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EIGIITKILYM YEAII. ' NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 5, 1902. " t f : NO. 6G
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For the reason, that we
dato'inorchandisn to be
3E3COTJXJ1I3 BUY irOXJL FAT nT E&XXjXj OF "OS
can and do save you money and at the same time givo you the. largest assortment of new up-to-fouad
in North Platte. No loft over job lot goods. in our stock.
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Fancy Waistlngs.
Wc arc showing- waist lengths in
fancy Velvets. The most stylish
thing- out. Four yard waist lengths
each, $3.50. No two waists alike.
Fancy Woolen Waist Patterns,
a great variety both plain and fancy
from Sl.25 to $2.00.
Velvets.
Silk Velvets, all colors, per yard
$1.00.
Panne Velvets, all colors, per
yard $1.00. - ,
Velveteens, all colors, per yard
50 cents.
Cut Cord Velvets for costumes,
per yard $1.00. . '
Dress Goods.
Flannels,
Henriettas,
Cashmeres,
Cheviots,
Venetians,
Serges,
, ,MMjairs, . t
' Meltons,
', Crashes,
Vigcroux.
Dj not buy dress goods without
seeing our line. Wc invite you to
bring- in samples and compare
prices. Its money in your pocket
to do so.
Ladies' Skirts;
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We have put in a full line of Ladies'
Walking- Skirts from one pf thcJbest
makers. This line consists of over
5Q. different styles and you can have
skirts made to your measure. The
line wc have is made in more colors
than we carrj in. stock, t Wc have
samples showing all the cloths they
they arc made in, so really you
have a line of two or three hundred
different skirts to select from. The
style and finish on these is perfect.
Prices range from
$2.50 to $10.00.
Outing Flannels
Dark Outing Flannel per yd.. -.-.OS
Light Outing Flannel per yd.. 08
Dark Outing Flannel per yd 08
Light Outing Flannel (best '
grade) per yard.. ..10
Dark Outing Flannel (best -
3 A v ft
grade) per .yard . , . .. .10
Canton iwannci per yara a, o,
12lj, 15 and 20 cents.
Carpet Warp.
Peerless Warp lb. Spools,
Colored, per lb 22
Peerless Warp lb. Spools,
Whitc,pcrlb....: 20
Blankets.
Cotton Blankets 57x73 inches,
per pair 43 cents.
Ask our competitors to measure,,
their cheap blanket. '
Cotton Blankets, large size, per
pair $1.00.
Cotton Blankets, i'largc sizes,
heavier, $1.25 to $1 75.
Wool Blankets, per pair $2.75.
Wool Blapkcts $3.50 to $0.00.
Underwear.
Men's Fleece Lined Under
wear, Shirts or Drawers
each 25
Men's Heavy Fleece Lined
Underwear, Shirts or Draw
i crs Ccicli t 35
Men's All-Wool Underwear,
Shirts or Drawers each'. . .'. .$1.00
Men's All-Wool Undcrvwcar,
Shirts or Drawers each'.', .
$1.2o .to 2.00
Ladies' Ribbed Underwear,
good quality, vests or pants
each. .25
Ladies' Ribbed Underwear,
v extra size pants(or vests each .25
Ladies' Fitwcll' Underwear,.
' vests or pants each . . . -A , . ' 'yifeO'
Ladies' Union Suits, good qnal-
ity each 50
Ladies' Fine Wool Underwear
pants or vests each 1.00
We sell more Underwear than
any two stores in JNorth .Platte.
Price docs not tell you much with
out seeing the goods. Wc will sur
pri.e you when you see the quality.
Notions.
Thread, per spool , . . ,
Gorticclli Silk Thread, 50 yds,-,
per spool
Corttcclli Silk Thread, 100 yds.,
' pcr. spool : .........
Butfon Dole Twist, per spool..
Shetland Floss, per skein
Waterproof Dress Braiding,pcr
yard ,
Curling Irons, large size, each. .
Cotton Tape, per roll
Thimbles, each
Slate Pencils, 6 for
Chalk, per 1 gross box
Pens, per dozen
Fools Cap Paper, 12 sheets. . . .
Legal Cap Paper, 12 sheets.. . .
Writing Paper, 3f sheets
Agate Buttons, per gross .....
Darning Needles, 25 for
Knitting Needles, per set
Pins, per paper v
Shoe Laces, good quality, 3 pr.
Celluloid Collars, each..
Rubber Collars, each
Alarm Clocks, each
German Knitting Yarn, black,
per lb. skein.
Ladies' Handkerchiefs, all linen
each .,
Turkey Red Handkerchiefs, 24
inch, best grade,. each
Indigo Blue Handkerchiefs, 24
inch, best grade, each
Lead Pencils, nicklc cap and
rubber tip, each .
.Elastic .Cord, per yard
Turkey Red Embroidery .Cot
ton, per spool.
Patent Embroidery 'Hoops. . . ...
