LOOK WESTWA
Are you or your sons using proper energies towards finding
land, industrial or professional opportunities in localities adja
cent to the Burlington lines through 'Wyoming, Western Ne
braska, Northeastern Colorado or Southern Montana? I can
put you in touch with excellent prospects in any of these sec
tions. Mondell lands are going fast—so are the irrigated lands.
Deeded lands in Western Nebraska are steadily increasing in
value. The towns of the North Platte Valley and the Big Horn
Basin are all growing and offer good business chances. The oil
industry of Central Wyoming and the Big Horn Basin is very
extensive. All this new money is greatly widening the scope of
business openings. The Burlington now has through service
between Nebraska and Casper, Central Wyoming via Alliance
■ If you have before you the problem of the future,
_either for yourself of for your sons, let me help you.
S. B. HOWARD, IMMIGRATION AGENT,
1004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska.
Keeping Everlastingly
At It
"We keep at it, summer and winter, doing our utmost to
give you tlie very best
that the country affords. We don’t close out when hot
weather comes to save the ice bill, as some markets do.
We serve you all of the time. Won’t you stay with us?
Pioneer Meat Market
O. L. TOCKEY, Proprietor
I Ht MOSPHERE
in. clothes for men and young men
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* The value and sendee of “High Art* j
Clothes” have become “Buy-words” in
the world of men’s and young mens
clothing—but—
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With value established and fitting quality
I: known as excellent, there still remains
a super-factor which well nigh defies
•' description.
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“Atmosphere” it is labeled by those who know
jj and it stands for the quality of tone—ultra vet
| refined—which surrounds
MADE BY STROUSE & BROTHERS, BALTIMORE, MD. j
With Fall ’round again—we have in stock a wide
collection of these handsome garments at prices
j| well within reason.
GUS LORENTZ
CLOTHIER
Fish Where the
Fishing Is Good!
The best fishing is in this town.
If you don't believe it read the home paper for
bargains.
You'll get the biggest returns for your money right
here in town.
Besides, you’ll boom the town by keeping the
money at home.
Confessions tf a
Mail Order Man
By Mr. M. O. X.
Revelations by One Whose Experience in
the Business Covers a Range From
Office Boy to General Manager m
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| WHAT YOUR MONEY HAS DONE
FOR ME.
You can’t possibly realize what it
meant to a pleasure-loving and self
satisfied man of mature years to real
ize that you, my beloved contributors
of the past to my prosperity and com
fort out in the small towns and in the
country, were getting up early in the
morning and were out in the cow
barns milking, and out in the fields
plowing, planting, harvesting, shock
ing wheat or husking corn while the
fingers swell and crack and while the
chilblains bum and throb so that you
could send your quota of coin to the
concern that paid me the dividends
that permitted me to lie abed in the
morning until my servant came and
told me that my coffee or chocolate
was ready and that my bath had been
fixed so that I might make the toilet
of the morning luxuriously and with
befitting pleasure and comfort
Dear reader, all this was done with
the help of YOUR money—the money
that you sent to the big concern that
paid the dividends on my securities. I
acknowledge that when you awakened
and aroused yourself to a feeling
of anger and honest indignation—for
which I did not blame you in the least,
because you had been a long and
steady contributor to my idleness—
then you had me on the hip and 1 was
compelled to seek some other method
of subsistence, although it did go hard
w-ith me to be compelled to go to work
after so many years. ,
But you must not be too hard on me,
because I had merely taken advantage
of the existing conditions. I had cheer
fully and joyfully taken your money.
I had written you such optimistic and
jollying letters that you quickly and
generously responded by sending the
cash w-ith your orders and we had
taken the toll that we figured you
would stand without a "holler.”
We had studied you, gentle reader,
and we had figured out to a cent just
what you would stand when a “touch”
was made. You must acknowledge
that we did not fail to weigh you con
sistently and advisedly, because we
had succeeded in exacting the toll
which made us prosperous.
The people are awakening to a re
alization of their condition, and the in
habitants of the small towns and of
the rural districts are beginning to
realize that they are simply killing the
future of their communities by sending
their money away to the big mail or
der houses in the cities.
