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Murray Department
J.M.STONE, I'kksidknt. CIIAS. C. PARMELK, VP.
CM AS. S. STONE, Ca-hii:i;.
Murray State Bank
Murray. Nebraska.
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BARN AND STOCK
ENTIRELY DESTROYED
John Lloyd's Barn, Four Miles Southwest of
Murray, Struck by Lightning.
CONTENTS ALL DESTROYED
Including Five Head of Good Horses, Hay
and Some Small Grain, Etc.
FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED LAST NIGHT
Mi iikav, Neb., Sept i:5. (Special
to the Journal. ) The barn of John
Lloyd, four miles southwest of this
place, was struck by lightning about
4 or ." o'clock this in iniii' and was
entirely destroyed by tire, together
with all its contents, including rive
headorhorses,1iarness,hay,etc. The loss
is estimated at 2,500, with very light
insurance.
The freight train going south last
night about i o'clock was w recked at
this station, and the engine and live
cars derailed. The accident was
caused by the breaking of a switch,
which let the moving train, which did
not intend to stop here.in on the side
track. Two of the cars wrecked were
loaded with oil and the other two
were empty stock cars.
The morning passenger from the
south was delayed here several hours,
but by 10 o'clock the track was cleared
so that both north and south bound
passenger trains could pass. No one
was injured.
Grandma Buck has been quite sick
for the past week.
Tom Laughlin has been on the sick
list for the past week.
Fate Davis drove to Plattsmouth
Thursday afternoon.
Miss Daisy Buck spent Sunday at
the home of Dr. Rrendel.
Fred Shoemaker, jr., and sister, of
Nehawka, were in Murray Thursday
Mr. Ezra Murphy has moved into
the J. L. Young house on the north
side of town.
Miss Margie Walker left Tuesday for
Peru. Neb., where she will attend the
state normal.
Mrs. Jas. A. Walker and Mrs. G. II.
Gilmore were in l'lattsmouth Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Mr. Charles I'hilpot shipped a car
load of fat cattle to the South Omaha
market Sunday night.
Many people from Murray attended
llie birthday anniversary at Mr. Puis
Saturday. All report a very enjoyable
time.
Mrs. W. Smith went to Omaha
Wednesday evening. She was accom
panied by Mrs. C. A. Rawls, of l'latts
mouth. Wm. Laugbridge is confined to his
bed this week with a severe cold on
the lungs, and an attack of pneumonia
is threatened.
Theo. Amick has sold his interest
in the threshing business to his part
ner, Walter Fropst, who w ill carry on
the business in the future.
II. C. Long w ill make a trip to his
farm in Furnas county next week.
He expects to put 200 acres in fall
wheat and it is about time to look
after it.
Frank Roedeker, son of Adam Roe
deker. and (Hun Roedeker, sonofChas
Roedeker, were through here Monday
on their way to l'lattsmouth where
they were to take the train for Lincoln
to attend busines college.
The little son of Lem Rates of Rock
Bluffs fell from an apple tree Sunday
afternoon and fractured his right arm
at the elbow. He was brought to
Murray where the fracture was dressed
and at the last report the little fellow
was doing nicely.
The cooking demonstration given at
the Underwftod hardware store was a
grand success in every particular.
Many people visiting the store and
quite a number of sales made. Dur
ing the sale Mr. Underwood sold seven
of those popular ranges, and hundreds
of people were treated with hot bis
cuits and coffee. Mr. Underwwd has
placed in a large supply of the Mon
arch ranges and expects to carry a full
line in the future.
Ed Jenkins was a business visitor in
( maha Tuesday.
T. L. Amick was transacting busi
ness in Lincoln Monday.
W. E. Copeland and Mr. Wallace
drove to l'lattsmouth Sunday.
The Murray schools opened. Monday
morning with good attendance.
Chas. S. Stone drove to Nehawka
Tuesday afternoon on business.
