Ltoaal Dews. Window Glass cheap at Watklnson * Jake Wlnkleman went to Mason City Frldsy. Rouud Osk Heaters are the best at Watkinson’s. For any thing In the Harness line call at T. M. Reeds. Good grades of machine oils sold by T. M Reed Mr. N. B. Nlshols, of Omshs did bus iness hero last week. The livery business was booming Sunday, owing to lbs nice weather Mrs. Adam Schaupp spent Saturday visiting frltnds in Ashton A York stockman did business in this eity the fora part of this weak W. L. Mercy Is tearing down the old abed back of his plsrs of business. "The nice weather brought out a good attendance to vhurcb last Senday. J. B. Hallos and J. R Corey, of Omaha registered at tbs St. Elmo last Friday Our blgk market price drew severs! loads of wheat from near Arcadia Sat ■rday. Dr. Sumner Davis, Grand Island, Sur gical diseases and diseases of Eye and Ear. J. K McLean, of Omaha is taking the place of agent Cline during the latter* absence at Albion. “Adam Schaupp was looking after his elevator business at Sehaupp Siding last Saturday. Home rep tlrs to eur sidewalks and street crossings have been made, but more are needed. T. L. l’llger and A V. Wert*, aecem ptaied by their families visited Ernest I’llger at Kaverina Sunday, Troy Hale did not And a good market for hi* bora#* at £t Eoula ao ho re-hllled them to Atlanta, Georgia Mra. O'llryan, of Eoulavllle, Ky., ar rived last Friday and will visit u faw weak* with her son J. U, O'Bryan, R. Baker, E A. Draper and Jim Gray, all of Clear creek dropped Into our office last Saturday and had a pleasant chat with ye editor. We want a load of good eat straw but must he brought to us by some one owing u* on subscription. Bring it at once, we will glye due credit. Wantko 100,000 chickens, hens, geese, turkey*, ducks, In fact fowls of • all kinds, also fat cattle. Will pay the hlgheset price at the city meat mar ket. If there la a reliable man among our reader* who can sell Minnesota grown tree*, ho can secure steady employ merit and good wage* by writeng the Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, Mion. Soothing, and not Irritating,strength ening, and not weakening, small but effective—such are the qualities of DeWltt's Little Early Kisers, the famous little pills.- Odendabl Bros. Tbe length of life may be Increased by lessening its dangers. Tbe major ity of people die from lung troubles. These may be averted by promptly us ing One Minute cough Cure.—Odendabl Broa. Bong books were uses for fans lost Sunday evening, at the M. S. church They were made however, fur a different gurpose and would last a great deal longer if only used for the purpose for which they ware intended. Judge Wall addressed the Kepublicaa Ratification meeting last Friday even ing at Litchfield A very enthuaiastia meeting ia reported. The Loup City cornel band was also in attendance. Mr. Wall Ik credited with having made s very able speech. To cure all sores, to hea! an indolent ulcer, or to speedily cure piles, you used simply apply DeWilt's Witch Hazel Salve aucordlng to directions. Its magic-ilka action will surprise you. Odendahl Bros. Both a profitable and social time was had at the Massassolt House last Mat urday evening, As previously aunouac ed the ladlea of the Home Missionary gave a social and supper. The small admission fee of ten cents was charged aad the receipt* were between fill uud •7 The proceeds will go to repair the \1. K Church A literary has been organized in Hchool district No. 41, so we aro luforiu ed by II L. Teeter, who made this ofitre a pleasant call last Saturday. The dts trie! is located east of Clear creek lu the west part of the county A |UUl| attendance is reported and much iuter eat manifested Thu meeting is held Wednesday evenings and »s are author usd to say that all sis cordially Invited to altwud The eld lady was right when site said the child might die If they waited foi the doctor Mhe saved the Mills* unei BN with* Nw doses el One Minuts tough Cura lha had Used It fur sruui before thleudahi Mrus Mup«tlnMudsill Johnson is now sport lag chin whisker* sad so It VN M Meilor !