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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1918)
ubrurmie. THIRTY-FOURTIf YEAR. NORTH PLATTE, NEBi, OCTOBER 4, 1.918. No. 76. jihs. T. J. KKHK IS NOW RURAL ItUUTi: CARRIER GKIMIAX RKTREAT DESCJUKIH) AS ALMOST A ltOUT. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Woman's sphere of usefulness is daily enlarging those war times and this country is to bo congratulated that for any and every omorgency , position that opons thero stanls some courageous woman to speedily accopt and successfully fill, thus proving her partiotiem and her desiro to ' do her bit. The war calls have made a shortage of men in Lincoln county, a shortage that grows moro acute oach day, anl Postmaster McEvoy has had consider able trouble in securing rural mail carriers. This week the carrier on Route Ono resigned; no men were available. It was then that a cour ageous woman in the person of Mrs. T. J. v Kerr, wifo of one of North iPlntto porminent physicans, of forol her services ns carrier for the routo in this tlmo of need and she was gladly accepted by Postmaster McEvoy. Mrs. Kerr began her duties yesterday, driving a Buick car and successfully and speedily delivering the mail to the many patrons on a routo that runs twenty-eight and one half miles through the thickly popu lated valley west of tho city. Earns onoy? Certainly; but not of necessity. Mrs. Kerr is doing her bit by pleasing a man who can fill a position that' a woman cannot: she has increased tho man-powor of the county to ovtent of one man. Tnat's I creditable and commendable-. j ::: oicd Editor Coming. S. K. Ratcliffe the distinguished English editor and publicist, will ad-' dress the people of North Platte at the Franklin auditorium next Wed nesday evening on the war policies and reconstruction plans of the United States Department of Labor. Wednesday noon Mr. Ratcliffe will be tho guest of members of the Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon to be .served by the Presbyterian ! ladles in -the church basement. Mr. Ratcllffe's lecture will bo in tensely interesting for next to our interest in tho war, comes that of the reconstruction period following the war, and on this the speaker will give us some thoughts and ideas that may allay some of the fears we may now . hold. J Wiley Walker will leave to day for Kansas City whore he will transact business for a few days. Dr Brock. Dentist, over Stone Drug Iforp tf London, Oct. 3 In the week ending today tho allies have captured sixty thousand men and one thousand guns on the western front. The big army retreat of history Is now on, with the Germans doing tho retreating. Only a miracle, military exports declare can prevent the retreat frcm degenerating into an indescribable rout. Doserted by Bulgaria and Turkey the plight of Germany nnd her only ally, Austria-Hungary, is hourly be coming moro desperate. And In tho face of 'the general Hun retreat tho allied nrmlos are founding tho Germans harder than ever on every front. Everywhere tho nllles are making important gains. The British launched fresh attacks this morning on n front of nearly six miles between Soquohnrt and Bony, northeast of St. Quentln. Again there has been heavy fighting along the Hlndcnburg lino In this area and more ground of tho most important naturo has been gained. In Flanders further substantial adn vances have been made and, thero has been extraordinarily heavy fighting in which tho British forced their wav forward by sheer might. Along tho Lens-Armentloros line the Germans fell back three miles. In thlr retirement from St. Quentln the Huns removed all tho inhabitants. When tho Fronch troops entered the town thero were no civilians to be found. Tho Germans are not giving up ground without a struggle. They havo been making violent counters nt many points on tho front, but every where these assaults were crushed and the allies in their turn went for ward . : :o: :- Wnr Garden Prizes. To tho people who were awarded garden prize please call on me for you medals. They were exhibited dur ing tho county fair so they are all ready to be given out to those awarded Please call on mo at tho store or during my absence call at the office for your prize. J. E. NELSON, of the Leader. o Mrs. W. B. .Brown and