By F. M. , KIMMELL. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co. Republican City Ticket. For Mayor John E. Kelley For Clerk . .Charles I. Hall For Treasurer. / John J. Garrard For Engineer , Harvey P. . Sutton Councilman First Ward W. S. Perry Councilman Second Ward R. M. Osborn Members of Board of Education A. Campbell and W. F. Lawson Has Been Well Governed. Everything considered , fairly and frankly , the City of McCook has been well governed during the year past. Its affairs , in one of the most important epochs in the city's history , have been ad ministered with judgment and care and uniformly good results , not with virtuous perfection , the im possible drnam of the impractical and chimerical , but with practical results along all lines. The finan ces of the city , though put to the utmost and uncommon test , have been handled with judgment and are now in good , healthy condi tion , notwithstanding the unusual demands made upon the cash box. Large and important problems have confronted this administra tion , all will admit , and Mayor Kelley and his advisers on the council have handled them with discretion , with discrimination and to the city's best interests. Good order has been maintained and the health measures well enforced. All things considered , there is cause for congratulation , rather than for discontent and dissatis faction , and a hearty support by the Republicans of the city will continue in authority those who have performed their duty well , the past year , that still have some important unfinished business to perform , and that are especially qualified by knowledge of facts and events and experience to transact the business with the most satisfactory results. COUNCILMEN PERRY and Osborn , Republican re-nominees for the city council , are 'justly entitled to the large plurality that will be given tht m - at the election , next Tuesday. No better councilman than W. S. Perry has ever sat in McCook's city council. He has brains to know and the backbone to do. A search of the records will disclose the fact that Council man Osboru's vote is always in the right place , too. Just remem , j ber the cross" that belongs opposite their names on the Republican ticket. .SUPT. CAMPBELL and W : " F. Lawsou have performed such uni formly careful , conservative and business-like services on the board of education that there is small likelihood that the people of Mc Cook will dispense with their ser vices at this time. Such men are needed on the board , men of af fairs and men of business , men with large and vital interests at stake in the public school system of our city. They are needed , we say , and a just appreciation of this important fact will make their se lection certain by an overwhelm ing plurality. You will find both of their names in the Republican column under the eagle , and an X will do your duty well for you , if placed opposite their names. SOUTH SIDE. Enoch Hoover is helping John Burtless. Color your mustache red , boys , and be in the fashion. C. H. Jacobs is going to move onto the W. T. Stone place. The school has been very small , this week , on account of the winter weather. There was a small attendance at the Endeavor , Sunday evening , owing to the storm. Roy Barnes and Hubert Plouss- ard were shelling corn over on Lin coln Ridge , last week. We fear the cholera may get among the hogs again , this spring : it will be well to be on the look out. out.We We hope that .the cold weather .and late spring will bring a blessing destroying the grasshop k ing : by fr < pers. HARTLEY. Will Conrad is the proud pos sessor of a new VVaverly. Tomorrow morning it will be Postmaster Miller. Here's to him. W.E. Rollings was looking after business interests in Cambridge , this week. Rev. J. M. Eads , the new Chris tian minister , has arrived from Maywood. V. Sells , who retires from the postoffice today , has moved into the bank building. Mrs. J. W. Billings and daugh ter departed for Arapahoe , the lat ter part of last week. Cy. Cowles is doing duty in the < hardware store during the absence of S. W. Clark in Iowa. W. E. Rollings made a flying visit to McCook , last Saturday evening between trains , on busi ness. ness.T. L. Bever is enrolled at the depot as student under Agent En- low. Francis Sells also remains with him. E. R. Moon's youngest daugh ter fell from a chair , last Saturday , fracturing her arm between the elbow and wrist. "J. W. Billings and family have