TWELFTH YEAR. McCOOK, RED WILLOW COUNTY, NEBRASKA. FRIDAY EVENING. JANUARY 26, 1894. NUMBER 36.
CHAS. M. NOBLE
Has Been Awarded The
FIRST - PREMIUM
By the Great Common People
for the General Excellence of
his Stock of PLAIN AND
FANCY GROCERIES.
The Conclusion Was Unanimous.
Besides it was agreed that his
. display of.
GLASSWARE has no equal
in Southwestern Nebraska.
.AND HIS.
PRICES ARE RIGHT.
Always the Lowest and Best
Values Can be Found at
C. M. NOBLE’S.
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Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria.
NOW IS THE
TIME TO BUY!
A LIBERAL DISCOUNT WILL BE
GIVEN ON ALL WINTER GOODS UNTIL
FEBRUARY FIRST. THAT IS THE TIME
FOR OUR ANNUAL STOCK-TAKING and
WE DO NOT PROPOSE TO INVOICE A
SINGLE OVERCOAT, CLOAK, OR ANY
THING IN WINTER STUFF IF PRICES
CAN MOVE THEM. COME IN NOWAND
SELECT YOUR WANTS AND WE WILL
MAKE SOME HARD-TIMES PRICES. A
FINE STOCK OF GROCERIES. LEADERS
OF LOW PRICES.
-<£H1 cash
; !a ’gain ! ouse.
C. L. DeGROFF & CO.
TJ.A1E TJLE3LE.
GOING EART—CENTRAL, TIME—LEAVER.
No, 2, through paRsenger. 5:40 A. M.
No. 4. local passenger. . 9:10 P.M.
No. 76, freight. 7:20 A.M.
No. 64, freight. 6:30 A. M.
No. 80. freight . 9:00 A.M.
No. 148, freight, made up here. 5:00 A. M.
GOING WEST—MOUNTAIN TIME—LEAVES.
No. 3,through passenger.11:35P.M.
No. 5, local pansRcnger. 8:25 P.M.
No. 63, freight. 5:00 P.M.
No. 77. freight.. 4:21 P.M.
No. 149, freight, made up here. 6:00 A. M.
IMPEUIAL LINE.—MOUNTAIN TIME.
No. 175. leaves at. 8:00 A. M.
No. 176, arrives at .,.5:40 P. M.
ESS^Note:—No. 63 carri-s passengers for
Stratton, Benkelman and Haigler.
All trains run daily excepting 148, 149 and
176. which run daily except Sunday.
No. 3 stops at Benkelman and Wray.
No. 2 slops at Indianola, Cambridge and Ar
apahoe.
No. SO will carry passengers for Indianola,
Cambridge and Arapahoe.
Nos. 4. 5.148, 149 and 176carry passengers for
all stations.
You can purchase at this office tickets to all
principal points in the United States and Can
ada and baggage checked through to destina
tion without extra charge of transfer. For
information regarding rates, etc. call on or
address C. E MAGNElt. Agent.
THE MID-WINTER EXPOSITION.
The low rates to California now offered by
the Burlington Route, constitute an unequaled
opportunity of visiting that land of sunshine,
fruit and flowers. On account of the Mid
Winter Exposition—California’s World Fair
—agents are now selling round trip tickts to
San Francisco. Los Angeles, San Bernardino,
San Diego, etc., for $65.50. Tickets are good
to return until April 30th, 1894, and are very
liberal as regards stop overs and transit lines.
Wide choice of routes going and returning.
This is the year of years to visit California,
and the Burlington is the route of routes to
get there. Ask your nearest ticket agent for
full information, or write to J. Francis, Gen
eral Passenger and Ticket Agent, Omaha.
Nebraska State Poultry Show and Conven
tion, Kearney, Nebraska, January 16-20. Tick
ets on sale January 14 to 20, good returning
until January 25th.
For the above occasions delegates paying
full fare going will be returned at one-third
fare on presentation to the B. & M. agent, at
point of meeting, certificate signed by proper
officer of the meeting.
Sfeciai. Ticket Rates.
We will until further notice sell tickets to
Spokane, Wash., Portland, Oregon, and inter
mediate points. 1st class continuous passage
$30.00. and class continuous passage $25.00.
Effective Oct.i6th,round trip tickets will be
sold to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Colton,
San Bernardino and San Diego. California at
very low rates. For full particulars regarding
rates, etc., call on or address
C. E. Magner, Agent.
Stock traffic on the road is picking up.
