falwi )
By F. M. KIMMELL.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PARE
Largest Circulation in Red Willow
Did Not Want Them.
As the effects of the rainy season
observed in and around Manila , the \
( loin of Otis in not demanding a la
force of regulars , this summer , to t ;
the places of the discharged voluntei
and of the government in waitinj
proper length of time before forward
the new regiments , begins to be seen j
the hair trigger mouths that have bi
going off in denunciation of Otis and
president are getting full of mud beca
of their untimely opening.
It is seen that the presence of a la
force of soldiers in our lines before
middle of August would be a source
great embarrassment to Otis ns tl
would give him more men to feed t
keep out of the wet than would be c
venient to take care of , and their pi
ence there now would be of no use wl :
ever.
ever.No campaigning can be done ovc
region covered with two to six feel
water , and our soldiers are better
somewhere else until the time conies
renewing hostilities. War has to tak
vacation without any ifs or buts in
Philippines during the floods.
When the rainy season is over , C
will have as many soldiers as he needs
gather up the fragments of scattered a
badly pounded forces of Aguinaldo
Journal.
OUR good friend Baystonof theStoi
ville Faber promises to be as rm
( a Pop ) as ever.
IN the matter of throwing boomerai
into the Populist camp , Colonel Comf
is something of a Sims-Dudley gun hi
self.
THE Republicans of Kentucky , unli
their Democratic brethren , were ve
harmonious , and promptly nominal
W. S. Taylor for governor.
WHEN the McCook Comfort reme
bered those "bankruptcy legal notice
it immediately recalled its high "prin
pies" and commenced to "plug" for t
Hon.J.L. White.
COLONEL COMFORT stops the pn
long enough to remark that the Fushi
forces must move forward along the li
of "principle. " At the same time t
colonel keeps his good right optic peel
for John Neel's sheriff's sale notices. I
with the white-winged colonel "priu
pie" and pelf are not dissimilar not
very.
THR nominee of the Iowa "Christ !
party" for judge of the supreme co
has withdrawn from the race , but t
does not discourage the rest of the p
pie on the movement. They are qu
confident of finding enough cranks
the state to keep their ticket intact ,
matter how many of the original noi
nees may resign. Journal.
THE Comfort gives Dick Green , J *
Berge and Jack Neel due and final not
that they must let go and allow otl
other three patriots fill out their emac
ted frames with public "pap" . The c
onel reminds those boys of the time-In
ored traditions of their party , which ( \
courage third terms and incident plut
racy. Colonel Dictator says nay , m
but will they nay ? Nay.
UPON the wisdom of the next nom
ating convention of the Republic
party in this county depends the succi
of the party in Red Willow county ,
a strong , harmonious ticket shall
placed in the field success will surf
crown our efferts. The voters shot
commence now to see that good cle
men of ability only shall be named
the Republican ticket , this fall. A wi
and harmonious distribution of the <
fices will go far in assuring success. T
prospect for success is inviting and
the end that it may be realized , all d
fereuces should be laid aside and i
should unite in pulling through t
ticket with good , safe pluralities ,
can be done let us all work to that en
IK order to keep their watch tra
from coining to America entirely , En
lish capitalists have erected a couple
new watch factoiies over there , i
equipped with American machinery v p
up by American mechanics , and run
far as possible by American workme
All over Europe our watches , bicycl *
sewing machines , type writers , scah
elevators and farm machinery are ge
erally recognized as the best on the ini
ket. The goods are not so strong as t ;
English and German makes , but th
are neater , lighter and more satisfacto
to use in every respect. The Anserici
tourist of the present day holds his hei
pretty high , not only on account of tl
place recently won by the arms of li
country but because of the evidence ]
finds everywhere that Uncle Sam is no
actually leading the world in the depai
nients of manufacturing requiring t1
'highest degree of skill and the most i
genuity. Journal.
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BARTLEY.
Agent Hansen will move into the
depot , this week.
G. W. Jones has moved his stock Snt <
new store building.
Grace Brown is visiting Mrs. C. W. Kej
Cambridge , this week.
Budd Lyman and Agent Hansen were
the sick list , Tuesday.
A sister and nephew of Mrs. R. Catletl
visiting here , this week.
Miss Laura Mallory of Cambridge vis
friends here , last Friday.
J. B. Haining has purchased the Bash :
Jence property of B. F. Sibbett.
