ACTO SHOW BOOSTED BY
CIIAM1IEH OF COMMERCE
ORGANIZE THE NORTH
PLATTE HOME MILKERS.
HtA L HARK, Editor nnd Publisher
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TUKSDAY, APRIL 8, 1010.
TICTOKY LOAN CHAIRMEN
WILL MEET TOMOKKOYV
Seveuty-flvo or more members of
the Chamber of Commerce nnd others
were In attendance nt the supper giv
en in the Episcopal church basement
Friday evening, tho object of which
was to lnfuso enthusiasm for the nuto
show to bo held this wcok and to hear
reports of tho work dono by tho C. of
C. road makers. Tho ladles of tho
church served a nice dinner, nnd Dou
qet's orchestra rendered sovoral se
lections. President Carroll addroased
tho meeting, telling of the present
status of tho now road laws, and tho
work that had been done, Is being
Mrs. R. P. Cotterell and F. L. Moon- dono nnd will bo dono by tho Chamber
oy, chairmen of tho women's and men's of Commerce good roads committee,
committee for tho district, arc ar- Ho also announced thnt ho had rc
ranglng for a conference of all county celved communications from a corpor-
chalrmen and loan workers in this ntlon which Is making aeroplanes who
city tomorrow on tho campaign plans want to plnce North Platto on a clr-
for tho coming Victory Loan drive cult of towns in which aeroplane ex-
which opens on Mondny, April 21st. hlbltlons will be given. To put on
Thos. C. Dymo, state chairman and this exhibition tho company nsks
E. F. Fonda, state secretary of the $2,500.
Liberty Loan organizations, accom- President Carroll Introduced C. M.
panled by Mrs. A. G. Peterson, of , Trotter who spoke nt somo length on
Aurora, state chairman of the Worn- the coming auto show, the benefit tho
ens tommitteo will nttend and direct, city would receive In tho way of at
tendance of out-of-town vlstors, and
while tho show manngors asked no fi
nancial help from the business men,
the latter were requested to givo the
show tholr moral support. Ho also
requested that merchants decorate
their windows. Tho men present gave
evidence that they would do all they
could to boost tho auto show.
J. E. Nelson spoke of the auditor
ium nt Holdrege. his former home.
nnd suggested thnt such a building
should bo erected In North Platto. This
matter will be considered at a future
meeting.
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tho conference. At all of tho Im
portant centers In tho state meetings
of this kind nro being held in order to
Instruct tho workers on tho Important
phases of tho selling campaign.
Tho counties of this district which
will be In conference are Lincoln,
Keith, Garden, Deuel, McPherson and
Arthur. The chairmen of both tho
men's and women's committees will
bo in attendance, and several others
who will assist In tho wark over tho
district arc expected to bo present.
Tho action of tho state committee
In giving North Platto this meeting
and also in sending to this city on the
19th of April the big fighting tank nnd
crow, with able orators to explain
the needs of the government, is a wor
thy recognition of tho importance of
our city as tho metropolis of western
Nebraska.
The conference will be In session all
day, the members of tho state commit
tee going to Grand Island tho follow
ing morning where a conference of
central Nebraska workers will bo
hold.
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Sutherland Courier Items.
J. D. Welsh and wife of St. Paul,
Nebraska, arrived In the city Tuesday.
Mr. Welsh is the gontlemn who pur
chased tho Inter-Ocean Garage. Wo
welcome them to Sutherland.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Sanderson re
turned Tuesday from a two weeks' so
ourn in Denver, where Mrs. Sanderson
received treatment in a hospital. She
is greatly improved in health.
John White left for Hillsdale, Wyo
ming, Tuesday morning where he goes
a.8 nsslstant manager of tho Bllss
Whlto Lumber and Hardware Co., of
that place.
Unless work commences by June 1st
the oil leases on tho land around Suth
erland will expire. Mr. Palmer, who
obtained them last year, has sent word
that he is getting a crew and machin
ery together to put down a test well
and it may not bo many days until we
may know for a certainty whether oil
will bo found here
Many now residences are being
built in Sutherland at the present
writing, several will bo started soon
and about fifty are being talked of.
Thi3 is what Sutherland has needed
for somo time. Some of these dwell
ings are being built for rent and ev
ory ono rented before the foundations
are started. With the progressive
spirit shown by our people along this
lino Sutherland's population will
double by January 1920.
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Hcrshoy Times Items.
At the village election Tuesday I. E.
Ware and W. H. Jenkins were elected
trustees for a term of two years. The
total vote cast was 105. Thirty-two
women voted.
George Smith received word of the
death of his brother at Fremont, Mich.,
Saturday. Tho brother was a couple
of years older than George, and death
was due to a stroke of apoplexy. Word
was received too late for Mr. Smith to
make tho trip and arrivo in time for
tho funeral.
