vW.3Kv: u ' $ n -- M "JJI fc,Tfi- 1 , -. ,C- tl : RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF V e VKe Shall Appreciate a share of your coal orders PMTT GSSSQIBXSSSiSI Q3SS QSSBgSffiSSSBSGSf&SW V TO McFarland Building Where I will conduct an exclusive undertaking business, piano- and musical merchandise. Some Furniture LeftGoing at Cost vm, ED. AMACK ALL THE PHONES l-SSSScaKfifSS $3SS OSMSSEJ&SSSo SSSZS2G3 tssaacssazss) G3ctsd$SS3 OUR HOJttUHEHTS Our Prices Are Reasonable OVERING BROS. & GO. 1 S(S3fl3SEa&3 SZ33SEES5& S3ssd&38S I wmmuammmmmmmmmmmammmmmmm(mmmKmmammmmmam Remarkable Land Chances For You in Wyoming Now is the time for vou to visit t lie Hlg Horn H.istn mill travel through fc over tliii lliirllngton'.s now Wyoming ho railroad tlmt h going to increase rigtited lunnes' cutis, lucrt'iiso the population of towns and increase html values gonei-nlly. Why tin you till the soil of nuutlior, getting nowheio towards land wnci'bliin for your family, wlion with Sovorntncnt Irrigated farm with a reliable and permanont water supply on a 0-year en-ay puyinent plan with no luturost that malies it almost a gift to you. The North Pintle Valley Heio Is another heotion ealleil by many, Amorlei's Valley of the Nile." It is, also, on the Darlington' new Wyoming lalulitt', Today you nan get an Inig'itod farm in that Valley wliObo vulue iu oiinil to MuriftM' on thu onipMion of tills mainline. ..Try Us m s m ti M i 2 &3-sSraM& THE $ McFARLAND BUILDING 8 I U Are Made Right Well Lettered And Carefully Erected COME IN AND GEE Multiline between Denver itml Hillings farm acreage, settle up the liovernmonts a small payment you can homestead a 11$ - S.B. Howard, Ass't. Immigration Agent IOOi Farnnm Ot., Omaha, Nebraska gSSSSSS3& Sale Bills.. Farmer Vitally Concerned in Railroads What the European War Means to the American Farmer I'hnt I'vcrv eity of any "-'.ai In tlie country Is full of thousands of Idle 111111 lit Hit) piesent moment 1h ii fuel well lnmn to every muler of iii-w.v papem for linrilly a iluy pn"us tluit tht pi ess is not, full of eutiinifti t about tint liuiiyry thou-aiuls- wliostiinil In tho "hroiid lint1" mill pittt'iiiil." tin ff- "soup lii'ii.tjs" in cveiy large triuitt'r of population. Xnr is this state tif nf fulls due to Him pulluy of ntiy paitieu In l politic! jui'-tv. tint iiitlp'r Hit- on' growth of ('.million, wliioli have t iMi slowly but sinHy erysttliing for n liuililit'r of yi'ius In tin1 (list p'tiee, llit Corn ISi-lt -t lie gieat lirrittl b.isliot of tlif Nation luis- Iniil u si'i it's of slim crops in iiuis Bret ions, mill this nut uiiilly Iihs Inn ii di-pi-ibsing uilVi't iijn it tuibiiii'ss romlitions. A k it i 1 1 . hi1 have ln'i'ii iis-ing through ii pi'rloil ill industrial loinljustiiieiit- of ohanging t i' ' '"eii.o.i- vi..ei. p... vitlled n tlu.fU or mi oiii h ittfoover to a policy of Htrict government font nil of public si'ivifo cot por.it ions mid a Hlititp inquiry into tlio coiiduet of nil other largo eorpoiatlons anil, iu try ing to .stamp out thoiibmoso'' tlie past tho pendulum has .swung so fur in thu oilier direction tint so far as I ho i ail roads are concerned, at least, it tlneati'iis to precipitate the most of them which are not already in the hands of ieci'lvers upon thu lochs of lltianclal vwvoU mid ruin. That thu depiessed iinancial condi tion of the railroads is hugely respon sible for the great at my of unem ployed was vividly demonstrated by a prominent St.. Louis newspaper io ceiitly when it. showed th.it nine St, Louis manufacturing establishment- which deal inrailioad supplies employed ll.di.'l nun one year ago. whereas now they employ only l.fiO.'J witli a i eduction iu their pay rolls amounting to g.i8,700 per month, or over seven milliuii ilollais a year. Il the ell'uet upon only nine eii'erprises is as far reaching as thix, what would the llgun'sshow if tln-y weie available or similiar iudiistiit's mid the liuii dreds ot other entei pi iss affected in a greater or lis-t degree tliioughout tin ooiiuti'3 ? Ne.ii ly all of these concerns have on hand hundreds ot thousands of dollars' wot Hi ot tiiii-hed equipment vthieli whs oido'ed by the imlro.ids a year or so ago, but which they have not been abn to p ty fin ; iu the iileiill time, not tiulug utile to pay for goods ali-eud,', ordi'it'tl, the railioads ale not lilaemg nnj u-iv I'liuiiaels, and unless they iLCeive spi-ody ansistaiieu fiom a Nation wide standpoint the tendency will bo fur I.ibor conditions lo glow worse .