The Citizens Bank of McCook
INCORPORATED UNDER STATE LAWS.
Paid Up Capital, - $50,000.
Surplus, ------ 10,000.
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
Collections Made on ail Accessible Points. Drafts Drawn on all
Principal Cities of Europe. Taxes Paid
for Non-Itesidents.
Tickets for Sale to ai)d froip Europe.
OFFICERS.
V. FRANKLIN, Fresident. A. C. EBERT, Cashier.
Correspondents:—'The First National Bank, Lincoln, Nebraska. The
Chemical National Bank, New York City.
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Authorized Capital $100,000
Capital and Surplus 60,000
OFFICERS -A.3STID DIRECTORS.
6E0RGE HOCKNELL, B. M. FREES, W. F. LAWSON,
President. Vice President. Cashier.
A. CAMPBELL, , FRANK HARRIS.
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J. S. McBrayer. Mii.ton Osborn.
McBrayersosborn,
PROPRIETORS OF
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ONLY FURNITURE VAN IN THE CITY.
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mercial Hotel or our office opposite depot.
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J. S. McBrayer also has a first-class
house-moving outfit.
CHARLES H. BOYLE,
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
McCOOK, NEBRASKA.
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J. E. KELLEY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
AC ENT LINCOLN LAND CO.
McCOOK. - - NEBRASKA.
| Office In Bear of First National Bank.
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OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.
STORIES AND ANECDOTES FOR
THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
When Ma Wa» Near—A Little Girl Who
I* a Regular member of the San Fran
cisco Volunteer Firemen — Majestic
Count Loo—A Young Critic.
A Veteran at Twelve.
Marie Mahoney is the mascot of the
California veteran volunteer tire
men’s association.
She is the only girl mascot of the
kind in the United States.
She was born in San Francisco
twelve years ago, and is the plumpest,
jolliest little girl that ever was—just
as if she wasn’t an “officer” in the
“Vets.”
When Marie was five years old she
began to march with the veterans, on
the occasion of the visit to this city of
the New York volunteers of the same
order. Since then there is no excuse
to be offered why she should not go
along when there is any marching to
do.
Marie Mahoney is the daughter of
Senator Mahoney of this city and lives
at the Baldwin and is as natural and
unaffected as a girl could be. She
wants to talk about anything in the
world but herself and thinks inter
viewing the greatest bore. But she
finally gave up to what she knew was
one of the inconvenieness of great
ness and told all about her life as a
mascot, and what a long, unending
vacation it had always been. The
veterans idolize her, and were it not
that she has two sturdy little feet to
walk on and looked so well at the
head of their ranks they would insist
on carrying her on their shoulders all
the time when they are tramping.
But Marie walks, and she walks miles
and miles every time they have a
parade and never thinks anything of
the mud and of getting tired. As
the result she is the pieture of health
and doesn’t want to ever stop being a
mascot.
“Marie is getting too big to march
much longer with the firemen," said
Mrs. Mahoney the other day. “I shall
let het walk just once more, and that
must end it.”
“No, mamma,” says Marie, coaxing
ly, with the nearest approach to a
frown which she is capable of; “no,
mamma. I don't want to stop yet.”
And then you can see that the
chances are that Marie will have
things all her own way.
Marie went to the World’s fair as
the mascot, “and I never saw her all
the time we were gone,” says her
mother. “That is, she was with the
men all the time and I was only a
maid when I did see her, to take care
of her clothes and her fatner’s.” And
she smiled indulgently on her.
And Marie dresses just like the
men, only she wears a black skirt.
Otherwise she wears when she
marches a red shirt made like the
firemen’s shirts to a “t,” even to the
little hooks that keep the collar
down, a black tie and a most killing
little helmet. And it is so nearly
killing that she has to have a tiny
fatigue cap fastened to her belt be
hind just like the men. Her helmet
is inscribed with all the monograms
and letterings that make the other
caps so interesting and mysterious.