Tho Great Western Sugar Company
shipped threo cars of Al white face-
steers from their farm north of Her
43hoy to tho Omaha market the first of
the week. They were top-uotchers and
undoubtedly brought the big money
the day they landed. Later:-Wo learn
they brought $200 a piece, $12,0000 for
tho bunch.
Grace Hawloy received a letter from
her brother, Archie, who is now in a
hospital in Newport News. Ho states
tho bones in his leg whero ho had it
broken in France, were not set right,
would have to bo broken over and re
set. This, ho says, will mean about
four months more in the hospital.
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OLD LONDON BELL FOUNDRIES
PRETTY TRIBUTE TO YANKS
Welsh Girl Enthusiastic Over
Good Qualities of the Boys
Fighting In France.
the
Relics of Many of Them Are Still to
Be Found Scattered Through
the British Capital.
In the dnys before clocks, to say
nothing of watches, were common the
bells of London occupied a much more
Importnnt position than they do to
day. 'Prentices depended on this bell
nnd thnt to call them very unwillingly
to work of n morning and release them
very willingly from work of nn eve
ning, whilst hells were requisitioned
for all mnnner of speclnl purposes.
And so there were many bell foundries
in the city. Relics of them are found
In many places, even If It Is only n
street name, such ns Billtter street,
which, as Mr. Lnndfear Lucas points
out, was undoubtedly Bell-sltzers or
Founders' lnne. Then Belslze probably
owes Its name, he declares, to n bell
foundry on the lower pnrt of Hami
stead hill. Something of this sort Is
all that remnlns of many of them, but
others, like the Whlteehnpel Boll
foundry, which has been charged with
rctunlng and rohanglng the bells of
Westminster abbey for the peace re
Jolclngs,v'l(ave continued to do business
through tho centuries. The foundry
commenced business In 1570.
Testimony to the qualities of some
of the American troops In France- Is
given by a girl member of the wom
an's nuxlllury army corps In a letter
to her home folk at Cardiff, Wales.
She says:
"We are stationed inside an Ameri
can camp In a huge old French cav
alry barracks. We arc doing clerical
work with hundreds and hundreds of
Americans In the Central Records of
fice. Wo deal with the whole Ameri
can army records and, excepting the
cooks, waitresses, etc., nil we odd 400
girls are really the 'Waacs' of the
American expeditionary force.
"We love the work, we love the
camp and the boys look nfter us well.
They are splendid fellows. We have
comfortable rooms, a recreation room
nnd hockey nnd are as happy as pos
sible. And now we are getting up n
grand revuo called 'The Battle of
Bourgas.' I nm to be a French girl.
Tho chorus Is ono of the best nnd the
music truly American. I'm afraid
your music over there when we come
back won't have enough 'pep' In It.
Honestly, tho boys can play. Even
those who are doing scavenger work
in the camp can piny tho violin and
piano."
Thirty or forty business men, build-,
ers and members of tho building
trades, met In the federal building Fri
day evening for the purpose of do-,
vising ways nnd means for securing
tho erection of moro houses In North
Plntto. It was pointed out by those;
In position to know thnt North Platto
today Is short two hundred houses,
and thnt tho growth of population is
seriously Impeded by tho lack of
these housos. Ono renl estnto man
stated that his firm had an nverngo of
twenty-five Inquiries dally for houses.
The subject was discussed at somo
length and It wns then moved thnt nn .
organization to bo known ns tho North
Platto Homo Builders bo perfected.
This was dono by tho election of E. R.
Goodman president, S. M. Soudcr first1
vlco-prcsldent, O. E. Elder second!
vice-president, C. L. Unsklns, secre
tary and W. H. Mungor trensurer. Tho
president was authorized to appoint
threo others, who with the officers
will form tho executive board. A
committee was also appointed to so
licit members at the rate of one dol
lar a head.
Th"e executlvo commltteo will nt
once begin the work of devising ways
nnd means of Inducing pcoplo to build
houses, though nt the meeting no plans
for this were suggested. 0
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"The Country Cousin."
Miss Alexandra Carlisle comes to
the Keith theatre Thursday, April
10th. In tho Booth Tarklngton-Jullan
Street comedy, "The Country Cousin."
This piny ran for six months In New
York and while there was highly en
dorsed by both President Wilson and
the Into Colonel Roosevelt. Tho au
thors have contrasted tho people of a
smnll western town with those of tho
so-called smart set In Now York. Tho
types have been drawn sharply with
much humor nnd with amusing situa
tions and strong climaxes. Miss Car
lisle, who is ono of the most beautiful
and tnlcnted stars of the stage, has
the rolo of Nancy Price, tho country
cousin, in which she has scored a dis
tinct triumph. She comes hero under
tho management of Klaw & Erlanger
and Georgo C. Tyler, with a strong
supporting company.
