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By F. M. KIMMELL.
$1.60 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
ALL HOME PRINT.
The Nebraska alliance is being
reorganized.
A powerful effort is being
made to smother the Wilson bill
in the senate.
An Indiana judge of the U. S.
court has decided that a depositor
iu an insolvent bank may recover
money if traceable.
Boss McKane of Coney island
infamy gets six years in Sing Sing.
Which leads to the conclusion that
there is a God in Israel.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of
the establishment of the Nebraska
university was celebrated, Inst
Friday, with great enthusiasm.
May her greatness never dim nor
cease to increase.
Mrs. Lease of Kansas has startl
ed the country by claiming to be
a Knight Templar; and announces
her determination to institute a
lodge of women masons within the
next two years in bleeding Kansas.
Mary Ellen is showing signs of
insanity, we fear.
The rejection of Peckham by
the senate must be regarded as a
direct slap in the face to the presi
dent, and will prove a crushing
blow to Democratic hopes of future
success. It’s a repetition to the
Democratic party of what the
Conkliug-Blaine-Garfield imbro
glio was to the Republican party.
Buffalo Bill, and Fred May
of club, came to blows in Chamber
Iain’s, Washington, Saturday, over
an old flirtation with a London
actress. Bill smote Fred one
mightily on the countenance and
hostilities were then discontinued
by the interference of mutual
friends. A duel is talked of.
Where Hornblower and Peck
ham failed Senator Edward D.
White of Louisiana sailed through
gloriously. The name of Senator
White was sent into the senate,
Monday afternoon, and within 30
minutes, by courtly senatorial
courtesy, the nomination was con
firmed, without reference to the
usual committee. Thusendeth the
judgsliip incident.
Congress will naturally hesitate
before it authorizes an appropria
tion to be used in the extirpation
of the Russian thistle. The this
tle is no doubt one of the unpleas
ant drawbacks to agriculture in the
northwestern states, but it is not
the only drawback with which the
industrious farmer has to contend.
In the absence of a national ap
propriation a brigade of farmers’
boys armed with sharp hoes may
accomplish the desired result.
Colonel Peterson, who is uou
managing the politics of the Fifth
district, (in his "Websteriau mind)
has issued his decree, which like
the laws of the Medes and Persians,
is unchangeable, and “must go.”
He gives it out flat, that “McCook
must have the next congressman.”
And there is no appeal from Csesar!
So you aspirants outside of this
city may as well come off the perch.
Now, while McCook is doubtless
full of tall,, straight and vigorous
congressional timber, the Hon. W.
E. Andrews of Hastings will be
the next. Republican nominee for
that office, if justice and judgment
prevail in the next congressional
convention. And they doubtless
will.
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY.
A Good Citizen Spend* His Money Among:
the Local Tradesmen.
The member of a community who ha
bitual]} ignores his home merchant, me
chanic or tradesman and makes his pur
chases and spends his money in other
towns does not deserve the name of a
good citizen and should not be counte
nanced by those who have the best inter
ests of their own locality at heart. That
it pays to trade near home is a well es
tablished fact, and no town or city ever
prospered whose citizens, enticed by the
alluring baits held out by the merchant
in the big cities, spend their money with
them.
The local merchant and mechanic are
interested in the progress and develop
ment of the town and country in which
they live, and every dollar that they
amass is reinvested and remains in the
neighborhood. As they prosper their
taxes increase, and just so much those of
others are lightened. They assist in
keeping up your schools, churches and
other public institution and charities.
But the person who spends his money in
some distant city puts it beyond assist
ing in any local enterprise. The man in
the city upon whom you bestow your
custom has no further interest in you or
your surroundings than the cash he re
ceives from you. It is no concern of his
whether you are as devoid of social,
cli urch or educational privileges as the in
habitants of Borrioboola-Gha, or wheth
er your streets or highways are well
made or an aboriginal Indian trail. The
surplus money which he has to bestow
will go to enrich the exchequer of insti
tutions from which you will never re
ceive any benefit and to add to the
wealth of communities in which you
have no financial interest.
