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PAINTS,
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LW. M’CONN ELL & CO.
Takejyour old rags
to the McCook Pro
duce Company.
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ing to the amount of composition.
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rules is respectfully requested.
The Publisher.
January 1, 1893.
Of Interest to Farmers.
If you want to renew a loan falling
due and make a new one on your farm
patronize the Nebraska Loan and Bank
ing Co. of McCook, a home institution.
Office in rear rooms of 1st National
bank. Interest payable in McCook.
Wanted.—A (lining
room girl at tlie Com
mercial Hotel.
The burning question with house
wives of all lands, all creeds, and all
ages is: “Which is the best Cooking
Stove?” S. M. Cochran & Co. answer
this question today by proclaiming the
“Charter Oak Stoves” to be the
best in every conceivable shape.
Money to Loan at 9 per Cent.
On first class McCook or Rad Willow
county real estate. Send me your ap
plications. H. G. Dixon,
Kennett Square, Penna.
Horses for Sa/e.
Wayson & Penny keep horses for sale
at their livery barn opposite the Cen
tral hotel.
Hay! Hay!
Best blue stem bulk or baled. This
- hay was cut early. Leave orders at B.
& M. meat market. F. S. AVilcox.
Dr. A. J. Thomas, Dentist, office in
Union block, over Knipple.
If you want lire or
tornado insurance in
Reliable Companies,
call on C. J. Ryan.
Best Refrigerators
in the city at Pacle &
Son’s.
The .Call Leads the Procession.
We call the attention of our readers
to the advertisement of The Call in
another column. Since its reduction
in price Thfe Call is the cheapest
daily in Nebraska, and its spicy and
independent policy is too well known
to need comment from us. In reduc
ing the price of The Call so as to put
it within the reach of everybody, the
management have placed themselves a
decided step in advance of all other
publishers in the state. This is an era
of popular prices for the newspaper,
and The Call is, as usual, at the head
of the procession.
Put your $ $ $ where they will do
the most good, where they will secure
the best and the most groceries for in
stance. You will make no mistake if
Noble’s is the place of deposit. He
gives the limit in quantity, quality and
value, and his stock cannot be duplicat
ed in Western Nebraska.
Make Noble your family grocer and
many other blessings will fall to your
lot, besides having the best groceries on
your table that the market affords.
Residence property
for sale in all parts of
the city by C. J. Ryan.
You will never know how far your
dollar will go until you buy your gro
ceries at Knipple’s. It will surprise
you!
You get a Seaside Library free with
a year’s subscription to The Semi
Weekly Journal. The offer will not
last long.
Noble, the leading grocer, makes a
specialty of fresh, clean family grocer
ies. He will treat you right.
Wayson & Penny can fixyou up com
fortably and stylishly in any thing you
may desire in the livery line.
Noble carries a large and complete
stock of the best brands of canned
goods of all kinds.
If you are thinking of buying a set
of new dishes call to see Knipple’s stock
and get his prices.
No better farm wagon on wheels
than the Charter Oak sold by S. M.
Cochran & Co.
Cash paid for rags
by the McCook Pro
duce Company.
Wall Paper. ;eee===^
Artists’
Material.
A. MCMILLEN,
Druggist.
H. & M.
Guaranteed
Mixed
...Paint...
Paints, Oils and Glass.
%
A car-load of furni
niture—direct from
the manufacturers
just received by Pade
& Son.
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Quality Up—Prices Down!
Knipple excels in the quality of the
flour he keeps in stock, and in the re
markably low prices at which he is sell
ing. Think of it!
Fancy patent flour at.$1.25
Snowflake flour at.85
And remember that he warrants every
sack. At the old stand in the Cole
brick.
Beware of peddlers. Call and in
spect the Household sewing machine
sold by S. M. Cochran & Co. before
buying a machine. There is no better
on earth.
Give your orders for 84 Patent, Lion
and Legal Tender, also Wauneta High
Patent,White Fawn and Pride of Wau
neta flour to Hugh Thompson, the oil
man.
Patronize H. Thompson & Co., deal
ers in flour and feed of all kinds, west
Dennison street, on the corner north of
McEntee Hotel.
IN QUEENS WARE Noble carries
the largest assortment and the richest
designs of the season. His prices are
reasonable.
Remember 1G cabinet photos given
for every dozen ordered until May UOth.
Four cabinet photos free at the Smart
gallery.
91 High patent flour $1.10 per sack.
B. & ML Flour and Feed Store,
All elegant stock of
sideboards just re
ceived by Fade &Son.
McMillen Bros, carry the best and
most complete stock of Harness and
Saddlery in the city. Call to see them
if you want a good article in their line
at a reasonable price.