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BEYOND ALL MEED OF PRAISE
Men's Full Dress.
Will the returned soldiers who are
snld to be ordering colored evening
suits be strong enough to overthrow
the black tradition established by Lord
Lytton?
Very few, perhaps, of those who
for 90 years have meekly bowed to
that tradition, have known its origin,
says the London Chronicle. Until the
publication of "Pelhnm" conts worn
for evening dress were of different
colors, chiefly brown, green or blue,
but the novelist mnkes one of his fe
male characters tell the hero a blue
coat does not suit his complexion.
"You look best In black," she says,
"which Is a great compliment, for
people must be very distinguished In
nppearnnce to do so." And forthwith
all men choe to take the compliment
to themselves.
Some Doubt About It.
One of our good housekeepers know?
she has no ear for music, but when
she Is hustling nround her pots and
pans and scrubbing and washing out
teu towels she cannot constrain hum
mlng a bit just out of her clennlng-up
joy. Now there Is also a little neigh'
bor boy who plays under her window.
Once, while the process of scrubbing
wns going on above, tho little fellow
looked up to the window with a face
all puckered nnd serious, as If some
question had been troubling him for
quite n while.
"Well, Toby, whnt's the matter?" In
quired the housekeeper.
A long pause then. "Please ma'am
is you singing?" Indianapolis News.
Impossible to Form Words That Will
Do Even Simple Justice to
American Mothers.
Just before the war the "cellnr
mother" wns spoken of with under
standing (In America), If not with
laughing sympathy the woman who
decoyed husband and sons Into the
cellar, and then sat on the door, re
solved that no mankind of hers should
engage In such a fool business as
war !
Many of tho mothers who so spoke
had made the schoolmnster's life n
burden by their nervous telephoning
when Ned or Harry went to school ; yet
when the country demanded It and
their boys were ten years dearer, they
gave them to the war without a sign
of anything but pride, Lucy II. M.
Soulsby writes In the Atlantic.
They hnd never been trained, like
English mothers, to live through ordi
nary life with a boy In danger on some
frontier firing line; but they learned
heroism .mil nerve when the need
came.
The American mother learned dally
self-denial, too; the most extravagant
of nations learned thrift In food con
servntion ; nnd tho most set In her ways
of any woman on earth, the New Eng
land house mother, altered thoo
ways In that most unalterable part of
her house, the kitchen, where every
thing had been "thus and so" for gen
erations. And this thrift and adaptability !
were not drawn out of her by the !
needs of her own men, but by a quick
Imaginative sympathy, which bridged j
3,000 miles of ocean and felt, with all I
Sir Philip Sidney's chivalry, for the
stranger of alien race, "whose neces- j
slty wns greater than hers."
SOON WILL BE OF THE PAST
Loaded Cigars.
Around tho hotels of San Francisco
patrons nro wnrned to be on the look
out for tho old trick of the londed
clgnr. Some Inventive genius has put
out one thnt contains fireworks nnd
when It begins to shoot the nlr Is
filled with set pieces representing
men on horseback, French trenches,
nnd the retrent of the Huns. W. II.
Hnrl, flnnncler and Investor of Ilelenn,
Mont., avers that these things nro
true and thnt he saw a parade of won
derful pictures when a friend slipped
him one of the cigars In tho lobby of
the Palace last week. Ho says that
cigar produced the entire battlo of
Chateau-Thierry before ho could
smother It. Oregonlnn.
Incomprehensibility.
'There's some misunderstanding
about bnlshevlsts."
"They discuss their affairs largely
In the most difficult lnngungo on earth;
riusslan, nnd Illiterate Russian nt thnt.
Misunderstanding Is Inevitable."
Georgia Wild Cows Seem to Have
8erved Their Purpose, and Are
Fast Disappearing.
The plney woods cow, long n chum
of tho rnznrback hog, Is fading fn:i
the Georgia landscape. It Is n polim
nnt thought. She Is ono of tho In t
links that binds Georgia to the pnt
Thousands of her roamed over tin'
great plantations that would now
condemned ns undemocratic. She w
usually red and white n "plded"
Inclined to hnve a poor figure, hum"
backed and somewhat knockkneed, m l
her eyes were closely situated, In Hi"
mnnner which psychologists sh.itie
their heads over, because It Indicates
the crlmlnnl bent. But upon the plnev
woods cow Georglu In the old dnv
depended entirely for milk nnd but
ter. Many planters had hundreds f
them, but they nil ran wild, nnd ne
of tho spring sports was to round
them up nnd mark them. If n elmlm
specimen should he captured, fho mis
hard to feed, being unaccustomed to
civilized fodder, for plney woods cows
ent grass In summer and souse their
honds up to the eyes In ponds In the
winter, looking for wnter grass nnd
moss. They always have n forlorn
nlr. Many of them still dwell on the
Islands of Banks' mill pond, wli'-'h
covers thousands of ncres. nnd hut h
ers of Vnldesta hunt them with hordes
and rlogB. New York Post.