H. L. Prevost and wife of Cambridge \
Hartley House guests , Monday. .
Linley Grisell and wife of Indianola v
juests of his parents here , Sunday.
Rev. J. M. Eads and family of Mayw
iverejvisiting friends here , Wednesday.
Several farmers have harvested their wli
The straw is short but the berry is good.
The B. & M. painters were here , this wi
loing some artistic work on the new depc
Dr. and Mrs. Brown attended the ta
lacle meeting in Indianola , Sunday , and
m Tuesday evening.
Jule Thornton and family left , Tues
norning , for their new home at Ger
scotts Bluffs county.
The appearance of A. L. Cochran's b
nansion is being enhanced by a coat of pi
Moon & Brown are the artists.
A.G. Williams of the Stockville Republi
risked friends in town , Sunday , going 01
Cambridge the following morning.
Frank Dolan , accompanied by Misses I ]
> ersett and Beardslee of Indianola , alien
he Epworth League social at this place ,
Yiday evening.
The Red Oak , Iowa , band , of which Gee
md John Smith , formerly of this place ,
nembers , took part in the big celebratioi
Nebraska City the Fourth.
The Epworth League lawn social at W
filler's , Friday evening of last week , ha
mmerous attendance , guests being pres
rom both Indianola and Cambridge.
Bartley takes no back seat in the matte
ar-load shipments of grain and stock.
898 the shipments were , live-stock , 208 ; gn
72. In 1897 , live-stock , 90 ; grain , 99.
E. R. Moon is at the Methodist hospital
) maha , this week , in hope of finding re
rom his physical suffering. He has been
ery poor health for a number of years.
C. B. Sentance shook hands with a i
iends at the depot , Wednesday eveni
uring No. 5's stop. He is now employed
ie B. & M. water service crew , running
f McCook.
The building wrecked by the cyclone is
eing repaired yet , and is in a dangerous c
ition. The village council should declan
nuisance and have it pulled down bef
Dme one is hurt by falling walls.
The shelving in the Jennings building ' .
een rearranged and painted up , and
' Walsworth's d
3om isj'now occupied by
tore. It is hoped the druggist will not
usted from this place by another cyclone.
Mrs. F. L. Enlow , formerly of this place
ow of Longmont , Colo. , who has been vi
tig Cambridge relatives , drove up , Mont
i-ith Mrs. C. W. Keys , to make her m ;
riends here a short visit before return
lome.
A couple of Blacksmith Haining's yoi
lopefuls tired of life's weary grind in i
dace and flew the parental coop , Sunc
irst annexing the family equines to facilil
> rogress. The blacksmith procured ano't
lorse and followed suit , Monday , overtak
he youngsters at Trenton , their former ho
md brought them back in the evening.
Lute Bush further distinguished himsell
. warrior brave , last Saturday evening ,
irutally slapping a little kid about one-foi
iis size. Meanwhile the old man insists t
is boys are all gentlemen , and works
ittle petition to the end of having Oliver f
oned from the penitentiary , where he lam
ist winter , after doing his best to break i
; for the past several years.
The kid who does the mechanical work
lie Inter-Ocean , through a gross misrepres
ition of facts on his part and an erroi
idgment on the part of the publisher , ,
ito print , last week , and gave the celebrat
t McCook what he was pleased to ca :
roast , " and this after telling his friends w'
good programme they had and how th
ughly he enjoyed it. To the credit of i
ublisher be it said that she knew nothing
ic celebration , which all who attended fn
ere agree was one of the best ever held
iis part of the state , but supposed the autl
f the screed was stating the truth. His a
e detracted none from the enjoyment of I
ay and he accomplished nothing more , p
aps , than to give people reason to doi
hat he says in the future. The young m
the victim of a case of swell-head in aci
> rm , and when this has reduced so that ai
ling less than a circus tent will make a nig
ip for him , he , too , will no doubt realize tl
is senseless tirade was productive of nothi
i his credit.
PROSPECT PARK.
Everybody is busy cutting rye.
Mat Webber has gone to Illinois.
Fred Rang expects to go to Colorado , so <
Andrew Anderson and family spent Sund
i Culbertson.
Rev. Vivian will preach m Prospect Pa
: heel house on the 23d.
Claude Quigley from the Willow was
respect Park visitor , last week.
There will be a Sunday-school picnic
harley Boatman's grove , July 12.
