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About Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1909)
THE REPUBLICAN , ODS'i'JBR OODNTt , HIGH GRADE Lumber , a large assortment and complete stock for Builders to choose from. Let us estimate on your contracts. We always try to please. H. T.BRUCE & CO. Lumber flt Coal South side. J. ADAM BEDE HON J. ADAM BEDE For years known as the hum orist of Congress. He has a new fund of stories , a bright new lecture and ho will be hero AT CHAUTAUQUA Going to take a vacation ? Do not forget the essen tial articles that are got from a drug store. A bottle of our hand and face lesion is cool ing to the skin after a day ont in the wind and sun. Here are some of the things that should be taken along. Talcum Powder Chamois Skin Headache Tablets Laxative Pills and other things too numer ous to mention , but I have them all. The Busy Druggist NOTICE TO NON-RLS1DENT DEPEND A UTS. In the District Court of Ouster County , Nebtaska. Prank Spanel , Plaintiff \s. Francis rvsdlow , el ux , defendants. The defend.ints Prancls Ludlovv and Mrs. Piancis Lucllou , Ills \\lle , whose full and tme name Is unknown will tale notice that on the th day of .Inly HH the plaintiff lllcd his petition In the Dlstilct tout t of Ouster county , NcbiasUa , against j on , the said de- fend.uits , the object and prajerofhlch ate to quiet the title to the S\V ' { of section 15 , township 10 , ran e 21 Ouster lounty , Ne br.isk.i , as against each ol jou and asking that the title be perfected In Frank Spanel this plaintiff anil that he be declared to be the owner of said land and tint jou and each of jou be barred and estopped from claiming any Interest adverse to his Inlet cst in said land. Youaro required to answer said petition on or before tin * Slrd day of August , 1W9 , In case jou fall to answer or demur to said petition , your default ixlll be entered and dccreo rendeicd as prayed for In said petition. imed this Oth day of July IPOS ) . J15A15 N. P. OADD , Attorney for Plaintiff. General Hardware If you want the "best in the hardware line that money can buy , we can fix you out. We give you good goods and guaranteed you lowest prices. \ General Hardware STRICTLY PERSONAL Leo Dean went to Ansley Sun day returning Monday. James Mullen went to North Platte on business Saturday. C. W. Gibbs left here for Elta , Colorado , Saturday. P. A. Loucrgan went to Seward - ard Monday on business. Jules Simonson was a passe 11 gcr for Ravenna Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Mclviu Lee went to Omaha Monday for a visit with relatives. Elbrul&L Pieman came in Sat urday evening from Walworlli , where he has been working about two months for W. S. Metcalf. Rev. and Mrs. Thompson and daughter , Huth , went to Omaha Monday. Mrs. Thompson will go to the Methodist hospital in Omaha. Hugh Wells , who has been spending- his vacation with liis parents , left the latter part of last week to resume his duties at York. Two changes have been made in the local railroad time table. Train No. 39 will now arrive at 6:40 : p. m. instead of 6:80 : p. m. , and No. 44 is now due at 7:28 : p. m. , instead of 7:20 : p. m. Merl and Elbridge Pig-man went to Kearney Monday for a visit with relatives and friends. They expect to be gone about ten days and will go to Gibbon and other points in Eastern Ne braska. Three box cars were started down the track from Mcrna by the storm last Saturday. Two of them stopped at the top of the hill west of the city and the third passed through the city and was stopped at the east end of 'the yards. I. A. Reneau went to Wai- back Monday to attend the funeral of M. Mathiesson. Mr. Matheisson was one of the men who purchased the Buckeye Ranch recently and has been a man of robust health. He died Saturday of typhoid fever and his funeral took place Monday. Secretary Mellor announces the closing of a contract for the exhibition each clay , Sept. ( Uh to 10th , at the State" Fair , of the great six-horse equippage of Swift & Co. This exhibit trav els in a private Pullman car 70 feet long , and is in charge of at tendants. The horses are beau tiful dapple grays , average more than 2100 pounds each , and ap pear wearing a * 2,000 harness , hitched to a $3,000 wagon. The Blue Rapids chautauqua , which opened Thursday of last week , and will close tonight , Thursday , has been one of the most successful entertainments yet undertaken by our people. The weather certainly was made to order for the occasion and the attendance has far exceeded the most ardent supporter of the chautauqua. Sunday afternoon there must have been close onto 2500 people on the grounds _ - Blue Rapids Journal , July 22 , 1909. 