Miss Carrie Allison returned from
her Denver trip Sunday evening.
Mrs. Jos. Cook, of Dunbar, is visit
ing friends and relatives in and around
Murray this week.
Jos. Shrader and Clarence Murray
passed through here Saturday enroute
to the county seat.
I'rof. Earhardt returned from his
western trip last Saturday evening
He reports a rine t ime.
R. R. Stone w as transitting business
in Lincoln several das last week and
also taking in the fair.
Fate Davis enjoyed a short but very
pleasant visit from iiis sister of Mt.
Pleasant, la., today (Thursday. )
Ren Hart, who has been visiting
with Mark Cannon between Omaha
and Florence, returned home Monday
Wm. Rrown went to Yalisca, Iowa,
Saturday and accompanied his wife,
who lias visiting her parents, home
Sunday.
Miss Nellie Keean of Rapid City, S.
D.. arrived Mcnday to spend a few
weeks with her uncle and aunt, Mr,
and Mrs. J. W. Holmes.
Dave Folt. and family from near
Weeping Water were in Murray Sun
dav. brinuint; Mr. Munson of South
Omaha to the evening train.
The Widow Myers, ten miles soutl
wot of here, lost her barn by lire
Tuesday evening or Wednesday morn
ing, being .-truck by lightning.
Tie inside wood work of the Murray
State Rank was cleaned and re-
varnished this week and now we have
one of the neatest banks in the county.
Dr. A. E. Walker, of Shubert, Neb.,
passed through Murray, Wednesday,
enroute to Omaha with a patient to
be placed in the hospital in that city.
Miss Anna Davis of Mt. Pleasant,
la., stopped in Murray Wednesday on
her way home from Colorado Springs
tospeud the day with her brother,
Fate Davis.
W. J. Philpot passed through here
last Saturday with seven head of mules,
which he delivered to a horse buyer in
Plattsmouth. They were young mules
and brought him $100 per head.
In conversation with Mr. J. A. Wal
ker he tells us that his popular sum
mer resort has closed for the summer
of 1905. Numerous repairs will be
made during the winter season, and in
the spring of 100; will open in full
blast.
Buys Another Store.
The firm of Holmes & Smith have
purchased the Elizabeth Goodwin
stock of goods at Mynard, and take
charge and carry on the business in
the same location about the first of
the coming month. The invoicing
will commence about the 25th of this
month. Messrs. Holmes & Smith need
no introduction to this part or tne
country, as they have carried on a suc
cessful business in Murray for several
years past, and the people of Mynard
may expect to find in them a firm that
will give one hundred cents worth of
goods for every dollar spent with them.
Howard Graves w'.ll take charge of
the stock and carry on the business in
the future. Howard is a most excel
lent young man and will ever be found
exerting every effort to please the peo
ple around that little village. He will
move to Mynard and occupy the resi
dence adjoining the store some time
next week.
Birthday Sarprise.
On Wednesday evening, September
13, occured the celebration of the 42nd
birthday anniversary of Mr. Jesse
Rennard. at his home four miles
northeast of Murray. The whole
affair was a complete surprise to Mr.
Rennard, the occasion being planned
and carried out by Mrs. Rennard. The
evening was not a pleasant one to
drive any great distance so many
friends who wished to attend were
kept at home. Oysters, cake and
coffee were served, and various games
were indulged in. and a very pleasant
time was enjoyed by all. Following
are the names of those present:
Dr. and Mrs. R. F. Rrendel, Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Sans, Mr. and Mrs. W. Hutchison, Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Gapcn, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Sans, Mr. and Mrs. R. Fitch,
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rennard, Mrs.
Philip Rrisbin, Mrs. Samuel Smith,
Yilla and Oliver Gapen. Jessie and
Freddie Rennard, Willie Smith.
LARGE BUSINESS
ON THE BURLINGTON
Why Passenger Traffic is Delayed Every
Day in the Week.
