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Paper.
W'e are Selling.
Brown Blanks, per roll, 4 and 5 cents.
White Blanks, per roll, 5 and 6 cents.
Gilts, per roll, 6 cents and upwards.
Nine inch Border, only 1 cent per yard.
We Carry The.
Largest Stock and
Wfill not be Undersold.
Aii elegant stock of
sideboards just re
ceived by Pade &Son.
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.
McMillen Bros, carry a complete
stock of dusters—the cheap as well as
the finer articles. Give them a call if
you need anything in that line.
Leave your orders for flour and feed
where they will be filled and delivered
promptly. The old reliable B. & M.flour
store. 211 Main Street.
We can and will save you money on
wall paper. Examine our prices before
buying. McConnell & Co.
91 High patent flour $1.10 per sack.
B. & M. Flour and Feed Store.
Wayson & Penny are putting out
handsome rigs these days.
Wanted.—A dining
room girl at the Com
mercial Hotel.
Money to Loan at 9 per Cent.
On first class McCook or Red Willow
county real estate. Send me your ap
plications. H. G. Dixon,
Kennett Square, Penna.
Horses for Sale.
Wayson & Penny keep horses for sale
at their livery barn opposite the Cen
tral hotel. _
Parties contemplating building this
spring who need money can obtain
same at reasonable terms from P. A.
Wells. Office in 1st National bank.
Rear rooms.
—
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._
We can and will save you money on
wall paper. Examine our prices before
buying. McConnell & Co.
No better farm wagon on wheels
than the Charter Oak sold by S. M.
^ Tehran & Co.
Dr. A. J. Thomas, Dentist, office in
Union block, over Knipple.
If you want fire or
tornado insurance in
Reliable Companies,
call on C. J. Ryan.
Best Refrigerators
in the city at Pade &
Son’s.
.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.
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.
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.
We can and will save you money on
wall paper. Examine our prices before
buying. McConnell & Co.
If you want a well drilled in fine
shape see McClain & Co. Leave or
ders at S. M. Cochran & Co.’s.
Residence property
for sale in all parts of
the city by C. J. Ryan.
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.
Field and garden seeds at reduced
prices for the next ten days. McCook
Commission Co. J. J. Garrard,
Manager.
We can and will save you money on
wall paper. Examine our prices before
buying. McConnell & Co.
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.
A car-load of fur
niture-direct from
the manufacturers—
just received by Fade
& Son.
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faints, Oils and Glass.
Benjamin-Roshong.
The marriage of Alvin M. Benjamin
and Gertrude Roshong took place at
the Fairview church, last Tuesday, May
25th, Rev. Terrill officiating and Mrs.
Albrecht as organist. The church was
decorated with evergreens, with an
evergreen arch for the bridal pair. Af
ter the ceremony the guests repaired
to the home of Mr. Roshong, where a
bounteous dinner was served. Follow
ing is a list of presents received with
the names of the donors: Set of silver
knives and forks, Clara, Raymond and
Bert Benjamin; set of silver tea spoons,
Lafe Roshong; nickle 'teapot, butter
knife and sugar shell, Mr. and Mrs. and
Edith Roshong; set of silver tea spoons
and set of silver table spoons, Mr. and
Mrs. Ely; fancy glass, creamer, spoon
holder, sugar bowl and butter dish, Has
kell Terrill and Edith Roshong; nap
kins and towels, Lena Katzenmyer;
Butter knife, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ben
jamin; platter, comfort, pitcher and
pickel dish, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ben
jamin; silver cake basket, T. W. Ben
jamin. The dance in the evening was
well attended and a good time was had.
Judging from the amount of smoke in
the immediate vicinity cigars must have
been very plentiful.
The Age, published in Jewett, Ohio,
says: “We carry but one patent medi
cine ‘ad,’ that of J. C. Ayer & Co.,
Lowell, Mass., and would not do this
were it not that the firm is as square in
its dealings as any bank, and its prep
arations of the very highest class. The
life of the editor’s better half was once
saved by the use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla,
after the physicians had failed to give
her relief.”
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.
Try a sack of Monogram at $1.20, the
best flour in town; or a sack of Charm at
$1.10, a high grade patent flour. Mc
Cook Com. Co. 211 Main Street.
Patronize H. Thompson & Co., deal
ers in flour and feed of all kinds, west
Dennison street, on the corner north of
McEntee Hotel.
IN QUEENSWARE Noble carries
the largest assortment and the richest
designs of the season. His prices are
reasonable.
S. M. Cochran & Co. have an im
mense stock of farm implements on
hand. See them before buying else
where.
