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WILSON TOUT, Editor and Publisher.
Kntorcd at the North Platto, Nebraska
PostoMlco aa Second CIobs Matter.
SUBSCBITTION THICK !
One Year, In adrancc 42J0O
TUESDAY, 'JANUAKY 85th 103,1.
Xi:W SCKAl'PLK.
A Column of Nonsense
EDITORIAL.
In some way our notice or tho birth
oi n bny to Mr. and Mrs. Androw T.
YBt on Januu.y 12th, f;ot by without
getting Into print. Wo can only Hay
that It waB not lntontlonal and wo
hayo only nccldontally discovered our
overnight. Andy In not any :proudof
than Mrs. Yost but he probably innltca
iri7re fuss about It.
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Wllluds Hansen has gone. Ho was
one ot that typo xil foreigner which
'came to this country to oscapo per
secution and tho opportunity they
found hero developed tho host In them.
I In was so stem with himself that ho
often was stom with others: This
cuuRud some of thoso with whom ho
camo In contact to think him "cross,"
Ho wns Intensely patriotic. Ho was so
honest thut ho worrlod about It. Ho
belonged to that school of workers
who loved his job, thought no one
could do It aa well us no onu Know
no limit ot hours. Many hundreds ot
. vounc men and women who know
"Hand" will nniiBo in thought to ro
call hbi honest face and romombor
Bom act of kindness Which ho per
formed. Ho waH ngalnst Hquov in any
form. UKalnst tobacco In any form,
bitter against gambling and betting,
outspoKon ngninst mvoiuy ami exirn
vacance and yet ho was not a church-
uobr. nor did ho claim to bo a modol
for anyone. His rollglon was si in pi o
yqt forvont. Ho was worth knowing
and tho loiiEor ono know mm mo not
tcr ono liked him. Ho Is among tho
last of his kind.
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Hlcli School i-eitort cards will be
out this week. They will glvo tho
toochor'o opinion of tho 'results a
clilovod Ii' ouch brunch. Many of tho
niniils will show cood ronorts. Tlioy
are to bo congratulated. Thoy have
douc woll. Sonio of the pupils will
take homo poor grndos. In Bomo
costs thoro Is a good oxcuso. In all
cases thoro: Is a reason. Wo parents
shohld try to find out tho reason
rattier than tho oxcuso. "It Is eiiHlor
to make uxciihob than to make good."
Th,o child naturally takes to tho castor
way. Tho duty of tho paront 1b plain.
Ho cannot dodgo by making excuses.
It is his child iml ho must face the
responsibility. Scolding does llttlo or
no .good. What we can do is get at
(ho bottom ot tho mattor. Sep tho
tearlwr. Ho or she knows. If wo had
had that toucher in our homo as our
guoftl hoforo this we would now bo
able to go to her as to a friend. Hut
she will glvo us a sympathetic hear
ing. Hotter roslit from mvory club,
lodge sodlotv or organization wo at
tend than to let another term go by
with our children falling In school lio
auso we would not stay at home with
fhem In the ovonlng.
WHEN 'TUB DOSS IS AWAY.
Wo wandered Into ono of tho down
town stores tho other day and ro
mnrkod to the young man In charge
that things looked vory orderly and
clean. Ills reply Interested us, "Woll
you sco tho boss Is away and wo want
ed, to Biirprlso and ploaso him. Wo
havo gono through ovory box In tho
hiniBo, sorted ovor tho goods, wiped
HVory bit ot dust from ovory box and
nut thlinrs In tho best Bhnno nosslblo.
Of co'urso, Wo have had to work night)
to do this but we wanted to do tt tor
him."
Ju tho first place, thoBO boys must
have a 'boss who troata thorn right.
They work overtime without thought
of pay, Thoy want to ploaso him.
Then In tho socond plaao, tho bOBB haB
some good follows In his employ
KlndnosB Is lost on -some pooplo
Thoy were not brought ui right.
TIiobq mon approclato bolng troatod
right and respond moro than halt way
Tlioro will bo no nuostloa of tho opon
or olnged shon or strlfo botweon
onpltal and labor when tha men and
th& bosa got togothor. Unfaithful em
ployees oan wrook almost any oust
nofls In town and faithful onos can
hold up tho establishment ovon when
tho head la a llttlo weak. Lucky Ib
tho man who has gathorod a group
of craployoos about him, who nro
faithful to tho trust ami rortunaio
Indeed in tho omoloyoo who has as
Boclatod hlmsolf with a Ikibs who
Mr. IS. S. Davis,
Hoiisb of Representative,
Lincoln, Nebr.
Ikur Ed:
Tho othor duy when wo wore going
over lo Simon Bros, to buy some
copper tubing for our coffoo porcola-
tor, a man stopped us and asked us
why thoy didn't dredge out tho Platto
HIver a llttlo and havo boats on tho
Platto. Ed, It's a great Idea, lct'a
havo hor dredged. Wo aro not In favor
ot dredging her enough to bring
battleships up to North Platto becauso
wo do not havo any need for battle
ships hero only as Homo people will
never sco ono unless it is brought
bore.