1909.The The editor is in receipt of a letter from Prof. A. P. Vannice , who has been in Colorado this summer for his health , stating that he is much improved in health and is on his way home. Mr. Vannice drove to Denver and is driving home. After he left here a number of his friends made a systematic effort to com pel him to become a candidate for county superintendent and finally filed a petition putting his name on the primary ballot Since his health has improved Air Vannice has decided to make the race and his announcement ap pears in this issue of the Re publican. Says the collar to the shirt "you carried me well , " let u meet again at the Broken Bow Steam Laundry , Broken Bow Nebr. FRANCIS G. 1IAMER. "Old Settlers Day. " Among the candidates for nomination for judge of the su. prcme court at the primary to be held Aug. 17 , is Francis G. Hatncr. Judge Hauler , as he is famil iarly known all over the state , is an "Old Settler. " It has been 40 yeats since he came from Indiana and made Nebraska his home. He is one of the few who , through good and evil report , " held faith in the ultimate devel opment of her resources. He was here when the grass hoppers came upon the people ike the plague of locusts in Egypt , yet he stayed. He was here in the nineties when the hot winds put doubt and despair in the hearts of all men , yet he had faith and cour age and he stayed. He received his legal educa tion in Indianapolis , Indiana , and in the law college there. Forty years ago next Decem ber ho located in Lincoln and be gan the practice of law. Thirty-seven years ago he moved to Kearney , where he be came a member of the law firm of Ilamer & Connor. Later he was appointed judge of this dis trict by Governor Dawes , to which office he was afterwards twice elected. The first time over Judge John Barnd by a ma jority of 1,700 , and the second time over Hon. Wm. L. Green by a majority of 4,600. At the end of his services as Judge he again entered the prac tice of law at Kearney as senior member of the law firm of H'auier , Sinclair & Brown. This firm did not long continue , as Mr. Brown was soon elected county attorney , then attorney general and i a now United States Senator , and Mr. Sinclair soon became judge of the district court in this district. Judge Hamerhas always been a Republican , but he is a Repub lican who has ideas of his own , and when he feels he is right , like Grant , "he will fight it out on this line if it takes all sum mer. " The farmers of Custcr county and of this judicial district know urn and remember his interpre- ation of the law as it relates to quity in the foreclosure of mort gages. He had faith in the country nd would not allow land to be old in mortgage foreclosures at 'hard times" and drought valu ations. What would have been the re- ult had he lacked faith and ouragc , and ruled the other way and forced an immediate sale ? It was in his power to do so. Thousands of farmers who are now wealthy or in easy circum stances owe it all to him , because by his interpretation of the rules of equity he saved to them and their families the homes they had struggled so hard to acquire. He certainly is an "Old Set tler. " Had he ruled otherwise they would have been cast adrift on the sea of life , shipwrecked without a home , without a pros pect. Judge Hamer did this in the face of fierce denunciation from the capitalists who held the mortgages. He did it in spile of the fact that , to say the leas' ' , many of the district judges were ruling the * other way. He did it in spite of the fact that he was held in con tempt because of his unheard of interpretation of law. He did it because he had faith in Nebraska real estate and had faith in the despairing men who tilled her droughth stricken soil. The best part of the story is that time , the great eyener of the affairs of men , has so con > firmed the justice of his rulings , that there is not an honest law yer or an honest judge in the United States today but what will say that he did right. Farmers , let us remember Francis G. Hamer on Aug. 17. By one who lived through those troubles and who knows the truth. Any intelligent person may earn a good income correspond ing for newspapers ; experience unnecessary. Send stamp for full particulars. Empire Press Syndicate , Middleport , N. Y.A53t A5-3t If you need help of any kind , tell as many people as possible. There arc more than 40,000 people ple who subscribe for the Oma ha Bee. You can tell them all or one cen t per word per day. Write todav. FOR SAI.R DY 3XT ; Read The REPUBLICAN $1 a Year Anderson & Fotnev We have a full stock of STEAM and WATER - f ER liittirigs. STRAIGHT AWAY GLOBE VALVES and UECKS in all si/cs. Also a full line of threshers supplies. Now is the time to in stall your plumbing or heating plant. Spcci- vfications and estimates cheerfully made. i & NOTlOi : OF IMJTITION. Instate No35 of Kbcn Chapln , deceased , lu Cotuitj' court of I. uic.istcr County , Ne braska , The State of Nebraska , To all persons in terested In s ild i siititake notice , that a petition has lit en UU-d fur hearing on for eign will offered for probate , which has been set for hearing on August Li ) , liioy , at 10 o'clock ( i M. Uated July -0 , 1050. ( Seal ) A. U. Uulll'UHtv , County Judge Oth CEJM TUHf COFF EE YOUR GRl Notice. Parties - indebted knowing- themselves - debted to S. P. Great & Co. are notified to call at the Great home and settle , either by casher or note. AH unsettled accounts will be placed for collection about the 14th of Aug. , 1909. J22-A.12 S. P. GKOAT & Co. 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