Jt
Thank
You . .
For your kind patronage
during the past year, and
we assure you our best
efforts to merit a continu
ance of your valued favors
in the future.
We wish you a
Happy New Year.
DIXON.
The Jeweler.
DR. 0. II. CRESSLER,
Graduate Dentist.
Offic over the McDonald
State Bunk.
Miss Ejthor Anton!do3j a teacher it)
the Lexington schools, is visiting her
parents in town.
Mrs. Bert Kelly, of Rawlins, Wyo
is a guest at tho Lowe residence whila
enroute home from Hudson, wis.
John Russell, who had been workinz
as switchman in the local yards, lei t
this morning for Denver, wnoro as
will aooept ewploywoat.
Special price c SA rebefe sad
blanketa from now until jan 1st. m
mus Forstedt, Blankenburg's old stanc
The Catholic ladies will serve a ten
cjnt lunch at tho Hahler residence tu
marrow afternoon, and from six 1o
eight will servo a twenty-five cent sup
per. Tho public is cordially invited.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas Hoffhine cnire
dawn from Cheyenne Friday to spend
Christmas with relatives. Mr, Hoffhir.e
returned Sunday night while Mia. HoC'
hta Hl tornhi tmtn Tuuw'.
From December 27th to January 9th we will give you a discount of one-fifth from the
regular price of every article carried in our Dry Goods, Cloaks, Suits, Notions, Gents' Furnishing
and Shoe Stocks. These goods will be sold to you at regular price and one-fifth deducted from
your bill. During this sale we will not open any new goods in these departments, so it will
pay you to come early before the assortments are broken.
Wilcox Department Store.
NORTH PLATTE. NEB.
B. P. Parker, of Rawlins, Wyo., has
been visiting friends in town for sev
eral days.
Engineer Morris, who had hia leg in
jured at Kearney, has reported for ser
vice.
Tho Methodist aid socioty will meet
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. D. W.
Bcsack on east Fifth street.
Manager Baker, of the C. F. Iddings
Co., has returned from his visit under
the parental roof at Omaha.
Asst. Supt. Cahill, of the NebrasVn
division, came up from Omnha la3t
evening and is spending today in town.
Mrs. Lilly Jackson left Sunday for
her home in LaGrande, Oregon. She
nub accompanied by her sister, Miss
Hazel Huntington.
The Baptist aid society will meet
Fhursday afternoon with Mrs. Norman
Louden, 820 South Chestnut street. As
chore will be an election officers, all
members aro urged to be present.
The attraction at the Keith this even
ing will be tne entertainment by tho
pupils of Miss Allen. Two plays will
be presented, for each of which tho
children have been well trained.
Geo. H. Hughes, if Garfield, brought
lis daughter Irma to this city last week
.0 receivo treatment for a threatened
ittack of appendicitis. The patient
cems to be improving under treatment
by Dr. Drost.
For Sale or Trade A bankrupt stock
jf clothing. For particulars inquiie ol
P. Dorjjin, at Ritncr boarding house.
A midnight service will bo held at
the Episcopal chnrch Friday night.
The attendants will gather at tho
rectony for a social hour and then pro
ceed to the church where tho custo
mary service will be held,
Members of the Harmony card club
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Juliu3
I'jzor last evening ana tney were royal
ly entertained. Tho customary game
of high five was tho entertaining feat
ure and pleasantly did tho evening
pass.
Adefhsito move is being wadoby
Owaha par tie to open a wholesale
grocery bouse la North Flatto, two
men having agreed to put $50,000 into
tho concern. It is probable that a
wholesale grocery house will bo fol-
bwed by a wholesale hardware house.
Ed Robinson, brakeman on the
branch, had tho misfortune yesterday
to fall from an engine at O'Fallon and
klip a knee cap. He was on tho engine
and in attempting to get off to throw a
a a itch missed hia footing and fell about
five feet, landing on his Twees. Ho was
brought to town last evening and placed
unwr ora cud ox lm. mcuw.
One-Fifth
Sheriffs Will Come Tomorrow.
Those conservators of peace and all
around good fellows, the sheriffs of the
Btate of Nebraska or at least a num
ber of them will be tho guests of the
city of North Platte tomorrow, that
being the date of the state convention.
These gentlemen will arrive tonight
and tomorrow morning and during the
forenoon a social session will bo held at
the court house with an address of wol
come by Mayor Patterson and a re
sponse by tho president of tho state
sheriffs' association. The visitors will
then bo given if tho weather permits
a drive around the city and to the
Cody ranch.
In the afternoon a business
will be held at tho court room,
the evening a banquet will be
the dining room of the Vienna
session
nnd in
held in
restau-
rant. During the day the Commercial
Club rooms will be open to the visitors
and they wiil be made welcome to those
quarters.
Whether the sheriffs will remain
over Thursday depends npon the amount
of business on hand to transact.
Chrittmas at the Nichols School.
Christmas was celebrated in the
Nichols schools Friday afternoon, Dei .
24th. In the primary and intermedial.
department tho walls were decorated
with many pretty Christmas ornaments,
the busy work of littlo hands. A wil
low from the brook blossomed forth
with sweets and presents for eager
young Americans.
Tho children gave appropriate recita
tions, In tho Grammer and high school
department the usual mottoes retold
the glad tidings, landscapo drawings
and a fine collection of original colored
paintings by Miss Ethel Clemens beau
tified tho walls.
A most protcntlous cottonwood with
long slender branches, suggestive of
breeze and bird nnd summer song, be
decked with rose and green from paper
land, peeping throueh meshes of pop
corn, bearing gifts for all, gladdened
the hoart and cheered tho wintry day.
