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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1908)
jltef Hie t V L. LUI JTO. 8 NEMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1908 Cut the weeds. Old Settlers picnic Aug. 5. Criley, photographer, Auburn. We have hot nights. been having some Cottonwood lumber for sale by A. J. Strain. Mrs. W. N. Faris returned from Peru Tuesday. The new bricks are a little slow about materializing. We had a light shower early Wednesday morning. Keep in a good humor, even when talking politics. itr i we nave oeen naving some very hot weather this week. Sunday school convention July 19. Old settlers picnic August 5. The Titus Nursery and F. E. Hoover & Son are shipping out lots of peaches. They had a good rain at Brack en Wednesday night, but we got only a sprinkle. Make your arrangements to at tend the Sunday school conven tion next Sunday. C. H. Kindig went to FallsCity Tuesday evening and from there was going to Lincoln. Glass! Glass!! For all siz.es call on Edwards & Bradford Lbr. Co. Mrs. J. F. Walsh and daughter, Miss Helen Marie, of Denver, ar rived in, Nemaha Tuesday even ing. Miss Maude Burns went tcA Auburn last Friday and the next day went to Lincoln to visit friends. w Miss Flossie Parker of Auburn visited her grandmother, Mrs. J. B. Berger, from Saturday until Tuesday. Miss Alberta Lewis of Welsh, Louisiana, spent a few days vis iting her friend Miss Corinne Douglas. Ed E. Moore was assistant ser-geant-at-arms at the democratic national convention at Denver last week. n TTTTTTfH r We Have the Goods We again have a full stock of Furniture and Hardware. Call in and see us in our New Store Room. This Hot Weather Calls for Screens for your Doors and Win' dows. We have them. You will als need one of our nice Hammocks. Get Fly Nets and keep your horses as comfortable as possible. A Ne wWashing Machine Will make work easier We have a number of Edwards & Bradford Lbr, Co, GEORGE HARTWIG, Manager, i jM E. Rumbaugh has moved his barber shop into Mrs. Hill's building, lately vacated by the harness shop. Miss Nellie Shadley of Sumner, Nebr., arrived in Nemaha Tues day on a visit to her aunt) Mrs. W. T. Russell. A blind couple gave a musical entertainment at the opera house Saturday night. Those present say it was good. Elmer E. Allen has been rus ticating this week and assisting at putting up hay on his father's farm at Bracken. Miss Mabel Hoover, who has been visiting Miss Lena Maxwell near Webber, Kansas, returned home Wednesday. Miss Lockie Roberts returned home Eriday after a couple of weeks' visit with her brother Clyde, at Kansas City. We learn that George Rhine shart and wife were caused to rejoice on the Fourth of July by the birth of a daughter. The prohibition national con vention is now in session at Co lumbus, Ohio. R. V. Muir of Brownville is a delegate. Kindig & Peabody write cy clone, tornado, and windstorm insurance at lowest rates. Loans negotiated at lowest rates. Rev. G. W. Ayers and Irving, who went to Butler county the first of last week after a horse, returned home Friday night. Leo Liebhartr who has been staying with his brother-in-law, John C. Strain, near Waterloo, Nebr., returned home Tuesday. Miss MayKnapp of Brock, who has been visiting her uncle, M. W. Knapp, and family for the past three weeks, returned home Tuesday. F. B. Lowe, Earle Copeland, Earle Kerker and Pinkney Shive ley went to Nebraska City Wednesday morning to attend the circus. Mrs. Fred Seabury came down from Peru Saturday, returning Monday. Little Birdie Baldwin went home with her but re turned the next forenoon. Mrs. Seabury came back Wednesday. " r r- F- r- r- r- r- r- r- r- . for the housekeeper. the best kinds. tQ return to Kentucky soon. Mrs. C. P. Barker started for , Duluth, Minn., Thursday fore- noon, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Gertie Galbraith, for about two weeks. C. A. Curtis started out Mon day morning to sell peaches for F. E. Hoover & Son. He will visit Tekamah and other towns north of Omaha. Grandma Seabury 's health is quite poor. She is suffering from heart trouble and a dropsical af fection. Her many friends hope for a speedy recovery. Miss Inez Cummings of Crab Orchard, Nebr., (not Miss Jennie as we had it last week), who has been visiting Miss Alice Peabody, returned home last Friday. Mrs. Willard Shubert of Shu bert visited between trains Tues day morning with Mrs. George Yackly, going on to Tecumsehon train 97 to attend the Chautau qua. Our old friend W. T. Banks, now one of the prosperous mer chants of North Platte, Nebr., renews his subscription to The Advertiser, paying to July 18, 1909. Ray Clark shipped three car loads 53 head of fat cattle to Kansas City Monday evening. They were fine big fellows, L. M. Peabody went through with' them. John Knapp had a runaway luesday, badly damaging his three-row plow, and Wednesday ounn weDDer s team, ran away with the binder and it was badly wrecked. On account of the Sunday school convention there will be no services at the Methodist church next Sunday mornincr. but the usual serving will hp held at night. Hizra Garnet, who has been helping George Hartwig in the lumber and hardware business since the cyclone, started for Newcastle, Nebr., Monday,- to help m a yard. Mrs. John Clemans of Peru came down to Nemaha Friday, returning the next day. Her mother, Mrs. I. N. Cooper, went home with her, returning to Ne maha Tuesday. John M. Stephenson, who has been working in the Burlington freight department at Lincoln for some time, returned home Wednesday and we understand is not going back. Persons who said last spring that there wouldn't be any peach es in the county are now com piainmg tnat tneir trees are so heavily loaded with fruit that they are breaking down. Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Sanders os Garretson, South Dakota, ar rived in Nemaha Saturday eve ning. Carl started home Mon day morning. His wife will re main in Nemaha for some time, visiting relatives and friends and putting up fruit. Miss Jessie Steuteville of Brownville and her cousin, Miss Stella Corrico of Kentucky, gave this office a pleasant call Tues day. Miss Corrico and her sis ter have been visiting in Brown ville for several weeks but ex- This Week We commence our July Clearing Sale This Sale is now in progress and will continue until August 1. In this sale we will make Startling Reductions in Summer Goods and in a time when they will be most needed. See our large circulars. Bring Us Your Produce JXTO. W. RITCHEY Both Phones No. 20 NEMAHA, NEB H The irrepressible Ben Neal, who now makes his headquarters at Nebraska City, was in Nerna ha Wednesday, hurrahing for Bryan and predicting all sorts of calamities, politically, for Taft and his followers. H. E. Williams and two daugh ters, Misses Ruth and Helen,, came up from Shubert Thursday morning. Henry drove back the same day but the girls will visit a lew days witn tneir aays wun ineir grana - mother, Mrs. J. A. Titus. Miss Stella Washburn informs us.t)iat they had ..roasting ears for dinner Tuesday, and as she is from Missouri, she is willing to "show" as well as to "be showed," so brought a well de veloped ear down town and left it at Kerker's meat market. W. W. Liebhart finds it pays to advertise. He has had a small ad. of his white Plymouth Rock chickens running in a poultry journal. One day this week he got an inquiry from Laramie, Wyoming, and the next day from Winston Salem, North Carolina. In remitting for a year's sub scription to The Advertiser, Geo. W. Likens of Washington, D. C, writes: "I find your prper is very interesting, as it informs us of weather conditions and crop prospects. Sorry you have had such a year cf disaster." Mr. Likens owns an 80-acre farm on the county line south of Nemaha. A number of the country friends of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kinton gave them a lively shiva ree Friday night as an evidence of their good will and to get them started off right in married life. (We know that charivari is the correct way of spelling it, but we are going to quit giving the French spelling to such words, and spell them so they can be understood in English. A Fish Story, But a True One On Monday Harrison Dreury caught a fish in the Nemaha riv er, and while cleaning it found a 25 cent piece in it Harrison says in its craw. That makes profit able fishing. With the money found in the fish other eatables can be bought. No place like Nebraska, and especially Nema ha county. s i 5 it it it it it it S f Senator Burkett and Hon. a W. Berge They Will Make Addresses the Old Settlers Picnic at August 5. United States Senator E. J. Burkett and Hon. G. W.' Berare of Lincoln have accepted the in vitation of the committee on speakers and will be present and ,make addresses at the old set , tiers Dicnic on WpdnprfnV a., ust 5. - ' yMJ , &U It is getting very dry around XT- 1 i . iNcmana ana a good rain needed. is C. H. Kindig had roasting ears for dinner Tuesday, raised by nimseii, so he claims. Ct C. Kohlsaat, judge of the United States circuit court, at Chicago, has decided that accep tance of raiiroad transportation in exchange for advertising space is unlawful. Notice to Teachers Examinations for teachers' cer tificates will be held July 17, 18 and July 31 and August 1. No other examinations in August. Geo. D. Carrington. Jr., Co. Supt. Notice to Cut Weers All lot owners or occupants are hereby notified .to cut weeds, at' once on streets and alleys adja cent to their property. By order of the village board of trustees. Frank Titus, Clerk. A. R. McCandless, who has been secretary of the school board for the past year, has made one of the best officials the dis trict has ever had. He has care fully looked after the interests of the district and has devoted much time and labor in attending to school matters. He would have been unanimously reelected but declined. J. W. Sapp has made a good president of the board and C. L. Russell an effi cient treasurer. It would be hard to find the equal of W. W. Liebhart as jani tor. He has looked carefully af ter the school building and ground and assisted materially in main taining .discipline during inter- missions.