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DIXON - PERFECTO
GLASSES.
Guaranteed not to break.
HARRY DIXON, & SON.
OPTOMETRISTS.
DR. 0. H. CRESSLER,
Graduate Dentist
Office over the McDonald
State Bunk.
LOCAL AND1 PERSONAL
Dr. B. McDormott, of Omaha, was
here this week to assist Dr. Fetter in
surgical work at the City hospital.
All Summor Dresses on sale at ex
trcmely low prices.
E. T. TRAMP & SONS.
Misses Mary Bauer and Amolla
Burr, of Lexington, who wore visit
ing local firiends here, havo returned
homo.
Wiorked models of Bucllla goods at
roduccd prices for Saturday, Monday
and Tuesday at Wilcox Department
Store.
Alvln Weingand returned to Ross
ville, 111., Tuesday aftor visiting Ills
brother C. 0. Weingand for several
weeks'.
Dr. Morrill. Dentist.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson and daugh
ter Dora, of Stapleton, arc attend
ing Chautauqua and visiting local
friends.
Miss Wynn Sullivan will resign her
9 position in tho 10 cent store next
week and- this fall will teach north
of town.
Miss Hazel Coates, of Keystone, loft
Wednesday morning after visiting with
hor mother Mrs. B. W. Morton for
ten days.
The greatest valuo in tho city in
women's wash dresses at 98c, worth
u'p to $2.00 at Tho Leader 'Mercantile
Co.'s.
Homer Gray has returned from
Kansas City whore he spent the great
er pant of this weok. He drove home
a Ford car.
Mr. and Mrs. George McGlnley, of
Ogalalla, are hero this week to visit
tho Carney family and attend Chau
tauqua. Mrs. Wilfred Stuart and baby, of
Lexington, caino last evening to visit
her mother Mrs. John Tlghe, for a
week or longer.
Km
At
F. J. Dlener and John Kennedy havo
formed a partnership intho real es
tate busless with offices over tho Aus
tlon Jewelry storo.
Fred F. Harvey, of Mitcholl, and
Miss Fern R. Benjamin, of Gandy,
woro married in this city Wednesday
by County Judge French.
Miss Mabel McVicker, of Lexington,
is spending this weok hero removing
hor millinery goods from Tho Leader
storo to tho Brodbock building.
Form and Ranch loans at lowest
rates and best terms. Money on hand
to close loans promptly.
43tf BUCIUNAN & PATTERSON.
Peter Gundorson returned Tuesday
from South Omaha whero ho marketed
a car load of three-year old grass fed
steers. Tho animals averaged 1130
each i and' lie received $9.50 "per hun
dred. I have leased tho Thomson rooming
house on oast Sixth street and am pre
pared to furnish clean and comfort
able rooms to regular and transient
customers. I respectfully ask for a
sharo of tho public patronage, feel
ing corlain that they will bo pleased.
MRS. H. BLUNT,
309 Sast Sixth.
Up at Scotts Bluff four damage suits
have been filed against the county for
lnjurios sustained in auto accidents,
the plaintiffs charging that the acci
dents were duo to improperly kept
roads. Tho total damages asked are
$37,000. This is something now for
a county to bo made defendant in road
accidents, and it may lead up to many
suits'boing filed throughout tho state In
an attempt to secure "easy money."
Tho usual oven temper of Manager
Crawford, of tho Davis Garage, Is a
little bit ruffled these days. Not hav
ing been ablo to socuro Buick cars for
several months, ho succeedod in get
ting a carload of tho new models start
ed from tho factory on July 17th, but
tho car sems to havo become lost.
With several hundred probable cus
tomers In tho Davis territory anxious
ly awaiting tho arrival of tho now
modol, it is not strango that Mr. Craw
ford should feol a llttlo sore at tho
railroads.
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Dressmaking
Plain and fancy sewing done by day
at your homo. Mrs. J. N. Olson, 30G
east Third St. Phono Rod 1051. 55-4
111(5 CROWD ATTENDS
1 THE SOLDIERS PICNIC
Tho fnrewcll picnic given by Nortii
Platte' people to mcmbors of Company
E and Company L at the city pork
Wednesday nftornoon was largely at
tended. Not only woro North Platte
people present, but Uioro woro In at
tendance quite a numbor from Lexing
ton, Ogalalla and other towns. Head
ed by tho municipal band and with tho
Boy Scouts as an escort, tho boys
marched from tho armory to tho city
park shortly aftor two o'clock, whore
they woro ontortainod at sports for
two or moro hours, and with vocal se
lections by members of tho Plnnforo
company. Tho sports included two
tug of war contests, a relay race
around tho raco track and a ball game,
about 5:30, whllo tho gamo was In pro
gress, ono of tho band boys blow tho
mess call, tho soldier boys left the
Hold and basos and tho play was off.
