MONDAY, JULY 31, 19K5-
PAG2 1.
PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Cbe piattsmouth journal
PUBLISHED SEUI-WEtKLV AT PLATTSMOUTII, IV E B It A SKA.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY
It is heaven upon earth to I
V- hae a man's mind move in -l-
charity, rest in Providence, and
J.turn upon the poles of truth.
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Heme Coming." Five days.
You dn't want to forget it
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If you have, ever lived in Cass
ton niy.
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All tiie oil si.-1 tiers that ean tome
v. ill he lu re to enjoy the happiest
event of their lives.
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The excessive heat is really becom
ing alarming in ni".ny sections.
The crisis in gasoline is whether
i.i spell it with an "V or an "e." Rut
that fhould not raise the price.
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Soap and hydrant water is the only
itnie.ly that -will do away with the
"ils" of perspiration.- It's cheap,
loo.
We have come to the conclusion
ihat the.-e millionaire hreakfust foo l
I'i-oiiuce:s have m far failed to
eon-pete with ham and eggs.
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Is a silver lining to the war cloud.
I r- :iti I r, i vi't".-ii tn tpitn ;! the!
; rv ; .i t;.t ion of German and Austrian
i''"P. m 1-eer will probably be v.'.i ad
Nance in price.
As L. F. .Lanrhorst has been .-elected
as chairman of the democratic
sl.il-' committee, it is now in order
1 :-r h'Ct a new ch ait man for Cass
count v. Don't vou think?
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In speaking of the efficiency of
tate officials, the man who is elec
ted, has but little to do only to strut
around like a rooster in a barn yard,
and look wise, while clerks do the
work.
-rot-
It's funny, but nevertheless true,
that the same man who u-ed to let
bi horse go all day without a drink
water now looks into the tank
ecry few minutes to see if the ga.-o-iine
is running !w.
The Lincoln News rays that "eighty
per cent of the republicans of Nc
biaka are dry." Evidently the repub
lican state convention, held in Lin
coln last Tuesday didn't show such
to be the case. It was very mum on
the dry question.
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An Omaha man has rued his wife
for divoiop, together with alimony, of
course. He states that his wife did
i lie proposing, and si; ice that time she
has o.dy given him $1 a week for
Tending money. Is it unju.t to as!;
what he would do with more?
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The mystery of the death of the
fine St. Rernard dog of the litllo
grandnughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dovey
being slyly investigated. Also, the
sodden death of Judge Reason's do
- -rnetime ago. The man, or woman,
.bo would poison a pet door for re
venged is too low in the estimation
ol the people, to even he countenanc
ed as a respectable citizen.
A Dutch r.cwspaper published at
Amsterdam reports that f5,000 work
men employed m muuition factories
and electrical works i i Rerlin have
gone on a strike because or the fact
Hint Dr. Karl Licbknecht, the social
ist leader, was recently given a pris
on sentence for protesting against
J he European war. If these .",,000
workmen in common with the labor
ers of other European countries had
refused to accept employment in any
munition factory, there would have
been more ot them left to strike.
FKH VEAU IS ADVAXCK
WHY DEMOCRATS ARE HAPPY
Democrats gathered together in the
state convention at Hastings were
just simply happy. There is no other
word to express it. There are words
and pharses to express the various
parts of it good humored, harmoni
ous, prosperous, contented, a bit proud
but the sum total of them all is
happiness.
And the reason democrats are hap
py is thai they are entitled to be.
They have earned happiness. They
have earned the right to be modest
ly proud of themselves, of their party
and of its administration of affairs
in state ami nation.
As was said in the convention, they
have acquired the title to the old re
publican slogans. They can stand now
for letting well enough alone, for four
years more of the full dinner pail, for
a continuation of the present bles
sings of peace and progress and pros
perity. In the words of Senator Hitch
cock they have killed Cock Robin.
They put the progressive party out
of business by being so progressive
themselves that there was no room
for two progressive parties. As Colo
nel Roosevelt himself has said, they
have written the progressive party
policies into law. And reverting again
to Senator Hitchcock's language, the
Colonel perforce declined the nomira
t;on not because he would not like to
be President, but because he didn't'
relish the job of sitting up with a
corpse.
