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State Historical Society ryot i zv ,; rvj war rtmraf TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. NORTH PLATTE, NEB., AUGUST 20, 1912. No. 58 ffite WMt (JJ.0ftu WtaCtl mmim a f r f V M&ffqy'sh the Batb, jffsfre$jroit a wewome Lit KJA RJL T7jo GJAD 2IAXJD goea out to tiie man iriio 7jis JMOA'733" IX TJJS 2JAA7i'. Honoy in tJie hanlc cnahles you to curry out your plans and to get otiioivs to join you in it n enterprise. Try to put through a dcnl without some MOXJSY OI YOUR OWA'; you will Full. Try it with SOMJS ilfOAJ31r' th tit is you !, you Ariii-xuoceeu". Wo shall gladly AOVISIS YOU on husinesss mutters? uiiv time, l'ree oT charge. Do YOUR hanlcing with The First National Bank, OF KORT1I 1L,ATTJS, 2 IS BR A. SKA.. The T,nrgest Untile in Western Kebrnslca. ii TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS j .-.,. Miss Beth Cunningham visited Brady friends last week. J. B. Weeks-tame up yesterday from the Grand Island soldier.?' home. The Girls Friendly Society will meet this evening with Mrs. W. H. Munger. The Catholic Girls club will be enter tained by Miss Hannah Keliher this evening. Charley Kuhns and Wm. Plumer, of Maxwell, were visitors in town yesterday. Dr. Palmer, of, Bridgeport, has just purchased a 1913 Model 25 Buick tour ing car of tho J. S. Davis Auto Co. Hay is now selling at .seven dollars per ton on track, with chanoos, buyers say, of falling prices. Tho hay crop throughout the country is heavy. E. F. Seeberger and W. H. McDon ald will co to Omaha next week to at tend the sessions of the state bankers' association. Horton Munger went to Fremont last night to attend the funeral of Julius Beckman, a prominent banker of that city and an old friend of the Munger family. Mrs. M. J. Walsh went to Bridgeport today, where her husband has been em ployed for the past three months. They expect to make Bridgeport their future homo. Mr. and Mrs. John Sorenson, of Los Angeles, who havo been visiting in Omaha, will arrive in North Platte this evening and remain a few days as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Sorenson. For Sale Berkshire Pigs of both sexes. Inquire of Joseph Hershey. It is probable that North Platte will have another garage on east Sixth street, at least an estimated cost of such a structure is being obtained. The growth of the automobile business in North Platte keeps pace with tho growth in other sections of the country. In anticipation of his harvest this year George Hughes is hauling lumber for another granery to be 36x30 feet. He has 250 acres of corn, 130 acres of oats, 35 acres of barley, 45 acres of wheat and several acres of cane and millet, making close to 500 acros. Corn is lato but looks promising for a good crop. Gandy Pioneor. Supt. Snyder, of tho experimental station, yesterday completed threshing the grain grown on the plats located on the table land. The yield of wheat on these plats ranged from almost an entire failureup to twenty-eight bushels to tho acre. Mr. Snyder said yesterday. that upland corn was suffering from lack of moisture. Apples For Sale. I havo GOO or 700 bushels of good fall apples for sale. Prices right. Ad dress David Hunter, Sutherland Nebr. Arthur Tramp has bean visiting in Denver for several days. W. J. Hendy returned lnt tvening from a trio to ,Omahu and intermediate points. ' Homer Ilandley returned Saturday from Des Mo"ine3, Iowa; where ho had ! been visiting relatives. ,Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Robinson will leave shortly for Savannah, 111., where they will visit a son. Miss Lena Wangon will entertain the J. C. Club Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Ed. Speck. Mr, and Mrs. A. M. Mason left this morning for Lincoln where they will visit Mr. Mason's brother for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fillion, Blanche Thornburg and Ralph Vroman, who have been touringjColorado, will re turn home tomorrow. Man and wife to work on a Ranch, woman to cook. Phone Cody Ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Struthers, and three children, visited at tho Dorr Tarkington home Sunday while enroute from Denver to their home in Douglas, Arizona. