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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1891)
WALLPAPER PAPER ! Large Assortment ! Latest Designs ! Prices Way .Down ! Paints , Oils , Artists' Goods. A , McMILLEN , DRUGGIST. THE TRIBUNE leads for McCook as McCook leads for the Valley. Clean up ! CITY DRUG STORE. Let us reason together. Plant one hundred trees. Family Groceries at Noble's. Join hands with the irrigationists. "Now is the time" to plant trees. Staple and Fancy Groceries at Noble's. Zealously labor for the S. 8. Ditch. Assessor Ryan now holds the boards. Wall Paper latest designs at Mc- Millen's. Try Knipple for fruits of all kinds. Union block. Suppose we pull in a canning factory as a trophy for 1891. Try Knipple for staple and fancy I ) i groceries. Union block. Car of flour and feed just received at A. T. Campbell & Co.'s. The Windsor Tie the latest out at the Eagle Clothing Store. Remember Arbor day , next Wednes day , and keep it not treeless. Commissioner * meet in adjourned session next Friday , April 24th. S-i patent flour at POTTER & EASTERDAY. McCook should throw off the lethargy of winter and help the south side ditch. If you want a pair of nice slippers , see the Old Reliable , J. F. GANSCHOW. The Eagle Clothing Store has the only Genuine Dog Glove found in McCook. 1 The Eagle Clothing Store is already exhibiting a splendid line of spring clothing. Kapke , The Tailor , guarantees you the lowest prices and the most stylish and elegant clothing. Crete flour has no superior and but few equals. Knipple has just received an entire car load of it The complaint of the fault-finder .that this season is to be a repetition of last , has been laid in the dust. Hanging and Stand Lamps at popu lar prices at CHENERY'S CITY DRUG STORE. At Joe Reizenstein's parlor you can at all times secure the best brands of cigars and tobaccosimported ordomcstic You may expect the Republican Val ley to redeem itself , this year , with the largest crop ever raised within its limits. IN QUEENSWARE Noble carries the largest assortment and the richest designs of the season. His prices are reasonable. A strong , vigorous pull from all Lands will do much towards forwarding McCook's interests. We must have such action. A few days of warm weather now and the farmers' joy will be complete there will be grass. It is the need of the hour. Merchants report last Saturday as being the most encouraging and satis factory business day they have had in many moons. Groceries , fruits , confectioneries and the like must be fresh and clean to be desirable. Knipple makes a specialty of these points. Monday's rain was a soaker and alto gether lovely. If the weather clerk keeps up his lick Western Nebraska will smile once more. ' FOR RENT. Are You In It ? N That is to say : Do you want to buy , rent or trade for a barn. If so call on or'address E. LINDNER , McCook. L. W. Mc ONNELL & CO. have jist received a large invoice , of If all Paper , embracing Emboss ed and Plain Gilts and Bronzes , Hand.Mades , GlimmersWhites and Browns , at prices to smit-the takes. - ' Did Monday's rain find the holes it your roof ? Try Knipple for fruits of all kinds Union block. An occasional prairie fire illumines the nightly horizon. The "get there" spirit of McCook is on deck as of yore. Gold dollars for ninety cents at the Eagle Clothing Store. The road to opulence lies kpee-deep through printer's ink. Try Knipple for staple and fancy groceries. Union block. Tramps are making their spring ap pearance in increasing numbers. Knipple has just received H car loac of the celebrated Crete Mills flour. Farmers come und buy a pair of $1.00 Plow Shoes. J. F. GANSCHOW. McCook should never relax in any effort to secure honorable promotion. Pure fresh buckwheat at POTTER & JBASTERDAY'S. A young grandson of John McCorkle was buried in the cemetery , Wednesday. In Wall Paper you will find newest styles and lowest prices at McMillen's There has been quite an exodus of a temporary nature Den ver-wardthis , week. In Wall Paper you will find newest styles and lowest prices at McMillan's. White and Figured Windsor Ties all the rage at the Eagle Clothing Store. JS-LAD1ES ! If you want a nice , dress-up shoe see GANSCHOW , The Old Reliable. All the popular brands of cigars at Reizenstein's parlor , next door to the post office. There are nearly 4,000 U. S. land patents uncalled for in the McCook land office. Noble carries a large and complete stock of the best brands of canned joods of all