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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1910)
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, MARCH 15, 1910. NOM5. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS Henry Kcllar, who lma been living on the Turpie ranch, left with his family yesterday for Artesian. S D., where they will make their future home. E. Hubnrtt, who had been living in the country near town, shipped his personal effects to Bennett, Col., the latter part of last week where .ho and family will reside. Wanted A competent person for book keeper. Apply by letter only stating age and experience. W. W. BlRGE. The COO club, membcring thirty-six, will form a theatre party at the pres entation of "Mary Jane's Pa," in which Max Figman appears as the star. Supper will be served following the play. We understand R. N. Lamb is making arrangements to erect a two-Btory building on the lot ho recently pur chased on the corner of Ninth and Lo cust streets. The ground floor will have two storo rooms. Rev. Mr. Johnson, of the Christian church, has acquired title to the Swan property on west Second street. Mr. Johnson already owned the house in which he lived. His additional invest ment is evidence of his faith in North Platte. Fred Kubik returned Saturday from Kearney where on Thursday night he wrestled George Gion as a preliminary to the DuCary Hankinsmidt match. Gion threw Kubik twice straight, the first in nine and the second in nine and one-half minutes. Detective Smith, of the Burlington .force, came up tfrom Lincoln the latter part of last week and took back with him Ramsey and Wilson, who are wanted in that city for burglary. The two men had been serving a fifteen day sentence in the local jail for petty larceny. The Leader received its stock of millinery yesterday and it will be ready for inspection this week. The invoice consists of ladies, misses and children's pattern hats in all the latest New York styles whicfrwill be Bold at very low prices. An inspection of these hats is invited. V f C. E. Lockwood, of the Hull & Lock wood Land Co., of Kimball, Neb., passed through North Platte by auto Saturday enroute home from Albion. Ho says they sell No. 1 farm land for $8 to $15 per acre on easy terms. Good soil, good climate and good crops. On main ino of U. P. R. R. A. C. Burton a prominent and wealthy farmer of the vicinity of Well fleet has bought 180 acres of land south west of that town and taking a mill site that many years ago was surveyed by the promoters of an English colony that never materialized, but of which most of our readers perhaps have heard. Mr. Burton proposes to start in to develop the property in the near future, and if his plans are carried through as outlined to us the enterprise will mean much to Wellfleet. Wallace Winner. 100 Ladies Spring Jackets now on sale at Tho Leader at $4.98. The Wednesday Musicalo will meet this week with Mrs. G; S. HufTman West 5th St. McDowell Program. Contractor Huntington has completed a ten stall barn for tho Rush Mercan tile Co. on a lot on east Front street. I have two fine saddle ponies which can be engaged by tho hour by those so wishing. R. A. Garman. Two cases, of diphtheria have devel oped in a family named Hays, who came from Sidney last week. The vic tims are n two year old child and the mother. E. Van Natta has begun the erection of a two-story building at the corner of Ninth and Locust streets. The ground floor will be used for store rooms, the second floor for roomers. Furnished room to rent. 523 W. 4th St. Word received in town states that Carroll C. Chambers, formerly of Ihis city but who has been attending tho uni versity of Wisconsin, is losing his sight and specialists pronounce his case hope less. Easter is only two weeks away. Buy that now suit now. We can only do a limited amount of alterations in one week. Wilcox Department Store. At a meeting of tho Bchool board Saturday evening it was decided to add a commercial course at the beginning of tho next school year. This action is to be commended, and will prove as pop ular and useful as did the addition of the normal course. For Sale Two first class double barrel shot guns and a 44 Winchester rifle. Inquire at Ritner's feed store. A debate between the Kearney and North Platte high schools will bo held in this city next Friday evening, in which Helen Chamberlain, Victor Halli gan and Ernest Casey will represent the local school. The question is that labor unions are a benefit, with tho North Platto debaters assuming tho affirma tive. V. E. Hinman and Guy Boyer, painters and paper hangers. Best of work. Phone 468 or 574. In a letter to The Tribune, Harry Fikes of St. Louis but formerly of this city, says his son Will conducts a gro cery store and meat market, his aon Frank a confectionery, and ho and his wife have a cigar and confectionery store. All are doing a nice business. Mr. Fikes sends his regards to his old North Platte friends. Ten Dollar Fireless Cook ers on sale at $4.95 at The Shoery. H. L. Williams sold to Carlson & Oldfather seventy hogs last Tuesday which netted a total of $1,052.35 at $9.20 per hundred. It is supposed that Mr. Williams did not lose any monoy on those hogs While the state veterinary was here inspecting Martin Nelson's horses ho also inspected a span of mules owned by Arthur De Wolf and pronounced it glanders in tho last stage. They were shot yester day morning by Marshal Elliott of Brady. Brady Vindicator. Last Call to