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some , durable , and . ' , . i i-
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tgsigonials. f 17 X. Tenth St. , 1'JiHad'a , I' .
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pi t'ierr usl > ' slirill
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fa-cr thoclii hive
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mail , for 2.1 cents in el
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SOCIETY DIRECTORY.
CONGKEGATIONAL. Sunday School atTlO
A. M. every week. Preaching services every
Sunday night at 0:30 M. T. Also , every alter
nate Sunday morning at 11 , M. T. Exceptions
to the above will be noticed in locals.
GEOHOE DUNCAN , Pastor.
METHODIST. Services every Sunday at 10 :
30 A. M. and 7 P. M. . mountain time. Sunday
School at 3 P.M. The services and Sunday
school will he held for the future in the new
tliureli. All are cordially invited. Seats free.
W. S. WHEELEU , Pastor.
EPISCOPAL. Services in the Opera Hall the
first and third Sundays , morning and evening ,
of each month. .7. A. FUI-FOKTH , Kector.
CATHOLIC. Services will be held in the
church once every four weeks.
THOMAS CULLEN , Pastor.
W. C. T. U.-Tlio W. C. T. U. will meet in the
Reading Room every Wednesday afternoon at
2 o'clock. 51. T. The Band of Hope will meet
in the Rending Itooin every Saturday after
noon at 2 o'clock , mountani time.
A. O. U. W. McCook Lodge No. 01. will meet
the first and third Mondays of each month in
the Masonic-Hull. Visiting brethren cordially
invited. Bit. II. B. DAVIS , M. W.
W. H. DAVIS , Recorder.
McCOOK LODGE A.'F. & A. M.
Regular meetings , Tuesday night on
or before full moon of every month.
S. L. GREEN , W. M.
F. L. McCiiACKEN , Secretary.
WILLOW GHOVE LODOK K. OFF. , U.
D. Meets the first and third Wednes-
! ay evening of each month.
J. W. CAMPIJELT , , C. C.
A. M. Sl'AMHKO , K. It. S.
Host ! COMPANY. Reg-
ular meetings on the first Wednesday
oveninj'of ; each month.
R B ARCHIBALD , Chief.
B. OF L. E. Brotherhood of LocomotivcEn-
gineers. Sleet first and fourth Saturdays of
each month. S. E. HOGR , Chief.
J. C. ANDERSON , F. A. E.
Jl K. BAHNES POST G. A. K. Regular meet
ings second and fourth Monday evenings of
each month at Opera Hall.
J. A. WILCOX , Commander.
J. H. YAIIGEH , Adjutant.
POST-OFFICE HOURS.
Open from 7 A. M. to 8 P. M. , M. T. Office
will be closed thirty minutes before arrival and
departure of mails. SUNDAY , office will be open
from 12 to 2 P. M. mountain time.
A. P. SIIAHP , P. M.
B. & M. TIME TABLE.
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No.2 0:30 , A. M. | No. 40 5:25 , P. M.
WEST LEAVES : WEST LEAVES :
No. 3 ! ) 12:50. P. M. 1 No.l 8:55 , P.M.
J2T"Eastliound trains run on Central Time ,
and westbound trains on Mountain Time.
Freight trains do not carry passengers.
R. R. WOODS , Agent.
THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL ,
GLO. E. JOHNSTON , PIIOP.
McCOOK , : : XERKASKA.
This house has been completely renovated
and relurnished throughout , and is first-class
in every respect. Rates reasonable. 4-36
SPOTTP & STIMSON ,
FASHIONABLE
BARBERS & HAIR CUTTERS.
Opposite Chicago Lumber Yard ,
MAIN STREET , - McCOOK. XEBKASKA.
EGBERT DllYSDALE ,
MERCHANT TAILOR ,
MAIN STREET ,
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McCOOK. . . . . NEBRASKA.
W. M. SANDERSON ,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER ,
McCooic , - NEBRASKA.
work guaranteed. Give me a call.
CITY - BAKERY.
AVT5 KEEP ON HAND
BREAD , PIES & CAKES ,
niJAIIAM BREAD.
