ASHTON NEWS DEPARTMENT
«IOIIJV jT. SMITH, Ijocal Editor amt *i ft vert is inf/ Solicitor.
Devoted to the Interests of Ashton,
FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1903.
Started. April 3, 1903.
LOCAL NEWS.
—TliOB. Jamrng and daughter are
at Omaha this week.
Coal for threshing machine use.
The best at E. O. laylors.
—The St. Izidor Society shipped
a car load of hogs to Omaha market
Wednesday.
—John Rapp took a trip to Loup
City last Tuesday to visit his relat
ives in that [tart of the county.
—Mrs. Ceuek and family of Elba
visited frie nds and relatives here the
fore part of the week.
—Theo. Ojendyke spent a few
days last week at Omaha onbusiness
lie reports business in all lines as
booming.
—Frank Lukacz«wski has charge
of the Warnyn threshing outUt the
past week breaking in a new en
gineer. '
—County attorney, r. J. lay lor
of St Paul wad at Ashton and vicin
ity Monday and Tuesday looking
after land interests.
—Mrs. L. Its vis went to St. I’aul
Wednesday to have an operation
performed at the Gotham hospital
for a tumor or abacus of the kidneys.
—The Cal Sbaupp residence prop
erty has been repaired the past week
It will be occupied by Mr. Stevo
Newman and family.
—Jim Bartnnek is now in a new
line, buggy top covering is his fort.
Jim done a nice job for Will Hawk
ins the past week.
—All the town youth have been
having some fun with the mumps
the past two weeks ai d now fell
pretty mumpy.
— i'oui.uy (i<ies.- vsh: boke his
arm last Friday by telling off a
borao. The arm was re set by Hr.
Bogeo and Tommy is doing nicely.
—Gus Reigle has purchased 4 lots
in the Taylor addition to Ashton.
Gus believes in enterprise and we
look for other surprises in the near
fnture.
—The Lukaczewski threshing out
fit passed through town Monday all
dressed up iu a coat of paint from
the eminent brain and hand of ye
Ashton editor.
—Jos. Sowinski called on us Tues
day and took legal proceedings as
regards some stray stock which lie
holds ia his possession and is await
ing an owner.
—The Wrehe boys, Frank Luk
aczewski and Julius Anger have
rented respective tracts of the late i
Wilson farm and will work the same
next season.
—The farmers of Ashton will
have u big elevator meeting to at
tend to elevator building. Each
member will receive a personal no
tice from tbo secretary.
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—A good soaking but cold ram
fell in this section Tuesday morning.
Stacking and threshing ware delayed
and a good many farmers done bus
iness in town.
— An ice cream sociable was giv
en at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Keigle ou last Wednesday
evening. A large gathering of
freinds were present and an enjoy
able evening was spent by all.
—We give this as fair warning, if
ye Ashtonites don't get to handing
in news items the editor of the Ash
ton news will have to get to writing
poetics to till in space and we are
liable to produce some gems in that
line.
—The Ashton judiciality sup
reme court, etc. etc. wasrampauttbe
past week in the Borowski vs. Bad
ura cattle impounding suits. Bad-1
ura’a cattle hied to Borowski corn
fields. Borowski took them up.
Badura got out replevin papers and
Borowski claimed the c attle got out
again. They sued each other and
hie honor is busy expounding justice.
l aws From Washington
Ff the seven Moors ©f the huge new
printing office were spread out side
by side instead of being one above
the other, they would cover fourteen
acres, or four ordinary city blocks.
Each of thess floors is practically a
single room as they tire few partitions
As printers nead a good deal of light
one-third of all the wall space is glass
thior being fifteen hundred windows
fn the new building. In order that the
light may not be lost, the interior walls
are lined with white enamelled bricks
which can lie washed. The building
is fire proof or as nearly lire proof as
any building can be. It is as substant
ial as possible. Its walls are built like
those of a fortress, as type is heavy
and printing presses cause considerable
viberation, ; ud it would be unfort
unate to have the roof and walls cave
in and bury four thousand American
citizens under material and machinery
that is intend ■ I for the dissemination
ol intelligence. Th< M or- so the en
gineers calculate will sustain a weight
of v.-,.(Hto .ooo pounds.'v liich of course
is much in excess of any weight which
they would be called upon to boar.
T' eoV.siile walls are three feet thick
and to construct them 10.000,000 red
bucks were required, enough to rebuild
t'V(> thirds of the Washinging monu
ment Inclosed within them is a steel
flume v\oi k weighing about 12,000,00.
wiiich is heavier perhaps than the
frame of any other building in the
count ■'/, The steel columns, beams,
and plates » e not made of ordinary
stock steel, hut were forged to order,
and the steel work is so protected that
in case ot heat being generated by any
cause its strength will not be affected
by warping. The meat modern meth
ods of opera* rig the machinery have
been provided. Tiere will not be a
foot of shafting in the whole building.
