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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
LINCOLN HIMIWAY WAS PICKER UK I) CROSS SENDS "CLEAN-VP
UNION PACIFIC OFFERS SCHOLAR
SHIP FOR HOYS AND GIRLS
CLUB WORK.
HAND BIG BILL THE WALLOP !
OUT TO SERVE CONVENIENCE
OF OARAGES.
SOUAD" UK UK TO AID
SKUVICK MEN.
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Frunk A. Harrison, who 1h mak
ing ii tour of Nebraska anl reporting
about the highways, tourist camp
grounds antl tourlHt conveniences,
writes as follows after he loft North
Platto: From Big Springs .to North
Platto tho Lincoln highway Is a bouu
tlful gravel road, not excelled any
whore. From North Platte to Cozad,
great difficulties ul to bo met princi
pally lM)cn.uso this part of tho high
way was picked out to servo tho con
venloncos of certain garages insteiui pr0H8 nn,i the American Legion are
of making it oasy for tho traveling1 nnrticlclpatlng in this work at tho re
public, j fjucst of tho government a'nd a un-
Noarly forty miles of tho road from ,lc(1 cffort i)0lng made to help every
Gothonburg west could havo boon sent ' oxBorvlco man who needs assistance
across tho river whore it would hav)'r tiny kn,j Tho cioan Up squad
passed thru tho wldo ail fortllo val-jwu inu0 its honlquartors at North
loy of the Platte, with fine farm '-. iatto. Its momborB includo a modlcal
provemonts and wondorous crops. It cxuminor and a representative of the
would havo gone past tho military pc,icnil Hoard for Vocational educa
ccmotnry and tho Bight of old Fort Mc-j Uoni rt compensation and Insurnnco
Pherson and woil have turned back cajInB eXamincr nn)l a roprcscntalivv.
across tho river at the stato oxpori- ()f tno Amorlcan Rod Cross and tho
mental farm. American Legion.
Thoro arc evidences that the dlrec- An CBpocial effort Is being mado to
tors of this highway listened to garage
men very closely. They sont tho road
thru the long strip of sand on the
north side, following tho railroad on
tho right of way an)l thru sand so deep
that now nftor years of work and ex
perience , it 1b a roproach to tho name
of tho highway, and bo'lng on tho rail
road ground it cannot got fcdoral aid,
It passes thru a torrltory that gives
tho tourist the Idea that Lincoln
county is n streak of sand.
It Is worthy of noto that the Lincoln
Highway association is a papor con
corn malc up almost ontiroly of offi
cers and pays out not a cont on tho im
provement of tho road confining its
oxpensc to the marking of pojes so as
to lead travelers in front of favored
garages.
Lincoln county can well afford tuifrom ,IlRt voiirB membership duos
rotlro thoso garago mon and "consuls',
of tho highway on liberal ponslons. J
and tako ontiro chorgo of tho marking
of roads ns woll as tho malntonnnco
of them. State Journal.
EDITOR OF SCOUT BULLETIN
TELLS AH OUT OFFICIAL
SCOUT UNIFORM.
Tho, question "Docb u boy havo to
havo a uniform before ho can 'bo
como a scout?" comes to uB bo ofton
that it seems host to glvo somo spaco
to the oxplana'yon of Hiho matter.
.It Ib tho first thing a boy wants of
courso and that Is qulto naturaT.
Ilowover It is a matter of minor Im
portance. Wo want tho hoys te havo
uniforms whoro It Is posslblo for
them to got one, but Bomo of tin
boat scouts In town nro tho bovu
without. A plan Is on foot to glvo ev
ery boy a chance to earn a uniform.
If any buslnoss man has somo errands
and chores that a hoy can do will
pleatm call bcoiu headquartorfl, BOLT,
and we will toll you ono of thoso boys
who Is anxious to cam tho uniform
Thoro has boon consldorablo trouble
over tho noys who aro not scouts buy
ing scout equipment and passing
themsnlvoB off as mombors of tho ot
lanization. That hns mado manv
folks fool that scouting 1b not wort'j
hlto. To prevent this as inucn ni
PohrIMc tho council Iu-b decided tc
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have some local dealer handlo tho ot
flcial equipment and a list of all
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m-Muin mil, .ut uuiumij ""
been handed to him so he may know
w'io the scouts arc.
