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NORTH PLATTE, NEB., AUGUST 20, 1912.
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The First National Bank,
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The T,nrgest Untile in Western Kebrnslca.
ii TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS j
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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
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John V Kilmor. cash to be used
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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.