THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
gMARY
MARIE
2ty Eleanor H. Porter
Illustrations by
H. Livingstone
Cprriibtbr EUmnar II. Ptur
SYNOPSIS
PREFACE. 'Mary Marie" explain! her
apparent "double personality" and Juit
why bIio Is r "cross-ourront and a contra
diction;" nho alao tells her reasons for
writing the diary later to ba a novel. Tlio
diary Is oommenced at Andcrsonvllle.
CHAPTKU I.-Mary boglnB with Nurao
Sarah's account of liar (Mury'a) birth,
which oeomlnRly Interestod her father,
who Is a famoun astronomor, Ii-hh than ix
new Btar which was illnrovniod tlio samo
nlirht Her name Is a compromise, her
motlicr wanted to call her Viola and her
father Insisting on Abigail Jane, The
child quickly learned that her home was
In name way different from those of nor
small friends, and was puzzled thereat,
Nurso Surah tells her of hor mother's ar
rival at Andergonvllle as a brldo and how
astonished thoy all were ut tlio sight of
tho dainty clghtuon-year old girl whom
tho scdato professor hud chosen for a
wife.
CHAPTER Il.-Contlnulng hor story,
Nurso Sarah makes It plain why the
household geemtid a strange one to the
child and howher lather and mother
drifted apart through misunderstanding,
each too proud to In any way attempt to
smooth over tho sttuutlon.
Chapter Three Con tinned.
Tl wus"ono day wlujn I wns In there
buying some white thread for Nurso
Sarnli, nnd It was u little while after
I hnd naked the doctor If 11 divorce
whs a dlKease. Somebody had Bald
something that made mo think you
could buy divorces, and I hud maidenly
determined to ask Mr. Jones If he had
them for sale. (Of course nil this
sounds very silly to me now, for I
know Hint a divorce Is very simple
and very common. It's Just like a
nWrlngo certificate, only It unmur
rles you Instead of marrying you;
but I didn't know It then. And If I'm
going to tell- this story I've got to
tell It Just as It happened, of course.)
Well, 1 asked Mr. Jones If you could
buy divorces, nnd If be had them for
Well, I Asked Mr. Jones If You Could
uy Divorces, and If He Had Them
for Sale.
side; and you ought to have heard
those men laugh. Thoro wcro six of
them Hitting around tho stove behind
jne.
"Ob, yes, my little maid" (above all
things I abhor to be called a llttlo
mtildl) one of thorn cried. "You can
buy thorn, If you've got money enough;
but I don't reckon our friend Jones
hero has got them for sale."
Then they all laughed again, and
.winked ut each other, (That's another
disgusting thing winks when you nsk
a perfectly civil question I Hut what
can you do? .Stand it, that's all.
There's audi a lot of things wo poor
women hnvo to standi) Then they
qqloted down and looked very sober
the kind of sober you know Is faced
with laughs In tho back and began
to tell mo what a divorce really was.
I can't remember them all, but I enn
somo of thorn. Of courso I undcrstniw
now that theso men wore trying to
bo smart, and wero talking for each
ojher, not for me. And I know It
then n llttlo. Wo know a lot moro
things sometimes than folks think wo
do. Well, as near us I cun remember
It was like this:
"A divorce Is a Unifo that cuts a
knot that hadn't ought to over been
tied," said one.
"A divorce Is u Jump in tho dark,"
Bald another.
"No, it ain't It's a Jump from tho
frying pan Into tho fire," piped up Mr.
Jones.
"A Ulvorco Is tho comedy of tho rich
And tho tragedy of tho poor," said n
llttlo mun who wore glasses.
"Divorce is a nice smushy poultlco
that may bolp but won't heal," cut In
a now voice.
"Dlvorco Is" n guldopost marked,
'Ilr-Unnouven.'JiUt lotjtof folks mis
tlie way, Just the mime, I notice,"
spoke up somebody with a chucklo.
"Divorce le a coward's retreat from
the lmttfe of life." Captain Harris said
this. He spoke slow and decided. Cap
tain Harris Is old and rich, and not
mnrrled. He's the hotel's star bourder,
ftnd what he says, goes, 'most alwayB.
Hut It didn't this time. I can remem
ber Just how old Mr. Carlton snupped
out the next.
"Speak from your own experience,
Tom Harris, ah' I'm thlnkln' you ain't,
fit ter Judge. I tell you divorce Is
whut three fourths of the husbands an' .
wives In the world wish was wnltln'
for 'em at home this very night. Hut
It ain't there." I knew, of course, ho !
was thinking of his wife. She's some
cross, I 'guess, and has two warts on
her nose.
