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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1894)
= - - - _ - , . 1 . , : \ . . . . o T } dr : b c i..r THIRTEENTH YEAR. McCOUK , RED WILLOW COUNTY NEBRASKA FRIDAY EVENING DEC. 7 , 1894. . NUMBER 29 , 1 THE SOCIAL WHIRL. Business Depression Enlivened by Simple Social Gayety. While the wheels of commerce and trade , lacking the oil that "makes the mare go , " squeak and creak in their sluggish , fitful progress , McCook's social i , life has taken on quite a vigorous motion , which gives most enlivening promise of 'driving dull care away during the com- d ing season of hibernation and business stagnation. Quite a number of smart little parties have already given a bright bit of coloring to our social life , and the horizon is one of promise. TEE TRIBUNE will endeavor to give these cloud-tinting affairs , these cobweb ' , erasers , such merited treatment as its information - formation will warrant. Any facts along this line will be thankfully received. IiIGE FIVE. Mayor and Mrs. J. E. Kelley enters - s tuned a large company of friends at their cosy home , last Friday evening , in t a very felicitous fashion , at high five. Refreshments were served at 6:30 , and the hostess is to be congratulated upon t the pretty style in which the inviting ' edibles were served. Progressive high five was played until Io:3o , when the prizes were sold at auction-Messrs. B. F. Troxel and C. W. Barnes gaining lau- Tels as sale criers. This unique method ' of distributing favors had the distinct advantage of giving everybody a prize. Mr. Orville Burnett , however , secured 1 the principal prize on a bid of four beans. It was withal one of the cleverest social events in many moons. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Babcock , W. S. Mor- . Ian , Jacob Burnett , F. M. Kimmell , S. ' B. Strasser , Orville Burnett , C. M. Noble , C. L. DeGroff , F. A. Penuell , C. W. Bron- son , G. E. Johnston , B. F. Troxel , H. P. Sutton , Z. L. Kay , S. L. Green , J. W. Hupp , A. S. Campbell , C. T. Brewer , J. F. Kenyon , J. E. Robinson , E. H. Doan , Mesdames L. Day , Vina Wood , H. W. Cole , Jay Tubbs ; Misses Sara Lowman , Belle Spanogle of Red Cloud ; Messrs. J. , : D. Robb , E. E. Lowman , C. W. Barnes. Mesdames Bronson , Pennell and Tubbs assisted the hostess. 1 FIVE o'CLOCKS. ) I Dirs. Z. L. Kay gave a delightful "five o'clock , " Tuesday of last week , in honor of Mrs. W. S. Cornutt of Culbertson. The guests were Mesdames H. P. Sutton , C. t . T. Brewer , Vina Wood , S. B. Strasser , , ' 1v. C. LaTourette. On Saturday evening last Mrs. S. B. Strasser extended a similar - lar social courtesy to the same lady , at which were present Mesdames L. B. i Stiles , C. M. Noble , Vina Wood , E. Q. Robie , Z. L. Bay , H. P. Sutton , W. C. .i LaTourette , C. T. Brewer , S. Patton. i Miss Maud Doan entertained a small company of friends , last Saturday evening - ing , in honor of Misses Lou Beardslee ' and Clara Happersett of Indianola , who were guests of McCook friends a few 1 days close of last week. A social dancing club , similar to those i that have obtained such favor in our city in the past , is being organized to give a series of dances for its members during , the winter. A Tale of Three Emigrants. ' Three emigrants were up before Squire Berry , last Friday afternoon , charged ( with stealing some baled hay from a farmer named Bongars who lives near town on the south side. One of the trio was too sick , it was claimed , to appear in court-having been confined to his wagon for two or three days. One of the other two pleaded guilty. Both were found guilty and assessed $ z fine and costs , which they were unable to pay , and they were booked for the county jail. While Marshal Bump was after the horses of the gang to secure the costs in the case , it was discovered that the sick man of the outfit had taken the best horse and hurriedly vamoosed the coun- try. While Deputy Sheriff Babcock was preparing to take the precious pair to 1 Indianola they succeded in escaping vig- ilence of the officer and likewise' skipped the tra-la-loo. And thus endeth the first chapter. But that isn't all. A few days since H. w. Cole's drivin g horse was discovered to be absent from Frank Stillman's pasture , just east o f town. The horse upon which the sic k man sought to leave the country wa s found dead near Stillman's pasture fenc e with its throat cut by barb wire. Th e supposition is that the sick man too k Mr. Cole's horse on which to continue his flight. And thus the tale concludet h for the present at least. - Must Pay Up. - All bills must be paid between th e first and fifteenth of each month , other - wise no credit will be given. CARSON & WEST Sunny Side Dairy. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powde r World's Fair Highest Award. . s. r > A A California Letter. SANTA ANA , CAL. , Nov. 3oth. F. Di. KiMMELL , McCook , Neb. Dear -Believing that a few lines from Southern California might interest some of your readers , I will write a short letter which you may publish in your columns. It has been just four months since we reached our journey's end , and the greater portion of that time we have spent in exploring the Pacific coast and the various mountain ranges of Southern California. We have visited numerous beach and mountainresorts , Spanish mis- sions'over a hundred years old , and had a general good time fishing , hunting , bathing , boating and eating fruit. We have now settled down to business andd feel much encouraged over our future prospects. But as time goes on and we realize that winter is just upon us , we cannot help but feel that nature has somewhat disarranged the seasons , for instead of vegetation of all kinds losing its foliage and preparing for its blanket of snow , it is just beginning to take on new life and is becoming greener and more beautiful than it was in the midst of summer. The farmers are beginning to plow and sow , while their wives are busy making garden and setting hens. They lose no time in taking up the beautiful - tiful flowers and housing them , for fear of their freezing , but they simply cut a few feet offof the geranium hedges , in order to be able to see over the top of them , and climb to the roof of the house and remove the mass of roses that thereof roof may take in a little sunshine. In selecting Orange county for our future - ture home we feel that we have made no mistake. We have made a thorough canvass of the state from San Francisco to San Diego , a distance of about 700 miles along the coast , and from what we have seen and old settlers have told us , we do not hesitate to say that Orange county has far better advantages to offer to all classes of people than any other county we have visited. No where can there be a more reliable irrigation system - tem than in this county. Besides a fine surface water supply , a great portion of the best farm land is underlaid with a a fine artesian Water system , and can be had upon a farm at a depth of 75 to 400 feet and at a cost of $ Ioo to $100. This county has a large area of good agricultural - tural land lying along the coast and consequently - sequently needs but little moisture to produce a fine crop. This an advantage that other localities do not possess , and while many other counties are entirely dependent upon their fruit crop , Orange county has other resources to fall back on in case of a failure of the fruit crop. General farming , stock raising , and especially - pecially the dairy business all tend to make up for any failure that may at any time occur in the fruit product. The fruit orchards are a very pleasing sight to the visitor. The season is now about over for a greater portion of the fruits , yet the markets are well supplied with a full assortment of peaches , plums , prunes , pears , apricots , grapes , apples , nectarines and quinces ; they have all been selling at one cent per pound delivered - livered at your door ; all kinds of berries at four cents per quart ; dried peaches , apricots , apples , etc. , at 64 cents per pound. Poultry raising is quite an industry here , chickens selling at $2.50 to $3.75 per dozen and eggs at 25 to 30 cents per dozen. Good mulch cows range in price from $50 to $75. Butter is 25 to 30 cents per pound. Feed is very high this year on account of the dry weather ; alfalfa hay is selling for $ io per ton , barley hay at from $12 to $15 per ton. Pumpkins are a very profitable crop and are a staple - ple feed , even for horses ; they bring $2.50 per ton and will yield from ten to twenty ton per acre , some of them weighing 200 pounds. They are generally planted afte r the other crop has been harvested. A s all of the 12 months are good growing weather it is a very easy matter to grow two crops on the same land in one year. We are now using new potatoes-th e second crop this year-which are selling at 75 cents per hundred pounds. Yesterday was Thanksgiving day and we put aside our work and did justice t ° the occasion. At twelve o'clock we too k our places around a very interesting to ble loaded