Grand Island Woven Wire fencing with barbed wire borders, for sale at IF. O. IREEID’S. . _mI Phone, N60. For a Drayman That catches J. W. Conger THE NORTHWESTERN THURSDAY. FEIi 1900. • A Few Market Quotations. Cattle, per 100 lbs.#3.00(2#5 00 Hogs, per 100 lbs. •"> 3-"> Corn, ber bu. .27 » Waeat, per bu.47(a C.i Oats, per*bu. 19«? .22 Rye, per bu.43<led hay for sale by A P. Ue Lyster Free delivery. W. H. Creery is just recovering from a siege of la grippe. Phone A. T Conger. H62, when in need of a drayman. T. M. Reed returned from Omaha last Monday eiening. For w ell and wind mill work, leave your order with T. M Reed. Ward Ver Valin was down to Omaha last week, returning Friday. See Draper Bros, for Singer, Wheeler and Wilson sewing machines See the high speed four stroke rotar v wash machine at P. O. Keed-=. Phone X 22 and get even thing ir. the Hour and feed line \ oil want For cheap rates to southwest Xe braska, see Zimmerman & Brewer Back at the old stand—the Xorthern Milling Co D C Grow Mrs. Gasteyer arrived home from tier business trip to Chicago, Monday even ing. Dr Sumner Davis,Grand Island, Neb. specialist in disease of eye ant! ear. Examination for glasses. P. O. Reed left Tuesday for Lincoln to attend the session ot the retail hard ware dealers' convention. Don’t forget that Biemond & D ddow of the popular Pioneer meat market have a free delivery wagon. C. C. Cooi er and daughter, Mi-s Marie Cooper, were in St. Paul Monday, where Bro. Cooper had business. Ste A. P. de Lvster for Loup City Mill Go’s Flour and Feed. Every sact warranted. Feee delivery. Don’t forget the excursions to south west Nebnska every Tuesday, conduct ed by Zimmerman & Brewer Born, last Thursday morning, Feb. 8 to Mr. and Mrs Wm Crilel. three miles north of town, a fine baby girl. Chickens, Ghiekens, Chickens. \V( want lots of them. Best prices paid This is Siepmann & Oltmann talking John W. Lons is prepared tt make all Real Estate Loans or short notice at lowest rates. A hand-otne baby girl arrived at thf home of M, B M tthews, tnree mile! west (f lamp City, last Saturday. Yon can get a splendid quarter o: beef of Siepm nn & Oltnn nn at t< per pound. Try them and you wii come again. John Johns has bought a farm of on< hundred acres near Gentry. Arkansas and leivessoon to make that c untn l.is future home. Buckwheat, Rye Graham, Rye tloui Wheat Graham and ihe best white anc yellow cornmeal, at the Noithern Mill ing Co’s. Feed Store. Mrs. E. G. Tavlor last Friday acoom pxnied her father as far as F rwell, 01 his journey home to David City, re turning the following day. We will clerk your sale and take al yrur paper. Call and see us hefon mat i' g your arrangements. First National Bank MbsRie Harris,-one of our popult: teachers was quite ill with la grippe las Friday, Miss Beatrice Nightingale tak mr charge of her room. like a veterai teacher. Parties wanting discs sh opened either by rolling or cutting them oil will do well to see J I. Depew, who hai the proper machinery of his own make Patronize home industry. We are this wr prices are as low as the lowest. S'ep.n 'Dii & Oltmaiin. Good Hound Oak offlee stove for sale Inquire at this offlee. Zimmerman & Brewer make farm Da s at nd tow n property with me and I shall do my best to serve you and use you honorably. A. P, CULLEY We learn that O. K. Rice of Green ' wich, Washington county, N. Y , died , at his home there >n Feb. 7th, at the | ripe o^d age of 1)1 years. He w»s well | known oyer Nebraska, and has, or did • have not long since, real estate hold • ings in Sherman county. Drs. Davis & Farnsworth of Grand Island, Neb., are prepared to treat all forms of chronic diseases, such as Rheu matism, Stomach disorders, Tumois. 1 Cancers, Paralysis, Kidney diseases,etc. • The doctors use. besides medicine and > surgery .the x-ray, hot air baths, elec tririty ami massage. % The Northwestern has received E two pit ces of mnsic, one a novelty two > step l.y H Hour, the blind composer, 1 which is making a hit all over the country, and one an expressive song, "Let me kiss my mama good-bye.” a » sweet melody, both published by j* W. i lenkin-s* Sons, of Kansas City, Mo., • which will I e mailed to you by the 1 publishers upon receipt of 23 cents. Our ! judgement is that they are worth your wmle in obtaining. Driper Bros, are headquarters for Hardware anil Harness We iianille the Richardson silks anil embroideries. Johnson & Lorentz. Epi-copal services Wednesday even ing, Feb. 21, It ctor J. M Bates, paste. All invited. I have a lew tens of choice upland hav for sale at $4 per ton d livered. Phone Y 17. I) M