. Dwyer has returned from a
short yisit at different points in
Colorado.
G. 13. Turner is visiting in Den
ver at this time. Upon his return
he will depart for his former home
in Iowa.
STATE NEWS.
The period when corn was sell-
inir for u aud 1U cents is so remote
that farmers are beginning to re
gard it aB a bad dream. A 600 per
cent gain since that time is quite
satisfactory. Norfolk News.
A fakir is traveling through the
state working the farmers on a
soap and carpet deal. He bcIIb a
small box of soap and forty yards
of carpet for 5. He delivers tiic
soap as a guarantee ot good faith
and promises to send the carpet
later. Up to the time ot going to
press the carpet has not been Bent.
Kearney Democrat. Marriage,
as well as diyorce, is not a failure.
A Kearney woman went to Chicago
a couple of weeks ago to remarry a
tormer husband from whom she had
been divorced a few yearn ago and
since which event the husband has
married and been divorced from
two other women- The woman is
a daughter of a former Kearney
man named Stephen Dlanchard.
Crop conditions, which have been
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unusually favorable this spring,
are much improved this week, due
to the raising of the moisture to
the Burfacc and to Wednesday's
rain. The alarm reirardini! the
chinch bugs has not so far mater
ialized, and the outlook therefore is
considered quite hopeful. Cozad
Tribune.
Por want of prosecution the suit
of 10. L. Simon airainst J. II. 12d-
misteu, to recover $20,000 for false
imprisonment was dismissed in the
district court ol Dawson county
last week. The action resulted
from the expose of IOdmisten's at
tempt to count iu the constitutional
amendments on the supreme court
proposition several years airo. Ed-
miutcn accused Simon ot publish
ing the Btory and commenced au
action airainst him in DawHmi
county. After being placed in cus
tody Simon escaped and no effort
was made by the authorities to
capture him and the criminal libel
huh was never pressed.
Do You Want a Home?
We have three residence properties
in uood repair. $1,000 each, it vm
can pay rent you can own one of
Buchanan & Patterson,
We Sell Hardware.
8d Wire Nails per lb 04
6d Wire Nails and finer per lb .05
Finishing Nails per lb .05
Fence Staples per lb 04
-lb box All Copper Rivets.. .18
Alligator Wrench each 15
Mrs. Pott's Irons Nickle-
Plated per set $1.00
Clothes Pins per doz 01
A good Brace 45
A good Rachet Brace 85
Standbys Level 26 to 30 inch. .85
Plow Single Trees Ironed . . .18
12-quart Galvanized Patl 20
No. 8 Galvanized Wash Boiler. .J5
Hamc Straps each 10
B"Storc open evenings until
8 o'clock.
Wilcox Department gfcofo,