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VOLUME XXXVII.
The Success of this bank
is built on the friendship
of its customers gained by
earnest attention to their
interests.
Interest Paid on time
deposits.
Webster County Bank,
RED CLOUD. NEB.
CAPITAL $25,000
B. F. Mizer, President, S. R. Florance, Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
B. F. Mizer, C. J. Pope, Wm. M. Crabill, Wm. H. Thomas,
S. R. Florance.
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A Newspaper That fihes The News Fifty-two Weeks Each Year For One Dollar.
If KD CLOUD, iMBItlUSKA. 1) ISC HM II 13 11 JJO. IS0!.
SUNNY SIDE.
I. T. Parker is visiting lelatives in
Missouri
O-cnr Emick bus a new barn about
completed liOxlU.
I'.illy lluiiso is erecting an Ice house
on his farm tliis week.
I.loyd Itust was visiting in this
neighborhood this week.
Mr. mill Mrs. Nod Hunl isited at
Connie lius-ei's Tuesday.
Ilubblt hunting is tin nasi time fur
tlio boys during vacation. They sue
plentiful.
K.I. Itasser Sr., Connie and wife took
Christinas dinner with Mr. and Mrs.
John tialudiu. Mr. Uas-or's daughter.
GUIDE ROCK.
lCrnost Hayes was hero the llrst of
the week.
X. V. Maker and wile drove to Ked
Cloud Tuesday.
Christian Ohlinstode is .-pending two
months in California.
Frank Xewineyur and tainily -Nunt
to (.'nrlotou Wednesday.
Little I'earl Smith ha- been sutler
tn; with a very .sore hand.
S 11. Xewmeyer ot Wallace spent
Christmas with his family here.
Mrs. K. S. Schobourg is ill lloldregc
to spend the week villi her parents.
Mrs. .1. A. Shceley of Hastings is
visiting her mother, Mrs. I) Kailey.
Miss Irene Ferguson who teaches at
St. Fdwurd-i-home for the holidays.
Miss .lessie McCalluni of Lincoln is
visitinir her father and brother hero.
Mrs. Cross of Maiikato. Kansas, is
the guest of her cliiuliter. Mrs. 10. M.
Parker
Will Crary anil family spent the
holidays in Heel Cloud with Mrs
Crary's people.
Arthur Pohlemus of Holdrogo came
down Monday to visit his brother,
Thomas Pohlemus.
.Icssio Miiranvitle and Cludys Chase
took supj)er Sunday ovening with
Florance and Lizzie Baker.
Wilbur Hamilton and family of Ked
Cloud have been visiting their relatives
here, tho Hamilton and Ferguson
families.
(i, Ohliustedc went to Red Cloud
Monday night. Last week ho returned
from a trip to Omaha, Fremont and
XebraskaCity.
Tho symptoms of kidney trouble are
urinary disorders, weak buck and
backache, rheumatism and rheumatic
pains and twinges, pains in the groin,
etc. There is nothing us good for kid
ney and bladder trouble as DoWitt's
Kidney ami Uluddei Pills. You may
nopeud upon them to give mitlro satis
fuction. Thoy arc antiseptic, act
promptly and soothe pain. Soldbyall
druggists.
Is There A Santa Claus?
.Many years ago a little girl named
Virginia O'llanlon wrote in the editor
of the Xew York Sun. the late F. P.
Church, and said:
'Dear Editor: I am eight years old.
Some ot my little friends say thcro is
no Santa Claus Papa says 'If you see
it in The Sim if-so.' Please tell inc
the truth: is there a Santa Clause
Virginia O'llanlon "
To this trusting child the great edi
tor wrote an editorial reply that seems
worthy of wider reading lie said:
Virginia, your little friends are
wrong. They have been affected by
the scepticism of a -cepliul age.' They
do not believe except they see. They
think that nothing can be which is
not comprehensible by their little
minds. All minds. Virginia, whether
they In men's oi chLdren's, are little.
