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SEVENTEENTH YEAR.
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 8, 1901.
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(Picture Frames io Order. 1
Wc arc carrying one of the largest and
finest lines of Picture Moulding ever brought
to North Platte and arc prepared to make
Picture Frames to order on VERY SHORT
NOTICE. Usually we can fill your order
in twenty-four hours after receiving it.
Our Picture Framer is an expert and
will do you excellent work. .
The prices are. moderate and the work
is guaranteed to be satisfactory.
C. A. .HOWE 1
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JOSEPH HERSHEY,
DEALER IN
Farm Implements,
Buggies, Wagons,
Windmills, Pumps,
WINDMILLS PUMPS
PIPES AND FITTINGS
BARB WIRE
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ROUND AND HALF ROUND
STOCK TANKS
LOCUST STREET,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
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Real Estate, Loans m Insurance
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Five Cent Cigar
.A.T SOECMALZIilBD'S.
ASK ANY PAINTER ABOUT
HEATH & MILLIGAN PAINTS .
The North Platte Pharmacy,
Exclusive Agents.
Free Sample Shade Cards.
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 cpat
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.
We can furnish you any color or quantity.
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A. F. Streitz, Druggist.
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M. h. McCullough is in Chicago
purchasing' a stock of goods,
The Cheyenne county fair will be
hold at Bayard September 24th to
29th.
Henry Abshirc and wife of Suth
erland were visitors in town yes
tcrday.
The Lutheran ladies aid society
will meet Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. David Minshall on the north
side,
County Clerk Holtry went to
Sutherland Saturday and returned
yesterday with his family who had
been visiting' there for a week.
Win. 15. Shuman of Beatrice has
been ctccied principal of the Brady
schools. He comes to that village
highly recommended na a teacher.
Have you got the fad for crepe
paper hats? Remember that Doo-
little always has the largest stock
and best assortment of crepe paper
in the city.
A large party of men have been
scouring the ennyotm ot southern
Custer county in search of a ten
year old boy who it is believed
wandered away while herding
cattle.
For the convenience of those who
desire to attend the O. A. R.
reunion at Cleveland, a special car
will leave Lexington uext Satur
day and run through to Cleveland.
The attendance at the dancing
party at the opera Ijoubc Friday
evening was rather limited, only
about tweuty-five couples attend-
ng. Those present, however, re
port a royally good time.
The rain ot last Friday ulsht
and Saturday was one of the heavi-
CBtof the season, While it inter-
fcrred with haying operations it
will Rcrve In frrnhrn tlm nut Lfc
ana ueip along tuc late corn.
The J. T. club, composed of a
score or more of young people were
the guests of Will Ottcn at the
ranch Friday evening. The affair
was called a watermelon party and
proved an exceptionally pleasant
event for all participants.
Postmaster Reed, of Shclton,
came up with the ball team yester
day and duly organized his vocal
organs at the game. Mr. Reed
is also editor of the Shclton Clipper,
one of the best and neatest papers
in the central part of the state.
The open season for prairie
chicken shooting begins October Ut
and ends November 30th. The
open season for quail begins Nov
ember 1st and ends November 30th,
but under the new game law it is
unlawful to trap or shoot quail tin.
til November 1st, 1903.
The penitentiary is undcriroluir a
siege of typhoid fever, from which
two cpnvicts and one guard have
died, and many others are danger
ously sick.
At the base ball tournament at
Scott Bluff last week in which the
ball clubs of Sterling, Bridgeport,
Bayard and ScottB BJuiF partici
pated, the prizes were awarded as
follows: Bridgeport first. $125:
Scotts Blu IT second, $75, and Ster
ling third, (50.
HARNESS
We have what you want in this
line
Team Harness,
Concord Harness,
Horse Collars,
Work Bridles,
Heavy Traces,
Trace Chains,
Hame Straps,
BolMIamcs,
Clip Hanics,
Hook Haines,
Burlap Fly Sheets,
Leather Fly Nets,
Cotton Fly Nets.
Store open evenings until 8
o'clock.
Wilcox Depwtmeit tore.
mtwmk nut UV1M.
Mr, Gilman of the banking firm
of A. Gilman vSi Son of New York
City and K, F, Seeberrcr and A.
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B. Goodwin of Ilershcy were North
Platte visitors oh Saturday, Mr,
Gilman and Mr. Seebcrgcr remain
ing over Sunday.
Leonard Latibner and famllv
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have returned irom a month's visit
with relatives aud friends in the
cast as well as at the exposition at
Buffalo. They report a pleasant
time all around.
Friend Carpenter has purchased
the Ilershcy llycry and Iced stable
which he has leased ior the past
two years. lie has been doing a
good business aud thought he
ould purchase the plant and avoid
paying rent.i
A large number of cattle ate
changing hands at reasonable
prices at this time on the local , mar
kct.