Eat i of the three hundred presses
wi’l have its own motor, propelled by
three of the largest dinamos in the
com try, each of S00 horsepower.
These dinamos will also supply 7,000
ipeadesc nt lights anti a most novel
svstem of ventilation fans, which are
pk'-ed in tbe l '■*: and will draw the
r r< th Ve < tv t! through
s uiits and t pel it, ti oi g the roof
with such rapidity that there will he
an entile change of atmosphere in
the building ever seven minutes, and
each employe will have ;s,000 cubic
feet ol pure, fresh air an hour.
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Just as the public began to imagine
that the i‘ostoflice investigation was
drawing to a close, the Was! bigton
grand jury returned an Inportant batch
o ulictments. These covered four
c; es of swindling for all of wlrch A
W. Macheu. former general superin
tendent of free delivery was responsible
and envolved besides himself seven of
his confederates. The evidence present
ed to the grand jury showed that Laehen
by neans of fraudulent contracts let for
carriers, bags, registered letter cases,
painting mail boxes ect., had swindled
the goverment out of not less than
$75,000 probably more. Among those
indicated as confedrates of Machen
were William Gordon Crawford, man
ager of the Costal Device it Lock Com
pany of New York, himself a prom
inent club man of Washington, Win.
0. Long, better known as “Cliff” Long
formerly of Ohio. John T. Cupper,
mayor of Lockhaven, i’u., and several
others. The evidence of fraud thus
far discovered have demonstrates
that the y ivernment lias lost at
least $1 oo.ooo.
Washington. D. C., Ann'. 10, IfiOn.
Jest a.- •’ araident Roosevelt has de
clared Ills “open door" policy for labor,
union and non-union, the doors of the
biggest printing oilier* in the world
have swung open to receive the par
ticular laborei- to whom the president
announced this policy The magnifi
cent $11,'>00,000 government printing
office, which has been under construct-!
ion for the past four years in Washing
ton, is now practically completed, and is
being occupied as rapidly as the plant,
a great deal of which is a so new. can
he put in place. The old building
which the printing office force is now
leaving is both delapitated and dang
erous, as was the policy of the suprem
acy of the union. which the president
condemned
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The record of the free delivery serv
ice tor the month of July completely
belies the claim that it will be < rip
pi I by Bristow, the facts being that
d. ing that month there were 2,445
rural routes established as against a
total of 5,0U4 for the entire fiscal year
ending with June, in this conection
it is ini -resting to notethai the condit
ion of the appropriation makes it pos
iiileto esta h ■ no >4no < routes dur
.ng the c • ' .i.t . ye; •
What the Strong Man Is Not.
The strong man is not the soldier
on horseback with saber drawn. The
strong man is the man with folded
arms who utters the truth regardless
of consequences. No one can injure
a man who refuses to be hurt; you
may kill him, but you cannot touch
the man in him. He wields a power
that he would have to give up if he
stooped to physical force.
Beggar's Succesful Plea.
The best known of the penny beg
gars is loose in Broadway again after
a long absence. He is a gray-bearded
old man who glides up to you In, the
street and says in a wheezy voice:
"Boss, will you give me a penny? I
want to get a cup of coffee. I have i
four.” As an evidence of truthful- i
ness he holds out lour pennies In his
dirty palm. Hi3 modest request is
usually complied with unless he Is j
known. He has been doing the pen- j
ny-bcgging stunt for several years j
now and seems to be satisfied with !
the results.— New York Sun.
Dclieves Sea Serpent Exicts
The naturalist of the Belgica expo
dition lately told the Zoological So
ciety of France that he believes the
sea serpent to exist, and that it is
not at all an imaginary creature of
song and story. He says it is not a
reptile, hut a mammal of the order
of the pinnipeds, to which family the
seals belong. In form It resembles
somewhat the extinct plesiosaurus,
atiaining a length of 200 feet, the
head and neck being one-fourth of
the length, the trunk one-fourth and
the tail one-half. It never approaches
the coast except In pursuit of the fish
on which it lives.
Art Forgeries.
The Anglo-Saxon is the natural prey
of the art forgery-monger, and tho
modern antiques which are manufac
tured for him constitute the livelihood
of the whole countrysides on the
Arno, and the Tiber, on the Nile, and
on the Jordan. Innocent peasant
looking people dig up these antiques
before the eyes of the unsuspecting
tripper! And when the fool goes off
with his folly, the simple, guileless
peasant quietly buries another ex
ample of (he same object in the same
hole for the benefit of the next tour
ist who may come along.—Magazine
of Art.
Plenty In It.
The discussion of bribery has serv
ed to recall the reply which George T.
