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LINCOLN , DENVER ,
OMAHA , HELENA ,
CHICAGO. BU'ITE ,
ST. JOSEPH , PORTLAND.
KANSAS CITY , SALT LAKE CITY ,
ST. LOUIS and all SAN FRANCISCO ,
I'OINTS EAST AND AND ALL POINTS
SOUTH. WKS1.
TRAINS LEAVE AS FOLLOWS :
CENTRAL TIME.
No. 2. Vestibuled Express , daily ,
Lincoln , Omaha , St. Joe ,
Kansas City , St. Louis.Chi-
cago. and nil points south
and east 5:55 A. M
No. 4. Local Express , daily , Lin
coln , Omaha. Chicago , and
all points east 9:00 r. M.
N0.148. Freight , daily , ex. Sunday ,
Hastings and intermediate
stations 5 : ° ° AX1
No. 76. Freight , daijy , Oxford , Hol-
drege , Hastings 6:45 A. M .
No. 80. Freightdaily , Hastings and
intermediate stations 7:00 A. M
MOUNTAIN TIME.
No. 5. Local Express , daily , Den
ver and intermediate sta
tions 8:15 p. M
No. 3. Vestibuled Express , daily ,
Denver and all points in
Colo.JJtah and California , 11:40 P.M
N0.149. Freight , daily , ex. Sunday ,
Akron and intermediate sta
tions 6:00 A. M
No. 77. Freight , daily.Stratton.Ben
kelman , Ilaigler , Wrayand
Akron 3:20 P. M
No. 63. Freight , daily.Stratton.Ben-
kelman , Haigler , Wrayand
Akron 5:00 P. M
N0.175. Accommodation , Mondays ,
Wednesdays and Fridays ,
Imperial and intermediate
stations 8:00 : A. M
Sleeping , dining and reclining chair car.
( seats free ) on through trains. ' 1 ickets sold
and baggage checked to any point in tin
United States or Canada.
_ For information , time tables , maps am
tickets , call on or write C E. Magner , Agent.
McCook , Nebraska , or J. Francis , General
Passenger Agent , Omaha. Nebraska.
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.
Brakeman Otto Ballew is on the sick
list.
The company will build four new en
gines at Havelock.
Conductor and Mrs. George Beck were
Omaha visitors , this week.
Brakeman E. Benjamin went in to
Omaha , Tuesday morning , on 2.
Conductor L. C. Wolff is laid up with
a sprained ankle , sustained close of last
week.
Dispatcher and Mrs. T. B. Campbell
and son Harry were Denver visitors ,
Wednesday.
Charlie McManigal has been elevated
to the position of operator ; upon which
we congratulate.
Fireman William Koll moved into the
city , yesterday , and is occupying the
Holliday residence.
Engineer and Mrs. J. W. Holliday are
in the city , todaj' , coming down from
Lyons , Colorado , last night.
Mrs. H. L. Donovan is entertaining
her mother , who recently arrived in the
city from Holyoke , Colorado.
A one fare round trip rate has been
made by all Nebraska roads to the beet
sugar convention , Hastings , Feb. 2-3.
Mrs. G. R. Snyder went down to Lin
coln , Thursday morning , on a visit to
relatives and friends in the capital city.
Supt. Campbell went in to Omaha ,
Monday night , on business at headquar
ters , returning home on Wednesday
night.
Frank Harris made a flying visit to
Galva , Illinois , going on Saturday , and
returning on Monday night. His moth
er is ill.
Engineer and Mrs. B. J. Sharkey en
tertained a numerous company of neigh
bors and friends , Tuesday evening , on a
large scale , at High Five.
The construction of railways during
1896 reached a mileage of 1,802 according
to the Railway Age , and 1,693 taking the
figures of the Railroad Gazette.
Brakeman and Mrs. Ed. Beyrer and
Mrs. V. H. Solliday , Tuesday morning ,
went down to Red Cloud , to attend the
funeral of another of Albert Slaby's
children.
Mrs. A. Miller and family left on Mon
day morning for Goodland , Kansas , be
ing accompanied by her sister , Mary
Heafy. A brother , Morris Heafy , is quite
ill there with inflammatory rheumatism.
