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CHRISTMAS GIFTS
IT'S easy to choose flic rigHgift
at this slore particularly if v
you shop now. The tilings
are in, we have time to give you
the service we like to. and you
can choose unhurriedly.
There's a lot of comfort in choos
ing leisurely (here's satisfaction
and (here's profit. You can choose
(lie right gift for each onc. Thc
first to go are the mosl attractive,
medium priced ones. Will you
choose now?
J. C.v -MITCHELL
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
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HMD OLDUD, N IS IS (I ASIC V. DECEMBER 20, UU7
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Co. G. Quarantined for
Spinal Meningitis
Sunday two of the1 privates ofCo.
(. came down with spinal meningitis
and on Monday morning llic doctors
gave us the culture test, after which
1m l1ln1n tnnmrmt? i rtr Mini lirwl-
ticks out and burned up the hny.!?loH(1 in ,ain onc telephone system
Aftn.. .linnn,. nM,.l .... .... Mn- I KIV to tllO JlCOnlC Of this COIU-
kcts, toilet articles, mess kit and rifled
and marched out' to the detention
, camp, three miles west of Camp Funs-
ton. The detention camp is on the
1'awnee Flats and is north of the stone
structure which was the capital of
Kansas during the days of July 1 to
5, 1855. Tin's camp is a tented city.
Each tent is 16x10, wnllcjl up with
boards for five feet and a stove, which
sits in a box of earth, in the middle of
the room. To clean the ashes out of
the stove we take the)' stove out of
doors and then take the ashes out with
a wash pan. Koch tent will accom
modate six men.
On Tuesday test the doctors doped
our noses and throats und the dope
was a long ways from being good.
Monday evening nine carriers of the
disease were taken out of the com
pany and placed, in another part of the
camp for treatment, and among the
nine men was onc from lied Cloud,
Hoy Garretson. Thursday afternoon
wc were given another culture test
and on Friday morning the doctors
doped our throats three, times und our
hoses four times. The cook shack is
a block away from where we stay and
by the time wc get our meals carried,
to our tent to eat the same arc cold.
In ordor to cat ouv meals we sit on
the floor. Wc use a candle for light
at night and in order to keep warm
some of the boys sit up and keep the
fire burning.
Friday night most of the company
and the officers marched back to the
barracks while four tents of us had
to stay here on account of the fact
that we had come in contact with the
disease. On Saturday afternoon
they took a few more carriers out of
the tents and moved the rest of us to
another tent where wo will be given
another culture and if nono of us have
symptoms of the disease wc will get
to go back to the barracks.
The doctors inspected our throats
and noses four times a day. If
anybody thinks this is an enjoyable
place to bo they have our sympathy
for wc are not allowed7 to visit any
body in the other tents.
District Court Proceedings.
Stale of Nebraska vs. Walter
Thomas, larceny, plead not guilty,
case continued to next term of court.
State of Nebraska vs. Joseph Perry,
larceny, pleads not guilty, caFo con-j The Independent company has or
tinued to next term of court. deied and will install as rapidly as
Moorman Mfg. Co. vs. C. E. Iierg- possible a thoroughly up-to-date cen
field, continued for term. jtral energy system.
Fannie Scott Moshor vs. Scottr C. Mo- TI,U Lincoln company has in the
sher, divorce for plaintiff and restor
ation of maiden name.
James Arnold vs. Emory Waller,
continued for term.
Benjamin F. May vs. Frank Waffle,
continued for term.
A. C. rhelps vs. Geo. C. Shuck, con
tinued. Clyde Kinney vs. Gust Montei, set
tled and dismissed.
Lafayette Sherman vs. Glen P.
Dcatty, judgment for Mrs. Louie Sher-' The phones they recently removed , , .0;.ei My' lt .... ...
man for 0.00 per week for 350 weeks, from Red Cloud have all been junked,1 At PBcnt time it Is impossible
In the matter of the guardianship of nd about nil they were good for was, f a J; LdjTr Wor
r, , i, , ,, , T .. , x . ... , ... . , .. cor, dry goods merchant or under-
CherrulR.amll.orrestL.Koontz.np. kmll.ng wood ami the metal they con- taljcr wUhout a mcssengcl. exccpt
peal dismissed. tained Were hey the same phones ovcr th(J Indcncndent phon.
E. U. Overman vs. Lloyd Carpenter, Mr. Bell used when he first started in, Can you )amo tho buBincsg and
judgment on mandate. , uusincss. I professional men for wanting to havo
Andrew Hawkins vs. C. B. & Q., The use of one telephone system in one phono system. Two phone- sys
judgment for plaintiff for ?1,000. Red Cloud would save this community terns means a double charge for ser-
C. P. Pohlenz vs. C. B. &'Q., verdict
for defendant. 4
Sophia Racnds vs. Chas. Bostock,
continued.
C. II. Miner vs. City of Red Cloud,
CSlIiweBiirnn v. wm Pnvr,0 ,u
voJccopEiff!' Wm' BarnCS' dN
C. E. Higinbotham vs. J. D. Crans,
CO days to.answer. wi
An adjourned term of court will
probably be held in January.
Fifty - two Week Each Year Fr l.5fl.
Some Light on the
Telephone Situation
By Dr. It. S. Mitchell.
It has been suggested that an ex
planation of the position of the busi
ness and professional "men of Red
I mtinity and their position and reason
bo told so that no one would mis
unclei'stand them, and wo will at
tempt in a brief way to give you the
reasons.