-lit her than better. Iu last weeW's article we refmtctl to the fmg that the lailroads me the largest einplojeis of labor in the United Slates and that, dm lug the last llst-al year they paid out over thirteen bundled million dollars in wages to thu army of men anil women who con duct their business. Wo also lefeiied to thu fact, that they paid out almost a thousand million ilollais for steel, Oo.il, lumtiur and other supplies ol which they me tho hit gust consumers in tlie country, ami therefoic the chief support of tho hundreds of thousands om.iloyeil in then great intlustiies. I u view of these facts, is il not plain to (am a reasonable income if thu ml.iious tif American laboring men me t be Kept proli'ably employed? Does not any man hiiotv that, if the thnu-iiinds who me this moment hunt ing fur work in Chicago, St. Louis, Now York, Pittsburg, Cleveland anil other l.ugu cities were protltably em ployed that it would mean a hlghei prlco for what the farmer has to soil and that it would bo rellected In the iccelpts of evoiy merchant mid the output of every factory in the Nation? In view of biich a suiious statu to any thinking man that it is of tre mendous importance to tho whole country that tho railroads bo permit ted affairs, can tho uvciage farmer or business man ull'ord to oppot-o the small increase in rates which is neo essary to once more put tho railroads upon a sound basis? Is not the amount of pa&songer faro or fi eight which tho average farmer or other uilicu pays out during tho year a mere bagatelle when measured against the luorativo employment and tho buying power of the millions of American laboilug men? Another Scrletis Phase lnipottant as Is tlie employment of labor, there is another very i.erious phase of this problem which anil, for profound thought at the hands of all thinking' cltuen-, and euppcially the farmer. In hut week's attlolo we cited the fact that In their- desfyerate efforts lo make both otids meet, many vaIIi-uuiIh are' "burning the cmikIIo at both ends"-that iu order to bolt lev up their secmltiiw and keop out of thu hands of receiver the rolling atouk and roadliods of many Hues havo been deteriorating rapidly for a numbor of years and hence are in mi position to handle a big Reason's tonnge, should the strain of a heavy crop year su ' tlcnly descend upon tl o ti. That the gieat foiclk'ii war will produce Hi" highest price ever known for thu foods-nil's piii'luc'd liy the ftiriu M' Is a liiilltetl on all hiiiiits, and if then ever whs a time when he w'll need a l q uite and clllch nl shipping laclli ties it will tic dining th ne.t two or ihreo years-iilul ,et we me actually facing perhaps the most prosperous peiiod the American lamier lias ever Kiiowi: with many Aun-iicau railioads iu a dilapidated physical condition. No sooner had the great Duropean war buistupon the world than Congress icitlixed that our mei chant matine was Utterly Weill! and inellleietit Steps ivcio at once lulled to iniilio the be-t oT the situation mid to repair us speed ily us possible our neglected shiiipirg facilities iq. im iIih high m'.ih ami tli..t tliu handicaji has aiie.ily cost the American p oplo million-, of ilollnrs iluiiii),' the last few in uiths Issopitent that, it icipiiiim no eMeuded eoinmeiit. Ilia one thing In hnv uiarkets iu a 1 parts of the world w Ii eh have ho e'o fore been supplied by the gr-at wnrring nations begging for Aini'ilean good and fnodstiilVs -but it Is quite another thing lo hive American ships in which lo deliver these t ilgnes. Will we now iid.l to the neglect or mi adeipiate nicreli nit iiiariiie tlie fur ther folly of pennitting our lailroads to get into such a weakened phjsical condition tlmt they will break down under tho strain of delivering the pro ducts of