There was more, quite a lot more,
said. Hut I've forgotten the rest. Ho
sldes, they weren't talking to me then,
anyway. So I picked up my thread
and slipped out of the store, glad to
escape. Hut, as I said before. I didn't
find ninny like them.
Of course I know now what divorce
Is. I mean. And It's all settled. They
granted us some kind of a decree or
degree, and we're going to Hoston next
Monday.
It's been awful, though this last
year. First we had to go to that hor
rid place out west, and stay ages und
uges. And I hated It. Mother did, too.
I know sho did. I wont to school, and
there woroqulte a lot of girls my age,
and some boys; but I didn't care much
for them. I couldn't even have the fun
of surprising them with the divorce we
were going to have. I found they were
going to have one, too every last one
of them. And when everybody has a
thing, you know there's no particular
fun In having It yourself. Besides,
they were very unkind and disagree
able, and bragged a lot about their
divorces. They said mine was tame,
and had no sort of snap to It, when
they found Mother didn't have a lover
waiting In the next town, or Father
hadn't run off with his stenographer,
or nobody bad shot anybody, or any
thing. That made me mad, and 1 let them
W It, good and plain. I told them our
divorce was perfectly all right and
genteel and respectable; that Nurse
Sarah said It was. Ours was going to
bo Incompatibility, for one thing,
which meant that you got on each
other's nerves, und Just naturally
didn't cure for each other" any more.
Hut they only laughed," and said even
more disagreeable things, so that I
didn't want to go to school any longer,
and I told Mother so, imd the reason,
too, of course.
Hut, dear me, I wished right off that
I hadn't. I supposed she was going to
be superb and haughty and disdainful;
and say things that would put those
girls where they belonged. Hut, my
stars I How could I know that she
was going to burst Into such a storm
of sobs and clasp me to her bosom, und
get my face all wet and cry out: "Oh,
my baby, my baby to think I have sub
jected you to this, my baby, my baby I"
And I couldn't, say a thing to com
fort her. or make her stop, even when
I told her over and over again that I
wasn't a baby. I was almost a young
lady; and I wasn't being subjected to
anything bad. I liked It only I didn't
like to have those girls bihg so, when
our dlvorco wns away ahead of theirs,
unywny..
Hut she only cried more and more,
nnd hold me tighter and tighter, rock
ing back and forth In her chair. She
took me out of school, though, and had
a lady como to teach me all by myself,
so I didn't have to hear those girls
bmg uny more, niiyway. That was
better. Hut she Wasn't any happier
herself. I could see that.
There wcro lots of other ladles there
beautiful ladles only she didn't
seem to lllto them any better than I
did tho girls. I wondered If maybe
they bragged, too, and I asked her;
but sho only begnn to cry ngnln, and
monn, "What have I done, what havo
I dono?" and I hnd to try all over
again to comfort her. Hut I couldn't.
She got so she Just .stayed In her
room lots und lots. I tried to make,
her put on her pretty clothes, and do
as tho other ladles did, nnd go out and
wnlk and sit on tho big piazzas, and
dan :e, and eat at' tho pretty little
tables. Sho did, some, when we first
came, nnd took me, and I Just loved
It. Thoy wero such beautiful ladles,
with their bright eyes, and their red
cheeks und Jolly ways; and their
dresses wero so perfectly lovely, nil
silks and satins and spurkly spangles,
nnd diamonds and rubles and emer
alds, nnd silk stockings, nnd little bits
of gjold nnd silver slippers.
And once I snw two of them smok
ing. They hnd tho cutest llttlo ciga
rettes (Mother said they wero) In gold
holders, und I know then that I was
seeing life real llfo; not the stupid
kind? you get bnck In a country town
like Andcrsonvllle. And 1 said so to
Mother; nnd I was going to nsk her
if Hoston wns like that. Hut I didn't
get the chance. Sho Jumped up so
quick I thought something had hur
hor, and cried, "Good Heavens, Haby I"
(How I hato to bo cnlletl "Haby" I)
Then sho Just threw somo money on
to the tahlo to pay the bill nnd hurried
me nwny.
It was after that that sho began to
stuy In her room so much, and not
tnkc mo anywhere except for walks
nt the other end of tho town whero
it was nil quiet and stupid, and no
I music or lights or anything. And
though 1 toasted nnd teased to go back
to tho pretty, Jolly places, sho wouldn't
ever tnko mo; not once.