Thursday evening , in spile of the threate
g rain , a number of our young people help
ralter Sly celebrate his twenty-third birl
ly. All report a very pleasant time.
During" the past twenty years the popu
m of older New York City has increas
> out 66 per cent , while its postoffice revenu
ive increased 150 per cent , and this in sp :
a material reduction in postal rates.
RoVAL
Baking Povvde
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the fooc
against alum *
Alum baking powders are the greate
menacers to health of the present da )
ROYAL BAKING POWOCR CO. . NEW YORK.
INDIANOLA.
William H. Allen and wife were McC
visitors , Wednesday.
I. M.'Beardslee drove up to the metrop
Tuesday , on business.
D.J.Fitzgerald hob-nobbed with the coi
seat nabobs , Thursday evening.
The "old town" is experiencing about
; 'warmest time" in many moons.
The grain shipments in car lots from
place in 1898 were , 248 ; in 1897 , 117 ; of 1
stock in 1898,145 ; in 1897,117.
A. C. Teel had occasion to drop in upon
Pops at the county seat , Thursday , on I :
less perhaps not altogether removed f
Dolitics.
They do say that the Democrats of
3ook have a candidate for sheriff who
lie in the last ditch if the Fusiomsts d
lominate him.
The Populist county central committee
neet here , tomorrow afternoon , to tram
he usual business of the committee , n :
late for holding the county convention , et
The Populist and Democratic central c
nittees will meet here tomorrow to "dn
he spoils , " that is to determine whether
Democrats shall be recognized on the cot
icket with another nominee. Not satis
vith the county superintendency , the De
irats will demand the nominee for she
' "ailing to secure this recognition the De ;
: rats claim they will nominate an entire co
y ticket , and a warm time is in prosp
nd the Republicans will walk off with
poils one and indivisible.
COLEMAN.
Bob Moore has three binders running
ne wheat field.
Frank Purvis is helping Win. Sharp v
, -ith his harvest.
H. Simmerman brought out a new 1
Dader , last Saturday.
J. W. Corner has bought a new binder jill
/ill knock the wheat down at a lively rate
The water ran down on us so fast , Wedr
lay afternoon , that it made a lake in the c
Dt.
II. B. Wales has lee acres of fall wheal
hock. It will average about fifteen busl
if fine , plump wheat per acre.
Twenty-five wagon loads of hogs from i
icighborhood went into town in a string , i
lay early in the week.
That rain , Wednesday afternoon , was
> est one , this year. In the vicinity of C
nan school-house , an inch of water fell.
M. H. Cole was in town , Thursday , wil
oad of wheat. He always holds a lot
vheat over until the next crop is in the she
Matt Droll started three binders in a wl
ield on the morning of July 5th , and they
till whacking away at. There are 250 a (
n the field.
During the rain , Wednesday afternoon ,
vind dehorned M. H. Cole's stable , and
urned two sideboards that had been lost
ummer. One appeared so suddenly thr
iroke a brace on the windmill tower.
DANBURY. -
Danbury in 1898 shipped to market c
jads as follows : Grain , 216 ; live-stock , :
n 1897 the figures were : Grain , 92 ; li
lock , 102.
E. L. Dennis , who has been spending a i
reeks in Colorado for his health , returned
) anbury , Sunday morning , and resumed
osition in the Barnett lumber yard on M
ay.
Later and more complete reports prove
> ss fiom the recent storm to be greater z
> have reached more persons than were
rst reported. It was a record-breaker
iolence and damage.
THE Omaha scheme which conte
lated asking the state to raise the I
ud of $40,000 with which to provide
pecial train to bring the boys from S
'rahcisco to make a show of themseh
n the midway , has fallen of its o )
'eight. The same fate has overtak
ae Kansas City attempt to exploit KB
is for the benefit of a big city. Bo
jgimeuts will be mustered out in S
raucisco , and the boys will come hoi
t their own convenience. The boys
ic Nebraska First will be invited
tin with the veterans of the civil w
i their state reunion , on the groun
om which they marched when th
ulisted more than a year ago , but tin
jming will be a matter of individu
loice in every case , and they will n
B made a part of a paid show while
incoln. Journal.
DURING the first half of the year tl
isurance companies lost by fire in ti
nited States and Canada $65,699,75
i increase over the like period of la
: ar of $7,462,000. This increase is ha
account for upon general principle
at-that does not make it easier for tl
isurance companies to bear.
BOX .ELDER.
News is scare.