kinds. Come and buy a pair of $2.50 kid shoes. They do please. J. F. GAN SCHOW sell. " them. The premonitory symptoms of a good crop season are very general but not in the least alarming. SSP The City Drug Store can inter est you in anything usually kept by a irst-class drug store. See Knipple in his new quarters in ; he Union block. Everything nice in Fruits , groceries , etc. Noble , the leading grocer , makes a specialty of fresh , clean family grocer ies. He will treat you right. Do you want the latest and best and cheapest ? Well , they keep a large variety at the Eagle Clothing Store. Noble is the only exclusive grocer in ; he city. His stock is the largest and lis prices correspond with the times. The remains of Frank Stocklasa , Sr. , aged 63 years , were interred in Longview - view cemetery , Thursday of last week. Money is scarce and times are hard , is the reason I buy my shoes at GANSCHOW'S. With the advent of spring , McCook society seems to be throwing off the ethargy which has clung so tenaciously : o it all winter. The Eagle Clothing Store is in the clothing business. They will dress you up handsomely and stylishly , and do it at a very reasonable figure. It is a little unseasonable , but the upoliticianer" is already in the traces and training for the fall races. Track kite shaped with a string to it. The Cash Bargain House makes an announcement , this week , through the columns ot THE TRIBUNE , which will enterestthe purchasing public. Readit. These are times which require all men to stand together shoulder to shoulder as brothers and work manful- y and intelligently for the common jood. The average citizen may be found Wanting trees , cleaning up the lawn , incovering the strawberry bed , laying sidewalk , and otherwise improving this ine and welcome weather. There's too much of a spirit of "self" among our citizens and' business men generally for this to become a great city. A union of spirit and sentiment among them is what is needed most to mild up and boom the town along. The 5 per cent , penalty for adver- ising and selling lands for delinquent taxes has been abolished by a bill with an emergency clause.'Hereafter 20 per cent , per annum to the purchaser of the tax title and the cost of advertising will be the penalty.1 * The blind may see , The mute may talk , , The deaf may hear The maimed may walk , And Johnnie may have the possess- on of his gun ; but the , time will never come when you can bay first-class cloth- ng at the low prices obtainable at the DAOLS CLOTHING STORE. Crete flour , the beat in the market , * * * * * ' * * " at Koippfo * . A good farm , no incumbrance , to sel or exchange for McCook real estate. A. E. HILL , Falls City , Neb. We understand that McCook wil have but four saloons , coming year W. M. Lewis being the one announces to retire. Wednesday morning , V. Franklin auc Jack Bullard set out for Chicago with a shipment of cattle , five car loads They are the cattle which Jas. Wriphi has been feeding. Monday morning , Rev. Father Hickey of St. Patrick's church of our city unit ed in marriage Mr. Morris Cliggett ol Pittsburg , Kansas , and Miss Cecelia Grier of Trenton , Nebraska. McCook people are not unmindfu of that feeling of reciprocity which forms a friendly link between them anc the world's producers. On with the South Side Irrigation Ditch ! Note the fact that THE TRIBUNE has for its frontispiece McCook's chiefest interest its railroad department. In the language of the bard don't let a cathedral fall"on you before you " .grab a root. " We are pained to learn of the death , yesterday , of one of Clerk District Court Phillips' children at Indianola. The funeral took place , this morning. THE TRIBUNE tenders its heartfelt condo lence. Ten or fifteen thousand acres of land under proper cultivation with irri gation will mean mere to McCook than the realization of all the willow-o-the- wisps we have blindly followed for the past nine years. The publisher hereof holds in con tempt anything like cheap buncombe , and despises that miserable creature , the circulation liar , but when it is a question of the largest and best circula tion in McCook , THE TRIBUNE wants it to be distinctly and unmistakably understood that "we are in it for keeps. " The thousands of dollars which will be spent in labor on the G. H. Meeker Irrigation Ditch will come to this sec tion at an opportune time , and should stimulate the laborer , as well as the farmer and business man , to do his level 3est for the proposed ditch. There