Then by nnd by, one day we met a
llttlo hluck-lmlrod woman with white
cheuks und very big sml eyots. Thuro
weren't any spangly dreMtfo and gold
sllpjpe'mi about hw, 1 can tell yott 1 She
wnS crying on 11 bench in tiie park,
nnd Mother told me to stay bnck nnd ;
watch tho swrins while sho went up
ami jqwkc to her. (Why do old folks
always mnko us watch swans or rend
books or look into store windows or 1
run and piny nil the time? Don't they
suppose we understand perfectly well
what It meuus that they're going to
say something they don't want us to
hear?) Well, Mother and the lndy on ,
tho bench talked and talked ever so
long, and then Mother called me up,
and the lndy cried n little over me,
nnd snld, "Now, pcrhnps, If I'd had a
little girl like that 1" Then she
stopped nnd cried some moro.
We snw this lady real often after
that. She was nice and pretty nnd
sweet, nnd 1 liked her; but she wns
nlwnys nwfully snd, nnd I don't believe
It wns linlf so good for Mother to bo
with her as It would hnvo been for her
to he with those Jolly, laughing ladles
that were always huvlng such good
times. Hut I couldn't make Mother
see It thnt wny nt nil. There nrc
times when It seems as If mother Just
couldn't sec things the wny I do. Hon
estly, It seems sometimes almost ns If .
she was tho cross-current and contra-1
diction Instcnd nt me It does. I
Well, as I snld before, I didn't like '
It very well out there, und I don't be- '
lleve Mother did, either. Hut it's all
over now, nnd we're bnck home pack
ing up to go to Hoston. j
Everything seems awfully queer.
Muybe becuuse Father Isn't here, for
one thing. Ho wrote very polite und
nsked us to come to get our things,
and he said ho was going to New York .
on business for several days, so Mother
need not fear lie should annoy hor
with his presence. Then, another
tiling, Mother's queer. This morning
she was singing away at the top of her
voice and running ull over tho house
picking up things sho wanted; and
seemed so happy. Hut this afternoon
I found her down on tho lloor In the
library crying ns If her heurt would
break, with her head In Father's big
chair before tho fireplace. Hut sho
Jumped up the minute I came In nnd
snld, no, no, she didn't want anything.
She was Just tired; that's all. And
when I nsked her If she wns sorry,
nfter ull, that she was going to Hoston
to live, she snld, no, no, no, Indeed,
she guessed she wasn't. She was Just
a glad as glad could be that she was
"going only sho wished Monday would
hurry up and come so we could bo
gone.
And that's all. It's a Saturday now,
and we go Just day after tomorrow.
Our trunks are 'most packed, and
Mother says she wishes she'd planned
to go today. I've said good-byo to ull
the girls, und promised to write loads
of letters about Hoston nnd every
thing. Thoy nre almost as excited us
I am ; nnd I've promised, "cross my
heart and hope to die," that I won't
love those Hoston girls better than I
do them specially Carrie Iloywood,
of course, my dearest friend.
Nurse Sarah Is hovering around
everywhere, asking to help, and pre
tending she's sorry we're going. Hut
she Isn't sorry. She's glad. 1 know
she Is. Sho never did appreciate
Mother, and sho thinks she'll have ev
erything her own way now. Hut she
won't. I could tell her a thing or two
If I wanted to. Hut I shan't.
Father's sister, Aunt Jane Anderson,
from St. Paul, Is coming to keep house
for him, partly on account of Father,
nnd partly on. account of me. "If that
child Is going to he with her father
six mouths of the time, she's got to
havo some woman there beside u med
dling old nurse and a nosey servant
girl 1" They didn't know I heard that.
Hut I did. And now Aunt Juno Is com
ing. Myt how mad Nurse Surah would
be If. sho know. Hut she doesn't.
I guess I'll end this chapter here
und begin a fresh one down In Hoston.
Oh, I do so wonder what It'll bo like
Hoston, Mother's home, Grandpa Des
mond, and fill the rest. I'm so excited
I can hardly wait. You see, Mother
never took mo homo with her but once,
nnd then T was n very small child. I
don't know why, but I guess Father
didn't wnnt mo to go. It's safe to say
he didn't, anyway. lie never wants
mo to do anything, hardly. That's why
I suspect him of not wanting mo to go
down to Grnndpa Desmond's. And
Mother didn't go only once, In ages.
