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PUBLISHED BY.THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO.
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w VOLUME XVII.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, MAY 20. 1897.
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D. H. CRONIN, EDITOR AND MANAGER.
IfS SANS WHISKERS
. Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
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Looel Hsyptalsfs Portrayed In General
Edification sad Amusement.
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See Emil 8nigg’a new sd in this issue.
W. J. Dobbs is visiting in Minneapolis.
John Carr was up from Stafford «Tues
day,
Joe Hunter went down to Omaba yea
ierday morning.
Brantley Sturdevant is down from
Atkinson today.
kip- Over two inches of rein fell at Agee
A "iT. Tuesday morning.
Andy Qaiiagher came up. from Jack
: %t |on Tuesday morning.
V * The Ladies Working Society will meet
at Mrs. Cole's nest Wednesday.
\ Born, to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hammond
C - last Thursday morning, a daughter.
; Mrs. W, J. Dobbs and Miss Bertha
Wagner are visiting friends at Stanton.
John Hazelet is assisting Jim Galla
gher at the depot in the absence of Will
Dobbs. ,
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John Trommersbausser was up from
Ewing yesterday on business before the
county court.
Petal Segar and Kate Christ, both of
Atkinson, were granted-1 a marriage
last Wedneaday.
Memorial sermon at the M. E. church
next Sunday evening. Old soldiers
especially invited.
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Dr. Gilligan was called to Norfolk
- Monday to perform a surgical operation.
He returned home Tuesday.
Try a sack of our Snow White flour.
It makes the cake as. white as snow. .<
46-1 O'Nett.t. nnnnrnv
A~ Paint your hou«e (not red) but any
col ot. y ou ytan t, and call on Hergjiiser &
'Gilfigau when in need of paints. 45tf
For teeth or photos, go to Or. Cor
bett's parlors, 23rd to 30th of each
month. Photographs $1 per dozen.
. We sell good flour, corn meal, graham,
bran, shorts, corn, oats,- etc., at gold
standard prices. 83-tf L. Keyes,
Frank Schobert, ot Tonic, Neb , and
Laura Oowney, of Ewing were granted
a marriage . license by the county judge
last Saturday.
S. B. Howard tendered his resignation
as deputy county treasurer last Friday.
It was accepted and Art Mullen has been
appointed to the position.
We have a new car load of rock salt.
. It Is recommended by the best stock
experts. Try some.
48-2 { O'Nhilx, Grocery Co.
Hershiser & Gilligan, the popular
new drug firm, presented the .writer
with one of their. alluminum fountain
pens one day last week. It is a beauty.
The circus is here but for a day, but
k- Hershiser A Gilligan are here all the
time. When you need anything in the
'drug line be sure and call. 45tf
vuvi (isvtitvut iu,uw puuuub oi me
celebrated Oakdale Pansy flour. Best
on the market., Will sell cheap for
entries last Tuesday. This land was
what was known as the "Three Mile
trip,” in Boyd county, which was
opened for settlement on February 19.
Fodder cane seed; the best stock feed
known. Plant some and be convinced.
We also have clean millet seed.
46-2 O’Neili, Gnoqpnv Co.
Soda water is healthful and refresh
ing. Try some of Hershiser & Gilligan’s
famous drinks—Frui Mis, Crushed Vio
let, Pure Jersey Cream. Chocolate, and
• , all kinds of phosphates. 43tf
John Horriskey returned home last
Friday evening from Cripple Creek,
Colo., where be has been the past year.
Judging from his report of that, section
it is a good place to stay away from.
An exchange reports a man m its
. town who does not take any newspaper.
He recently sent 50 cents in answer to
an advertisement "How to make pants
last,” and received, as an answer, “Make
. the coat and vest first.”
Servtces will be held in the Presby
terian church every Sabbath during the
Bummer, morning service to begin at
10:80, evening service at 8 o’clock.
Everybody cordially Invited to attend.
Clinton Lowrie, of Princeton, N. J.,
who is spending his vacation in O’Neill
"l* hi* parents, has been engaged as
cash. , j 46-tf L. Ebtbs.