The intention of the above pan
graph waB not to lufor that ovory bov
out ot scouting Is not on tho square
but thero havo been cases como to out
attention whoro n boy has dono Bcout
Ing a good doal of harm through su(; t
misinterpretation.
TOMATOES
$1.50 n bushel at our placo.
$1.76 a bushel dollvorcd.
NORTH PLATTE FLORAL
CO
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Mr. anil Mrs. John Wolnhorgor ro
turned to tholr homo In Omaha yes
terday after visiting at tho homo of
tho fonnor'B parontB.
WANTED!
Your Order for Coal.
Wo handlo tho following kinds of high grado. coal:
Crested Butte Hard Coal.
Plnnaclo Lump. ' .
p Plnnaclo Nut. "
Somerset Lump.
Maltland Lump, "
Hoclc Springs Lump.
Rock Springs Nut.
Bo euro to get our prices boforo placing your order.
Artificial Ice & Cold Storage Company.
Phono 40.
An opportunity will he given every
veteran of the World War In Lincoln,
Frontier, Hayes, Hitchcock, Diuidy,
Chase, Perkins, Logan, Deuel, Keith,
Arthur and McPherson Counties to re
ceive assistance In the settling of
claims for compensation, advice as to
hospitalization or vocational educa
tion or Information relatlvo to any
problem arising from Ills war service
on Sept. 10 whon the local "Cloan Up
Campaign" Is on. Tho Amorlcan Red
, (n touch with every man In the
county who is in any way entitled to
assistance. Whore It Is not possible
bocauso of lllnoss or disability to pro-
sont claims in person, tho local Red
Cross workers will endeavor to usslst
In getting necessary Information to
mombors of tho squakl.
As this is tho most intenslvo effort
which has yet boon mado to locate nil
claimants and, adjust their Claims
satisfactorily tho cooperation of ovory
rcsidont is asked In reaching these
cases. " "
Last year tho Amorlcan Red Cross
spent approximately $10,000,000 in
serving dlsabldd ex sorvico men and
tholr famlllos. This one department
of Red Cross activity cost nearly
$4,000,000 more than the total receipts
0f tho me ,HHCharged from tho
Army a NftVy and yot entitled to
govornmontal modlcal treatment and
aid, thoro are at present 2(1,300 men in
government and contract hospitals
throughout tho country. This Is olghl
tlmos tho number cared for In 191')
and tho numbor of -thoso cases need
ing troatmont will undoubtedly con
tlnuo to increase rapidly for several
years. According to a Btntomont from
tho Surgeon Gonoral's oglco of tho
Army, tho peak of disability will prob. j
ably not bo reached before 1925 If It Is
then.
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TRI COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION AND PICNIC
COMES NEXT SUNDAY.
Tho offlcors havo issuefl tho follow
ing statomont: On tho county line bo
tweon Lincoln nnd Logan counties anil
near tho county line of McPherflort
county, on section 4, township 1G.
rango 29, tho tri county Sunday
school convention will bo hold on
Soptombor 4th.
This Ib a convention of all tho
Sunday schools ln tho three counties
namod. Tho program will be given by
600 children. Thoro will bo In atten-
danco. It Is bolloved. not less than
asked that two oi1 thrco classes be
thoro to tako part In tho program by h . , bott w o ho;,
RiKtng roadlnKB dialogues or bv , n1,muc" uo" lue C , ,
Bl,,f'lI1J" roauinfcs, umiohutH or -v I judgf the p aces than thoy hall last
ron(i0rliiK anvthlmr thov havo nro.........
rendering anything thoy havo
' parod. This will bo ono ot tho blggojt
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picnics over iiotu in tuts part ot tno
Htnto.