Our! Shoe Sale . . It will soon be "all over" with our great Shoe Sale. This Shoe opportunity still awaits you. It has made a whole army of feet happy. There are more well dressed feet on the street today than you have seen in a long time and Our Great Shoe Sale is Responsible for it . . . . Have you received your share of the benefits, Reader? Men's, Women's, Boys', Girls' and In fants shoes are selling-at less than wholesale, prices. This is positively the last week of our sale. The Shoery - - - Sol Hodes 4 ABOUT PEOPLE. Mr. and Mrs. Orson Coville were the guests of friends at Paxton. Miss Rachaol Chamberlain, of Den ver, is visiting hor slater Mrs. Ernest Savin. Mrs. Nelson Hammer' and daughter Freda r6turned yesterday from a visit in Omaha. Peter B. Mulr, of Paxton, wAs in town yesterday visiting hfs daughter, Mrs. J. D. Cox. Supt. Jcffors returned to Ogden Sat urday night accompanied by Mrs. Mary Dunn and daughter Lucy. Mrs. John H. Day and daughter Mabel returned last night from a brief visit in Omaha. Mrs. Grattan Foley, of Gothenburg, was the guest of Mrs. Voorhees Lucas over Sundny. Bernnrd Beer, of Denver, has been in town for several days looking after his property interests. Mrs. Abbqtt and daughter, of Mil- ford, Iowa, are tho guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bixler. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Carey, who had been in town for a few days, will re turn to Omaha tonight. C. A. Dill returned Friday night from the Omaha hospital. He looks first-rate, but is still weak on the afllictcd side. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Haspel, living west of town, left yesterday for a week's visit with friends at Columbus, Neb., tho former homo of the couple. Miss Evelyn Daly, attending a con vent school at Hastings came up Friday afternoon to attend the funeral of her cousin, the late Lola Dunn. Mrs. Geo. Dunn and daughter Hazel of Dewitt, Neb., who had been called here by tho death of the late Lola Dunn, returned to their home Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boesch, who had been visiting friends in Illinois and Missouri for a couple of months, re turned homo Saturday. They had a very enjoyable trip. Miss Elsie Johnson will go to Hast ings April 1st to represent the North Platto high school in the Central Ne-. braska debate.- Ten schools will have representatives in this contest. Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Baker, who had been visiting friends at points in Illinois and Iowa since November, re turned to the city Saturday. Enroute they visited Rev. and Mrs. Greenlee in Omaha and found them enjoying good health and well pleased with church work. Early Ohio Seed Potatoes. Wo will have a carload of pure strain Early Ohio Seed Potatoes from tho Red River district of Minnesota to arrive next week. Place your order early, as they won't last long. Rush Mercantile Co. s mm-- Beauty is Inherent It Needs but: be Revealed. This is one of the guiding statutes of tho "New School". It finds exemplification in mm You can see its results in the sculptured perfection of tho classic GOSSARD back which enhances tho natural beauty of tho loveliest lino in nature Through "New School" methods the eradication of mistakes is final. You'll never know tho truost union of corset comfort and style until you have been fitted to a GOSSARD. "Model D" as shown expresses tho most udvance Bpring note in corsotry. It is long below tho waist with a bust low to girdle dimensions. This construction together with ELEC TROBONE filling affords a gracious suppleness to thefigure and n degree of comfort that has heretofore been accounted an impossiblity. Made in $6.50 to $12.50. qunltitics. Wo 'show this season eight other models in tho Gossan! Corset each- in soveral lengths. There is a modol exactly right for YOU. Our export fitters will bo pleased to demonstrate tho merits of Gossard Corsets and will wait upon you courteously, whether you intend purchasing Wilcox Department Store. m m m m m m m m m m m m (ft m m m & ft New Arrivals. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Pitttnan, of the North side, Saturday, a boy baby. A boy baby was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stryker. North Platto friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bostwlck will bo interested in knowing that a girl was born to them Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bostwick now live on the Lute ranch north of Paxton Sunday. Dr. W. H. Kearns of Beatrice occu pied the pulpit at tho Presbyterian church Sunday. He was listened to with much ploasure by large audiericos both morning and evening. An offering was taken for tho missions! of the church amounting to $130. Dr. Kearns was shown through the now church and was much delighted with it, pronounc ing it tho finest Presbyterian church building in the state of its size and cost. The work of tho choir was specially good. The duett sung by Mr. and Mrs. Leiniger and the boIo sung by Mrs. W. V. Hoagland elicited much praise. When tho now organ arrives the work of the choir will doubtless at tract' much attention. The Y. M. C. A. basket ball team went to Maxwell Saturday evening and defeated tho school team of that place by a score of fifty-six to twenty-four. Tho trip was made in automobiles and going down ono of tho cars wbb Btuck in tho mud with tho result that tho players in that 'particular car did not arrive in time to participate in tho first half of tho game and