with roast turkey and all th e various kinds of fruits and vegetable s that could find room thereon , the veg - setables being fresh from the garden. We had scarcely finished our dinne r when a special messenger arrived notifying fying us of a grand free excursion o Newport Beach over the Santa Ana an d Newport railroad. Well , we hardly fel t equal to the occasion , but as we neve r did allow ourselves to miss anythin g ge that was free , we at once accepted th e invitation and joined the merry crow d of about 3,000 , spending the balance o the day gathering shells , fishing , an d basking in the sunshine on the beach The happy excursionists returned home in the evening well pleased with tin day's recreation and pleasures. AN EVEN DOZEN MCCooEITES. . . . Our Open Hearts and Hands. The package donation , Monday evening - ing , at the Methodist church , for the benefit of the pastor , was a success in every way. At the appointed time the congregation and friends began to assemble - semble , each one bringing something to add to the stock of donations. A large company gathered , filling the church to its utmost capacity. The evening was spent in a very social way ; there was some singing and a few remarks by the pastor. A free lunch was served which added much to the enjoyment of the occasion , impressing the fact upon the minds of all present that the Methodists know how to make an evening pleasant and enjoyable. Almost every article - cle necessary for the maintenance of a family was included in the donations , and when everything was gathered up it presented the appearance of a stock for a general store. Including the purse of money , and some coal that was not brought into the church , the total value of the donations amounted to about one hundred dollars. Such a donation - nation to such a cause speaks volumes for the good people of McCook. It shows that they are deeply interested in the religious welfare of our city. It is doubly appreciated by the pastor because - cause it not only has an intrinsic value , but represents fellowship and interest in the cause of the Master. May God's blessing rest upon the donors. XX. Crowell-Evans. Last Thursday evening , at the borne of the bride's parents , Captain and Mrs. W. J. Evans , in Red Willow precinct , William E. Crowell and Mary E. Evans were duly joined in wedlock by Rev. D. L. McBride in the presence of a goodly company of relatives and friends. A splendid wedding feast followed the ceremony which was heartily enjoyed by everybody. The young couple were handsomely remembered as the following list o f presents indicates : Silver knives and forks , parents of the bride ; silver butter dish , Mr. and Mrs. Plews ; silver table spoons , William and Emmett Evans ; silver tea spoons , Sadie and Maud Evans ; silver sugar shell and butter knife , Frank , Anthony , Albert and Mary Dudek ; silver spoon holder , Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dudek ; silver sugar - gar shell , Charlie Evans ; silver salt and pepper shakers , Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Stockton - ton ; lamp , Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Rogers ; clock , Emil Kroening ; dinner set , Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stillman ; caster , Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hall ; bed comforter , the bride's mother ; silver salt and pepper shakers , Claud and ma Evans ; dresse r scarf , Nellie Stockton ; six pie plates , Iva Hall ; pickel dish , Lily Fuller. The young folks have gone to housekeeping - keeping in Mrs. Colfer's dwelling , con _ rler of Marshall and Dodge streets. A Sad Case. The sudden and unexpected death o f Mrs. Hawkins up in Coleman precinct , Thanksgiving morning disclosed a painful - ful state of affairs as existing in that household. It appears that Hawkins has left the family , and the death of the mother leaves an infant of a few weeks and two daughters , i6 and S years o f age respectively , on this unfriendly world and in destitute circumstances. The remains of the poor woman were interred at Zion Hill Methodist church up in Coleman precinct on last Friday. This case should be carefully investigated - gated and suitable aid rendered the bereaved - reaved and well-nigh helpless girls. Bartlett-Hamilton. On Monday evening , at his office and in the presence of quite a number of rel atives and friends , Squire Berry d in marriage Adelbert Bartlett and Ann Hamilton , both of this county. Th e sbride is the daughter of W. T. Hamilton one of our old and esteemed