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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1890)
* > . VOLUME IX. MeCOOK , RED WILLOW COUNTY , NEBRASKA , FRIDAY EVENING , AUGUST 22 , 189O. NUMBER ! \3 \ MY MEN'S DRESS SHOES I have a nice line of $2.50 slices. I liave a fine $3.00 shoe. I have an elegant $5.0O shoe. JVti | ki is complete , from $1 to $3. for the season , I have an elegant line , and the largest selection ever brought to McCook. Prices from $1.5O to $5. QUALITY and PRICES The QUALITY of niy goods I keep up to high mark. My prices I keep down to the lowest mark. I deal with all alike : work for trade and appreciate it. SKEsr Mail orders have niy best and prompt attention. Gilt Edge Ladies' Shoe Dressing is the Best. Try it and you will want no other. I also have the oil dressing for Kanga- The Old Reliable Shoe Dealer. Illi COMMENCINGifs jtft , 1890 * We have decided to EEDTJCE OUR STOCK before invoicing , July 1st , 1890 , and we will offer our ENTIRE STOCK at a SAfRTFTfF FOR CASH1 vJli-V lvll IwJL wilUll . We must reduce our stock before July 1,1S9O Come and see the TOURS , TEE RUSTLER FOR TRADE , MAIN AVENUE , t MeCOOK , : : : : : : NEBRASKA. IOWA CROPS. We have crop reports from sixty- five counties in Iowa. It was published August 16th. Below are a few as re ported : AD AIR Prospects for corn has fallen ten per cent , in the past ten days ; wells are failing and pastures drying up. BENTON Corn is being injured by drouth and pastures are dried up ; cattle live on dry grass left over from June. CLINTON Corn , potatoes , millet and pastures are suffering from drouth ; very warm and dry winds injuring corn and pastures. BLACK HAWK Corn and pastures are badly in need of rain ; potatoes and other vegetables in the same condition. BOONE The clouds go around ; the crops are not doing well. CLARK Every thing growing is badly in need of moisture ; meadows and pas tures are brown and dry. DALLAS Corn undoubtedly injured" badly ; pastures dry. DAVIS Corn prospects are worse and worse ; all kinds of vegetation suf fering. DES MOINES Corn is suffering bad ly ; water is getting very low. DUBUQUE Corn is suffering ; potato crop will be a failure ; vegetables poor. FREMONT Corn needs rain badly in order to fill. FAYETTE Pastures and growing crops are suffering from heat and dry weather. GREENE Corn is not doing well and crops are drying up ; also milch cows. HARRISON Very hot and dry ; short- ning corn and potato crops very much ; cooking apples onthe trees in some ilaces and drying up blackberries. IOWA If rain does not come soon potatoes will be a failure. In pastures .here . are fissures along cattle tracks an nch wide caused by the dry weather. JASPER Corn is suffering greatly ; mstures bare ; potatoes very scarce. JONES Lack of rain is affectingpas- ure , corn and potatoes. MUSCATINE There will not be over lalf a corn crop if rain does not come eon ; watermelons are dying in the hill. O'BRIEN Corn is being injured very much ; pastures are getting very short. PALO ALTO Corn and pastures suf fering for want of rain. POLK Corn is rollingin the daytime. It rain comes soon may have half a ciop. POWESHIEK Corn is undoubtedly suffering by dry and hot weather ; grass is drying up. Sioux Not much prospects of a corn crop if drought continues. UViUAi II IICUV JIU1U3 D1A. LU LCI1 bushels per acre. * VANBUREN Corn "suffering and bad ly damaged ; pasture dry and stock suf fering. WAPELLO Corn will not make half a crop if it does notrain soon ; potatoes , gardens and pastures dried up. WARREN Hogs and cattle are being rushed on the market on account of the poor prospect for corn. From the above it will be seen the drought is general. Better stay by Red Willow county. ' WM. COLEMAN. Pay for Enumerators. The finance division of the census of fice is busily at work examining the ac counts of the enumerators which have been received and upon which their pay will be based. These examinations are progressing at the rate of eight hun dred a day , and already seventeen thousand accounts have been examined , but there are some forty-five thousand of them in all , so that it will require some weeks before the last voucher can be sent away. Mr. Hunt the chief of the division , said this afternoon : "We have 700 men employed on this work in one capacity or another and are pushing it to completion as rapidly as possible , but the supervisors them selves are to blame , in part , for the delay , because of the careless manner in which they have sent in their ac counts. It is impossible to say at pres ent when the enumerators for Nebraska will be paid , but it is safe to say that we will get the last check out by the end of sixty-days. I think the only enumerators who have been paid up to the present time are those employed in New York city. " Demorest Silver Medal Contest. Look out for the aontest at the Val ley Grange school house , Friday even ing , August 29 , at 8:30 , P. 3J. The contestants are Becky Ackenbury , May Whittaker , Florence Johnson , Bertha