Miss Louise Sccbcrccr of Her
nhcy was the guest of North Platte
friends the last ot last week and
the first ot this.
The most of the people in this
section of the country observed La
bor Day f Monday) in the field where
business of importance called them
It is the opinion that if the com
n g winter should he a hard oiie
several cattlemen in this cominun
ty will by selling oft. their hay this
fall run short ot feed and ithclr
tock will suffer the same as last
winter.
A. F, Bcclcr Is Improving the an
pcarance of his farm by erecting
some new buildings.
Republican candidates need not
worry about the republican vote un
s
in this vicinity.
Joe McConncll, liviuc on oimof J,
H. Hcrshcy's farms in the galley,
lately threshed, 1040 bushels of fall
wheat from thirty-seven acres of
irround.
1M 1 1. 1 .l -r 1 1 f l a'
A . , i . I
mrvcsiuu in many piacca -an hub
time. It is a good crop.
C. L. Patterson of the ceunty
scat, who was awarded tlia con-
tract tor grading the roads la the
county, was up this way the last of
aBt week looking over the roads.
He says that the county road lust
north of the railroad could be nut
in good condition if the overseers
Hinmau aud Nichols precincts
overland trip to Oklahoma.
Roy Krlcssen of Maxwell wilt be
gin ms second years term as
teacher in the Platte valley district
on Monday, September 9th,
TAT XBWa.
The poBtofltce department has or
dercd a sub-station opened in the
State University building, and the
siuacntt may now write hom for
more money and mail the r letters
wiiuout so much effort.
A Banbury man has aroused the
curiosity of his neighbors by feuc
ing His cighty.acre farm with forty
five inch close woven wire. Thcv
wonder what he Is golnir to keen
wiuiin tue inciosure.
The yearly shipments of tea from
Japan and China are bci?innittir to
arrive at Omaha. Bes des the sun
ply Omaha lubbers take a lame
umber of eastern shippers make
umaiia their port of entry for tea,
A Unadilia man made the cap
ture of a carp weighing nine and
one nan pounds last week in a
novel way. The Msli attempted to
pass a very shallow place in the
creek when the man waded Into the
water and caught it.
The following hard luck slnrv
comes from Oak in Nuckolls county t
a womay and her little grandaugh
tcr picked alt the corn there was in
a twenty-four acre field in about an
nour, and, cooked aud ate it all for
supper.
Thomas Ilirnnll b rn,l i
prohloloo advocate ot Lincoln,
went to Swanton the other lnv n
give legal advice to the antUaloon
league aud wan egged off the street
by a mob of hoodlums who were
laying for him In an alley,
A two year old child of a lamtlv
at I)c Soto wandered away ifroin
uome aaiurday evening and was
not found until the
in. "LRlwot famlshedicoadltroH,
When found It waC asleep by ihe
roauBiue unuer cover ol a clump of
bushes. It had apparently crlhd It.
self tp sleep, t
and the county commlBBionern
would sec that the water from the
Farmers & Merchants irrigation
canal was prevented from overflow
ing that highway in several placcB,
but until that Ib perfected nathhitr
can be accomplished in anv way.
b. Li. Kutikhouftcr had a . irood
crop of oats threshed not long ago
which he is selling upon the local
market at good prices,
J. F. Ware with his steam
thresher is doing most of the
threshing in this country this sea-
son. He has a irood machine and
understands operating it,
We are informed that one or two
weddings will take place in this vl.
cinity in the not far distant future.
H. Newberry of McPficrsou conn.
ty, who owiih a farm In the valley
uow occupied by w. J. Shlnk c. was
down week or no ago to see how
things were proijrcssliiir. lie found
everything doing well and returned
Home feeling that a farm In the
valley is just the stulf.
Louis Tolliou has leased hm
farm near the Nichols school house
to J, il. McConncll for the cnntibg
year, lie will erect a it A rest.
deuce upon it in the future.
The heaviest rain In months
struck 'this locality last Fri
day and Saturday. While it
stopped haying for a fow dnvs it
put the earth in fine condition for
all plowing, a;id also gave fall feed
a fresh start which will be worth
Hundreds ol dollars to ,the ranch-
men.
Jas Wilson iB'crcctiug a new ad-
dltton to his already large farm
residence,
Notwithstanding the Inclemency
of the weather Saturday a largo
numoeroj male citizens from the
valley were shopping at the county
scat.
James Crawford was down to
North Platte Saturday purchasing
a tew tilings to make ready for hi
Wast CoaaUtatM Luck.
Tomorrow tlicre will ho a Labor
day parade at Colorado Springs.
une of the men who will march in
the ranks of the Carpenters' Union
ir Wtnfield Scott 8tratton. who U
said to be more than ten timen n
millionaire.