A picnic lunch was sorvod to tho
boys at G o'clock, 100 baskets oach con
taining sufficient provondor for two
being provided, and in nddltlon tho
boys woro furnished with lemonado
and lco cream. A committee of mon
and women saw that all the boys were
amply providod. Sovoral hundrod cit
izens and a number of out-of-town
pco'ple brought lunches and had sup
per In tho grovo. Following the sup
per, with J. J. Halligan as chairman,
short addrossos woro mado by Messrs.
Olosen and Cook of Loxlngton, and W.
T. Wilcox and J. E. Evans of this
city, with Mr. Halligan making the
closing nddross. Each speaker al
luded to tho manly appearanco and
bearing of mombors of Company Ej
tho prldo taken in the company by the
people of tho counties In which tho
organization had beon rocrultod, and
commended tho mombors of tho com
pany for tho loyalty to country they
had shown. Each mombor was as
sured that whllo In training camp or
on tho field of battlo, tho people of
North Platte, Loxlngton, Ogalalla and
other towns stand back of thorn finan
cially; that nolther thoy or thoso
whom they might leavo would suffer.
Though the talks were brief thoy woro
full of patriotism.
In tho evening a danco compliment
ary to the soldlor boys was glvon at
tho Lloyd and this was largely attend
ed. :o::-
Tlio Jinx Is Astride Us.
The Tribune man Is certainly play
ing in hard luck, lfo appealed to his
delinquent subscribers to bring in
enough coin to pay his expenses on a
fishing trip. This thoy kindly did, and
now that ho has tho funds ho can't find
anyone who will accompany him and
ho don't like to go alone. Charley
Hupfor got an attack of asthma and
couldn't wait until wo got enough mon.
oy; Arthur Plumor Is too busy making
hay; Bill Woodhurst is picking potato
bugs and is otherwise engaged as an
agriculturist; Charley Wholan can't go
becauso his boan crop is porishlng for
want of rain; Sanford Hartman has
rheumatism; Fred Soebergor can't
loavo homo; Judge Grimes Is oast and
that grandest fisherman of them all,
John C. Den has mado arrangement
with others to leavo on a trip that may
land him In Alaska. Thoroforo, wanted,
throe or four convlval souls to go to
Big Creek, seventy-flvo miles south
of Laramie, to catch moro trout In a
woek than thoy can eat in a year.
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Camps Not Ready for flunrds
A Washington dispatch appearing
In yesterday's State Journal said that
owing to unavoidable dolays tho con
centration camp at Ft. Dcming, N. M
will not be ready for troops for two
weeks. Ft. Doming is tho camp des
ignated for Company E of this city.
Whothor tho Company will remain hero
until tlfo Ft. Doming camp is ready or
whothor It will bo Rent to Fort
Crook to await tho ordors to movo
south is not nt present known. Tho
camp at Ft. Doming was expected to
bo ready August first
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Many of thoso who planted a largo
acroago of beans aro fooling n trifle
bluo over tho prospects of a crop. In
conversation with ono man who has a
half intorest In forty acros, ho said
tho plants woro In such condition that
rain would not provo of much bonoflt.
Tho acroago of beans In Lincoln coun
ty this year run into tho hundreds,
tho high pfricos inducing many to
plant in largo quantity.
Pictures of-tho seml-contonnlal pa
rado and tho homo talent play "Tho
Open Switch," will bo given nt tho
Kolth August 8th, 9th and 10th. In
tho cast of tho play aro W. J. Tlloy,
Miss Louiso Ottensteln, Ernest Rinck
or and Ralph Coatos, and a local wed.
ding scono in which a bevy of North
Plntto girls will appear. Tho pic
turo promisos to bo ono that will
provo highly Interesting by reason of
Its local coloring.
Miss Irma McMichaol will loayo In
a fow days for Omaha and othor east
ern points.
EDYTH HUMPHREYS OWENS
Teacher of Dramatic Art.
Studio 122 Front St.
Phono Black 351.
Re-establishing
A Family
By P. A. MITCHEL
ncrinan von BlBhoff came to Ameri
ca a young man, determined to make
a fortuno, return with It to Germany
and build up his family, which was
nu old ono, though Impoverished. Von
nishoff choso a vnluablo field for
monb4 junking In America. Ho bo
enmo a brower nud by tho tlmo ho was
Qfty years old was In a position to re
tire trom business with tho fortuno ho
had como over for. But a business
llfo had ncctiBtomed him to active hab
its, nnd he did not relish going buck
to Gormnny to a-lifo of Idleness. Be
ducn, tho pan-European war hud come
mi, nnd ho thought ho could bo of moro
sorvlro to tho Fnthcrlnnd by sending
money for hospltnl service.