should not be a dissenting voice in voting ing bonds to assist the enterprise. The progressive element of McCook is strongly in the ascendency. At tempted obstruction only delays while not preventing the carrying out of the many projects of development. Get together on a common .platform , drop personal schemes , go in for the public good , and push the city right up among the state's leading cities. That's the main question. In voting bonds , as in other business matters , THE TRIBUNE holds it to be a good rule first to determine whether the object to be assisted is practical and profitable. If it will pay it is ) usiness-hke and eminently sensible to encourage the enterprise. Irrigation pays and is profitable. Of proof of this statement the world is full of the most conclusive sort. McCook , as well as the farmers whose ands are covered by the ditch , will in due season reap a golden harvest from the proposed enterprise , and all who want to establish a prosperous com munity almost at nur door , and who lave the upbuilding of the country and city truly at heart , should lend a help- ng hand and voice in pushing this ditch to final and complete success. THE TRIBUNE has but one policy t is for the whole city. It is a friend of every business interesfcof every bank- ng interest , of every real estate inter est , for the lender and the borrower , he employer and the employee , the 'armer and the merchant for every- hing and everybody that will promote larmony , solidity , prosperity , and the advancement of the city as the metro- lolis and commercial center of all western Nebraska. Every citizen of VlcCook is invited to stand on this plat- brm. Says a prominent citizen of McCook , and a man of means , "THE TRIBUNE is on the right track in talking up the South Side Irrigation Ditch project. It is he biggest thing our people can take i old of and is worth most to the city. " Citizen No. 2 chimes in , "and there will be no difficulty in floating the jonds for it , because .of its value for rrigation as well as increase in valua- ion.of land. " These expressions rep resent a general sentiment as far as he project is understood. The editor's vocabulary is his stock in trade , the constant expansion of his knowledge and application of worda should be his aim. It requires dili gent study and close application to al ways have at command the felicitous word that will give force , beauty and symmetry to a phrase or sentence. The scholar will use a thousand different words in writing a single article , while the less accomplished contributor treat ing of the same subject , at the same length , will have at his command no more than 200. Better be called ped ant und a phrasemonger than a driveler , who , while feeling the pressure of in spiration , is unable to unravel , in forci ble expression , the profound thoughts that are crowding his mind. It is not so much what you say as how you say it. Upon entering the field of journal ism you do so knowing there is no vir gin thought untouched , no field to work but where some one has been before , and as you cannot evolve that which is new , you can word , paint and freshen with artistic touch old things and make them new , by having at your command an endless vocabulary free from re petition , blending symmetry , terseness and versatility , until the superficial reader forgets the lofty sentiment , and learns to repeat like a parrot for the beauty of sound , while the more pro found thinker will treasure it up as an epigram worthy to be preserved. At a meeting of the county commis sioners , Monday , the boundary line of Willow Grove precinct was moved 2 miles farther south , the land added being taken out of Valley Grange pre cinct. This places within Willow Grove precinct about 6,000 acres of land which will be more or less under the C. H. Meeker Irrigating Ditch. Now then let us keep this ball n-rolling. This ditch should be ready to furnish water for irrigation purposes this season. By proper and reasonable encouragement it can be secured. Last year we expend ed nearly $2,000 to secure a ditch and then allowed a neighboring town to walk off with the tempting plum. We now have another golden opportunity , which MUST NOT BE MISSED. McCook should give this enterprise undivided and hearty support. THE TRIBUNE hopes that no man , however large or small his holdings or influence , will be Pound to place any obstacle in the way of voting bonds to aid this splendid and promising project. McCook must lead in this