She carries besides, just like the
three other officers, a silver trumpet,
and she salutes with that, while the
rest of the veterans salute with their
hats.
When tney went to Chicago they
stopped at Denver, Salt Lake, Ogden,
and Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York, not to mention Buffalo, Albany
and Niagara Falls. At all these
places the mascot and the firemen
and their wives were met with bands
of music, flowers, speeches and the
freedom of the city until they were
nearly spoiled for common, everyday
affairs. Marie on all these occasions
started off with the association and
the association that came to meet
them and marched until she was
tired and rode the rest of the way on
a little engine that they took with
them that was born in 1820. It was
the same everywhere they went, and
there was a great deal more cheering
because that special little girl was
along than there would otherwise
have been. They stopped at Washing
ton and the president gave them a
special reception and kissed the
mascot, who gravely pinned a
medal to his breast. He had been
a great chum of Marie’s father in their
old Buffalo school days. And the
medals. There are 400 of them, of all
sorts and description. They were
given to the little girl everywhere
she went, until she has medals that
no one else in the world has. The
one she thinks the most of is a plain,
homely, faded red one that reads:
“Only a few of us left.” There is
comething sad about that to Marie,
for it means that the men to whom
the badge belonged are either eight
times her age or they have died long
since.
lSut the best of it all is that Marie
Mahoney is just a sensible, healthy,
unspoiled little girl in spite of the
life she leads, that is one grand com
bination of candy, parades and medals.
She has no more self-consciousness
than a bird, and she thinks as mnch
of the veterans as they do of her.—
San Francisco Examiner.
A Pansy Story.
There is a charming little story
well known in Germany, but with
which American children are not so
familiar.
It is about the pretty pansy flower,
and the tale is that the big petal was
a bad stepmother who sat in the gar
den with her four children. She sat
up very straight and proud on her
i green seat, holding her own two
! children next to her and pushing the
I two step-children down, trying to get
them out of sight. But presently the
sun shone out in the heavens, and it
looked down in the garden and slowly
turned the pansy around till the lit
tle, slighted children were at the top
and the wicked stepmother was low
est of all. (That is what the sun does
to the pansies.) And thus, say the
Germans, who are a poetical and re
ligious people, “Ifeaven makes every
thing right in the end.”—Inter Ocean
Majestic Count Leo.
•Count Leo is the name of a mag
nilicent St. Bernard dog owned by
M rs. L. M. Kirkpatrick.
Leo is an aristocratic dog, as his
name indicates, with a pedigree half
a yard long, yet this in no way inter
feres with his amiability and intelli
gence.
“Leo, run shut the door,” said Mr.
Kirkpatrick to his dog, just as he
would address a child, and Leo trots
to the door and with his paw pushes
it close, but still it is unlatched.
“Oh, shut it close,” and his nose is
brought into reqisition and the door
closes.
The ey-es beam with wonderful in
telligence. Every word spoken is
understood, whether by a stranger or
those with whom he is familiar.
The guests of the hotel where Leo’s
home is foster this intelligence in
many ways, a favorite one being to
give their keys to him, with instruc
tions where to leave them. The dog
never makes a mistake as to the
identity of a guest, nor the number of
the room he has been assigned to.
“Take those towels to No. -and
leave them,” says the chambermaid,
and it is done, the only reward Leo
ever asks for being the friendly pat
on his head in which he delights.
“I’m going to dress up to-day, Leo,”
says Mi-. Kirkpatrick, “and you may
bring me my silk hat. ” Leo goes to a
closet, and, raising himself to a level
with a shelf, carefully takes down a
box, opens it, and, gently as though
it were an infant, lifts out the silk
hat and lays it in his master's lap.
one day instead ot the shiny black
liat with which he was familiar a flip
pant bit of flowers and ribbons and
lace held together by half a dozen
pins set with brilliants reposed in the
bandbox.
At the sight Leo’s ears went up; it
was deposited on the floor, where he
manifested his disgust by si. art barks
Here he left the bonnet and began a
search for the hat. At last it was
discovered and his delight was great.