The Lincoln News says that never
before in the history of traffic on the
Rurlington road has business been so
heavy as at this season of the year.
Through business has grown so
heavy in the last ten days that it has
been practically impossible to handle
the city traffic and jobbers everywhere
are impatiently calling on the cor
poration to get cars which have been
standing around unable to reach the
proper side tracks for want of switch
engines and men to move them.
Through business has the call and it is
with ditliculty that it is handled with
any sort of dispatch.
It is reported that every side track
in the great grain belt on the main
line and the branches is already com
fortably rilled with cars, the bulk of
them being loaded and waiting for
their turn to be shipped. In the last
rive years the Burlington has been
called on to handle the big lumber
and shingle traffic of the Northern
Pacific from the Pacific coast, which
amounts to thousands of cars a year.
Resides this the volume of company
traffic has become very burdensome.
The building of the Great Northern
spur from Sioux City to Ashland is a
heavy draft on the road as hundreds of
cars of material must be shipped there
from the Lincoln yards of the Burling
ton and elsewhere. Empties, too, by
the hundreds are daily being sent out
to stations along the line for the re
ception of more business.
It is reported that the side teacks
are glutted, with rolling stock tilled
with lumber, coal and grain and other
staple commodities waiting to be
shipped to their destinations, yet un
able to move, because of the immense
volume of the business offered.
There are about 5C0 cars of shingles
alone on Lincoln sidetracks waiting to
be shunted to all points of the com
pass. There is a great quantity of
coal, also. Trains have been running
very heavily laden over the road and
they have made such slow time that it
has been found necessary to send them
over the line at increased speed.
"I have worked in the local yards
for more than twenty years," said a
Burlington man, ''and I never saw the
beat of the traffic that has been offered
in September. Think of what it will
be when the millions of bushels of new
corn commence to move strongly. Be
sides dead freight and merchandise,
live stock is being shipped by the
hundreds of cars each twenty-four
hours, and the movement, from the
ranges has not yet reached its zenith.
Extra after extra stock tiains are go
ing out daily, and there js some delay
because it is impossible to secure
crews, engines and cars to take care of
the business. Every brake man who
has been in the service more than a
year has been called on to take charge
of a train, and new green men are be-
ng hired right along to take their
places. Old passenger coaches and
outfit cars and any old thing that will
serve as a caboose is being utili.ed in
these strenuous times of prosperity
and big crops.
Men are forced to turn back and
take out another train as soon as they
reach Lincoln, and many of them are
not in the best condition, either to
make another trip, because they need
rest and sleep. Locomotives do not
have a chance to have their tires pulled
and are kept in the round house just
long enough to be overhauled quickly
and then sent out again. The pace
is hard on men and on machinery, but
traffic must be cared for and the big
dividends earned for stck holders."
In the local yards it is necessary to
have the services of two operators day
and night to issue train orders and
transact other business which is inci
dental to the movement of freight and
stock. Experienced trainmen, engi
neers, firemen and switchmen are in
great demand and the age limit is not
so closely adheared to as it is when
trattic is light, or it is just ordinarily
busy.
The road does not like to accept
green brakemen and switchmen and
turns down such applications, when it
is possible, but bright young fellows
and even middle-aged men have a
chance to earn money railroading if
they want jobs. ,
The main yards have twenty-four
tracks, yet they are so gorged at cer
tain times during the day and night
that trains out and in cannot be hand
led. Lately trains have been made up
in the local yards and surplus rolling
stock has been sent to outlying side
tracks and even to close-by towes to
insure room for through tratlic.