others were sub stituted, Enroute home tho boys had rather strenuous work extricating tho cars from tho mud holes into which thoy plunged. Don't fail to see the latest tailored suits just arrjved ut Too Lcutfer, fanV- ing in pneo irom $ik.uu up. j Road and' Shop Notes Ben C. Clinton, U. P. station agent at St. Paul, spent Sunday with relatives in town. Leo and James Hart, of tho sheet iron department, wore called to Omaha yesterday by the critical illness of thoir mother. ' Engine 183, which Grandpa Norton and Grandpa Hsrtmnn claim is tho best owned.by the Union Pacific, went into the shops for light repairs yesterday. ElevcrT passenger trains passed east during tho daylight hours Sunday four sections of No. 4, three sections of No. 10, No. 16, No. 2, No. 12, and No. 14. Machinist J. P. Norton left Saturday night for Excelsior Springs, Mo., where ho will recuperate for a couple weeks. Ho has been troubled with u disordered stomach. Several cars on train No. 1G were de railed ut Vromnn Friday, but fortunate ly no ono was injured. It required a dozen hours for the wrecking crow to put the track and cars in shape. A. J. Adams, general foreman of track work, moved tho track-laying crew from Gothenburg to Willow Island Friday morning. Thoy will soon have tho new track laid from Kearney to North Platte with 90-pound steel rails. At a meeting of Division 88, B. of L. E., last week resolutions were adopted regretting the departure of W. L. Park from tho Union Pacific, extolling his excellent work while con nected with that road, and wishing him success in his new field of labor. A Chicago dispatch says: It is unoffi cially announced that the committee of railroad managers yesterday refused In substance every concession demanded by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men and Enginernon, representing 25,000 men on forty-nine different roads running through the west and southwest, excepting arbitration of the wage question. Tho men had voted by an overwhelming majority to strike, and this vote was laid before tho rail road managers' committee by the com mittee representing the men. Tho men are more insistent that tho managers concede them' the right to bo repre sented by a committee of thoir own in the application of the seniority rules than they are for a wage advance. An average of 12 per cent advance is the final demand of the firemen. They claim that the schedule submitted last No vernber has been modified in the hope that an amicable adjustment could bo mado. An official of tho firemen's brotherhood says a strike appears.immi nent. WALK -OVER it SHOES. Know-How" WALK-OVER SHOES contain the best of leather, the best of thread, and the best of the varipus other materials that go into the" making of a pair of shoes. - ' - But in addition to this, there is one other quality the WALK-OVER "Know How", the art'by which all these selected materials are wisely combined and each separate part made to do its full duty. It is this "Know-How" that gives WALK OVER SHOES their superior style, fit and service, and that makes the WALK-OVER the shoe for you. $3.50, $4.00, $5.00. Wilcox Department Store. Advance displays of spring millinery show creations of a brilliancy that will mako the young girls appear" as ex panded rainbows and tho spinsters as floral conservatories. Few ladies in North Platto need any artificial means of enhancing their loveliness, but with these new springhata they will curtain- iy cause mo ncaris oi men to nuitcr. Miller Precinct News. The nice weather has cauHcd farmers' to begin spring work. Some uro al ready sowing oats. Mr. Smith, of Polk county, moved to tho Gus Meyer place last week. Miss Edna Larson and Georgo Peter son of Overton, arrived Friday ovon ing to spend Sunday with their uncle, P. W. Olson and family, returning Monday morning. Mr. Sund has rented part of his farm to Mr. Sopor for the coming year. Mr. Weinberg finished threshing his speltz and cano Friday, John Jensen doing tho work. Mrs. Rowley is staying in town with her mother who is quite sick. Mrs. Wclbourno and daughter spent Sunday at A. R. Christenscns. Mr. Sund has not finished shucking corn but expects to this week. Nels Foratedt moved last weok to their new homo on the Bratt & Good man ranch. Mr. Dunns, of Overton, ha3 moved to the old Christ Haviland place, which ho purchased last summer. N. Rose and family, Leonard, Roy and Paul Rowley and Mr. Warren Doolittlo took dinner at P. W. Olsen's Sunday. Jim Sadol still has a few stacks of hay to bale. MIbs Hazel Stryker is boarding at W. Rose's since hor parents left tho farm. Pro. Anderson has hired out to Loy Ebright for tho coming season. Christ Sund is talking of building on section 1G this summer. Mr. Roso evidently intends to begin farmirtg as he purchased a n'o'w drill while In town baturday. An Awful EruptioH of a volcano excites brief interest, and your interest in skin eruptions will be as short, if you use Bucklen'a Arnica Salvo, their quickest cure. Even the worst boils, ulcers, or fever sores are soon healed by it. Best for Burns, Cuts, Bruises, Sore Lips, Chapped Hands, Chilblains and Piles. It trives instunt relief. 25c. at Stono Drug Co. Wall Paper AT G. M. Newton's Our 1910 stock is larger than former years and . very complete at prices that are right. Some very neat patterns at ioc, I2c and 15c and our 15c, 35c. 4c and 50c papers are much prettier than ever before . Call and let us show you our paper. REMNANTS at 5 to 10c a roll. C. M. NeWton. . , 1 1