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TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
NORTH PLATTE, NEB., JULY 23, 1912.
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Dr. and Mrs. V. Lucas arc moving
Into the Longley house on Vine St.
Miss Esther Guffy, of Sutherland, re
turned home yesterday after attending
Chautauqua.
Tho C. W. B. M. of the Christian
church will meet-Wednesday afternoon
in the church -parlors.
Robert Cary who has been at Wnu
kesha, Wis., for the past four weeks
returned homo last night.
The Ladies Aid of tho Presbyterian
church will hold an exchange in the
church parlors Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Charles Terrell, of Omaha, ar
rived last week to visit her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James Rannio for Borne
time. '
The American Yeoman will meet at
tho hall thisjavening and following the
ritualistic exercises a literary program
will bo rendered.
Mrs. Harry Barraclough left Friday
evening for Cheyenne where she was
called by the illness of her husband who
was injured last week at Lodgepole.
There will be a meeting of the Luth
eran aid at tho parish house Thursday
afternoon, July 25th. Lunch will be
served and all members are requested
to be prssent.
The democrats will assemble in mass
convention at the court house tomorrow
afternoon to elect nine delegates to the
democratic state convention and select
a county central committee.
The North Platte Esperanto Associa
tion will hold its regular weekly meet
ing at the association rooms in the
public library Wednesday evening.
Itooms open at 7:30. The public is in
cited to be present and, spend the even
ing with the Esperantists.
Weather forecast for North Platte
and vicinity: unsettled weather with
probable showers tonight or Wednes
day, cooler tonight. Highest tempera
ture yesterday 93, a year ago 86; low
est temperature last night 74, a year
. ago 54.
A violin recital will be given at the
Presbyterian church Thursday evening
by August Mqlzer and Lillian Cinberg.
Mr. Molzer has appeared, several times
before North Platte audiences and been
favorably received. Lillian Cinberg is
.a phenomenal child violinist, and capti
vated the audience at the Chautauqua
Sunday night. Miss Ackerman, an
Accomplished pianist of Lincoln, will
render several selections, the whole
forming a very attractive piogram.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at
Cintoh's.
We have some extra choice first
-mortgage loans in sums of $200 and
upward, netting 7 per cent or 8 per
cent semi-annual interest, not taxable.
Just the place for year idle money.
See Bratt & Goodman.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Tramp visited
friends in Omaha Sunday.
Campbell Bros, circus is advertised to
show here on AugUBt 3rd.
Alonzo McMichael has returned from
a visit with friends in eastern Nebraska.
Miss Leota Scharmon is visiting her
Aunt Mrs. George KnofT in Grand
Island.
Tho J. S. Davis Auto Co. has just
sold a new "Reo Tho Fifth" toa local
party.
Miss Marie MJCabe has returned
from a ten days' visit in Omaha with
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McEvoy, who
visited friends in Denver last week,
have returned. ,,
Jake Ryan returned the last of the
week from Lincoln where he visited
relatives and friends.
Mr3. Carl Lintz will go to Denver
tomorrow evcningto spend a couple of
weeks with her mother.
A dozen young people under the
leadership of David Ryan picnicked in
tho hills south of town Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGuire wili
go to Schjler tomorrow to visit rela
tives for a couple of weeks.
Mrs. Bonney, of Chicago, who spent
the past week with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. McGuire will leave tomorrow.
The M. B. A. Social Club will hold a
social dance on Wednesday evening at
the K. P. hall for members and invited
friends.
The Altar society of St. Patrick's
church will hold a social at Keliher's
ice cream parlors Friday afternoon and
evening.
Alex McLane and daugnter, of Cozad,
who have been the guests of his son
Charles McLane and family will leavo
tomorrow morning.
Messrs. Will Votaw and Charles
Dixon will be care takers ot a score of
young ladies and gentlemen who will
picnic at Curtis Lake Sunday.
Miss Syble Gantt entertained twenty
young ladies at a dancing party last
evening at her home on Locust St.
Dacorations were in pink and(the color
scheme carried out in the refreshments.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Garvis and son
Portus, of Clinton, Iowa, who were
guests of the formers cousin Mrs. P.
A. Norton, while enroute home from a
pleasant visit in western points, left
today.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Hayes of the Birdwood was
burnsd to death this morning by upset
ing an incubator lamp which ignited its
clothing. The child was a little over a
year old. It lived one hour after tho
acsident. Funeral arrangemetns have
not been made.
Killed in the Yards.