The land office received nineteen
“Smoke;” Sommer*, formerly a resi
dent of Boyd county, and well known
in tills city, was shot by a man named
McPherson, from Bonesteel, S. D., In
Ord, Valley county, last week. It is
thought that Sommers cannot recover.
The assassin is still at large.
O. F. Biglin has purchased from the
Hansen Manufacturing Co., one of their
latest funeral cars, to use in connection
with his undertaking business. The car
is second to none in the state and this
valuable acquisition to his stock makes
it one of the most complete in the west.
An early “May" morning awakening
and a bicycle ride before breakfast is a
luxury few of us are favored with, but
Jim O'Donnell is one of the favored few
—in fact “Steve” seems to be one of
fortunes favorites, as the old dame—
and all of the misses—are constantly
smiling on him.
Perry & Mathews' circus showed in
town last Friday to a large crowd. It is
not the largest show on earth, in fact
one could not expect it to be and then
get in to see it for 25 cents. But the
Bhow is a good one and well worth the
price of admission. We hope the boys
will make a fortune in the business.
James Dixon, who resided about six
miles northwest of this city, died last
Sunday morning after an illness of
about three weeks, of pneumonia. He
was one of the old timers in this section,
having come to Holt county about 18
yeais ago. The funeral was held Mon
day and was largely attended, the re
mains being interred in the Catholic
cemetery. '
Fred Hosington, of Ohio, general
appraiser of abandoned military reser
vations, is in the city today. Mr. Hos
ingtqn will leave today for Boyd county
where he goes for the purpose of
appraising the old Fort liandall reserva
tion. He has appointed Seth Woods, of
Atkinson, and M. V. Hornbeck, of
Spencer, as appraisers to assist him in
Ihe work.
Butte Gazette: A mau named Ander
son vas over from Uolt county this
week looking for a stray wife. He was
very anxious to find Kearvillc, having
heard that Billy was the bold "abductor
of his household treasure. William was
finally rounded up on the Ponca, but
was able to prove an alibi, anyway they
settled the matter some way. Anderson
located the woman in Butte and is now
negotiating for her return or arrest.
Henry Nollkamper, the 19-year old
son of Wm. Nollkamper, proprietor of
the Eagle mills, was drowned in the mill
race at Turner last Saturday morning
about 10:30 o’clock. It seems that the
young man was sublect to fits and it
is supposed that while fishing he was
seized with a fit and fell into the race.
The water was about a foot deep where
the body was found. The remains were
interred in the cemetery at Turner
Saturday.
Exchange: Subscribers of country
newspapers often allow their subscrip
tions to become delinquent through
carelessness, and yet feel insulted if
their paper is stopped or a statement of
their delinquency is sent to them. They
nu uui uuy tuui icoy nuui Luciru—
politan papers, but tbe country paper is
expected to come on whether it is paid
for or not. This is an unjust exaction.
Because be is editor of a country news
paper is no reason why he should carry
you year after year. The income from
subscriptions to a newspaper is an im
portant item. Like snow flakes, they
are individually small, but when aggre
gated they pile up.
Thomas Welch died at his home
about 4 miles northwest of this city last
Saturday evening about 8:45, of paraly
sis of^ the brain, aged 65 years.
Deceased was born in County Galway,
Ireland, in 1832. In the rail of 1859 he
was married and emigrated to America
Bhortly after, and settled in Scranton,
Penn. He was one of tbe pioneer resi
dents of Holt county, having oome here
with tbe colony Gen John O’Neill
brought from Pennsylvania on May 1,
1877, when he located upon the farm
north of town, where he has since
resided. He always enjoyed tbe best of
health until two weeks ago last Satur
day, when he was taken with the fatal
illness, and although all that medical
skill could do was done for him, it was
unavailing, and grim death claimed
another victim. Deceased leaves a wife
and seven children, all of whom were
present at the funeral except a daughter,
who lives in Victor, Colo, The funeral
was held Monday morning at 10 o’clock,
and waa one of the largest ever seen in
tbe county. Tbe remains were interred
in'the Catholic cemetery.
A BIO SHOE SALE.
For the next thirty days we will sell
at big reduction our stock of shoes.