important matter. Some time ago THE TRIBUNE sug gested the idea of organizing a real es tate exchange. The suggestion was not made because all other cities in the state of any importance are so organiz ed , but because it would seem to be an excellent move. McCook must neces sarily advertise if it builds up and de- velopes , and an exchange operated dis cretely and thoroughly would be the jest known agency. What do our real estate men say to the project ? There is no country or locality on God's green earth that is more desirable than .this very city and this very country , and if the merits can be properly placed be- ? ore the enquiring world the effects must be grand. Who will take the ini- ) iative and set the project on its feet. McCook must advertise and now is the accepted time and the day of our salva tion. THE TRIBUNE feels that all our ef- orts should now be directed upon the rrigation ditch proposed. Let us make one grand , harmonious , concen trated and persistent effort to secure something which will be of lasting ben efit to all ; which will make it possible or the farmer to make more than an existence ; which will build up a pros- icrous colony of tillers of the soil in our very midst. A prosperous farming community means a growing city. IF there is any one duty that McCook has over looked ibis the encouragement of agriculture and the aiding in the devel opment of the surrounding country. Phis is her opportunity to give a master stroke in this needed direction. The death of their son , Byron , Tues- lay , was a sad blow to Mr. and Mrs. J. 3yron Jennings , and 'all loving hearts n MoCook are instinctively touched with sympathy for them in their ser row. A few days ago their little son was suddenly stricken down on the street with what developed into a malignant type of scarlet fever , and despite all efforts made for his recovery , death en sued on Tuesday morning. The burial took place on the afternoon of Wednes- tay , being necessarily more or less pri vate by reason of the nature of the malady. Noble , The Grocer. . SCHOOL ITEMS. For the benefit of those who arc with out a recent copy of the School Laws I would state that the annual meeting is to be held the last Monday in June , this year June 29th , and the census is to be taken within ten days before that time. Blanks will be sent out to di rectors the first of May. We have an excellent Text-book Law which will take effect in June. It is made compulsory upon each district board of country or city to contract with a publisher for such books as are needed at pric.es not to exceed those granted to any other district , county , or state in the United States. Books are to be furnished free to the pupils who are to be held responsible for the proper care of said books. The State Superintendent must furnish a form of contract for each district. Every pub lisher must file a bond with the State Superintendent before any contract will be legal. April 22nd brings us to Arbor Day. Let us workfully and joyfully celebrate it. It is a festival only nineteen years old , yet in the time some 700,000 acres of trees , in Nebraska , have been planted by human hands. Ex-Governor Mor ton was the originator of this beautiful anniversary that "faces the future. " This good custom has spread rapidly to other stateathirty-sevcn having adopted it. Through the literary exercises con nected with it , the festival has become one ot great educational value. It not only gives to the young a greater fam iliarity with the characteristics and uses of trees , but also a better knowledge of the finest thoughts of the finest thinkers : "If the trees go , men must decay. " "Whosoever works for the forests , works for the happiness and perman ence of our civilization. " "One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man , Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can. " ELIZA G. NETTLETON. A Charming Reception Party. That the guests ( for an evening ) of Miss Mary Myers , one of McCook's jolliest girls and an everpopularhostess , will be highly entertained is but the necessary sequence of an invitation. Such , indeed , was happily verified again at the card party and social reception given to her sister , Miss Ada , of Beatrice , who has been her guest for the past two weeks , at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. B. B. Davis , Tuesday evening. Those who helped record the evening's joyousness and jollity on one of the brightest pages of McCook's social his tory ( besides the Misses