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Schiller have returned from Estes Park, Col., where they spent ten days. Mr; Schillor ascended Long's peak to the summit and found it a day of strenuous exercise. C. H. Tully, of Alliance, has just purchased a Model 3G Buick of the J. S. Davis Auto Co. and ordered two Modal 31 1913 Buick touring cars for his ranch foremen. Miner Hinman left Sunday night for Hastings and will return today with a Chalmers 30 car of the 1913 model which ho has sold to Charley Herrod. This model includes all tho new equip ment. At a called meeting of the North Platte Esperanto Association it was decided to dispense with tho regular meetings dur.ng the second and third weeks of this month of August. Bort M. Reynolds, Pres. Thos. Healey and son Darrell expect to leave for Denver today in the car, and will be followed in a day or two by Mrs. Healey and baby by train. From Denver they will make a number of side trips in the car. Fancy Alfalfa Seed at Hershey's cor. 5th and Locust Phone 15. Mr. and Mrs. Ruy Langford and two sons left Sunday night for Centennial, Wyo., where they will spend a couplo of weeks. Mr. Langford hopes to have a surcease from his annual attack of hay fover and at the same time catch a few messes of trout. The members of the Presbyterian Snnday School will hold their annual picnic at tho Birdwood grove, six miles west of town on Friday of this week. An invitation is extended to all members of tho church and congregation as it is tho wish of the school to make it a church picnic. Allow Assessment to Stand. Tl-o state board of equalization do-. cided not to mako the proposed twenty per cent raise on land values in Lincoln county, The assessment will, there fore, stand as returned by the asses sors. To have done otherwise woul have been an injustice to the real estate owners of the countv, Commissioners in Session. The county commissioners met in ses- Blon Thursday and transacted business relating to roads, allowing cash to overseors for work in their respective districts and allowing claims for grad ing and other road work. The commissioners adjourned Thurs day until yesterday when they took up tho work of making the levies for the county, precinct and school district funds. Reports Exaggerated. Tho injuries sustained by John Wein berger at Chevenno last weok wero as exaggerated by tho press dispatches as wero tho stories conflicting. The Bee gavo tho name of Bort Rodgers as the one fatally stabbed, while the Denver papers reported Weinberger as in a ser ious condition. Rodgers did not figure in tho fracas, and Weinberger's wound was not dangerous. Tho latter re turned home Sunday and is around on tho streets. Return From Europe. W. T. Wilcox and J. J. Halligan ar rived Sunday from their European trip. They visited the principle cities of Eng and, Ireland, Scotland and France, and both being inquisitive in their search for nformation, they learned much of the general conditions of the peoples of those countries. Many amusing episodes happened during their travels, the re cital of which proves very entertaining to friends. They had excellent health during the trip, and it was only while crossing tho English channel that they had a siege of sea-sickness. Both men return feeling fino. Stapleton Looks. "Good." W. H. McDonald took Will Maloney, Walter O'Connell and this writer with him on an auto trip to Gandy- and Stnpletonr Sunday and gavo his guests a touch of high life on the sandy and reverse curved roads, tho return trip being made in one hour and thirty-five minutes. Stapleton for a now town looks ' 'good;' 'and compared with Gandy shines forth resplendently. A dozen firms are already doing business, a half dozen business buildings are in course of con struction, and still others ate to be built. There are two well stocked lumber yards. Several of the buildings nre of brick or cement block. A number of residences are being built, sev eral of which are of modern style architecture, costing upwards of $!j,000. The new hotel, which would be a credit to a much larger town, will be ready to receive guests in a week or so, and the depot erected by tho U. P. i3 an attractive loooking one. An elevator will be completed this week. Adjoining tho town is a grove which will be used as a park, and along its edge are twenty or more tents occupied by the families of carpenters and laborers who are employed on con struction work. Thic tract of woided land If located in or adjoining tho North Platte city limits would bo worth fifty thousand dollars to the