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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1893)
Fife Frilmpt. By F. M. K1MMELL. OFFICIAL CITY & COUNTY PAPER. $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. ALL HOME PRINT. A BIG ENTERPRISE. incorporation of the Million Dollar Irrigation Company. Articles of incorporation of the Ne braska and Northwestern Irrigation Company have been filed with the county clerk. The purposes of the com pany are to acquire the right to use the waters of the rivers and stream of Ne braska, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Idaho and South Dakota for irrigation purposes, waterworks, etc., and to buy and sell the necessary real estate to carry on the business. A part of the company's plan also is to purchase the Culbertson Irrigation and Water Improvement Company, the South Fork Irrigation and Improvement Company, the Meeker Ditch Company, the Cam bridge and Arapahoe Irrigation Com pany, and the Farmer’s Irrigation Com pany and to consolidate them all into one concern. For this purpose the capital stock of the company is fixed at $1,500, 000, $500,000 of which is to be used in taking up the stock of the companies mentioned. The principal offices are to be located at Lincoln, and the com pany is to run 25 years, beginning Jan uary 4th, 1893. The affairs of the company are to be managed by a board of nine directors, from among whom the president, secre tary and treasurer are to be chosen yearly. The gentlemen interested in the incorporation are all well known and the following are the first board of directors; W. L. Matson, Leverett Brain ard, G. W. Holdrege, A. L. Emerson, A. Compbell, F. I. Foss, George Hock nell, R. O. Phillips, J. W. Deweese, C. H. Peck and W. S. Morlan.—Call. Council Cooings. The city council sat in regular session Wednesday evening, the mayor, clerk, and Councilmen McAdams, Menard, La'fourette and Spickelmier being pres ent. BILLS AS FOLLOWS WERE ALLOWED. A. J. Stroud, work on sprinkler. .$ 5.00 C. L. Miller, board of prisoners. 5.60 McCook Electric Light Co. 170-00 F. M. Kimmell, stationery. 5.00 J. H. Dwyer, salary for December. 50.00 James McAdams, raising fire bell, 25.15 Application and bond of P. O. Parsons to run a billiard hall was read and ap proved and petition granted. Reports of druggists, A. McMillen and L. W. McConnell & Co., read and ap proved. Adjourned. The Farmer’s Congress. We are pleased to observe that the in dications are encouraging for a fine meeting, next Wednesday, when the farmers of this land district have been called together in our city, to devise means and ways for making a proper showing of the products of S. W. Ne braska at the World’s Fair. Governor Furnas and Superintendent Hartley, of the Nebraska forestry exhibit, will both be present at the meeting, and their ad dresses alone will be well worth your presence. We urge upon all, and all are interested, the importance of being here .and taking active part in the sessions, which will be held both day and evening in the opera hall. The A. O. U. W. Ball. It not being generally known that there is such an organzation in McCook as an A. O. U. W. brass band and or chestra, we take this means to acquaint the public with the fact, and also to an nounce their intention of giving a ball in Menard’s opera house on the evening of January 26th, for the benefit of the band and orchestra. All are invited. A good time is guaranteed. Music by our own orchestra, Mr. Radtke, musical director. Tickets one dollar. For sale by mem bers of the band. 34-2ts. By Order of Committee. Brown-Campbell. On Thursday evening, January 12th, 1S93, at the residence of the bride’s par ents at Box Elder, H. H. Berry officiat ing, Mr. Alva L. Brown, of Osborn, Ne braska, and Miss Nellie A. Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Camp bell, were happily wedded. We herewith tender congratulations. May happiness and prosperity be their marriage portion. Ride 1—Shepherd. Tuesday afternoon, January 10th, 1893, at the residence of H. H. Berry, who performed the ceremony, Mr. William h. Rider and Miss Francenia Shepherd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Shepherd, of Frontier county. The Tribune adds its congratulations to those of many well wishing friends. The fight at the brewery south of In dianola, last week, Wednesday night, in which Ed Fitzgerald is said to have kicked and broken William Karp’s leg, Will result in a legal contest later on, as proceedings were instituted last Satur day by the arrest of Fitzgerald. Ritten hou?e & Boyle.'have been retained on the defense. I They have a bran new daughter out at C. H. Angel’s in Valley Grange precinct. Keep all your waste paper off the streets and from the rear of your busi ness places. There was a young man here from the east, Wednesday, looking for a location for a meat market. Balls are becoming thicker than hops, and the future promises well in that pop ular diversion. Raffling is a popular diversion: N. A. Crawford is chancing off that suit of fur niture, B. F. Troxel a silver watch, etc. The first annual ball of the A. O. U. W. cornet