Our Christmas Stock
IS MOST COMPLETE
- v You know what UNCLE SAM says:
SHOP EARLY
By doing this you will save man po.wcr for
the nation. You will get much better service
in the stores and will surely receive a great
deal of comfort in performing your duty to
your loved ones.
We cordially invite you to come in and
inspect our stock which you will agree with
us is the most complete.
Our cases are bubbling over with Xmas
goods that will sure interest you.
HARRY DI
THE JEWELER
A Real Treasure
A snappy, blne-wldto din
mond, sparkling with n
fire that never dims
worth all Its costs today
and double Unit in the fu
ture Hint describes
A MAHAN
DIAMOND
Choose todny from tho ex
cellent stecK wo'ro show
ing and you'll rejoice in
the knowledge of n safe
and permanent Invest
ment. $50 to $500
HARRY njXON,
The Jeweler and Optometrist
North Platte, Neb,
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CITY Atd'-C0UKTY NEWS.
Miss Annie Kramph was a visitor
in Omaha the latter part of last
week.
Your Drapery and Curtain pro
blems are easily solved in our
Drapery Dept. W. It. Maloney Co.
Remnant sale of outing llannels at
THE LEADER JUERC. CO. saving
you from 4c to 10c on the yard. Buy
your needs now. Dont put it off.
BUY NOW.
The Travel and Study Club met
last evening with Mrs. Ray Cummings
One member read from a book while
others worked on Red Cross articles.
W. R. Maloney Co. offers lf.ee
Curtains and Over-drapes at prices
you can afford to pay.
The Home' Missionary Society of
the Methodist church will meet Fri
day afternoon at three o'clock at
the church. , v . .
This season's best man tailored
suits on sale at THE LEADER MERC
CO. save from $4.00 to $15.00 and
buy your suit now.
Harry Lantz, formerly of this city
who has been in the restaurant
business at Sterling for several years,
is in town today visiting friends.
Miss Beatrice Fisher, of Green
River, a young lady who has fre
quently visited relatives and friends
'in town, is reported critically 111
with influenza.
Remnant sale of outing flannels at
THE LEADER MERC. CO. savlpg
you from 4c to 10c on'.the yard. Buy
your needs now. Don't put It off.
BUY NOW.
Tho local' federal labor bureau has
received a call for laborers at tho
Armour Packing riant at South
Omaha. Just at present the local
demand for laborers is just about
equal to tho supply.
If you aro not fixed an your winter
blankets buy them now at THE
LEADER MERC. CO. Last seasons
prices. Our big cash purchase of
over a year ago enables us to do this.
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Conlin and
baby, of Omaha, are guests of Mrs.
Conlin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Dixon. Dr. Conlin comes here to re
cuperate from his recent illness
which was very severo.
In underwear for winter we fit
them all. Men, women and.chlld
rens. Last season's prices saving
you from 20 to 40 per-cent on your
underwear at THE LEADER MERC.
CO.
New Shops will be Unlit Next Year.
Among the improvements author
ized by the Union Pacific for the year
1919 is a new shop building to bo
erected just west of the round house
in tho west end. This building will
be 109x205 feet, and an order for
the machinery with which to equip
it has already been placed. The
plans call for an especially well con
structed and well lighted building
and the machinery will be of the
latest pattern.
In making this announcement a
local official stated that he under
stood that the present shop buildings
and the old round house would be
torn down. It would not be surpris
ing, he stated, if an addition to the
new round house is not constructed.
Foniir North Platte Man
Dies in (irand Junction
Hamilton R. Ottman, who died at
Grand Junction, Colorado, November
2nd, was a prominent business man
at North Platte in the old times.
He was a member of the firm of
Ottman & ratterson, operating a gen
eral store, on the corner where tho
Rexall Drug Store is now located,
four years beginning March, 1873,
and for several years thereafter con
tinued in business on his own
! account.
! H6 built the store buildings now
occupied by the Clinton Jewelry store
tnd the Marti Meat Market.
1 He was held in high esteem by the
old timers of North Platte. He re
moved to Grand Junction about thirty
years ago and resided there up to the
time of his decease.
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Miss F. W. Rincker will go to
Hastings today to attend a district
meeting of the Episcopal church.
