$635.00 NOW
$665.00 May 1st
because of the increased cost of the
high-grade materials used in the manuf ac-
ture of Maxwell Motor Cars,
and because the policy ' of the Maxwell
Company will not permit of cheapening
its product,
ScmMJJccklu (iEriinme.
(It A L. BARE, Editor and Publisher.
therefore the price of the Maxwell
be slightly increased as follows:
Touring Car
Roadster -
Buy
from $635 to
from $620 to
will
$665
$650
YOUR Maxwell before MAY FIRST
and save the increase.
C. M. TROTTER,
MAXWELL
Motor Cars
J
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Yeur by 51 all In Acbnuee. . . .$L8
One Year by Carrier In AdTUiico. .IlilO
Entered at North Platte, Nebraska,
Postolllce as Second Class Matter.
Fill HAY, APRIL C, 1917.
THE YKOJIAN CONCLAVE
CLOSES WITH A WALL
The Yeoman stato conclave closed
Tuesday evening 'w,1th a largely attend
ed dancing party at tne Yeoman nan.
DurlnK the evening punch, Ice cream
and cake was served.
Two business sessions wero neiu
during the day, and at one of these
tho following oincers oi tno state as
sociation were elected:
C O. Heath, Omaha foreman; W. L..
Hanke. Butte, master of accounts;
Mary Elizabth Calkins, Fremont, cor
respondent; Maty spongier, Lincoln,
My Companion
For a Day
By ETHEL HOLMES
In the leafy mouth of .tunc, 11)14, 1
was mnklng a pedestrian tour through
Switzerland, and when 1 emerged from
there It was over tho heights lying on
the west. Standing on an eminence I
was looking down upon Franco sprend
out before nio when, glancing aside, I
saw a young woman sitting before an
easel sketching. Sho turned her face,
and, seeing a woman standing near
her, sho smiled. I went to her and
looked at her picture.
I sat down on the ground nenr her,
and while she remained on her sketch,
lug stool and worked wo chatted. 1
attempted to Interest her lu tho United
States, but she did not appear to ad
mire our Institutions.
"You aro a nation of Individuals,"
sho said, "and tliero Is nothing to weld
OLD LINE LIFE Policies
ON EASY TERMS
J. E. SEBASTIAN. Slnto Mcrr.
Minn.Mutual Lifelns.Co.
Phone Office Red 612
Residence Red 348
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
been
master of ceremonies; Sam Thomas, you. Many rnces aro represented
Sutherland,, chaplln; J. A. Brown, among you, and tho people of each race
Alma, overseer; Mrs. Etta Bartlett, stand together and keep up their na-
Lyons, sentinel; Cleo bhazer, Aivo, tlonal traditions. If a war should
guard. ... break out between any too nations
W. J. TIley, of the city was oiccteti hPn thn ,nn1n nf ,, ,n Amnrt
S et" tt V "TZZn would come back to flght for tho fa-
7"'.," v therland, even those who had
nf TTnlvnroltv Plnr-n nml Ami Honlv UOrn On American SOll."
nf nrnnim P.iinr rfnintmtAa. "You are mistaken," I replied. "Our
Tho conclave nledced the suDnort of toreiguers aro giau to escape tno ms-
tho Nebraska Yeoman ' to President advantages of a monarchical form of
Wilson and congress In the present government. They become naturalized.
crisis. and that makes them American cltl-
: :o: : zens.'
Lutheran Church "Lot a war come In Europe," contln-
uoou rnuuy. louuy, it in. 10 a p. in. nPfi Hlf ni-Haf "nml vnn will con "
mi. mi. TTmi ,i I
i . n7 , i1 "You prefer an emperor?"
nilllrAQDAa 1 1 if Annliflonnnn TlrMirln I ' ...mmo u1u JltuJJiu uu
Qn.tr, r'nns.lullntr T nnlnti rnirtt na u uvu. ,iu uum luo uiuok cui'
Faitr Unv cient form of government"
10 a. m. Mornlnc worshin. Tho Holv I asked her where she was going, and
Communion, reception of adult mem- suo said that she Intended sketching
bors. Easter offering: For tho now along tho French border northward.