settlers THE TRIBUNE offers its congratulation s and best wishes. Albert L. Hall and Rettie DI. Metho d were duly married by County Judge Beck in his best style , Wednesday of las week , at his office in Indianola. Th e young couple hail from north of the city Given Away. Your choice of any hat or cap in ou store for next thirty days , to every ma n buying a suit of our bargains in men' winter clothing. The suits are a bargai n at the price sold for ; the hat is given t o oL you for nothing but your good will an trade. Buy early and get your pick ou of a fine line of hats and caps. Goo d bargains in underwear for ladies , gentle men and children. McCooK MERCANTILE Co. f Cooks , use McCook Electric Soap an save gumming your dishes and pans. Try McConnell's Fragrant Lotion fo chapped face or hands. e Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powde Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair , San Francisco. PEOPLE YOU KNOW. HOWE SMITa was in Hastings , first of the week. A. BARNETT was a Lincoln visitor , Monday , on business. H. H. BENSON was in this part of his itineracy , Wednesday. REPRESENTATIVE COLE was down from Culbertson , Tuesday. CHARLIE O'BRIEN IS assisting in De- Groff 'S for a few weeks. MISS KATE HOLLAND arrived home from her brief absence , an Wednesday evening. W. S. MORLAN and Sidney Dodge went down to Lincoln , Monday night on business. MISSES CELIA AND CLARA FEENEYof Hastings are the guests of Mrs. P. F. McKenna - Kenna , this week. MR. AND MRS. A. T. HAGER were up from Indianola , yesterday , guests of their daughter Mrs. E. C. Burkett. V. FRANKLIN arrived home , Wednesday - day morning , from spending a few weeks with his family in California. W. C. BULLARD was out from Omaha , first of the week , looking after his lumber - ber interests. He returned on Monday night's train. Ms. SARGENT , who has been visiting her daughter , Mrs. Knipple , for a few weeks , departed on No. 4 , Monday evening - ing , for her Iowa lome. MR. AND MRS. BENJ. BAKER are entertaining - tertaining their daughter Mrs. Nesbitt , from Frontier county. Their son G. W. Baker has also returned from Frontier county , having completed the fall term of school he has been teaching. JOHN J. KENDLEx , of Worthington , Minnesota , county clerk of Nobles county - ty , is in the city , guest of his brother Frank , who went in to Omaha , Wednesday - day night , to meet him. He was reelected - elected for a fourth term at the late election - tion , and has the proud distinction of being the only democrat elected in that county. C. S. SQUIRES of Coleman precinct , arrived - rived home , last Friday night , from the burial of his mother in eastern Nebraska. He reports his sister Mrs. Burlingham of Beatrice , as being also seriously ill. Says that it is very dry in the eastern part of the state , except river counties ; that he heard many inquiries for cheap land and that a number of people in that section of the state are comingout here in search of land this fall and winter. AT THE CHURCHES. Regular preaching services , Sunday school and Epworth league in the M. E. church , nest Sunday. The Ladies' Guild of the Episcopal church will meet at the residence o f Thomas Crabtree , tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock. Congregational services next Sunday morning and evening at the usual hours. "A Conquering Religion" in the morning - ing , "Narrow Places of Life" for the evening subject. The Endeavor Society meets at 6:45 in the evening , Miss Grace Brinton , leader ; Endeavor topic , "Thy King Ruleth. " The Rt. Rev. Anson R. Graves , Missionary - sionary Bishop of the Platte , will administer - minister the Apostolic Rite of Confirma- . tion.Sunday morning at eleven o'clock , in McConnell hall. No services in the evening. On the same date at 7:30 in the evening the Bishop will administer the Apostolic Rite at Indianola. - THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Two editors have been selected and the school is to have a monthly maga _ zine written. A committee of the Alumni Associa - tion met , Tuesday evening , and arrange d a programme for the next meeting o f the association. Mr. Spaan is the new teacher in the t high school. He is a graduate of th e Nebraska university , where he has jus t been taking a post-graduate course. The Alumni Society of the McCoo k schools will meet on Saturday evening r December I5th , at 8 o'clock , for th e purpose of adopting a constitution. s The school entertainment , last Friday evening , for the athletic club's benefit ' L