Now this will bo the end. And when
I begin ngnln it will bo In Boston.
Only think of It renlly, truly Boston t
TO BE CONTINUED. .
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annual mooting. Persons who have
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transfer privilege any moro should
notify this offlco to that effect.
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NORTH PLATTE NEllIt.
REGISTRATION NOTICE TO
VOTERS
The law requires thnt all votors in
cities of 7,000 or moro reglstor at the
office of tho City Clerk. At the last
city olection an opportunity was given
to rogistor at the polling places and
most of those voting registered. There
was, howovor, less than half of tho lo
gal votors of tho city who voted at
tho city election, all of whom will
want to voto at tho primaries in July.
In order to nccomodnto them tho city
will bo prepared to rogistor voters,
during all of tho month of Mny atbo
offlca of tho City Clork. It only re
quires two or threo minutes and wo
ask all voters to register who did
not at tlio last oloction.
Thomas F. Iloaloy and A. W. Shilling,
Commissioners of Registration.
O. E, Elder, City Clerlr.
J. C. Hollman, Attornoy.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estato No. 1879 of Bridget Jones, de
ceased, in tho County Court of Lin
cola County, Nobraska.
Tho State of Nobraska, ss.: Credit
ors of said estato will take notice
that tlio time limited for presentation
and filing of claims against said Ef
tato is August 23, 1922, and for set
tlement of said Estato Is April ISth,
1923; that I will sit at tho Countv
Court room In said County on May 23,
1922, at 10 o'clock A. M., and on
August 23rd, 1922 at 10 o'clock A. M..
to recolvo, oxamlno, hoar, allow, or
adjust all claims and objections duly
fiiod.
Dated April 18th, 1922.
WM. H. C WOODIIURST,
(Seal) County Judge.
John Grant, Attornoy.
NOTICE OF FINAL REPORT
Estato No. 1825, ot Goorgo Lannin, do
coascd, in tho County Court of Lin
coln County, Nebraska.
Tho Stato of Nobraska, to all por-
Bons Interested in said Estato tako no-
j tlco that tho Administratrix has filed
a final account and report of hor ad
ministration nnd a petition for final
settlement and dlschargo as such, Ad
ministratrix which havo boon sot for
hearing before said court on May 30th,
1982, nt 10 o'clock A. M., when you
inav apoar and contest tho same.
.Dated May Sth, 1028.
T. S. BLANKENBURG,
(SmI) Acting County Judge.
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NOTICE OF THE FORMATION OF
PAVING' DISTRICT NO. 14 IN
I THE CITY OF NORTH
I PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
To tlio owners of tho record titlo of
all property adjacent to or abutting
upon tho strcots hereinafter des
cribed and all persons interested
therein:
You and each of you aro hereby no
tified that tho Mayor and City Coun
cil of tho City of North Platto did
under dato of May 2, 1922, 'pass and
apprpvo a certain ordinance forming
and creating paving district No. 14 of
tho city of North Platte, Lincoln Coun
ty, Nebraska. And that tho following
strcotss Including tho intersection
thereof within tho limits of tho city
aro composed within said paving dis
trict to wit:
Commencing on tho south sido of
Third street thenco embracing all ot
Locust- Street and South Locust Street
between said place of commencement
and tho southern boundary of said
, City or near tho north lino of tho
right of way of tho Suburban Irriga
tion District Canal, including street
I intersections and spaces opposite al
loys. I Unless objections aro filed as re
quired by statuto within twenty days
from to hfirst publication of this no
tice, the Mayor and City Council shall
proceed to construct such paving.
! Dated this Sth day of May, 1922.
(Seal) E. II. EVANS, Mayor.
Attest: O. E. ELDER, City Clerk.
Wm. E. Shuman, Attorney.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In tho County Court of Lincoln Coun
ty, Nebraska. In tho Matter of the
Estato of Frederick Wernoke, De
ceased. Notice is hereby given to any and
all persons having claims and de
mands against tho estate of tho said
'Frederick Wernoke, deceased, that
I tho 21st day of August, 1922, has-been
set and appointed as tho day for tho
. reception, examination, adjustment
,and allowance of lawful claims and
demands of all persons, against said
estato and that tho County Court ot
Lincoln County, NeDraska, will at
said time receive, examiuo, adjust
and allow all such claims against
said estate, as provided by law, at the
County Court Room in tho Court
House in tho City of North Platte,
Lincoln County, Nebraska, and all
persons so interested in said estate,
.will appear at said time and place
'and duly present tholr said claims
and domands In the manner required
, by law, or show cause for not so do
ing, and in case any of said claims
or domands shall not bo presented on
or prior to tho said 21st day . of Au
gust 1922, tlio same shall bo forever
barred.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I havo
signed this notice and affixed tho
seal of said 'Court this 24th day of
April 1922.