If you are not fixed on your winter
blankets buy them now at THE
LEADER" MERC. CO. Last seasons
prices. Our big cash purchase of
over a year ago enables us to do this.
In a letter to his parents Earl
Wright, in the service at Tien Sen,
1 China, writes that he has just been
released from the hospltti'i after a
! seige of trench fever.
This season's best man tailored
suits on sale at THE LEADER. MERC
CO. save from $4.00 to $15.00 and
buy your suit now.
At this time of the year we can
think of nothing more suitable for
refreshing your residence than cre
tonne. From 30c per yard to $1.25
at W. R. Maloney Co.
The Platte Valley Land and Cattle
Co., which owned a number of sec
tions of land norh of Maxwell, recent
ly filed In tho County Clerk's office
168 mortgages representing tho
transfer of tho property in 1C0 acre
tracts. The recording of these mort
gages has been quite a task for the
office force.
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For the first time since Lurlno Wtl
llntns hnd left her home to make net
way In the business world, she was out
of a job. She looked nt tho tnnttet
sensibly, too, remnrknbly sensibly for
so young n girl, for In spite of the fact'
that sho- hnd been a successful nnd
very businesslike stenographer to an
Important nnd well-known mnn for the
pnst live yenrs, she was bnrely twenty
two. She hnd worked hard to com
plete her business course before tho
etnnll pittance she had snved wns ex
hausted. And It wns, by sheer perse
verance nnd hnrd work that she hnd
gained nnd held her first position.
Now, just.ns she wns becoming sure
of herself nnd her job, her employei
hnd sold out his business interests and
had gone West to uvoid the breakdown
which his physician hnd said was In
evltable.
For the past week Lurlnc had
searched the want "ads" engerly, but
In vain, Todny there wns one. Mr.
Hill, of Lorlng, Hill & Judson, was in
peed of n private secretary. It wns a
position thnt any t stenographer In the
city would have been glnd to accept,
but Lurine knew only too well, as did
no doubt n score of other would-be
eecretnrles, thnt being 'the best Inw
firm In the city It wns the very hardest
to gnln access to, and Mr.JUll), so ru
mor snid, wns the most exnctlng of the
trio. But once a girl was admitted to
those sacred precincts her success was
assured. Certainly It wns worth try
ing, and Lurine wns experienced. Five
years should count for something.
An hour Inter Lurine arrived nt the
office, very nervous and somewhat
breathless, only to be told by a stony
fnced mlddle-ngod woman, evidently
one of the clerks, thnt Mr. 11111 wns
busy nnd If she wns nn npplicnnt thnt
he wnsn't Interviewing anyone under
twenty-live.
As she was whirred down In the
swift elevntor n glance Into the merci
less mirror showed her how hopeless
ly young nnd small she looked. How
ever, the luxurious and dignified at
mosphere of the office she had just left
made her dissatisfied with any other
possibilities. "Besides,", she told her
self ns she walked back to her dingy
little apartment In the cool spring air,
"anything worth having Is worth work
ing for."
Early that afternoon Lurlno again
visited the beautifully furnished office
that had become Ideal with her. The
same clerk admitted her n second time,
but surely shetsnw no resemblance In
the cool, self-possessed little gray.
haired woman to the extremely young
and very nervous girl she had so re
cently refused admittance to. This
i time, to Lurlne's surprise, she ushered
her Into Mr. Hill's private sanctum.
Mr. Hill's trained eye appraised her
swiftly and she felt from the first that
she was making a favorable Impres
sion. He asked her a few perfunctory
questions, dlctnted a letter or two and
then Informed her In his calm, even
voice, which she soon learned was ha
bitual with him, that she would lo.
Through the hot summer months
that followed the little gray-haired,
spectacled lady worked diligently In
Mr. Hill's employ, always carrying out
his wishes, often anticipating them.
Suddenly one day early In the fall
Air. Hill announced that lie was to be
one of the participants In the Liberty
loan campaign, and that he would be
obliged to leave her in sole charge of
his personal affairs during that time.
It was then thnt her characteristic
honesty compelled her to tell him of
her ruse and that he was leaving his
business In the hands of a girl of twenty-two
and not a middle-aged woman.