We hear all sorts of recriminations
and hard words addressed to the peo
ple in the villages and on the farms
who send their money away to the
mail order houses in Chicago and else
where, but the masses have consid
ered it their privilege to do as they
please without regard for the interests
of their communities.
The country merchant pays his taxes
and he tries to do a business with his
fellow men that will permit him to
pay his taxes regularly and also give
him a living profit on his sales.
In many cases he gives you credit,
and he carries some of you for months
and even years on his books. Do you
appreciate it?
You do not. You run up a credit bill
with your local merchant, and during
the lean months you take full advan
tage of his friendliness and his hope
that you will remain a customer when
the prosperous months come around.
But what do you do? As quickly as
you get some money in hand, so that
you can pay cash for your necessities,
and a few luxuries, you send the cash
away to one of the city mail order
houses, and buy from strangers, rath
er than from the man who has helped j
you in your extremity and who has !
trusted you when you were in need.
There are very few readers of this i
publication who have not done exact- |
iy this thing. There are very few per- I
eons living in the country, away from
the centers of population, who have
not preferred to substitute the shadow
for the substance by sending their
money away from home when they i
wanted to buy something.
And you know what you got. You
know what treatment you received.
You must acknowledge that, in the
long run, the stuff that you bought
through a catalogue was not all you
had expected.
What in the world can the attraction
be to cause a sober, intelligent man or
woman to deliberately select a
stranger as the repository of their
confidence and their money? Why
should the local man be outraged in
spirit and mulcted in pocket because
you respond to that peculiar attractive
ness of the unknown—that desire to
gamble, to take a chance, with a
stranger?
This preference for trusting in a
stranger, rather than to have confi
dence in a neighbor, reminds me of a
little incident that occurred when I
made a trip into Texas a few years
ago. I stopped at a little town, and
at the station I asked the agent which
was the best hotel.
“There’s two of ’em,” he replied,
“and if I was you I’d go to the second
one up Main street”
"Is it better than the other one?”
I inquired.
"I dunno,” he replied, shaking his
bead, "but I live at the first one. I
know iust how bad that one is.”
Which goes to show that human na
ture prefers, at times, to trust in the
■nknown, rather than in that with
which we are familiar.
But, when you come to think of it,
there is a responsibility dealing with
our own fortunes, and the fortunes of
those who will follow us in this life,
which does not permit us to always
follow our inclinations. We must
think for the future as well as for the
present
We live in a community together
with a iot of neighbors. We meet
them. In. connection- with, our everyday j
affairsTand we have opinions that dif
fer with our neighbors. There is no
one subject in the whole world upon
which we all agree, therefore it is but
natural that we have many differences.
We can condone the differences of
opinion and decline to enter into con
troversies, or we can argue whenever
we have the chance, and engage in
constant strife.
Which is the be6t way to get along?
The man who argues all his life has
little time for other affairs.
The man who declines to become In
volved in wordy discussions has plenty
of time to attend to his own business.
And in this world it is the man who
i attends to his own business who pros
pers.
This life Is made up of disputes and
arguments. You can argue with your
best friend until you become a pest
and an unwelcome visitor. You can
spend your time discussing the affairs
of others until, no matter if you win
your arguments, you will discover that
you have made yourself unpopular.
Fnpopularity is not an asset in the
business of life. It never paid a divi
dend. It never brought in any wages.
And it is strictly your business to
try to make the best of everything
in your community, to help create har
mony, to “boost” your home town all
the time and to help those who can
help you.
Harmony creates peace, and peace
engenders prosperity. Your town
wants peace and harmony, especially
between the people and the merchants.
It is peace and harmony that make
business good—that add a value to
your own house and lot.
Envy walks hand in hand with mal
ice down every village street, and
when this pair appears on the street
the white dove of peace flutters into
a corner and hides.
PUBLIC SALE.
I will sell at Public auction on the
S. M. Smalley farm, six and one-half
miles south and west of Loup City
and 2 miles west of Austin, on Wed
nesday, November 29. commencing at
1 o’clock p. m., the following described
property:
12 head of horses, consisting of 1
black mare, smooth mouth, weight
1,050 lbs.; 1 black horse, 9 years old,
weight 1,050 lbs.; 1 sorrel mare,
smooth mouth, weight 1.150 lbs.; 1
gray mare, smooth mouth, weight 950
lbs.; 1 gray horse, smooth mouth,
weight 1,505 lbs.; 1 suckling mule; 4
suckling colts; team of 4-year olds,
weight about 2.200.
