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_ _ _ VOL. _ n _ _ _ _ n XXVI. _ _ _ BROKEN BOW , CUSTER COUNTY , NEBRASKA , THURDSAY , APRIL 9 , 1908. NO' 44.
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They're In The Dark
Who go to huy Diamonds without
understolllling the business. Oue
can 'Qe easily fooled in the pur.
chase'of ' gems tlowdays-so tuany
stones with unseen , flows are being
placed itpon the Ulflrket. And 1\ \
single flow will mar the whole
, value mulapp arnnce of a stone.
. " We handle uonc but the flawless
: ' Diamonds- those of pure water
I only-positively perfect g mn. We
iuvite you to gh'e them inspection.
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Prescription
Economy
Does not mean to buy
mcdicincs where you can
get them the cheapest-un-
less you can be sure of absolute -
lute purity , freshness and
medicine activity.
Bring your prescriptions
to us and } cnow that you
will get the best and not
pay toomuch ; for it either.
This is
Prescription Economy.
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JIS & J.FaBaisch
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DRUGGISTS.
Broken Bow - Neb.
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CUT PRICES EVERY WEEK
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- Evaporatcl1 Ap\ ' cots , per pound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f. 25 i
Evapor ted Appes : , per pound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IS i
Evaporated Peaches , pcr pOU'.UllSC anl1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 ;
! " ' Evaporate Prunes , pu pound , 18M , I2 and. . . . . . . . . . 15 '
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, Can Corn , pcr cau , 81 : c , IOC , I2 e amI. 15 :
I Can 'fomatoes , per cmf. I2 C , ISC an . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Is i'
, : Herbatelle Soap , 32 bars. . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 00 ; ' _
.Gool1 Coffee , per pound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' . . . . . IS :
Better CofTee , per pound , 18c , 20C , 25C , 30C find. . . . . . . . . .15 "
: Navel Orauges , per elOl.en , 25c , 30c , 3Sc an'1. . . . . . . . . . . . 45 ' >
. Plake Hominy , l > er Pound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 I"
1 i l.'ea Iear Braud Tell , 'Vorth 60c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 -j.
1 ell : : : : c : ; ; : : i : ' 's. 15
j ; A ne' lot of be nti.ful house plants. We get f
- : you anythIng you wIsh In plants. :
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PHONE No.5. NOltTH SIDE. BROKEN BOW , NEBR. i
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! A Splendid Line
\ ' ( You often hear people talk about good goods and low
\r I prices. 'l'hat is no new f ature here-not since the
( day of opening this store two years ago-but since
. , then we have increased the stock until now , those
who trade , hl'rc never fear but that they will always
meet up with a splendid line of everything classed in
the grocery and provision list , and they know , also ,
. that the , ) ' can secure just what they want-our assortment -
sortment is so varied-without having to "trot around
I town" hunting for it.
Givc us an opportunity to sen'e you , if you never
' . - " . . , havc. anft reali e , tor once in your life , how pleasant
, it is to beservcd sati factori1y.
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Slleppard & Burk
Phone 125. South Side Square
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"MORE CROOKED
THAN A SNAKE. "
That is tbe Description Given New
Lines for County Division
by Editor Pinch
WHO HAS ADVOCATED DIVISION.
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Now He is Against the Proposition
As He Considers New Lines
Unfairly Drawn.
A convention was held at
Merna , in December , to draw
new , lines upon which to wage
war for a division of Custer
county. The lines agreed upon
by a mere handfull of Custer-
county tax payers at that meeting -
ing met with hearty disapproval ,
not only by those opposed to division -
vision , bu t by a large majori ty of I
those who favor it , so Bulldozer !
Brega conceived new lines "nd
called another conventwn to meet
at Ansley on Tuesday of last
week.
, A less number of adherents of
division were present than at the
Merna convention , and the new
1ines conceived by Brega with a
view to getting votes fet division
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-regardless of the hooles and
crooks in the borders of the four
proposed new counties-was carried -
ried , the Brega lines being submitted -
mitted to the convention by a
minority report of the com-
mittee.
ii' . C. Pinch , editor of the
Merna Postal Card , who has been
one of the staunch supporters of
county division , was in attendance -
ance at the Ansley convention' '
and argued in favor of fair play
land. ' against the gerrymander
schemes of Brega , but a majority
of the fellows in attendance want
the lines fixe so they , personally -
ly , will be benefitted regardless of
the welfare of the other residents
of the proposed uew counties , a
large number of those present being -
ing real 'estate dealers and owners -
ers of town lots in the anticipated -
ed county scats of the new coun-
ties.