• spots. Ww understand that Ihasi gwotismsn ham agreed to let 'em grow unlit after the tih of March or unit after the InaugerstloM uf It lUlam Ms (Malay, The on# browning the agree mewl is to forfeit glow to the other Ih all probability troth wilt carry us the eon It set unless Ihstr wtsew can pur aoaid them to compromise Cutlery at half price at Watklnaou* A Suttou went to Kavenna Wcdnes day. J. Long returned from Omaha Wed nraday. Eye and Ear, Dr. Davi*, Grand Ialand, Nebr. Studlbaker Wagona and buggiea - al Watklnaon’a. Jaa Lander* waa here from Arcadia Monday, Theo. L. 1’iiger went to Omaha yea terday morning. Tailor made clothing 12.60 per autl at A. E. Chase’*. Mr*. Walworth went to Lincoln Sat urday noun. Scott Seals returned to Grand Island Monday morning, I have corn, oats and ground feed for sale T. M. Reed. Lew Winkelman drove Sutton’s cattle to York this week. Sewing Machines at, prices to suit the times at WatklnaonV C. Rettenmeyer came up from Grand Ialand last Saturday. For SCHOOL HOUSE heater* cheap go to A. Walhlnaon’*. Mr. and Mr*. K. Cline went to Albion Tbueaday for a few week* vlait. Many of the young people of the city are learning the art of horse back lid lag. 12 pound* of pure kittle rendered lard for #1.00 at S F. Reynold'* meat market. Rii-hard Cattle of Lincoln visited hi* parent* in this city Sunday, returning Monday. Call and look at the sample* of readv made rioiniiig nt /». r«*. ouhp from $6,00 up Fit guaranteed. Wall & Burrow* have moved their law office into the *ecood room we*t of Odeudahl Bro* drug Store In the old Ma**a*olt home NOTICE —Thoxe indebted tome are hereby notified to pay their account* and note* before I tec. 16th. Cloning out Hardware at coat On a* F. Staiii, A »oclal dance wa* given at the St Elmo hotel !a»t Ftlday night It wa* Bryan dance hut they kept time to the merry tUe aud drum and Henry U egpacletl I to keep step with the music The be*i part of the programme, however, wil take place after the march, ll »*etng i I part u| lb* contract that Mr Oibstn and ye editor are >o eat oysters ai lleury'a *-k|*ii*e ICyeryhody invtli { as spectator* There was a dance In the country Iasi | Saturday eiemng It waa given at lb* resilience o! Mr Miller oyer uti U iggls ; creek heyerai of uur eity fulh* wey* lay nod Aw*-mg those who attend** I from here wa* Hetman Jung lie ie ports « good Mine Just l*-o loyely |i. anyrhtug.” y*«htht* *aymu PAIbttrt t «aa * I itf m**u*9H U» liilvl fit« «< «|a»ta«lb|i 1 t» »* m ir« imp |M* ||l itillf «h«l I*||WII4»4 I’ «klMr<| , mu| ^lltpafy 1 »Uwiy«i ftftv %*mI»«mmM* «ii i*i I Hn»tMt*4|y 1 *»***»$♦* The First ( •ssehea. In the fifteenth century coaches ap pear to have been used in processions or other public ceremonies, more as an ornament than anything else, if wo may judge from the clumsy form of the vo biole. The entrance of the Embassador Trevosi into Muntua in a carriage is noticed as early as the year 1488, and that, of Frederick III into Frankfort in a covered coach in the year 1475. It i* a curious contrast to the rapidity with which new inventions ate now adopted that nearly a century elapsed before the covered carriage was introduced into England. Htow, in his Chronicle, In the year 1555 mentions the in troduction in these terms: "This year Walter Kipon mode a coach for the Earle of Kutland, which was the first coach (saith he) that ever was marie in England. Mince—to wit, in anno 1504 —the said Walter Kipon made the first hollow turning couch, with pillers and arches, for her majestic, being then her servant. "Also, in anno 1584, a chariot throne, with fonre pillers behind to beam a canopic with a crowns tmpcrlall on the toppe, and before two lower pillers, whereon stood a lion and a dragon the supporters of the urines of England. " The sailors of the time of Goodtjuecn Bess must have found It a difficult mat ter to obtain berths on a coach for their cruise on shore. Even her majesty, though she herself drove to Bt. i’aul's cathedral to return thank* for the de livery of her kingdom from the Mpanlsh armada, was accompanied by the privy council and her attendants, who r<4e on horseback. Bat by the end of the reign ooacbes and carriages became sud denly popular.—Fireside Magazine. Sprees st a 1 harsh Festival. It is a custom of the country in Ger many to get drunk at the consecration of a new church. This custom lias been regarded us unlovely and tin Christian by many influential Germans of tba new school, most notably by Emperor William 11, hut still it remains uino i lormtwi, win mo comic wh kii'x oq inn { tire of depicting the sculp * in and oat of the police court that follow the con secration sprees and tights. Home time ago I lie festival of a new church was celebrated in Ohcrringcliicini, in the Rhine country. In antielpatiou of the ! usual trade in exhilarating liquor* a | saloon keeper who dec* business near i Die *aer> <1 uliflcc advertised tints in the Rhineland Observer: Jacob Mailer herewith pledge* himself for a subscription price of I) mark* (715 cents) to serve every one of Ms guest* with a* much wine ns he cun drink on the occasion of the church conse-ratlon. Inviting my friends and patron* to visit me In response to this reijncst, 1 remain Tit | spcctfully yours, Jacob Mt.u.ga. Within an hour after the newspaper containing this advertisement appeared 80 citizens of little Oberriugelheitu bought subscription tickets from Mul ler. At the current price of ordinary loose wine in the Rhine country each of the 8(1 and their colleagues in this speculation had to drink 18 lurge glass fuls before he could begin to benefit by tbosubscription tariff.