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SEVENTEENTH YEAlt.
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, AUGUST G, 1901.
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MODEL'S
SUMMER
CLEAR! SALE.
It's getting lato in the season and yet we have big stocks on hand. AVo have
decided to carry nothing over and are determined to closb out our entiro
stock of Summer Goods at a GREA.T SACRIFICE. Our loss is your gain.
BARGAINS IN MEN'S (LOTMNti.
$4.75
Fifty Wool Suits, Brown Mixed
Cheviots, nicely trimmed, worth
$6.50, cut down to
The swagger English Chalk Line
Flannel Suits, only ten left,
made by the famous L. L. & S.,
Chicago. These suits come in
coats and pants only. We do
not exaggerate when we say.
worth 812.50. These cool suits
for hot weather at a price that
brings comfort at the insignifi
cant figure of
$5.00
We have rummaged through our
stock and picked out several
hundred Cassimcres, Fancy
Worsted and Blue Serge Suits
that sold for $10, $11.50 and $12.
We guarantee them to be all
wool. These suits we shall not
carry over until next summer, fr-j A r
Price cut down to I Ur
Fifty Cotton WorstcdSuitsinblack
and blue,- nicely made, worth
$5.00, cut down to
$3.25
BOYS' SUMNER CLOTHING
Boys' Long Pants Suits, worth $5, 7.50, 10.00
and 13.50 will be sold during this sale from
$2.00 to $4.00 less on each suit.
Our $7.00 knee pants two piece suits
cut down to
Our $6.00 knee pants two piece suits
cut down to
Our 85.00 knee pants two piece suits
cut down to
Boys' Knee Pants in black and blue
Worsteds, worth $1 and 1.25, cut down to
Boys' Twenty-live cent Knee
cut down to
$5.00
$4.50
$3.50
65c
Pants 7c
Child's three piece Vcstce Suits, ages
4, 5, 6 and 7, that sold at $3.00, cut
down to
Boys' and Children's Wash Suits worth
75c, !?1 and 1.25, cut down to
HSEvcrything in this department reduced
accordingly.
$1.95
50c
Bargains in Men's Underwear
Men,s French Balbriggan Un
derwear, regular and extra sizes, rr
worth 75c and $1.00, cut down to Ju-
Men's Fine Mercerized Silk
Underwear worth $1.25 and tnrr
81.50, pink and blue, cut down to J
- Fifty cent Ribbed Underwear rsrr
cut down to , " jS
Boys' Ribbed Underwear cut
down to
20C
Shirts.
Men's Black and White Strfpcd
Working Shirts worth 50c cut rp
down to jr
Men's Negligee Shirts, somc
without collars, some with collars
attached, cuffs attached and de
tached, all sizes, worth 50c and m
75c, cut down to tJ
Men 'sand Boys Negligee Dress
Shirts, two detachable collars, rnr
worth 75c and $1.00, cut down to
Bargains in Men's Trousers.
Men's Trousers, well tailored, at
$1.50, 82.00, 82 50 and 83.00.
Our $5.00 pants cut down to .O
Men's 'Union' Made Overalls
and Jaekets.
Overalls without bib worth r
65 and 75 cents cut down to
Carharts Striped Overalls, the
best Union Made Overalls on tr
earth, cut down to QC
Men's Working Gloves.
Large assortment of Men's Working
Gloves at greatly reduced prices.
Out' California Goat Skin .
Gloves, Welted Seams worth 75c,
cut down to
50c
, Straw Hats.
All our Straw Hats for Men
and Boys 75c and $1.00 values fOo
25c
cut down to.
All 50 cent Straw Hats cut
down to
A full line of Light Weight
Crushorsfworth 50 and75 cents ZKr
cut down to ou'
Bargains in Men's and Boys
Shoes.
$1.10
Our Sheridan $2.00, in all
lasts, and sizes, lace or con
gress, cut down to
Men's Fine Tan Shoes,
strictly hand sewed, worth
$3.00, $3.50, $4."50 and $5.00, dv-j
cut down to.... P0"
w?:".'$i.5o
Boys' Tan Shoes
$2.50 cut down to. . .
Call early and do not miss this opportunity. Wo mean exactly what we advertise. We arc
compelled to make room for our enormous hew stock of Fall and Winter Goods.
Tie Mode
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MAX KIRSGHBAUM, Proprietor.
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JOHN BR ATT.
E. R. GOODMAN.
JOHN BR ATT & CO.,
Real Estate, Loans Insurance
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JOSEPH HERSHEY,
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Five Cent Cigar xo
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ASK ANY PAINTER. ABOUT I
HEATH & MILLIGAN PAINTS
The North Platte Pharmacy,
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Exclusive Agents.
DEALER IN
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Farm Implements,
Buggies, Wagons,
Windmills, Pumps,
WINDMILLS i PUMPS
PIPES AND FITTINGS
BARB WIRE
ROUND AND HALF ROUND
STOCK TANKS- i
LOCUST STREET,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
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comoMxoimur rKocsxDxaas
July 31, 1901
Hoard met pursuant to adjourn
ment present full board and county
clerk.
The county clerk ta hereby
directed to notify road overseers
that all road tax must be paid in
cash. That only poll tax can be
worked out under the present law.
Road tax receipts will not be ac
cepted by the county treasurer.
Claim ot J. II. Hershey for 9.84
taxes paid under protest is hereby
disallowed. Also claim of P.
Mylander claim for 3 84 taxes paid
under protest xlisallo wed.
Adjourned until tomorrow.
Aug. 1, 1901
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment present full board and county
clerk.
The county clerk is hereby di
rected to file claim with city clerk
lor 32- 15, that sum being due from
estate of H. T. Rice late city
marshal on account of iuqucst.