moved over to Oberlin , starting overland , Tuesday , with their household goods. Isaac Bailey has moved to near Lebanon on a farm. Miss Ruby Fletcher has gone over to spend a week or so with her sister. Miss Yenus Knowles returned from McCook , last Saturday , and went to Arapahoe HIM following day to take a position on tha Pioneer. The old sailor , Captain Eli , will lecture in the hall , Friday night , under the auspices of the high school , on "The Mysteries of the Deep. " He is said to be good. The petition being circulated to secure the pardon of Oliver Bush from the penitentiary is an insult to every peace-loving and law- abiding citizen. After defying the law and authorities for years he got a very light sentence when the nature of the offense is considered , and he should be required to serve out every day of it. It is worth something to get the news of the. county officially. THE McCooK TRIBUNE is the official paper of Red Willow county. It gives all the news of the commis sioners by authority of the board and county clerk , as well as all the uews of the several county offices. Besides it covers the important news of the entire county more thoroughly and fully than any other paper published in the county. But it only costs the same as the others , one dollar a year. Agent F. L. Eulow walked up town on the empty air , Thursday morning , and only touched the top of a lamp-post or two and thereof roof of the livery barn en route. He supported his trousers with one suspender , and in addition wore one sock with a turn-down top and a gorgeous smile , and stopped on every corner to stand on his head while IIB wnvpd his intellectual legs and hurrahed for Bryau. The genial agent was neither drunk nor crazy , but it all oes to show how excited a man will get when a diminutive piece of femininity arrives HI Ins Inure sn the night express. Of coime it's the cutest and smiir-t st bal y that ever occurred. COLONEL COMFORT seems to be really trying to take it seriously that the applications for license are being printed , this year , where the law says they shall be printed : in the paper having the largest 3irculatiou THE TRIBUNE. The colonel's application for member ship'would go in any society for 3heerful idiots. Awarded HighesV Honors World's Fair , OR ; JKT * CREAM BAKING POWDER MOST PERFECT MADE. pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free orn Ammonia , Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. RoVAL Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum * Alum baking powders are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. flOYAL BAKINQ POWOEH CO. , NEW YORK. INDIANOLA. Harlow W. Keyes had business in the county seat , Wednesday. Rev. Father Sproll was a bus iness visitor to McCook , Tuesday. Marion Powell was a business visitor to the west end city , last Friday. O. D. Mosher was in the county capita ] , Wednesday , having some dental work done. C. H. Russell , the McCormick harvester collector'had business in the county's metropolis , Saturday Mrs. John Sly has been down from south of McCook , nursing sick friend in this neighborhood. Ora Smith was the guest of Deputy Sheriff Smith and family in the county seat , last Saturday. F. A. Strockley has opened the old Cosgro hotel and is prepared to serve the public in the best pos sible manner. Mr. and , Mrs. Willis Gossard re turned , Wednesday , after an ab sence of a year or more visiting in Illinois and Iowa. One of our prominent business mencontributed , to the school fund , Monday , through his honor , Police Judge Hetherington. J. W. Colling had three fingers of his right hand amputated on Wednesday , having had his hand crushed in a corn-sheller. I. M. Beardslee and family re turned from McCook , this week. Many old time friends here will give them a cordial welcome. Miss Lillian Welborn , county - superintendent , made her -regular visit to the county seat , last Sat urday , on educational business. I. M. Beardslee and family have returned to Indianola , and the whole city extends them a hearty welcome back to their old home. Frank Fritsch and W. H. Wads- \vorth called on the county treas urer at McCook , Tuesday , and stop ped the interest on their personal taxes. Reese Thompson of Cowles came up , last week , to see his son John , who has been sick with the measles at the home of his aunt , Mrs. A. C. Teel. Wesley Harrison , nominee for councilman on the Anti-License ticket , has declined to make