the fanner mid the iiianufac liner at our ocean ports ami thus Inrgolv waste tlie gieat oppiutiinlly for profit which tlie foreign war will unquestionably bring to us'.' This Is a phase of the piesont situation vrliieli commands t'm serious thought of every fanner iu Kansas mid the Corn licit generall.v for hero is where the lion's sliaiu of the nation's foods! all's are piodtu'diind here is where fanners cannot airord to bo hampcieil by inade quate transportation facilities if they are to uiiiko the most of favorable market opportunities. There is not a single malinger of n C-ntral or Western lailtoad who will not admit that the present supply of Hi st class freight locomotives mid box o. us could not successfully ino-t the requirements (f s.'veral bintitifiil crop years and jet they haven t the funds with which to supply thin equip iiieut ami thus be prepared for the emergency when it comes as it un doubtedly will Farmi'.r.s Mil Profit In this connection, it is oppoituue t j say tlmt tho American farmer is cer tain to ictip u larger profit ftum the chaotic ooiiditiniis which exist iu ICui'-ipc than any other cl iss of tin les ineii or citi.i'ii. So fur as our inaiiu factuieis mo ciinerucd, while invv markets are undoubtedly beckoning to the United States, yot. mi tho other hand, lor uveuil years to come, tlie splendid tiade which we enjoyed In tiHiniany. Ihiglaud, Fiance, Austila and Russia on our manufactiiied piod nets is cei tain to remain demoiall.od and thus wc will bo fortunate if we do not lose more tint n we can hope lo gain in iidvv Ileitis, with who'o needs vvn urn not yet familiar, and to which it is certain to nqaiio some years to adjust ourselves. It is tlie American farmer, however, who lias no complications ahead ol him, and whose dour, pork, beef, mut ton mill other foodstuffs must be de pended upon to iniike up the shortage, which is already looming big in the distance because the harvest fields of the most feitilo sections of Europe have bieii converted into u shambles for tho eontetiging armies. Dxports of biuad stud's from tho United States ill November Wclt valued at !? UVJ.'.O, ul'o, or almost lour times as much as In November of last j ear, while meat mill cattle e.ports amounted to neiiily 1 1,000,0(0 or a gain of over CO per cent over last year, and this despite our nii-erablo shipping facilities on the high seas. In the light of these facts, was there ever u tiniu when tho farmeis of No brasko and other Corn Kelt states can view the futuio with as much nssur nice, or whoa they can so well afford lot i cat fairly every other great In dustry In the nation as now'.' Putting It iu thu terms nf sound business policy, was there ever ti time when they should do tholr part to thu end tlmt American labor may be profit ably employed In all thu great chan nels of Industry, and that our trans pollution Fystuin may bo kept up to a high point of elllclcncy, so that it may adequately ilischargo the heavy ship ping burdens which will undoubtedly descend upon it in llio not distant ftltllli? fr!or !ailroai!s Needed No o'hor single agency In the Nation has had more to do with tho udvmn.e itient of land value) than have the railioads, and as evidence of this fuel tho proximity of a farm to the tnaiket almost Invariably fixes Its sellli g value Ntbrinka mid every other t n tr.il or Western .state is still in dire ntel of hunched of miles of addi tional railroad mileage, and tlict,o new lines will not be built until American railroad securities are rtfustabliblied as a pajliig Investment and this, on the Inisis or present railroad carnlnga, is out of tho quoition. Noarly all our 025SRSSS'v QUALITY ON THIS WE HAVE BUILT OUR PRESENT BUSINESS WHEN wc began our business career in in Red Cloud we look as our motto the one word Quality and we believe all our patrons will agree with us that it lias truly been our slogan all this time. Our reputation for high-grade Groceries is well known. We are fully prepared to supply all your wants in our line. P. A. Wullbrandt THE HOME GROCERY ?ESSS amm&-1-&3&35 piC'ctit lilies were built years ago. when railrotd investments weie