Democrats instead of viewing with
alarm can now point with ptide. It
tastes almighty good to democrats,
that does. l"o- so many years repub
lican editors and spell-binders had
been proclaiming that democrats
were incompetent to administer gov
ernment, to preserve and promote
properity, to advance justice, to con
struct and enact sound and progres
sive legislation, trait some democrats
had even b-.-gun to wonder if it could
possibly be true. They have found, to
their delight it couldn't and isn't.
Democratic administration has giv
en to ihe nation more construe. rve
legislation of a progressive natun it;
a bt'.le more than three years than
was jver enactel i.tfore in twice that
period.
It has given . priected banking
and el.-rc ..ey :y. torn so admirable, i
efficient, that nq u di mus dare men
tion it neither in their platforms nor
in their speeches. Under the old re
publican system a bank depositor, in
times when he needed money most,
could go to the bank and get per
haps ?." to S10 of his own money if
he could persuade the banker that
he was in dire need of it to feed his
family. Under the democratic system
he can get all his money he wants
the instant he wants it, can get all
the credit to which he is entitled at
a lower interest rate, and can sleep
sound of nights without fear of pan
ics and crashing banks.
Under the republican system the
business men of the east could get
credit at the lowest market rate, but
the farmer of the central and western
states was held up for 8 to 10 per
cent. Democratic adminstration is
wiping out the inequality and injus
tice. The; farmer will, soon be able to
got cheap money on approved .security
the same as the business man, and
farmers and business men alike will
profit from it.
Samuel Gomper has said that tho
democratic administration has done
more for labor than any administra
tion had done before. All legitimate
corporate enterprise testifies that, by
the federal trades commission act,
the democratic party has done for
sound and honest business what re
publican administration failed to do
it has made the laws governing busi
ness affairs, has made it easy to obey
the law and has protected business
from unfair and competition-wreck
irig competition.
Through the income tax a fair share
of the burdens of taxation have been
removed from povei'ty and imposed
upon wealth. Thanks to the popular
election of senators the people have
captured the senate from Wall street
and the big interests.
, And in the state, democratic admin
istration has reduced taxes almos
$1,000,000 in the bionnium, has intro
duced efficiency and strict honesty
into the conduct of the state's busi
ness, and has enacted a volume of
progressive legislation that is the
pride of Nebraska and the emulation
of all other well governed states.
Why shouldn't democrats be happy
and a bit cocky in their demeanor
It is soul-satisfying to have been
rut to the test and proved sound and
ciean and efficient.
It gives a healthy sense of self-re
spect to have a luminous and spot
less record to point to and to back
one up.
It makes democrats feel jolly when
the opposition party is left without
an issue of its own and fearful to at
tack the record of constructive pro-
gressivism that constitutes the dem
ccratic issue.
It makes democrats laugh right out
loud when republicans, in the quest
oi -in issue, are reduced to the r
tremitv of going outside the countty
c. f'i:d it. With nothing to citack in
de they point to Mexio and say:
See how badly off Mexico is. Let
us li'ame Wilson and the democrats
for tl at!" Why not blame Wii.r .i and
tv'ti e.cmocrats also fa Europe's being
so baely off. for revolution in China,
for mtnsles in Timbuetoo and for
fa lure of the fisheiit r in Greenland?
And so democrats can't hilp it.
They feel good. They feel prodigous
ly, even hilariously, good. They "just
don't hate nobody," not even the re
publicans. Instead, they invite them
with pride and real hospitality into
tiie democratic household and urge to
make themselves at home and partake
largely of the exhaust less store of
democratic blessings.
It is great to be a democrat. If you
don't believe it, brother, come on in
and try it. Our goods are genuine.
Once used, you will accept no other.
World-Herald.
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They are as free as water, and
bring results.
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It is speculation if you win. It is
gambling if you lose.
