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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1914)
J It t ff Hand Painted China V Just received a beautiful line of Hand Painted Plates Vases, Sugar and Creams etc., the prettiest and most reasonable in price, we have ever had. Watch, our Windows. Jr - " Vjt t V CLINTON, Jeweler and Optician. We want your repair work. Local and Personal Logan Marcottof tho county superin tendent's ofiice ppent Sunday visiting his parents in Brady. Tho fcf. A. T. club will bo entertained tomorrow evening at tho home of Miss Myrtlo Beelcr, 410 South Sycamore street. County Commissioner E. II. Springer arrived in tho city jostorday morning from lirady to nttend tho meottng of tho county board. J. B. Bolstn, of St. Louis was in the city over Sunday visiting friends. Ho is traveling representative of the Eli & Wulkor firm in St. Louis. Mrs. Sam Richards returned yester day to hor homo in Omahu after spend ing scverul days in the city visiting friends and looking after business in terests. Miss Erma Iruffman is homo for a few days from Omaha when she is studying in a dramatic school. She Is visiting hor paints, Mr. und Mrs. G. S, Huffman. A few bundles of remnant wall papor 10 cents per roll at C. M. Nowton'B. Tho Presbyterian aid society will meet Thursday afternoon in tho church parlors and will bo entertained by Mrs. M. E. Crosby, Mrs. G. A, Zentmeyor and, Mrs. P. W. Laughlin. Mrs. Gua Chamberlain und little son returtieJ Sntunlny morning to their homo in Denver after visiting in tho city for a few days with her father, Justice P. II. Sullivan, and her sisters. Our hats are distinctivs in stylo and workmanship. Visit tho exclusive store. McVicker's Millinery nt The Hat Shop. 19-3 Mr. and J Irs. Joseph Quinn, of Choycnno, arrived in tho city Friday for a visit of several days with Mr. and Mrs.' Fred Ouimette. Mr. und 51 r. Quinn wero formerly residents of this city' but left somo time ago for Choycnne. Second hand stoves and ranges for salo, rent or trade. Leave orders for tove repairs. Peter McGavem, 1005 Locust, phono Black 390. 14-7 The ladies' aid of tho Luthoran , church will be entertained Thursday afternoon at tho homo of Mrs. William Anderson. C03 West Eighth Btreet. Mrs, Anderson will be assisted by Mrs. Charles Sandalland Mm. Charles Lierk, Jr. A dovotionul service will also be hold and a good attendance is desired. A nine-pound girl was born Saturday to Mr. und Mrs. R. C. Kelley on ox tremo We3t Fourth street. Hilmor Thompson, a former North Platte boy, was down over Sunday fnom Cheyenno to vitiit his parents. H. Scoonover loft yesterday morning for Sterling, Colo., to spend several days looking after business matters. Confirmation Dresses, all sizes, very handsome styles, aro now shown ut Tho Loader. Liability and Property Damage Policy oMnsijranco covering a.Ford cor, used for.pleasure, $30.00. You cannot atford to bf. without this protection, at this price. C. F. Temple. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Mason, who had been spending the past five months in Florida, returned home last night. En route home they visited their son at Aurora, III,, and daughter at Ames, la, Tho high bowling scores for the week are as follows: first division, B. Eshel- man 224, H. Eshelman G18 in three, divi-, slon, M. Cross 513 in three. J. Kane 220; third divisibn, Ray Langford 480 in three, Red Hall 210. For Sale Thoroughbred Plymouth Rock oggs. One Betting, 50c, 100 for $3.00. Albert IIapol. North Platte. 19-4 C. F. Tcmplo bought three lots last woek in tho North Platte town lot ad dition. Ho purchased them from Mrs. Allies McEvoy at a consideration of ?900. The lots aro Nos. 4, 5 and 0, block 32, Town Lot addition. He sold lot 4 Saturday to Alfred Johnson. The Lady Macubeos mot Saturduy afternoon at tho I. O. O. F. hall for their regular revlow and had a special treat. Lady Lock of Denver, supreme lieutenant commander of the order, wus in tho city as a guest of the local organization nnd favored them with n fine address, A special program was also rendered. At th6 closo of the program a nice luncheon wus served. Children's Coats,' ago 2 to 1G, just arrived at The Leador. Lee Dobson, a car repairer, had his right eyo seriously Injured Friday while working at some carpenter work. He was driving a nail and tho head flew oil and struck him in tho eye, inflicting u painful wound. The eyeball was not pierced howevor.und there is no probable danger of his losing it. A company pbyBiclim was called and attended his injury. Ho will bo compelled to lay olt for several days. Traducing the High School. Just at present our schools are suffer ing from a good deal of criticism that is not constructive criticism. Criticism that is not intelligently made Und that offers no remedy for present evils is de cidedly destructive. It helps to lower instead of raiso tho. standard. There has been a rather persistent rumor afloat for some time that the North Platte high school is no longer an ac credited high school. That this rumor has no foundation in fact is evidenced from the following lettor written Supt. Tout by Mr. A. A. Reed, the inspector of accredited high schools: "I am unablo to find any basis for tho report to which you refer regarding the stnnding of pupils from the North Platte