Cakes Made on Order.
LAUNCH ROOM
n connectionwliere you can get cotree. sand
wiches , pies , etc. , at all hours.
CATTLE !
kin Does Not Affect It.
FOR SALE BY
REES & HOCK NELL
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SOLE AGKXTS.
10 centspostajre , and we
TScnd mail you HIKE a royal.val-
uable , siimple box of jjoods
that will put j-oit in the way of
nking more money at. onco , than
PC in America. Both sexes of all ayes can
eat home and work in spare time , or all the
lie. Capital notrciiuired. We will start you.
[ Jmense pay snrc forthoMjvho start atoiice.
4-2. > l yr. STINSOX & Co. , Portland , Maino. U
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j DID you ever stop and contemplate
upon what a chivalrousgenerous-heart
ed , manly animal man is :
about the
In-all-newspaper reports
terrible tragedy in Chicago , in which
Charles A. Cowles killed his mistress
and then shot himself , the woman is
[ constantly referred to as "disreputablp"
and the mnn as "unfortunate. " In the
, name of decency how many "disreputa-
1 ble" women would there be were it not
for just such "unfortunate" young
men ? To borrow the metaphor of Col.
Tom Ochiltree , "Hell is paved with
such "unfortunates. ' ' Ex.
IT has been the invariable result in
every case on record in the history of
temperance agitation that at the end of
every specific contest of dealers in liq
uors against the law was that the grip
of the law was tightened upon them. It
is not perhaps too much to say that the
world is moving , though perhaps spas
modically , on towards the total cessa
tion of the manufacture and use of al
cohol as a beverage. It will be a long
time before the whole world gets there.
But there will be a good many spots of
that sort very soon. The more noise
the dealers in liquor make about their
rights and all thatthe , quicker the abol
ition of their calling will come. The
people of Nebraska and of this city be
lieve in the Slocuui law and desire the
strict enforcement of it. A conviction
of violating its provisions should be fol
lowed by a prompt submission to the
penalties imposed. To burden the
courts of this state with appeals from
such convictions and add to the trouble
and expense of sustaining them will be
resented by the enactment of laws still
more severe. This merely as a hint for
the preservation of the general peace.
Topics.
PROFESSOR JOHN BACH McM ASTER
has printed a concise and forcible paper
on the necessity of a national bankrupt
law. He points out the evil effects of
the present diversity of state bankrupt
laws and shows how the } ' put a premium
upon fraudulent debtorship and urges a
greater degree of public interest in the
passage of the national bankruptcy bill
upon which the judiciary committee of
Congress has-been engaged. The con
stitutional right of Congress to regulate
the subject of bankruptcy is assured ,
not only by the general control over tiie
subject of inter-state commerce , but by
a distinctly conferred authority to es
tablish "uniform laws on the subject of
bankruptcies. " It is. therefore , not a
case that calls for the assertion of ad
vanced states' rights doctrines , and the
real usefulness of the theory of exclu
sive state control over such subjects as
a state can effectively regulate will be
impaired by identifying it with a weak
case. The bankruptcy bill is one which
should be passed in some reasonably
good shape as soon as possible. Its pos
sible defects can be corrected when
demonstrated by experience.
LINCOLN AND GRANT.
In General Grant's descriptive account of
"Preparing for the Wilderness Campaign , "
in the February Century , occurs this account
of his first interview with Lincoln , which is
followed by a facsimile letter from the Pres
ident , written within a short time afterward ,
and of great interest as showing his confi
dence in the General in Chief : "In my first
interview with Mr. Lincoln alone he stated
to me that he had never professed to be a
military man or to know how campaigns
should bo conducted , and never wanted to
interfere in them ; but that procrastination
iii the part of commanders and tho pressure
from the people at the1 North and Congress
which was always with him , foiced him into
issuing his Mrie.s of "Military Orders"one ,
two , three , etc. lie did not know but they
were all wrong , and did know that MHIIU of
them were. All he wanted , or ever' had
wanted , was some one who would take the
responsibility and act. and call on him for
ill the assistance needed , pledging himself
: o use all the power of the Government in
cndcring such assistance. Assuring him
hat 1 would do the hot I could with the
iK-ans at hand , and avoid as far as possible
innoying him and the War Department , our
irst interview ended. "The Secretary of
iVar I had met once before only , but felt that
. ' knew him better. While commanding in
, Vc.st Tennessee we hail occasionally held
onversations over the wires at night , when
hey were not being otherwise used. lie and
icneral Hallcck both cautioned me against
; iving the President my plans of campaign ,
aying that he was so kind-hearted , so averse
ii ii refusing anything asked of him , that
onie friend would be sure to get from him
11 that he knew. I should have.said that in
ur interview the President told me that he
id not want to know what 1 proposed to do.