Call and .get our prices, at Sullivan
Mercantile Co’s. 46-3
J0HHB01TS OBI8T.
Lincoln, Neb., Met 17, 1897—Special
Correspondence: The quarreling dis
position of the people on Whiskey
Ridge not only made them unhappy and
their community disreputable, but hin
dered their material progress. A
quarreling community always has a bad
reputation in a business way, has poor
credit, has a lower value on its land and
property than the mote peaceable com
munities and its people are hindered
financially in many ways by means of
their bad temper.
A quarreling man generally ends up
in disgrace and failure at the last. He
may bully a few timid people and fight
his way through for a few years, but his
friends wilt drop away from him one by
one, his enemies will multiply, little by
little the toils of feud and hate will
gather about him, until at last be finds
himself hemmed in by an environment
of opposition which bears him - to the
ground and crushes out his remaining
hope.
A man’s disposition is a magnate for
good or evil, attracting to himself the
consequences of whatever he manifests.
If he manifests hostility, every man
who meets him will have a clenched fist
ready to strike him. If he manifests
peace, every hand will be reaching out
to him in friendship and everyone will
want to be his ally. If under prosper
ous circumstances he manifests poverty
and discontent, poverty will come to
him at last, discontent will eat into him
like a cancer, and all the kindred evils
will gather around and cling to him as
the ivy twins itself about the oak.
But if under adverse circumstances he
manifests prosperity by a cheerful,
hopeful, expectant disposition, as if
waiting for it to come, bis eyes will be
the first to see it when it does come,
and he will avail himself of its earliest
opportunities, because, like a watchman
upon the wall, he is looking for it.
The people on Whiskey Ridge were
poor. They talked of poverty, expected
nnvPrl u onH monifnaind St in ownnw
possible manner. They doubted that
the railroad would ever come to Iowa,
and when the Burlington road bad
reached Ottumwa, old Dad Blithers said,
“It won’t never come no further, an it
won’t do no good when it does come.”
They refused to enlarge their fields, or
to improve their farms, and held their
land as of little value. They cultivated
their feuds instead of their fields.
Sometimes in the very busiest part of
the crop season the whole community
would be bustled away to the county
seat in attendance upon a law suit.
The quarreling disposition had been
manifested so long and the gossiping
habit had been so universal among them
that when one man got into trouble
they all knew about it, all talked about
it, and so they all got into trouble
together.
The county sheriff used to say,
| “This’ll be a busy week in court. The
Ridgers have had another row and
they’ll all be in town this week attend
ing the trial.”
Even the women and young, girls
would be brought in as witnesses.
'You’d see them sitting in the court-room
v«c*j UIIU UOJ uoicumg COjJCll)T IU CUIUU
every word of the testimony, and you’d
see them standing in groups under the
trees about the public squares, gossiping
and repeating ovjer again all the details
of the quarrel. Women are not much
better than men in this respect, and
when the quarreling habit gets well
rooted in a community it affects the
character and the happiness of every
wife and daughter as well as every girl
and boy.
In the meantime, while the Ridgers
were occupied with their feuds and idle
gossip, while their homes were neglect
ed, while their herds were left to scatter
and stray away, while their fields grew
up in weeds, the farmers in the sur
rounding communities were busy, rais
ing fine cattle and big crops, planting
orchards and beautifying their homes.
As fast as the peaceable and thrifty
farmers living nearest to the Ridge
accumulated sufficient sums, they bought
out their quarreling neighbors to get
rid of them. Little by little the strength
of peace encroached upon the weakness
of beligerancy. Little by little these
bushwackers of progress fell back before
the march of higher civilization. One
by one the fighters sold out and moved
away, and when at last “Old Dad”
Blithers, the last of the Ridgers, with
j his sons, Bub, Bob and Bill, in covered
wagons, with their old squirrel rifles
hung up to the bows, with the tar
bucket dangling under the hindmost
axle, with their fox hounds, theit* coon
dogs, and their race horses, went travel
ing along the muddy lanes headed west
ward toward the Missouri river, the
people said, “Now we’ll have peace."