The county clerk is hereby di
rected to advertise for bids to be
received up to noon of Aug, 12th,
1901. for grading 30,000 yards.morc
or less, on county roads, bid to
state whether grader will be furn
ished or whether the county grader
will be used.
Claim ot L. Purdy allowed on
the bridge fund for 13.50.
Adjourned until to-morrow.
August 2, 1801.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment, present full board and county
clerk.
The board proceeded to Maxwell
and Brady Island to inspect bridges
in that locality and to adopt plans
for the protection of the Brandy
Island bridge and foads. leading
thereto by building dams, or jetties
in Platte river to prevent washing
away the banks on the south side
of the north channel.
The board reports, the Platte-
river bridges, also the canyon
bridges in that part of the county
in good condition.
Adjourned until tomorrow.
Aug. 3, 1901
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment, present full board and county
clerk.
Claims were considered and
allowed on the general fund as
follows: W. S. Pcniston lees and
canvassing yotc 9.58, J. M. Ray
canvassing vote 5.00, A, L. McNeel
services as county commissioner
40.50, L. Carpenter services as
commissioner 38.50, M. L. Mc
Cullough services as commissioner
38.50, North Platte Telegraph,
publishing treasurer's statement
37.50.
Whereupon the board adjourned
until August 12th.
invnx tmx rrKxa.
Tom Kelly is putting up the hay
on the Frazicr land. ,
C. C Wetzel has returned to
Hanna, Wyo., after a briet visit
with his family
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hershey were
visitors at their ranch in the yallcy
Sunday,
Farmers in the valley are highly
pleased with the way in which the
crops arc turning out.
I. B. Bostwick has cut and
shipped about $1,500 worth ot this
season's hay and still baa more to
put up. Most of that sold was
handled by W. F. McGlone of
North Platte. "
Owing to a scarcity of men and
liav presses tne nay Harvest is
dragging to a considerable extent.
W. R. Eyerly, Bert Hollings-
worth, Jim Carpenter and Fred
Cole returned from the county scat
Sunday evening.
15. F, Seebergir and John Keith
were in North Platte yesterday.
The Scharmann boys ,arc stack
ing a line lot of liav on the Cotton
land, L. StebbhiB is also putting
up a big lot of hay on his land on
the south side.
D. A. Brown and wife have re
turned to North Platter.
J. V. KoblnBon is harvesting L.
R. Jones' second crop of alfalfa for
hay.
Mrs. 55. M. iJook has been enter
taining a sister of Cheyenne lately
She went to North Platte Saturday
vherc she will visit relatives this
week and then will return home.
Mr. Holtgrcn has returned from
a week's visit with friends at the
couuty seat.
Ben Albro of Kearney visited his
brother Steve and family on the
Ferguson farm rcccutly. He came
up for the purpose ol renting a
farm in the valley for the coming
year. Wc did not learn how he
made out.
KXXOKBOXXOOD OTEWB.
I). lianna, of Farnatn, has for
warded to this ofticc a statement of
the crop yield of winter wheat and
rye on his farm in Platte precinct.
Fitty acrcB in rye yielded 1705
bushels, an average ol over 34
buBhels to the acre. Fifty acres of
wheat netted 1G3G bushels an aver
age of nearly 33 bushels per acre.
The measurements were made by
the threshing machine. For such
a season aa the present one this is
very flattering report. Lexing
ton Pioneer.
Geo. B, Darr on Thursday entered
uto a contract with the Wisconsin
State Fair Association to furnish
the association eight carloads of
baled, alfalfa hay. The hay is to
be delivered on board the earn here
and shipped to Madison, Wia.
Lexington Pioneer.
McssrB. Parker and Stewart of
Hastings were in the city last
Tuesday trying to lease the Curtis
ranch and buy Mr, Bacon's alfalfa
crop. These cattle dealers are
now summering 3,000 head of two-
and three-year-old steers in Wyom-
ng. It is their iuteution to bring
these cattle into Lincoln or Dawson
county to winter and feed out for
the market, and in our opinion they
will probably locate at Gothenburg,
T-Gothcnburg Indcpendant.
Harry lckes waB arrested Thurs
day evening charged with forging
the name of W; M. Fuller, superin
tendent of the St, George Cattle
company, to twor checks on the
American Bank. The amount
secured on each check was ten dol
lars, He plead guilty to the
charge Friday morning, and was
bound over to the district court by
Judge Sanders. Sidney Tclcgaph.
rijrures that Talk.
A comparison of the estimated
wheat and corn crops of Nebraska,
with the bumper crops of the two
prccceding years, shows that when
the difference in prices is consid
ered, the farmers will get practic
ally as much money for their brops
this year as in, the year's prc
cceding. WHEAT.
Crop in bushels.
1901 (estimated) 25,000,000
1900 24,901,900
1899 , ... 20.791.77G
Price, August 1.
1901 52 cents
1900 54 cents
1899 50 cents
Value of crop.
1901 $13,000,000
1900 13,393,026
1899 10,395,888
COKN.
Crop in bushels.
1901 (estimated) 100,000,000
1900 210,430,0G4
3899 224,373,268
Price, August 1.
1901 50 cents
1900 29 centB
1899 21 centB
Value of crops.
1901 $ 50,000,000
1900 61.024,718
1899 48,240,252
Dr. Dennis was called to the
Spurrier ranch Sunday jtiorning to
attend a child of Steve Fortune
which was critically ill.
In a
Glass
of Water.
Put a handful of glased
coffee in a jjlassof water,
wash off the coatini?,
look at it; smell it! Is
it fit to drink? Give
LION COFFEE
tiie same test. It leaves the water
bright and clear, because it's just
pure coffee.
Tlisnitalxl pukaitalmurenunlforin
quality ami frethntiu.