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Cyclone Davis is not shouting
"amen" over- the Texas primary re
sults. -:o:-
The Lod's promise to provide has
been made the scapegoat of a lot of
dyed-in-the-wool low-down laziness.
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The political prognasticator is due
to have his probascis bumped several
times and insundry ways this falls.
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Senator La Follette has gained the
ill-will of many of the leading stand
pat officers because he believes Wil
son should be re-elected. The senator
is only one out of a hundred or more
prominent and high-up republicans
that believe the same as Senator La
Follette.
Some people in this old burg pay
no more attention to cutting the
weeds around their homes than they
did to shoveling the snow from their
sidewalks last winter. They must love
to hear mosquitoes singing in their
ears. Weeds breed both mosquitoes
and disease.
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The New York World, commenting
on the death from fright during a
t-torm of a New Jersey woman "who
through all her life of 50 years had
felt a nervous dread of lightning,"
asked, "Cannot the multitude of oth
erwise rational people who are ob
sessed by this same dread take coun
sel of the fate of this unfortunate and
allay their fears?" A day or two aft
er this question was asked, a woman
in Paris, 111., rushing out of the house
during a storm to rescue some chick
ens, answered the warning voice of
her sister by crying out, "I am not
afraid of lightning" and fell dead
from a bolt attracted by a metal
clothesline under which she was passing.
The beginning day should be born
in mind.
Just let it lie if you want to kil
a falsehood.
Thursday, August 31, the great au
tomobile parade.
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September 4, Burlington day and
flag raising.
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Emotional insanity is a fancy name
for fighting mad.
With flag. raising at the Burlington
shops and parade.
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It's the high cost of wasting that
cuts out the profits.
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Until it gets into the union, love's
labor is generally lost.
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Wild oats are good for neither man
or beast why sow "em?
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A fashionable girl is sometimes
known by the styles she has quite
wearing.
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An inch of rain looks a foot long,
when a farmer wants to save his
corn crop.
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This has been corn weather to a
finish. Rut a good soaking rain will
finish it up in fine shape.
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Every citizens should be interested
in making this the biggest event in
the history of Piattsmouth.
Anybody who can get the solid sup
port of the fault finders ought to be
elected by a large majority.
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No man realizes what a mean, con
temptible wretch he is until some-
ody runs up against him for office.
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Mr. J. W. Curry's effort to turn the
prohibition party of the state over to
the republican party, was a signal
failure.
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It is unanimously agreed that a
million dollar rain'' can't come a bit
too soon and too often to us iust
now.
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Next to hating you for being a
iar, a woman hates you most when
he can't catch you in a lie, if you
ire her husband.
Of course, as the story goes, Gov
rnor Morehead will have a great deal
to do in the management of the state
campaign in Nebraska. There is no
doubt about that.
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Remember the time when your am-
ition was to carry a red lantern and
work on the section at $1.25 per day?
Then why laugh at the boy when he
ias equally foolish ambitions.
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Correspondence from the allied
front on the allied successes is con-
tiadited by correspondence from the
German front on German successes.
n both instances the correspondence
s probably as nearly correct as the
censorship permits.
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A house 1,000 years old has been
unearthed in Mexico in remarkably
good condition. Speculators and build
ers of "houses-to-sell" might go down
and look it over, and find out just
what principles to avoid in order to
mild a house that tips over in less
than two years.
While the people of the middle west
are longing for a cooling shower of
ain, the south is losing millions from
cloudbursts. The damage is roughly
estimated at ten millions of dollars.
liooks like the weather man sent all
the clouds the wrong direction. But
then it is a difficult task to suit
everybody, and the man who operates
the clouds has no one who can in
fluence him. Most of us do our best to
try it, though.
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Omaha should have the land bank
on general principles. It is the metrop
olis of the state," more people visit
that city four times over, than any
city in the state. The largest stock
market in the west, which is a means
of bringing hundreds of farmers from
western Nebraska, that do not have
any business in Lincoln or any other
city of note. Yes, give Omaha the
land bank because she is the city that
calls farmers from all over Nebraska
to confer on business.