In this great univere of oins man isa
mere insect, an ant. in his intellect,
as compared w'.th the boundless wm Id
about him. as measured by the intelli
gence capable ot gra-niiig the whole
of truth and knowledge.
"Yts, Virginia, I here is a Sunt Claus.
He exists as teituinly us loo mid
generosity and devotion exi-t. and
you know that they abound and give
to youi life its highest beauty and
Joy. Alas! how dieary would be the
world if there were no Santa Claus!
It would be as dreary as if there were
no Virginias. There would be no
childlike laith then, no poetry, no
romance to make tolerable this exist
ence. We should have no enjoyment,
except in sense and sight. The eter
nal light with which childhood tills
the world would be extinguished.
'Xot believe in Santa Claus! You
might as well not believe in fairies!
You might get your papa to hire men
to watch in all the chiinncysonChrist
mas live to catch Santa Claus, but
oven if they did not see santu Claus
coming (low u what would that prove'.'
Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is
no real sign that there is no Simla
Cluus. The most real things In the
world arc thoso that neither children
nor men can see. Did you ever seo
falriosdancingou tho lawn? Of course
not, but that's no poof that they are
not there. Nobody can conceive or
imagine all the wonders there- are un
seen and unseeable in the world.
"You may tear apart the baby's rat
tle and seo what makes the noise in
side, but there isti veil covoring the
unseen world which not tho strongest
man. nor even the united stiongth of
all the strongest men that ever lived,
oiuld tear apart. Only faith, fancy,
poetry, love, romance, can push aside
that curtain and view and picture tho
Miporual beautv and glory beyond.
iBltnll nmlv Ah, Virginia, In all this
world there nothing else real and
abiding.
"No Santa Claus! Thank (iod! he
Hvcs,'and he lives forever. A thous
and years from now. Virginia, nay,
ten times ton thousand years from
now, ho will continue to make glad
tho heart of childhood."
Western Uccf Finds Good Eastern
Market.
Western beef is coming into its own.
Not over a decade ago eastern buyers
pui chased lunge-bred steels only when
they weie unable to till thoir feed pen
, fioin other sources, and usually offer
ed a much lower pi ice for this olass of
stock than they were willing to p.i.
for that seemed from other souices.
Hxpci ience has taught thest. buyer-,
however, tha' western range-bred
steers me usually in the very be-t of
health. They have a splendid fiaine
upon which to build, are well muscled
and boned, and being accustomed to
tho rigors ot the western climate, con
itinuctoput on tlcsh in the eastern
feed pens when cattle from other sec
tions, oetug iei under lucuucni con
ditions, aie losing tlcsh on account of
the inclement weather conditions.
This western steer only demands that
he be given plenty of good fresh water
and sutllcicnt feed so that ho may
uovcr bo hungry and ho will ulwnys
give a good account of himself aud re
turn many dollars in protlts to the
feeder when he is sold for the block in
the spring.
These steers shod oarly under favor
able conditions, and when they have
reached the stock yards thoy show an
exterior finish that other cattle, lack
ing the same health aud ruggedncss,
fail to show. This makes the western
steels ready hellers on the market, und
after they have been butchered tho
percentage ol the weight of the dressed
carcass over that of other steers under
the same conditions is so pcicoptible
a- to immediately attract the attention
of tlio-e keen, tar-sighted men who
handle the yard end of the business.
Tho settlement of the West is rapid
ly reducing the amount of available
range and is forcing the cattle to go
higher aud higher into the hills In
seat ch of forage. This is greatly in
creasing the importance of freely utili.-
ing the Hinges within the National
Forests and every endeavor is being
made by the Foiest Service to open
hitherto iuae.'essiblo langes by the
construction of trails and bridges, and
unused aiid ranges by the development
rf water. In these higher elevations
the grass is usually much Mm r in
quality and more nutritious, while tho
c imnte is much more rigorous: both
ot which conditions result in the
animals being in better health aud
lulling more solid llo-h when placed
on the feeder markets In the fall.