Von Blshoff had no son, but ho hnd
n daughter, Hilda, nbout twenty years
old. It had been his Intention to send
for his nephew, tho son of his older
brother, to como over to America with
tho hope of making a match between
this young man nnd Hilda. His for
tuno would ultimately pass to Hilda
ind through her nnd hor husband tho
former lnlluontlal status of tho Von
Blshoffs would bo re-established. But
tho war camo on, nnd of courso Carl
ron Blshoff was needed in tho army,
and on this account tho plau was do
laycd If not altogether extinguished.
Hilda von BIshoffB associates wcro
natlvo Americans, nnd slio had not that
lovo for Germany that had rcmnlncd
in hor fnther. When tho wnr broke
out she told him thnt sho wished to go
nbrond to do Red Cross work, and ho
only consented on her promise to do
voto hersolf to tho enro of sick and
wounded soldiers In Germany. But
Hilda, though sho had learned tho Ger
man language In her childhood, hnd
forgotten It, nnd sho did not relish tho
iden of going among n pcoplo whoso
lnngungo Bho did not understand. Her
father would not consont to her going
to any other country.
Hilda hnd been given plenty of pin
jioney and, not having spent it all,
had something In bank. Ono day sho
left for Europo without snylng any
thing to her father ns to her going
and on her nrrlval nt tho sent of war
was enrolled In tho Amerlcnn Red
Cross service. Bho found thnt tho sick
find wounded consisted of nil kinds.
Thero wcro English, French, Belgians,
Germans, Austrlnns nud citizens of tho
United States to bo cared for, nnd all
received tho snmo attention. Of course
tho enemy sick and wound'jd as soon
asj , they recovered wcro considered
prisoners nnd placed In concentration
Camps, whllo tho French, English nud
Americans wero returned to duty.
Hilda remained nt her post of duty
i year, when, licr hoalth giving out,
ho returned to America. Somo of her
friends suspected whllo nursing a sol
dier Bho hnd lost her heart to him, but
Hilda would not ndmlt it. ncr fnther
(rot hold of tho rumor, nnd It worried
him very much, for ho had not given
up re-cstnbllshlng his family in Ger
many through her. Ho questioned her
as to tho matter, but got nothing out
of her. Indeed, sho denied tho story,
nowovcr, Vou Blshoff's plnu foi
Oulldlng up his family by marrying
his daughter to her cousin Carl was
dashed becauso news camo to his un
do that ho had boon killed In tho war.
Ono day n young man who gavd his
onmo ns FIcgler appeared at Herman
Blshoff's resldenco and asked for Hil
da. IIo was tho soldier thnt sho had
nursed ns n prisoner. Ho had been
sont to England as a prisoner of war
nnd had escaped. IIo had then got
transportation to Amorlca by securing
n berth ns flremnu on a ship about to
sail for Now York, nis object wns to
get bnck to Germany by way of the
United States.
Tho first thing Von Blshoff know
about tho stranger's coming was In
formation from his daughter thnt sho
had given her troth to the fugitlvo
and desired her futhor's sanction to
tho match. Sho and her lover planned
to bo married boforo his return to tho
army. Von Blshoff, realizing by this
timtf that his daughter would havo her
own way In tho cholco of a husband,
gavo a forced consent. Tho couplo
wcro married, and a fow dnyB later
tho groom sailed for Holland, from
which country ho oxpocted to cross tho
lino into Germany.
Six months nftcr his departure his
wlfo received word from him that ho
hnd succeeded In what ho had under
taken nnd wns again In tho rnnks
fighting for tho fatherland. Then camo
a lottor stating thnt ho wns nt homo
badly wounded.
nildn, now Frnu Fleglor, determined
to Join him. Her fnther, finding that
ho was resolved on doing so, deter
mined to go with her. Thoy wont by
way of Copenhagen nnd in duo tlmo
nrrlved at tho villago from which nor
man Blshoff hnd depnrted thirty yenrs
boforo for America. Tho schloss, n
dilapidated resldenco that had onco
been n noblo pile, wns Btlll In posses
sion of tho (amlly, nnd there they
wont. It wns occupied by n sister of
Von Blshoff, whom ho had not taken
account of Hlnco his dopnrturo for
Amorlca, for ho espoclally valued only
tho molo members of tho fnmlly. Tho
father nnd daughter wcro to put up
hero until thoy could Jnnrn of tho
Whoroabouts of her husbnnd.
"I havo n Hon who Is at homo ro
covering from wounds," said tho frnu.
'Indeed!" replied her brother. "Lot
us pny our respects to him at onco."