iut he submitted a plan of campaign of his
wn which he wanted me to hear and then
0 as I pleased about it. lie brought out a
lap of Virginia on which he had evidently
larked every position occupied by the Fed-
ral and Confederate armies up to that time ,
[ e pointed out on the map two streams
Inch empty into the Potomac , and suggest-
1 that the army might be moved on boats
id landed between the moutlis of these
reams. We would then have the Potomac
i bring our supplies , and the tributaries
rotect our flanks while we moved out. I
stoned respectfully , but did not suggest
lat the . ame streams would protect Lee's
inks while he was shutting us up. I did Is
> t communicate my plans to the President ,
ir did I to the Secretary of War , or to
uncral Ilalleck. "
PEERLESS PREMIUNS.
The superb and costly premiums which th
Bee offers to the patrons of its weekly thi
year-is unrivalled. The aggregate value o
premiums is $43,127.00. They comprise t\y
eighty acre farms in Iowa and Kansas , and
one forty acre farm in Nebraska ; farming ma
chinery and implements , among which are one
.7.1. Case thresher with 12-horse power , com
plete ; one new McCortnick steel harvesto
and binder ; onesixhole geared mountaii
shelter and horse power ; and more than GC
farm mills.corn-shellors and plows , varying ii
value from $8.00 to $175 each. There ar mu
sical instruments , including one Emerson up
right grand piano , worth JSOO.OO , live stock
household goods , silverware , cutlery , guns
knives , books , etc.
The award of premiums will be made Satur
day , March 13th. ISSti , by a committee selected
by the subscribers , who.may be present at th
distribution.
There will positively be no postponement
A premium worth at retail , at least one dol
lar , is guaranteed to every subscriber who re
mits two dollars before the 13th of March.
This is neither a new nor experimenta
scheme , but will bo our sixth successive an
mini premium distribution , the first bavin ,
taken place in the"winter of 1870-1880.
'While it may seem incredible that we cai
afford to furnish a metropolitan weekly fo
two dollars a year , give to every subscriber a
premium worth at least one dollar , and to in
elude among these premiums several hundrcc
articles valued at from live dollars to one
thousand dollars each , we are in condition to
honestly carry out every promise or obliga
tion which we assume and still derive fair re
turns trom the paper. Nearly all the lar
premiums were secured in exchange for ad
vertising. The most costly articles we have
traded lor so far as to involve only a compar
atively small outlay in c.ish. For instance
our lands were bought of the J. I. Case Thresh
ing Machine Company and they take out il,00 (
of the purchase price in adverlis'ing. The
same is true of the Case threshing machine
for which we pay less than one-fourth of the
retail priceincash and balance in advcrtisin
Many other machines we have on this list are
purchased without paying out any money
The minor premiums , such as books , albums
cutlery , plated spoons , etc. , are bought in verj
large quantities at wholesale prices and will
liberal discounts. The margin between what
we pay out for premiums , postage and inci
dental expenses is large enough to leave us a
fair subscription price for tha paper. Our
list contains the names of thousands of sub
scribers who have patronized us for man }
years. They attest that we have kept faith
with our patrons and enjoy their full conti-
deuce. We could not afford to * do otherwise ,
The lice is now in its fifteenth year , and its
founder and editor during all these years is
also the principal proprietor. He has a repu
tation at stake , and could not be a party to a
disreputable or fraudulent scheme without
being ruined , and destroying his paper which
now occupies the front rank in western
journalism.
