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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 ,
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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
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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.
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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.