Church fund, Benevolenco, Current Ex- Sho described tho scenery northward
ponses. ns attractive, nud since I was wander-
Music "Down in the Valley;" "The Inp nr. will 1 nnplnilpi1 tn pn n rtnrt- nf
SAtlrr In Vlnl.t I . . " . l'
..t, ... tiin wnv with nor. Sim rnenlvrol thn nn.
iq m Ot.n.inl. 1 1 i i "
n rr n3C , i.im nounccment coldly, but when I added
8 pP: nT-cK'rantResur- I would take the flrst good road 1
Rtinn Hnm i, nnrrio, n A,inma came to down into Franco she seemed
Published by the Lorcnz Co. I bcttcr Pleased.
Tho numbers follow:
Sing With all tho Sons ofv Glory.
All Around tho Clouds arc Breaking
A Vision of Angels.
Angels Roll tho Rock Away.
The Day of Resurrection.
Awake! Glad Soul, Awako!
uut I Know.
"Calvary" trombone solo,
Tramp.
Christ tho Lord is rUsen.
Tho Shade and -Gloom aro Fled
Mv Flesh shall rest In Hope.
The name of Jesus.
I am, tho Resurrection and tho LIfo.
'n'
Remember the
Nurse Brown Memorial
Homeopathic Hospital
When requiring hospital care
Medically,
Surgically, or
Obstctrlcally.
Horo your interests and comfort will
bo served. It is not tlio biggest, but
ono of tho best places wherein to
get well.
1008 West Fourth Street.
Dr. J. S. Twinem.
Offlco Phono 70 Res. Red 687
DR. LATIIAN
Sulpho Vapor Baths
WITH REGULAR TREATMENTS
Belton Building
DR. JOHN S. TWINEM
Special Attention to
Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics.
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
Nurse Brwwn Memorial Hocfrltal.
CITY AND COUNTY NEWS
DELCO -LIGHT
Si
"ELECTRICITY FOR EVERY FARM"
A Complete Electric Plant
Delco-Light is a complete electric plant for farm, village summer
resort and suburban home.
It has been developed by the same Engineering and Manufacturing
ability that has made Delco Cranking, Lighting and Ignition for
Automobiles the standard of the world.
It has Delco quality in it and Delco reputation and guarantee backof it.
Delco-Light combines in one compact unit gas engine and dynamo
for generating current.
It will furnish 40 to 50 lights for house and barn,
and also provide power for small machines such
as churn, cream separator, pump, washing
machine, sewing machine, etc.
l'he expense for lighting the ordinary home is not
more than 5 cents a day.
A child can operate it nothing to get out of order
self starting and stops automatically when bat
teries are full.
Price $27 5
less 5 fur
cash.
F. O. II. Diiylon, O
Writ today lor
illustrated fotdar
Tho Domestic
Engineerin g
Company
Dayton, - Ohio
Frank Grimm, of Ulysses. Nobr..
transnctcu business hero Monday.
s
So-wo proceeded northward together.
she stopping now and again to sketch.
Her pictures were very singular. In
deed, they were rather, it seemed to
me, the groundwork for pictures, and
when 1 told her that 1 did not under
stand them she told mo that they were
Arthur momoraulla from which pictures would
Berlin.
We kept together Ull evening, when
wo came to a hotel where wo asked for
rooms. Wo wero told Umt thero was
but one room vacant, and if wo cared
to accept It together wo might do so.
Jly companion expressed herself as
agreeable to tho plan, and I also con-
Miss Marie Stack snent Wednesday scnted.
In Grand Island. "I must look out for my nassnort." 1
Miss Blanche Fonda snent a fow sa,a t0 llcr whcn wo wcro soing to bed.
days this week in Grand Island. "A stranger in Europe without a pass
port is like a fish without gills." And I
put my passport under my pillow.