When you need flour, feed, garden
and field seeds go to the Old Reliable
B. & M. Store. McCook Commission
Company.
J. C. Russell is prepared to do cast
rating promptly. Satisfaction guaran
teed. Send orders through McCook
postoffice.
S. M. Cochran & Co. have an im
mense stock of farm implements on
hand. See them before buying else
where.
Knipple leads them all when it comes
to selling a fine patent flour cheap. Try
him once and you will be convinced.
Remember that S. M. Cochran & Co.
now carry in stock a full and complete
stock of builders’ hardware supplies.
Noble is the only exclusive grocer in
the city. His stock is the largest and
his prices correspond with the times.
McMillen Bros, have a nice lot of Lap
Robes they will sell at greatly reduced
prices. Splendid bargains in these.
You can buy more goods at Knipple’s
for One (1$) Dollar than you can any
where else in the city of McCook.
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We guarantee our flour to give satis
faction and at prices that defy competi
tion. McCook Commission Co.
If you want a well drilled in fine
shape see McClain & Co. Leave or
ders at S. M. Cochran & Co.’s.
S. M. Cochran & Co. carry a large
line of buggies in stock. See them if
you want a good vehicle cheap.
Why buy foreign flour when home
made flour is cheapest. B. & M. Flour
Store.
Do you know that Knipple pays the
highest market price for butter and
eggs- f _
Seventeen pounds of Granulated
Sugar for One (1$) Dollar at Knipple’s.
You can buy a sack of flour for 75
cents at the B. & M. Flour Store.
S. M. Cochran & Co. can sell you a
bicycle very cheap. See them.
Predmore Bros, keep the best cylin
der oil in McCook.
Machine oil of all kinds at Predmore
Bros.
E5F”Groceries at Nobles’.
Wanted by
the McCook
Produce Co.
BOX ELDER REVIEW.
Everyone is busy planting corn and
making garden.
We understand that Mr. Daniel Doyle
is going^o build anew house soon.
The barn on Mr. King’s place is
completed and the house is progressing
finely.
The fall grain is looking well, espe
cially that which was put in with a
press drill.
Last year there were 1,500 bushels
of onions raised in Box Elder, this year
with an equally good crop there will be
over two thousand bushels.
We understand that the Tear Bros,
who have rented the farms of Messrs.
Dole and Bogle are planting 290 acres
of corn besides putting in about 80
acres of small grain.
Mr. Brower had just put his wells
and pump in working order and began
irrigating his garden one afternoon, but
that night the windows of heaven were
opened and the irrigation process pro
ceeded from the clouds.
Mr. Sexson’s have moved from their
farm here to their place near Red Wil
low. Their residence among us during
the past five years has been marked by
many plesant social events, and it is
with feeling of profound regret that we
witness their departure.
THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE
Looking After the Alum and Ammonia
Baking Powders.
[Chicago Inter-Oeean.l
A bill for an act, entitled “An Act
to Regulate the Traffic in Baking Pow
der,” has been introduced in the Legis
lature at Springfield, by Mr. Nohe.
The bill is intended to prevent the
adulterations of baking powders with
Ammonia or Alum, imposing proper
penalties to enforce the law, etc. This
shows an earnest desire on the part of
our representative to protect their con
stituents.
The Chicago Tribune, referring to
the question of legislation on Alum
and Ammonia baking powder,says: “It
deals in a direct manner with an evil
that must be cut down.”
“Following is a partial list of the
brands sold in this state that have been
examined and found to contain either
Ammonia or Alum. Many of the Alum
and Ammonia powders arc labeled and
advertised as absolutely pure to mislead
the public: “Calumet,” “Grant’s Bon
Bon,” “Hotel,” “Taylor’s One Spoon,”
“Forest City,’'“Chicago Yeast,’’“Clim
ax,” “Monarch,” “Rocket,” “Standard,"
“Mokaska,” “Town Talk,” “Manhat
tan,’’“K. C.,’’ “Loyal.”
In addition to the above list there is
a multitude of brands sold with a prize.
It is safe to reject all baking powders
sold with a prize, as the tests show
they are composed largely of alum and
cost but a few cents per pound, or less;
it is sure to contain alum.
Surely nothing but their cheapness
could induce the public to experiment
with these impure powders at the risk
of health or the wholesomeness of these
condemned powders, and viewed from
the standpoint of economy alone, a pure
grape cream of tarter baking powder
like “Dr. Price’s,” from its greater
known strength and unquestionable
purity, will prove more economical to
the user.
A state and national paper combined
is The Semi-Weekly Journal. The
Tribune is your best local paper.
Subscribe for these and you are fixed
for a year. Both for $2.50.
