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na Hugs at J. Albert
Wells^ _
Miss Allison’s grade of the public
school enjoyed a half holiday, Wednes
day afternoon, according to rule.
At the Harris Hardware you can get a
Sewing Machine a good one from $20 to
$45 with the company’s guarantee for
five years._
Last Saturday William Coleman closed
the sale of the Christian Blaeholder 80 just
north of Perry to Orr Early of Bonaparte,
Iowa, the consideration being $1,400.
W. A. Mitchell is arranging to build
him a cosy and comfortable cottage at
once on north Manchester street. It will
be 26x28 feet in the main with a kitchen
(oxi2 feet.
J. S. LeHew of McCook is in the city.
He says he seeks no office and he is here
simply on business in the executive de
partment. In the menagerie of demo
crats LeHew is a freak.—Washington
cor. Bee._
Mr. Rachel, a wealthy Gage county
farmer who owns some Red Willow
county dirt, is in the city. A Mr. Rich
ard from the same county is also here
looking around for the purpose of buying
a farm. __
John F. Helm of Red Willow com
menced this week to sow 150 acres to al
falfa. He is putting the alfalfa in with
oats. He proposes having one of the
finest dairy and stock farms in south
western Nebraska.
Andrew Carson lias bought the right
to make and sell a patent washing ma
chine in Nebraska and Kansas, and is
thinking of selling his place southwest of
the city, and devoting his time to push
ing the washing machine business.
An editor sees and hears a great deal
which he does not tell. He knows of
affairs of men and women which ifgiven
publicity would astonish the natives and
create sensations to a great extent. In
his life of business he is an observing in
dividual and sees shams and hypocrites,
both men and women, as well as good
deeds and commendable characteristics.
The first annual convention of the
sixth district of Nebraska Christian En
deavor union will be held in Hastings on
March 31, April 1 and 2d. Over a hun
dred delegates are expected. The state
officers will be present, also Mr. Steven
son of McCook.Mr.Billings of Omaha and
Mr. Cook, of Omaha. The Hastings
union are making preparations for a
grand good time.—Hastings Democrat.
A new line of Valis
es and Trunks at J.
Albert Wells.
OUTING SHOES.
It long ago seemed as though
shoes could never be better and
never be cheaper, but they are
better now and cheaper now than
they ever were before. The great
every day favorite is our men’s
and ladies’ shoe. It is as much a
boon to the pocketbook as it is to
the feet. It won’t wear you out
to wear it out. You don’t need to
take care of it; it takes care of
itself. It will give you solid com
fort for the simple reason that a
better shoe for knockabout pur
poses has never been produced.
If prices never appealed to you
before, the price of this shoe will,
for it costs only $2.50. It will
look nicer and wear longer than
any shoe on earth.
Shawl Straps at J.
Albert Wells. _
The first rain of the year, Tuesday
night. __
April 4th will be the date of the city
election. _
Genuine venal vampires taken on sub
scription at this office.
Bert Thompson is building a new
dwelling house in East McCook.
John Whittaker has received the gov
ernment’s patent for his wire fence
stretcher. __
It is said that Nebraska is now increas
ing in population at the rate of about
1,000 per week.
B. F. Troxel is putting up a new barn
16x32 to accommodate the fast horses he
is expecting soon.
Do a mean act in a mean way; so it
will have a keener sting—for your own
breast. But better not do it.
Found:—On Monroe street above
Douglas a pair of gold bowed spectacles.
Owner can have same by calling at this
office. _
They have made golden syrup for years
out of old boots and now it is proclaimed
that excellent sugar can be made from
coal tar. _
Call and inspect Kalstedt’s immense
stock of new goods. The finest selection
ever exhibited in the city. Don’t wait
until the line is broken.
The Barnett Lumber Co. now has a
yard in Trenton, having bought out N.
T. Hall on the first of the month, and
taken possession at that time.
The Dunkards are holding a series of
meetings at the Highland school house
up in Frontier county under the leader
ship of Rev. Stanbaugh of our city.
A promising little girl baby made it
home at W. M. Anderson’s, Monday
night, a fact Will duly celebrated on the
following morn by a wreckless distribu
tion of the fragrant weed.
Colonel J. S. LeHew has been pushing
his candidacy for collector of internal
revenue of Nebraska during his stay in
Washington. North of Columbus and
Campbell of Hastings are among the
leading competitors for the place.