Mcnncn's Talcum Powder, per
box
Mirror, 5x7 glass
Lc Pages Library Paste, per
bottle
Mourning Pins, per box
Baby Ribbon, all colors, satin,
Dress Shields, per pair
Table Oilcloth, per yard
Tatting Shuttles, each
.04
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.04
,08
.02
.08
.08
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.01
.01
.01
.10
.05
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.05
.03
.02
.05
.10
.20
.85
.15
.05
.07
,07
.01
.01
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.10
.20
.10
.05
.02
.01
.10
.20
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Shoes.
Men's Satin Calf Shoes, all-solid-lcathcr,lacc
or congress
per pair . . n $1.25
Men's Satin Calf Shoes, lace or
congress, per pair 1.50 ,
Men's Vclour Calf Shocs.pcr pr 2.00
Men's Vici or Vclour Calf
Suocs, Goodyear welt, per pr 2.50
Men's Fine Shoes, all styles
and different leathers 3.00 to 5.00
Ladies' Calf Shoes, per pair.. 150
Ladies' Kid Shoes, per pair.. 1.50
Ladies' Heavy Calf Shoes, per
pair 1.75
Ladies' Kid Shoes, cither stock
or patvnt tip, per pair 3 75
Ladies' Kid Shoes, per pair . . 2.00
These two dollar shoes have all
the style and appearance of $2 50
and $3.00 goods.
Ladies' Fine Shoes in Kid,
Vclour Calf and Patent
Leather, per pair 2 50
Ladies' Fine Welt and Hand
Turned Shoes, all kinds of
leather and prettiest of
shapes, per pair 3.00
Ladies' Ultra Shoes, the finest
of fine shoes, sixteen differ
ent stylos to select from per
pair ' 3.50
Misses Kid Shoes iVj to 2,
per pair. . . , 1.00
Misses Calf Shoes IVt to 2,
per pair 1.25
Misses Kid Shoes V to 2, 1.35
Misses Calf Shoes 114 to 2, 1.35
Misses, Patent Leather .Shoes,
U to 2," per" pair 1.35
Child's Kid Shoes", SyS to llI'Jfl
Child's Calf Shoes, 8 to 11 1.00
Child's Patent Leather Shoes
8 to 11, per pair '.. 1.10
Child's Kid Shoes, 8 to 11, 1.10
Child's Kid Shoes, 5 to 8, 50
Child's Calf Shoes, 5 to 8 85
Child's Kid Shoes, 5 to 8, 85
Infants' Soft Sole Shoes,. 50 and .25'
Satisfactory wear of every pair
guaranteed.
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Store Op:o. 3ES7aox3.1n.s ITntil O Oclocfe,
WILCOX DEPARTMENT STORE
RAILROAD NOTES.
Charley Blood, night yardmaBter
at Cheyenne, visited North Platte
friends Wednesday.
Will Riynplds, who had been
brakiug on the Fourth district,
came home Wednesday.
Traveling Firemen Relmeyer and
wiTc returned, Wednesday from a
week' visit in Cheyenne.
Cliaa. EU. yesterday made up.fifly
minutes on the runniug time of
tfain 102 between Sidney and this
city.
Beginning September l6t. Bur
lington switchmen in Nebraska
were granted an advance ot three
cents per hour.
J. Cenloti, R,rst vice-president
ol the machinists' union, wtll ar
rive in O naha this week and wi!l
direct the Btrike in the iuture.
Ilarrv Barraclouch, who had
been vihiling his parent, returned
to Cheyenne Wednesdays He is an
apprentice in the U. P. machine
shop at Cheyenne.
Our old tr.iend Jack, Sullivan, the
lone engineer on the Kearney &
niack Hills road, was taken mclc
this week and an engineer was sent
down from here.
The case of President Burt, who
is chartred with false imprison
ment, has been taken to the district
court, Burt having waived exami
nation in the county court.
A ganir of twelve or fittccn men,
who arc cujigcd in stringing a new
Western Union wire, were in town
yesterday, working east. They
string wire at the rate of fifteen
miles a day,
Forty-three non-union .men were
brought to Omaha from Buffalo
Wednesday, f-eyeral of whom de
serted upon reaching Omaha.
Wholesale desertions are reported
fiom Cheyenne.
Andy Cameratta, who has had
charge of the Italians working on
the grade on the Fourth district,
was in town Wednesday accom
panied by fitty of his men who had
quit work for the season.
Claim A;:ent Cone ot the Union
Pacific was in town yesterday mak-
nir settlement with Mrs. kirdatn
on the death of hereon Henry, who
was killed at the ice house. A
settlement was made, we under
stand, tor one thousand dollars.
The Omaha News says that lead
ers ot the Union Pacific strike
claim to have inside iniontiatiotl
that George Gould will he in
Omaha toliy and tilt hi mission
u to investigate the strike. It is
further claimed tht the etockhold
ers of the road are beginning to
get uneasy over the losses result
ing from the strike.
An order has been issued, it is
saiJ, by the Northwestern road to
its conductors and engineers in
structing them that they need pot
attempt to make up time lost by
the Union Pacific on trains run in
f he Union Pacific North woterti
cnnbiiif. It i further stated that
the N.Htbwefleru has grown very
weary of the belated Union Pacific
trains and arc making Borne yer'y
vigoroub kicks.