mother, Mrs. Hamntond leave today for a two weeks' visit in Denver and other western points. Dr. L. J. Krause. Dentist, room 3 McDonald Bank building. MONDAY 'at "THE SUN THE SAMMY GIRLS THSATHE 10c BRYANT WASHBURN IN "The Ghost of the Raacho And SCREEN TELEGRAM Professor Trevlyn Doucets Orchestra 20c " ' " 11 1 1 Hill I I i , ., All Sammy Girls must bo at the Franklin auditorium Monday evonlng by 7:00 in order to get places on tho trucks Jor the pnrado. i Mr. nnd Mrs. Honry Hanson, well known rosldonts of tho north side havo been spending this wook in Omaha attending tho Ak-Sar-Bon. i For Sale An oil stovo and n soft coal boater. Call at 302 south Chest nut. 74-3. Dr. J. T. Kerr receivod his com mission yesterday for tho modical corps and will loavo within the next liftben days for Ft. Riley to bagln active service For Sale Majestic range and hard coal heater; both in good shapo. In quire at 709 wost Third. N 74-2 Chas. Hupfor, who made applica tion for ontrnnco Into tho naval of ficers' training school nt Pelham Boy, nonr Chicago, received word this week to report at that station Nov. 1. Miss Lejiore Cummlngs, well known in town, will arrive today for a visit with Mrs. Blanche Fields aifd other frlonds while enrouto from Chicago to her homo in Los Angeles. Ordors hnve been received by tho taoal board to Induct Chas. G. Lawrence, of this city Into military aoronautics. He will bo sont to Post Held, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Ilo'rton Mungor, who made applica tion a month or moro ago for en trance into nn officers training school, rocclved orders last evening to report at Camp Pike. Ark', Octobor 10th. Ho will leave for that camp Sunday or Monday. Its host to buy ycur winter blankets now. tho LEADER MEUU. CO. nro selling blankets at before the war prices. Heavy wool nnp Mankots on sale at $2.95, $3.45, $4.90 and $G.S5. Bettor ono at $7.45 and upf Only five countlos In Nebraska out sldo of Douglas and Lancaster hp heavier registration thnn Lincoln county. Those fivo counties woro: Gage, Dodge, Custer, Buffalo and Hall. Lincoln county's total registra tion as reportel back by the provost marshal of Nebraska was 2.59S. E. T. Kelllhor, of Omaha, so well known here in his old homo, who has been stato agent for the Great Wes tern Accident Insurance Co., hns been mado assistant general manager of the home office in Des Moines, la. Mr. Kolllher will hold this position until he Is called into service, having made application for enlistment In the quai-toraster's departmfcnt. Sixteen Union Pacific engine men at this termlnul largely, if not all, en glnoors.lhave been ro-clnssified and taken fr,om Class One and placed in Class Two D. None of thoso men havo dependents, but in n lotter to the local board the district board says that thero is a great scarcity of en gineers, and that tho situation de mands that these men be placed In a deferred clnss. Somo of the farmer boys who havo a hundred or moro acres of corn standing in tho field ready to bo husked wijl no doubt feel that they too should be placed in a deferred class by the district board. Do Yon Know What It Means Make a Real Good Shoe? Can you imagine three hundred people engaged in making a single hat? Think of them using in this hat sixty-six items of materials from all parts of the world! Imagine one hundred and ten machines needed to put it together for you! Impossible! Yet all this is necessary to produce one woman's shoe. Now compare the relative cost of hats and shoes. Then reflect on the care bestowed on the pretty bit of millinery which people too often fail to give tq the pretty shoe! Considering its merit and its price in comparison with other necessities, the quietly stylish, well-made shoe of today is easily the best value in the whole range of apparel for women. Doubtless you wear both kid boots and kid gloves at some season of the year. Both are carefully made of fine, selected skins. Consider the service you get from each. In a sadly brief time the pretty gloves find their way to the kitchen. Doubled in price, they are halved in service. Kid leather in shoes is better- than ever. The best selections now are re served for American women. There are sound materials; fine workmanship, efficient production and true style in a pair of Queen Quality famous