Work gives a man an appetite for his
meals: it lends solidity to his slumber; it
furnishes a grateful appreciation of a holi
day. The men who make a living by
loafing turn out to be the most contempt
ible and worthless members of society.
The Tribune is pleased to learn,
from good authority that neither the ex
treme cold or weeks of mild weather of
the winter just closed have injured
fruit trees or buds. This being true a
good fruit crop may reasonably be ex
pected this year.
A gentleman from the east was in the
city, Tuesday, on his way down to
Kansas, to see Dennis St.German, whom
he claims deeded him a farm owned by
a loan company, receiving as part pay a
horse valued at $1,000, which the gen
tleman hoped to recover. *
Sunday morning, Mr. Rogers who
bought the Corey ranch, arrived in the
city with his effects, among them being
a number of the finest Herefords ever
shipped into Red Willow county, and
which will add materially to the blooded
stock interests of the county.
Superintendent Aaron Gove, in his ad
dress on “individuality” before the Colo
rado state teachers’ association, at its
last annual session, said: “The best
school today is one where fifteen little
children are training in a true kinder
garten with a real, philosophical, trained
and altogether lovely mother for a teach
er.” _
Grant’s monument is to be completed
in New York in 1895 at a cost of $505,857.
If instead of erecting a stack of useless
stone the monument had been given the
useful form of a Grant institute, a Grant
library or a Grant hospital the half mill
ion of dollars expended would have pro
duced something useful as well as orna
mental and the generations to come
would have blessed the enterprise
inaugurated to the memory of the peer
less savior of the American Union.
Humanity is heir to a great many fol
lies but the silliest and most harmful
perhaps of them all is the persistence
with which people run after strange gods.
A fake advertising outfit can come into
almost any community and take away any
amount of money for that which is not
worth a continental. Traveling agents
can sell people goods at higher prices,
quality considered,than the buyers would
have to pay home merchants for them.
People will entrust their health and lives
with strange doctors and perambulating
quacks rather than give their cases to
well read home physicians. Yet we
wonder at crime.
It now looks as though Mayor Brewer
would be re-elected by acclamation.
A canning factory ought to be encour
aged. It is a practicable enterprise, and
can be made mutually profitable.
“An unappropriated blessing” is the
definition given by one of McCook’s
charming “old maids,” of her kind.
Magic Lodge No. 38, Knights of Pyth
ias, Holdrege, have invitations out for
an elaborate banquet on March 21st.
Are you using the very latest? Visit
ing cards of sheet iron, with inscription
in silver letters are produced in England.
A St. Patrick’s night banquet will be
given in the Menard opera house on Fri
day evening next, March 17th, by “The
Ladies’ Sodality.”
The advantages of a canning factory
in our midst are numerous, and our far
mers will do well to give the proposed
factory careful and immediate considera
tion.
The farm on which the fair grounds at
Indianola are situated has been sold,
which will, we are informed, necessitate
moving elsewhere for a location for hold
ing the coming fall meeting of the agri
cultural society.
The Tribune wishes to warmly en
courage such affairs as that held in the
east ward school house, last Friday even
ing. This pleasant intercourse betweew
the pupils ol the city and country schools
must prove mutually beneficial. It shows
a spirit which might profitably be emu
lated by older people from country and
city, whose relations could in this wise
be greatly improved.
All true hearts in our city go out to
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kelley in profound
sympathy in their sorrow and bereave
ment in the death of their baby Hazel
on Tuesday evening from scarlet fever.
The burial of the little one occurred on
Wednesday afternoon, brief services be
ing conducted at the house by Rev.
Stevenson. There was a large funeral
cortege despite the rain and wind. Their
daughter Edna is down with the same
disease, which in her case however, is in
a mild form, and her rapid recovery is
expected.
“The Helpers” of the public schools
of the city entertained “The Visitors”
from the country schools of this vicinity
in a handsome manner, last Friday even
ing. There was an enjoyable program,
literary and musical, for the entertain
ment of the audience from city and coun
try which thronged the assembly room
of the east ward building. Besides tooth
some refreshments were served to delight
and satisfy the inner cravings. There
were delegations present from three of
our neighboring district schools. It was
a very pleasant and doubtless profitable
occasion.