Mustered Out
At McCook , Nebraska , November 26 ,
1S96 , by dropsy , Mathias Kessler , Co. B ,
104 Illinois Infantry. Mr. Kessler was
born in Balgian , Germany , March 20th ,
1831. Came to the United States in 1S56
and enlisted in the service August nth ,
1S62 , and was discharged June 6th , 1S65
Deceased was a member of J. K. Barnes
Post. No. 207 , McCook Nebr. Funeral
services were conducted by Indianola
Post , Indianola , Nebraska.
( J. M. BELL , '
Committee -j Jacob Stkinmetz ,
( A. C. Harlan.
Lots for Sale.
Lots 9 , 10 , 11 and 12 in block 25 , Second
end addition to McCook. Make me an
offer on these lots. Address :
W. E. Datjchy , Topeka , Kansas.
For Rent.
320-acre farm , with good farm house
and stabe. 165 acres under irrigation ,
balance in pasture. C. H. Meeker ,
tf McCook , Neb.
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40 YEARS THE STANDARD.
Ho Couldn't Explain. -
A very small newsboy , who bad just
old bis last paper , leaned against the
iron lamppost and shouted with all his
lung power : "Pa-i-i-perl Twelvy-clack
pa-i-i-perl Extry twelvy-clack J"
The boy was working overtime , either
from force of habit or because of his
natural exuberance. It is not uncom
mon in Calhoun place for a boy to stop
jbort and yell several times , merely to
relieve himself.
It happened that a pedestrian was at
tracted by the shouts of the boy against
the lamppost. Ho smiled as he looked
at the youngster and then said , "All
right , give mo one , of your papers. "
That startled the boy. He looked
sheepishly at the man , rubbed his hand
into his pocket and said , "I ain't got
any. "
"Didn't I hear you calling a 12
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o'clock paper ?
"Yes , but I didn't mean" It was
too much of an explanation. A professor
of psychology who had studied the laws
of unconscious cerebration might have
told why the boy stood on the corner
shouting papers when he had no papers
to sell , but the boy adopted a less diffi
cult course and ran away. Chicago
Record.
Taking Exercise.
Poor Harry Shelman , the long haired
poet who dressed his entire person to
resemble Buffalo Bill , and who was , in
fact , startlingly like the greatest of
scouts , used to tell mo of a literary
friend of his who had a novel method
of taking exercise. His workshop was
on the top floor of his house , far from
the noise of the street , and he used to
write about 15 hours a day. He was
not a Howells or a Bronsou Howard ,
whose working hours never exceed four
in any one day. He worked , he labored ,
he toiled. He had no time for a bicycle
and could not afford a horse. He hated
walking. Run he could not. Swimming
was out of the question. Still he must
have exercise. He kept his dictionary in
the basement and his thesaurus in the
kitchen. As he used both very often it
rras necessary to make many trips down
stairs and up again , and in that way he
kept himself in splendid physical condi
tion. A visitor once saw him dashing
down stairs like a madman and soaring
up again like a kite and was distressed
till informed by John's wife that John
was simply hunting for a word and had
found it. Kew York Press.
A CLANKING GHOST.
Awful Experience of a Chicago 3Ian In a
Missouri Hotel.
"The most disagreeable experience iu
my travels , " said the man from Chicago
cage , "was when I awakened in the
middle of the night in a Missouri hotel
and heard a chain clank in my room. I
don't know whether it is the association
of a clanking chain that makes the
Bound so dismal or the mere fact of be
ing awakened by a noise that shows the
presence of something living , but I
don't know of a more unpleasant awak
ening.
"I sat up in bed , but could see noth
ing , for the room was as dark as a pock
et , and my heart thumped with suspense
as I heard that weird clank , clank ,
clank , accompanied by a strange Bhuf-
fling noise that was quite as mysterious
and baffling. I reached under my pillow
and drew out my"
• • Revolver ? " suggested the man who
finishes everybody's sentences.
"Naw , my whisky flask. I took a
pull that would have made my wife
give me a temperance lecture if she
could have seen me"
"And what became of it ? "
"The whisky ? "
"No , no , the clanking ghost. "
"Well , I fell off to sleep after awhile ,
and when I got up in the morning and
investigated , I found out what it was. "
"A maniac ? "
"No ; I was the only maniac. It was
• rled up under my bed , chain and all ,
and it turned out to be a pet coon * that
the hotel people owned and which had
escaped from its quarters and found its
way to my room. But I wouldn'tput in
another night like that for a farm and
wood lot ! " St. Louis Republic.
Mrs. Anna Gage , wife of Ex-
Deputy U. S. Marshal ,
Columbus , Kan. , says :
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