He would not be content until it re
posed in its customary place on the
shelf.
Leo possesses one accomplishment
that makes one wonder just how close
the line may be between brute intelli
gence and human intelligence.
Leo sings.
Not as does his mistress, but in
canine fashion. To a piano accom
paniment he barks the scales, seven
being his compass. When taking a
lesson, however, he is apt to let his
feelings run away with him and thus
mar his conscience. At such times
his mistress waits for a moment, say
ing:
"Come, Leo, got up m this chair
here and rest a bit.” He climbs into
the chair by the side of the piano, aad
again the music starts, Lso accompa
nying it by his rhythmical barking.
“JJot so loud—softly now,” and the
dog, understanding perfectly, modu
lates liis voice to a mere whisper.
This clever dog is 2 years and G
months old, and first saw the light of
day in Tacoma, where he has several
brothers and sisters, much larger
than himself, but none so intelligent.
Indeed, it is claimed by Lao’s mistress
that he is the smartest dog in Amer
ica.—Chicago Times.
When 31 a Was Near.
I didn't have one bit of fear
’Rout nothin’ ’tall, when ma was near.
The clouds could bank up in the sky.
Or ’fore the wind in white streaks II ,p,
But someho w nuther I did a't keer
A snap for them-when an was near.
Goblins that sneak at ni'ht to skecr
Us little folks —when ma was near
Jes' fairly flew, and wouldn't stay
’Round there one bit, but runned away:
An’ didn’t seem to be one bit queer—
They couldn't help it, when ma was near.
It wasn't bad to be sick, where
You felt the joy that ma was near.
The throbs o’ pain couidn’t stay much
Under the coolin : of her touch.
But seemed to stand in mortal fear
Of everythin.', when ma w is near
—Edward N Wood
An Absent-Minded 3Ian.
The following anecdote of an ab
sent-minded man has lately come to
hand, and while some of you may
have heard it before, it seems to be
too good to be passed over entirely.
Among the personal anecdotes told
of Peter Burrowes, the celebrated
barrister, and one of Ireland’s “wor
thies,” is the following remarkable
instance of absence of mind. A friend
called upon him one morning in his
dressing-room, and found him shaving
with his face to the wall. He asked
him why he chose so strange an atti
tude. The answer was, “To look in
the glass.”
“Why,” said his friend, “there is no
glass there!”
“Bless me!” Burrows observed, “I
did not notice that before.”
Ringing the bell he called his ser
vant, and questioned him respecting
his looking-glass.
“Oh, sir,” said the servant, “the
mistress had if removed six weeks
ago.”—Harper’s Young People,
fclnougli.
Teacher, 6ternly—Willie Waffles,
you were late this morning.
Willie Waffles, blushing—Yes'm. I
had to get up in the night and go for
a doctor.
Teacher—Well, Willie, I will excuse
you this time, but I hope this will not
happen again.
Willie—That's what father said.
Matter !•. -.ou™h.
“What’s the matter, Johnnie?”
asked his mother anxiously.
“Oh! oh!” howled Johnnie, “I’v«
stepped on my tongue with my teeth."
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Carlos Marty?;, D. D.,
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Kills Worms, give3 sleep, ami promotes di
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EDWIX F. PAUDEn, M. D.,
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R. A. COLE,
LEADING
MERCHANT TAILOR
OF McCOOK,
Has just received a new stock of CLOTHS
and TRIMMINGS. If you want a good fit
ting suit made at the very lowest prices for
good work, call on him. Shop first door west
of Barnett’s Lumber Office, on Dennison
street.
J. A. GUNN,
musician and Surgeon,
McCOOK, XE Hit ASK A.
5Sf”Or»ieB—Front rooms-aver Loraan &
Son’s store. Residence—102 McFarland St.,
two blocks north of McEntee hotel. Prompt
attention to all calls.
W. V. CACE,
musician and Surgeon,
McCOOK, NEBRASKA*
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