Mrs. H. A. Rouch and sister, departed for
Chicago, yesterday morning.
Miles Fichty has moved from Cambridge to
Falls City, where he will till an operator’s
chair.
Wm. Shinsel, brakeman.had his arm broken
by a brake beam, in the yards here, Tuesday
evening.
Sixteen train crews now run in and out of
McCook. There is no indication that this
will be decreased.
Engineer Joe Lee and wife will leave for
Sterling. Colorado, in a few days, on a visit to
relatives and friends.
Married: At Indianoia, by County Judge
Beck, the 23rd inst., H. C. Ashbaugh, to Miss
Clara E. Dickey; both of McCook.
Mel M. Tingley has gone to McCook on a
visit. From there he goes to Iowa, to be
gone three weeks.—Red Cloud Chief.
The Burlington has absorbed the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway, which has been in
the hand of a receiver for some time.
H. C. Ashbaugh, ex-switchman, has quit the ■
company’s employ, and will move onto Frank
Carruth’s irrigated farm, south west of town.
Frank Harris left on Sunday last on a visit
to his brother at Kansas City and his parents
in Galva, Illinois. He will return tomorrow
night.
There is another rumor of contemplated
sweeping reduction in the salaries of Burling
ton employes, from section hands to first vice
president.
No. 76 went east Tuesday, entirely loaded
with stock. By the time it reached Holdrege,
many hogs were found frozen to death. There
the stockmen procured tar-paper and lined
the north side of the cars, to prevent further
havoc.
The longest reach of railway without a curve
is ciaimed to be that of the new Argentine
Pacific Railway from Buenos Ayres to the foot
of the Andes. For 211 miles it is without a
curve, and has no cutting or embankment
deeper than two or three feet.
'Squire Miller, our new justice, had his first
case this morning. It was a case of assault
in which the cook at the B. & M. was com
plaining witness and the laundress the prison
er. After hearing all the evidence, the justice
dismissed the case.—Akron Republican.)
J. J. Wilkinson, late B. & M. immigration
agent at this point, promises to be heard from
the present season. Under recent date he
writes us that he has been in Omaha disabled
by an accident, but that he expects to be out
here soon with a party of land buyers.—Ox
ford Standard.
During the progress of the Corbett-Mitchell
fight yesterday, the roadmaster’s office was
well represented with “sports,” and the man
ner in which Sam Rogers read the returns,
showed how fully they would have been ap
preciated, had Haley been there. Sam's voice
was somewhat chilled, when in the second
round he noted that Mitchell had hit Corbett
a couple of biffs in the ribs.
The Annual County Institutes.
In accordance with the unanimous wish of
the county superintendents of Nebrasna in
state convention assembled, Hon. A. K.
Goudy, state superintendent of public instruct
ion, has completed a schedule showing the
date of opening of the annual institute of each
county in the state for the summer of 1894. By
the same vote the county superintendents
pledged themselves to the adoption of the
provisions of the schedule unless they found
it impossible to do so. According to the
schedule counties are divided into groups as
follows, and each county will begin its insti
tute on the same date:
June 18—Cass, Chase, Dundy, Franklin,Fur'
nas, Gage, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Jeffer
son, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Otoe, Pawnee, Red
Willow, Richardson, Thayer, Webster.
July 9—Adams, Burt, Butler, Clay, Dakota,
Fillmore, Frontier, Gosper, Johnson, Kearney,
Lancaster, Perkins, Phelps, Polk, Saline,
Sarpy, Thurston, W ashington.
July 23—Banner, Boone, Buffalo, Cheyenne,
Colfax, Dawson, Deuel, Douglas, Garfield,
Hall, Keith, Kimball,Lincoln,Merrick. Nance,
Platte, Scott’s Bluff, Valley.
August 6—Blaine, Box Butte, Custer, Grant,
Greeley, Hamilton, Hooker,Howard, Logan,
Loup, McPherson, Seward,Sherman, Thomas,
Wheeler, York.
August 20—Antelope, Boyd, Brown, Cedar,
Cherry, Cuming, Dawes, Dixon, Dodge, Holt,
Keya Paha, Knox, Madison, Pierce, Rock,
Saunders, Sheridan, Sioux, Stanton, Wayne.
In speaking o{ this new plan Superintend
ent Goudy says: “I am sure there will be
few, if any, instances in which the adoption
of the dates named will be found impracticable
so I confidently expect their general adoption.