Wlinti I nwnlfn flio tiorf- Ttinrnliif nml
Z. A. Russell, of Whittior. attended
tho Yeoman conclavo as a delcate. .t ! in.
in slcht Fler sketching materials, too.
week to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woods, worn enno. I enr nwt nf hod nml wont
Mrs. Orval V. Hodges left Wednps- to tu loor' was locked from the in
day morning for Lincoln to remain In- side. Turning to a window, I noticed
dollnltoly. that a few feet beneath It was a shed.
.iirniM Morrrvw nml fnmiiv lonvn ir occurred to mo that my artist friend
day for Guernsey. Wvo.. whore thev unu Gno out uy 1110 wmuow nnu ue-
havo a homestead. scended from tho roof of the shed.
m no Ai an was she a thief? I opened my bag.
v a. V4HUH , w iruaii4Uii in t i , . T . , .
dcnartnipnt storo wero mere, i counicu iuem, nnu none
wero missing, ucucveu, i uresscu my-
uU w f stn,Pleton v,B,tlwl ,her self and put my hand under my pillow
for my passport. It was gone
I was clad that my cush had been
Mrs John Kennedy of Omaha, camo snared instead of mv nassnort I could
a fow days ago to visit her husband get on without tho ono, though I might
iur a iow imjs. no,i lt ROrV. iiut not without thr.
Mr. and Mrs. Win, Huddart and son other. But what did tho girl want with
loft Wednesday morning for Broken it? For my klfe I could divine no rca-
uow to visit relatives. son for her stcnlinir it. Sho was colnc
Trainmaster Weir, of Graiiii Island. oac,c to Berlin to workup her sketches
formerly of this city, was hero on ad surely in her own country sho
business this Iwliok. needed no pnssport, especially ono be
J. 11. McDoimld. who snont snvm-ni longlnjr to another.
wookH in Onmiia nml niih-ntrn r. "oing to a mirror to ao a bit or
turned homo Tuesday. prinking before descending to break
Mrs. Charles Bocuo and UaUKhtcr rast m' ,II?nB reminded me slightly of
Emilia loft Tuesday oveninc for Oni- no thief. Then I remembered that wo
nha to spend a fow days. wore both about tho sumo height and
Mrs. Goorco WIiibIow was called to u"d, both blonds and both blue eyed
Lincoln a fow days ago by tho serious though sho was of lighter hair and eyes
condition of a relative. thau I. Nevertheless, I could not dl
Molvln Hoopor, who was operated vino why sho should want my passport.
upon at tho city hospital rccontly, ro- Tho flrst gun llred by tho Gcriuans a
turned to his homo Wednesday. few weeks later forced tho reason Into
Mr. anil Mrs, James Ware, of Blair, my stupid brain. Tho border between
arrived horo Tuesday ovonlug to visit Franco and Germany was a hotbed for
their daughter Mrs. Will Waltomath. spies on both sides. This girl was
Mrs. I'orcy Louden and Vanco Mor- doubtless a Bpy for tho Gorman govern-
mm mm
Delco Light Products
GOTHENBURG, NEB.
We Charge mid Repair Storage
Batteries.
J
mr an ivrringgrerMfi'JBCBiL
Phones
Offlco 333
Ilea Black G42
DR. HAROLD A. FENNEIl
Osteopath.
G Reynold Building
Offlco hours 9 a. in. to C p. in.
7 p. m. to 8 p. in.
I now havo funds at 5V6 por cont
on cholco bottom tablo land. Qono
Crook, Rooms 3 & 4. Waltomath Bldg.
J. H. UKDFIELl).
PHYSICIAN & SUROEOJI
Succosaor to
PHYSICIAN fflSURQEONS HOSPITAL
Drs. Rodfleld & Redflold
Ofic Phone 642 Roa. Phono S7
Geo. B. Dent,
Physician and Surgeon.
Special Al!tion given to Surgery
awl Obstetrics.
Offlco: Building and Loan Building
l honts J Rta,denc, 115
-F. J. DIENEK & CO.
Real Estate and Insurance
Come and see us for town lots In
different parts of the city. Good In
vestments on easy terms. Houses for
sale and rent Wo havo also good bar-
Cor. Front and Dewey Sta.. upstairs.
gains In farms and ranches.