Thoil again, Ed, the Platte Is too
wide. If wo would dredgo hor out,
tho water would all run Into tho
drtodgod part and loavo vast expanses
of clean sand for tho uso of man
which Is now covored up with n thin
layor of water.
Then again, EiJ, wo could load up
our coal In Colorado and bring It
down to North Platto on boats and
load the samo boats up with com and
hay and ship to Omaha. Tho boats
Would probably havo to be shipped
back by Union Pacific as tho river Is
too swift for most boats to run ngalnst
Its current from Omaha back up to
Colorado and tho trains do.
Then again, Ed, It would not bo
necessary for some of tho fat
and ugly shaped men of this
town to oxposo thcmBclvos in a
bathing suit on tho banks of oUr
now bathing beacll which Wo ana go
ing to liuvo noxt year. These mon
could Just go oft by "themselves along
tho ilrodged placos In tho river and
find enough doop places to swim. Of
course thoy would'havo to look out
for tho boats coming up and down tho
drodgod places but If tltoy did got
In Utolv way It wouldn't bo as much
loss as If some of tho rost of us woro
In their placQs.
Then again, Ed, soino of tho big
catfish that wo aro told ana caught
down around Grand Island and Fre
mont could got up this far and so not
bo sacrificed lo tho horrible groodt-
noss or uio cltlzons ot tho lower Platto
It would mako bettor fishing up hero
and porhaps draw Bomo moro pooplo
to nvo m North Platto hoforo the
noxt coiibub Ib taken so wo won't
show a falling off.
So Ed, slnco I did not hear from
you about making pooplo sow the
buttons on bottor whon thoy mako
clothes to soil wo hopo you will pass
u law getting tho dredging dono this
spring bo wo can got Homo boats nnd
ships for summer and you romcmber
about tho bafhing.
Yours truly,
A CONSTITUENT.
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Youthful Prodigy Declares There Is
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l Five room bungaow, modern j
except ueui; goon uarn, cuickcu
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BARGAINS
Nothlna Wonderful About His
Mastership of Game.
Chess Is the easiest game In the ' ?Ha J'VrasVR
world to me. During the long dull gjJJ' n?
days of the war my father used to j; lQ2n w t m street
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play an Hie time wun ms ineuus. ai story aml ft half sovon room
first 1 did not understand what tho , house, modem except heat, dar-
chessmen were for, and wondered i ago, chicken houso and coal -
why father would sit for houvs and it Iioubo Largo trees and nice it
,1.., I . .1 ...l.l. Itc r......T..l it lnwn .nt,lnr Inf rnd1. $1000 S
ll.U III. UIU UUillli Willi UD iUUllJ-iUUft" .vv. yvuv, i-i
Ing' pieces. One day when I did not $t balanco $45 per month. Price
want to go out and play 1 watched j0,0-00-, . . . S
him pluv his game. I became Inter- j 71R West 5th Street, It
' ; ' . , "'" , j Two story frame, eight room, J?
ested. I bothered my father so with St ,, .,,.- ' (1b nni,' li
questions that ho chased me out ot the it homQ ,n a reaJ locatlon. Terms it
game as soon as hq was through ,-t cau i,0 arranged. Prlco $5500. H
with his friend. I waited eagerly for noR South Elm Street. S
him to get through. Ho ployed a .six room, framo ono and ono- l
tifiu.tlnn .mm.. wlHi mo nnd T linelor- it linlf Rtorv dwolUne. Pnrnpr lot. it
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stood cverj novo after that. Tho ig nno simile treos, run basement, M
siriciiy moucrn. a Dargain, on
ii terms. $420000
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i,t Close in flva room homo, mod- Jjt
U orn except heat, Finished In
ft whlto enamel; largo trees and
J.i lawn, good barn; A bargain for
l some business man. Cash $2000. -
it balance at $45 per month. Prlco it
S $5000.00. S
ii Office Phono G12J or W or call
if J. C. HOLLMAN or it
J. E. SEBASTIAN.
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' ATl'RK NOTES.
next game we played, I beat my father,
who is a very good chess player.
There Is nothing wonderful about my
way of playing tho game. My secre
tary, Mr. Azcnbcrg, says that It
comes from reincarnation. A baby
Is born with good brains, and they ex
plain it that way. They say thnt Ills
ancestors or somo spirits havo given
this power to him becauso so much
ability 111 one person must have taken
n long time to develop. When I play
chess I can plan my moved six or sov- .
en moves abend, and most players
can only go three moves ahead of the j
game. I can't help It at all. I was .
born that way. I like to play with
poor players. At West Point, where j Our list of birds for 1921 has been
I beat 10 games and drew one, there enlarged by the addition of (5) two
were only nine good players; the oth- i Magpies which we nw near the rail-
,,, ,...ii. ,i road bridge just east of town. Thoso
era had no business trying to play b,plB com0 down ,nto the r,TOr
me at all. , country with the. cold weather and
I have played lots of line players In aro ono of tho most striking birds of
chess. During the war I beat the the winter. Also wo saw (C) a crow
German governor ot Warsaw, and he and heard several cawing in tho trees
wns pn old man und u lino player, over back of tho now stock yards.