Anthony once made to a politician
who was disposed to “graft.” Mr. An
thony was about to relinquish an office
and was approached by the man who
was to succeed him, who wanted to
know how much the office was worth,
Mr. Anthony replied that it paid
|3,000 a year. “I know that is the sal
ary,” insisted the inquirer, “but what
else is there in it?” “Well,” said An
thony, looking his Interrogator direct
ly in the eye, “there’s $3,000 a year
and the penitentiary in it for any
man who want6 to work it for all It is
worth.”—Kansas City Star.
Dont Be Fooled!
The market Is being llooded
witli worthless Imitations of
ROCKY MOUNTAIN
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To protect the public we cad
especial attention to our trade
mark, printed on every pack*
age. Demand the genuine.
For Sale by nil UrugniM
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The old idea is adapted by a pro
gressive American newspapper to meet
modern requirements
Collier’s Weekly is conducting a very
novel and interesting competition for Its
readers each month. To enter the con
test all one has to do is to review the
issue of Colliers for the current month
and answer the two or three questions
which are printed in each issue giving
such opinions and such suggestions as
will aid in improving the paper.
Collier's aims In this way to secure the
assistance of every one of its readers in
making the paper more to their liking.
Every reader in fact becomes one of the
editors and has his voice in building the
greatest illustrated journal of the age.
The tirst prize each month awarded
for the most helpful suggestion is #50
in cash with a second prize of #25
and eighteen other prizes of sets of book
ranging in value from S3- down to #5,
n all #32!) of value given iu prizes each
month. There are, in addition cumo'a
ative cash prizes tor those who win
prize in successive month, and a big
cash piizo of #1,000 for the most valu
able suggestion during 1903.
For the convenience of intending con
testants who can not be promptly sup
plied by newsdealers, all the coppies of
Collier’s for the current month will he
sent postpaid togathei with a batnsome
proof of a drawing by Charles Dana
Gibson upon receipt of 30 cents iu
stamps addressed to the lions mouth,
Coolier’s Weekly, -138 West 13th Street
New York.
ROAD NOTICE
To all whorn it may concern:
The commissioner appointed to view
and report upon the vacation of a road
commencing at a point where the Loup
City anti St. Paul road strikes the North
East qui "ter ot section Ten (10), Town
ship 14, K nge 13, and which is now ang
ling through the sri 1 dccribed quarter,
iie vaeat d as it is no longer needed,
has reported in favor of (he vacation
thereof and ail objections thereto or
claims for damage must be tiled in the
County Clerk’sothoe on or before noon
of the 25 day of Spetember, 1903 or
such road will be vaeat 1 without re
ference thereto.
Dated this 20 day of July. 1903,
Geo. II. Gibson, County Clerk
NOTICE.
I have ;i car of Mi U *-id. Pea coal
of excellent quality • Good for steam
threshers. Call and examine it.
E. G. Taylou.
A Surgical Operation
lc> always di lgerous—do not always
submit to tlio surgeons knife until you
Lave tried DeWitt’s Wictli Hazel Salve
It will cure when everything else fails
—it has done this in thousands of easeg.
Here Is one of them: 1 suffered from
bleeding protruding pills for twenty
years. Was treated by d li t re.:,t special
ists and used many remedies, bat obtain
ed no relief nntil I used DeWitt,s
Witch Hazel Salve. Two boxes cured
me eighteen months ago and I have not
had a touch of the pills since II. A Tis
dale, Summerton, S. C. For Illtnd
Bleeding, Itching ami Protruding
Pills no remedy eijutls DeWitt,s Wich
Iltzel Salve. Sold by Odend&hl Bros
THOS. JAMROG,
-DEALER IN—
Hardware. Stoves and Tinwan
ami a complete stork ot
Come to my store to buy. I can please you
both in quality and price of goods.
ASHTON, - - - NEBRASKA.
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
-PAID FOR
Live Stock.
Bring your
Stock to the
ASHTON
MARKET.
I will p;iy
ALL
the market
affords.
J. Y, TAYLOR, Live Stock Dealer,
ASHTON, .... NEBRASKA.
BOUGHT AT THE
B & M. ELEVATORS
MCALPINE, LOUP CITY, SCHAUPP SIDING
ASHTON AND FAR WELL.
M for Sale al lip City and AsMoi. Will Bay
HOGS AT SCHAUPP SIDING AND HARWELL
Call and sec our coal and get prices on grain.
R. G- TAYLOR.
IRA T. PAINE & CO.
MONUMENT S.
MARBLE GRANITE AND ALL KINDS
OF CEMETERY WORK.
BEST OF MATERIAL. LOWEST PRICES FOR GOOD
work. See us or write to us f .fore giving an order.
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SUPERVISOR'S PROCEEDINGS
AND IS READ BY
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Ws Do Jnfc> Work
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FOR POSTER WORK.
Sale bills, hand bills and poster work a
specialty