First: The Farmers' Independent
Telephone Company is made up all of
local men and is managed by men who
live among us. The first Independent
companies were only local phones be
tween the different farm houses until
they finally extended their lines to the
city limits and at that time they had
considerable trouble getting a central
into lied Cloud.
Since that time the Independent
.company" has grown until it has 37(5
phone;! in the country and over 300
phones in the city, making a total of
nearly , 700 phones which" you can
reach directly through the Ited Cloud
central. ,
They have direct commercial wires
connecting with the Independent
phones at Inavalo, Bladen, Blue Hill,
Cowles and to Guide Rock via Cowlcs.
Every town in the county except
Red Cloud has Independent telephone
for their local service and most of
thcin- have direct connections with
each other. Besides their connection
with the county Independent com
panies they have a direct loll line to
Lebanon, Kas.
They are now trying to get a di
rect wire to connect with the Guide
Rock Telephone company, an inde
pendent phono system, which has a
great many of the phones south of
Guide Hock, and some lines north. It
is to bo hoped that they can get this
connection as it would be of benefit
to both towns.
It ir. the desire- of practically all
the residents of Ited Cloud to have
one telephone system, that system to
be controlled locally. In other words,
encourage homo industry and encour
age a good comfany to do better. The
idea that wc cannot get men locally to
run a thoroughly up-to-date telephone
system is all wrong, and if the com
munity will give them a chance, they
will sliow it.
The profits from a local company
will all be spent here as shown by the
building of a telephone central ofTicc
which is n credit to the town and it
has all been built by, the earnings of
the company as not one assessment
has been levied on the stockholders to
' 1)av for u
past been requested to improve its lo
cal service, and the reply has always
been that it did not mukc enough out
of the local company to justify the
expense, and only in the past sixty
days have they made any apparent
effort to improve their service. We
ask in all fairness, has .the Lincoln
Telephone and Telegraph company
ever spent one dollar in Red Cloud
that thev have not boon comiinllod to
spend.
around two thousand dollars yearly,
and not only that, but would add
greatly to tho convenience of every-
body's phone service.
A word in regard to the cost of the
)honC8' 0n0 merchant who has
been, compoUed to have both phones
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i(joncc Bjvcs t,0 following figures: ho
aa "ccn in business in Red Cloud thir-
teen years. In that time, outside of
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To Accomplish Good Work
You Musi Have Proper Equipment
The Parker Lucky Curve
Self Filling Fountain Pen
is unequalled. Our new slock contains
THE PEN YOU NEED
at $2.50 to $6.00
Lower Priced Self Filling Pens at
$1.25, $1.50 and $2.00
A fake Sure Your Chi Ms EYES ARE RfGIIT ami Able
to Sustain the Strain Imposed by School Work
We Afalv JiXAAfJNATfONS FREE
E3. H. NEWyQUSE
Jowclor ana OptBnttr$
tare. B. &. Q. Watch lnapoctor
We Serve Only the Best
BINE
AT OUR CAFE
Powell
toll service, ho has paid the Bell and
Lincoln companies over 050. Dur
ing the same period ho paid the Far
mers' Independent company about
?275. On being asked what phone he
got most of his business over, he
stated that from 75 to 85 came
over the Independent phone. We
could probably get the Bamo figures
from u number of different men, yet
the Lincoln company could not afford
to improve.
There is a good reason why the
above merchant could got 75 to 5
of his business over the Independent
phone when one realizes that the In-
dependent company has 37G farm
phones on its lines and over 300 in tho
town- IIas tho Lincoln company ever
had over 300 phones on its local
j board? At present wc doubt if it
vico and only getting half service,
a word in regard to tho long dis-
tanco service. In 1910 the Lincoln
Telephone and Telegraph company,
then a competitor of the Nebraska
Tclephono company, ran a long dls-
tance wire into Red Cioud, and.Ling
no local exchange, was Klad to run
no ,0 m cxcimnBc waa Siau 10 run
l0ir wiro inio mo country central,
which at that tirno had about 450
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phones on its lodal board. They con
tracted with tho Independent com
pany to furnish long distance service
for twenty-five years.' This contract
has seventeen years yet to run. When
the Nebraska Telephone company and
the Lincoln company consolidated,
they ran their wire through the Lin
coln company central to the Independ
ent company. On September 0,
1917, a movement was put on foot by
the business and professional men to
have one system and on October 1,
1917, the Lincoln company cut this
wire.
Thoy cut this wire In face of a con
tiact that had seventeen years to run.
Also against an order from the State
Railway Commission and a state law
requiring physical connections be
tween competing companies.
The Lincoln company now declares
that if tho State Railway Commission
lilies against them they will carry it
to tho supremo court.
Wo havo heard a great deal of com
munity spirit and now is tho timo to
start. The merchants and profess
ional men are staying by tho farmor
and the farmor by tho merchant and
it is the propoi' timo for everybody to
get in me unnu wagon. in war
phraseology it is up to everyone to
"do hfa bit" and have ono tolcphono
system in Red Cloud, Nebr., U. S. A.
Home GunrH Meeting
Thfro will bo u iituKiliig of tho Homo
Gunrdq at the Court House, to oom
pluto orunlzailon on Friday evening
December 81, at 7:30 p. in.
F J. Aluuduy, Chairman.
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