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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1910)
m 3 R. wallace M Silver plate that vj resists wear i iLu ,a'',aC'orr en,'ce V Clinton, Jeweler and Optician 1 DR. 0. II. CRESSLER, I m m Graduate Dcnllsl. 2 Olllca ovor tlio McDonald J Rtato Dank. Band practlco will bo hold nt the court ,lioiran this evening. Misses May and Ethol McWilliama nro visiting friends in Donvor this week. Mrs. G. A. Weir will leavo soon for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lotts in Lnrninio. Leo Hart, Sr., of Omaha, has been visiting his son James and family for several daya past. Mrs. G, W, McDowall loft this morn ing for n visit at Detroit, Mich . expect ing to bh absent several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Brown left yes terday for Northport, where Mr. Brown is employed as terminal foreman. Harry Porter wont to Ogalalla and other points west tills morning to luiatlo business for his bottling works. Mrs. M. J. Forbes and daughter, who have been visiting friends in Iowa for nmonth, will return homo tonight. Mr. nnd Mrs. CIibb. Fredorlcy, who were married last week, nro expected homo today from thoir trip to Holton, Kan. If needing ttre.Hghting, cyclone, tor nado and hail Insurance, get the best nnd chenpest, go to Bratt & Goodman. Mr. nnd Mrs. J. W. Peters loft this morning lor bparta, wis., In response to n message Btating that Mrs. Peters fathor had died yesterday. Fred Piorson tho Sutherland real estato doaler, is in town today. Ho Bays business in his line is very quiet nt present, but he looks for good busi ness this fall. S. G. Nelson, known in North Platto, was acquitted last week on the charge of embezzling $5,000 of tho fund, of York alfalfa moal milling company. S. K. Dcrryborry wont to Denver this momlng'to attend a convention of hardware dealers and at the same time tako a short respite from busi ness. Commissioner Salisbury is having a groat amount; of work performed on tho streets this summer, including tho grading of n number of, streots that have not heretofore been touched with the plow and grader. All will concede that street improvement is money well expended. n - ot.ii. .i .... the matter of exhibition of tho Johnson-' Jeffries tight pictures with Attorney General Thompson and the latter has advised the executive that there is no state law under which the pictures can bo prohibited but that each community has ways and mentis of preventing tho exhibition if it choses to do so, E. Jacobs has filed a complaint; against Ernest Sibblta and Guy Pitt 1 charging them with burglary. Tho charge is that on or about the Uh of June tho two men entered a building in tho west part of this county, near Dexter, and took and carried away sixty-eight spools of barb wire belong Inc to tho estate of Peter Uunn. de ceased. Tho wiro is valued nt two hundred dollars. The defendants an - penrwdin court yesterday, entered a, Our up-to-dnte manner in the plea of not guilty and were placed under $300 bonds each for their - appear- muking and our facilities for tak nnco at a hearing on August 24th, i Friend Farmed Is your cron insured against hail? not it, insure it with JJrntt & Goodman. Beat eontyantefc KtiU lirwVst rutW. Anasunccment. I hereby nnnounco mysolf nB a candi date forro-cluctlon forroprcBcntntivoof 1 tho B4th district subject to the approval of tho republicans nt the August lGth primaries. I have no extended platform, but ngrco If elected to work for tho pass ngo of good progressive legislation nnd forthe best Interests of the district nnd Btntc. As this is census year tho next Bcsslon will bo tho proper tlmo to re district the state and I consider it very Important thnt this ho dono and that the weBt gets propor representation. Ilospcctfully submitted, B. K. BusilEB. For Sale. Furniture, etc., in sixteen .rooms in well located rooming houge, doing good business. A rare chance for tho right pnrty. See Bratt 8c Good man. J. C, Hnrtmnn, tho cigar manu facturer, left for the east this morn ing to hustle business. Rev. Geo. F. Williams, who was called to Lincoln ten days ago by tho illness and subsequent death of his father, will return home tonight. Mrs. W. II. Huddnrtt and children, who have been visiting relatives at Eureka, Calif., for soveral months, will arrive home tomorrow morn ing. There will bo initiatory services by the 0. E. S. Thursday evening. All members and visiting members nro