OF THE
or THE
CONDITION
Mvirray Sta.te Bank
Of Murray, Nebraska,
Charter No. 57
Invorpor.-it-! In tlie State of Nt'Wruska. :it the
rlose or buslnes Aui?u.-.t j. iaa:
RESOURCES:
Liouns ami discounts 24.3.J 74
Overdrafts soru red mi d unsecured.. I. M
Hanking house furniture and fixture 1'iS 50
Current expenses and taxes paid 371 55
Uiw from national, state and pri
vate banks and bankers ltt.KH 20
Total cash on hand... l.U! SJ
Total I 45.341
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock paid in i 5.000 0(1
Surplus fund 1.5,'fO 54
I'ndiviiled profits 5c:i 40
Individual deposits sub
ject to check .'H.H37 75
Time certificates of de-
Ksit 4..'IH
Due to state and private
hanks and bankers.... l'.l O'.i ?K307
Total 45.341 tW
Statu ok Nkbkaska.
" Couiitv of Cass
I. Chas. S. Stone, cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
alnjve statement is a correct and true copy of
tlie report made to t lie Mate Mankind Hoard.
Chas. S. Stoxk. Cashier.
Attest:
.1. A. I'oi.i.Aitit. Sit.. Director.
.1. M. Stone. Director.
SubscriU'd and sworn to before me this 1st
dav of SentemlHT. l'."0..
seai.1 Chas. L. Ukavks. Notary Public
Com. expires April 1'JlU.
J. T. Porter is another victim of last
Tuesday night's storm. He lost two
horses by lightning. They were in the
pasture at the time and were killed in
stantly.
In the last few years several miles
of additional yard space has been built
but it has proven inadequate for tak
ing care of the increased traffic. Of
ficials are sorry now that the corpora
tion did not see ahead and remodel the
entire freight yards, as was proposed
last year. With more than double the
capacity, as was planned, business
could have been cared for with much
less switching and w ith decreased ex
pense.
The employes engaged in the trans
portation are making more money now
than they have for a great many years
and, perhaps, more than ever before
in the existence of the road. Many
brakemen are earning $85 to $100 a
month, conductors from the latter
figure to $150. Engineers running in
the pool are making close to the $200
a month wages and in some instances
more. Many Switchmen are taking
$100 and more from the pay car. Re
pair men are also sharing in the profits
of the immense traffic and are reaping
quite a snug sum laboring over time
The fall and winter is alwa3'sa bonan
za for this class of employes, but this
one and the winter to follow will see
all records smashed.
When the new corn is being shipped
in November large quantities of mer
chandise, coal, lumber, building mate
rial and other important commodities
will still be moving heavily and rail
road officials will be face to face with
a difficult problem.
Democratic County Convention.
The democratic electors of Cass
county, Nebraska, are hereby called to
meet at Elm wood, on
Tuesday, Skitkmiikk 19, 1905,
at 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of
selecting 20 delegates to the demo
cratic state convention which meets in
Lincoln on Wednesday, September 20,
and also to nominate candidates for
the following offices:
Treasurer.
County Clerk.
County Judge.
Sheriff.
County Superintendent.
Coroner.
Surveyor.
And also to nominate candidates for
Register of Deeds and Commissioner
for the second district, if it is deemed
wise so to do. The bases of represen
tation was fixed at one delegate for
each 10 votes cast for Hon. Geo. W.
Berge last November, which entitles
ecah ward and precinct to the follow
ing representation, to-wit:
Tipton 10
Greenwood 9
Salt Creek 12
Stove Creek 11
Elm wood 10
South Rend 8
Weeping Water o
Center 7
Louisville 8
Avoca 7
Mt. Pleasant u
Eight Mile Grove 11
Nehawka 7
Liberty 14
First Rock Rluffs l
Second Rock Rluffs .',
Plattsmouth precinct 1
l'lattsmouth City First ward. 0:
second ward. 12: third ward, 12:
fourth ward. 7: fifth ward. 5 in
Weeping Water City First ward. 4:
second ward, 2: third ward. 2...
Total number of delegates 2111
It is also requested by the commit
tee that the primaries for the various
precincts be held on
Satukday, Sei'temt.kk lt', i:0-.
between the hours of (', and o'clock
p. m., at their usual voting places.