Corn needs rain in this vicinity.
Dick Brower's children are sick with th
measles , but not seriously.
Box Elder has two correspondents , surt
Say , who are they ? Guess.
Mr. and Mrs. 11 any Ilodgkin of Barllc
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Stephens.
What are all the people doing up on Rack
et Kidge , these days ; they are very quiet c
late.
It would be advisable if some of the smal
boys would not shoot firecrackers near th
church door , next time.
Mrs. Hannah Barnes found the carcasses o
her two turkeys north of the house in a car
yonwhere they had been eaten by the wolves
Harvesting is upon us and the reapers ar
cutting the wheat all right. It was feared a
one time that it could be cut only with head
ers.
Mrs. John White recently marketed 10
dozen of eggs. Mrs. White is one of tin
most successful poultry raisers , without tin
aid of an incubator.
Miss Maud Devillers entertained the younj
people , last Saturday evening , in a pleasan
manner. Refreshments of ice cream an <
cake were served , and it is said that Bert tool
the cake eating ice cream.
PLEASANT RIDGE ,
Corn is tasselingin most of the fields 01
Lhe Ridge.
J. M. Baldwin has harvested part of hi ;
wheat. It is very good.
The Sunday-school at Vailton is well at
tended and in a flourishing condition.
Charles Ferris has a cow that has broughl
iiim $30 worth of butter since March , ' 99.
A. G. Culbertson has composed a song
ibout the grasshoppeis. Get him to sing ii
: or you.
Clyde Starbuck and Ernie Eller made a
lying trip to Barlley , Sunday. They flew on
.heir bicycles.
Uncle Billy can come over and find the
: orn up to his chin in any of our fields and he
: an stand up , too.
Grasshoppers are getting so numerous in
; ome of the fields as to cause uneasiness
imong the farmers.
We wonder if the warm weather kept Rev.
i. H. Berry from filling his appointments
it Vailton , Sunday.
We congratulate the people of the new
own of Redwillow on their lucky escape
ram the name of Alexis.
In the small town of Lmcon , N. J. , all the
nembers of the council are women alder-
vomen , in other words and now it is pro-
osed to have to have the mayor of the same
; ender and it looks as though the movement
rould be successful. The men are mildly ob-
ecting , but the voters aie being slowly won
iver by feminine wiles , and all the prominent
andidates are women.
The Hot Weather
everything : In sight in
Is steadily and rapidly devouring1
SUMMER GOODS such as SILK MITTS , GAUZE UNDERWEAR , SUMMER COR
SETS , SHIRT WAISTS , PARASOLS , UMBRELLAS , WASH FABRICS , WASH
SKIRTS Etc. , Etc.
FANS . . .
are indispensible these days. Although we have
given several hundred fans away ( mostly on the Fourth )
it does not seem to interfere with the sale of the better
grades. We have them in all this season's styles
at ioc to $1.00 each
FERRIS WAISTS . . .
for Ladies , Misses and Children. We also carry
the best selling
and most satis
factory Summer
Corsets made.
Prices , 35c , 50c
HOSIERY . . .
The "Hurlington" Fast Black Hosiery
is otii specialtyand our line is full of the
veiy kinds wanted. Ladies' , in plain and
ribbed ; Ladies' , in
black , and black
with white feet ;
Ladies' "out" siz
es that is , extra
wide in the feet
and legs ; Ladies'
tans and browns ; FERRIS WAIST.
Ladies' Seamless
Style 220. S ice
Kockford hose (3
'
.Ladies' medium form.
for a quarter ) : La Long waist.
dies' white hose ; Buttoned front. Laced back.-
Boys' and Girls' White , Drab and Black.
stockings of ev
ery sort. All our hosiery is absolutely fast in color and
extra clastic in make. If you have heretofore passed
us on hosiery , don't do it again.
Ready Made Sheets
and Pillow Cases
BED COflFORTS . . .
Of course you know we are most emphatically headquarters on these. Our
own make 6 feet wide , 7 feet long , 6 cotton balls only Sl.6o.
We Solicit Your Trade ,
In Meeker Bldgf. Per
Postoffice next door GEO. E. THOMPSON.
ONE PRICE PLAIN FIGURES CASH ONLY
T T Tl A 7 nn T T T "X r
El V JL. H rV JL I 1 I I JL I 1 \
in the way of
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SOLD AT ONE-THIRD OFI
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YAHTJE & PETTY.