ELEVENTH YEAR. McCOOK, RED WILLOW COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY EVENING, FEB 3, 1893. NUMBER 37.
SPECIAL • SALE
—OF—
• RIBBONS. •
-ON- ,
Tuesday and Wednesday
on these two days we will offer our
immense stock of over
-AT A
Reduction of 20 Per Gent.
A Dollar’s Worth of Ribbon for Eighty Cents.
Come Early and Get First Choice.
J. ALBERT WELLS, McCook.
BARGAIN
20 Per Cent Discount
- ALL WINTER GOODS
•£§4 DURING THE44
MONTH OF FEBRUARY.
Short Length Dress Goods and Remnants of all
| Kinds Included in This Sale.
Our Stock Must be Reduced
to make room for immense
k
stock of Spring Goods.
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C. L. DeGROFF & CO.
!1 SUCCESSORS TO J. C. ALLEN.
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A popular fireman will desert the order of
Benedicts on the 14th.
Extra Agent L. W. Hahn is up at Imperial
relieving Charles O’Bear, agent there, for
ten days.
Mrs. C. II. Stokes, wife of the agent at
Akron, visited friends in the city, fore part
of the week.
Mr. Nelson of Brandon, Colorado is the
new agent at Mooretield, George L. 'Poison
going to Wallace.
Brakeman Calkins who was injured in the
wreck at Dixon, Colorado, last week, is at
St. Luke’s hospital, Denver.
It is estimated that of the 400.000 persons
employed on the railways of the united
kingdom about 10,000 are color blind.
The B. & M. water service gang liuished
their work here and left yesterday morning
for Wyoming.—Imperial Enterprise.
Police.Iudge Colvin assessed two machin
ists each SI and costs, Wednesday, for indul
ging too frequently and deeply in the intoxi
cating beverage.
Engineer and Mrs. J. P. Lee and Miss
Hose Lee arrived home on Monday. Joe
going to work this morning, after his thirty
day vacation.
Engineer and Mrs. Carl Clark are expected
to arrive in the city tonight to take Kendrick
Clark, who is very ill, home with them to
Arkansas C'ty.
J. J. Garrard went to work forE. II. Doan
& Co. on Wednesday. Homer Arnold, the
night helper in the freight house, becoming
cashier in his stead.
George Williams, formerly of the dispatch
ing force here, and who lias been making
oldtime friends a brief visit, left for Omaha,
Monday evening on 6.
Jud Bel nap is now running a passenger
between here and Lincoln. He knows the
difference between a railroad and a meal
ticket.—Hastings Democrat.
The Nebraska legislature, has introduced a
bill to do away with the tipping of Pullman
porters. Should tiie bill become a law it
will be as inoperative as the anti-treating
law.
No. 6 collided with a Kansas City & Omaha
freight at the crossing just east of Fairmont,
Tuesday evening, seriously injuring Engin
eer Charles Green and Fireman John Mc
Crowy.
Westenhouse lias perfected a new improve
ment upon the air brake which is termed
tiie high pressure brake. It is claimed this
new brake will stop a train in one third dis
tance required by the quick action.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
company lias -'ssueda circular stating that for
new equipment, improvements, construction,
St. Louis terminals, and the new bridge over
tiie Missouri river, it requires eight million
dollars.
A special train for the accommodation of
those who want to attend tiie Railroad Ball
at McCook on the evening of February 13th,
will be run from this place, leaving here
about 5 o’clock, p. m., returning the next
morning on the regular.-Imperial Enterprise.
Mrs. J. F. Kenyon received a telegram on
Tuesday announcing the death of her sister,
Mrs. Law, at Westfield, New York. She was
unable to reach there in time for tiie last sad
rites, which occurred yesterday, and conse
quently remained at home, a fact which in
creased tiie weight of sorrow largely.
