Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1916)
Most W rJL M. IUI Every day our Suit and Coat Section gives eager evidence o our skill in anticipating our Patrons' needs We Have Prepared as Never Before and the offerings wo make of excellent style wear in the finer fabrics and extra well made garments will con vince you of the unusual things that we offer to our patrons. SUITS. COATS AND- DRESSES AT $21 88 SPECIAL PREPARATION FOR EARLY BUYERS HAS RESULTED IN THE FOLLOWING OFFERINGS:' oiid I Uirerings from tins Apparel Dtore l if wm fit Suits at $21 85 Nobby and smart styles of good quality Gab afdines, Poplins, liroadclotbs, serges, good tailoring, satin lined jackets, full cut skirts - some fur trimmed and all good (P d oc popular colors . Scores of other styles to show you. 35 A lot of long heavy coats in full cut styles; some with full belts, others with halt belts; some large cape collars, pretty heavy mix tures, plain velours, plushes, cheviots, all colors Lots others than these to show you. i i2i85 iresses at $21 85 Serge and silk dresses in all the smart pretty models, such as the deep yokes with the long pleated straight line and belted effects. Pretty trimmings, combination of W ok Georgette, crepe, etc., smart colors Beautiful dresses from $4.90 and upwards. WAISTS Late arrival of .Latest Fall Waists, in Gaberdines, Pop lins, Voiles, and .a lot of Plain and Colored uu4 Satin striped ..pl Sizes 36 tox 46. New lot of Silk Waists Just Arrived. ' BOYS' SUITS KNEL PANTS, in sizes to fit boys in ages from 6 to 16 years. Extra Pair Pants fKiB.A.Sp::i"1..$49o Mothers should visit our Boys' Clothing Dept., you will save $1 to $3 on a suit. SILKS Waist Silks, new fall styles iji beautiful plaids and fancy silks, all 27 inches wide. A big lot. for .you to -select from 89c Sold in Waist or Dress Pat terns. ' BLANKETS Old Jack Frost has been laying his mark and one must have warmer bed clothes. Our Blankets are being sold at fully 25 per cent lessthan mnket value: Ask to see our c and $208 Special Others at 45, 95c, up to $7.45 A beautiful line of new latest style Neckwear just received and placed on sale; all the new creations, one special lot on sale values up to . 75c, now on sale at.. .41tc Others at 25, 35, 95c, $1.25 and up. CORSETS New Fashions demand a New Figure. Enhance your natural lines of grace; don't wear "just any" corset, find one here designed for your figure. Prices $100 to $500 Outing Flannel fextra Special! A new lot goes on sale in plain and fancy patterns, b 1 c most all colors . . . 2 Buy your winter needs now. I INCORPORATED DRY GOODS -WOMEN'S READY TO WEAR CLOTHSNG SHOES ONE PRICE TO EVERYBODY J.E.NELSON, MANAGER Huck Towels, heavy weight, size 20x40 inch es; figured and fancy Huck, a real 25 and 35c value, on sale here (c Buy now and save money. Semi-Weekly Tribune ISA L. PAKE, Editor and Publisher. BUBSORIPTION RATES: Ono Year by Mall In Adrauce. .$1.25 One Year by Carrier In Adranco. .$1.50 Entered at North Platte, Nebraska, PostoOlco as Second Class Matter. ' FRIDAY, OCTOBER 0, 101. AMlfltlCA'S MOST TYPICAL COUNTY, SAYS WINSIIIP. i Dr. A. 13. YInsh,lp, editor of tho Journal of Educatlon.ono ot tho recog nized, school papers of tho county, who lectured horo during tho teachorB' In stitute last AuKUst, writes as follows In tho Journal of SoptcmbV 21st undor tho head of "America's Mos'L Typical County!" "Sjneo I have probVbly had tho op portunlty to know moro counties In ull America than any othor writer, I may bo Justified In assuming to dcslgnato Lincoln County, Nebraska, as tho most typical county In Amorlca. If when tho story Is. told any othor county cares to challengo tho ptatomont, It will be In-torc-itlng to