A_C_11_ ll •
inci, iucio 10 uu guuu icaauu
for this impolitic and unbusinesslike di
version of trade. The business men in
the smaller cities and towns can and do
sell goods year in and year out as cheap
ly as do those of the larger places. The
lower expenses, cheaper rent and im
munity from the exorbitant municipal
taxes which prevail in the great cities
enable them to do so and still make a
living profit. But the shrewd city mer
chants, by advertising certain goods at
ridiculously low prices, manage to attract
gullible patrons to their places of busi
ness, with the knowledge that they will
succeed in selling them other goods at
advanced prices to reimburse themselves
for the loss on the “leader” and leave
themselves a handsome profit.
The home merchant is established here
and expects to pursue his business among
ns indefinitely. The continuance of his
trade is dependent upon this fair and
uniform treatment of his customers and
the quality of his goods. His field is lim
ited, and should he resort to shady meth
ods or foist dishonest wares upon his pa
trons his reputation would be gone and
his trade consequently lost. But the
metropolitan merchant has a wide and
an almost unlimited field. His patrons
are from all parts of the country, and if
he can be so fortunate as to get one “good
deal” from each one he does not expect
them to return. The ideal community
is that in which there is a reciprocity of
good feeling among merchants in all
branches of trade, mechanics, profession
al men, workingmen and farmers, each
availing himself as far as possible of the
other’s services, buying his goods or em
ploying his labor, as the ease may be.
The community where this practice ob
tains is always found to be an excep
tionally prosperous one, populated by
cheerful, honest, neighborly and enter
prising people, and a good place for the
home seeker to locate in.
Co-operation In Town Building.
There is no village, town or city bat
that has an ambition to develop into a
manufacturing center. There are but
few that realize their ambition. In this
day of sharp competition that cheap com
modity called “chin music” goes but a
short distance in attracting capital and
inducing the location of manufacturing
industries. A location must possess ex
traordinary natural advantages in the
way of power, fuel supply, transporta
tion facilities or supply of raw material
to induce a manufacturing concern to
seek it without some effort on the part,
of its citizens. In most cases a cash bo
nus, subscription of stock or donation of
site is required to secure this end, and
generally the most liberal offer secures
the enterprise.
The demands of the promoters of these
enterprises are often so exorbitant that
they cannot be profitably met. Thou
sands have been donated to corporations
by towns throughout the west, and in a
great many cases the benefit has been in
finitesimal. The remedy for this is in
co-operative manufacturing investment.
Every community has sufficient idle cap
ital among its people to equip and main
tain manufactories which will be both
profitable to the investor aud advanta
geous to the community.
For instance, the people determine that
a paper mill, cannery, starch factory or
any of the hundredsof different branches
of manufacture now carried on in the
United estates could be successfully main
tained in their town. A meeting should be
called, an incorporation formed, the cost
of the plant ascertained and books for
the subscription of stock opened. The
price of shares sin raid be placed sufficient
ly low to allow persons of moderate
means to become stockholders, as often
this class of persons are-the most pro
gressive citizens a community affords.
Only those in whom the community has
the fullest confidence should he put at
the head oi the movement. When all
the stock is sold and the venture estab
lished, it will only require good business
methods to make it a success—financially
and otherwise. After one industry is
established and made a success others
will follow. The only matter to be de
cided is the nature of the industry that
is adapted to the locality, and when this
is done go to work and establish it.
It is good policy to patronize the mer
chant or mechanic who is the moat lib
eral in his efforts to assist in buildinv
nD the community
FRAUDULENT BARGAIN SALES.
Scheme* Concocted by Dishonest Dealers
to Hoodwink the People.
In recent years the advertisements of
“bankrupt” and “foreclosure” sales have
become quite common. The penchant
among certain classes of people for
taking advantage of the necessities of
their fellow men to obtain something
for less than its real value is util
ized by the promoters of these schemes
to dispose of second class goods at first
class prices. Some of these sharks have
an admirable system to better enable
them to delude and hoodwink the pub
lic.
