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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1905)
r i INDIANOLA R E Smith drove over from Danbury Tuesdny afternoon Tuesday night wns Halloween Did you sro any spooks Mrs G W Uusscli is entertaining a lady friend from Chicago 1 M Beardslee of McCook was an to dianola visitor Wednesday Edward Townley is reported ill with some kind of throat trouble C B Hong attended the funeral of Mrs Cann at Dantfury Tuesday H W Keyes and C W Dow made a business trip to Danbury a few days since Miss Julia Finch of Cambridge was a visitor in the home of Sidney Toogood last week Mrs Wm Nutt of Danbury was in Indianola last Friday the guest of Mrs V H Smith Floyd Welborn stopped off between trains the other day and visited with friends and relatives Eli Akers who has been at work in Indianola returned to his home in Mc Cook Saturday night A man named Lewis hailing from the Beaver has moved onto the John Rozell farm east of town M r Rozell will move to town and enjoy a life of leisure Miss Verna Brown of Dodge City Kansas came over from Danbury Fri day and remained until Saturday night when she went to McCook to visit rela tives The body of Mrs Shumaker was brought to this place for burial Tues day night She was in Kansas City be ing treated for cancer when her death occurred Newton Brown who has been visiting his brother John in Missouri Ridge pre cinct took the train here Monday night for California where ho expects to spend the winter Lucy Thomas and Fern Hedges gave a Halloween party at the home of the latter Tuesday evening There were ghosts at that party and what a timo they all had Joe McKeever one of our prosperous farmers living north of Indianola has bought the Snyder farm north of Mc Cook consisting of a section of land consideration eight thousand dollars A series of meetings will be held in the Catholic church next week by a divine from Chicago These meetings promise to be quite interesting for non Catholics to whom they are directed G W Short received a telegram last Tuesday morning bearing the sad news of the death of his uncle living near Trenton He left for there Wednesday morning to be present at the funeral The first snow of the season so far as re are concerned fell here Sunday the 29th Rain set in later and the snow and rain together have put the ground in good shape and will be of great benefit to the farmers An Indianola woman killed a snake the other day She procured a heavy club and dispatched his snaKeship with one blow and she did just right too According to measurement the snake was just five inches in length Who says women are afraid of snakes DANBURY A party of land buyers from Ohio are in Danbury W T Henton has gone to Kansas City on business G B Morgan refused 10000 for half section of his land last week J L Sims has gone to Iowa to at tend the funeral of his sister-in-law G B Morgan shipped two car loads of potatoes to St Francis this week The Kingslow place one mile north of town sold for 20 per acre last week Mr Steel has purchased land near Norton and expects to move there soon The following are under the doctors care One of Elvin Woods twins Win nifred Ashton and Mrs Hawkins Mrs Lewis Cann died at her home in Danbury Sunday night Brief services were held in her home Tuesday The remains were laid to rest in the Dan bury cemetery RED WILLOW Corn husking is in progress now Farmers are having a large acreage of wheat this season The Jensens McNeils and Hoaglands all have new phones Jacob Longnecker and family return ed to Coloradolast week The McNeils Helms and Sexsons were in McCook Saturday last Mr and Mrs E A Sexson were visit ing his mother in Furnas county last week Mr and Mrs Smith entertained a large number of friends Wednesday evening it being their sixth wedding anniversary All report a good time Mr and Mrs John Helm invited to dinner on Sunday last Mr and Mrs A C Ebert of McCook Mrs Stockton of Chicago Mr and Mrs McNeil Mr and Mrs A R Clark of the Willow Mr and Mrs E A Sexson Mr and Mrs L J Holland were unable to attend on account of the inclemency of the weath er The dinner was suberb and served in a charming manner All had a jolly time BARTLE The car famine still exists here Mrc Ed Tibbotts is quite sick this wnk Vote for the best candidates Tuesday It is your duty George Wolf is painting his fine resi dence this week Dr Arbogast and father made a busi ness visit to Benkelman this week The prospect of lighting Bartley with electric lights is very promising now Henry Burton left on No 5 Wednes day evening for his home at Mr and Mrs Gallatin left Wednesday evening for a visit with relatives in Ohio County Superintendent Miss Quick was in our midst Wednesday of last week DrMinnick of Indianola was a caller here Tuesday on his way home from Cambridge Mrs Flints brother who has been visiting here for several days has return ed to Lincoln Judge Norris was a pleasant caller in Bartley last week looking after some pension matters The rain and snow checked building work for a short time but it is on again now with renewed force Mr