aoo Us demonstration. North riatto, tho coutny seat, la 280 miles from Omaha on tho overland railway routo, as It was of tho freight ers and pony oppress boforo tho days of steam on tho prairies. Tho North and South l'lntto rivers aro both In the county, uniting near NoiUh Platto. Them Is exceedingly rich Irrigated soil, tho host of dry farthing,' tind tho worst, of sund dunos in tho stato In Lincoln county. "Tho county Is forty-eight miles hy flftytfour, making au area ot 2,GQ0 square miles, which Is larger than tho stato of Ilhodo Island, and A third as,largo uh Massiichusotts. From tho county seat, to tho remotest school Is slxty-flvo mllos "Miss Alloon Qantt, county suporln tondont, ImH mado tho most of ovory foaturo ot tho county educationally, At O'Fallons, a purely rural com muntty, Is tho llrst $12,000 rural school liouso, not consolidated, In Nobroska ,nnd ,horo also Is ono of tho first teach oragoa In tho stato, mado from tho old. school Iioubo as tho rosldenco ot Principal lion Johnson, whoso bride presldos over. ono of tho first school homes In tho state, boarding tho two assistant teachers, Tho school grounds aro favored with tho most and host troos I havo soon In any rural school yard botwoon Uio Mis sourl river and tho Rockies. Tho brick school Iioubo and tho cozy toachorago In thoao grounds mako a plcturo not easy to dupllcato. Adjoining itho Jot Ja an aero for school nardonlnc and agricultural demonstration. In the entire county thoro is but one township whore consolidation is poeolfale or Is likely ever to be posslblo, about consolidation undor Ideal condi tions. Boyond tho best first rural school houso and ono ot tho first teacherages In Nobroska thoro aro scattered ovor this varft, county 120 ono-room schools, many with fower than six pupils and qf tlicBo ono-room schools six aro In sod school houses, warm in Wlntor, cool In summer, but minus all other comforts and conveniences. But ovpn In those sod houses tho teachers aro paid ?G0 a month or moro, and tho school year Is not BhorUonod becnuso ot primitive conditions, . North Platto, tho county seat, Is (jiiito as remarkublo ub any foaturo of Lincoln County. With fewer .than (5,000 pcoplo, it has a $100,000 loc'omo- 'tlvo round houso, a moro than $100,000 railway station, a,nd ono ot tho first Junior high school Imlldlngs. between tho Mississippi and tho Sierras, a fire proof building with olaborato equip ment for manual training and -domestic sclon,co,.jvith a-gymnasium 100 foe1;, long which Is transformable on occasion in to an auditorium soa'tlng 800. , "Possibly tho moat interesting dem onstration of tho vitality of North PhUto educationally under tho load- ontiiip ioc Hovorni years oi aupi iom OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS .October 2, 19G Comlsslonors met pursuant to ad journment. Present Hermlnghausen, Whlto and clerk. ' Claims allowed on general fund to--wit: W. D. Waldo, road work, $200. J. W. LoMastor, plumbing Wdrk, $S.E0. " . A. Aborcrombio, refund of taxes, $32.00. Wm. Rodden, auto hire, $2.00. ' Allecn Qantt, office cxponscs, ?33.'41. Alleen Gantt, visiting schools, $23. Alloon Gantt, salary, $133.33. II. A. Andorsfcm, Salary clerk ot court, $24. I . Anna Anderson, caro county .poor, $30. Fay Elder, clerical work Co $25. A, J Salisbury, salary, $145. T Supt. C. W. Yost salary, $137.50. C. W. Yo6t7bfflco expenses, $21.30. tho cause, fomla grapes. Is, tho fact 'that Its high school foot ball team Is tho torror ot ell high schools teams. Even Omaha's high school boys wont out thoro and took back with thorn a scoro of 7 'to 48. "Tills foot ball team well Illustrates tho spirit of Lincoln County. Hh lead orshlp Js due primarily to tho fact that tho richest young man in itho city personally coachos tho toam and flnan cos It, IColth Novllllo, Democratic can dldato for governor this year. "Another most romarkablo feature ot tho situation, noltably tor Nobraska, 1b that tho pcoplo roally appreciate tho brilliant loadorshlp, professional common sonso, and personal dovotlon of Alloon Qantt, tho county suporlnton- doijt, to such an orfiont that no ono uaros or cares to bo a .candidate against her." n . n, SO! ! 