T. S. BLANKENBURG,
(Seal) Acting County Judge,
Hoagland & Carr, Attorneys.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate No. 1875 of William Graves.
deceased, in tho County Court of
Lincoln County, Nebraska.
Tho Stato ot Nobraska, ss.: Credit
ors of said estato will tako notice
that tho time limited for presentation
and filing of claims against said Es
tato is August 19, 1922, and for settle
ment of said Estato is April 14, 1923;
that I will sit at tho county court
room in said County on May 19, 1922,
at 10 o'clock a. m., and on August
19, 1922 at 10 o'clock a. m., to re
ceive, examine, hoar, allow, or adjust
all claims and objections duly filed.
Dated April 14, 1922.
WM. H. C. WOODHURST,
Soal) County Judge.
J. C. Hollman, Attornoy.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estato No. 1880 of Sarah A. Morton,
deceased, In tho County Court of
Lincoln County, Nebraska.
Tlio Stato of Nobraska, ss.; Credit
ors of said estato will tako notlco that
tho timo limited for presentation and
filing of claims against said Estato is
August 23rd, 1922, and for settlement
of said Estato is April 18t'. 1923;
that I will sit at tho Countv "ourt
In said County on May 23, 1922, at 10
o'clock A. M and on August 23, 1922
nt 10 o'clock A. M., to recelvo, ox
nmlne, hear, allow, or adjust all
claims and objections duly filed.
Dated April 18th, 1922.
WM. H. C. WOODIIURST,,
(Seal) County Judge.
Soars, Horan & Sheppard, Attorneys.
NOTICE
IN THE COUNTY" COURT IN AND
FOR LINCOLN COUNTY,
NEBRASKA.
In tho Matter of tho Estato of R. L.
Holdridgo, Deceasod. Estato No.
1S86.
All porsons lntorcated In said es
tate, both creditors and heirs, aro
hereby notified that a petition ha?
"boon filod in tho County Court of Lin
coin County, Nobraska, alleging that
said docouscd dlod on or about the
3rd day of August, 1900, a reside it
ot tlio County of Knnkakoo, in the
tSato of Illinois; that tho said R. L.
Holdridge at tho time of his death
had nn apparent intorost in tho East
Half (E'fc) of Section Ono (1,
Township Thirteen (13), Range Thirty-tour
(34), and tho West Half (Wl
of Soctlon Twenty-three (23), Town
ship Thirteen (13), Rnngo Thirty
four (34), situated In Lincoln County,
Nebraska; that tho interest consisted
of .111 agreement by one J. E. Rodgers
to convoy said land to tho Said R.
L. Holdridge, decesased.
You aro hereby further notified
that tho petition prays tho Court for
an Order fixing a timo and plnco at
which a determination of tho death
of tho said R. L. Holdridge may bo had
and a determination of tho heirs of
said deceased, and degrco of kinship
and their right of doscont to tho real
property belonging to said deceased,
and you aro horoby notified that tho
Court has fixed tho hearing on said
petition nt tho offico of tho County
Court ot Lincoln County, Nebraska, nt
10:00 o'clock A. M. on tho lGth day of
May, 1922.
WM. II. C WOODIIURST,
(Seal) County Judge.
NO riCE OF ELECTION
Notice is horeby given to tlio Eloc
tors of tho City of North Platto, No
braska that tho Muyor cad City Govt
til of the City of Noit.'i I latto, Nebras
ka, hav.' ,-rovided by ordin Mice for
tho submission to a direct voto of tho
votora of tho City of North Platto, Ne
braska, tho following proposition: An
ordinance providing for tho submit
ting to tho voters of tho City of North
Platto, in tho County of Lincoln and
State of Nobraska, tho following ques
tion: "Shall tho City of North Platto,
in tlio County of Lincoln, Stato of Ne
braska issuo its 'Paving Bonds of tho
City of North Platto, Nebraska in
th0 sum of Fifty Thousand ($50,
000.00) dollars, for tho purposoot
raislnjr money for navlntr Mm nncf nt
paving, ropaving or macadamizing tlio
intersections of streets
and spaces opposite alleys in tho City
01 worm natto, Nebraska. And to pro
vido for levying and collecting by the
proper officers of said City a tax an
nually to pay the Interest and prin
cipal or saiu bonds as thoy mature"
And by virtue of the power in mo
vested. I horebv call nn own
said ordinanco so submitted to bo held
in City of North Platte, Nobraska, on
tho.lGth day of May,. 1922. Tho voting
places of said election shall hr, nn fni.
lows: The First Ward at tho A. N.