Then I drew a game with Itubensteln, ' At times these birds aro qulto com
thc Russian champion, and nlso drew mon In this community but much of
with Grlllln In a blindfolded game In " 0 l,'ey aro on,y "" '"CiU
England. I have not played Laskcr 7,ho "xor 110W re"M(1 was iol'2l
... ... , T , t , , the Tree Sparrow. AVe saw a flock
yet. but one ot tho 21 I beat n Paris i of them U)0 wJUoW8 ncar the
says he drew n game with Lasker, and . ,.ivor Thoso 8parroWB can bo reCog-
another said he beat Capablanca. In ,,zu,i by the reddish brown crown and
America, my hardest game so far has ' tho dark spot In the middle of the
been with Colonel Flebegcr, sixty-two breast . They are here only In the
years old, at West Point. Samuel winter .nesting within tho Arctic
llzeszewskl In Leslie's. Circle.
"' " Ono of tho rarest trees to bo found
In North Platto is tho Kentucky Cof-
fce-beuu troo to bo found in tho yard
at 121 West Fourth St. No other
specimen Is known here. It is a var
iety that comes from the east and
just entors tho stato at the eastern
and northeastern boundary. Tha tree
Is best known by tho large beans that
are borne in a pod. Tho pods aro still
on tho treo mentioned above and oc
casionally ono la found on the ground.
Our friends In the eastern part of
tho state still refuse to believe that
tho oppossum or "possum" as the
southern negroes call it, is found In
this part of tho state. Wo would be
glad to have word from anyona who
has seen ono this winter. Wo pub
lished an account some weeks ago of
an oppossum which was brought to
our office. Aro thoro any othor rec
ords that we can uso?
It Is claimed that no ono ever saw
a wild bear In Lincoln County. Up to
a stort time ago there was no report
of a live wild bear being ever seen in
Nebraska but now they have one rec
ord from tho northwestern part of the
stato. Did anyone who reads this
cvor seo a live wild bear In Nebraska
or Lincoln County?
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When in North Platte stop at the
Ww Hotel Pnlac' and Cafn Yon will
p treated well 58tf
Dr, L. J. KRAUSE, Dentist. Mc
Donald Bank Bnfldlng. Rooms 2 & 8,
Phone 07. 42tf
AT THE
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Wanted Washings, will pnjl for j
and deliver. Pox 2S5. ' ,
Vov Sale Full blood Barred Ply-!:
mouth Rock Roosters. Phono 795F120.';
Wanted A woman to do washing at';
house. Small family. Electric washer.1
Phono 1247W. j
Wauled Anyone wishing quilts
made, either tied or quilted, call at
012 E. Tenth.
For Rent Six-room house 'on east.
Fourth St. R. McFarland at Rogers
Shoo Shop.
Wanted A girl for general house-
jwork. Mrs. W. H. McDonald, 407 W.
5th St.
I Lost; On Sunday morning, a foun
tain pen without cap. Finder please
return to this office and receive re
ward. Lost A Rev-O-Noc bicycle. Front
Non Shid tire, back Vacuum Cup with
steel rim. New Doparturo Coaster
(Brake, Mud guards and Motorcycle
, handlebars without grips. Return to
Harrison Tout and receive roward.
Homepathic Physician & Surgeon
General Practice and
Construction Surgery.
Hospital Accomodations
Platte Valley Hospital,
r; Former Name "Twinem Hospital".
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
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DR. W. I. SHAFFER
Osteopath Physician
Over the Oasis. North Platte.
Lost On Wed., Ja"n. 19, a black Im
itation leather traveling bag between
North Platto and Gothenburg. Bag
contained personal effects and private
papers. Finder peaso notify McCabe
Hotel, or Tribuno office and receive
roward. E. T. Ashly Powell Sup
ply Co., Omaha.
PRICE SLASHING
RECORD BREAKING
GLOSE'OUT
lALE OF
Bca PB8B3 WgW
U.
ARMY GOODS
at public deposnl. We must quit is report from eastern headquarters, and mnst dispose of stock at any price.
WE MUST SACRIFICE, Therefore we are offering best quality of U. S. government merchandise at prices cut so low
that it will attract every citizen of the surrounding country to this Price Slashing, Record Breaking, Close Out Sale of U. S. govern
ment merchandise.
Remember the stock is limited and only a few more days left, so take advantage right now. We must get out
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CONVINCED
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1921
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