Instead of, as was formerly the cus
tom, dropping down into a town, rent
ing a room and at once advertising their
great “bankrupt” sale, they pursue a
different method. A stool pigeon is sent
ahead, who rents a room in a city or town
centrally located and puts in a stock of
merchandise. He announces by hand
bills widely distributed and through the
columns of the local papers that, like the
country journalist, he has “come to
Btay.” A week elapses, and another in
dividual, representing himself as the
agent of jobbers, puts in his appearance
with a chattel mortgage on the stock,
which he proceeds to foreclose.
xne nrst man, quite crestranen evi
dently, gets himself interviewed by the
newspaper reporter, and, after a recital
of his woes and misfortunes and a disser
tation on the excellence and good quali
ties of the merchandise which has been
wrested from him by the iron hand of
the remorseless mortgagee, hies himself
to some other town to repeat the opera
tion. The conspirator who is left in
charge, with a display of enterprise wor
thy of a better cause, floods the sur
rounding country and neighboring towns
with lurid posters announcing a “mort
gagee’s sale,” with some account of the
wonderful sacrifices to be made in order
to realize the mortgage indebtedness at
the earliest practical moment, and cun
ningly worded “locals,” reciting the
same story, find their way into the col
umns of the local papers.
This is the bargain seeker’s opportunity,
and the way the “penny wise and pound
foolish” population of town and country
respond to the advertisement and load
themselves down with shoddy goods, an
tiquated clothing or worthless jewelry is
a caution. Persons who have been in
debt to their home merchant since the
mind of man runneth not back to the
contrary bring their ready cash and
plank it down to the mountebank in re
turn for his doubtful wares. A few
weeks’ use fills the bosoms of the bargain
seekers with vain regret as they contem
plate the condition of their much vaunt
ed bargains.
These specious “sales” seldom deceive
the sensible man or woman. A mo
ment’s consideration should convince
any one that if the merchandise offered
was as represented, standard goods, be
fore the local merchants and dealers
would allow them to be disposed of in
competition with their goods they would
buy the entire stock and take it out of
the market. The “agent,” if the mort
gage was bona fide, would be glad to dis
pose of the entire stock in this manner
in order to save time and expense. But
such is not the case. This class of goods
is manufactured expressly for these ir
responsible concerns and is never found
on the counters of reputable dealers.
The gudgeons who bite at the bait get
hooked. Trade with established mer
chants is the only safe rule.
Serves Them Eight.
A house owner needs a lightning rod.
Instead of calling on a permanently lo
cated dealer in lightning rods and em
ploying him to do the work, he enters into
a contract with the first shark that comes
along and signs an agreement, which
eventually turns up as a note in the
hands of an “innocent” party and mulcts
him to the tune of several hundred dol
lars, and the popular verdict is, “Served
him right.”
A predilection for strangers and the
mania for buying goods in other than the
regular channels of trade seem to be pe
culiar to a certain class of mercenary
people of the community. They doubt
the honesty and good intentions of their
home artisan or merchant, whom they
have known for years, and refuse to be
lieve his assurances of fair treatment,
but turn a willing ear to the first smooth
tongned swindler that comes along. This
trait of human character is well known
to the smooth worker, and the amounts
realized each year through the gullibility
of their victims is greater than is general
ly known.
The farm implement and musical in
strument agent comes from no man
knows whither, makes a sale at a low
price and levants. In a few days a man
with a chattel mortgage on the same
article arrives and wrests it from the
buyer, and he has no recourse unless he
can find the agent. A dealer in this
man's own locality stood ready and aux
ions to sell him the same goods at a fair
price, but he preferred patronizing a
stranger with the vain hope of getting
something for nothing. Ho got duped,
and his happiness is not increased when
his neighbors declare that it “served
him right.”
Farming communities are now being
visited by agents for grocery concerns
and shoddy dry goods houses located in
one of the large cities. The bargains
they offer have the effect of gathering in
scores of victims. In one locality visit
ed. sugar by the barrel was offered at a
price lower than it could be obtained
from the refinery. There was, however,
a condition to the sale—that the buyer
was also to buy a certain amount of
spices and fancy groceries in order to
make a bill large enough to justify the
house in making a shipment.