sh6es. Their service makes them cost you less by tho year. The test of a shoe is service. "Money's Worth" in style, materials and workmanship is the basis of the Queen Quality appeal to discriminating shoe buyers. Wilcox Department Store BKi LIHERTV LOAN I'AHAlHi XBXT .MONDAY. ' What Is hoped to be made tho big gout parade North Platte hns over had Is bolng arranged for noxt Monday QVenlng, the object of which will bo to increase intorost and enthusiasm In the Fourth Llborty Loan. Following parade a mooting will bo hold nt the Franklin auditorium whoro short patriotic nddrossos will bo made nnd music rendored. In the big ovont North PIntto will receive assistance from Omaha In the Why of sponkors and n band. Tho Union Pacific Will run n Riln1 TJIittf. ty Loan train ovor tho system. On mis train will no several of Omaha's noted orators and the Union Pacific shop band. Tilts Irnln will nrrli'n ii 5H5 Monday evening and Immediately iuiur arrival meetings will boheld simultaneously at tho round house and the shODS. short ntltlrnnsrui In 1m made at both places by tho Omaha speakers, in tlte parade tho visiting band will furnish music nlong with tho North Platte band and the Home Gunrds Drum and Bugle Corps, and the Omaha men will mnko tho talks at the meeting at the auditorium. In tho parade will bo all the wo mgn's patriotic organizations, tho Homo Guards, the Iioy Scouts, tho High School Cadets, tho Union Pacific employees and citizens gonorally. Large delegations are oxpectod to bo prUMCnt from thn omtntrv nrnnlnto ,l It Is aimed to have not loss than 3,000 inun una women in lino. The line of march will be on the usual course. Cantnln Shilling nf n,n n,,. Guards, will bo tho marshal and he nas appointed the necessary aides to loqk aftor the sovoral divisions. The parades which had been arranged for tins evening and tomorrow evening havo been abandoned and all will unite in tho big event Monday It being considered better to have ono large i'H iiuiiur man uirco smaller ones Mrs. Frank Illlfihnnnn nnnnlv fOtnlt.- mnn of tho woman's loan connnitttoe, is Rooking after tho representation of women In the parade, W. L. Richards of the Union Pacific committee of sollc ltdrs, will arranc-o fnr Mm miirnn.i employees division, nnd County Chair man Temple will havo general .super vision of tho pnrado and preside nt the 'mooting at the auditorium. Ono of wiu speaKers at tne auditorium will devote his remarks to the work of the woman's loan committee It Is honeil Mi X'A 11 T1 . ""'- J U4LUH 111 iorth Platte, and every country resl- uvmt mio can, win pnrtlclpnto in this bltr event ami Mum imin rni .. ii i , ........ victim uu- thuslnsm in tho big bond drlvo which mummy sinrts next Monday morning. Former Resident Harried. On Sontember 29th in r.roninv ri at tho homo of Mr. and Mrs. Clins. Morford, undo and aunt of tho groom, Lloyd N. Newman, a former North Platte boy. and Miss Flora Brown, of L.)on8, loi., wore united in marriago by tho Rev. O. M. TTntwi Methodist church of Grcoloy. Tho img cureinonoy was used. Aftor a short weddincr trln Mr. mill TVT ra Nowmnn will bo at homo nfir.ai Lipan street Denver. Tho groom is nn om'ployo of tho Union Pacific. : :o: t For Farm Loans see Gone CrooK, Room west of Vienna Cafe. tfi If m SKIRTS FIND MANY USES A Heparate skirt Is n most es sential ifeiiuHllo to every wo mini's wardrobe, especially In Autumn. Jinny occasions pres. cut opportunities to wear a skirt ami wuist when it Is undesir able to bo atlircd In a drossy ciiifit. Those skirls In many labrlcs serges, snllns, gabard ines and others, are priced from $5 to $25 Wilcox Department Store 'UITV AND COUNTV Niiws W. B. Urowli wont to Dtuvor this j morning to witness the neroplnno tlights. Now volvot hats nt $4.50, $6.60. $7.50 nnd. up. Mllinory department a: THE LEADER MERC. CO. ioriu I'inuo noy, nas arrived safely at Archangol, Russia, whoro ho is in the Held medical corps. Hecause of tho narado on Mondnv evening the mooting with Miss Mao! waiuor of the Travel and Study club hnB boen .postponed until Tuesday ovonlng. For Rent Store building at 8th nnd Locust Sts. after Sopt. 10th, airs. M. E. Grogg, COS So. Ghostnut. Phono DInck S53. GStt Honry MoMurray, a Lincoln county boy nnd a brother of Mrs. Asa Snyder of this city, hns arrived afoly overses as a