"Teddy" Mills, of Creston, Iowa,
was killed in the local yards this morn
insr while stealing a ride in a car loaded
with lumber, having been caught nnd
jammed to death by the shifting of tho
lumber in one end of tho car when
jojted by the switch engine. Mills,
who was about thirty years of nge, had
been employed at Pocatello, Idaho, and
started for his home by beating his way
on trainfl. He had three companions
with him in the car when ho reached
this terminal last night, and when the
train Btopped, a discussion arose as to
whether it was safe to remnin in the
car while tho train was being switched.
Two of the men concluded to vacate
tho car, while Mills and another man
by the name of Conroy, of New York,
concluded to spend tho remainder of
the night in the car. They laid down
on tho floor between the lumber and
the end of the car, and were not dis
turbed until about 5:30 this morning
when the car was bumped and tho lum
ber shifted, catching both of the men.
Conroy was caught but not severely in
jured, while Mills was pinned tightly
against the car with the lumber resting
against his stomach. Both men made
mado efforts to extricate themselves,
Mills groaning and breathing hard, but
could not do so: then came a second
jolt by the switch engine and Mills
quit groaning and breathing, Conroy
heard approaching footsteps and by
yelling attracted the attention of the
switchmen, who -attempted to release
him, but could not get into tho car.
Tho switch engine was called into ser
vice, and by jolting the car from the
reverse end the lumber shifted and the
men were extricated. Dr. Kerr was
called, and upon examination found
Mills dead, having been crushed inter
nally. Cnnroy's only complaint wbb
that his left arm felt as though it was
paralyzed,
Mills' body was convoyed to the
Howe & Maloney undertaking rooms,
and an effort is being made this fore
noon to locate tho relatives at Creston.
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July
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Sale:1
The merchandise lines
at the following loss:
enumerated below are offered to the public,
To Our Friends, The Farmers.
Your small grain if cut is out of dan
ger from hail but your corn is growing
so fast that you had better insure it
with Bratt & Goodman.
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JxMt HE WAS RIGHT " ,
Just plain, common Jiorae-sonso ought to tottoli
every man tliat Franklin tvns absolutely right,
Just as sure us two and two imilco four. Creditors
cannot insult you, nor onn iriit press youir you
liuvo prepared for thorn by having something in
tho bank, besides', your money is SAF15 in tho
bunk, not only from fire or burglars, but from
t your own oxtravnganoo.
Do YOUR banking with
The First National Bank,
OF NORTH PJCATT12, AT2JBRAS7fA,
Tho Largest Hank in "Western Nebraska
One lot IS cent French Ginghams at 10 cents per yard.
All our 60 and 70 cent Wash Goods to close out at 89 cents per yd.
One lot 50 and 60 cent Silk Mulle, all shades, to close out at 25
cents per .yard.'
One lot of 25 and 50 cent Wash Goods to close at 15 cents per yd.
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Ready-to-Wear Department.
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' M AH bur washable Dresses washable Skirts, washable' ffc
Coats, washable Suits aud washable Waistat :
ne-Third Off.
This means that a dollar's .worth of merchandise costs
you 66 cents. These prices are for cash only.
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Judge Grimes' Cat Fish.
The Jast., issue of the Bridgeport
Blado contained this truthful fish story:
Last week The News Blado noted the
fact that Judge Grimes and E. P. See
berger of North Platte, with M. B.
Smith and Claude Delaney,. had gone
down to Smith Bros., ranch near Broad
water for a f,ew days' fishing, ' and in
timated that some startling news might
be expected from that quarter.
Arriving at the lake Judge GrimeR
laid aside his judicial dignity, placed it
carefully in his grip, and donned a pair
of overalls. Ranker Seeberger gave
hjs money to Claude Delaney, and, re
lieved of fhis burden, he was ready to
enjoy tho Bport, and it developed the
fishes were ready, too.
.Four hooks, properly baited, were
dropped into tho water with one "ker
plug," and instantly and simultaneous
ly every man had a bite. Some envious
people may suggest that they were
mosquito bites, but they were not.
They were really truly fish bites, and
as they drew in the catch it was
found that there were two and three
fishes on each hook, while others had
clung to the captured ones tails as they
were drawn from the water.
And that is the way it continued all
through the day. Before evening the
boats had been filled several times,
while on the shore fishes were knee
deep for a half mile back in all direc
tions. Once when the Judge paused to
wipe tho perspiration from his brow,
he remarked to Mr. Seeberger, "Say!
I always enjoyed fishing as a sport, but
a job of hoeing sugar beets, would be
a pleasant pastime, contrasted
with this thing of fishing in Mort
Smith's lake." But when he gave his
attention again to the task before him
ho found that a big cattish had not only
swallowed his hook and line, but was
actually chewing the end of his pole.