FOR SALE.
Homo grown olm trees.
12th street, phono Red 058.
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215 east
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FOR S ALE
Two yearling Hoi3teiu
Coolldgo, North Platto.
bulls. A.
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P-A-LG-E THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CAR IN AMERICA
The models wo will have on display nt the Show will not only maintain, but
strengthen the Paige slogan- "The most Beautiful Car in America."
The body designs, in addition to their beauty and grace, have a distinct original
ity that sets them apart from anything in their class. Notwithstanding the striking
beauty of these cars they will be bought just as much for their comfort, completeness
of equipment and exquisite finish of details.
To properly appreciate the appeal of the models, they must be inspected and studied,
and to know the remarkable mechanical efficiency, a thorough demonstration is quite
necessary. We are at your service and especially during the Auto Show .where you
will find us on the stage at Auditorium.
MAXWELL More Miles Per Gallon, More Miles on Tires.
There is nothing like doing one thing year after year because it always results
in doing things well. This is the underlying thought in every "Maxwell. It is why
300,000 Maxwells have been built on the original chassis plan. There has never been
a departure from tho original idea. Still thero have been more than 1000 improve
ments in this car since the first one was built. Every time a chance was seen to make it
better the improvement was made. No one lias every criticized the Maxwell on the
grounds of reliability. No one can criticize it on the grounds of good looks, for there
have been 24 recent improvements in its appearance. That's why a Maxwell runs on
and on in almost endless mileage; why it grows better ns it grows older; why it stands
the moods of the careless driver.
We want you to s.ee this 1919 Model at the Auto Show, as you will find Quality, Ap
pearance and Action that you will not find in some cars that are selling for $200 more.
Arrange with one of our salesmen to. give you a demonstration of this wonderful little
car, and then get your check book ready. Booth Number 7. On the stage at the Auto
Show.
Tho Maxwell 1 1-2 ton Truck for Every Business.
We sell and recommend them because tliey meet the standard requirements of the
American public tit the lowest cost. The American public has learned a great deal about
trucks. It has learned to demand a certain standard for performance, for efficiency, and
a certain minimum that a truck must meet to win approval
The Maxwell Truck
Is built in a Truck factory by expert tiuck builders and most nearly succeeds in
offering a "real truck" at a price within the reach of the average man. For these and
many other reasons it will pay you to inspect this truck nt the Auto Show. Our sales
men will bo pleased to show and demonstrate and explain in every detail every feat
ure of this the best V Ton Truck that is on the market today. For Quality, Perform
and and Price it is in a class by itself. Delivered at North Platte complete with Cab,
Windshield and Electric Lights at Twelve Hundred Fifty Dollars. If you fail to see it
you will miss the greatest truck value at the Show. On display in the truck section
don't fail to see it.
IMimililC TRUCKS, Seven Models, 94 to Tons.
Republic Trucks are quality trucks. Republic quality has a special significance to
the buyer of hauling quality. All Republic trucks are designed by engineers who spe-.
ciallze on trucks and truck problems. They know just how trucks should be built. The
Republic Motor Truck Co. is producing and selling more than twice as many
trucks as the next largest manufacturer. IM4MvS?ii?41 o ,
res w-sgi--T. r, jis i
This tniv-k will be on display in the truck section at the Auto Show and we invite
you to come and see the best in its class, .
7HE OAKLAND SENSIBLE SIX
High power and light weight in the Oakland Sensible Six Cars have laid the foun
dation of the extraordinarily efficient and economical service they render to the home
and the individual. Because of the unusually high proportion of power to pounds in
all models, they are quick, flexible, and easy to handle; and for this same fundamental
reason they afford maximum transportation at a minimum cost.
Tho broad utility of the Oakland Cars is the all important part of their marked
ability. For busy persons such as Doctors, Salesmen and Women with many outside
activities, the Oakland Coupe and Roadster afford that extreme spryness and activity
highly essential in this class of service. For families, the Touring model and the Se
dan are notably able performers in traffic and on hills -cars quick at the getaway and
instantly responsive at all times to the accelerator or brake.
All of these model will be on display at the Auto Show and we will appreciate an
opportunity to show you and give you a demonstration. You will find us in Booth
Number 7 on the stage at the Auditorium.
Wo courteously invite you to visit us at tho Auto Show in Booth Number 7, on the
stage in the Auditorium.
iSSa C. M. TROTTER, Dealer, North Platte. Neb. 10T"i 2