The county institute gives me the best oppor
tunity to meet school officers, teachers and
patrons, and in my contact with these, lies my
highest opportunity for usefulness as a public
school official.
“Formerly with no system of dates, much of
my time in the institute season was wasted in
reaching, consecutively, institutes in counties
widely separated. The adoption by the
county superintendents of the dates indicated
will enable me to visit and take part in a
much larger number of institutes.
“You will observe that the schedule pro
vides for periods of two weeks, not overlap
ing, and this obviates a difficulty heretofore
experienced in securing instructors and will
permit the instruction to be given by a small
er number and enable more sections of the
state to secure the services of our best institute
workers."
To the superintendents Mr. Goudy says:
“I trust that you will find it beneficial to
your county to arrange for your institute in
accordance with this schedule and thus aid
this department in expending its time and
energies to the best advantage."
Sunday night, A. Andrus,a farmer living
miles from Danbury, died of quick consump
tion. The deceased was but 28 years of age,
and contracted the disease, last spring, while
planting com. Deleaves a wife and four
small children. The funeral took place on
Tuesday. The bereaved wife and little ones
have the sympathy of that entire community
Mrs. J. F. Kenyon is quite iil.
Conductor Hazelbaker is on the relief with
a very sore hand.
P. 1- Newcomb departed on Tuesday for
his home in Fostoria, Ohio.
One of Foremen Ritchie's children is ill
with an attack of typhoid fever.
Mesdames Z. L. Kay and Frank Kendlen
went down to Hastings, Saturday, on a brief
jaunt.
Mrs. Amanda Evans, wife of the agent at
Raymond, Nebraska, is in the city, visiting J.
E. Robinson.
Attorney Morlan went down to Arapahoe,
Saturday morning, on a railroad tricycle. He
returned on the train.
J. W. Trammell and family of the Oxford
eating house have gone down to Shreveport
Louisiana, to spend a few weeks.
E. O. Brandt and W. C. Wood were Com
mercial guests, Saturday. Brandt is quite a
regular visitor at western division, lately.
M an wants but little here below, and it’s
mighty little he gets if he does his advertising
on board fences and bam doors.—Walt Ma
son.
Rankin Bros, delivered 328 car loads of ice
to the railroad company this year. W. L.
Frame checked the ice for the company.—Cam
bridge Kaleidoscope.
Renewed conferences between the genera
passenger agents of the trans-continental rail
ways promise to remove the necessity for a
trans-continental rate war that seemed almost
inevitable last week. The railway officials
recognize the disastrous consequences of such
wars as well as any one else and are only too
happy to avoid them where they are carrying
a legitimate traffic. Particularly at a time like
the present, when no road has a surplus of
patronage, a trans-continental rate war would
work deplorable results upon the business of
the roads.
Roadmaster Haley was in town this week
and informed us the velocipede car which he
recently invented and had on exhibiton at the
World’s fair in charge of W. S. Perry, got
burned-“I’ve got money to throw at snow
birds,” remarked a stranger on the depot
platform yesterday, that had about three fing
ers in his tank. And some of the bystanders
suggested that he put the twenty dollar gold
piece he was displaying on the rail and see
the train run over it. He did. The shiner
stuck to the wheels of the engine on a thro’
freight and was gone. Up to the present time
an army of boys have failed to locate it.—Hol
brook News.
This is the Time
WHEN WE MUST
o o o o oooooo oooooooooo
Clear Our Stock
O OO O OO OOOOOO OOOOO O On
-for
Spring Purchases.
That means we will sell anything in the
house at almost your own price. It is not a
matter of profit but to get rid of Goods. Prices
on paper cut no figure. A personal examina
tion is the only way to convince yourself.
L Lowmas & Son,
DRY GOODS, CARPETS, MILLINERY.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria.
A 13 O LL AR
or two is considerable these hard
times, but there are times when
you are wholly justified in the
expenditure. For instance if you
are looking for a
Round Quit
Heating Stove, don't let some un
scrupulous dealer sell you some
other Stove for the
jiRouud ©ali
P^ or sell you some cbea[> imitation
' which is “just as good" for
(3 ©oJJar Or TwO
Less. Remember that imitation is
An Acknowledgment of Superiority,
So Buy The
Genuine M []AK.
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See the name cast on the legs, also on the nickel name plate.
CALL AND SEE THEM
_AT THE_
THE PIONEER HARDWARE,
W. C. LaTourette, Propr.