There’s a big white frame school
house under the oak tree where the log
cabin school house stood; there’s a sub
stantial brick church with green ivy
vines climbing up its outer walls; there’s
* bell that rings ont every Sunday over
the green hills, and there are hymns
aunit there now that suggest sweeter
thoughts than were suggested by the
whangdoodle strains of the old hard
shell Baptist preacher. The bad temper
of the Ridgers acted as a magnet of
evil, attracting to them the Instruments
of their own destruction. They thought
of trouble, talked of trouble, magnified
and manifested trouble until at last it
overwhelmed them and crowded them
out. f ’■
They manifested hate until they
attracted hate toward themselves. They
manifested distrust toward each other
until nobody would trust them. They
manifested doubt, suspicion and envy
until all these evil forces gathered
around them like slimy bats flying in
the night.
They struck at credit and credit with
drew from them. They sneered at good
reputation and it went away and left
them in their disgrace. Harmony came
to them and said, “If you want to join
in I'll help you to tune up your voice,
but if you don’t want to sing get out of
the way and let some one else come who
does want to sing." Progress came to
them and said. “If ycu want to come
with me, I’ll walk with you hand in
hand, and be your ally, but if you want
to fight me I'll thrash you out of your
boots and drive you away from here,’’
and it did drive them away. The spirit
of higher civilization, which now char
acterizes the state of Iowa, came to the
Ridgers and said, “This state was made
for me, is mine, and I’ve come here to
stay. If you want to evolve into higher
and better conditions, I’ll help you, but
if you don’t, you must move on.” “Old
Dad" Blithers answered and said, “We
was here first. We’re the people.
We’re goin’ to run this state our way
regardless of anybody else on earth, an
if we can’t have our way, we’ll bust the
whole shootin’ match.” Bub and Bob
and Bill stood by the old man and rolled
■in their oloenoa «... . V....
when the spirit of Iowa took them by
the nap o’ the neck and told them n
second time to move on, they moved.
The Ridgers were bad tempered,
quarreling, self-willed obstructionists,
and. progress with its mastering force
pushed them aside.
Well, what's the matter with
Nebraska?
Bad temper; that’s all.
The giasticutis of belligerency has
raised himself and roared so loud that
they have heard him all over the union.
The progressive self-centered con
structive mind force of this nation
which ought to be our ally and friend
has turned away from us in disgust.
While one part of our people are trying
to bold up our resources, to manifest
better times and better dispositions, the
other part is howling about calamity
and rubbing the dirty fist of repudiation
and dishonesty under the nose of capi
tal. Old Dad Blithers is holding up his
thumb and threatening to gouge the eye
out of the first monied man who plants
a dollar in this stale. Bub Blithers has
his coat off ready for a fight, and all the
gossiping, giggling Ridgers are ready to
bet that “Bub’ll clean out the whole
bilin’ uv ’em," but he won’t. Progress
wears a velvet glove but it has an iron
hand, and when it tells Rub to move on
he’ll move.
now, my nromer populists, you or
the sweeter temper and better mind,
don’t get ruffled when I tell you that the
Blithers family are here. It is no
insinuation against your better man
hood and your higher character to tell
you that you have been beguiled into
this belligerent crowd because they
made you believe that they could and
would fight capital and open up a way
for you out of your temporary difficul
ties. They can’t fight this state into
better conditions, and you know it.
They are cowards when it comes to a
showdown, and you know that, too, for
you have seen them making their indi
vidual peace, while you are left to bear
the disgrace and the consequences of the
feud which they have created between
you and those who ought to be and
want to be your friends. By your vote
you have set these men up into high
places where they manifest and send out
an impression that is a lie against your
true character. That puts doubt upon
your honesty and light value upon your
farm. I make this point against these
men whom you, in a temporary fit of
bad hqmor, have set up to represent
you, first that they don't know how to
help you, and second that they don’t
want to. They wanted a row and they
got you into it. Now they are eating at
the private table in the private'car.
The only way for you to be happy
and prosperous is to associate yourself
with those who are happy and prosper
ous, and get yourself in harmony with
the rythm of progress. As soon as you
do this the Whiskey Bidge spirit will
disappear and the Blithers’ family will
"move on." J. W. Johnson.