1 in" ' " I'rosbytorlan Cliurcln A Bhort chtldron's sorvlco at tho cIobo ot Sunday school. This Is tho boglnnlnp ot a family sorvlco. Parents ot tuo sunuay school chlluron pleaso como to tho church by ton minutes to oloven JLUUIIIIIIH WUIUIUII V1UVUU O ClUUti. A full attondanco is doslred. Noxt Sunday Is annual "Como to Sunday School Day.' ::o;: Tho tmthoran glrlB will moot this ovonlng with Mra. E. B. Payno. A marrlago llconso was granted yos- tqrday morning to Mrs, Maria Sudor lierg and Pctor Rasmusson, botli ot this city. i Jlonry J. Boat ot Brule, Nobr., and MIsb Elslo Flrchow, ot Dixon, Calif, woro united in marrlago at tho Preo uytorlan manso Thursday hy Rov. RobL Whlto. Tho young pooplo will llvo at Brulo whoro tho groom's par Jos. M.. Wilson, salary, etc., $80:50. Jos. M. Wilson, caro Mri Gray, $17. Roy Wilson, Balary, $75. Esslo Wcs3burg, clork Co. Court and Supt., $30. Goo. N. Gibbs, salary, $276. Kathoryn Iaughlln, supplies, $9. EUcon Barraclough, olorlcal (Work Co. Supt., $23.00. .Allowed on road district funds r II. O. Fransdon, district 39, $20. Vernon Yankton, district 39, $4. Geo. W. Cam'pboll, district 39, $4. O. II. Empio, district 5, $9. ' ' Fred Kusor, district 39, $12.50. C. L. Grant, road work, Com. district 2, $90. J. J, Walters, grader work, Com. dis trict 3, $02.00. Geo, Bchopport, road work Com. dls trlct 3, $G0,7P. Uundy &tfValkor, brldgo work, $52. Paul G.Moyor, Inspector Sutherland hrldgo, $104. Monarch Englnoorlng Co., ostlmnJto No. 5 Sutherland brldgo, $003.99. Whereupon tho board adjourns to Octobor 11, 1D1G. C. W. YOST, County Clork. : ;ni ; Mrs. Alice Swarthou't ot Paxton, who visited hor mothor Mrs. Goorgo Ilat llold this week, loft Wednesday morning. Trovlyn E. Doucct, who recently carao horo from Donvor, hati, boon added to tho Stamp wchostro, as vio linist Mra. Recluird who has boon Buffering wltli blood poisoning in hor right arm for a month past is getting along nicely. Tho infection was caused by a broken needle. Two now casos ot diphtheria ,havo developed near O'Fallon's, Mrs. Mar tin Andorson and a six year old child bolng afflicted with tho disease. Thoir condition is said to bo satisfac tory this morning and Tocovory ia tully expected. Sutherland "Froo Fruit Express Wrecked In speaking of tho wreck at Owascft Wednesday forenoon tho Kimball Ob server says: Tho California fruit express train went into tho ditch at Owasco, four mllca east of Kimball yesterday about elovon oclocic In all nlteen cars wore stripped off tlielr trucks anu pllod In heaps along tho track for a dlstanco of several hundred yards. A broken flange Is said to have been Tho cars contained jDali- AU day cars from town and tho surrounding country mado trips to tho scene of the disas ter to bring back fruit from tho wreck age. ' A railroad detectlvo was on the Job In tho afternoon to tako tho num bers of autos which took tho fruit. It is said the railroad men wero liberal In giving many people tho crates that wero brokon, but some, of course, could not bo satisfied with this and helped themselves to tho undamaged boxes. In Uio evening a detective and a strange man had a fight over" taking tho grapes. Acording to roporta tho grapo business In Kunbalf will be slow for this fall. 300 Rooms