Durbln Garage at tlio intersection of
Fifth and Dowey Streets; tho Second
Ward in tho District Court Room at
tho County Court House; tho Third
Ward at tho Fire Station at tho inter
section of Front and, Vino Streets;
the Fourth Ward at tho North- Platto
Buick Garago at tho intersection of
Eighth and Locust Streets. Tho polls
to be opened at eight o'clock in the
morning and to remain opon until
eight o'clock in the evening of said
day of olection.
Those voting in favor of said or
dinance shall mark their ballot with
an "X" before tho paragraph begin
ing with tho word "FOR" issuing
Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) of tho
Paving Bonds of tho City of North
Platte, Nebraska in denomination of
Ono Thousand and No 100 ($1,000.00)
Dollars, each bearing interest at the
rato of Six (G) per cent per annum,
payable semi-annually, interest and
principal at tho office of tho County
Treasurer of Lincoln County, Stato
of Nebraska. Said bonds to bear dato
of Juno 1st. 1922, and tho interest on
said bonds to be payable on the 1st.
day of December 1922 and tho 1st.
day of Juno 1923 and on the 1st.
day of Juno of each and every year
thereafter until all interest on said
Bonds shall havo been paid. Said
Bonds to bo numbered consecutively
from one to fifty, inclusive and the
interest thereon to bo evidenced by
coupons thereto attached. Said bonds
to bo drawn payable to bearer twenty
(20) years after dato but redeemable
at tho option of tho City at any time
after five (5) years from the date
thereof, and shall tho City of North
Platto, Lincoln County Nebraska, levy
a tax In tlio year 1922 and each and
ovory year thereafter sufficient to pay
tho interest on said Bonds and in the
year 1922 and each and overy year
thereafter, sufficient to create a sink
ing fund to nav tho nrlncinal of said
1 Bonds as they become due, until suf
ficient tax has been lovlod to pay all
of tho Interest and 11rlnnln.1l nf snld
Bonds and Buch tax to bo both for
principal and interost nnd to bo levied
upon all of tlie taxablo property in
said City of North Platto, Lincoln
County, Nobraska.
Theso voting against said ordinanco
shall mark .their ballot with an "X"
before tho paragraph beglhlng with
tho word "AGAINST" issuing . Fifty
Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars of tho
'Paving Bonds of tho City of North
Platte, Nobraslca', in denominations
of Ono Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars
each bearing interest at the rato ot
Six (G) per cent per annum payablo
soml-annually, Interest and principal
payablo at tho offlco of tho County
Treasurer of Lincoln County, Stato
of Nobraslca. Said Bonds to bear dato
of Juno 1st. 1922 and tho Interest oj
said Bonds to bo payablo on tho 1st
day of December 1922 and the 1st
day of June 1923 and on thelst day
of December nnd on tho 1st day of
Juno of each and every year there
after, until all Interest on said bonds
shall havo been paid. Said Bonds to bo
numbered consccutivoly from ono to
rifty inclusive and tho interest there
on to bo ovldonced by coupons thoroto
attached. Said Bonds to bo drawn
payablo to bearor twenty (20) years
after dato but redeemable at tho op
tion of tho City at any timo after fivo
(5) years from tho dato thoroof, and
shall tho City of North Platto, Lin
coln County, Nobraskn, lovy a tax in
tho year 1922 and each and evory year
thereafter sufficient to pay tho inter
ost of said Bonds nnd in tho year 1922
and each and overy year thereafter
sufficient to creato a sinking fund to
pay tho principal of said Bonds aa
'thoy becomo duo, until sufficient tax
lias boon levied to pay all of tho in
torost and principal of paid Bonds and
such tax to bo both principal and in
torost and to bo. loviod upon all of tho
taxablo property in tlio City of North
Platto, Lincoln County, Nobraska
Dated this 10th day of April, 1922
O. E. ELDER', .City Clerk.
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