The goods came C. O. D., and much to
the disgust of the consignee everything
but the sugar was utterly unfit for use.
Let these bargain seekers take the
hard cash which they always seem to
have ready and waiting for the shari;
and go to your home merchant and plain:
it down, and yon will find that, takin._
into consideration the quality of th.
merchandise, he sells much cheaper than
the traveling vender.
We Continue this Our Fifteenth
SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARING SALE
.OF.
WINTER COOPS.
Liberal Discounts in Prices to Make Them Move Rapidly.
JONAS ENGEL,
£u>_Manager.
COLEMAN PRECINCT.
Win. Coleman sold the S. W. [
of 27-1-29.
Wm. Coleman sold the S. W. |
11-3-29 last Saturday to a gentle
man from Missouri, who will take
possession at once.
Now is the time to take the
plow and lister to the shop, if they
need sharpening, as they will soon
be needed in putting out the crop.
A. Maxwell who visited old ac
quaintances and friends in Cole
man precinct for a week, returned
to his old home in Perry, Iowa,on
No. 2 Tuesday morning.
Mr. Orr Earley, who purchased
the Christ. Blaeholder farm one
mile north of Perry, arrived Tues
day from Bonaparte, Iowa, with a
carload of stock and farm imple
ments.
An Iowa man came here recent
ly to make his children a short vis
it and buy them something to live
on. He soon discovered that his
children had more to live on than
he had.
There has never before been
such a call for farms to rent. Men
have been here over three months
looking for a farm to rent, and
can’t find one. It is safe to say
that fifty farms could be rented if
improved.
A little extra feed should be
given the horses now to put them
in the best of condition for the
spring work, which will soon be
gin. If horses are thin now give
them just about all the corn they
will eat three times a day, and
give them the best of care. A
team that is poor when spring
work begins is next thing to worth
less all summer. One team in
good flesh is worth more than two
poor ones. Don’t stint the horses
now, but give them all they will
eat, and let them run out and take
exercise every day from this on.
Groverius, Maximus, is now at
liberty to send a third nomination
into the senate for associate judge
of the United States supreme court.
Peckham has also been turned
down. We would suggest the name
of our distinguished citizen and
exclusive Democrat, Hon. James
Harris, whose masterful arraign
ment of the slight-of-liand man in
the recent trial in our city, coupled
with his coup de maitre in district
court lately, together with numer
ous other salient qualifications, all
recommend him for the dignified
position._
Money is a necessary evil, but a
little goes a long way when you
buy your groceries at Noble’s.
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Waff Pa|ier ...
Remnants
VERY CHEAP.
We can sell you a very Good Paper for
what you will pay for a Cheap One.
L. W. McConnell & Co.
jn am JIB f**i IK m tSX. n /n m ana ana aa aa
TARIFF OR NO TARIFF!
We offer Goods in all departments at
Lower Prices than any other house in the
Republican Valley. Below we give a list of
a few of the many bargains we are offering:
12 papers of pins for. .$ .10
Best 100-yard spool silk for.07
Any and all kinds of dress stays, per set. .10
Best ginghams, twelve yards for. 1.00
Best apron check gingham, sixteen yards for 1.00
Common apron check gingham, twenty-five yards for 1.00
The very best calicos, twenty yards for. 1.00
Shirting, Ticking, all lines of Dress -Goods, Notions, etc.,
at lower prices than they have ever before been sold for
anywhere. Visit our store and get our prices on our entire
line of Canned Goods, a choicer line of which are not to be
found in this country east of California. Call on us at once.
Our Grocery Stock
Is complete in every department at unheard-of prices.
Se us before purchasing. It will pay you to come and see
our line of Ladies’, Misses’, Children’s and Gents’ Shoes, even
if you have to come one hundred miles just for that purpose.
E3P”Prompt attention to mail orders.
J. A. WILCOX & SON.