EH WITH M'LEAN
M. Corrigan, the Kan mu City Street
Railway Magnate Joint In.
THINGS ARE LOOKING BRIGHT
Preliminary Work Being Rapidly Peeked
to Completion.
M. Corrigan, the atreet railway mag
net of Kansaa City, and a builder of a
large part of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
and Gulf railway, has been enlisted by
Donald McLean in the Sioux City and
Western enterprise. Mt. Corrigan,
aside from being a very wealthy man, is
associated with men who can command
almost unlimited capital.
Mr. McLean says he may have to go
out to Ogden for a few days before
long. He was taken ill this morning
and has been in bed all day with a phy
sician and nurse at his side.—Sioux
City Times.
BAXGRnr BALI.
Don’t miss the bargain sale at the
Sullivan Morcantile Co’s, store for the
next thirty days. Great reduction on
all goods. Come quick and get the best
bargain, at Sullivan Mercantile Co’s.
X8TRAY 1TOTICX.
Taken up at my place six miles north
and six miles east of O’Neill, on or
about May 10, a dark iron grey mare
about three years old, a little white on
both hind feet. Owner can have same
by proving property and paying expen
ses. 48-5 C. R. Young.
Relieved of Terrible Pains.
R. E.Morse, traveling salesmen, Gal
yeston, Texas, says: Ballard’s Snow
Liniment cured me of rheumatism of
three months' standing after use of two
bottles. J. S. Doan, Danville, Ills., says:
I have used Ballard’s Snow Liniment for
yean and would not be without it. J.
B. Crouch, Rio, Ilia., says Ballard'*
Snow Liniment cured terrible pains in
back ot head and neck when nothing
else would. Every bottle guaranteed.
Price CO cents. Free trial bottles at P.
C. Corrigan's.
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STATS EXAMIEATIOE.
Examinations for professional life
certificates will be held on June 9 and
10, simultaneously, at the office of the
state superintendent, Lincoln; the
county superintendent's office, North
Platte; and at the high school building
in each of the following places: Omaha,
Fremont, Hastings, Norfolk and Grand
Island. W. R. Jackson,
State Superintendent.
A MAY SAY*f BEKEXT.
The following article is taken from
the Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald. Mr.
Ryan is a brother of B. J. Ryan, of this
city, and the many friends of the family
here congratulate Mr. Ryan upon his
good fortune.
W. A. Ryan, of this city, was yester
day appointed building and loan com
missioner by Governor A. H. Bubb, and
'will assume the duties of the office on
June 1. Mr. Ryan has been a resident
of this city for twelve years and has
been an active supporter of democratic
politics, and has acted as a member of
the state and county executive commit
fopa nnH in won llm mjvmUo
cratic candidate for mayor.
Previous to coming to this state Mr.
Ryan was active in politics in bis native
state of Illinois, and at various times
held tbe office of city clerk, serving for
eight years without opposition. He
was also assistant attorney in tbe great
waterworks case of tbe city of Gales
burg vs. Bondholders, etc.
He has been an ardent advocate of
Governor Budd, and in the honor which
has Just been bestowed is reaping a par
tial reward for his active work. The
building and loan commission, as it will
be constituted after June 1, will be legal
in its character, as both new members
are attorneys at law.
Sioux City Journal: The following
amusing letter was written to a Chicago
bicycle firm by a Kansas farmer. It is
vouched for as authentic: "Deer Sirz—
I live on mi farm near Hamilton, Kan
sas, -am 57 year old and just a little
sporta. My neffew in Indiana bot his
self a new bisicle and sent me his old
one by frate, and ive learned to ride
aume. Its a pile of fun, but my bisicle
jolts considerable. A feller come along
yesterday with a bisicle that had hollow
Injun rubber tires stuffed with wind.
He let me try hissen and mi, it runs just
like a kushinl He told me you sell
injun rubber just the same as hissen.
How much will it be to fix mine up like
kissen? Mine is all iron wheels. Do
you punch the hollow hole threw tbe
injun rubber, or will I half to do it my
self? How do you stick the ends
together after you get it done? If your
injun rubber is already holler will it
come any cheaper empty? I can get all
the wind I want out here in Kansas free.