The subscription price of the 'Weekly lice
with premium is two dollars peraniium.
Direct your remittance by money order 01
registered letter to "The Uee Publishing- . , "
Omaha , Nebraska , who will forward a num
bered premium receipt which will be register
ed in our premium book. Each subscriber
should also give explicit directions as to post-
ol'icc address.
Some one has figured out that life is like
harness because it contains ' "truces" cure ,
' 'lines" of trouble , "bib. " of good fortune ,
"bieecheh" of good manners and "bridled' '
tongues , and e\ery one ha * a "tug' ' to pull
through a severe cold unices they take Chum-
berluin's Cough Ki'niedy. Best buy a bottle
before you get strapped. Sold by M. A. Spald-
ing and Willey & Walker.
The finest job in the delivery wagon
line that has been turned out of a Lin
coln shop for many months was a bak
ery wagon manufactured by Camp Bros ,
for A. Probst & Bro. of McCook and
shipped last Thursday. The job was
made more attractive by four beautiful
landscape paintings from the brush of
James Camp , which decorated the cur
tains. The outfit was built at a cost of
§ 225. Lincoln Journal.
SIXTEENTH YEAR.
BRIGHTEST A D BEST.
Our Htii prt'iniiiiii list.comjirisin'r over $3--
)00 ) v/ortli of j-e'-cnts , i < now ready. Every
uh crihert < itlu > Weekly Tiine < ? at ScJ.OOa yeai- .
ivlicn onler is received liotoie April : W ) . Irfti.
ivill receive a prciniinn worth , at retail , from
Si.OO to $1,1X10. Full pai-ticulars and si > eeiinen
: opies freo to any ndihcss.
PRICES FOR SUBSCRIPTION :
7eehl7 , riti prcsiua. per ycsr 3 2.00
Feeily , Titicct trsniua. p = r rear 1.03
taiayTiscsppvcar. . . 2.00
) : i'.7Ti = cpc:7Cir 10.00
Address al ! orders to
THE TIMES. Kansas City. Mo.
CS Spccial terms to Agents.
ANY ONE
n need of a jrood liniment , please call at our
tore and jretabottleof IJKGfi'sTitoPic.u.Oir- ,
me of tiie moi-t perfect medicines ever pro-
iuced. and warranted to cure scalds , burns ,
iruises , etc. , and relieve pain of all kinds. For
ale byM. A. Spaldinir and S. L. Green.
JOHN F. BLACK.
Breeder of IMI > KOVED S
Delano , Meri
no and South
down. Person
al inspection
and corres
pondence so
licited.
Address him
atKed Willow
Nebraska.
BEGGS' CHERRY COTIGH SYRUP
i a perfect succ-ss , " is what we hear on all
des by those who have used it and lind it a
'rtain euro for coughs , colds and all bronchial
tiubles. For sale by M. A. Spalding and S. L.
rcen.
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trid 5 .A. SPALDiNG , PROPRIETOR. ! ? ,
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SEWING MACHINES.
J. A. TAYLOR , Druggist.
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Sash , Doors , Biinds , Lime , Cement ,
FT C
-YARDS AT- >
Bertrand , Elwooa , Oxford , Edison. Arapahoe.Cambridge , Indianola , IYlcCookCubert- !
son , Stralton. Trenton and Benkelman in Neb. Yuma and Akron in Colo.
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CHEAPEST AND BEST
UNEQUALLED FOR
j Powei3 , Simplicity , Durability.
Estimates made of Mill and Pump complete upon application. < M
Every Mill Warranted. Send for Catalogue.