Thoro will bo frleM. chlckon and
watormolon for ovorylwdy at dinner, I
and In order to bo suro that all can j
bo accomodate ovoryouo ia asked to
put ln a few melons extra for their
friends.
This picnic Is an annual affair and
this is the third ono hold In a grove
at tho placo niontloned.
A nice banner Is to bo glvon to the
dologatlon wlvjlch has (traveled the
greatest numbor of mllos ln nttewllng
tho convention.
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To whom aro you going to soil your
Hay and Grain? Tho Harrington Mer
cantile Co. will offer tho highest
1 prices.
In a communication from Presi
dent C. It. Gray of the Union Pacific
Railroad Co. received by County
Agent Geo. II. Kollogg this wdek wc
have tho following offer of a scholar
ship: The Union Pacific Railroad Co.,
offers to the boy botweon sixteen
and twenty-one years of ago ranking
tho hlghost In the Hoys and Girls
Club work for tho year 1922, In
Corn, Potato, or Wheat project a
Seventy-five dollar Scholarship In
tho College of Agriculture the
School of Agriculture, or the Short
Winter Course of the School of Agrl
culturo in the Unlvorslty of Ncbr.
In addition tho Union Paclilc Rail
.road Company will reimburse th
student for the oxpense of railroad
transportation from his homo to
Lincoln, Nebraska, and return, over
Its lines.
Tho County winner will He deter
mined on the following basis:
(a) Seventy-five per cont on
rank In club work.
(b) Twcnty-flvo per cent on act
ivities of the boy In community
affairs. ...,..
The winner shall be chosen from
among tho ten boys ranking highest
in the County Club projects, as out
lined by tho College of Agricitltuip.
Tho rank of theso boys In the Com
munlty Affairs- and the County win
ner, will bo determined by a com,
mlttee of three, consisting of tho
County Superintendent, one person
appointed by tho Director of Exten
sion in the University of Nebraska,
and the third person to be chosen In
these two members.
The scholarship shall be used
within a year of tho date of award,
except where a boy Is a regular
attendant at school. In this case,
it may bo used the year following,
or ntp the next session following the
time the boy finishes his school.
It Is proposed that five acres of
corn, ten acres of wheat, or one aciv
of potatoes, shall be grown by each
person entering the above competi
tion. Tho same prizes are offered by the
Union Pacific Railroad Company for
1921 as thoso outlined above for the
yea 1922 . excont that the comnetl
ton 8,mll ,)e upon projecta now ln
ffoct 8Uch a8 Calf clubsJ( p,g Clubg
Potato nnd Com Clubs, etc., and are
offered only In such Counties as can
bo arranged between this dato;-and
tho close of tho present season.
The prizes for the current year
will be effective as soon as the pro
jects are comploted and the awards
made.
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SCOUT . EXECUTIVE TELLS
OF
SCOUTS PART' IN THE
CLEAN UP.
Tho Second Annual Clean Up Cam
paign was a success from every stand
nolllt. Last vear It was tint over lv a.
fw ()f tho.boya ag our organization
WB nQt ,n as ROml 8,mpo ag ,t ,B now
Th(J yoar about 5Q ,)0ya ,m(1 a c,mnco
, , d u la j
training ut doing that typo of work
Tne lioys who went out this year
pro-.yo.,. ri,Pre WGro some cases where
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placo at, though tho boys were show
ing partlal.ty. Such was not tho caso.
however, and there wore very few
complaints when you. stop to realize
that lliey .l-.'-iod about 1200 houses.
As far as wo know thero have been
only five or six and somo of them wera
not very .or'.