was an interesting and entertaining one , L though notsowellpatronizedascommon ' Tomorrow there will be a game of fee t . tn ball on the city base ball ground betwee n the high school eleven and an eleven consisting of high school boys and some L of the young men of the city. The team s will be quite evenly matched and a very interesting game is expected. An ad - r mission fee of ten cents will be charged for the purpose of paying the expense o r preparing the grounds. Game will corn mence at 230 ; p. m. Consult Holmes Bros. , the carpenters. Use McConnell's Balsam for Coughs and Colds. Good writing paper ten cents a quire at this office. Use McCook Electric Soap and save boiling the clothes. Read the communication on the wood question in this issue. The commissioners met , Monday and Tuesday , adjourning till December 17th. Sutton is sellingJjewelry at cost. You can secure matchless bargains from him for the nest thirty days. Abstracts of title will be furnished promptly and accurate byC. C. T. BEGGS. The annual meeting of the Nebraska academy of sciences will be held in Lincoln - coln on the 27th and 28th of December. W. S. Fitch is pushing the construction - tion of his irrigation ditch of which , we understand he has about three miles now completed. The A. 0. U. W , band is making fine progress under the direction of M. A. Spaulding , who recently assumed the role of director. Remember everything goes at cost for the next thirty days at Sutton's jewelry store. His stock is unequalled in the Republican valley. The pound social at the Methodist church , Monday evening , was largely attended and enjoyed by all. The donations - tions were very liberal , and the affair withal the generous success expected. On complaint of Gottlieb Orman John Huff was cn the carpet in Squire Berry's court , last Saturday , charged with stealing - ing a coat. The case was continued until - til tomorrow. Both parties are Russians. Dr. Gage has been up in Frontier county two or three times lately to see Santford Godard , who is ill with an abscess - scess under one of his arms , the result of blood poisoning caused by a slight injury to one of his hands. He is now improving. Suit is being commenced in district court , this ( last ) week , wherein Furnas county sues the First National Bank to recover on account of the bank's failure to pay interest on all the funds deposited - ited by the county treasurer.-Beaver City Revenue. See Mrs. M. E. Barger , the milliner , rear of DeGroff & Co. , before making your purchases in that line. She has a nice stock of goods and her prices are very reasonable. Remember her new location , east Dennison street , rear of DeGroff & Co. Colonel Smith of the Bartley Inter- Ocean , has gone to the trouble to figure it out , and states that $ I,97J 64 were withdrawn from the county treasury at the November meeting of the board of commissioners , for election expenses , road work , aid , printing , etc. In order to help pay for the elegant set of instruments recently ordered by the Brigade band , the band is preparing to give a minstrel show , which will be thoroughly first-class , and will eclipse anything of the kind ever attempted in our city. It is expected to have the en- tertainmeut ready about the Loth or 15th of January. We understand that A. S. Campbell , register of the McCook land office , has purchased the Way , Corlett and Campbell - bell places , in Southwest Blaine precinct - cinct and intends to stock the same with cattle. . . .M. W. Nesmith went to Denver - ver , a few days ago , for the purpose of securing ten car loads of coal at whole- safe rates for his neighbors. The B. & M. have agreed to ship free of charge that amount of coal from Denver to Wauneta for Mr. Nesmith.-Benkelman Bee. Learn to laugh. A good laugh is bet- ; than medicine. Learn hop tell a story. A well-told story is ss welcome as a sunbeam in a sick room. i earn to keep your own troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to care for your ills or sorrows. Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot see any good in the world , keep the bad to yourself. Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. No one cares to hear whether you have the earache , headache or the rheumatism. Don't cry. Tears do well enough in novels , but they are out of place in real life. Learn to , meet your friends with a smile. The good humored man or woman is always welcome , but ' the dyspeptic or hypochondriac is not wanted anywhere and is a nuisance as E . well. f - Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World'a Fair Highest Medal oed IMploaa. Will You Buy Wood. EDITOR TRIBUNE.