THE WOODMANSE
This minis a " .solid wheel" and the liest self-regulator made. The
I Woodman * * * : No. C. Pump is tinlnbt slusle : ictIng force pump In the
'market.VIll ' work In v.-i-lK from 10 to lU fi-et In depth , and lias liaclc
attachment ! ) to fbrcc water into clvvatc'd tankK. Can lie used by hand
or windmill. 1'artic * coiitcmplMiii ; ; ilie erection of a Windmill will
consult tlit-lr best Interests 1 > J calling st my Homeslcnd , \ Ymill's X. W.
i of McCook , or at 1 ! . Johnston's- miles S. K. . nid at Hewitt Market
" Uaiden , b. E. of Met ooK. and r\ammu the working of Ihe AVoodmanse.
W. M. 1R-WIN , Agent ,
i. Woodmanse "Windmill Co. , Freeport , 111.
C. A. NETTLETON , Prop.
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COKN SHELLED AND GKOO'l ) , BOLTED , ETC.
2 BLOCKS EAST OF RUSSELL'S BARN ,
McGOOK - NEBRASKA.
STOCK DIRECTORY.
KlLl Cri'JCk BROTHER ? ?
( Successors to E. D. Wo'.ister. )
Horse * I or. Icltliipor loft > . ]
P. O. nddipts. TMi'lI < > ,
Hayes county. and lf tit-
rice. Xel ) . linnvp. Stink-
iitjr Water and Frosiph-
cn.ick' = . Chaj-f Co. ,
Uri'.iid a < en t on : < ! of
si'les of some , or any-
; \\licrcon the animal.
PAXTOXCATTLE co.
.1. U. .Miu-nvF : , General Manajrcr.
I'ostolllce addles ? . 5It-
Cook , N'eli. Kancii : At
rintr Canyon on the1
i Frenchman Hixer. Thaye i
county. Nebraska. I
S Stock brandcdasnbovc : j
also 717 on left side ; 7 i
. .on the right hip and L < 'n ,
.
- -ii'3 S - " ' * S'i r
ic ri ht i-lrouldcr ; L on left shoulder ami A j
i lett jauHalf under-crop lett ear. ami i
luarc-crop rijrht ear.
SPRIXtTcREBK CATJ'LJO CO. I
J. D. AViM oiix , Vice President and Siipt. ]
P. O. address. Indiano-
ila , Xcbraska. !
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Kanye1 : licpublican
Valleyast of Ur >
Ci-eek , and near head of
Spring Creel ; , in rhase
county , Nebraska.
EATOX BROS. & CO.
P. O. address. McOook.
> "clrasksi. Itnnce.-uiitli !
' > : McCoo'- . |
, Cattle bniinlod on left i
| hjp. Also , 10,5 "
, , y\
11 brands on left hip.
Horses bniudetl the !
r same on left shoulder.
STOKES & TROTH.
P.O. addro'-s.Carried ,
Hayes county. Is fb.
Kan-jo : Ceil Willow
creek , above Carrico
Stock hmnildl as
nlioxilso run tin *
I1KXRV T. CHUPiCH.
s F r
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4bnsrfSZ/xa Ks s ; . * - . : Ked"willow
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Sgjerpek. in S. W. corner of
rrontir county. .
Cuttle branded 0 L 0
Jon rijrht side. Also , an
\over crop on riprht ear
and tiid'-r
crop on left.
Horses branded g on ri ht shoulder.
JOSIPFI ALLBX.
J'o-'tonifp Hdd't'ss. < "s-
lioin.Xeln-is'iii.
Raiu-li on Ked Willo-.r
oreck. M mile ; : . o\c (3s-
torn po-stoilice.
t'arilelsiiinded on riiit
aide : inr ] hip a * aliovo.
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OEOIIGE .J. FRKDERICK.
Postoifit-e address , M
COOK. Xeliniskji.
i Kancb : Pour miles
soHt ; vi-jt of McCook ,
on the Driftwood.
Stock IiminU-d AJ on
the left hip.
"IWANT A GOOD COITGHSYHTIP"
Is si v.-ry rrPinK-nr r < > < ; iiust in our Tnideaiul wi-
invariably fivetm !
PIT OII inukin- lUvt ;
t'HKKKV rOlXJHFYKI'l. . . , , . know ittl > lv till-
best and most reliable on tho mVrket
snip by M. A. spaldliw and S. L. Gn u 9 r