The program consisted of original
outlincn by tho pupils, portraying tho
advent and Ufo of Christ, and Btorios
based oo events coramomdrating tho
holy time interspersed with songs nnd
notations, A rousing dialogue, "The
Cow Boys' Christmas" was rendered
in a manner very creditable to the
youthful actors. An original song
'Christmas Bell3" composed by the
tjachor, was sung by tho pupils.
After which Mr. Sullivan, one of
tho school officers, gave a very hnIpful
and interesting talk which was mo3t
encouraging to. the toachoru and in
Upknsp; to tki puptta.
Mrs. M. E. Crosby left Sunday for n
visit with her parents at Davenport,
Neb.
Tho Episcopal Guild will hold a social
nt tho homo of Mrs. F. W. Rinckor
Thursday afternoon.
For Sale Cheap Horse, buggy and
harness. Inquire at the Ritner board
ing house.
Engineer Wood White has been con
fined to the houso for a week past with
a very severe attack of quinsy. Ho
is now reported to bo improving.
Weather forecast: Partly cloudy to
night and tomorrow. Colder. Maximum
temperature yesterday 35, a year ago
48; minimum this morning 26, a year
ago 24.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Murphy returned
this morning from Ashland, Neb.,
where they Bpent Christmas with Mrs. i
Murphy's brother. They also spent a J
day in Omaha.
Tho board of directors of tho Her
shcy alfalfa meal mill met in this city
last night and put up tho necessary
funds to meet all the obligations. In
jrder to do this they wore compelled to
also nssumo part of the indebtedness
of the Mitchell mill and will finance
and complete the latter concern. The
machinery for tho mill at Hershey
is now on track at tnat place, will be
unloaded tomorrow and the work of
installing it will begin nt once. The
machinery for the Mitchell mill is en-
routo nnd will reach Mitchell in a week
or so.
Cottonwood and Vicinity.
Another Christmas hajgone and
wish you a Happy Noj$3tear.
A step Bister of Miooiinaon is
wo
Vi8-
iting nt F. E. Rosse's."
H. P. Si evens Bays it 1b a good thing
for tho cooks to absent themselves
once in a whilo and let the men take
tho kitchen, they have more Bympathy
for the women folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Hern, of Chadron aro
visiting their relatives, tho Hutchison
families.
tiorio Arnold was visiting at botno
a week and loft Sunday ovcnlag to at
tend tho international Y, M, C A. t
Detroit, N. Y., as ho is u dclegato to
that covention.
Mr. and Mrs, McCord and Henry
Shook and Charley Brittingham, of
Curtis, spent Christmas day at the
Kerr residence.
C. E. Oldfather must be snowed un
der or froze in, we do not hear from
him much theso wintry days.
A brother of L. R. Sommer is visit'
ing at Sommer'B and Hartman's.
Puul Arnold la in North PtoMu tixfi
THE
First National Bank,
of North Platte, Nebraska.
UNITED STATE!)
Capital and Surplus $130,000.
ARTHUR McNAMARA, President,
E. F. SEEBERGEI!, Vice-President, '
f. L. M00NEY, Cashier.
week attending an alumni social and a
wedding.
Tho following persons' were elected
officers of the Fort McPherson Sunday
Bchool last Sabbath: Supt., C. C. Clark;
Asst. Supt., Herman Kerr; Sec. and
Treas., James Rose; Oreanist, Esthor
R ynolds; Asst. Organist, Mrs. C. C.
Clark. E. M. Arnold, Mrs. Kerr, Mrs,
Hartman and Herman Kerr were
elected teachers.
Lane Chappell, Venion Kuhns nnd
Paul Roberta are at home during the
holidays.
' A good time was enjoyed nt tho
Christmas three in Mnxwcll on Christ
mas eve. Uno or tne features was
tho maiden effort of the orchestra
which was a pronounced success.
I Did you ever indulge your appetite
a
little too much at Christmas with all
the good things nround you and then
have to stop short on your feed and
lay around and look out doors and
rathor wish you bad been more careful
No doubt this writer has & good many
sytpptthteora a thla time. Jutwowil
cat ik? (JpJy little sbort 'for a day
or two and perhape we may win out
ollright.
Wo had a fino ovoning Saturday
night for our Christmas doings at tho
Fort McPherson school house. Tho
houso was crowded. Wo had a tree, a
Santa Cluus, a short program and a
treat for everybody. 100 sacks wore
giveu out. !j
E. M. Arnold has sold some of his
stock and will dispose of ncii.ly all his
iarmlng implements as nu will uw
furmluK fuV u iJhort-pvrtol.
DEPOSITARY.
I think we all agreo that this haa
been a solid December. It soems to bq
healthful but it takes, fuel.
Y. M.C.A. Notes.
The association rooms aro becoming
very pjpular aa social head qurrtcrs.
Tho interest in chess and checkers is
itcadily growing.
Often tho evening hours are beguiled
by voice and piano.
Books and periodicals are no less In
demand and many otherwise deary
hours are spent with these friends.
ThoEO interested in the study of
Mathematics or English Composition or
business corrspondenco aro requested .
to talk tho matter over with the
secretary.
Fill your lives and hours with thoso
things that give good returns.
Tho Y. M. C. A. will give a complL
mentary mush and milk social soma
time noxt week.
Those w-o enjoy this delicious dish
are cordially invited to be present.
There will be just enough of music and
speech making to add jingor to the co
eeaion.
Men who ore interested in building
character, will often find in the Sunday
afternoon meeting thoso influences that
pill lend dignity nnd coloring to the
structure. Rev. Johnson's address Su:t;
day was fuli of good things. Como to
the mooting noxt Sunday.
Notice.
Customers whose accounts have run
over thirty days are requested to nay
In full lntnro Jnniinro lot. 1010 If thou
l&siirc credit for tho ensuing year.