B3F”Noble, Purveyor to tne Great
Common People, is now exhibiting
about the handsomest and largest as
sortment of plain and fancy lamps to be
seen in Southwestern Nebraska.
J. E. Kelley, Attorney. McCook, Neb.
Publication Notice.
In the district court of Red Willow county.
Nebraska. J. L. Moore, trustee, plaintiff, vs.
Sarah E. Gerver, Lizzie Coleman, Wilson Cole
man. her husband, Emma Fuller.William Ful
ler, her husband, Dellie Hanlein and Henry
Hanlein, her husband. May Gerver, Minnie
Gerver, Sarah Allen and William Allen, her
husband, and Wesley Gerver, defendants.
To Wilson Coleman. Lizzie Coleman, Henry
Hanlein. Dellie Hanlein and William Fuller,
non-resident defendants.
You will take notice that on the 8th day of
May A. D. 1893, J. L. Moore, trustee, plaintiff,
filed his petition in the district court of Red
Willow county. Nebraska, the object and
prayerof which is to foreclose a certain mort
gage executed by James S. Gerver and Sarah
E. Gerver to the Dakota Mortgage Loan Cor
Eoration, and duly assigned to the plaintiff
erein, upon the southwest quarter of the
southwest quarter of section 25. township 1,
north of range 30. west of the 6th P, M., in Red
Willow county, Nebraska; said mortgage be
ing dated April first, 1888, and due April first.
1893. upon which there is now due the sum of
f199.80, and interest thereon at the rate of ten
per centum per annum from May first, 1893.
Plaintiff prays for a decree of foreclosure and
sale of said premises; that the defendants be
foreclosed and barred of all title, lien or other
interests in said premises, and for deficiency
judgment and equitable relief. You are re
quired to answer said petition on or before
Monday, the 3rd day of July, 1893.
Dated JMay 8th, 1893.
J. L. MOORE, Trustee, Plaintiff.
By J. E. Kelley, his attorney.
First publication May 19,1893.-4ts.
Primitive Western Houses.
One of the first needs of ;i settler in
anew country is a house. This, it often
happens, he constructs himself, and as
a few indispensable household goods
and at most a few hundred dollars com
prise his entire possessions, it must he
built as quickly and as cheaply as pos
sible. Under these circumstances the
first buildings erected are neither preten
tious nor commodious , Usually they
contain but one room, and that is often
a small one. They arc constructed of
the cheapest lumber procurable, have
one or two windows and a door, and the
owner considers himself fortunate if he
can afford a shingle roof. Sometimes
roof iyid sides are sheathed with tar
paper which wind and rain soon pene
trate. Or the sides may be ‘‘weather
boarded,” and the rool shingled.
This is b^ no means a permanent
residence. Often it is wanted only for
the few months the settler is required
by government to live upon the land in
order to own it. In the case of a per
manent resident, it suffices until time
and money permit the construction of a
more comfortable dwelling.
Sod is used as a building materal in
the West. Strips are ploughed in a spot
thickly clothed with short grass. These
strips are of a uniform thickness of three
inches and of a breadth of about ten
inches. When cut into pieces of a con
venient length they are ready to be built
like bricks into walls. Sometimes the
sod is piled around an ordinary frame
house, but the wall often consists only
of sod, without other support. Owing
to the nature of material, the walls must
be very thick, and for this reason sod
makes a warm house. The roof may be
of shingles or it may be of rough boards
covered with a few inches of earth and
sod.
Houses built in this munnerare agood
protection from wind and weather when
new, but they soon become comfortless
enough. The soil is washed away from
window and door frames, leaving holes
through which the rain pours in summer
and snow drifts in winter. A few sod
houses that are still occupied were built
twenty years ago. Some of them are
plastered on the outside and these re
semble stone houses very closely at a
short distance. This external plastering
serves the double purpose of improving
the appearance of the house and of pro
tecting it from rain and frost. Many
however, are unplastered either inside
or out, and every rain washes some soil
from the walls, until in a lew years they
are levelled to the prairie.
The dugout is frequently seen. For its
location a steep hill-side is best suited.
It consists essentially of a hole dug in
the ground, and is as lowly as an ant-hill
or the home of the prairie-dog. The hill
itself usually forms three sides of the
house, while the fourth may be sod or
lumber. In the fourth side are all the
doors and windows the house contains.
The roof is formed by laying beams or
poles from wall to wall, and covering
these with a layer of straw and earth.
Sometimesa frame-work is built within
this hole, to keep the walls from tumbl
ing in upou the occupants, and a floor is
added; but these improvements are not
always necessary. The inmates of these
houses do not fear the fiercest winds that
sweep across the prairie.
There is still another kind of house
that is peculiar to the West. This is
half frame and half dugout. A hole is
dug in the ground to the depth of two
feet or more, and of the desired size.