Thoy filed Into tho room whero tho
young mnu lay, Hilda gnvo n spring
for him. Ho wns her husbnnd.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Win. Hnrcourt leaves Sunday or
Monday for Chicago, Mllwnukeo and
Now York to purchaso stock for his
storo.
. Mr, and Mrs. C. O. Wolngand and
sons expoct to leavo shortly on nn
nuto trip to Estos Park, Dcnvor nnd
othor Colorado points.
All Dross Goods scon In our window
special salo 19c.
E. T. TRAMP & SONS.
Miss Swanson, who had boon spend
ing her vacation In eastom points, has
returned and rosumod hor duties as
nurso nt tho Twlnom hospital.
Mrs. Frank Votnw and daughtor, for
morly of this city, camo from May
wood tho first of tho woek to' attond
Chautauqua and visit friends.
Mrs. Leo Pass nnd mothor, of Wash
ington, D. C arrived horo Wednes
day ovonlng to visit nt tho Pass homo.
Mr. Pnss hns boon horo for somo tlmo.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Starr and daugh
ter Tholmo. returned a fow days ago
from Donver and othor Colorado
points whoro thoy spont two wooks.
A lot of misses' and womon's wnBh
dresses slightly ruussod and eollod
from handling on salo at 98o and $1.98,
worth up to $2.50, now on salo at Tho
Loador Mrcantilo Co.'s.
J. A. Harshflold, living north of
Sutherland, who was in town yostor
day, says that grass In tho sandhills
will burn, and when that Is tho caso
It is mighty dry.
Colonol Bill Woodhurst, who Is do
ing his "bit" by growing potatoes on
sovoral vacant lots on tho Burlington
right-of-way, brought a sample to Tho
Trihuno office yostorday. With this
ovidonco boforo us wo can tostify that
as a potato grower Colonol Bill Is a
success .
"A Reckless Romeo"
with Fatty Arbuckle
KEITH THEATRE
Tuesday, August 7.
Anita King in
"Heir to the Hoorah."
ADULTS 20c. CHILDREN 10c.
FOR
Choice smooth eighty acres alfalfa and hay
land within two miles of the North Platte Post
Office at thebargain price of $65.00 per acre.
BUCHANAN & PATTERSON,
SOLE AGENTS.
Cool I sreeze Indoors
The cool breeze of the mountain and sea
shore may be enjoyed in the home or office
equipped with an electric Fan. A wonder
ful sleep producer. Insures the baby's
health in hot weather. Operating cost is but
a fraction of a cent an hour.
North Platte Light & Power Co.
AT SOCIAL AFFAIRS
a glass of our lemon soda, ginger ale,
etc., Is always refreshing. Aftor a
danco It quonches thirst and cools tho
system. Tho best hostesses uso it nt
tholr functions and In tholr homo llfo
as woll. A trial box will provo Its
oxcollonco to you,
STAR BOTTLING WORKS
Will Maupin, of tho York Domocrat,
has beon nppblntcd stato publicity
manager at a salary of $2,000 a year.
Wo question If a bottor man for tho
posltlonkcould havo boon soloctcd. Ho
Is ono of tho most vigorous and con
sistent boostors In tho stato. '
Tho Chandlor lino of flno motor cars
has bocomo a ponnancnt addition to
tho Romlgh lino o cars, tho quality
of tho finish, of tho chassis and its
long life nnd record for porformanco
has sold us. Try a Chandlor mllo for
yoursolf. J. V. Romlgh, Doalor,
Tho Boy Scouts, In camp at Lamp
lugh's lnko this wook, camo In Wcdncs.
day to attond tho soldiers' picnic. Tho
boyB nro having a dollghtful time and
will probably bo sorry when thoy
break camp tomorrow..' During tho
weok many havo visited tho camp.
Tho most wondorful bargain salo on
women's wash skirts in whlto and
sport spots nnd strlpos; wnsh sklrtB
up to $2.75 values now $1.87; othors
up to $4.00 grndos at $2.47 and up to
$G.C0 grados at $2.98 and $3.87; blg
gost Balo ovor made on wash skirts nt
Tho Loador Morcantllo Ca'fl.;
A man stated yostorday that a rall
road official had told him that tho Bur
lington is sorlously considering build
ing Its lino from Koarnoy to Bridge
port. Tho Burlington has boon "seri
ous" so often In starting this work
that horo In North Platto any montlon
of construclon work Is takon as a
Joko.
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Lost SI rayed or Stolon.
Threo hoad of cattlo from my placo
four mllos south of Blgnoll, two rod
holfors branded W 2 on right side,
and ono Whlto Faco bull wolght about
1500, stub horns.
Will pay liberal roward for return
of tho animals or for Information
leading to tholr rocovory.
II. T. WOODGATE,
57-2 Blgnoll, Nob.
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