—Mew Vork Hun. My Bln. Htand in the public thoroughfares gazing at anything real or Imaginary, and the dozens who gather round you will multiply soon into hundreds, and, if yon stick to it, perhaps thousands. A crowd as big as the street could hold encircled a sign painter the other day. They rallied in curious excitement and dispersed in disappointed disgust. “My Hin, "in huge, flaming letters, was what the painter had already printed. Jf ever a crowd wa* Mint on anything, it was on the discovery of what that sin was. They asked each other what it might be and hazarded guesses, while the mail laid by his red Tininf tifit ftn/l lirrnif/ht. ff.rtli Ihw of one touio ty were uusldv t« make au arrest iu an other. hsiiasl, l haw ley iWio 4»—My udly Visit smiles would shed— Margate!—hi* vet mind the vtisst dast I tow aUatl a aalilsiss built lot two. —Washington Time* t.—.. She—Will yew Is II me aestsit Ha-— Why ? Site— lt« i mi I i au I kee p me. amt I waul !«• tty - l*n a its l t*. The llaliaH ImtnlgiaMs wim start ft* us to o iti.iei 11awl 4,U.'.s kO'Us Is fm tea* king tin N wt«*w*at Mew V*sk A Mind Bargainer. Shoppers iu one of the big atom down town laat bargain day curioualy watched the movement* of a blind woman at tho dreaa good* counter. Hhe wa* about 80 year* old, her fare allow ing great intelligence and refinement Hhe wa* richly dressed for the atroet, and a girl ubout 80 year* old accompa nied her. The blind wofcnan examined the fab ric* placed la-fore tier by punning them through h r she hud examined a large num ber of piece* alio took up one of Die flrat that iiad been aliown her and de cided to buy it. Wie n the clerk had measured it, she verified file length herself by measur ing ft with her outstretched arms. Hccmingly *iiti*flod that the piece con tained a* touch a* she had bargained for, she took a truoafer ticket and went to the counter where trimming* are •old. There ahe seloeteTI the material with which to finiah her dreaa, examin ing the lace* and other delicate fabrics moat critically. After tiie blind woman hud left the store the floor manager aaid her shop ping was not an unusual thing. Hhe wa* but one of the many blind custom er* who came into tiie store regularly. This woman, be said, was not only able to make the nicest discrimination in the matter of trimming*, but so deli cate was tier touch ahe could often dis tinguish colors. He added, however, that she never depended entirely upon her touch in matching shades, but veri fied her selections with tiie eyes of tire clerk and fur companion.—Chicago Tribune, The question* addressed to Joan und her answer* day hy day have been trues uiitted in tiie records of the court. To read them i* to understand the brutal ferocity with which she was tortured, until, turning on her uceuser, she (tried: "You cal! yourself my judge. He care ful what you do, for l um ind< erl *U«r. In the isluuds of New Britain a man must not speak to his uiother-in-lnw. Not only is speech forbidden to this rel ative, but site must tie avoided, and if by any chance the lady is met the son in-law must hide himself or oover Ins fuce. Huieule of both purlins is the out come if tiie ruin is hrukeu. One of the English missionaries tried to get the native*' ideas of an oath, and he fouud the must solemn asseveration among tie-iu was, "if i mu not telling the truth, 1 hope I may torn h the hand of my inothei-tn-law, Ft arson's Mega aim*. .Julint. tlawtbura*. Julian Hawthorne is the sou of Na thaniel IIav.thome. Ha was turn in lit 10, hut he ills 4 not show his 6U years. Minn le* was a boy of 7, some holy's re. mark ou the f t-1 that he was "weak a bestial" stung him, and he determined to utaku H at i-umuot ini|MNMiht« Its lie fa lute lb w Wi li ha ruiwetM it evidenced ty the foot that while he Was tu e- ii. *o his chi st measure v. as 4S inches, amt it is w tl known that tin* late John t' Hitman, the pigiint. ad vised lira young man to sun r the prise ring latstg IIisSvS t n*t i.^dt — I don't seat how y»u can afi. nt to h i pmt h tigers own yen *»• sisi w»« k«’ tint. Ikveuil loads- Well, It's like this. Whs liny I* IWd* It It affects tin If s|l |k tins—He r iw rii likn In ask hat a «•< > nd hi It log mi tl I'tiuuNI i hi tpSt Ut I)., rial —fend-ai id Ulls *e)|9ejqaM - ‘^10 dnoi 'NOSNDLLVA *H 3 , aaA3fsmuff3oi»niiKritpll«r uml TnwvriUtr In onlctt. oNl. l> OK NORTH Ol I’I RUT HANK. 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