The Grant locomotive works of Chicago,
has taken an order for 25 ten-wheeled en
gines for Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad, and also 10 eight-wheeled engines
for the same road. The ten-wheelers nre of
the class K, and are intended for service on
tiie Burlington and Missouri lines. The
eight wheelers are the new class M, the first
of this class being built quite recently and
having proved very satisfactory—The Rail
way Master Mechanic.
The Burlington statement for December
and for the year 1892 was issued yesterday.
The report for the month shows that the
gross earnings were $2,544,276, an increase
as compared with the corresponding month
of the proceeding year of $19,797. The net
earnings were $518,554, an increase of $5,336.
For the twelve months the gross earnings
were $40,412,401. an increase over those of
the previous year of $5,060,026, while the net
earnings amounted to $4,533,404, and increase
of 8065,544.
The Denver News contains the following
concerning the wreck at Dixon, Colorado,
Thursday morning of last week: “Henry
Schmitz, a traveling man of Lead City, S.
D., was upon the Burlington flyer which met
with the accident yesterday. Mr. Schmitz is
at the Oxford recovering from the shock
which his head received by suddenly coming
into contact with the top of the Pullman
sleeper. He is loud in his praise of the en
gineer of the passenger train and the thougjit
fuluess of Vice President Harris in extend
ing the hospitality of his dining car to the
delayed passengers. Schmitz says the con
ductor of the freight train was the cause of
all the trouble. Engineer Avery of the pas
senger train applied the air brakes and
jumped rolling down a gravel bank as the
engine crushed into the caboose of the freight
train. The engineer recovered his presence
of mind, and despite his bruised condition,
crawled into his engine and backed out the
the train in time to prevent a disastrous fire.
Mr. Schmitz says the train was rounding the
curve at the rate of forty-five miles an
hour when the engineer took his fiying leap
through the eab window.”
PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Charles Ymincti was a city visitor Wednes
day of tills week.
Frank Kveiist is back from bis sojourn in
eastern Nebraska.
Sheriff ai.d Mrs. Banks drove up from the
county seat. Tuesday.
Mrs. J. E. Kelley is visiting her mother,
Mrs. J. H. Clark, in Denver.
William and Jerome Lewis were city visit
ors. Tuesday, on business.
Mrs. S. E. Ilager of indianola visited with
Met ook relatives, Tuesday.
Dr. Waters from Wymore succeeds Dr.
G >ge in the relief department here.
J. E. Kelley was in Lincoln first of the
week oil Lincoln land company business.
George J. Kelley of Stockville, formerly a
clerk of Frontier county, is in the city today.
H. Thompson went in to Omaha, Wednes
day night, on business, to be gone a week or
longer.
Mr. William Lipps, of McCook, is helping
Len Smith in his meat market.—Imperial
Enterprise.
('aslder Lawson of the First. National bank
isslowlv mending, and will be about again
in a short while.
Michael Walsh, Jr., was called down from
Holyoke, first, 01 the week, by the death of
his aged father.
Colonel Lellew went in to Lincoln, last
evening, to help make John M. Thurston of
Omaha our next senator.
General J. O. Dilwortli, of Hastings, de
partment, commander of Nebraska G. A. R„
was in the city, Tuesday.
Mrs. C. W. Knights arrived home, Sunday
evening on 6, from visiting her daughter,
Mrs. J. 1). McAlpine in Denver.
Y. A. Finley is arranging to move here
from Highland, Hayes comity, lie has city
property in McCook.—Hayes Centre Kepuh.
P. A. Wells will he home the fore part of
next week. We learn that lie has been been
very materially benefitted by his sojourn ill
the east.
C. L. DeGroff went down toUnadilla, yes
terday evening, to help invoice the company
stock ttiere. He expects to be absent a week
or ten days.
Miss Mary Myers departed, Tuesday, for
her home in Beatrice, after enjoying a visit
of a few weeks with McCook relatives and
admiring friends.
Judge Cochran left on 0, Monday, for Ar
kansas, where lie expects to spend two or
three weeks casting around for a place to lo
cate in practice of law.