Thore wero GG0, 100 per cent cards
put out varying !. numbor on differ-
out streets -ov'ttty per cent ot the
homes in East Second recolvoit cards
80 per cent on bi Socon)l, 43 por
cont "3t Tr.'.nl, GO por cent on
wost Third, r'J (r cent on east
Fourth, G7 per -?nt on west Fourth,
33 por cont on oast Fifth, 67 per cont
on 'vogt Fifth, 53 per cent on oaat
6th, r.4 pev cont on wost Sixth, 40 por
cent on west Frcnt, 8 per cont on oast
Seventh, 50 per cent on Wost Sovonth,
55 pir c.nt on aast Eighth, 04 por
cont tn .vest Fhth, 33 por cont on
oast Ninth, 7 1 por cont on west Ninth
42 por cent on oast Tonth, 70 per cont
on wost 1 enth, 57 por cont on oast
Eleventh. 72 per cont on wost Elev
enth, 50 per cont on east Twelfth, 49
per cent on west Twolfth, GO por cont
on couth V'no, 66 por cent on south
Locust. 33 poi cont on north Locust
71 iwr cont on South Ash, 57 per cont
m south Maplo 57 por cont on south
P.'nc, 83 i.er cent on south Sycamoro,
i'O por cont on South Chestnut. 4S por
. rent on bouth Dowoy, 50 por cent on
ucrth Diwoy.
Tliat mnkos south Sycamoro high
with 83 por cont and wost Second noxt
with 80 por cont
Tho boya undoubtodly missed Bonin
nousos but tho cards aro all gone and
no more will bo prlntod this yoar.
rloro aro so fow houses loft that it
would not pay to havo any inoro caiMs
printed as a dlfforont color will bo
used next year. $
to sAoniPion wano player
For quick turnover will sacri
fice price. Player in our possess
ion, in North Platte end mtut be
moved at once. Easy payments.
Write quick for particulars to the
Denver Music Co., Denver Colo.
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J. S. TWINER! M.D.
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Homeopathic physician &
Surgeon
General Practice and
H ' Construction SurgefJ p
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g Plntto Valley Hospital
if Former Nnmo Twlncm Hospital, g
NORTH PLATTE, NE1JR. jj
Office 340 HoubhJ2
DR. W. I. S1IAFFEK
Osteopath Physician
Over tho Oasis. North Platt
HOWARD YOST
Dental Surgeon
Oral Prophylaxis Mouth Hyglen
Phono 307 Twlnem Bldp
Offlco phone 241. Res. phone 21'
L. C. DROST,
Osteopathic Physician
North Platte, Nebraski
Knights of Columbus Building.
JOHN S. SIMMS, M. D.
Special Attention Given to
Snrgery
McDonald Bank Building
Office Phone 83 Residence 3fr
DR. HAROLD FENCER
Osteopath
OVER HIRSCHFELD'S
Office Phono 333 Res. Phone 102(
DR. REDFIELD
PHYSICIAN, OBSTETRICIAN
Snrgeon, X-Ray
Calls Promptly Answered Night or Day
Phones Office G42, Resldonco 676
DERRYBERRY & FORBES,
Licensed Embalmers
Undertakers and Funeral Dlreetori
Day Phone 41
Night Phono Black 588
W. T. PRITCHARD
Graduate Veterinarian .
Ex-Qovernment Veterinarian and ex
assistant deputy State Veterinarian
Hospital 315 South Vine Street Ho
pltai Phono G33, Houso Phono 633.
DBS. STATES & STATES
Chiropractors
r, C 7 Building & Loan Building.
Offlco Phono 70. Res. Phono 1242
DR. J. R. McKIRAHAN
Practice Limited to Diseases ol
Women and Surgery
OVER REXALL DRUG STORE
Phonos Office 113. Residence 640J
WYLIE WALKER
Export Piano Tuner and Ropalrer.
Lavo orders at 914 W. 4th St
Or Phono 334.
GEO. B. DENT
Physician and Surgeon
Special Attention Oircn to Surgery
nnd Obstetrics
Offlco Iiiilkllng & Loan Building
Phono: Offlco 130. Residence lit
the Parmer's Auctioneer"
H. M. Johansen,
North Platte, Nebraska.
Phone 783F3
For those who do not haVe enough
stock or machinery for a general
farm sale. I am located so T can hold
a combination salo at North Platto
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or at the Falrview dairy 1 mllos
west of town. 1 have always- got
onough stock or machinery listed with
me so we can hold a combination sale
any time.