SAFETY FIRST I When you nre In Omaha como whoro all Stockmen stop. You wlllalwoya find your friends and acquaintances at the HOTEL CASTLE I0TH AND JONES STS., OMAHA. Omaha's new absolutely fire proof hojel. We welcome the Stockmen. We'll make you comfortable and our rates are most reasonable In tho city. Rooms with private tollot $1.00. Good car service to the Stock Yards and Depots. Have your commission firm telephone for room reservation. FRED A. CASTLE, Prop. COMFORT WITHOUT EXTRAVAGANCE Closing Out SFS222aEE Sale On account of our small amount of room, we are closing out our entire stock of Grocer ies and Canned Goods AT COST. You will appreciate thlB sale by coming in and pricing tlie goods. Show Cases and Fixtures all go in. FltUia? SEASON IS HERE. Pint Jars 5J5 conts per dozon. Quart Jars 45 conts per dozon 2-Quart Jnrs 55 cents per Doz Tlieso nt abovo price ivhilo moy last. ECHELBERY 600 LOCUST. GItEAT MASS OF 1'ItOOF Jteports of d0,000 Cases of Kidney Trouble, Some of them North I'LUtc Casos. Each of somo G.000 newspapers of tho United States is publishing from weok to week, names of people In its pairtlculjair jioigh'bo'rhood, who havo used and recommended Doan's Kid ney Pills for kidney backache, weak kidneys, bladder troubles and urinary dlordors. This mass of protof Includes ovor 40,000 recommendations. North Platto Is no exception. Hero Is lone of tho North Platto cases. M, C. Rogors, prop, of harness store, 514 Locust St., North Platto, says: "Once In a whllo my kidneys havo be come disordered. Then if I did not attend to them, I twould get 'bad toff, My back became lamo, and thoro was a steady acho in It. When I tried to straighten up after sitting, a sharp pain caught mo. I know my kidneyB woro tho causo ot It, for at such times they acted too often, especially at night Doan's, Kidnoy Pills havo al ways relieved ' any slgnsi of Buch trouble, kocplng my kidneys In a nor mal condition. I know they can be doponded uplctn and I am glad to re commond them." Prlco 50c, at all dealers. Don't sim ply ask fori a kidnoy remedy get Doan's Kidnoy Pills tho same that Mr. Rogors had. FostoivMllburn Co., Props:, Buffalo, N. Y. Gertrude Rebhausen, Teacher of Piano 102 South Locust Phono Black 342 Elizabeth Kaar-Langston Teacher of Singing Studio 122 West Front Street. J. B. JtEDFIELD. musician & sukgeon uuccoBsor w PHYSICIAN AySURQEONS HOSPITAL Dra. Retinoid & Rodflold Office Phone 642. Ros. Phone 676 Jf, J, nOLDEKNESS Eectrlcal Supplies WrlHg Storage Batteries Geo. B. Dent, Physician and Surgeon. Special Attention given to Surgery and Obstetrics. Office: Building and Loan Building Phones t Oe 130 rnones RegJ(ence 115 DR. JOHN S. TWINEM Special Attention to Snrgery, Gynecology nnd Obstetrics. NOHTJI PLATTE, NEB. Nurse Brawn Memorial HoClpItal. NORTH PLATTE ..General Hospital.. (Incorporated) One Halt Block North ot Postoftice. Pheae 58 A 'modern Institution for th. vciantlfic treatment of medical, urgical arid confinement cas.i. Completely equipped X-Ray and diagnostic laboratories. Staff: Gee. B. Deal, M. D. Y. Ucas, M. D. J.B.RKeU,M.D. J.S.W,M.D NURSE BROWN MEMORIAL HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL For tho Treatment of MEDICAL, SURGICAL and OBSTETRICAL PATIENTS Phono. 110. John S. Twlncm, M. D. JOHN S. SIMMS, M. P., Physician and Snrgooa Office B. & L. Building, Second Floor, Phone, Office, 83; Rosldenco 38. DOCTOR D. T. QUIGLET. - .. Practice Limited to Surffory and Kaaium Tliorapy 728 City National Bank Building. Omaha, Nebraska. Office phone 241. Res. phono 217 L. C . DROS T, Osteopathic Physician. North Platto, - - Nebraska. McDonald Bank Building. Morach Bide Piiose 175. m4 fer Uiu Gott Is sooa to bring onts rosldo. Lanco.