It is said that there are forty or more
new hotel enterprises in progress in the
vicinity of the World’s fair grounds in
Chicago, and that a large proportion of
them are frauds, having no more sub
stantial foundation than may be found
in circular letters soliciting cash sub
scriptions for alleged stock. These en
terprises purport to be co-operative hotel
schemes designed to supply the demand
for accomodations, and the innocent vic
tim who is asked to take stock is assured
that he will have cheap quarters during
the exposition. It is a good plan to
steer clear of such enticing schemes.
The man who subscribes stock in an en
terprise that exists only on paper is sure
to lose his money.
Surprise parties are coming fast and
furiously. The latest was on Mrs. A. Sny
der, Wednesday night. A large company
of neighbors and friends composed the
surprising party, which carried in its
train a well stocked commissary depart
ment, which figured largely in the fes
tivities of the evening. Games and other
social devices aided in ma||ing the occa
sion an unusually pleasant otle. The party
was composed of Mesdames S. H. Colvin,
J. F. Ganschow, C. T. Brewer, J. H. Yar
ger, Walter Vischer, C. E. Pope, G. E.
Leming, H. F. Pade, A. J. Chambers,
Vina Wood, W. C. LaTourette, F. M.
Kimmell, Charles Coleman, J. W. Bart
ley, C. B. Gray, G. W. Conner, Joseph
Reizenstein, J. H. Ludwick, E. Q. Robie,
S. L. Green and Miss Amelia Wille.
One of the choicest musical entertain
ments ever given in McCook was that fur
nished by the Chicago Lady quartette
in the Luthefhn church on Tuesday even
ing. By some misunderstanding between
Manager Harris of Cambridge and the
manager of the quartette, no arrangement
bad been made for their appearance here.
But the Endeavor society took the matter
in hand and provided for an entertain
ment in the Lutheran church, making
the fact known as best they could in the
brief time that remained. The rainy
night and shortness of time of announce
ment, however, conspired to make the
ludience very small; but the audience
made up in enthusiastic appreciation all
Eat was lacking in numbers. On the
following evening, the young ladies ap
peared in the church again, under the
same auspices, before a good house, and
jnce more proved themselves to be first
:lass artists of a refined and charming
sort. We hope they may come this way
igain, and under more favorable circum
stances. _
A new line of Car
pets at J. Albert
Wells.
PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Sheriff and Mrs.E.R. Banks were with
us Tuesday.
Geo. E. McDonald, the Geneva archi
tect, was a city visitor, Tuesday.
Lawyer Selby of Cambridge was a city
visitor, Monday, on business of the law.
A. R. Wilson of McCook was in the
capital last night, says Tuesday’s Jour
nal.
S. T. Parsons and C. H. Oman of
Danbury were in the city, Monday even
ing.
Judge Beale of Hastings was a Com
mercial guest, Tuesday night, on his way
west.
Mrs. Frank Albrecht left, Saturday
night for Denver, to visit a sister living
there.
Mr. E. E. Lowman and Miss Sara are
expected home from the east, tomorrow
night.
Jos. W. Shabata came up from Crete,
Sunday, bound for Culbertson, on court
business.
A. E- Harvey came up from Lincoln,
Sunday, on his way to Culbertson to at
tend district court.
W. H. Harris, the opera house mana
ger, was up from Cambridge, Tuesday
afternoon and night.
Lee Huddleston was the guest of the
family, fore part of the week, coming
home on Saturday.
Mrs. H. E. Martindale of Hastings is
visiting in the city, guest of her sister
Mrs. L. R. Hileman.
Mike Smith and family have moved
to their new home in Red Willow coun
ty.—Trenton Register.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Jacobs were down
from Highland, Hayes county, early part
of the week, on some business.
Superidtendent Bayston of the county
schools circulated among us of the me
tropolis, Monday, on school business.
Mr. Howard Finnerty celebrated his
21st birthday, last evening, by giving a
party to a number of young friends in
the city.
F'rank H. Spearman was a passenger
on 6, Tuesday evening, for Omaha, on
business connected with the distillery
project.
C. H. Meeker was in the eastern part
of the state, fore part of the week, on
canning factory business, going down
Sunday.
W. S. Pearne of Grand Island, Neb.,
manager for G. R. Dun & Co., was here
early days of the week, in the interest of
that agency.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Pade were called
to Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, Monday on 6,
by a telegram announcing the death of
Mrs. Pade’s brother.
Judge Welty and Lawyer Selby of
Cambridge, B. F. Smith of Hastings,
spent Sunday night in the city on their
way to court at Culbertson, Monday.