Ten years ago Stratton was n
carpenter working lor Wages and
giad to accept the same nnv & IiIh
friends, with whom ho will march
on Labor day. Then he dlncoyered
the Independence mine and oeonle
said ho was lucky,
But it wasn't luck, It was hard
work, It was perseverance, It
Was that "never-say fail" spirit
with which most successful! men
arc imbued,
For ten years before that fitrat-
ton was a prospector. He worked
as a carpenter in winter, and! when
summer came he rushed tp the
mountains. People used to sav
hat Strattoii's pick had been felt
n the sld of every mountnin In
Colorado. And that was nbt all.
Ie studied mitiiug, Ho saved his
money until he could take a poumu
n geology, mineralogy and assay,
ng at the Colorado Schoolof Mlnci,
Then he went to the hills airain.
and the surface Indications,
plainer to him than thev had ever
been before, Hundreds of prospec.
tors had tramped over the Imln.
pcndcncc claim, and they laughed
at Stratton and called him the
'Hermit of Battle Mountain," be
cause he wouldn't give It up. But
te knew the Indications were there
and he was bound io find the gold.
That Is the story of the success
ul man who is called "luckv.'' If
Stratton was lucky, any man mny
bo lucky.
When any one tells you that a
certain man was lucky, look tin
that man's record, Nino time's
out of ten you will find his luck
was Just like Strattoii's ''luck," It
s spelled with a vcrv Inner, p !,,
ront of "luck."
The only kind of luck that really
gets unything in this world Ib tlie
uck that cornea fro -kafrrJ. mc.
slstent, unrewllaW,--Otnaha
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We Still
Sell
Tornadoes
ad 10 Cents
a. Can.
25
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25
Wc Also Sell-
Wnltcr Bakers Cocoa 4 lb
cans.......... 4..i.......
Sap;e, pkfy., ...
Hops, U lb pkjy
Chipped liccf, Rex brand.
14 lb can. ...w
Chinned Bcnf, Ltbby & Me
Nolll't;. 4lh can 13c. 2 f aim
Veal Loaf, ( lb oan 10
veal uoat l iu can..,. 20
Kippered Herring pet can . , 20
Lard, 3 lb pail .15
Lard, 5 lb pail 55
Lemons ncr ior. ............ UK
iv. u, .Baking: Powder, 10-ox.
can I. n h ii 1 1 iu ii ii m it
id C. linking Powtlor, 25ox
can
K. C, Baking1 Powder, 50-o
can h 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
C. Baking Powder, 80-oe
, .nu ...... ill I. II,, l, ,b,l
Snider Catsup, 1-2 pint hot-
till ! ii n ii ii ttii
Snldor't) Catanp, 1 pint hot-
ilO II II II Ml I tMt It it tt li
Kingtiford'a Silver Oloas
otarcn ,.. .... v. 08
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35
55
14
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tlngafosd'a Corn Starch .
L.iwiu' Tin tirtt iati . . . .
J W I'W. V . . ....
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IIJlUI IV IT HL AJVU IfUL L:HI1 ....
Yeast Foam 2 riko-n ..... ; .. .
On Time Yeast 2 pkgs, , , , ,
(VrbucKlc'B Coltae 2 pkgs...
Lion Coffee 2 pkirw. ........
XXXX Coffee 2 nko-M
Searchlight Matches per box
I'canmc per pKg
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07
05
05
25
25
25
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UP ft ?4 VlMI . u . ihM.
iodu, sciilllinir's "Best ncr
nkir'.' oh
Soda, Arm & Hammer per
nk i- n
Soda, Dwight'H, per pkg, . . 08
uoiu UH, H-lb pug i, 18
Granulated Sugar 15 lb for 1.00
80
J5
05
15
15
45
45
35
35
25
35
Rock Salt nor hundred .
Salt 140-lb Satik,,,.
Table Salt 2 Hacks ,
Chccttc beat full , cream per
pound ,,..,,,. ii H it 1 1 M
Kerosene Oil per gal,
Horse Shoo Tobacco ner
plug .... i , i , ,
Star Tobacco per plug., ,r,
Standard Navy Tobacco per
plUg, ,1, f, II III, I, I
Buttle Ay Tolmeen net nliirt'
J. T. Tobacco per plug,,..
jjukc'b Mixture per m, , , , .
nntlienhuru- Hi.uf Poiinf
Flour per wick. . . , i , , , ,$1,10
Snow Flake Patent Flour -
pur sack.. ... ..,. ... ..91.00
Red Seal Patent Flour per
sack.. 1.10
Jewel Patent Flour per
Hack , ii.i.i.,'. ..,,i, , 1, 00
Corn Meal, 25 lb sack , 35
Store oncn avenintrs until 8
o'clock.
Wilcox Department store.
Mroros'iilvo People
require their garinentB to be
progressive nlso, They want
the latest Ideas ut)d styles in
fabric, pattern, cut and flt
Tlmt is why they get their cloth
ing made to order at Brockcr's.
The latest fall patterns arc ttow
ready. Wc at'o ready for your
order
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