invited to be present. Refresh ments will bo served. Now is your chance to buy a fine leather shopping bngnt just half price. This offer good this week only, Dixon, The Jeweler. Judge Elder has so for recovered from his recent illness as to be nblo to bo at his office regularly. much to his satisfaction as well as to his friends. The sale of tickets for the Chau tauqua has been such as to prove encouraging to tho management. It is confidently expected that the attendance this year will be much argcr than last Geo. H. Shaffer, of tho north part of tho county, came to town today for tho purposo of- making final proof on his homestead but owing to the illness of one of his witnesses the hearing was postponed. The. Lincoln County Teachers' Association will convene next Mon day nnd continuo in session for five days. Examinations will be held July 27th, and 28th, and the Junior Normal will close on tho evening of tho latter date. A Pasadena paper gives a des cription of tho wedding of Chns. E, Barber, formerly of this city, and Miss Helen Best, which occurred in Pnsadenn, Juno 28th. Tho ceremony took place in tho Episcopal church in the presence of about one hurt drcd guests, and n reception at the house followed. Tho church was profusely decorntel in pink and white. Tho bride has had charge of the third grndo of tho Polytechnic school nt Passadenn for two years, Mr. and Mrs. Barber are now on honeymoon trip. For Quick Sale. 0 room new house with bath' pan A 11 . try. ceunr, cement waiK m the new addition, worth $ii5U0:0l), cut to $2250.00. Bratt &. Goodman HOLD 4W, "HOLD UP" your hands for DICKEY'S ICE CREAM. You are not "Held Up" when j'ou buy. it .as you get your moneys W0Yth in every dish ' ing care of it assures you of Ice If Cream that cannot be excelled. DICKEY BR03. DR. F. W. MILLER, Dentist. - Over Dixon's. Phono 358. Itaac Dillon Dies. Isaac Dillon, a pioneer resident of North Platte and one of our fore most citizens, died nt his homo in tho Third ward yesterday morning after a somewhat lingering illness due to un incurable malady. The imerol will be held from the family residence tomorrow afternoon at 2:30. A sketch of the deceased will be ublished in Friday's1 issue. Double Real Estate Deal. This last week, G. J. Perkins of 515 E. 9th St., sold liio house nnd ot in tho 3d Ward to the Temple Real Estate &. Ins. Agency, nnd through them bought the E. T, Casey property on W. 4th St. For Sale. 2 lots nnd good G room house. A pretty place on West 3rd St. $2025. 7 room nice homo with bath on West 4th St. This Is cheap nt prico asked. Other nice property $700.00 nnd up wards. See us before you buy. Bhatt & Goodman. Attorney Goodnll, of Ogalalla, was in town yesterday on legal business. A work train in charge of Con ductor Yost is distributing ties for the double track west of town. Wnnted A competent girl for general housework. Wages $25 per month. Apply to Mrs. W. H. Mc Donald, 407 West Fiftli street. Verne Langford who has been timekeeper for a construction gang west of Sherman hill, bus been trans ferred to similar work in this city, If your money is earning nothing, )etter see Bratt &. Goodman. They inve some safe first-class mort gage loans paying good interest. You cannot afford to let the op portunity pass of buying at one half price a few leather shopping bags ositivcly this week only. Dixon, The Jeweler. The county commissioners are in session this week and are making cemi-annual settlement with county treasurer Langford and other county officials. The annual clean-up of weeds in the business section of town began yesterday. If this work is continued on tlie residence streets n much improved appearance will result. Some hay to cut on shares. John Biiatt, Word received in town yesterday announced the death nt Laramie of tho wife of August Hazencnmp. a former North Platte young man. Death wits due to internal abscesses, Just think of the values we are offering this week in our leather goods department, onehnlf the regular price. Can you oifer to let the chance go by. Dixon, The Jeweler, W. S. Dolson, while cutting weeds in front of his premises this morn ing found a pocketbook containing a fifty dollar check drawn on the Liberty Bank of New York payable to Miller and signed by tho Strauss Endsley Co. F. LMooney has purchased of E. R Goodman the lot on the corner of Third and Ash street and exnects to erect n residence thereon some time in the future. This is ono o tho few very fine vacant resident lots within a rensonnble distance of the city. The price paid was about $1,000. A fifty mile cur ride in the valley and south of the river Sunday after noon snowed tins writer as gotx: fields of corn as ho has ever seen 1.1 . 