Miss Katie Dudek arrived in the city,
Monday evening, from Fort Logan, Colo
rado, and will visit a short while at the
home of her father a few miles southeast
of the city.
J. Albert Wells arrived home, Saturday
noon, from his trip east to purchase
spring goods. He reports laying in an
unusually attractive and extensive line
in all departments.
Prof. Walter Rowland was up from
the county-seat, Monday night, visiting
the brethren of the McCook A. O. U. W.
SupL Bayston was also present, together
with others from the east end.
Colonel Ed. Mitchell of the Indianola
Courier spent Sunday with the family
here. Ed is putting up an excellent and
acceptable newspaper for the people of
the east end, and deserves all support he
is receiving.
Mrs. Paulsen of Denver was the guest
of Mrs. W. C. LaTourette and Mrs. Vina
Wood, close of last week. She will visit
Culbertson friends until the 29th, when
she will leave for London, England, on
an extended visit.
Frank Stillman, purchaser of the Star
buck ranch east of the city, arrived
from Mattoon, Illinois,close of last week, 1
and is already energetically rustling
around getting ready for spring work, of
which he came prepared with power and
machinery to do a deal.
Judge Keyes of Indianola spent a few
hours in the city, Monday evening, being
in attendance upon district court up in
Hitchcock county, and associated in the
defense in the libel suit of Woolman vs.
Taylor, which attracted such large atten
tion at Culbertson, this week.
Mrs. C. M. Noble’s Kensington, last
Friday evening, was a clever and pleas
ant affair. The guests were Mesdames
John Hatfield, C. L. DeGroff, J. F. Ken
yon, G. A. Noren, George E. Johnston)
W. C. Stevenson, W. T. Lindsay, J. F.
Ganschow, F. S. Wilcox and Miss Jane
Corwin.
James McAdams came in from Omaha,
Monday night, being called home by the
illness of his father. He reports a fatali
ty among his men engaged in building
the distillery, one of them falling from
the roof of the building 60 feet to the
ground Saturday, dying on Monday
from the horrible injuries sustained.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report.
ABSOUUTEiy PURE
Residence property
for sale in all parts of
the city by C. J. Ryan.
W. H. Allen, the blind veteran, was
up from Indianola, yesterday, on bus
iness.
County Clerk Williams of Dundy was
a city visitor on business, Wednesday
evening.
Rev. Erastus Smith of Gibbon, Ne
braska, has been the guest of Rev. A.W.
Coffman, this week.
County Attorney Dodge is about again
after an enforced retirement of two
weeks with pneumonia.
Rev. W. C. Stevenson went in to Oma
ha and Lincoln, yesterday morning, on
Christian Endeavor business.
County Clerk Cash D. Fuller and At
torney A. B. Taylor were down from
Imperial, last night, on business.
Mrs. S. H. Colvin visited Culbertson
friends, early part of the week, returning
home on Wednesday afternoon.
A. H. Burdick is entertaining his
brother J. H. Burdick of Elgin, Illinois,
who arrived in the city last Friday.
Charlie Tanner, the well known Has
tings attorney, was in the city, Wednes
day and Thursday, on a contest case
before the local U. S. land office.
Mr. and Mrs. M. II. Bacon departed
on 6, last evening, for South Dakota, in
response to a telegram announcing the
illness of some member of Mrs. Bacon’s
family.
Prof. Valentine and some of the young
folks will delight a Bartley audience, to
morrow evening, with a lantern exhibi
tion. The Tribune promises the people
down there a rare and enjoyable treat,
and expects the Professor and his assist
ants to play to a crowded house.
Miss Amy Strasser gave a most delight
ful party, last Saturday night, to a large
company of young friends. There was an
elegant and dainty spread of refreshments
which the young folks found to be irresist
ible. Dancing, card playing and the us
ual et ceteras of such gatherings made up
a full and felicitous evening’s enjoyment.