looked upon with favor at home and abroad, and hence, if theie is a class of citiens iu tin; land who should be vitally in terested in rescuing the railioids from tho pitiable plight in which they Hud themselves at the present moment It is thu farmer As a tuat'er of fact, were It not so tremendously far reach ing iu its effect, the controversy over a slight increase in railroad rates iu any gicatagiicultural statu would hirirely resemble a temptest in u tea pot a matter which should be settled in the biief space of time required to apply the remedy. When a private industry great or small, advances the price of its commodities we take It ns a matter, of course and say nothing about it ami iu the past we have opposed a square deal for railroads largely be cause the people ditl not understand their liiiporta'iiL-o to the nation, be- eiuse they were angered at occasional abuses which sti let governmental reg ulation has forever eliminated and be cause for some years designing politi cal opportunists have found abuse of the railroads an easy road to public prefeimcnt. That public sentiment, however, is changing rapidly, and that wo will soon reach a sane understand lug between the people mid tho rail road", which me so vitally essential to the agricultural ami commercial pio gress of every community in the na tion, is becoming more and mure up pin cut every day. (Paid adv. To bo continued ) SOUTH INAVALE A little sou of Ilriino Sneiver's has been quite sick tho last few days. Walt (liiruer and family sperit New Year's at the Then. Hawkiii's homo. lioy Stevens and wife were guests at tho O. M. Stevens homo last Sunday. Geo. .lanseii returned home last weelt from tho western part of tho state. .Mil roll and Claud Kamiusky have been hauling corn to McC'all's the past week. Win. Noble and wife o Yuma, Colo , ariived Sunday for a few days visit with relatives. II. I Points shipped a car "load of cattle to tnaiket Sunday and accoin- pauied thu shipment. G. N. Dlaiiktnb.iker and wife, duo. Mitcliel and wife mid Uobt. Mltcliel and wife and son, Evo'ett spent New Year's with relatives a Wotnor, Ivausiis. Standing o? Contestants The following is tint standing of the Contestants in Tin- Chief's hikI Cook's Drug Store Kieo Tiip to thu l'uiiiuna Kxpositiou Contest: I i mow Jtotwr. 37:i:r lSTir.o 71700 oss to u:tS7r lir.075 1.I2.723 7.1020 (532CO I0:t0f5 01875 1011 10.1 203.'llO 81580 10703T 8201)0 82.1:10 75015 OlOUO 8.. !)., lo.. 11.. 12.. 13.. It.. in . io., 17., IS., in., jo., '21., If You nro troubled with heartburn, pases and n distressed feeling after eating tako a $sA DjSSSSta Iiefore mul after each meal and you will obtain promp t relief. Cold only by us, Uoo H. E, Grlco Drua Co. ------- 1 1 11 1 1 1 m jj 1 1 . 1 DR. DEARDORF VETERINARY QLWGEON Gi initiate Chicago Vetotinary College iwubvi: yii.uis r.xi'i;iin:Nrr. ATIIAILKY'STIH JJAKN Rod Cloud -:- Nebraska nSSSS StSD 9 THE ALARM is a dreiiitful tiling OF" FIRE for the man without insurance. Every time he sees the engines racing along his heart comes up lu his throat If the fire is nnywhero near his place. What folly, what mis tikeii economy. , THE COST OF is so small that it INSURANCE need hardly be onsidered. Tlie freedom from worry alone is worth it uiiiiiy times ovor Have us insure you to-day. Reliable Insurance. U BE5T REPAIRING!? UI4U.KR THE SON !-J Invisible Patches Neat workmanlike repairing is a branch of our business which is given especial atten tion. Send Your Torn Garments To U3 We will clean press and re pair them so that they will give you much satisfactory wear. You are accustomed to having your shoes and watch ' repaired. Why not your ' clothes? G. Jlassingei? Cleaner and Dyer Doth Phonos Dr. Nicholson vs DENTIST ornoK ovru .u.iuiiaiiT's btokk IN Mri'llTON O.N .MO.NDAY Red Cloud. Nebraska CAMP THE CHIROPRACTOR Red Cloud, -:- Nebraska flccond Houso North of I. 0. 0. F. Holl Graduate Palmer School o Chiropractic, Davenport, Iowa. FIRE M8j&mmsm& Consultation and Spinal Analysis Free At Office Phone Intl. 212 " A - ?. W lr ( ? f-&vu-seikjtfti-C, e. .,..1 .-.. tK ..I .- ijl.fS. JtE-M- ,31 rftt.l IIWIW"H.SWIMUI ik