11 t ami tne acreage m an sections is something enormous. Wheat is being harvested and seems to be very fair crop, but oats and barley is a failure. J. B. McDonald, Frank McGovern Dave Day and Clyde Fristo drove to n point west of Ogalalla in the former's car Sunday afternoon am! visited in camp Mr. nnd Mrs. W-C Patterson. Enroute home J. B. touched only high ploccs and bounced his companions nround considerably; Fristo touching the into en.erf. brain-fag Into mental pow nntUiui twiiv nnH cnctnln!... i....SoA er! curing Constipation, Headache, Ch ills f' 1 i? S2jL I! s"sthnJ?,brWlses Dyspepsia, Malaria. 25c at EJtwiB Drug on thu ftruhttul nntl ptoboscls. Cd. ' ' Louis Peterson went to Omaha Sunday night to be examined pre paratory to being placed on the pen sion list of Union Pacific employee. Found The toil lamp of on au tomobile, Owner can have same by calling at this office and paying or this notice. Tho contract for the heating plant and the plumbing in the Elk's building was awarded Saturday evening to Ginn, White and Schntz or $2,550. "Another scrap in the dinning car this morning" remarked Perry Sitton yesterday. "What was tho trouble?" inquired an innocent bystander. .'he coffee got hot and soaked the doughnut," replied Perry. Monday was a big day in our eother goods sole, many purses were sold. Don't put it off until our supply is gone. Half price on leather goods this week only. Dixon, The Jeweler. W. L. Park, now general manager of the Illinois Central, has made an other draw on the Union Pacific. his time it is S. S. Morris, formerly chief dispatcher at Laramie", who ins been made division superinten dent of the I. C. at Memphis, Tenn. Secretary Tout, of the Chautau qua, which opens Sunday, is hav ing a busy time this week getting things in shape for the opening. He announces, however,- that he thinks everything will be in ship shape by Saturday night Buchanan &. Patterson are mak ing arrangements to sow one thou hnd acres of fall wheat on land they own southwest of town. There will be one field of 250 acres imagine how such n truct will look when tho grain is ripening next summer- A Defeated Conscience. Tho secretary of the Kansas State Historical Bodcty tells a story about au early day Kansas justice of the peace who will be nameless here: "This J. P.." said the secretary, "would uturry a couple one day ne Justice of the peaco and divorce them the uext as notary public." One time, as the story ran. a man surrendered himself to this J. P. "An pliwnt's tho matter?" asked tho Judge. "1. killed a man out here on tho pral rio iu a light," wus the reply. "1 want to give myself up." 'You did kill htm, sor?" asked the J. P. "Yes, sir," was the reply. "Who saw you?" asked tho J. P. "Nobody " "An nobody saw you kill 'ini?" "No, sir. Just we two wero there." "Au' you're shuro nobody saw yon?" reiterated the J. P. "Of course I'm sure." was the reply. "Thin yoare discharged." said tho J. P.. tirliiliiK his tlst down on tho table. "You're discharged. You can't 'criminate yourself. Fifty dollars, plcasol" Kansas City Journal. Trouble For Hubby. At a recent tea party whero tho faro provided could uot by any means bo termed palatnblu a Kue.sslug game was Instituted, and tho lady who won it was naked to May what she would have us a prize. She Breatly Mattered her young hostess by requesting u slice of tho cake with which soma of them had desperately struggled at tea time. "Why did you asl; for that stuff?" a disappointed and still hungry youth ashed her "You know very well It Isn't tit to eat.'" "1 have a dotlnlte purinwe In view," answered the .voting lady, carefully placing the piece of cake where there would be no iKisstblllty of her forget. ting It. "1 mean to make my husband eat It If uwesary. to force it dowu his throat crumb by m uuit) and thus con. vlucu htm that huiuew tiere lu the wide, wjde world there Is an even worse cook than he imagines bis inexpert eueed young wife to be." Pearson's Weekly. Work 24 Hours a Day. The busiest little things ever made are Dr. King's New Lifo Pills. Every pill is a sugar-coated globule of health, that changes weakness into strength, langudr JFy THE M t'wirssaru tJf CORSETS They lace