A county official, a lawyer, a
clothing merchant and a newspaper
man were taken through the shops
yesterday morning by Foreman
Stubbs. ' Fifteen 'or twenty
men were at work in the machine
shop at i the time, who were, we
we were told, at work on. the three
eugines standing in the shop. All
machinery has- bden removed from
the boilershop and that building
has been divided into ten rooms,'
nine of which arc used as sleeping
apartments with eight or ten iron
beds in each rcoiu. The tenth room
ia used as a reading room, and is
supplied with-, a long .'table and
chairs. Porters keep the rooms in
order, and everything looked neat.
The men are boarded in cars, two
of whicl( are used as dining rooms
and one'as a kitchen. The cook
and his assistants were preparing
for dinucf, and had. two immense
pans of beef and pork roasting in
the oven. Indications were that
the men are well fed. In, another
car arc two bath tubs, and a barber
shop, the latter presided over by a
ebony hucd individual. The com
pany furnishes the imported non
union men with board and lodging
free, and they are given an oppor
tunity to make plenty overtime.
Last month some of them made
as high.as $145. The company is
making arrangements to put in a
stock of, ouch goods as the men will
rt(tiiic-clolhlug, shoot?, hat, etc.
All the imported men we noticed
are foreigners, and lew if any of
them speak English distinctly.
BETWEEN THE RIVERS.
Henry Weil, on the old SchufT
farm, informs us that he and Mr.
Schuff 'will teed Bixty-five head of
three and four year old steers this
winter. They will buy a carload or
two ot hogs which will be fed with
the cattle. They have about one
hundred acres of fine corn that will
yield forty-five or filty buthels per
acre'.
W. O. Cole will ship a couple of
cars ol hogs to the western market
this coming week.
Dr. Eves, who is a member of
the board of pension examiner?, at
tended a meeting of the board at
North Platte Wednesday.
Will Dowltower and Will .Eshle
man ot tile county eat were visi
tors in this section the early part
of tlm week.
Wild ducks are coming in rapidly
at tliU time but the hunters are
almost as plcntilul.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Goodwin of
Hershey are visiting in Denver and
other wctern points. ;
Mrs. Emma Ware of the-county
seat attended the Haryey-Ware
wedding Sunday.
J. C. Gyger is at present enter-
taming his mother and sister, wlu
reside in the west.
Nearly all the corn in Hub section
is out of the way of Jack Frost.
J. K. E-ihleman is about conva
lescent from bin recent illness,
The Gamble Lnnd Co, has a fine
haying outfit at work between the
rivi-rs.
Last Sunday J. G. Fcckcn's barn,
containing a large amount of grain,
hay, harness and farming tools
went up in smoke. Mrs. Feeken
and children had returned from
North Platte aud had just got the
team in the barn when the fire wa
discovered, Mr. Feeken was at
home alone all day and the origin
of the fire is unknown, The horses
were all Havcd but a large straw
stack was consumed aud his or
chard near by was badly scorched.
The ioss is partly covered by in
surance. Judge Grimes, wife and son Lee
were guests at the A. W. Arnett
residence jubL north of Hershcy'oh
Wednesday.
Owing to illness in his family, J.
G, Feeken did not go to Gothen
burg with' his threshing cu' lit ,as
he expected.
'John Ware has about a car load
of fall wheat for sale which he
grew this HcaBou on the larm be
longing to his mother, Mrs. Win.
Ware.
The cool weather of yesterday re-
minded,one of the fact that the an-'
ihracite coal strike is still on,
A Bargain
A floy'o Wild Itido for Life
With family nrnuml oxpoullnu lnm to
diu, iind fiRon ruling f.ir lift', 18 mlk'B, to
got Dr. KiriK'u Nmv Discovery for con
ptimption, coughs nnd uoldw, V. II,
Hrown, of J-fi-Rvillo, Ind , oiiduri'd
dimtli'ii ncoiiltw from itRthm:i, but thin
wonderful niodiutno guvu instnnt rollof
nnd booh cured him. IIo writes: "I
now sloop soundly ovory nlht." Liko
marvelous euros of consumption, jmou
monln, bronchitis, couuIip, colds nnd
Krlp prove its nintuhlofis inorit for nil
throat nndjunc troubles. Gunrantoed
bottlon ,r0u nnd 81.00, Trial botllou free
at A. P. Sliotz'i Drug Ejturo.
Steel Ranges.
W. M. Cunningham, the
tt...i xf ...:n ii ii.,. is
ildlllWUlU iMUU, Will BC11 i hi;
Superb Steel Range, with
High Closet and Reservoir,
and S3.00 worth of cooking
utensils, for
$40.00.
This Range is strictly first- 'J
class and up to date in all,)
respects, Call and sec it
before buying.
Also Soils' - - -
Hardware ana
Tinware, Etc.,
at Fair prices,
Plliiiiblng and Tin Work
promptly . attended to.
V. fS.'Cunninftiani.
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