the race , and C S. Quick's name will now adorn that ticket. The official news of the county appears promptly in THE McCooK TRIBUNE , and you can't afford to be without it. Only SI a year just what they ask for inferior ar ticles in the newspaper line. The } ' do say that Tom Duncan will l > e > even more purl ion Inr than ever about the age of parties offer ing or having JJIH . future. You < -mi ' length of a cat's tail which way it will jump , nor how hard a "kid" will tight from his age. Treasurer Berge is making lots of friends ( ? ) by his method of tax collections recently. Don't be too hard on Berge , boys ; this is his last pull at the public crib and of. course he knows it , and Ikey S. is entitled to enough out of the ] deal to put up a good , stiff fight for sheriff , this fall. t Miss Flora Rankin , who has tI been teaching in Stockville , re I turned home via Bartley , last Fri day night on No. 5. TJ'on | arriv ing home she missed her pocket book containing about ยง 27. The last she saw of her pocket book was when she paid her fare on the train and the loss was doubtless sustained between that time and ber arrival at her home in Indian- jla. It is to be hoped that she may recover her hard-earned ivoges. PROSPECT PARK. .That was a fine snow storm , the 25th. 25th.Wheat Wheat seeding is the order on the farm. * ' It costs $5 to go through the Duffey farm , sometimes. Charlie' Boatman rides in a handsome new top buggy. There will be preaching at Pros pect Park , on the second of April. Mrs. Sly has been down at In- diauola , taking care of a sick friend. Julia Sly is expected home on a short visit to her parents and friends. Robert Barr was over from Danbury - bury , last week , making a short visit at John Sly's. Charles and Frank Burton were down from Hitchcock county , close of week past , visiting friends. rT. M. Royer from Illinois is go ing to farm the Mrs. Rose , farm , this season. Mrs. Rose will depart J for Canada , about the first of April. There was a school entertain ment at the Anderson school-house , Wednesday evening. The program consisted of declamations , recita tions , music etc. , and was much en joyed by all present. SYSTEMIC CATARRH , A DISEASE VERY COMMON IN EARLY SPRING-TIME. Catarrh ofan organ produces slight discharges of mucus. This produces a weakening drain to the system. During the winter months the debilitating effects of such a drain may not be noticed. .As soon as spring comes , howevei , such a discharge , even though it be slight is felt at once by prutinc ing languor and weakness. This condition is known as systemic ca tarrh The only cure is to remove the cause. The cause is chronic catarrh. Pe-ju-na cures catarrh wherever located. Marian Kooke , manager of the extensive millinery establishment of T.M.Thompson , 1658 Milwaukee ave. , 514 Chicago ave. , and 274 Grand ave. , Chicago , 111. , writes the following letter in regard to Pe-ru-na : Chicago , January 25,1899. Dr. iHartman , Columbus , O. Dear Sir : Whenever I have been overworked -with the cares of my business and found no time for the needed rest , I have invariably taken Pe ru-na. It acts as an iuvigorator on my entire system , restores my strength , and I would not be with out it for ten times its cost. Yours truly , MARIANA KOOKE. Pe-ru-na as a family remedy is unequaled. A great many of the little disagreeable ailments that at tack us unawares are due to ca tarrh in some form. Pe-ru-na acts quickly and beneficially on the af fected mucous membranes lining the body : therefore Pe-ru-ua cures catarrh wherever it is located. Address The Pe-ru-na Drug Mfg. Co. , Columbus , O. , for a free book on catarrh , by Dr. Hartnmn , entitled "Winter Catarrh. " LEBANON. The Lebanon cornet band is progr-ssiijr nicely. Warren Henry left , last week , for a visit in Missouri. John Kiuknid has purchased the billiard hall of E. T. Eifert. Clyde Bed well has moved into his new residence in Lebanon. John Kinkaid sold part of his property at public auction , Thurs day afternoon. Frank Nichols shipped his steam threshing outfit back to the com pany , last week. The Ladies' Aid society will give a cake and coffee social at M. C. Stephens' , Friday evening. Wm. Marquis left on the stock train , Wednesday morning , to seek a location in Eastern Nebraska. The difficulty between George Eifert and N.S.West was amicabiy settled , Monday evening , without going to trial. Earnest Short , a former resident of this