There was a gleam Of amusement In
his eyes as lie replied: "Did you think
so shallow a disguise as yours could
deceive as keen a lawyer us your em
ployer has tho reputation of being? I
knew It from the first. Two qt your
wrinkles disappeared during your trial
dictation. It was your Ingenuity and
initiative that got you tho position, my
dear young lady, nnd It Is the same
two qualities that assure the safety of
my business In your hands."
It is a well-known fact In the busi
ness circles of that city that Mr. Hill's
secretary Is a treasure, but neverthe
less It is still something of a mystery
to them thnt he ever came to intrust
his affairs to so young a girl.
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Americans In German Territory.
General Pershing's forces moved
forward early Sunday In territory
(abandoned by tho German troops.
, On the old lino between Mouzon and
Thlaucourt, lying from the region of
Sedan to the south of Metz, tho troops
had been stationed to await ordors
for tho advance, and at 5:30 o'clock
this morning tho patrols marched out,
not in line of battle, but in columns
along tho high roads, which aro only
slightly lmpared. Tho first steps of
tho Americans into regions so lately
controlled by Germany were not spec
tacular. Tho men were keyed up and
keen for tho now adventure, as on tho
day of signing of tho armistice there
were comparatively no demonstra
tive manifestations of their enthus
iasm. Many of tho men had been
newly uniformed, and all of them
wer-3 "polished" as tho for Inspection.
The men appear eager for the word to
go forward,
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NORTH PLATTE. NlRll
COW BRAND,
Dine Thanksgiving Day on
Homo Products, U. S. Asks
Washington, I). (, Xov. o. Homo
products only on the Thanksgiving
dinner lalilo this year Is tho program
of tho food administration. Hotels,
restaurants, nnd other eating places
have been asked to save transporta
tion by using only food produced
locally, and tho administration Issued
an nppeal'to households today to ob
serve tho same rule.
NORTH PLATTE
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Three .Months Needed to
Settle Pence Problems. !
Tho peace conference will bo In
session for two or three months,
according to nuthorlttve opinion ex
pressed in Paris Monday. Tho dole-
gates will meet In Franco, but It Is
not yet decided whether tho confer
ence will bo held at Versailles, on
account of Its heroic associations, or
In Paris, which is tho more conven
ient for the transaction of business.
That the parley will last for somo
time is made evident by tho complex
ity of tho problems Involved.
At tho present time informal con
ferences aro being held dally, but tho
allied chleftnius nre generally mark
ing time, meanwhile watching closely
thelnternal developments In Germany
and waiting to sec that Germany care
fully carries out the conditions of tho
armistice. It seems probable that
the next Besslon of the Inter-allied
council at Versailles will eramlno tho
internnl situntlon i n Germnny
carefully.
Socialists Laud Uolslicvlk.
Chicago Socialists, together wlth
their country political organization
were delivered Sunday to forces of
bolshevlsm by their accredited party
leaders. The socialist party's now
step wns taken at a mass meeting
held in the Colllschm. Socialist
leaders, who since the war started
have protested their loyalty to tho
American government nnd tho strong
prosecution of tho war, threw nsldo
their government support and openly
boasted of their sympathy and sup
port of the Russian -revolutionists,
and declnred it their determination
to help forward an American move
ment to make the United States a
unit of a world socialist International
Tho mass meet1hg,vhfcHhnd been
called for the announced purpose of
celebrating the overthrow of tho
German kaiser, was in reality no less
than a public toast making to bolsh
evlkl and denunciation of all militar
ism. Speakers actually spoke against
this nation,
Of the 8,000 to 10,000 persons in
attendance fully 75 per-cent Indicated
Russian or Gernlnn descent.
HOOYElt SAYS WE MUST
COIiTDiUE TO COXSGKYK.
Tho nation's obligation to servo
stricken humanity ill war-torn Europo;
by helping to provldo sustenance until
tho next harvest wlll demand further
sacrifices from tho American people,
Food Administrator lloovor declared
In an address nt a conference of stnto
food administrators.
renditions of fniulno exist in
Europo, Mr. Hoover said, that will bo
"boyond oot powers to remedy," oven
with tho carrying out of tho plan to
ship from America 20,000,000 tons of
foodstuffs during tho noxt yenr. In
northern Russia nlono, ho declared,
there uro 40,000,000 pcoplo who have
but little chnnco of obtaining food
this winter. Millions of others thru
out Europe, ho said, who can bo
reached must bo fed.