When the big fellow was landed it was
found that it weighed just 8J pounds,
but as the party stood gazing at it,
they could seo that it was rapidly ex
panding, and when they telephoned the
news to Pat Rowlan that fish weighed
12J pounds. The judge insisted that
John Wehn should bo informed in
stantly, and when Mr. Wehn took the
message hot from the wire that cat
fish wos no longer a minnow it
weighed exactly C7J pounds and was
still growing.
That night when the tired fishermen
tried to sleep they could hear fishes
swimming about in the washbowl.
They could see them silontly gliding
along tho floor, and ever and anon a
big catfish would strike the wall with
his tail, causing the sleepers tb awake
with a start But at last when the
biggest fish of them all jumped into
bed with Judgo Grimes and Mn See
berger, they arose with a shriek and
fled. (
We must clean out our entire summer stock
make room for our mammoth fall stock.
These inducements are not madeon trashy goods, but
on that high class of merchandise which The Leader has
reputation of carrying.' Do not dolay toolong; you need
these goods now and now is the time to buy.
Many other lilies are offered at reduced .prices; to
q'uote all would require too much space.
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J. PIZER, Proprietor.
The only store that offers the public real bargains in first-class merchandise.
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On Saturday morning when tho
visitors were preparing to depart for
their homes,; one of them remarked:
"And, say, Mortl Wo are awful glad
Claud Delaney was here. Wo know
him to be a devout and consistent mem
ber of our church, and feel sure that
all the astonishing things wo have seen
hero are real, and not tho fancies of an
overwrought brain."
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Republican Makes Complaint.
Editor of The Tribune:,
I am informed thatBO-called repub
lican caucusses have been hold in tho
city of North Platte to chose delegates
to the republican county convention to
meet at North Platte to send delegates
to the republican state convention to
convene at Lincoln, July 30th; thaf.
these caucuses have been held in secret
without any published notice naming
the time and place and inviting all
republicans to attend and take part in
such caucuses.
Thfs is the first time in the history of
North Platte that .republican caucuses
have been held without first giving a
public notice of the timo and placo
signed by the Beveral committeemen.
On behalf of moro than ninety per
cent of the rank and file of the Repub
lican party in the city of North Platto
who by the unrepubllcan methods have
been deprived of an opportunity of
participatiug in tho said caucuses I
protest against the same and call upon
the Republican committeemen to pub
lish calls for onen renublican caucuses
in tho several words )f the city so that
all republicans may have an opportunity
of participating therein.
A Republican.
The Dead Man's Chili
THREE REELS.
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Miss Flo Johnson will entertain a
number of friends Friday evening at a
ppmuptial miscellanious ihowor for
Miss Grace Rltner.
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$50 Reward.
The above roward will be paid for
tho return of a diamond brooch lost be
tween the Edwards home on west
Fourth and the First National Bank.
Mas. GlIAS. EDWAItDS.
Stands by President.
The committee of five progressive re
publicans appointed by Medill McCor
mlck, to ascertain from" Governor
Deneen whether ho would support Taft
or Roosovelt, were informed by the
governor yesterday that ho considered
Taft the regular republican nominee
and that as such he felt obligated to
support his candidacy.
Secretary of State Doyle. Auditor of
Public Accounts. McCullough and
Attorney General Stead were waited
on by the committed and gave the same
answer as did Gpvernsr Deneen. Andrew
Russell, candidate for state treasurer,
made no reply, ,but told chairman Mc
Cormick ho would send his answer by
mail.
Lieutenant Governor Oglesby, who Is
at Elkhat was asked by letter by Chair
man McCormlck and has made no
answer as yet.
Following the interviews with the
state officers the progressive republican
committee held a conference at the end
of which Chairman McCormlck an
nounced that the piogressive republican
would put a third party state ticket in
the field, but there would probably be
no new county tickets.
Grass Cattle Sell High.
At South Omaha yesterday a recor'o
price for strictly grass fed cattle w&
paid in South Omaha to J, PrichelK
who shipped in twenty steers frpgi
Montana. He received $7.80. Thfs -U
the highest price ever, paid in South
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Omaha for this class of beef.
William Kllngatnan
Neb., also received a high price for
bunch of cattle shipped in by him. He
received $7.75. The cattle sycragad
1,108 pounds, and wore grass fed. rj
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Crosby, of
Sutherland, spent the week end with
their son M. E. Crosby and family.
MILK AND CREAM
We make a specialty of
Dairy Products and can
furnish the best in large
or small quantities direct
from our oyn Dairy Farm
every morning,
Phone your order in
and it will be delivered.
Doolittle Bakery.
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