This fall has seen large numbers of
the range-bred steers, most of which
come from langes within National
Forests, topping the feeder markets at
all points where feeder steers are sold.
So great ha- become the domain! lor
cattle of the quality mentioned that
hundreds of stockmen throughout the
West are selling their bunches of stock
cattle and are beginning to handle
steers exclusively. On the old ranges
where u few years ago one was ai
customed to see large herds of cows
and calves, you will find to-day equal
ly large bunches made up entirely of
steers, some of which may perhaps
have come from Old Mexico, some from
Texas, while Arizona and New Mexico
usually furnish thoir quota. These
steers are brought Into these western
ranges at from eighteen months to two
years old. Thoy become acclimated
the llrst year, while in the second and
third years they become siiillciently
m:itu"e so that they may be taken to
murk a
The demand for cattle of this kind is
greater than the supply, aud as in all
other cases where the demand is great
er than the supply the price received
on sale must constantly increase.
That this is truo of tho steer business,
one can easily ascertain through con
versation with any one of the western
stock moil who make this a business
They will tell you that they have imtdo
more money In tho last two or three
years in handling steers than they
liiado In ten yours in handling strictly
stock cattle.
Land Bargain.
illo acres -sq. sec. .'I lo III Lincoln
Co., Neb. Price S3 por acre. This is
A 1, grass, corn, alfalfa, potatoe aud
boot laud Inquire of 1-Milor or this
pnpur.
St- Joseph Live Stock Market-
Si. .leu:. Mo.. Dec. MS' -Tho Until
week of the your Is bringing out but a
Muall run of live stock at any of the
markets, due to the holiday character
of the week aud the fact of the coun
try being in more or less ol a storm
hound condition trom the big snows
that have d-iltcd badly and made1
country roads laborious lor g-ttiug
stock to the shipping stations
, The cattle trade liuished hist week ,
with prices on a strong upwind turn ,
and while this is not a week whenl
there is apt to be any strong demand
for cattle, the .-mall supplies aic bidd
ing prices for steers fully up to a
strong basis while cows aud heifers,
are working to a higher leiol mid !
feeding stock where in good llesh. is
meeting a strong demand. As the
market now stand-, choice to prime
steois ot medium to strong weightcan
boqiiotod at $i;,."mi to 7."iH but there
arc none id' the kinds coming Med
ium to good sleor-, including the bulk
of short feds. S.".:o to fu.uri. common to
fair killers, Sl..u to fc.1.i!."i; bulk of cows
and heifers. S.'l.oil to ft. Ml with a few
choice nt8t.75 to 8.VMI; veal calves up
to trf.CO for choice; stockers and feed
ers, Sl.r.OtoSl.fiOwith choice lots up
to $.r..i2.'i.
In the hog trade, the outlook at the
time of this writing is favorable to
finishing the year on the highest level
of prices In the history of those yurds
Tho supplies are running almost down
ton famine basis tills week and prices
are wortdugup rapidly, the bulk today
selling at S8.UO to 88.1.1. or 'St cents
higher than at the close of last week,
while tops sold up to tho previous high
mark of the mouth and at the highest
mark In tho history of tho, yards. The
outlook seems to favor light supplies
and strong markets.
There have not been sheep enough
coming of lute to make a markot.
Prices aro sharply higher than a
week ago, aud the lookout strong.
Nuio.nai. Livi: Sto( k Comui-mon Co.
Hiuumatism Cfiinn ix a Day.
Dr. Dctchoon'N Itolicf for KhoumatUm
and Neuralgia radically cured in 1 to
II days. It action upon the system is
remarkable mid mysterious. It re
moves at ouco the cause aud the dis
ease immediately disappears. The dis
dose greatly beuollts. 7."o and SI. llrst
Sold by The II. K. (Slice Drag Co.,
Hod Cloud, Nobr.
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We Thank You
For Your Patronage and
wish you one and all a
Merry Christmas
and a
Happy New Year.
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On Entire Stock of
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