Over this a frame house is constructed
to the hight of four feet. Two or three
half length windows are put in the sides,
steps are made leading down to the floor,
the earth taken from the hole is banked
outside almost to the eaves, and the
house is complete.
It not infrequently happens that the
rattlesnake seeks the worrnth of the
Western fireside. The little striped
ground-squirrel digs dirough the walls,
centipedes creep in at every crack, and
the field-mouse is a source of much an
noyance. But all these are little ex
periences which the pioneer expected
to encounter when he came to civilize
this new country, and he endures them
uncomplainingly in anticipation of fut
ure prosperity.
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Call and see Marcellus, the new pho
tographer. All pictures made with the
beautiful celluloid water proof finish—
no extra charge—at the Smart photo
graph gallery.
Don’t build a fence around your
property until you have seen and priced
that woven wire fencing at S. M.
Cochran & Co.’s. Nothing cheaper,
neater or better.
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS. ^
County Ci.kiik’n Ofkioic. t
indiamila. Neb., May 10, lson. j
Hoard of county commissioners met pur
suant lo adjournment. Present 8. 8. Graham
and Samuel Young, commissioners and Geo.
\V. 1 to per, clerk. Minutes of previous meet
ing read and approved. j
On motion the following claims were andr
ed and allowed:
State Journal Co., stationery for Co.. ^
A. J. Hand, mdse, for jail. ™
George Young, work on brid-.-s. {
Adjourned to meet May 11, 1893.
May 11th, 1893.
Hoard of commissioners met pursuant to
adjournment. Full board present.
On motion M. Fossen was appointed over
seer Dist. No. 33.
The following claims were audited and al
lowed:
J.C.Oakley, hoard and care E.G.Smith,® G 00
8. S. Graham, service commissioner,.. S 70
Samuel Young, service commissioner,. 34 10
Hoard adjourned to meet May 13th, 1893.
May 13th, 1893.
Hoard of commissioners met pursuant to
adjournment. Full hoard present.
Petition of J. L. Townley and others ask
ing for the location of a public road.
On motion same was granted establishing
ft public road as follows:
Commencing at 8. E. corner section 3
thence west on section line to the southwest
corner section 4 ail in town. 1, range 37 and
terminating thereat.
it appearing to the board that there is
about §35,000 delinquent personal tax on the
tax list of the county that no effort lias been
made by the various county treasurers to
collect the same except by publication and
mailing notices to the delinquents. On mo
tionjol Mr. Kyan it is therefore ordered by
this board that the present County Treasurer
W. T. Ilenton do at once proceed to collect
all delinquent personal tax by distress as by
law directed. And the county attorney is
hereby directed to see that this order is en
forced.
A. Carson ami others appeared before the
board and asked that the road petition of Aj
Carson and others be reconsidered. Ou mo
tion of Mr. ltyan that the said road netKk"'
be reconsidered Mr. ltyan voting aye Mes!^,r( s
Young and Graham voting nay motion lop .
On motion the following claims were al
lowed :
JURORS Foil MAY TERM, 1893.
Robert Johnson.$13 70 (
Geo. Darnell. 10 00
S. S. Rrown. 13 10
G. W. Cramer. 10 00
W. A. Wallin. 12 SO
George Fowler. 14 00
James Barber. 14 70
Thbmas Ryan. 15 00>
L Stiles. 11 20"
J. G. Fisher.13 80
Clias. Shafer. 13 20
Clias. Nichols. 11 60
Henry Colling. 10 70‘
C. W. Peters. 11 00
Robert Barber. 12 90
J. S. Moliana. 13 20
Geo. Carr. 13 20
diaries Barber. 12 70'
Stephen Bolles. 13 40
A. G. Dole. 12 OO
Jas lletlierington. 12 00
J. M. Huet. 11 20
J - F. Helm. 10 50
George E. Jolmston. 9 20
William Templin. 8 00
A. Hammond. 10 00
A. P. Day. 8 00
DaneLelm. 8 00 ,
Nic Uliren. 8 60
John Schmidt. 9 20
Samuel Ball. 3 00
John Thompson. 9 30
W. C. Bullard <fe Co., bouse rent Mrs.
Purdy. 6 00
Barnett Lumber Co., coal for Mrs.
Purdy and Best. 9 00'
D. H. McMurrin, overseer Dist. No. 37. 9 50
J. M. Short, board jury May term. 19 25
C. J. Ryan, commissioner. 11 20'
S. S. Graham. 8 20
Samuel Young commissioner. 8 20
George Younger, team work. 3 OO
Board adjourned to meet June 13th, 1893..
[Atttest.j S. S. Graham,
Geo. W. Roper, Clerk. Chairman.
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