city. Taken altogether, Stapleton promises to be a mighty good trading town. Make Great Showing. Galveston, Texas, Aug. 11, 1912. Studebaker Corpn, Detroit, Mich. Studebaker racing team closed Gal veston Beach meeting in glory blazo. Driving smallest car among all the contenders Bob Evans assumed fourth place early in tho big 200 mile event and held on consistently to tho finish, being beaten only by two immense built racers and tho big Mason Special. Evans and his Studebaker beat among others the Case "White Streak, "(Case "Bullet", Case "Six Special", "Nat ional "40", Nntional "CO", Fiat "90" and Stutz. Buick, Lozier, Simplex and another National were 6utered and present but declined to start. Evans made distance with but ono stop at his pit. Phono Blk C27. Bhuskk, 58-3 J. L. Burke, Local Dealer. Officers of the American Federation ot Latholic societies, now in session at Louisville, Ky., laid much stress an their nnti-sotialistic utterances yester day. Weather forecast: fair tonight and Wedpesday, not much change in temper ature. Maximum temperature yester day 83, a year ago 80; minimum last night 01, a year ago 05.' Florin JMuchlinski, of tho local shops, has his guest his brother Thomas, of Omaha. 4 Will be Married Today. W, W. Huntor, n well known south sido farmer, will be married at the M. ,E. parsonage this afternoon to Mrs. Willinrns. Mr. Huntor is a widower, and tho lady he marries was formerly 11s house keeper. Sells Forty-Three Buicks. H. D. Horzotr has just returned from a trip through tho western part of the state where he has been demonstrating the Buick enr for tho J . S. Davis Auto Co. Crop conditions wero excellent, people feeling prosperous and tho Buick car well received everywhere. He sold the demonstrating car and forty three or tho new 1913 Model Buicks. Ten Mile Extension Ordered. Today's Omaha Bee says: With tho return of President Mohler comes tho authorization of an extension of ten miles on the Kearney and Northport line up tho North Platte valley. Tho oxtonsion will bo from Goring to Mitchell, an inland town in Scott's Bluff county, south of Scott's Bluffs. It is probable that the extension will be completed and in operation this fall. It passes through a rich agricultural section, all under irrigation. Sunday School Convention. The annual convention of tho Lincoln County Sunday School Association will bo held in tho Presbyterian church in this city next Saturday and Sunday, August 24th and 25. Among those who will deliver ad dresses are Margaret Ellon Brown, secrotary of the state association, Mr. Kimberly, field manager, and Wm. Findlay, president of the Dawson county association, Representatives from many of the Sunday schools of the county are ex pected to bo present. Audit Accounts. , A committee composed Kramph and Messrs. Davis audited the books of tho of Miss and Bare secretary and trensurer of the Chautauqua association Saturday evening and found them correct. The bills payable aggre gate $914, pint is, the expenses were thai much greater than tho receipts. Deducting tho net amount Veceivablo from pledges if nil nro paid brings the deficit down to about $600. This will necessarily call for an assessment of from six to seven dollars on ench sharo of stock. A statement of the receipts and disbursements will be published following an enrly meeting of the board of directors. During the four years the assessments on tho stock havo nearly equalled tho face value in other words the stockholders have contributed about $3,000 in cold cash in order that the people might have the benefits derived from a Chautauqua. Myrtle and Vicinity. Another good rain fell Thursday. F. D. Tatman is sowing one hundred acres of rye. Small grain in the sand hills is turn ing out fairly well and is of a good quality. Walter Blevis and wife returned tq Ringgold Wednesday. Mr. Adams, of Minden, Nebr., spent the week end with his daughter Mrs. D. F. Tatman. Mr. Hromor, of Mason City, visited his daughter, Mrs. Jos. Knajdl, this week. Mr. Hare, of Lincoln, special agent for the Union Fire Ins. Co., was tho guest of J. C. Askwig last week. Chas. Grambrol marketed hogs in North Platte Friday. Ed Wright sold a load of shoats to Henry Hansen Wednesday. Sale of Horse. The undersigned will sell ten head of horses at the Tift barn in North Platto Saturday, August 24th, at one o'clock in the afternoon. These are good young animals, two of them boing mares with colts by side. Terms Six months timo with ten per cont interest, bankable note. Three per cent discount for cash. C. SODACOTT. District Court will convene for one week beginning August 2Gth. Mrs. McDaniel, of Arguile, Mo., is a gueut of tho Cohagen home this week. Tho Presbyterian Aid Society will meet in the church parlors Thurs day afternoon. Jay Hollingsworth. of Ogalalla, has just ordered a Model 25 1913 touring enr of tho J. S. Davis Auto Co. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Howard and children spent Saturday in Grand Island with tho former's mother. Mrs. J. J . Horrigan arrived Sunday night from Boono, Iowa, and will mako a visit with hor parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maloney. 'CLUBS AND SOCIETY. Mrs. Fred Garlow entertained the Saturday afternoon Bridge Club at a pretty party Friday afternoon. Refresh ments were served. Tho social dance at the Lloyd opera house Friday evening was well attended and all present onjyud it to the ut most. The ladies were given cut flowed. Ernest Uincker, who nttalned his majority yesterday, entertained ten of his young men friendB at a six o'clock dinner party last evening. Mrs. Uincker prepnred for tho young men a very ex cellent course dinner. Yesterday afternoon Miss Liura Murray was hostess at a ltuvn party and linen shower with Mis. Clarence Garmnn na the guest of favor. About twenty-five ladies wero present and passed sevoral hours very plensantlj, part of the time being devoted to knotting two quilts. The shower of linen was quite copious. Refrelhments wero served and before leaving a snap shot of the guests was taken. Buy Interests of Partners. Fred Ginn and Piatt White havo sold their interests in the Ginn, White & Schatz Co. to their partner, Albert Schatz, the sale having been closed last evoning. It is understood that Mr. Ginn has desired to retire from the store for some time, having other busi ness interests in view, and some time ago the furniture stock was sold to Howo & Maloney and tho undertaking business to Derryberry & Forbes. This disposal was followed by tho sale of the remainder of tho stock yester day. Mr. White also desired to porsue the same course as Mr. Ginn. Sinco engaging in business the firm has ranked as ono of the loaders in the west part of tho state, both as to ex tensiveness of stock nnd volumo of business, and drew trade from 11 largo territory. Albert Schatz, who assumes owner ship of the stock, is one of North PLitte's best known young business men, nnd a strong hustler for trade. .Peculiar Incident. '" Omaha papers of last Satunhy re corded the theft of thirty-five dollais in cash nnd n forty-five dollar check from J. B. Cross while riding on a strict car. Cross, it stated was en route from Vermont to North Platte. This morning the chock was recoived at the North Platto postofflcowith request that it be delivered to J. B. Cr,;ss, to whom it was drawn. Inquiry by Post master Davis doveloped tho fact that J. B. Cross, who is ninety years old, is the father of Fred Cross, of tho Nebraska House, and that the latter had been expecting his arrival for a day or two; but that ho had probably stopped over in Counc'l Bluffs to visit friends. The thief who robbed Mr. Cr6ss had dropped the chdck into a mail box in Omaha not caring to tako chances in having it cashed. It was collected by tho carrier and taken to tho postoffico and tho "nixy" department, which solves tho knotty problems, had pro bably noticed the thoft item in the papers, andjsent tho checkto the North Platte office. Upon Mr. Cross' arrival the check will be presented to him. FOR RENT. Five room house at 305 West Third street, with toilet, bath and electric lights, etc. Good shade, close in. A pretty home. Other houses and unfurnished rooms, safe deposit boxes and storage room. Bratt & Goodman. Frank McFadden is down from his Keith county ranch today. Mrs. J. J. Halligan, sons Rolfo and Vic and daughter Lucille left' this morning on an auto trip to Denver and other points in Colorado. Lost College Fraternity Pin decked with pearls, name engraved on pin. Re turn to 220 W. 6th and receive reward. Chas. Hendy, Jr., who has been mak- ing a tour of the stato inspecting Ford agencies, has been spending the past few days in town. Mrs. Ralph Smith and son will leave shortly for an extended visit in Chicago, St. Louis and Oswego, Canada, return- ing by the way of Denver. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. O. Trexlor nnd Mr. and Mrs. Geo. LoDoyt returned Saturday frcm a week's visit in Col orado, spending tho time at Denver, Manitou and Colorado Springs. They ascended Pike's peak. Insurance-Every kind of the best if i 1 . 1 i 1 against fire, lightning, hail, .cyclone, tornado and windstorm, see Bratt & Goodman. Commissioners' Proceedings. August 15, 1912, Board met pursuant to adjournment. Presont Stroitz, Roberts, White nnd county clerk. Road No. 355 comes up for final hear- Ing with two pqtitIoii3 to change Tho board after duo consideration grants and establishes said road No. 355 as follows: Commencing at tho northeast corner of section 2-1, township 10, range 32, rjnnltig thened west nlong the sec tion line between sections 13 and 24, 14 and 23, 15 nnd 22, 1G and 21 to the north wost corner of section 21, township 10, range 25, thence west to a point 40 feet west of tho northeast corner of section 20, thence south to tho C. B. & Q. right of way thence in n northwesterly direction following said C. B. &Q. right of way connecting with road No. 102 at Dickens. Sajd road to be 40 feot wide and county clerk is horoby author ized to refund tho deposit to E. C. New man. The following claims woro allowed on the different road district fqnds. Chas. Cockle, cash to be used In Dist 5,300.00 Jas C Crow, cash to be used in Diat 11, 50.00 . William Plttman cash to bo used Dist 31, 100.00 Lawronco Hite, casIi to bo used Dist 112, 100.00 Martin Jepsen, cash to be used Dist 14, 100.00 in in in John V Kilmor. cash to be used in Dist 3G, 40.00 P K Hoffman, cash to be used in Dist 42, 100.00 E B Ream, road work in Dist 49, 5.00 C II Emple, road work in Dist 12, 25. 25. j Allowed on commissioner's dist as follows: Chus Robinson, grading roads Hin man precinct on Dist 1, 451.00 Jas Bechan, Jr., fascine Work, North Platto on Dist 1, 82.00 O M York, road work Hininun pre cinct, on Dist 1, 5.00 A McNIckle, road work Walter pre cinct on Djst 2, 253.45 J W Kijmor, road work Table pro cint Dist 2, 00.00 ' v' A E 'Lepper, road work on Dist 2, 38.00 Wm Smith fo'atrworkM'ediclno pre cinct on Dist 2, 100.00 Jacob Rouecho, rWd work Rosedale precinct on Dist 8, 103.80 Whereupon the board adjourns to Aug 19, 1912. C. W. YOST, County Clerk. August 15, 1912 Board 'of equaliza t on met as per adjournment. Present Screitz, Roberts, Whito and county clerk. No report received from tho stato board as to tho levy, tho board takes recess until August i9, 1912. C W. Yost, County Clerk. Cattle for Sale. Call at my farm on JackMoiTow flats or address me at North Platte, R. F. D. No. 2. Ernest Didnek. 55 4 Growth Measurement. The prodigious growth and develop ment of population and Industry in the United States sinco 1870 marks an era of world expansion and a most interest ing study may bo made of how Ameri can prosperity has benefited ., .other countries In every lino of endeavor. Our own people might, with profit, turn now nnd then from the absorbing subject of politics and civil reform to the statistical monsuroment of thoir nation's advance In agricultural and in dustrial pursuits. It will help us ap preciate tho favorable conditions we enjoy and the miracles wrought by in telligently appllod energy. In 1870 as a nation of 38,558,371 wo hadjja total estimated wealth of $30,008, 518,000; in 1912 with 95,410,503 inhabi tants, our national wealth was estimated at $130,000,000,000. In the same time, our per capita wealth just about doubled, being $17.51 in 1870 and $34.23 at present. Our farms numbered 2,659, ! 985 in 1870, wqrth $8,944,857,749; today we havo nearly 7,000,000 farms valued at moro than $41,000,000,000. Mining, manufacturing and exports have main tained similar ratios of expansion. Social improvement, in the meantime, including tho amelioration of the worker arid his family, Is incomparably beyond the status of forty-two years ago. The best of It is that all this progresses being continued at a steadily increasing rate. Omaha Bee. This is the Time to Buy Cheap farm land. Wc have some great bargains at $6 per acre and up ward. Bratt & Goodman. 1 Tho Farmer's club, of Garfield, will Jold their next meeting at the George Hughos homo Thursday Sopt, 2Gth. Ab Ujmo moatnB8 aro open t0 nll( far. 1 mor3 nn(j their wives find timo profi- tably spont.