band will be held in the opera house on Friday evening, January 27th. Tickets $1.00. We learn from Dr. Davis, who was called over to Danbury, Monday, that C. H. Oman of that place, is down with a very serious attack of typhoid fever. Wanted:—A young girl attending school to work mornings and evenings for her board. Mrs. F. J. McHenry, Drysdale building, opposite postoffice. The statement of the McCook Co-op erative Building and Savings association appears in this issue, showing that insti tution to be in good shape notwithstand ing the financial depression of the past two years. A dangerous combination of hot ashes and waste paper came near causing a fire, Tuesday night, during the high wind, in rear of postoffice, and of The Tribune office, which should stimulate all to greater care and cleanliness. The timely arrival of some passers-by perhaps saved the city from a disastrous fire. It is a promising sign of the times that the governors of the various states are touching upon the subject of public roads in their recommendations to the lawmakers. Some have said much and some little on that topic, but it is clear that the importance of doing something in the direction of road improvement is generally recognized. Daiourette s grand annual drawing came off, Monday, with the following ones holding winning numbers: Those drawing gold watches were: P. Roemes hauser, T. J Tiller, S. R. Seaman, M. Rink, Joseph Allen, J. M. Henderson. Oil paintings were secured by A. M. Drew, H. T. Church, F. Androsky, P. Wesch, Joseph Dudek, G. Schnasse, C. P. Viland, Predmore Bros., John Shepherd, Anthony Brown. Parties who have not done so already can secure their prizes by calling at the Pioneer Hardware. A contemporary says, speaking of the Australian ballotsystem; “To stubbornly sustain a law in all its imperfections that has been shown by practical dem stration to rob any portion of the people of their political rights, is a crime against suffrage and an outrage on American citizenship.” It is strange that so simple, safe and effective a sys tem of voting should meet with such criticism. It works well enough in this state and nobody here wants to exchange it for any other plan of voting that has ever been proposed. Miss Sara bowman entertained a com pany of friends, Monday evening, in a charming manner, at cards. The guests were: Misses Mary Myers, EdnaMeserve, Lillian Rowell, Louie Starbuck, Minnie Johnston, Rose Lee, Josephine Bullard and Anna Holland; Messrs. James Hat field, J. D. Robb, U. J. Warren, E. L. Laycock, M. W. Eaton, A. C. Ebert and E. E. Lowman. The honors were carried off by Miss Johnston and Mr. Warren. The booby prizes succumbed to the com bined efforts of Miss Holland and Mr. Eaton. Apropos, refreshments were served in a dainty and tasteful way, quite characteristic and delightful, and which were as acceptable to the palate as attractive to the eye. The city fathers are considering the advisability of pavin£ the gutters of Main avenue for four or five blocks north from Railroad street. Doubtless this is the only proper solution of the question and will meet with the approval of all. A permanent, substantial, paved gutter will be economy in the long run, though somewhat expensive at the first. The authorities are also earnestly seek ing a more economical culvert than the wooden ones now in use, to construct and maintain which is a heavy and con stant drain on the city treasury. Tiling of large dimensions, or paving, is sug gested. Either will serve the purpose more satisfactorily than the expensive wooden ones now in vogue. We hope to see this desirable improvement com menced in the early spring. One of the successful farmers of Red Willow county is John F. Helm, of Red Willow, and a visit to his fine farm is good for sore eyes. He now has cribbed over 15,000 bushels of corn, and when his immense cribs are full he will have over 20,000 bushels of “King Korn.” His pens now contain 300 head of cattle and a like number of hogs, all of which he is feeding for market. Some two weeks since he marketed a carload of hogs in Omaha, which netted him $1,200. He has another carload about ready for shipment. If you want to see what can be done in Red Willow county in the line of farming and stock raising, drive down to John F. Helm's place, at the mouth of Red Willow, and feast upon the bounties of nature and the evidences everywhere visible of energy and enter prise. » Be careful about your ashes. That was a stirring wind from the northwest, late Tuesday night. The benefit ball, next Tuesday evening, will call out a large gathering. Clean up. There is too much waste paper and debris generally in the air. The club dance in the opera hall, last evening, was well attended and enjoya ble to all. __ The county commissioners will receive bids for doing the county printing tomor row afternoon. The immense number of cattle being fed in this vicinity explains why more corn cribs are not seen in the city. The police should institute a crusade against dangerous ash heaps and dirty back yards in general. Clean up. Colonel Easterday is putting up some more corn cribs, this week, which will increase his storage capacity largely. Tickets are on sale for the Benefit Ball, which will take place in the opera house on Tuesday evening next, January 17th. We seem to be having a delightful epidemic of weddings just now. Let her decimate the ranks of the Benedicts ruthlessly. J. F. Ganschow, one of McCook’s leading merchants, was down to the county seat. Tuesday, visiting the dis trict court.