membor of n Canadian onglnoor lug corps. Wo hnvo sold moro coats nnd suits this season so far than cvoi boforo. Do you know why? Uocnuso we de liver tho goods at the right prices BLOQKS. i Tho Twentieth Century club will moot next Tuosdny afternoon nt the1 Home of Mrs. Wnltor Crook, 215 Locust. Tho litorary department will bo in charge. Jas. ,G. Lambert, a mombor of tho 120th mnchlno gun battalion, arrived safoly overseas this wook, his fathor, B. L. Lambert, having received a card to this effect yesterday. Lnrgost assortment In tho city of children's wool sorgo dresses and silk and glnghnm dresses ns woll, in an sizes, priced from DSc up.Snu lloor nt BLOCKS. Sarah Robeknh Lodco No. 10 I. O. ' O. F. will moot this ovonlng nt I. I O. O. F. hall at 7:30. Business of Importance, every member urged to bo present. Coinmlttco meeting nt close of regular session. By order of Nobloj Grand, Eva Van Derhoof. i Tho most important buy enrlv is our advtoo to you. Womeii's best I tailored suits nt 20 por cont to 40 per cont less than present value. I Having contracted our suits many months back enables us to save from1 2,0 per cent to 40 por cent on your suit at THE LEADER MERC. CO. ISTK.M1SIIIL TA.Ml'A SINKS, I US IJVirS ARK LOST. Washington, Oct. 3 Tho U. S. S. ship Tampa, a former const guard out tor In naval service was1 lost off'tha English coast Sept. 20, with all on board, whllo on convoy duty. Ton offlcors nnd 102 enlisted men of tho crow, ono British officer nnd ilvo civilian omployos lost ther Hvo3. A navy department statement Thurs day announcing tho dlsnstor .says the ship was sunk nt night In the British channel nnd that reports Indicate1 Hint sho was struck by n torpood whllo oscortlng a convoy. Cnpt. C. Sattorleo of the coast guard commanded tho cutter. Ap parently thero woro no oye-witnosses to tho sinking. Tho navy's report says an oxplosion was felt aftor tho Tniripn had gone woll nhoad of tho oonvoy nbout S:4B p. m., nnd that later nuantttlos of wreckage ono of tho Tampa's life bolts and tho botfiafc, of two unldontlfiod offlcors in uAllffrin was found. -: :o: : Hurley mid flrlnes Will Speak. Tho sponkors at tht big Llborty Loan mooting to bo held nt tho Franklin auditorium Mondnv ovonlng following tho parade will bo W. F. Gurley and Frank Grlne3 of Omaha Mr. Gurley Is no strnngor to n North Platte audlonco, for ho has mado ad dresses at two of our formor pnrltolc mootings and thrilled 'the audience with his oloquoncc. Mr. Grlnos is equally as brilliant ns Mr, Gurley, nnd tho two will make up nn ovonlng's program that nil will eujov. Iilberly Bonds Soiling Well. Washington Oct. 3 First figures on tho enrly snlo of the "Fighting Fourth Liberty Loan" woro nnnounced by 'tho treasury dopnrtmont Wednosdny nlht. They inclmlo only tho subscriptions on which tho down payments havo been mnde. Subscriptions nro believed to havo reached $',000,000,000 1 mnrk, but only 9411,142,050 Is rocogiiiz'od'Qf fliclaily. This represents tho snlo on tho first thrco days campnlgn. . ::o:: Silks nnd dress goods such as nro most wnnted, ovorythlng that's now nt THE LEADER MERC. CO. If he can secure a short leave of alisenco, A. W. Shilling will leavo Monday for Rising City to attond tho convention of the men's brothorhood of tho Lutheran church. Mr. Shilling Is on tho program for an address. SESSUE HAYAKAWA IN The Honor of His House A high class photo play in which the eternal triangle is treated in a new light, and we are brought to realize that true love never seeks to degrade its objecl. The 2 Part Comedy "Playwright's Wrong" The Keith, Saturday Evening. 2$XfS3R213SS2BE3SK, Peggy A.I .... 1(1... n Hyiand uineriTieu suaugniers The play that will keep you in the right road. See this Photoplay and tell Dad about it, or Better still bring Dad to see it. Also the two part Sunshine Comedy-"The Diver's Last Kiss." Keith Theatre - Tonight 1 n Cattle and Hogs Hnvo a higher market value today on nccount o! the demands for greater food production. Show you patriotism by raising more and better cuttle and hogs than you havo douo in tho past. Our soldlors need meat and plonty of It. You do your part nnd you can de pend upon tho boys "over tliore" to do their duty. Let us help you plnn a larger and better production of cattle and hogs. Platte Valley State Bank