'l'he report of the Ansley convention -
vention , written by Editor Pinch
and published in the Post Card
last week , is undoubtedly just
what occurred at the convention
and as such is unbtased , therefore -
fore it is published in full herewith -
with , as follows :
'l'ucsday morning we made a
trip to Ansley where we expected i
to attend a county convention' '
to be for , and presided over by ,
the county divisionists , and the
rest of the delegation came down
on the afternoon train. When
we arrived at Ansley we found
Dick Brega was on hanc1 to take
charge of affairs havinf ! brought
along with him in his vest poc1et
the outlines of the map that is
to be the future (7) ( ) cut of the
county. After arriving at Ans-
ley we found the boys down there
had not taken enough interest in
the question to even have a caucus -
cus , and Dick got holt of a page
out of a tablet and after dodging
about secured enough names on ,
the same to provide for a full '
representation of delegates from :
the southeast quarter , after t'is !
was done , Dick and his fellows
rested easy until the convention
was called , and as the other pre.
cincts of this quarter did not see
fit to come out , why , Dick had
us "skun" on votes , and was
able to retard the division of the
county another year.
'l'he ( ' .onvention was then called -
ed to order , with Mr. Sargent in
the chair , and a committee of one
I roUl each quarter was selected
for the purpose of conferring (7) ( )
on lines to present to the convention -
tion (7)-we ) should have said to
Dick-for acceptance. Now , we
want it understood that Dick did
not care what lines were accepted -
ed (7) ) by Ule convention. Oh ,
no. 'rhe committee ( ? ) then retired -
tired to the basement room of
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the convention hall and just got
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nicely to work when Dick rather I
I thought things were not g-oing
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n he wanted them to go and
broke down stairs to see what
wns the matter-in the mean-
timc Dic1's outline of the lincs
wanted , and th ( utap had , presto ,
changed : from Dicls vcst'poclet ,
to their reprcscntativcs ( ? ) hand. :
As soon as thcy found thc lines
they s nt to the conlltlittee room
was doomed to distruction , then
his followels from the southcast
kcpt thcir man busy a 1111 inter.
ferred with the committee to
such an extcnt that as one of the
committee we proposed getting
. into another room lnd locldng
I the door so that we could get to
work and in about five minutes
th.e straight lineR as voted upon
last ycar , with the exception of
conceding to thc northeast
quarter , the west portion of west
Union precinct , was voted upon.
'l'his was accepted by the committee -
mittee by a vote of three to enc
-the one of course being Dick's
man of the southeast who bro't
in a minority report. As thc
committee camc uPJ stairs they
found that Dick-no , rather his
man Frida ) ' , had drawn thelsame
hnes on a map-that we paid for
-that Dick banded to that man
who was put 011 that committee.
What the committce wondered at
was that Dick , li'riday and the
man on the committee , bad the
same tho't and why was the committee -
mittee was 5\l1t out ?
.No one rcgrets that Dicl { and
his fellows over there have made
it impossible for us and our pco.
pIc over hcre to support county
division-we stated to the con.
vcntion thcre at Ansley , we have
stated it to our readers , and wc
say 3gain , it IS not the question
of county scat with us-but the
queition of gctting lines tbat
are favorable to the masses of
our people. The vote of last
year demonstrated the fact that
our people and the people
throughout the county wanted
straight lines , and tt they werc
takcn that way this year , thcrc
is no doubt as to what the out.
.fom would be , but when two or
.t1h c land men , aud enc r two
others get together and attempt
to cut us out a county that a
snake could not get into as many
crooked shapes as they outlined ,
then , we want to be connted out
of it.
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Marriage Licenses Issued.
Since 'l'hursday of last wcek
licenses to wcd in Custcr county
have been issued as follows : '
Albert JD. Howell , Mason. . . . .32
Josie Bull , Mason..2 ( )
Walter A. Bryan , Merna. . . . . .2' )
Mamie D. Gift , Mcrna. . . . . . . .25
George A. Neve , Merna. . . . . . .21
li'lora Conley , Merna. . . . . . . . . .1 'J
Chas. S. Corothers , Calla way. . 28
Ammie B. Pierce , Callaway. . .18
C. S. Chesley , Milc1ale. . . . . . . . 24
Maggie Whipple , Callaway. . .18
Ernest M. Briiltol , Ansley. . . . . 21
Stella Phillips , Ansley. . . . . . . .IC )
Mr. Bryan's Surprise.
Mr. Bryan admits that he is
surprised that the New York
National Dc'mocratic club refused
to invitc him to be one of its
spealers at the Jeffcrson banquet
on April 13 , and that it did not
invite him to be presct ! t as a
guest Ulltil after several meetings -
ings of the committee at which
the question was debatcd at somc
length.
It is difficult to sec why M ( ' .
Bryan should be surprised at the
actiol1 of the New York demo-
crats. 'rhey have donc nothing
to indicate a changc sincc thev
opposed him in 18 % , in 1')00 anf )
kept l1im out of the race in lC)04.
They do not talc kindly to what
they arc pleased to term "Bryan-
ism" and have determincd to
oppose his nomination at the
cOIvention at Dcnvcr in July.
although they rcali e they arc
undertaking an almost hopeless
task.