GEORGE SHELDON AND HUGHES
Chairman Merton L. Corey of Clay
Center put many clever thoughts into
the receptive minds of the democrats
assembled in the state convention at
Hastings, but there is one of them
that promises to be above all the
others productive of results in the
coming election.
He suggested that when the dele
gates, especially the farmer delegates,
went back home they should probe
the confidences of their republican;
neighbors. He suggested that they
should find out why the repubulican
neighbors so frequently extolled
George Sheldon as one of the greatest
of Nebraska governors, and whether
or not it was because, as the greatest
of his official acts, he signed a 2-cent
fare railroad regulation bill.
If that proved to be why the re
publican neighbor held George Shel
don's service as governor in grateful
remembrance was urged to ask the
neighbor if he held Charles E.
Hughes, the republican candidate for
president, in high esteem because Mr
Hughes, as governor of New York,
vetoed a 2-cent fare law.
It is a pertinent question and de
serves an answer, undoubtedly tn
great prestige former Governor
George Sheldon acquired through his
administration was due to the fact
that it fell to him to pass upon a 2-
cent fare railroad regulation bill, and
that he did not allow any influence to
deter him from doing his duty in the
matter.
It may be urged that conditions in
Nebraska and those in New York
were different. It is a valid claim
Thev were different. A New York
railroad, owing to the density of traf
fic in that state, was much more apt
to be able to thrive under a 2-ccnt
fare railroad rate than was Nebraska,
where traffic was so much lighter.
Such a law could not be compen
satory in Nebraska and confiscatory
in New York. The conditions as to
density of traffic were vitally dif
ferent. Rut that was not the only
ditfercnce. there was an even more
otential one: Nebraska had a gov
ernor ready first to show his sym
pathy for the common people, while
New York had one ready first to
zealously protect the railroad cor
porations through a pretense of sham
fear that they would be wrongfully
ind hopelessly injured. Lincoln Star
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"Should the country newspaper
have an editorial page.' this ques-
tion is being discussed at intervals by
grave philosphers and wise pen art-
sts in various sections of the coun-
trv. Let us suc-jrest another and iust
as intelligent subject for discussion.
onoum me.touuuy g.oteiy
Ol VI iL. i .
eep sugar for sale?" It has been
our observation that the most sue
cessful trrocerv stores sell sugar and
we know of no grocery very impor
tant publication in the state that doe
not have some sort of editorial de-
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the editorial pages of newspapers,
ami me puonc imes a nei. uuu.
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has the courage to take a stand some-
where near the side of the street that
is occupied by the question at issue.
et the dis-believer in the editorial
;-rge try to "slip something through
this department ami ho will soon
l
learn weather the public reads it or
i
not.
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Germany is threatened with a gi
gantic labor strike. So are we. Her
r:inital citv has a crime wave. Noth
ing cr us. Except that she has a
war that we haven't, and we have
some hyphenate -s she rastn't, our joy.
and sorrows are common. Hail fellow
will met!
Arrests should be made for care-
less driving of automobiles. There is
not nearly so many accidents caused
from speeding as there arc through
careless driving. A wreckless driver
is where the trouble comes in in al
most every accident.
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In retiring still in possession of the
championship, Frank Gotch shows ex
traordinarily good sense, together
with a broken leg which might prove
a handicap in future matches.
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You will regret it the balance of
your life if you are not here to en
joy the event.
Children Cry
Tho Kind Voir Have Always J3otiglit, and -which has been i
iu use for over SO years, lias borno tho signature of
-? and has been made under his per-
j&f&Jtfj1--- sonal supervision sinee its infancy.
-CCccUZ Allow no one to deceive yon in thta.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " arc hut
Experiments that trifle with and endanger tho health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.,
What is CASTORIA
Casforia is a harmless snhstituto for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, 3Iorphino nor other Narcotic
fsuhstancc. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Vorms
ar.d allays Feverisliness. I 'or more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, AYind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhaa. It regulates tho Stomach and Dowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
Tho Children's lanacca Tho Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
'Bears the
n Use For
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE CENTAUR COMMNV, MEW YORK C I TV.
rf hit ' rni i A ItM fcwITii i I iTa mm
Everybody is coming to.