high school, The matter of any loss of standing on the part of your school is not in the consciousness of the Executive Dean or of the Register. It has not reached my office. I krfow of no other places where it would be possible to have any comparisons made. In so far as absolute rank is concerned, no effort is made to deter mine any such classification. I keep a record of the standing of all students during their first two years at the uni versity, but have made no attempt to rank the schools. "Permittmo to state that the four teen studonts from your school of whom we have a record, running from 1907-8 to the end of the first semester of 1912-13, Jmake a very creditable show ing. This list includes only students in the Art and Science college, the engi neering college, and the College of Agriculture." Tho North Platte high school has the elective system and the majority of our boys and girls are rather prone to elect the studies thut will give them tho nee essary number of points for grnduntion with the least possible effort on their part A little intelligent co-operation by the parents, the students und th4 faculty can undoubtedly remedy this rather serious matter. To Patrons Reese's Pantatorium. Being unable to work during the months of October, November nnd De cember, on accouut of sickness and broken knee cap, I found "Rosy'b Meyers doing poor work and neglecting business and on my return, replaced him with a first cluss presser and dry cleaner, Mr. Jessie E. Smith, with five years experience. I will superintend all cleaning personally so as to keep up J my previous good work to its old standard. The cleaner that gives you! the price before cleaning your clothes? Phone 450 we will call. Over Huffman'J cigar store. H. R. REESE, t Prop.' W. A. Piper, Examiner for the Ne braska Building & Loan Association, of Lincoln, Nebr., wus in town and exam ined nnd approved $10,900.00 of loan applications aubmitted by District Agent, C. F. Temple. Como in and look a,ver our line of lace curtains and draperies. AVe have just the shade you want at prices that will suit any pocuetbook. Call ut our store and make your selections. Howe & Moloney. For tho eight months, ending Feb. 28, 1914, tho Southern Pacific company showed a decreaso in gross revenue of $3,201,127. and a decreuso in tho revenue in excess of operating expenses nnd tuxes of $4,500,748, according to n statement from tho company's head quarters here. Gasoline and oil stoves cleaned nnd repaired. Peter McGovern, 1005 Lo cust street, phono block 390. 14-7 Dr. McCabe Favors Granting the Franchise IDLE MONEY For funds that you will not use for a few Months, we issue Time Certificates of Deposit which bear interest at 4 percent. In this way your funds which are temporar ily idle, can be made profitable. We will bs glad to explain the plan more fully to you, if you will call. McDonald State Bank, North Platte, Nebraska. CHAS.'MeDONALD, President WW. II. McDONALD, Cashier W. E. STARR, Ass't Cashier The Columbia Leader in Mahogany, Satin, Walnut or Quartered Oak. Mr. Editor: I As little so far has been said editor- I ially or otherwise in our local papers, . for or against the proposed electric light nnd gas ordinance, I desire to state . my individual views on this subject; which is a subject of vital importunce to the prosperity of North Platte and the surrounding country. Over thirty years ago I was engaged in the prnotice of medicine at Niagra Fall, N. Y., which was than n small i towji of a few thousand Inhabitants, i Tho town .was old but with but little prospects for increase of population and therefor, the prospective struggle for. existence confronting a young nnd i penniless medic appalled me. So, turn-1 mg my face to the setting sun and my , back upon Niagra Falls I hopefully . wended my way westward that I might be in a position to grow up Vith the country. After an absence of thirtv years I retraced my steps last fall and tor tne nrst timo revisited tho scene of my early struggles. You can imagine my surprise to fiind Niagra Falls a bust ling city of 40,000 people, I found Buffalo, N. Y. which had a population of 120,000 thirty years 8go, now a city ot nearly half a million, The village of Bntvaia fur.lher east, whero I had lived 35 years ago. I found to be a city of 20,000. In fact almost all the towns in western New York had grown to be large and prosperous manufacturing centers. The development of Hydro Electric power brought about this wonderful advancement. I am informed that when capitalists from New York city came with a proposition to harness the water power of the state they wtre not met with any little swnn song about municipal ownership by the people thus sounding the death knell of their own prosperty. On the contrary they met with hearty co-operation. Now, the timo ishere when tho water power of Nebraska is about to be de veloped and is fortunate for us that those back of such development have taken over our electric, light plant and, with encouragement, stand ready to develop the Birdwood Power project. Of course, the power which can be de veloped will not perform the wonders which I have just described, but will be sufficient to be of immense benefit to this locality. The question is, therefore, can we af ford to reject the proposed ordinance, grunting