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NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, APRIL 12, 1910.
NO 23.
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1 1 DREBERT CLOTHING CCk j
The World's Foremost Makers and Designers of Men's Apparel
have contributed to our immense stock of Clothing Shoes, Hats
and Furnishings for Spring and Summer of 1910. - - - - -
Right'herc at Drebcrt Clothing Company's Store
you can select your goods from the products of the best
known manvfacturcrs in the country, We handle the
best goods and the best known goods in every depart
ment. The following lines represent the best there is.
You can get their goods in North Platte oply at this store
"MILLER.MADE" Princeton Clothing for Men,
Idc Collars and Shjrts. Buster Brown Hosiery.
Crown Suspenders. ' 'Munsing Union Suits.
lajtfasaw"
Great Western Gloves. Wilson Bros. Underwear.
Stetson, Tiger and Twecn Hats,
French Shriner and Urncr Shoes and Oxfords.
Fink Special Detroit Overalls.
Imported Straw Hats.
Each of the above lmes represent ABSOLUTELY THE BEST in their line. If there were any
better we would have them. Come in and see what we, our unequaled values can do for you.
DREBERT CLOTHING COMPANY:
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Boat Trip oh the Platte.
Potcr Mylander recently purchased
one of tho oheot iron boats mndo by
Simons Brog. and last Sunday gave it
a try out by making a trip to Maxwoll
on tho raging Platto, a trip on which
ho waa accompanied by his son, who is
an experienced sailor. Tho trip was
made safely and proved quite n novelty.
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Buy Fine Bunch of Bccvcx.
Last Saturday J. C. Wilson, tho
well known valley farmer, sold to
Henry Schribcr twenty-four head of
corn-fed Bteera for twenty-four hun
dred dollnrs, or an average of ono
Kindred dollars per head. They are
said to be an exceptionally fine bunch
of beeves, in fact that is tho only kind
Mr. Wilson turns out.
Wins Initial Game.
Tho baso ball season opened in North
Platto Saturday with a gamo between
tho O'Fallons and tho local high school
team in which tho lattor won by a scoro
twenty-ono to six. Tho boys from
the county were outclassed, this condi
tion being duo in n great measure to
lack of practice. Tho high school team
put up a very fair game of ball, and
with additional practice will be ablo to
take on fast teams.
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS
Dr. Marie Ames returned yesterday
from a visit to Sterling, Col.
Jas. Smallwood transacted business
in Sutherland yesterday.
J. J. Halligan will go to Omaha,
Thursday and while there expects to
purchase an automobile.
Mr. and Mrs. LouiB Peterson left
yesterday for a week's visit with
friends in Lexington.
Robert Ginn, of Alamosa, Col., has
been visiting his brother Fred for a few
days while enrouto to Iowa.
Miss Leety and Mrs. Poor, of Pitts
burg, Pa., are expected to urrive to
night for a visit with their sister, Mrs.
Oohn Singleton.
Picture frames to order. First class
work, reasonable prices. Sorenso'n,
107 E. Fifth street;
Tho Oakland car owned by It. A.
Garman is ready for livery service
again after being out of commissionJ
for a time.
Irving Van Doran expects to leave
tomorrow on a western trip, Twin
Falls Idaho, being his objective point,
whore he may decide to spend the
summer.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Patterson will
journey to Omaha Thursday for tho
purpose of purchasing an automobile.
Mrs, Patterson will also visit her
daughter Edith at Adams.
Mr. Howard tunes for Miss O'Hare,
Miss Ottenatein, Miss Bonner and the
lead ing music teachers and musicians
of the town. May he pot be yours?
C. C. Hupfer, accompanying tho re
mains of hia father, left yesterday
morning for a point near Burlington,
Iowa, where tho body will be re
interred in tho family burying lot.
When Jloward does your piano tuning
and repairing it's right. Phono 2G1.
Newton's Book Store.
C. P. Alden, of this city, who ha3
been traveling for tho Droibus Co., of
Omaha, has resigned, and will leave
next week for Lodge Pole, where he
will engage in general merchandising.
J. G. Mothorsead, of Wallace, who
graduated from tho law department of
tho state university two years ago anu
has since been In tho olltco or tlio city
attorney at Lincoln, arrived in town the
latter prirt'6f last week and will locate
here. Ho will office vith M. E. Crosby,
over the stone urug uo.
John Ekeberg, of Brady, left last
week for Providence, R. I.,, where ho
will become a member of the cornot
band which has a summer's engagement.
Spring is here and now is the timo to
have your piano tuned and repaired.
Be sure of getting the best by leaving
your order for W. A. Howard, your
local man. Residence phono G27, or
leave orders at Newton's Book Store.
Phone 261.
100 Ladies Spring Jackets now on
sale at The Leader at $4.98.
Asst. Supt. Cornell, of Grand Island,
has been made superintendent of ter
minals nt Grand Island, a position made
vacant by Supt. Foley going to the
Illinois Central. F. D. Schermerhorn,
who has been division civil engineer,
has succeeded Cornell.