Eberneezer Y. Jenson.
"P. 8.—How much do you charge for
the doodad you stuff the wind into the
rubber with and where do you start?”
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DECORATION OAT.
On Monday, May 81, 1897, the beauti
ful ceremony of decorating the graven
of the heroes who have passed away
will be held at the court-house;
men who were hurried from thia life
while battling for the liberties we now
enjoy; others who contracted diseases
from the southern swamps and who
have suffered untold miseries until
relieved by the hand of death. These
exercises should be attended by all.
The exercises will commence at the
court-house at 3 o’clock sharp, under
the directions of Gen. John O’Neill
post No. 86, G. A. R.
PROGRAM.
Music. .
Binging.By the oholr.
Invocation.
Address to Oomradel.John Sklrvlng.
Muslo.
Recitation...
Muslo. '
Address.
Music.O’Neill Band.
Benediction.By the Chaplain.
At the conclusion of the exercises at
the court-house, the procession will
form with the right on Benton street
facing east, left on Fourth avenue. The
order of formation will be as follows:
O'Neill Cornet band.
Mayor and city council in carriages.
Pupils of the city schools.
Citizens on foot.
Sons of Veterans.
Members of the G. A. R. „•/
AT THM CKMETR11T.
Decoration of the soldiers’ graves.
Decoration day exercises by the pupils
of the high school appropriate to the
occasion.
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Now is the season when yon want a
good gun and want it cheap. I have a
line of guns that cannot be beaten any
where and am going to sell them cheap..
Come early and get first choice. I also
have hunting coats and sell them cheap.
Itf Nkil Brbknax.
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cuuuuxo out bale. <
For the next thirty daya we will -sel
at a big reduction our entire atoek of
aummer dress goods. Gome and get 11 I*
our prices, at Sullivan Mercantile Go's.,
O’Neill, Neb. MS
PACIFIC 8H0BT UTO TIM TA1L1, •
Passenger leaves, 10:10 a. x.; Arrives ' ’•£, •,»;
»*0 r. x. Daily, except Sunday. «...
Through connections both ways with
Black Hills train. By taking this line
you can go to Sioux City and return the
same day. Connections made with all
trrlna for the east and for South Dakota.
Buy local tickets to O’Neill. 39-tf
Boaklen’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required.
It is guarranted to give perfect satis
faction or money refunded. Price 85
cents per box. For tale by P. C. Corri
gan- 51-tf
Xleetrie Utters.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gener
ally needed, when the languid ex
hausted feelings prevails, when the liver
is torpid and sluggish and the need of a
tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt
use of this medicine has often averted
long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers.
no medicine win act more surely in
counteracting and freeing the eyetem
from the malarial poison. Headache,
indigestion, constipation, dizziness,
yield to Electric Bitters. SO cents and
•1.00 per botttle at P. C. Corrigan’
Drug Store.
Ballard’s Snow Unuasnt,
This invaluable remedy is one that
ought to be in every household. It will
cure your rheumatism, neuraliga,
sprains, cuts, bruises, burns, frosted
feet and ears, sore throat and sore chest. 0
If you have lame back it will cure it.
It penetrates to the seat of the disease.
It will cure stiff Joints and contracted
muscles after all other remedies have
failed. Those who have been cripples
for years have used Ballard's Snow
Liniment and thrown away their
crutches and been able to walk as well
as ever. It will cure you. Price 60
cents. Free trial bottles at P. C.
Corrigan’s.
KEEP COOL.
Men’s Summer Clothing.
Black alpaca coats 91.50 and 93.
Black brilliantlne coats 93.75.
Black drap de tc and serge coats 93.
Brown coat and vest 93. ,■ ^
Bicycle suits 95 and 95.75.
Bicycle pants 91.75, 93, 93.35.
Bicycle hose, good ones, at 65 cents. >
Canvass pants, just the thing for .
knocksbout use 91 per pair.
A nice line of white vests to dose at
331 per cent, discount. 34 ;;“s
Men’s belts 35, 50, ?5and 91.
Fine line of men’s tan and ox blood
shoes for summer wear, 93, 98.50 and 94 -V,
per pair. 46-3 J. P. MANN.
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