OTIS B. PLATT, M. D
Physician nnd Snrgeon
X-RAY
Diagnosis and Treatment
Calls answered Day and Night.
Over Union Stato Bank.
Office Phone 29G House Phono 123G.I
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate No. 1831 of Joslo O'Hare, de
ceased, in the County Court of Lin
coln County Nobraska.
Tho Stato of Nebraska, ss: Credit
ors of said estate will tako notice that
the time limited for presentation and
filing of claims against' said estate is
Decembor 13, 1921, and for settlement
of said estate Is August 9th, 1922; that
I will sit at tho county court room In
said county, on September 13, 1921, at
9 o'clock a. m., and on December 13,
1921, at 8 o'clock a, m., to receive,
oxamlne, hear, allow, .or adjust all
claims anld objections duly filed.
WM. H. C. WOODHURST,
(SEAL) County Judge.
NOTICE OF FINAL REPORT
Estato No. 1809 of Alice R. Heyso, do
ceased, in the County Curt of Lin
coln County, Nobraska.
Tho Stato of Nobraska, to all per
sons Interested In the said Estato tako
notice that tho Administrator has
filed a final account and report of his
administration and a petition for final
settlement and discharge as such ad
ministrator, which have been sot for
hearing before said court on Septem
ber 13, 1921, at 10 o'clock a, m., when
you may appear and contest the same.
Dated August 19, 1921.
WM. H. C. WOODHURST.
SHERIFF'S SALE
By virtue ot an order of sale issued
from tho District Court of Lincoln
County, Nebraska, upon a decree of
foreclosure rendered in said Court
wherein Continental Guaranty Cor
poration, a Corporation, is plaintiff,
and Fred J. Bromers is defendants,
and to mo directed, I will on the 19th
day of September, 1921, at two o'clock
P. M. at tho east front door of tho
Court Houso in North Platto, Lincoln
County, Nobraska, sell at Public Auc
tion to tho highest bidder for cash,
to satisfy said decree, interest and
costs, tho following described proper
ty, to-wlt:
Lot Ten (10) of Plattoviow Subdt
vision, Lincoln County, Nebraska.
Dated North Platto, Nob., August 15,
1921.
A. J. Salisbury, Sheriff.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR DE
TERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP.
In tho County Court Lincoln County,
Nobraska.
In ro Thomas M. Dawson, deeoased.
Notice Is hereby given to Charity J,
Dawson, John V. Dawson, Charlos L
Dawson, Frank G. Dawson, Guy T
Dawson, Laura J. Mooro and to all
other persons, both crodltors nnd holrs
intorosted in tho estate of T' omus
M. Dawson, deceased, that a petition
was filed in tho County Court of Lin
coln County, Nebraska, August 1st,
1921, ln which was set out as facts
that Thomas M. Dawson died July 31,
1902, that at tho time ot his death he
was n, resident of Lincoln County, and
was seized in feo of tho Northeast
Quartor of Section 26, Township 9,
Rango -26. "West of tho 6i P. M. in
Lincoln County, Nobraska. Tho peti
tioner Arthur D. McNickle Is now the
owner ln feo ot tho said promlsos and
prays tor a dotormlnatlon ot tho time
of tho death of tho docedent, and a do
tormlnatlon of tlio heirs of said de
ceased, tho degroa ot kinship and tho
right ot doscont of tho real property
bolonging to tho docoasod. That the
tlmo for hearing said petition has
boon fixed at September 15th, 1921, at
10 o'clock a. ns. by the County Court
WM. H. C. WOODHURST,
(SEAL) County Judge.
WELLS C. JONES,
Attornoy for the Petitioner.
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Dr. L. J. KRAUSE, Dentist, X-Ray
I)lntriinl. McDonald Bank Building.