"This being tho now world situa
tion, crcatod by tho collnpso of tho
war," Mr. Hoover continued, "the
prlmo chnnges In our policies on to
day's outlook can he summnrlzod:
"Thnt wo may now advantageously
abandon tho luso substitutes In our
wheat bread; that wo will still ro
QUiro economy and elimination of
wasto in its consumption; Uiat for
tho present wo need conservation In
butter nnd condonscd milk; thnt ul
timately, wo must extend this to nil
fats.
"Wo can contcmplato at moat,
mnintnJnlng fully throb pounds por
month of sugnr por person of house
hold sugnr on tho present outlook,
a:. J wo can by availability of Java
sugars to Europo, begin at onco to ro
lax moro restraints on sugar, pending
somo changes in European policies."
Crown Heads Dropping
Moro of tho smaller German prin
cipalis havo followed tho example
of their larger neighbors and havo
taken stops toward establishing re
publican forms of government. &axv
Molnlngon haB boon proclaimed a re
public and all estates owned by prin
ces aro mado public property. A
spcclnl dispatch from Karlsruho says
that ho provincial government has
announced that Grand Duko Fredrlch
II has abdicated and that Badon Is
it freo republic. A constituent
assembly will later determine tho
form of government to bo established.
French troops Saturday entered
Colmar and Mulhnusen, two of Germ
any's grat fortossos In AlBaco.
Rlrst Airplane Fatality.
The first man to lose his life In nn
airplane accident was Lieut. Thomas
II. Selfrldge of the United States sig
nal corps, who was killed In Septem
ber, 1008, while Hying ns n passenger
with Orville Wright nt Ft. Myer. Vn.
The next fatal nlrplano accident oc
curred a year later In France, when
Eugene Lefebvre was enrolled as nno
of the martyrs to the conquest of the
nlr. Since the outbreak of the war,
of course, brave flyers without num
ber have given their lives to their re
spective countries, and a list of them
would till pages. Tho first woman to
be killed In an nlrplnne accident was
Mine. I). Mooro, who lot her life at
Etnmps, France, in Hill.
Have Always Carried Mirrors.
Woman's up-to-date fashion of car
rying around a mirror In her handbag
Is by no means o modern as might
be supposed. In the midlife; ages,
from the twelfth to the end of the
fifteenth century, every lady carried
around with her a tiny mirror In her
reticule or hunglrig from her girdle.
mirrors being considered n necessary
i ptrt of every lady's toilette.
Miss Esther Sims was called to
Cheyenne last evening by tho Illness
of a friend,
WhoEntertains
will find in our stock
of Tuble Silver any
article sho may be
sbort of in the way of
Knives, Forks, Spoons,
Sets nudlSpecinl Servers. ,
Sterling and Triple Plated
Silverware shown!
The Corner Jewelry Store.
C. M. AUSTIN, Jeweler
Repairing, Cleaning and Pressing.
GERLE'S TAILOR SHOP
Wo Toko Ordors tor the
Standard Custom Garment Co., of Chicago.
Will Make Garments in Our Shop if Desired,
218 East Oth Street
Ovor Kocn's Gun Shop
Bimin-Tnai-i
If You Owned T
the Telephone Company?
Suppose you bought tho telephone company today, how would
you run it ?
How would you decide what the standards of service should
be, what rates to charge and what wages to pay, and how much
money to lay aside for rebuilding the plant as parts of it wear
out ?
You would, no doubt, try to give tho best service you could
fender existing war-time conditions.
You would want to charge enough for service to pay your em
ployees fair wages, to keep tho proporty in good repair and earn
as much on your money as you would receive if it were invested in
any other business involving equal risk.
In these times of- high prices and scarcity of labor and
material?, and in the face of other war-time conditions, don't you
think you would have "some job" on your hands ?
When you feel provoked if there are occasional defects in the
telephone service or feel that our policies or practices aro wrong,
we'll appreciate it if you will tell us about it and. let us talk
things over.
NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY
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