Johnson , John "Williams , Bernice Jacobs , Roy Jacobs , Floyd Robinson. At the last contest Miss Bertha Gray won the silver medal and Miss Alice Hartley won the silver dollar. W. 0. NORVAL , Chairman. The demand for money is increasing. At the Wednesday evening meeting of the building association about fifteen hundred dollars of their surplus funds were sold at 21 and 25 per cent , pre mium. The association is doing a splendid work in assisting in the build ing of homes in MoCook. LISTEN TO THE FARMERS. Congressmen Would Better Heed the Voice of Nebraska's Alliance. Chicago Tribune : The farmers' alliance of Phelps county , Nebras ka , held a convention two weeks ago , in which it adopted resolu tions setting forth that "they were of all men the most oppressed in their struggle for the necessities of life" , and that it attributed this condition of things to the "unjust and unwarranted conduct of its public servants. " The following unwise , indefensible , un-American resolutions were also adopted : RESOLVED , That we do hereby pledge ourselves to withhold our support and patronage from any newspaper man , firm or company who will print , publish , or allow to be printed or published in his or their paper any disparaging word or sentence against any of the candi dates for olliee ; and RESOLVED , That we consider as ene mies to our cause any who will aid in keeping such an odious paper in exist ence by patronizing the same by way of advertising or otherwise ; and be it further RESOLVED , That we withhold any support and patronage from any or all merchants , business men or firms who may offend against the last preceding resolution. This sort of talk will win no friends and discourage no opposi tion. The candidates of the al liance are no more exempt from criticism than those of any other organization. They will get their full share of it , in spite of this threatened boycott. Persons who protest against outrages and begin by invading the rights of others have shown their unfitness * to govern. So much for that side of the case. Now to look at it from another. Do the senators and congressmen from Nebraska think that these men , most of them re publicans , who are expressing themselves in this violent way , can be won over to the support of the republican candidates this fall by the passage of such a measure as the McKinley bill ? Will that reconcile men who are now the most oppressed in the struggle for the necessaries of life ? Will a bill which does not open .a market for a single bushel of their wheat or a barrel of their pork make them disband their alliances ? Will the increased cost of the necessaries of life make them think any more kindly of the conduct of their public servants at Washing ton ? They are at this moment out of the republican fold. Is Mc- Kiuley or Blaine the shepherd who is the likeliest to get them back ? The wild schemes listened to by so many western farmers who are generally reasonable men , and the unwise threats they make , prove at least that they are dissatisfied pro foundly with the present state of things , and that they are determin er ! there shall be n , chancre. Thev ' * f are suffering and they clamor for relief. "Willnot they be exasperat ed rather than pacified by a change which shall rtyake things worse than they are "and force them to pay more for clothing , tinware , hardware , china , cutlery , etc. , without putting an additional cent in their pockets to meet these heavier expenses ? If alliance reso lutions are violent now , what will they be with the McKinley bill in working order ? These are points well deserving the thoughtful consideration of congressmen from Nebraska and other western states. It will not do to say that the present excite ment is a tempest in a teapot. It may turn out to be a cyclone in the Mississippi valley. UNDER the new pension law there have already been over a quarter of a million applications for relief. It is estimated that there are still living one million two hundred thousand persons who enlisted in the Union armies and saw some service. The average age of the living veterans is now about fifty- three years. At least four hundred thousand applications are expected to be filed tinder the new law. J. ALBERT WELLS , DRY GOOD PETS , Dress : : During JULY and AUGUST I will make SWEEPING REDUCTIONS in all depts. of New and Desirable Goods , which must be sold in order to make room for my FALL PURCHASES. DRESS GOODS. Bargains never before attempted will be given in all kinds of DRESS GOODS. MILLINERY. Positively the greatest sacrifice in prices on TRIMMED and UNTRIMMED HATS. t UIAPP ? OA0HABLE * VALUES WILL BE OFFERED IN White Goods , Embroideries and Flouncings. GREAT BARGAINS ! Ladies' and Misses' Underwear and Hosiery , . Mammoth Reductions I , FUGS AED SUBTAIBS.- Attention , Farmers. We are closing out our en tire stock of Farm Imple ments at cost. Right now is the time to secure rare bar gains. Call and be amazed , at our prices. They must be sold at once. HALL , GOCHRAN & GO.