Phono 9?. '
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND
BIDDERS
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Sealed bids will bo received by the
City Council of tho City of North
Platte, Nebraska, at tho office ot O. R
Elder, City Clork of sald city up until
liTyry1'
nlshing labor and material for the
construction of tho proposed Water
Main Extension for said city in ac-
cordanco with the plans and specifica
tions on file with the City Cleric Said
engineer's estimate of tho cost of
(constructing said Water Main cora
pleto in placo is as follows:
56,440 ft. six inch Class B cast iron
plpo including 32 6x6 crosses;
Ono 6x6x8 cross, 83 4x6xG T's all
class B cast Iron $1.45 per ft.
53 six (G) inch hub end, bronzo
mounted double gate valves suitable
for 125 lb. water pressure, with cast
Iron adjustable valve boxes complete
ln placo at $33.00 each.
83 hyrants bronze mounted, with
four Inch Inlet nnI two (2) two and
one-half (2) inch nozzles and of
sufficient length to connect with pipe
four and one-half (4) feet below
tho surface with 12 foet of 4 inch
cast iron pipe with each complete in
placo $65.00 each.
Taking up 2,688 feet of four (4) inch
cast iron pipe 20c por foot, furnishing
ani laying 20G4 foot of two inch gal.
plpo complete in placo at 45c per
foot.
Said proposed Water Main Exten
sion includes the following material:
940 tons of G inch class B cast iron
plpo.
12 tons special cast iron castings.
53 six (6) inch hub cnl, bronze
mounted, double gate valves, suit
able for 125 lbs. water presure with
cast Iron adjustable valvo boxos.
83 bronze mounted fire hydrants,
with four (4)- inch inlet ani each hy
drant provided with two (2) two and
one-half (2) inch nozzles and of
sufficient length to connect with pipe
four ani one-half (4) feet belo'v
tho ground surface.
300 flange corporation cocks.
200 load flange goose-necks.
And said construction includes the
following items of labor anyi con
struction work is for the instal
lation of tho material horoinbefore
described.
Digging and back filling 56440 feet
of six (G) inch Water Main Ditch, four
and one-half (4) foet deep ani 936
feet of ditch four and one-half (4)
feet deep for four (4) Inch hy)lrant
branches.
Laying 5G440 feot of six (G) inch
Class B Cast Iron Water Main and
93G feet of four (4) inch Cass B Cast
Iron Water Main.
Sotting fifty-three (53) six (6) inch
hub end double gate valvo in boxes.
Sotting olghty-threo (83) four and
one-half (4) foot fire hyjlrants,
taking up 2688 ft of 4 inch cast iron
plpo and making necessary connec
tions botweon said now 6 inch mains
and present Water Works system an
shown on plans on file with City
Clork of the City of North Platte,
Nebraska.
Theso bids will bo received (A) for
furnishing all labor anj'l1 material for
tho completo construction of said pro
posed Wator Main Extension; (B) for
tho furnishing f. o. b. cars North
Platto said material or any part there
of: (C) for tho furnishing of all tools
arid labor necessary to lay and the
laying ot saftl quantities and sizes ot
Wator plpo.
Tho following material to bo tar
nished by the city ot Norh Platto for
class "C" bid to-wit: all cast Iron plpo
an spoclal castings and also all oak
um and lean or metalltum noccesar
for making joints in samo and aslo tho
valves and boxes and hydrants and
stono and gravol for placing about hy
drants. Tho engineer's estimate for material
for class "B" bid is $64,734.00.
Tho engineer's ostimato for labor
for class "C" bljd is $27,800.00.
All bids must bo mado on proposals
In tho specifications furnished upon
application by the City Clork and
must bo accompanied by a certiflqd
chock ot two por cont (2) of tho
total bid.
Successful bldlor will in all casea
bo required to tako Wator Extension
Bonds at par and accrual intorest ln
payment
Mayor and City Council roflorre the
right to rojoct any and all bidB. Said
bids to bo sealed and markoJJ class
"A", "B", and "C" as tho caso may be.
By ordor of tho City Council of
North Platto, Nebraska, August 23.
1921.
Attest: E. H. EVANS,
O. E. ELDER, Mayor.
City Clork. (SEAL)
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