Myers ) were : Miss Josephine Bullard and Miss Sara Lowman ; Dr. C. H. Jones , Mr. U. J. Warren , Mr. J. T. Bullard , Jr. , and Mr. W. S. Kimmell. At an appropriate hour light refresh ments were served in a very tasty and unique style. Donations for Red Willow. NEBRASKA CITY , NEB. , April 12. [ Special to the Bee. ] General Van Wyck and wife , last night , entertained a large number of neighbors and friends at their country home in Wyoming pre cinct. J. F. Black of Red Willow , who was present and who is raising money and seed for the Red Willow sufferers , was given $75 , or its equivalent. Mr. Van Wyck's precinct is the most liberal one in the county when it comes to charitable donations. ANNOUNCEMENTS. CONGREGATIONAL Rev. H. S. Mac- Ajeal of Cambridge will occupy the pulpit both morning and evening. * * METHODIST Rev. P. S. Mather will jonduct services , morning and evening , is usual. April Weather Forecasts. 14 to 20 Fair , then showers , a slight snow , and heavy rains. 21 to 25 Very showery , followed with heavy rains. 26 to 30 Milder weather , warm and pleasant rains. Flowers I Flowers 11 I have just received a large invoice of house and bedding plants. Call and see them at the store. MRS. J. L. GRAY , McCook. West Dennison street. Farmers , Don't Raise Smutty Wheat , When for about one cent per bushel you can treat , your seed wheat with Blue Vitriol. Chenery , at the City Drug Store sells it at bed rock prices. FOR RENT. FOR RENT : Building now occupied by M. E. Knipple , after April 1st. In- buire of H."W. Cole. 8 to 18 Per Cent. Cheaper Than Any. This is no ( Romance of Figures. Our Ladies' $4.00 hand turned shoe. $3.50 hand turned shoe , $2.50 Fine Kid Shoe , $2.00 Fine Kid Shoe , Are World Beaters ! ( Prices Unequaledfor the Newest , Most Fash * ionable & ( Best. MeCOOK'S FINANCES. No City in Nebraska Can Show a More Healthly Condition. A mistaken view of McCook's finan cial condition is held by some. And in order to correct this wrong impression we take satisfaction in presenting the figures. They are given by City Treas urer Ballew and are officially correct : BALANCE IX CITY General Fund , S 8.16 Occupation Fund , 19.01 Water Fund , 408.63 Firemen's Fund 374.58 TOTAL BALANCE , S810.93 BALANCE IN SCHOOL Salary and Contingent Fund , ( over drawn ) 3 18.48 McCracken Fund , 100.00 TOTAL BALANCE , S 81.52 There are outstanding and registered warrants against the city and school district about $1,500. And as against this there are some $4,000 due the city and school district from 1890 unpaid taxes. Furthermore the city will short ly receive $2,000 from saloon licenses , the school district a similar amount. While the June apportionment will soon swell the school fund about $500. These figures indicate conclusively that our financial affairs are in splendid shape. Gone io Her Reward. Wednesday of this week , Annie , daughter of C. P. Viland of Quick , passed out of this life Into a brighter land. Tbe deceased was twelve rears of age. Her death was caused by an old and complicated throat trouble. She died contented and happy in the triumphs of a living faith. As she expressed it , she was but"goinghome to receive her crown. " The remains were lovingly laid away in Mother Earth in Garden Prairie cemetery near Quick , on the 17th instant , Friday. In the sad loss of their dear one , Mr. Viland and family have the profound sympathy of a largo number of friends and neighbors , whose hearts go out to them in this their hour of sorrow. Peace be with them. JDNIDS. W. H. Launing and John M. Ragan of this city have issued circulars calling the demo crats to meet in this city May 1st to take some action to counteract the ill effect of the Boyd veto. J. S. LeHew of McCook , chair man of the state democratic committee , re fuses to sign his name to any call to that end. Mr. LeHew says that the democrats who are opposed to the veto have as yet given no proof why the bill should not have been vetoed. Hastings Nebraskan. Til tit medical writers claim that the suc cessful remedy for nasal catarrh most be nonIrritating - Irritating- , easy of application , and one that will reach all the remote sores and ulcerated surfaces. The history of the efforts to treat catarrh during the past obliges us to admit that only one remedy has met these condi tions and that is Ely's Cream Balm. This pleasant remedy has mastered catarrh as nothing else has ever done , and both physi cians and patients freely concede this fact. Ibe more dlatreulor symptoms yield to it