—Courier. LaTourette’s awning was destroyed by the wind, Tuesday night. The irons of the awning alsc smashed 2 large panes of glass in his store front. McKeighan is said to have mingled with the “defenseless dead” at Wash ington so much of late that he does not seem to mind the odor a bit. Some one let the atmosphere into Altshuler’s saloon, the other night, through the window, and Archie mourns the departure of his two pet owls. The schools of McCook presented the Teachers’ Library Association of the county with a set of Ridpath’s History of tne Uniied States. Who’ll be the next? Ex-Governor Furnas and Superintend ent Hartley, of the Nebraska forestry exhibit, wiil be in attendance upon the farmers’ meeting in the opera hall on January 18th. Georgia will not have an exhibit at the World's Fair, but an enterprising newspaper in that state suggests a free distribution of Georgia watermelons on the grounds as an advertisement to take the place of a state exhibit. It is a curious fact, and one that will surprise most people, that ot the $3,000, 000,000 worth of crops estimated to have been produced in this country in 1892, the largest item is $750,000,000 worth of hay. This affords some idea of the enormous live stock interests of the United States. The lightning rod swindlers, after working the trustful farmers of Iowa for some time, have crossed the Missouri and commenced operations in Nebraska. One farmer near Fremont has been taken in to the amount of $150, and doubtless there are others who have been swindled, but are ashamed to complain. The proper way to deal with a stranger who offers something for nothing is to let him alone. R. P. Barr arrived from Lake City, Iowa, last Saturday night, bringing with him three carloads of fine stock and im proved implements, and will occupy at once the section of land eight miles south of here recently purchased through S. H. Colvin. Mr. Barr comes splen didly equipped to improve his fine farm, and will make a most desirable addition to Red Willow county’s farming com munity. Here’s a hearty welcome to him, and all of his kind, for whom there are openings to prosperity and wealth in our fertile soil. Ex-Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, tells a new story that probably explains the choice of a cemetery lot, made by the democrats of the Nebraska legisla ture. It runs like this: Pat was about to die. The priest had been called and had administered the last services. Then he said; “Fat is there anything else you desire?” “Yes,” saidPat, “I want to be buried in a third-party graveyard.” “Why Pat,” said the priese, “why is that?” “Well, your reverence,” says Pat, “a third-party geaveyafd is the last place the devil would look for a democrat.” WANTED. Agents to sell our choice and hardy nursery stock. We have many new special varieties, both in fruits and ornamental to offer, which arc con trolled only by us. We pay commis sion or salary. Write us at once for terms, and secure choice of territory. May Brothers, Nurserymen, 26—lOts. Rochester, N. Y. The Domestic, New Home, White, Stand ard and American Sewing Machines at prices to suit at Fade & Son’s. Famous Clothing Co. \ JANUARY 1893. OUR THIRTEENTH REGULAR SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARING SAI.H ^ ^BALANCE QF-— ♦♦ Winter G^ools Must Gio. ♦♦ WE SHALL OFFER SPECIAL—DISCOUNTS—SPECIAL -ON Come, Look through our btock, and take Advantage of this Opportunity. JAN. 13. McGook, Neb. JONAS ENGEL, Manager. % Statement of the Condition —OF THE— McCOOK CO-OPERATIVE BUILDING AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION —OF McCook, Nebraska, on the 3 1 st day of December, 1 892. ASSETS. First Mortgage Loans.$43 578.58 Loans secured by stock of this Asso ciation.. 1 325.00 Heal Estate . 2 871.58 Expenses and Taxes Paid. 408.61 Cush with treasurer. 2 809.85 Total..$56 993.62 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock, paid up.$51 775.71 Premiums, Unearned. 4 852 96 Assessments Prepaid. 95.00 Contingent Fund. 269.95 Total.$56 993.62 STATE UF NEBRASKA, I llED WILLOW COUNTY, f I, Geo. W. Kaime, Secretary of the above named Association, do solemnly swear that the foregoing Statement of the condition of said Association, is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Goe. W. Kaime, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Uth day of January, 1893. A. C. Ebert, , Notary Public. > Seal. [ Approved: Frank Harris, 1 U. J. Warren, > Directors. Justin A. Wilcox, ) In Use Forty Years. Humphreys’ Specific number seven, for coughs and colds, has stood the test of more than forty years. Can you ask for greater proof of intrinsic merit? Price 25c. at all drug stores. L. W. McConnell & Co. DRUGGISTS