Gue. On Sunday eveniug, March 4th, the Baptist people will commence a series of special meetings A good time is expected. * Misses Florence Leininger and Winnie Outhouse visited the Misses Autrecht in Washington town-hip the latter part of last week. Jim Conger shipped a car load ot ice to John Wall at Arcadia. Tuesday. James has now finished his ice cutting and storing for the winter. The young people give Dwight McComhs a pleasant surprise party at his home on last evening, preceding his removal with his parents to Arkansas. Wes McComhs leaves with his fami ly for Gentry, Arkansas, next Monday, where he has pmchased an hundred acres ot land near that town and will make it his home. May good luck at tend him. John W. Long was a very sick man last Saturday and Sunday with la grippe which terminated in pneumonia, but a vigorous constitution lias brought him safely through and lie is on the fair road to his usual good health. Pastor Wold will presch a special sermon to the 1. O. O F. fraternity this coming Sunday evening. Subject “Love.” This is the second address of a series of three lectures which Mr Wold is giving the local lodge. C J. Tracy returned last Friday from a few days’absence in southwest Ne braska'. looking over the land handled by Zimmerman & Brewer. C. J. yvouldn'l commit himself, but acknow ledged the land was much better than he anticipated. J. D. Slyder and daughter. Miss Lizzie Slyder, of Wilbur. Nebr , are here visit ing their daughter and sister, Mrs. W. H. Creerv, of this city Mr. Slyder is here also for the purpose ()f purchasing suitable real estate, in v hieli laudable endeavor we trust lie may be successful. We have the implied promise of Supt Mead to hereafter run an educational column in The Northwestern If the worthy head of our county schools does not gig back, we may confidently expect to furnish our readers with live articles on school matters each week hereafter . The art lectures 1 ist Friday afternoon at the Baptist church for children, and in the evening for adults, by Mrs. F. M. Hall of Lincoln, aided bv pictures thrown on a screen, all in the interest of the fund being rosed for a public drinking fountain in this city, was well p troniz»d at both entertainments, and a neat sum realized Last Saturday evening the members of the D. D. club were verv pleasantly entertained at the home of Miss Soplironia Wharton. The evening was passed with games and music, Miss Libbie Adamson winning the prize. An excellent luncheon was served and at a late hour all departed for their homes 'hanking their hostess for a very pleasant evening. Bridge Contractor W. T. Gibson thus sings: “Now is the winter of our discontent made more glorious,” etc., all because the weather has given him his waiting opportunity for plenty of ice in the river that he mav rush through his work on the new Austin bridge, at which be is now busilv en gaged. So, you see, it takes all kinds of weather to suit all kinds of people. By the Tingley (Iowa) Vindicator we see that a half interest in a hog sold there last week for SliiOO. nuking the animal’s value 83.000. That’s nothing. We know of a hog in a town where we used to run a paper, that was president of a bank and who was churned to be worm many times that amount, and the animal was a two-legged porker at that. Earl Thompson is to start a new Haberdasher store in the building recently vacated bv the restaurant, next door to Gasteyer’s, and lias had the room newly papered and painted and made attractive. Earl tells us that he proposes to carry everything in the gents’ furnishing line and of the latest sti les and fashions Earl is up-to-date and we shall expect him to ‘ Get there, Eli,” in great shape. The basket social at the Baillie school house in Washington township last’ Saturday evening was well attended, and a good time was had. C. T McKinttie acting as master of cere monies. The program consisted of vocal music by B P. McKiunie;grapho ph»ne by W. R. Mellor, and a male quartette consisting of Messrs W. R. Mellor, A. J. Johnson, L. N Smith and G. 8. heinitiger Eighteen baskets were sold netting the sum of 832. Homemade head-cheese 8c per pound, minc'd ham. 10c per pound at Siep mann & Oltmann’s. E. S. Uayhurst went down to Lincoln Tuesday morning to be in attend-mce on the state hardware dealers' conven tion. ( Dr. J. II. Long was a very sick man Monday night and Tuesday with la grippe, requiring the services of a nurse in the person of Mr. Cowell, sr„ but at present is convalescing. A. L. Zimmerman returned home Monday evering from a business trip to Lincoln county, in the west part