The occasion was in celebration of Miss
Amy’s fifteenth birthday. Those pre
sent were: Ona Simons, Grace, Gertie
and Hallie Bomgardner, Wenona Peter
son, Dellajohnston, Selma Noren, Johan
na Engel, Edith and Ethel Oyster, May
Study, Maud Cordeal, Hattie Yarger,
Laura McMillen, Pearl Brewer, Dora Hor
ton, Maggie Etter, Norma Noble, Alice
Cochran, Mabel Wilcox, Martha and
Della Battershall, Josie Mullen, Myrtle
Myers, Maud Doan, Monte Stafford,
Clara Sharp, Ella Snyder, Bertha Boyle,
May Seaman, Charlie and Willie McMani
gal, Elmer Kay, Willie Walters, James
Fowler, George LeHew, Don Thomas,
George Heffelfinger, Arthur Wood, Char
lie McConnell, Fred Brewer, Earl Lud
wick, Willie Brown, Arthur Douglas.
The question of the location of the
Wesleyan Seminary for the Western Ne
braska conference will be settled at a
meeting of the board to be held in
Holdrege on Wednesday evening next,
the 15 th. _
Everybody should obey the city mar
shal’s admonition to clean up, and do it
thoroughly and promptly.
The work of securing stock for the
Workman Temple progresses very satis
factorily. _
W. B. Wolf of the Bank of Benkelman
was a city visitor, Sunday.
A new line of Car
pets at J. Albert
Wells.
If you want tire or
tornado insurance in
Reliable Companies,
call on C. J. Ryan.
The Local Paper.
The strong attachment of subscribers
to a well conducted newspaper is fully
confirmed by publishers. “Stop my pa
per!” words of dread to beginners in
business, lose their terror after a paper
has been established a number of years.
So long as a paper follows a just, honor
able and judicious course, meeting the
wants of its customers in all respects, the
ties of friendship between the subscriber
and the paper are as hard to break up by
an outside third party as the links which
bind old friends in business or social life.
Occasional defects and errors in a news
paper are over-looked by those who have
become attached to it through its perusal
for years. They sometimes become dis
satisfied with it on account of something
which has slipped into its columns, and
may stop taking it; but absence of the
familiar sheet at their homes or offices
for a few weeks becomes an insupport
able privation, and they hasten to take
it again and perhaps apologize for hav
ing it stopped. No friendship on earth
is more constant than that contracted by
a reader for a journal that makes an
honest and earnest effort to merit con
tinued support.—Menomoniej Wisconsin)
Herald. _
Severely Injured in a Runaway.
Monday morning, Mr. John McAdams
was severely injured in a runaway. He
was driving back to the store after mak
ing a delivery uptown, when the horse
got beyond his control, and dashing
down Main avenue at a rapid speed
threw the old gentleman to the ground
violently, just above Wells’ store. Kind
hands picked him up and carried him to
his home, where upon examination by
the doctor it was found that two ribs
had been fractured in the fall, on his
right side; besides his right ear was badly
larcerated and his right eye and tin
side of his face and head were cut and
bruised. Though advanced in years Mr.
McAdams recovery is confidently ex
pected, but the process will be necessari
ly slow. The horse and wagon escaped
harm. It was a narrow escape for the
driver. __
Notice to Clean Up.
Notice is hereby given all property
owners to clean up their vacant lots,
alleys, etc., within the corporate limits
of the city of McCook, under penalty of
the ordinance of said city.
By order of the Mayor and Council.
J. H. Dwyer, Marshal.
Take Notice.
All persons are hereby notified not to
unload manure and other filth or debris
within the city limits under penalty of
the ordinance governing that offense—a
fine of $5 for each offense. By order of
the mayor and council.
J. H. Dwyer, Marshal.
For Sale.
A square piano, walnut case, in good
order, seveu octaves, Vose make. Will
sell on time with good security. Inquire
Farmers and Merchants bank, McCook.
Wheat for Sale.
Red Velvet Spring Wheat for seed for
sale. Inquire of W. M. Irwin, l'/i miles
northwest of McCook, Neb.
Pony For Sale,
A good, gentle family pony for sale
cheap. Inquire at this office for particu
lars.
TO INTRODUCE A FANCY HIGH PATENT FLOUR
.I SHALL SELL A.
Car Load at the Nominal price of $1 per Sack.
THERE IS A CLEAR SAVINS FOR YOU IN THIS OF JUST 26 PER CENT.
* Other Good things this week are.
Fancy Six Star Figs, finest you ever saw, 30 cents per pound.
A line of Dried Fruits that will astonish you in Quality and Price.
A Delicious Chocolate Cream Table Syrup only 45c per gallon.
A New Invoice of that Unexcelled and Unequalled 43 cent Tea.
It Pays to do your TTTjr[7^ O FT
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