Ladies and Misses' tailored jackets,
suits and skirts to fit any sized persons
at tho lowest prices west of tho Miss
ouri river. The Leader.
Tho condition of Mrs. E. Canright,
who was so badly burned several weeks
ago and is taking treatment at tho P,
& S. hospital, is reported to be improv
ing. Up to within a few days ago she
was unable to move a finger perfectly
helpless in every way. Now she is
gaining use of one arm and hand.
Alfalfa, cane and millet, corn and ull
kinds of garden seeds at Horshey's.
E. R. Jenkins, a young man who. has
resided in the Hershey section for the
past eight years, will shortly open a
jewelry and watch repairing store at
Hershey. Mr. Jenkins has spent part
of tho past two years, in Omaha Btudy
ing watchmaking and optomology, and
graduated in the latter.
J. W. Hunt, who leased and moved
to tho Feeney ranch south of Maxwell
last fall, was in town the latter part of
last week and while hero leased the
John Murray hall section in tho same
neighborhood. Mr. Hunt raises hogs
extensively, having 100 brood sows and
is feeding 100 head of hogs for the
June market.
Tho Mother Friend waisits for Boys
in colors and white, in all sizes, from
50 cents to $1.00 at The Leader.
Tho North Platte high school ball
team will journey to Gothenburg next
Friday morning and play a gan.o with
the high school team of that place,
Last season tho teams played two
games, each winning one. This season
an euort will be made to have a series
of three games.
The social club of the Ladies of the
Maccabees will serve ice cream and
cako at the W. S. Dolson residence,
west Sixth street, Wednesday evening.
The public is cordially invited to attend.
For Sale Ono of tho best paying
business propositions in North Platto.
Good reasons for selling. Inquire at
this office.
Manager Gariow, of tho Scout's Rest
Ranch, is having 400 acres of tho vir
gin sod broken which will be disced and
seeded to millet and later to alfalfa
Prior to this Mr. Gariow had Urokon
out 350 acres since taking the manage
ment of the ranch.
One hundred Nebraska and Wyoming
men will leave Omaha June 16th for
New York to assist in welcoming home
Theodore Roosevelt. Mayor Jim Dahl
man will head a squad of sixteen cow
boys, or former cowboys, who will ride
the Btrqets of New York in true coW'
boy fashion .
Messrs. Tout, Ringer and Garlisch,
of the high school, are engaged in or
ganizing a mixed chorus, and have in'
vited thirty or forty vocalists to .attend
a meeting that will be held at the high
school auditorium this evening. The
object is to organize a chorus that can
be used when occasion demands the
services of such an organization. If
agreeable to the members, the chorus
will furnish music for the Chautauqua
assombly this summer.
Friends of the young lady will be
pleased to learn that the board of edu
cation has elected Miss Aiieen Gnntt,
of Lincoln, as tho English teacher in
the high school. Miss Gantt is a North
Platto girl who graduated from thn
state university with honors, and as a
teacher in the schools at Tecumseh,
proved her worth. She will succeed
Miss Sullivan, who has been elected to
teach in Broken Bow, her homo town.
Tho Adler Kid Gloves for ladles, the
best in the U. S. at $1.25, at Tho
Leader only.
Frank Hood, the north sido stockman,
was in town Saturday wito a talo of
woe. At a timo when prairie fires were
burning in almost all sections of tho
cojinty, he was ordered to take his
cattle to a certain vat and have them
dipped. Fearing that if ho took them
off his ranee they might encounter fire,
he waited a few days and then found
that the vat to which ho had been or
dered to tako them had closed for the
season. Now tho stock inspector
mroaiens to prosecute r ranu ior nav
in mangy cattle.
Supt. of Motive Power Fuller trans
acted business at this terminal Saturday
Miss Lauru Murray informally enter
taincd a dozen young lady friends Sat
urday afternoon in favor of Miss Kate
Gilman.
Tho county commissioners completed
tho business demanding their im
mediate attention and adjourned Sat
urday until April 15th.
John Deero Implements and Weber
& Stoughton wagons at Horshey's.
Beginning this evening and continu
ing to and including Saturday evening,
Vernon, tho hypnotist, will amuse
the audiences at The Keith. He is said
to bo a top notcher in his lino.
Tho Crete Milling Co. is unloading
lumber at Wallace for the erection of a
grain elevator, which will bo the second
elevator in town. Later tho company
may erect a flouring mill.
jusc taKo a peep in our window and
see tho nobby men's suits wo are offer
ing for $10. The Leader.
word recoivcu a tow days ago an
nounced tho birth of a dauchtor to
Mr. and Mrs. Young, of Oakley,' Kan.
Mrs. Young was formerly Miss Justino
Meyer, who for a time made North
Platte her home.
The Taylor ranch of ten thousand
acres, situated northwest of Wallace,
has been placed on the market and will
bo sold in tracts to suit the purchasers.
Part of tho tract is excellent agri
cultural land.