an extension of elevan years on me existing electric light contracts on account of trivial technicalities. Or on the other hand, can we afford to con sider the few pennies which we may save on light by instolling a dinky little ?47,000 municipal plant which could not be considered as a power plant at all. I say moy adyisebly if we are to take our Water plant as a criterion which, ns .shown by a recent published statement, is hardly making ends meet. The wonder is that the showing is ns good as it is. Instead of assisting the young man in churge of the plant to mnkea good showing we obstructed him in every way, When wo did not have the old water comnanv ,and its officers to denounce we started in to denounce one another, the city council and tho water commissioner. A majority of us refused to obey the or dinance pertaining to the installation of meters. "We presented referendum petitions. We rushed into court and got thrown out. The question of meter is still unsettled, another sprinkling season is upon us and we are up in the nir. In the circumstances, the mon who advocates the municipal ownership of an electric and gas plant ought to have his mental condition en quired into by a competent specialist. As to the gns ordinance I have only to say it fills n long felt want in North Platte. The man who tnlks or votes against it is talking nnd voting against tho Interests of the city of North Platte of his wife, his mother, his sister or his sweetheart. Such a one, to say tho least, is far from acting a manly part. Whether you vote for equal suffrage or not, in the name of all that is manly do not vote to perpetuate the burden of the kitchen in your home. The man who says that it Is agninst his political principles to vote for an ordinance of this kind is the sort of a chap who would not hesitate to eat his bread in tho sweatof his wife'sbrow over awash tub. Yours truly, N. McCabe District Judge H. M. Grimes end Court Roporter Barron left yesterday morning for Ogalalla to hold district court. This term was to have been the jury term, but Judge Grimes was up Inst week nnd looked over the docket nnd decided that that tho jury docket wus too light to warrunt culling the furors. Only tho equity cas s will be handled at this term. The Mutual Building & Loan As sociation has plenty or, mosey on hand to close loans promptly and are in the market for desirable City Loans. By doing business 'with this home associa tion, borrowers can save $300.00 or more in the payment of each $1000.001 borrowed over competing Building & Loan Associations. $75.00 Card of Thanks, We desire to thank members of the B. of R. T., D. of H. Ladies of 'the Baptist church, the Episcopal guild and friends and neighbors for their many acts of kindness and floral offerings during the sickness and death of our wife and mother. II. E. Woods and children. Mrs. Snm ITowes and family. The Wide Boards in Your Old Floor , can bo made to look like narrow ones when doing it.over with the Chi-Namel Graining Process and the wide cracks between boards mudo invisible. Call at our store and we'll gladly bIiow you how and .ell you just what it will cost for your floors. A demonstration of this instru ment will prove its vaffio above all others. See W. R. Powell, Agent, 507 l)eve Street. ew retonU recrix.-d workh. yNl i ' VJW Ti. Stone Drug Co.. North Platte, Neb. Advantages to the people Under the New Gas Ordinance. Rates lower than Grand Island nnd Hastings by 25 per cent and lower than Kearney by 14 per rent. Convenience in the home. It costs balf the price of coal and much less than gasoline. It's safe. ; Hot water for bath is had quickly. It's always ready and will save you money over old method. Saves labor, no ashes to remove, no chimneys to clean, no soot to bother. Gas logs for heating. They 'are ornamental and economical. ' We do not ask for exclusive rights. We will build the new plant this summer. We will invest new -capital and give employment to many men. Every new pay-roll helps North Platte.. Vote for the Gas Ordinance. North Platte Electric Co E. B. Perrigo, Asst. Genl Mgr C. R. Morey, Local Mgr. Stability, Efficiency and Service Have been the Fiictoi:? in tho irroirtZi of the First National Bank, of- 'SOTtTU T'T.ATTB, XEJJRASKA. . CAJPI2VIX A.XU SURPLUS: One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars. Building & Loan Association Of Lincoln, Nebraska Will loan you money to build and improve with. C. F. TEMPLE, Dist. Agent- V . - ' JtiiV.il r ' Z&sfTSr YU i m mm ffigEIS WS! 2ER& The Time and Place To buy harness or get it repaired and oiled. The time is now. We are best equipped and are ready to do your work. We sell home made harness. The place? FORSTEDT & SHEEDY, Electric Shoo Repairing. 512 Locust Street The Daily Telephone Joy of Farm Life Boll Telephone Service, with its connecting rural lines, has made farm life more pleasant and inoro comfortable. mi 'llO telephone lias mndo fniTTI lifn mnrn nlnno. nnt because it enables one to receive messages of cheer and companionship from friends. far away, and more comfortable because it permits personal visits with distnut ones without long, tiresome trips. Ask "Long Distance" for Rates Anywhere. I NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY prowjpgnwwwtw1 HHE2KE2KKHEEES2a! V A ' V i5h