If Mr. Bryan IS nominated at
Denver , It is not probable that
the New York dcmocrats will
make anj. extraordinary efTort to
insure his victory in their state.
lIe has practicall y noti ficd t hcm
that he wants all his encmies in
front of him and they have , hou. .
estly fat .least , ' eclined to face
about. 'I'uere is really nothinl'
surprisil14' in the fact that th
New York democrats did not in-
vitc Mr. Bryan to speak at their
banquet. The only surprising
feature is that he should care to
talk to them , realizing their I
feeling toward hi ro.-Omaha
Bee.
Advance in Wood Preservation.
"Timber thoroughly treated
with proper prcservatives witt
last almost indclinitel , } ' , " says a
governmcn t expert who is an
authority on wood prescn'ation.
"Engineers have known for years
that this is true , " he ( 'ontinucs ,
"but up to the present timc , at
lcast in Amcrica , complicatcd
and cxpcnsivc plants ha\'c hecn
necessary tor thc wol'1 { , and wood
presen' . ion has often been too
expensive an operation to allow
treated timber to come into general -
eral use. " '
Methods 1.1 wood preservation
Ita vc uudergone a marked change
in thc last' fcw years , however ,
and the worl ! which a few j'eurs
ago was limitcd to a few experi-
mcnts ; carried on in scattcred
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IN THE SPRH G
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Disinfectants co t little
alllI < 1(1 much to prc\'cnt tltc man ) '
i11nesRcs which owc thcir oriloin ( to
crllls. Rc ulnrl } ' c1isinrect sink ! ! ,
haRins , 11 mins , toilets , garhnge
cnns. musty curhomll' ( lnll other
sllspicious spots 1\\011I111 the houce.
"Housecleaning Time"
shon1l\ \ witness the tihcmlnsc of n
goo , ! cHsinfeclnnt for spring Icls
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loosc c.I\IIt1ess \ , gerllls whIch coli !
wcnthcr hilS , kept in suhjection.
1\11. \ McColllas olTen. ; yon thesc
Good I Disinfectants
Chlorilc of I.iIllC , Chloro Nnptho.
ICIIIII , Cnrholic Aci.l . , Crullc Cnr-
holic Ac tl , Porllllllilchyclc , Sui.
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Ed. M Colnas
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parts of the ! United\IStates \ , has
grown with such. rapidity that
wood preservation has become it
business which figureg 1110st
promincn tly in t hcindustriallifc :
of this country. .
gach1\'car railroads are treating -
ing an i creasiug portion of their
cross tics , mincrs their mine
props , farmcrs their fcnce posts
and the mcn of mhny other industries -
dustries arc bringmg prescrva-
tives intoplay ; to close the pores
and prepareJhe timber they use
to rcsist the fungi whidt causc
decay. The work points the
way to one of the chief means of
the conservation of thc natIon's
forest resources , for , as the length
of the Ilfe of timber is increased ,
thc drain upon thc forests is lcs-
sened , and more wood mude available -
able for us.
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BY PHONE
r-.Vost people don't know
any morc ahot drugs after
they : ee thcm than beforc.
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Call.u up by I phone and"
tell us what"drugs-or 'any-
thing elsc-you want and
we will deliver thcm in half
the time you coul come to
the storc for them.
I veryt1l1ng will be salis-
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, 'Iactors-wclwill ' malle tt so.
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The' Busy Druggist
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10 Per Cent Drop
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Farln Machinery
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.j lIst stop 'an consi er what this means
to yon. ,
I F-or In.s'tan..ce :
A Gang Plow with tongne , that WH sold
before the drop -for $58.50 , YOll can now purchase
at $52.85
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$57.00 dang Plow . ; . . . . . . . . now $51.30
38.50 Sulky Plow. . . . . . . . . . .now 34.65
. 37.00 Sulky Plow. . . . . . . . . . .now 33.50
1,00 Walldn Plow. . . . . . . . now 14.40
14.00V alking Plow. . . . . . . . now 12.60
10.00 BrcakingPlow. . . . . . . . . now ( ) .OO
45.00 Clima [ ister. . . . . . . .now 40.50
45.00 'I'd Uell Ustcr. . . . . . . . now 40.50
35.00 Cor n Planter. . . . . . . . . now 31.50
42.00 Corn Planter ' . . . . . . . . .now 37,0
15.00 I.lister Disc Cultivator , now 13.50
17.00 New Western " . . . now 15.30
29.00 Pi votal Dand ) ' " . . . now 2.1 ( )
2'.00 14x l ( ) Disc Harrow. . . . now 2.10
31.00 } ( , x1 ( , Disc Harrow. . . .now 27.90
16.50 3 Sec. Pipc Harrow. . . now 14.85
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otlll'l' fat'lll tools that I '
1. have many am giving'
the same discount as on the above , which will
make them a great bargain. All of the above discount -
count Jrices must be Rpot cash.
G. W. pple
llroren Bow . . N ebrnska.