C. II. Meeker was in Lincoln, Sunday, on
| business connected with the extensive im
i provements contemplated by the water com
pany on the pump house and wells.
A. L. Lewis was called to his home in St.
Joseph. Missouri, Wednesday, by a telegram
announcing the deatli of his father. Al. lias
the sympathy of all the boys in his bereave
ment.
Miss Luvia Furbusli went east, Tuesday
morning, to remain until about March first,
when she will return and will assume charge
of the millinery store purchased, this week,
from Mrs. McCabe.
Mr. Stevenson has been invited to address
tiie Phelps county Y. P. S. C. E. union. Al
so to present the transportation arrange
ments over the B. & M. to the International
convention in Montreal July 5-9th, 1893.
Frank II. Spearman, James McAdams
and Mathew Lawler were passengrs on 6,
Monday, for Omaha, where the gentlemen
are interested in a distillery project, Mr. Mc
Adams being the contractor of tiia building.
Pastor Stevenson and C. T. Watson went
down to Orleans on Friday to attend a meet
ing of the McCook District Y. P. S. C. E.
union to make arrangements for the endeav
orers convention to lie held in our city in
April.
J. r. Squire lett lor lieatnce, yesterday
morning, having just closed the sale of his
splendid farm southwest of here to Henry
Harbican of Grant county, Wisconsin. Mr.
Squire expects to leave in about two weeks
for California, to look up a location in that
state.
Miss Sara Lowman departed, yesterday, i
for Lincoln on a visit to relatives and friends.
She will be joined there, in about two weeks,
by her brottier Ed, and together they will vis
it the eastern markets to make their spring
purchases, to be absent two or three weeks
longer.
Will L. Seism, past grand chancellor of
Nebraska Knights of Pythias, and editor of
Knights Jewel, was in from Omaha, Tues
day, while up the Republican valley in the
interest of his paper, the official organ of
Nebraska Pythians. We acknowledge a
fraternal visit from the clever and knightly
gentleman.
Chas. Mehagan and wife spent Sunday in
Red Cloud. Mr. Mehagan has not yet re
covered from his injuries received at the dis
astrous hotel tire at McCook a few months
ago, but hopes soon to be able to dispense
with his crutches, when he will take pleasure
in presenting them to some of the political
ly lame ducks so numerous since the Novem
ber cyclone—Red Cloud Argus.
Mrs. J. C. Russell arrived home, last Fri-:
day, from her visit in Southern California,
delighted with the balmy climate of that
sun-kissed land. While there she visited
the groves of A. Y. Wright, formerly of
Arapahoe, and brought home a few samples
of what Mr. Wright produces in the orange
line, one of the mammoth oranges finding its
way to this office, through her courtesy,
which measures 18*£ inches in circumference.
42nd. 42nd. 42nd. 42nd.
IIIS week we inaugurate our
42d Semi-Annual Clearing Sale
in Nebraska. Heavy Hoods in a I 1
lines will be sold at. Extraordinary
Reductions. Every article in our
store will be sold at discounts never
before given by us. Come in and see
our prices. No other Mercantile Es
tablishment in Western Nebraska
will save you the same amount of
money.
We expect to go east soon; you
know wliat that means.
COME AND SEE US.
U. l^Owmaii
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C. W. KNIGHTS,
Yes, it's a fact. I am over-stocked with pants, and as I need
more room for my new spring stock, I have marked the price
down to such astonishingly low figures that ANYBODY can
now afford to wear pants. In fact my ENTIRE STOCK Of
WINTER GOODS, such as
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Overcoats, Heavy Clothing
Underwear, Gents’ Furnishings
(and many other things too numerous
to mention,
Must Go and Reiardless ot Cost
^>TH1S IS A<s^~
General Slaughter Sale!
and will continue for dO days only. Come and see me.
I can save you money.
The Cagle Clothing House,
C. W. KNIGHTS, HHOP.