You will never know how far your
dollar will go until you buy your gro
ceries at Knipple’s. It will surprise
you!
Knipple leads them all when it comes
to selling a fine patent flour cheap. Try
him once and you will be convinced.
Remember that S. M. Cochran & Co.
now carry in stock a full and complete
stock of builders’ hardware supplies.
Noble is the only exclusive grocer in
the city. His stock is the largest and
his prices correspond with the times.
We can and will save you money on
wall paper. Examine our prices before
buying. McConnell & Co.
You can buy more goods at Knipple’s
for One (1$) Dollar than you can any
where else in the city of McCook.
W. M. Irwin has a fine Holstein
bull for service at his farm northwest
of the city, on reasonable terms.
S. M. Cochran & Co. carry a large
line of buggies in stock. See them if
you want a good vehicle cheap.
Do you know that Knipple pays the
highest market price for butter and
eggs. _
Seventeen pounds of Granulated
Sugar for One (1$) Dollar at Knipple’s.
S. M. Cochran & Co. can sell you a
bicycle very cheap. See them.
Seventy-five cents buys a scale book
of 500 tickets at this office.
Predmore Bros, keep the best cylin
der oil in McCook.
Knipple makes a specialty of fruits
of all kinds.
Knipple sells canned goods cheaper
than ever.
Machine oil of all kinds at Predmore
Bros.
fSf Groceries at Nobles’.
CATTLE IN THE WEST.
HOW THE BIG CATTLE OWNERS’ IN
TERESTS ARE PROTECTED.
An Old and Fa «y Though Dangerous Way
of Getting a Herd That Is Rarely Fol
lowed Nowadays*-The Arrangement of
Brands and the Roundup.
It is a common matter of wonderment
among eastern folk and others unfamil
iar with the great west and its way £
how the many herds of cattle that roam
over the immense stretches of unfenced
prairie and hill pasture are kept track
of by their respective owners, and how a
stockman can possess himself of his wan
dering property, assert his ownership
and realize on it when he wishes to. Of
course the cowboys ride the ranges and
endeavor to keep the herd within the
bounds of their employer’s property,
and they succeed in the main. But
where pasture lots are 10, 20 or even 80
or more miles square and unfenced nat
urally a good many cattle get astray,
wander into other ranges and mix with
utner uerus.
Time was when a couple or more ad
venturous young men could start life in
the west or southwest with no capital or
outfit but a horse apiece and a branding
iron, and in a year or so be worth a good
sized fortune in cattle, but a strong pub
lic sentiment working through the agen
cy of hempen rope put a stop to this kind
of industry. Cattle thieves hardly exist
today, and so excellent a system has been
perfected among cattle owners that now
adays a man need not lose a single steer
if he is careful abont his branding.
Every owner has a different brand,
and the number of brands in any one
cattle state runs up into the tens of thou
sands. They are most of them of ex
ceedingly quaint design, and the adver
tising columns of the western country
newspaper often look much like mummy
scrolls covered with Egyptian hiero
glyphics because of the numerous cuts
of cattle brands pictured for the infor
mation of the ranchers. Sometimes a
rancher despairs of inventing a new
brand, and then he uses an old one,
placing it on a different part of the ani
mal from that where the owner of the
original one brands his animals. The
brand is the owner’s title deed to the
steer, and it is respected.
An association is formed among the
cattle owners in each far western state
to deal with estrays. Oftentimes this
business is looked after by a state board
of commissioners appointed by the gov
ernor. The various brands used by the
owners are registered, with minute ac
curacy of design, position and other par
ticulars, at the office of the secretary of
the association or commission. When
1^e roundup is made on each ranch and
all the cattle gathered together for ship
ment, there are always a great many es
trays—cattle that have wandered from
other ranges—among the herd. Some
times there may be strange cattle from
half a dozen or a dozen different herds.
Instead of notifying the owner to
“come over and get his beasts” the es
trays are either shipped to Chicago, Kan
sas City or wherever the market may be
along with the regular herd or are sent
to a designated center, where all estrays
may be gathered together at the round
up season. In the latter case, when a
sufficient number have been collected,
the “estray herd” is Shipped to market.
Men are appointed at the stockyards by
the association or the governor to in
spect the herds as they arrive and to
look after their sale. The estrays are
sold in the regular way, and the money
is usually sent direct by the inspector at
the market to the owners of the brands
worn by the cattle so sold. This official
makes it his business to keep track of all
the stockmen, and the money realized on
an estray rarely fails to reach the owner
of the steer.