--With nearly a total - tal failureof crops in Red Willow comity during the past two years , it has become a very serious matter with many of our best farmers as to vow they will get through the winter. I would like to offer a few suggestions to the people of your city on the fuel question , which , if carried out , would be a great benefit to many of our farmers , and would' not be detrimental to the consumers. In conversation with one of your leading - ing coal dealers , a few days ago , he informed - formed me that there was annually sent out of McCook to Colorado and other states not less than $ i5oou for coal. This money is taken out of circulation in this vicinity and goes to benefit the people where our dealers get their supplies. During the past three weeks 1 have been looking up the probable wood sup. ply that could be made available within a radius of fifteen miles of vour city , and I am perfectly satisfied that if the farmers - ers could find a ready sale for their wood at a fair price , there would be at least seven or eight thousand dollars worth cut and delivered in your city within the nest ninety days. This money would go into circulation here at home and would be of great benefit to all classes of people. The objection may be raised that wood will not go as far as coal. In the past two years I have thoughtfully tested this matter with different kinds of coal , and I know from personal experience - rience that when I have invested my money in an honest cord of wood it has gone further than a like amount iii- vested in coal. I am aware of the fact that we have some dishonest farmers who have done more to injure the wood trade in your city than all other sources put together. I have seen them throw into their wagon , loosely , what they called a cord of wood , when in reality if it was properlycorded it would not make more than half a cord. Many of your people have been imposed upon and are justly indignant over this kind of treatment - ment , and some of them refnset to buy wood and have gone back to burning coal again. There is another feature to this question - tion that must not be overlooked. Mc _ Cook has a number of honorable men employed in the coal trade , and we must not do anything to cripple them if we can possibly avoid it. Now if your merchants - chants and business men will take hold of this matter in earnest , talk it up with their city customers , go to your coal merchant and tell him that you are going - ing to burn wood this winter. With this encouragement on your part I believe the coal dealers would be willing to open wood yards in connection with their coal yards , and buy the farmers' wood as it comes to your city. This would put a check on the dishonest farmers who parade - rade your streets endeavoring to defraud your citizens with their half cord loads. The wood merchant could insist on hop est measurement and good quality , anal the consumer would then get value received - ceived for his money. I desire also in this article to call the attention of our county comnussioners to this subject. Within the next ninty days they will be called upon to furnish hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of fuel to our worthy poor , and why not , for the same reasons as given above , furnish them with wood instead of coal. A FARSIER. e The county seat remuvil case is again taking a course of sprouts in the supreme court , mandamus proceedings having been filed on the 5th inst. praying for an order requiring the county officers to forthwith move to the county seat at McCook. Indianola has been given until the :2th to file inter-pleadings. For Sale or Rent. Seven-room house , corner of Madison and Monroe streets , with bath room and water closet. Steel range will be left in the house. Good cellar and large barn. Fruit trees and lawn. As desirable - ble a place as there is in the city. Inquire - quire of FRANK CARRUTH. Fine Printing. : We make a specialty of fine job print- ing. Oursamples of fashionable and elegant - gant stationery for invitations , programs etc. , is not excelied in Nebraska. For Sale or Lease. The butcher shop and tools on West Dennison street. Inquire of S. M. Cochran - ran & Co. , or of PERRY STONE. 160 Acres For Sale. 70 acres old ground. co acres under the irrigation ditch. Two miles from McCook. Terms easy. F. S. WILcox. A new stock of Linen Art Goods for the holidays just received. Price lower than ever. L. LOWMAN & SON. i r t