By order of the county central com
mittee. M. A. Bates,
Chairman.
REPORT
For which we will pay the highest market price any day in
the week, delivered at the creamery in Murray.
This week we are paying for
Old Hens, per pound, - 8 cts
Spring Chickens, per pound, 9 cts
Old Roosters, per dozen, - $2.40
Don't forget we always pay
the Highest Market Price in Cash !
Chris
DR. R. L. NEWELL
DENTIST.
Fifteen Years Experience t
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Murray Every Tuesday.
OFFICE REAR MURRAY STATE BANK,
SATISFACTION (iKAJJAXTKMI). 2
Got Off Cheap.
He may well think, lie has got off
cheap, who, after having contracted
constipation or indigestion, is still able
to perfectly restore his health. Noth
ing will do this but Dr. King's New
Life Pills. A quick, pleasant and cer
tain cure for headache, constipation,
etc. 2.3c at F. G. Fricke & Co.'s drug
store; guaranteed.
A Clear Complexion and Bright Eyes.
In most cases a sallow, blotched com
plexion and dull heavy eyes are due
to poor digestion and an inactive liver.
Ori.no Laxative Fruit Syrup aids di
gestion and stimulates the liver and
bowels and makes the complexion
smooth and clear. Orino Laxative
Fruit Syrup does not nauseate or gripe
and is mild and pleasant to take. Re
fuse substitutes. F. G. Fricke & Co.
Will Be Taken Back.
Sheriff McBride received a telegram
this morning to arrest Clyde Wright
of Weeping Water. The message came
from B. D. Hayward, superintendent
of the reform school at Kearney. The
boy was out on parole, and as he has
not conducted himself just as he
should, his return to the reformatory
was deemed necessary. The young
man has been arrested and will be
brought here, and the superintendent
will come after him.
Geo. Dovey and family, Rea Patter
son and Elizabeth Dovey, Florence and
Margaret Dovey and a number of
young people from Omaha, spent Sun
day at the home J. A. Walker and
family.
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OUR COOKING
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DEMONSTRATION
IS NOW OVER
and we sold several of the ever popular "Monarch"
Ranges, hut have placed a number on our floor for
the future trade, CALL AND SEK THEM!
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HOW ABOUT THAT
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New Lightning Rod
Call and let us show good
Shinn Wire Cable.
L,. B. UNDEHWOOD
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Miller
UNION
TEETH
'without put
' SPECIALTY
Big Show Coming.
Will be here in a few days!
Gollmar Rros.' big new railroad
shows, triple circus, elevated stages,
Roman hippodrome, free horse exhibit
and deep sea aquarium. A gigantic
undertaking, head and shoulders above
our so-called rivals. 20 funny old
clowns 20. A multitude of riders,
leapers, aeronauts, aerialists, gymnasts
and charioteers and everything per
taining to the circus world. Rig dou
ble menagerie of all the brute creation.
Herd of big elephants.
Gollmar Rros.' $20,000 feature the
only real living hippopotamus in cap
tivity: a savage blood-sweating terror
of the river Nile: the wild man-slaying
monster; the only one in the known
world on exhibition: afternoon and
evening in Gollmar Rros.' millionaire
menagerie.
" bands of music, : circus rings, ele
vated stages, ;300 men and women em
ployed, 300 horses and ponies.
Every morning at 10 o'clock a grand
coiossal free street parade, a mommoth
free street show. 7 open dens of wild
beasts 7. Ponderous marching ele
phants. An amazing wonderland. 10
different kinds of music, golden steam
piano. A big double procession of
shining armor, glittering dens, cages,
band chariots, rich and rare costumes
of silks and satins, tableaux, floats,
comedy provokers, a perfect blaze of
splendor majestically moving upon the
public highway at 10 o'clock. Two
performances daily, afternoon and
evening. Doors open at 1 and 7 o'clock.
Will exhibit at Plattsmouth, Wed
nesday, September 27.
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