The amount of money realized at mar
ket on estrays and remitted to the own
ers through the associations runs from
$100,000 to $200,000 in every season for
each of the several big cattle raising
states. In 1891, for instance, the number
of estrays from Montana sold in St. Paul
and Chicago was 18,740, and some $550,
000 was realized on their sale and re
mitted through the association to the
rightful owners.
The fence question is an old and per
plexing one, and many and sanguinary
have been the wars in Texas and other
cattle states between fencers and fence
cutters. It has been judicially decided
even that a man must not fence in his
land under some circumstances. The
fence around a 30-mile square lot is apt
to be in the way of travelers, and when
the mail goes that way the fence has
been declared illegal. But often stock
men don’t want to fence. The western
stockman who raises cattle on the un
bounded prairie knows nothing of the
harassment that afflicts the suburban
resident whose chickens will fly over the
neighbor's fences.—New York Sun.
The Trouble In Keeping a Persian Cat.
The love of liberty is the ruling pas
sion of the Persian cat, as it is of the
Angora. Every one of the long haired,
indeed, delights in long solitary tramps.
It seems impossible to cure them of the
desire, and what a cat really desires he
generally succeeds in getting sooner or
later. To own one of these most attract
ive and most costly pets in the city,
where thieves abound, is to live a life of
constant anxiety and watchfulness. Only
those who have kept guard over a sly and
cunning human lunatic, ever plotting to
escape, can appreciate the vigilance nec
essary for his safety. Yet in spite of
this so ornamental and so beautiful is
the gentle creature that few who are
able to do so can deny themselves the
pleasure of owning one.—Olive Thome
Miller in Harper’s Bazar.
A Phrase That Has Lost Value.
“Worth its weight in gold” is a phrase
without the meaning which it formerly
conveyed. Berylium is worth about 10
times its weight in the precious yellow
metal; venadium is five times more cost
ly. Besides these, there are a dozen
minerals and metals that are equal in
value to gold.—St. Louis Republic.
Hiding Home Without Money.
The “bright young man” must be set
Sown as being as full of resources as his
touch quoted sister, the “bright young
Woman.”
Ono of the former escorted one of the
latter the other evening to a theater.
He is a young law student with more
brains than money at the present writ
ing, and he frequently counts pennies in
making an estimate of expenses. On the
evening in question he did so with such
scant margin that a call for a quarter
to pay for checking umbrellas more than
exhausted it.
A sly search of his pockets just before
they went up on the elevated station to
take the train home produced only one
5-cent piece. It would never do to pro
claim his dilemma to his fair companion.
He could neither beg nor borrow the
other nickel at that time and place, and
for a moment he was desperate.
Then he took a chance. As they were
about to pass the ticket window he let
the young woman precede him, and
when he reached his hand through, say
ing, “Two, please,” ho left his solitary
coin and his pocketknife in front of the
ticket seller. That functionary glanced
up quickly, took in the situation and
without an instant's hesitation passed
out the two bits of pasteboard.
Everybody was satisfied. The agent
ha* a good knife for a trifling sum, the
future barrister had escaped a mortifica
tion, and the young woman remained
blissfully ignorant of the whole transac
tion, as it was desirable she should.—
Her Point of View in New York Times.
To a Would Ho Medical Student.
A correspondent who signs himself
“Duffy” asks, “Will you please inform
me if there is a medical school in New
York in which the lectures for the first
year are given in the evening or any time
after 3 p. m?”
Duffy, you and dozens of other
‘would be doctors” think you can study
medicine in the happy go lucky way the
law pills study law—lectures in the aft
ernoon; office work in the morning.
You must give up that idea at once.
Medicine requires 25 hours out of 24, and
more on Sundays and holidays. The lec
tures in every medical school are given
when the professors and lecturers can
find time for them. They’re given in the
morning and in the afternoon and the
evening, and some of the private
“quizzes” begin at 10.30 or 11 p. m, and
stop in time to get ready for breakfast if
you dress quickly. Now, Duffy, if you
ask because you think medicine is a
snap like these afternoon law schools,
you’d oetter keep out of it, but if you
can stand the pace and ask simply be
cause you’re ignorant, why, go ahead,
and with good health and hard work you
may get your license to “kill, kill, kill,
kill, kill!”—New York Sun.
A Lifelii * 0to le Camel.
One of the mci$ Aa ious rock forma
tions in the world, to to be seen in Ari
zona. It is a sho.’t dktance east of the
stage road between Tucson and Oracle
and stands on a knoll several feet above
the surrounding sand hills. When first
seen, the effect is startling, and the mind
has to get over a shock before the pecu
liar object can be comprehended. It is
a most perfect representation of a camel
and is formed of one piece of granite.