Wanted Carpcntor work in tho
country. Roy Surber, 720 W. 2d St.
J. B. McDonald, Will McDonald,
Charley Reynolds and F. P. McGovorn
made a nice run in tho former's car
Sunday. Going from hero to Gandy,
they thence went cross tho country to
Gothenburg and then home, thus seeing
quite a scope of country.
Thousands of yards of washable dress
goods are Bhown at The Leader.
Mr, and Mrs. Iirgen Stilrgen ex
pect to leave the latter- part of this
week for Oregon, where they will moke
their future home, tho expectation
being to purchase a fruit farm. Mr.
Sturges is ono of tho pioneers of Lin
coln county, coming hero in 1874, and
his many friends and acquaintances
will miss hia familiar face.
Seed Oats.
We have several hundred bushels of
choice Kherson Oats for seed which wo
will .Bell wbilo tboy last utflfty conta
a uuenei. BUCHANAN C .PATTERSON.
Keliher Goes with Park.
T. T. Keliher has resigned his posi
tion as chief of tho Union Pacific secret
Bervlco for tho Wyoming division and
will ncccpt a similar position with tho
Illinois Contral under W. L. Purk. Mr.
Keliher was summoned to Chicago last
week and while thoro was offered a
position by Mr. Park. Ho accepted,
and wired his resignation to tho Union
Pacific headquarters at Omaha.
House Cleaning Time.
Houso cleaning timo is huro again.
Thoro is nothing you can do that will
add to tho attractiveness of your homo
so much as new wall paper and freshly
painted or varnished wood work. An
ticipating your needs wo arc better pre
pared than over to meet your wants.
Our shelves are loaded with new and
up-to-date wall paper of the latest de
signs', and at" prices' never' Ceforo
equaled in North Platto.
Our stock of paints, varnishes, enam
els, stains, brushes, etc., is complete
and of tho best. Coino in and mako
your solection early. Duke & Death,
Contract painters, paper hangers and
decorators, 507 Dowoy St., Phone 531
Art square rugs 9 x 12 up to 12 x 15
just arrived at Tho Leader.
City Blocks.
During tho past few days . City
Blocks in Plattoview Subdivision (just
adjoining tho City on the east) woro
sold as follows:
Blocks Nos. 4 and 41 to T, T. Hariifin.
Block No. 40 to Al. Tift.
Block No. 67 to Montgomery Hughes.
Block No. 68 to May Branson,
Block No. 64 to N. E. Carey.
Block No. 31 to H. McGinity.
Whon Plattoview Subdivision was
laid out it contained 77 City Blocks.
All of theso have been sold except 26.
Tho City's main sewer passes thru
tho tract, making sewerage posaiblo
for each block.
Tho blocks lie between the Union
Pacific Railroad and tho rright-of-way
purchased by tho Burlington Railroad.
Somo day these blocks will be in tho
city limits.
Each block contalnca 12 rosidenco
lots or almost 3 acres.
Cash price per block $332.50. Time
prico $350; $35 down and $36 eVery
three months. Somo at lower-prices.
For sale by, Wm. E. Shuman.
Breaks Leg.
While playing bail Saturday after
noon Millcdgo Bullard had tho mis
fortuno to suffer a partial fracture
of tho bono in his right leg between,
tho knee mid ankle. The accident oc
curred through Mllledge, who was
running bases, colliding with one of
tho base men. Ho was taken to the
Physician and Surgeons hospital and
an x-ray examination' showed that the
fracture was confined to about two
thirds of tho bono. Tho leg was plaeed
in a cast and Millcdgo taken homo.
Tucker goes to Idaho.
Robert Tucker, formorly with tho
Wilcox Doptt. Storo, loft Saturday
night for Pocatello, Idaho, whore he
will take up Y. M. C. A. work. The
evening preceding his departure he waa
tendered a farewell party at tho homo
of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Plumer, where
several hours wero pleasantly pssd.
As a memento of tho occasion he was
presented with a bible, Mrs. B. L.
Robinson- making' tho 'presentation
speech, which was feelingly replied to
by Mr. Tuckor.
Artificial Ice.
Tho Lexington Artificial Ice Co. will
begin delivering artificial ico in this
citynbout April 15th. A liberal supply
will bo kept in storage and all orders
can and will bo promptly filled.
, M. B. Smith.
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km mm -p3 !
There IS ct Wonderful
Difference
between the light afforded by an ordinary carbon
incandescent and the brilliancy of our new Gen
eral Electric MAZDA lamp. The latter radiates
two and one-half limes as much light with the
same amount of electric current.
A 40-Watt MAZDA Af fordo Twice the Light
of the 50-watt carbon lamp now in general use
nnd costs onc-fiflh jess to burn. Wc recommend
its use to our customers as it more than cuts their
light bills in two, making electric light so inexpen
sive that no home, however humble, and no store,
however small, can afford to be without it
Ask us to show you the new General
Electric MAZDA lamps and clusters.
North Platte Gas and ElectricCo.