of the state, where lie took a number of home-seekers, to look over the country Frank Foster, our popular tonsorial artist, painfully lacerated one of his lingers last Saturday on the point of a p-ir of shears. Had it been on the cheek of an average newspaper man, no damage would have resulted. I. II. Winchell arrived home Monday evening from a trip to southwestern Nebraska, where he looked over the land offered by Zimmerman & Brewpr, «nd we understand has conditionally purchased a nice holding there. Dr. T. L. Sexton of Lincoln will preach for the Presbvterisns next Sun day morning and evening. Dr Sexton is the synodical missionary of the state and will take up the subject of Home Missions in one of his discourses. It. D. Hendrickson, who has been ex ploring the Oklahoma country the past few weeks, returned home last Satur day, an! a stick of dynamite lighted and placed neath Rol’s pedal extremities wouldn’t elicit any circumstances con nected therewith. Mrs. L. D Gardner and Mrs. Frank Hist are enjoving a visit from their daughter >nd sister. Mrs. D. R. Twist, of Twist, Nor'h Dakota. She had been visiting a sister "at Wood River, this state, who was seriously ill, but now convalescing, and is on her way home. Bv reference to the statement of the First National Bank published last week, we see that the deposits exceed those of three months since by some S10.000 or over, as shown hv tiie state ment. at that time Another straw showing that Sherman county people are among those favored by Providence. Last Monday, while Chet Tracy was hauling a big wagon load of ice from Conger's pond, and just as he was crossing the culvert bridge east of the pond, his horses sided off the bridge, hauling the wagon and load of ice after them. A« good fortune would have it, the horses were uninjured, but the wagon was badly demoralized. And Chet just smiled. A. Sorensen, a prominent farmer liv ing near Dannebrog, was killed last Thursday in a runaway near that town, according to a telegram in the dailies of last Friday. It seems Mr. Sorensen and wife were returning home from a visit to neighbors, when the team be came frightened, throwing them out, breaking the neck of Mr. Sorensen and b-dlv injuring Mrs. Sorensen, although the lady's injuries proved not fatal and she will recover. The entertainment given at the Presbyterian church Monday evening of this week, by I) Webster Davis, the reader and impersonator, was hailed bv a goouly audience, notwithstanding the extremely had weather, and the receipts were very satisfactory’. Bert McKinnle came in from Washington township through the storm and gave several of his choice vocal selections, which with the exc llent readings given bv Mr. Davis, gave an evening of unalloyed pleasure to all present, and as one lady said to us at the close of the evening, “It was worth a dollar, rather than the price asked " Mr. T. A Clark is the new agent at the U P. depot, a fact we ommitted mentioning last week, when we spoke of the change. Mr. Clark had bean operator at St Paul for two years previous to his transfer to this station, ana is a very pleasant and accomodating agent. Mr. Clark is a railroad man of many years’ experience and is a veteran in the work. For the past five ye . The Big Pianc and Organ House. In the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. (n the matter of Samuel C. Thompson, bank rupt, of Litchfield. Nebraska: Creditors andiother persons interested in the estate of Samuel C. Thompson will take notice that said bankrupt has filed his petition for discharge and that creditors and others may die objections to such discharge at my office In Grand Island on or before the 20th day of February- 1*06, at 11 o'clock a. m.. and will then have ten days in which to file speci fications, if they so desire to do. In the event that no objections are filed, tbe ; prayer of the petitioner will be granted. Grand Island, February 5th, 1906. Arthur C. Mater. Referee in Bankruptcy. “It you want to buy or sell real estate, call on John W. Long. Estimate of Expenses. For 11K15 as ordered by County Hoard. On Roads. .IUXIO.GO On Bridge*.4.000 On Books. Blanks and Stationery .Vion*® On Incidentals. HOOuO on Election Expenses. 1 000(14) On County Repairs. (1(J On Oltlce Rents and Salaries.5 00,5 ll0 On Court, including Attorney s Fees . 3 000 00 On Bounties on wild animals On Illegal Tax. On County Printing. On Insane Cases. . On Bridge Bond Interest and Refund- ' f inB Bond Interest. 6 A On Sink ing Bond Fund. , “ , ~ ' On Teachers Institute. .' . «.o C F. Beushaoske, „ County Clerk. M (Last pub. Feb. 15) M