This curiosity is of colossal size, but
perfectly proportioned. It is about 60
feet high and is very white and smooth.
There are very few fissures on the sur
face, and they strangely are in the
proper places to form features. The
only real projection from the surface is
exactly placed for an eyebrow. The two
humps are plainly to be seen, and the
neck is curved beautifully.
The rock is really a solid piece rising
from the ground, but the effect of legs
is produced by a clump of dark colored
brush that grows beside the stone. The
white stone shows plainly at both sides
of the brush, and the effect of the legs
is unmistakably produced.—Philadel
phia Record.
Carrying Good News.
During the siege of Vicksburg an im
portant artillery position had been as
signed to a battery commanded by Ma
jor Schwartz, a German attached to
General Grant’s command. Late in the
day while Grant was in his tent receiv
ing dispatches from the front a German
orderly made his appearance earnestly
inquiring for “Zhineral Grant.” After
much parley his hearers, being convinced
that his business with the general was
important, admitted him to the latter’s
tent, where he made the announcement,
“Schwartz’s battery is took!” “Well,”
said the general calmly, “did you spike
the guns?” “What?” shrieked the little
German, “spike dem guns? Dem new
guns? Vy, itwould schpile ’em!” “Well,
what did you do?” said Grant impatient
ly. “Vy, we took ’em pack again, by
tarn!”—Life.
Mear.ness In the Chaste Dove.
Cases of meanness are not numerous
among the animals. A surprising one is
the innocent dove, which sometimes
hides under her wings food for which
she has no need simply to deprive her I
companions. The sense of property is
manifested in the competition for prizes,
as in the struggle for the female or for
food, rank, territory or nests. The dog
distinguishes the property of his master
and even discriminates between objects
belonging to different members of the
same family.—Current Literature.
Youthful Condescension.
The Father (sorrowfully)—Your ab
sorption in social gayety grieves me. At
your age such a life had no fascinations
for me.
The Son (condescendingly)—At my
age you probably lacked the fascinations
which I inherit from my mother’s side
of the family.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
New York Versus Chicago.
A funny outcropping of Chicago’s am
bition is the practice of the papers of al
ways referring to this city as “New York,"
N. Y.” It just tickles a Chicago man to
pretend that no one would know which
New York was meant unless the abbre
viation of the state was given.—New
York Tribune.
(Bity Store.
GEO. M. CHENEBY, Propr.
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Medicines, Perfumes,
Stationery, Paints, Oils,
Lamps, Etc.
213 Main Avenue, McCook, Nebraska.
FREE ACCIDENT INSURANCE.
That old reliable, The Daily State
Journal, lias spent more money in sec
uring news the past year than any other
state paper, and stands to-day at the
head of Nebraska newspapers, recogniz
ed for its enterprise, truthfulness, and
reliability. Published at the capita),
it is the paper for Nebraskans. It has
just completed arrangements whereby
it offers free accident insurence to every
new subscriber paying $2.60 for three
months in advance, which is only 10
cents more than the regular price of the
paper alone. This gives every subscriber
a $500 accident policy, or less, according
to occupaiion, free. If you want a daily
paper, The Journal is the one you
should read, as its state editions contain
much later telegrams than is given by
the Omaha papers. Compare them for
your own satisfaction. The insurance
feature alone is worth the money, as it
enables every man to protect his family.
Try it three months and you won’t be
without it. Address,
Nebraska State Journal,
Lincoln, Neb.
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 The 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.
33F“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.
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.
With our Acme Cooler we are en
abled to furnish meats in better condi
tion during warm weather than any
other market in the city. F.S. WlLCOX.
Try one pound of McKenna’s un
colored Japan tea at 45 cents per
pound. Guaranteed to be as good as
you can buy elsewhere for 60 cents.
A fine assortment of dusters may be
seen at the harness shop of McMillen
Bros, on east Dennison street. They
are very reasonable in price too.
When you want New Orleans mo
lasses go the C. O. D. store. There
you will get the genuine article and at
a reasonable price.
We are still selling the best grades
of flour cheap. Give us a call and get
our prices. McCook Com. Co. 2ll
Main Street.
We can and will save you money on
wall paper. Examine our prices before
buying. McConnell & Co.
Don't eat tainted meats. Buy them
from Acme Cooler. Ice cold and sweet
as in winter at F. S. Wilcox’s.
If you want a luxury go to the C. O.
D. store and get a pound of English
breakfast tea,
McKenna sells seven bars of good
soap for 25 cents.
Ice cold meats at B. & M. Meat
Market.