place , arrived here , last Monday. He intends to do mason work for some time. The Sunday-school scholars will give an Easter entertainment in the church , Sunday morning. The entertainment will be followed by Easter services. M. C. Stephens has purchased the Harvey Burgess lot on Central street. He will erect a two-story building and put in a grocery and millinery sfore. fit"iKIvt * * & * * & * * irf * * IJ * " 2 * 'IP1V" * * r v < te * * " * * JPt. I BARNETT LUMBER CO , | ' 1 SASH LIME RED CEDAR A DOORS CEMENT WHITE WHITE CEDAR OAK Posts I t MOULDING PLASTER TWO X FOUR g W * Page Woven Wire , Barbed Wire , Poultry Netting * . . . _ . . . _ _ _ _ _ . _ ifc. j b. .A. > i * to &m 4M L. J % ijn > JSj - % K S W - r ' r * J BANKSVILLE. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kelph were callers at H. I. Peterson's , Sunday. Jennie Bell of McCook is visit ing her sister'Mrs. J. H. Kelph , this week. A. M.-Beujamiu , J. H. Kelph , August Peters and John Wesch were at the Royce sale , Thursday. Uncle John Rowland , A. Wesch , H. I. Peterson and several other of our citizens were at Cedar Bluffs , Tuesday. A. Anderson and wife called on Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kelph , Mon day , but as they were not at home returned and spent the day with " Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kowlaud" Dave Koyce , an old resident of the Beaver valley , will start in a few days overland to Idaho , where he will visit his brother Jack , who also was well known by the old residents here. Dave has lented his farm , sold his household goods and farm implements and hopes to regain his health in the mount ain ? . COLEMAN. D. J. Smith from Sarpy county looked over this section o thft county , this week. Three candidates from this township ship will receive the rite of bap tism at the Baptist church in Cook , next Sunday. Maud Coleman is spending spring vacation with the home * folks. Will return to school in. McCook , Monday. A Sunday-school will be organ ized at the Zion Hill church , on next Sunday at three o'clock iu > the afternoon. He will continue- ? 1 this service every two weeks until further notice. William Coleman received a let ter from Iowa , that was written OE Monday , in which the writer said , . "The snow here now is over two- feet on the level. There are thous ands of acres .of corn still unpicked * . . The ground is frozen four feet- deep. " Say , boys , how do JOTS like it now ? The Other Day a lady who came in to look at Dress Goods inquired for our 35 cent styles and not selecting from them she handed out some samples she had sent away for and asked if we had anything like them. We immediately recognized the samples as goods made by a mill we patronize and worth at retail ( if sold fairly ) 50 cents per yard. In fact we had one of the very patterns among our 50 cent assortment. We produced it for her inspection and upon naming our price she at once stated that she was surprised , "because" said she , "that is exactly the price quoted by " naming the brightest and most successful Dry Goods House in the state of Nebras ka. Of course we sold her a dress and her entire bill and she expressed herself as more than pleased to find such a stock as within her reach. That is ours personal .only one amon"- many surprised and pleased buyers and shows one.form of our usefulness to this community. E < T. NOT that our stock is expensive and "high-toned. " No popular priced goods in the latest styles , Goods that are within everybody's reach but that are correct and up- to-date in all respects , goods that are all that and even more notable for their durability in wear and appearance. Once a customer , always a customer. Notice these items : 69C. Chenille 39C. Handsome Black Braids and Gimps , Men's shirts , well the very latest in made , heavy black Gros Grain Silk 690. trimmings. and white striped , 390 $ i.rs. Dress Skirts. . IOC. Ready-niade@ $1.50 Down to 500 for La For ' J Ladies' Pnie ' up to $6.50. The 56.50 dies' Underskirts in Linen Handkerchiefs are handsome jet Fey Stripes , etc. . trimmed Faille Silk. not cotton. forac Ferris Waists. rsc. Summer Over Skirts. * \ \ For Children , Misses For Plump Substan Made from Linen ses and Ladies 2c to tial Kid Gloves the Crashes , Coverts , etc. $1.00. kind you look for. that wash. Our lines are complete and very attractive. We solicit your inspection and trade. Per GEO. E. THOMPSON. ONE PRICE PLAIN FIGURES CASH ONLY