in front as a result the abdomen is relieved of all pressure. Support is given to the organs und deep breathing is encouraged. They emphasize the long graceful line of the back, which artists ogre is the most beautiful line in art They gently but surely compel a correct standing position and a graceful carriage. We invite you to investigate these wonderful corsets. WILCOX DEPARTMENT STORE. Commissioners' Proceedings. July 9, 1910. Board of county commissioners met pursuant to adjournment pres ent Springer, Walter and Streitz and county clerk. I. E. Trout is hereby appointed constable in the First ward of North Platte and bond approved. Bill of Fred Simants allowed on Road Dist No. 30 for $30.00. Whereupon the board adjourns until July 11, 1910. Board of equalization met pur suant to "recess taken, present Springer, Walter, Streitz, Bacon and county clerk. Lots 4, 5, 6 and 7, Plumer's sub division to Maxwell, raised from $1,480 to $2,500. S. W. Clark's stock of hardware reduced from $2570 to $2220. Drebert Clothing Co. lowered from $9,150 to $8,150. Dave Thomson, postoffice fixtures, reduced from $1000 to $200. Western Union Telegraph Co. as sessment raised from $28,322 to $42,403.76, or to the value of $54.00 per wire mile. Whereupon the board of equali zation takes a recess until August 1st Joseph Klein, solicitor for the Equitable Assurance Co., has been in town for a day or two. Mr. Klein says there are but two real good towns in Nebraska, and North Platte is one of the two. In noting the recent wedding of "Billy" Cortwright, we-said he was running a train in Colorado. This was a mistake. For five years past he has been superintendent of a railroad in the southern part of Old Mexico, and the wedding ceremony took place in his private car. The bride is an Irish lassie who was born near Billy's home in Ireland Napoleon's Grit was of unconquerable, never-say-die kind, the kind that you need most when you have a bad cold, cough or lung dis ease, suppose troches, cough syrups, cod liver oil or doctors have all failed, don't lose heart or hone. Take Dr. King'8 New Discovery. Satisfaction is gunranieeu wnen usca tor throat or lung trouble. It has caved thousands of sufferers. It masters stubborn colds, ousunate cougns, nemorrnages. la grippe, croup, asthma, hay fever, and whooping cough and is the must safe and certain remedy for all bronchial affections. 50c. $1.00. Trial bottle free at btone Drug Co. A Growing Girl changes more rap idly in appearance than nnybody else. Ono day she is a child, tho next "quite a young lady." If there is agirlntyourhouBO keep a record of her development by a series of PHOTOGRAPHS. Bring her hero to-day and so start tho series with photographs of tho highest artistic merit, You'il be glad you have them in years to come. She'll never be ashamed to have you show them. E. 0. Halventadt, 405 Dewey Street, NOTIOR YOR PUBLICATION. Serial No. (8057 neparhsBntof tab Interior. C P. Lantt Offlca at North Platte, Neb. Notice ts hereto given that 5Elf Kunkel. ot North Platte. Nebraska, who. on Juneth m. roadebomestead eritrr No. J1B1 ferial No. 0J0S7, fomorth half and bouthwest uuarter. section S, township ll.nortli, lttnito Jl. west of the sixth Principal MerlduS has filed notice of intention to make final fire rear proof to establish claim to the land above described ft'??0 U,eJ,etal.,5r d Kolver at Nmh l'Uttfl. Neb., on the 0th day of Sept. into. Claimant names as witnesses! William Orlfflths, of Dickens. NeClMl. liurwolsd I f Pomeret, Neb , Carl Hroeder. of North Vlatte. Neb. Jrd John (SSSfSf somemr! jffr-i i. E.'EVAKlJ. Agister. Hot Weather Comfort Secured by the use of good Talcum Powder. It absorbs the perspiration and makes the skin smooth and cool. We have all the leading varieties, also a splendid line of chamois skins. SCHILLER & CO., Family Druggists, SPECIAL DISPLAY OF LACE CURTAINS FROM $1.25 to $10.00 a pair. See our window. Wilcox Department Store A Pretty Center Table adds much to the appearance of your parlor. Some of the late styles are exceptionally good. Our tables will surely please you. Tables from Si. 25 to $10.00. Howe & Maloney. AHORSE THAT HAD A FIT in harness from our fine stock will be comfortable and easy while ho wears it, A good fit is guaranteed, ns we carry all sizes of the best hand make oak leather harness in stock nt all times for light and heavy uso Wo have many new nnd handsome styles to show you just now. A. F. FINK.