Two head of cattle, cow and calf.
Eighteen head of hogs.
Farm machinery, etc., one corn
sheller, 1 wagon and rack, 1 walking
cultivator, 1 lister. 1 hay rake, 1 cul
tivator. 1 disc. 1 feed grinder, 3 bug
gies in good condition, cook stove,
heating stove. Lay-by go-devil.
Six dozen chickens, some corn,
household goodss and other articles
too numerous to mention.
Terms of sale; All sums of $10
and under, cash. Over that amount
a credit of 8 months time will he
given on approved notes bearing 10
per cent interest from date. No prop
erty to be removed from premises un
til settled for.
MRS. WALTER GREGG, Owner
COL. J. G. PAGELER, Auct.
W. F. MASON, Clerk.
MOLDY GRAINS KILL HENS.
Feeding moldy grain to hens is not
a paying proposition, according to the
experience of an eastern Nebraska
farmer who recently asked the uni
versity poultry department what was
causing his hens to di .e
T pon visiting the farmer’s poultry
yard, a member of the poultry depart
ment found that 75 hens had died dur
ing the summer. The livers of dead
hens were found to be enlarged, fowls
were overfat, and the yard in which
they were kept was bare. The owner
stated that when he shut his birds
up they did not die. but that when he
turned them out he would lost one or
two hens each day.
Moldy grain was found to be the
source of his trouble. His wheat was
grown on lowT land that was sub
merged during rains at thrashing
time, and the grain molded rapidly
when put into the bin. Also, as the
comcrib had no door, sun and rain
could beat in freely, and the corn
looked dry and bright on top though
it was moldy underneath. Conse
quently his flock received nothing
but moldy grains, with the result that
many hens died.
THE BIG NOISE.
Some people talk much and do little.
Others talk little and do much. A few
are betwixt and between and never
succeed in setting themselves or the
world afire.
There is. however, a happy medium
which will afford us the necessary
outlet for our thought and yet serve
the good of the community at large.
Don’t be a clam, and don't be a big
noise. Talk when you feel like it, but
talk sense and talk to people who have
sense. When we do that we will grad
ually bring to the surface the good
points in each other; we will open up
opportunities for the development of
the community, and will be able to
hit upon the means of pushing our
town along.
The man who talks little but says
much when he does talk is often si
lent when a little talk from him would
accomplish wonders. On the other
hand, the big noise is known as a noise
and commands about as much atten
ton and remembrance as a passing
gust of wind.
Talk up, but speak gently and to the
point, y ou will be both heard and
heeded.
If there is anything on earth you
want to know and don’t know, just
ask us. If we can’t tell you we won’t.
Some are crowing and others are
eating crow, but it will all come out
in the wash just the same.
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E. P. DAILY FURNITURE CO.
Sells for less and pays the freight
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^ SLAT FABRIC BeJSpnijg
Liggett & Platt Spiral Spring
These springs are the
products of two of the
largest exclusive bed
spring factories in the
world. Guaranteed for life at a price within
the reach of all.
We also have a complete line of brass and
steel beds, steel couches and cots.
Come in and inspect our rugs and linoleums.
We carry a complete line of all grades.
Get our special prices on porch and lawn
furniture.
E. P. DAILY FURNITURE CO.
Your mjrtei, s v'orth or your money back
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WHAT in SAM HILll
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ANY WAV ?« [p
CORN IS KING
Portable Corn Cribs
Slat and Wire Cribs_
Get our prices on Storm Sash and Doors, Roofing,
Screen Doors, paper, Ladders, Gates, Hog Fencing, Barb
I Wire, Hog Troughs, Posts, House and Barn Paint, Var
nishes.
Coal Coal Coal
Clean, Bright Coal—Routt County, Rock Spring, Nigger
head. Lump, Nut and Pea Coal, Hard Coal and Black
smith Coal.
Have us figure your Lumber Bill. Good Lumber at Right Prices.
Phone 67.
Hansen Lumber Co.