W. J. H0LDERNESS
Eectrlcnl Supplies
Wiring Storage Batterlea
Morsch Bldg
Phono 175.
Office phone 241. ReB. phone 217
L. C. DROST,
Osteopathic Physician.
North Platte, - - Nebraska.
McDonald Bank Building. '
Phono 308
ALBERT A. LANE,
Dentist
Rooms 1 and 2 Bolton Building
North Platto, Nebraska.
DOCTOR D. T. QDIGLEY. ..
Practice Limited to
Surgery and Radium Therapy
'28 City National Bank Building.
Omaha, Nebraska.
NORTH PLATTE
..General Hospital..
(Incorporated)
One Hall Block North ot Postoflice.
Phone 58
A modern institution for .the
cientiflc treatment of medical,
surgical and confinement cases.
Completely equipped X-Ray
and diagnostic laboratories.
Staff:
Geo. B. Dent, H. D. Y- Lucas, M. D.
J. B. Redfield. M. D. J. S. Simns, M.D
rltt motored to Storllng, Colo., Sun
day to visit tholr slstor, Mrs. Albort
Mauplii.
Miss Boi'tlui Thoolocko and futhor
Louis Thoolocko camo Tuoeday evon-
lug to visit O. II. Thooleeke and
family.
Mrs. Promus Forstodt, who had boon
taking treatment In Konrnoy for soino
time, was brought homo Tuesday ov-
ontng. sue is in a sonous conuttion.
Mi, and Mrs. Charloa Konnody, of
Rawlins, who woro visiting tho for
mer's brother Jnmos Konnedy and
wlfo this weok, loft Wednesday morn
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. HUnior Thompson
and baby, of Chnppoll, who visited
tho Thompson ami Goldsmith families
horo this !Vjok roturned homo Tuesday!
ovonlng.
A pllo of kindling and boxes near
tho Stamp bakery was destroyed by
flro Tuesday aftornoon. Tho danmgo
Aas slight and tho origin of tho flro
is not known.
Fnrra and Ranch loans at lowest
rates and best tonus. Money on hand
to cleso loans promptly.
43tf BUCHANAN St PATTERSON.
mcnt. Sho was laying down memoranda
In tho shnpo of n basis for pictures of
tho topography of the ground on the
French border.
But boforo the war oiened I saw her
again. 1 had put up at a hotel near the
Gorman border mid took a seat In the
dining room for supper. At a table
near by sat tho girl who had stolen my
passport. If she saw and recognized
me, which sho probably did, she main
talned her equanimity perfectly.
It was within my power to send her
to a fortress, probably to death. All
I had to do was to denounco her. Had
I been nble to inflict upon tier a suit
able puulshincut for stealing my pass
port I would havo dono so, but to cause
her to bo treated as a spy was too
much for inc. I am an American aud
had no interest in the military prob
Icnis between France and Germany, so
I permitted her to walk out of tho din
ing room unmolested.
When I finished my supper I asked
tho laudlord, describing her, where she
was. no said that she had just left
the house.
50 Japanese Laborers
WANT ANY KIND OF WORK BK
TWEUN Jl'LY 10th TO SKI'TinniKn
:tl8t. APPLY TO OR AlUIRHSK if.
OSAKA, .P. 0. BOX 1501, SC0TTS
BUTF, NEB. 2!).S
H ogs an t
uatt
Bought und highest mnrket
prices paid
fJ PHONES
Residence Red C3G Ofllce 459
C H. WALTERS.
t- . . Notice of KIiiiiI lienor!
nJ'j8t?t0 No- 1430 ot allas A. Hill, le-
In tho County Court of Lincoln Coun
ty. I0rafka.
The Str.tr of Nebraska, to all persons
IntereMod In said Estate tako notice
that the Administrator has tiled a flnal
account nrii report of his administra
tion and a petition for llnal settlement
and aihc-libiBo as auoli. which havo
been set f.r henrlnsr before said court
on April 20. itn, at 0 o'clock a. m.
when you may appear and contest tho
Matin
I atHd Mann 23. 1917.
, , GEO. B, FllENCII,
tnT-al7 County Judgo