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The great jVil festivities.
Beginning Thursday, August 31.
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With
:ade
a great
automobile pa-
Aud ending Monday, September 4.
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Everybody should remember that
while you are tooting your own horn,
that there are several others in the
band wagon.
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A district judge hands down a de
cision that a hen, though she he alive,
may not be classed as live stock. A
fowl decision, so to speak.
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little paint gee--, a long ways to-
v.cid satisfying the farnilv with -ihe
condition cf farm life. Yes, and home
lifj within the citv, also.
.Q.
There were about fifty delegates in
attendance at the progressive (bull
moose) state convention, but thev de-
cided to hold the organization togefh-
l J i 4 r t
C1 Ior lwo ears longer, a une grair
for Mr.
Chairman.
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It is a queer sort of religion that
makes a ma so narrow that he hates
and fears all outside his own creed
lie ought to be mighty sure that his
road is provided with terminal fa
cilities.
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an The wifcof an Illinois sheriff
hamicuffo)I a nc,rro pii.5onor to her
se,f am, took him from Chicaff0 to
Lhe cit l)astiIe at Lincoln, 111., her
hf)me town As she kft thJ winJy dty
, f noi..omon stare.i at her
jn open-mouthed astonishment and
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admiration. When it comes to nerve,
some of these women folks make the
mcn fCel as though they occupied a
back seat in "nigger heaven" in com
parison.
1916 NATIONAL PARK
You can cover the West's magnificent Kockies in one grand tour on the
so t. lacier i'ark excursion ticket from
WA "r,,,lT- ur new "enver
....... . : i t-
es you alongside l.oek Mountain rational Etes Park, alongside Yellow-
A 700 MILE MOUNTAIN PANORAMA . fmm CnW-rtn tl,. v.n.
st0ne along the Eastern slope of continuous mmmi ain ,.hain n .m, ....:.
you ran, by detours, make the tour through Estes Park or throuSh Yellow
stone via Cody, the automobile scenic entrance.
Our through service routes to Denver, Billings, Cody, Gardiner or Glacier
and between Denver and the Yellowstone may be combined into a sweeping
scenic mountain tour that embraces more grandeur at lower rates than any
scenic tour on earth
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Signature of
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Ignorance is knowing
are not so.
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things that
Brains without a conscience
am without a d.ive-.
is a
The cold wave was held up by the
I. V. 'V's somewhere in the north.
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It takes more than the strength of
a wrestler to hold down an idea some
times. :o:
If you want to be deceived just
judge a cigar or woman by the wrap
per they wear.
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The public will take more interest
in the New York clockmaker's strike
about next December.
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Vacation days will soon be over,
and the most of the people will be
glad, if the kids are not.
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The prohibitionists have a strong
ticket, there is no question about that,
and with a million dollars compaign
fund, they may be able to make it
quite lively in several of the states,
if those who profess to be prohibi
tionists stick to the ticket and prin
ciples they profess.
Biliousness and Stomach Trouble
"Two years ago I suffered from
frequent attacks of stomach trouble
and biliousness," writes Miss Emma
Verbryke, Lima, Ohio. "I could eat
very little food that agreed with me
and I became so dizzy and sick at my
stomach at times that I had to take
hold of something to keep from fall
ing. Seeing Chamberlain's Tablets ad
vestised I decided to try them. I im
proved rapidly." Obtainable every
where. 800 A CUES LAND FOR SALE
?20 per acre if taken at once. "wYite
Bert Ostrom, Max, Neb.
tsUIVIIVItH
Eastern and Cent ral Nebraska goin-
. . . . "
- innings Central Wyoming mainline
Write me for particulars; Homeseekers excur
sions to Douglas the first and third Tuesdays of each
month.
R. W. CLEMENT. Ticket Agent
L. W. WAKELEY, General Passenger Agent,
1004 Farnum Street, OMAHA, Neb.