and Mrs Voiles are moving into town this week taking possession of the property they recently bought James Carnahan began the foundation of his new residence last week The estimated cost of the building complete is 1400 Several of our citizens attended the Dolliver meeting at Cambridge Friday evening last week and all write in high praise of the lecture Mr Sallack of Albion Neb is here this week closing up the purchase of three quarters -of land The sale was made by Harry L Brown The lumber interests of the east are standing up for President Roosevelt Those of the west are against him The latter get rebates the former do not See Miss Ilulday McKean who had been visiting with friends and her sister Mrs Teeters for several days left for her home in Lincoln Saturday morning of last week Mrs Beck and daughter Pearl the colored evangelists left here on No 5 Monday morning for McCook where they will hold a revival meeting in the M E church Clarence Gray and Samuel Premer wore calling on friends here last week Mr Gray will be elected commissioner and will no doubt fill the position to the satisfaction of his constituents Ira Peterson candidate for sheriff on the republican ticket was being intro duced to the voters of our city one dtiy last week by his competitor C E Matthews Mr Peters verj favorably impressed those whom he met Wo regret to see the name of A Bar nett among the bolting delegates at the commercial convention in Chicago last week He should stand up for Roose velt and railroad rate supervision It is bound to come and it is no use to kick against the general wishes of the people Dan McKillip had a serious time with snakes last week and they were not in his boots either they were genuine rattlers One of them killed by the hired girl was over nine years old Three others killed by Mr McKillip were not so old but did great damage One bit and killed a fine bird dog another bit a fine mare and it took several days hard work to save her life This snake story is true if not it would not be in The Tribune For Sale One registered Shorthorn bull five years old WHBENJAMiNBanksville Neb Do You Know why your children tire of most breakfast foods It is because of the presence of indigestible matter and the absence of nutritious elements CALIFORNIA PlokeiJ Wheat Food Cooks in two minutes is digestible because being free from fibre and thinly flaked it is easily assim ilated Is nutritious because made of only the finest quality Ijjpl sound plump wheat In two pound packages Sealed to protect Its purity and flavor All good grocers II III i I Mil imn muni niia A FLED rROM TEMPTATION rt Briber Waa Getting Close to ThU Honest ManN Price nevcral secret service men -were lunching In a downtown cafe the other fty when the talk turned to the gen oral subject of graft and bribery I am reminded said one of them xf the story of an individual who was well known In the west about a decade ago as a man of unimpeachable hon esty and sterling integrity And It wasnt just a belief or a general Im pression but a matter of cold hard fact as the circumstances had proved more than once It happened that about the time I mention a big eastern corporation wjiich handled millions of dollars worth of goods annually wanted a man tor a position of the highest trust and after searching the country over light ed on the gentleman in question lie accepted the position delighted with the honor done him but only held it for a month when he handed in his resignation As he had given splendid satisfaction in the short time he was pressed by his employers for an ex planation This he finally gave as fol lows I had held this place only three cays when a well known individual came to see me and after pledging my honor to secrecy offered me a bribe of i0000 to do a certain thing that would have been faithless to my trust I had him shown out of the oflice The next day a representative of his raised the tendered bribe to 20000 I refused indignantly Several days later tin offer was raised to 50000 and some time after it was increased to 75000 Still I refused with scorn Last week the well known individ ual himself again came to see ine and offered to make the bribe 100000 in cash and 100000 in stock and I re fused the offer and resigned And why did you resign asked his former employers gazing at him in admiration Gentlemen said the man of un impeachable honesty and sterling in tegrity my reputation is all I have There has never been a spot on my name and bribery and graft and I have been strangers all my life Such will continue to be the case Gentle men I resigned because that last offer was simply near my price Wash ington Star WITS AND WOMEN Would you hurt a woman most abn nt her affections Wallace A womans hopes are woven as sun beams a shadow annihilates them George Eliot Women cannot see so far as men can but what they do see they see Quicker Buckle If woman did turn man out of para dise she has done her best ever since to make it up to him Sheldon Lovers have in their language an in finite number of words in which each syllable Is a caress Rochefedre A beautiful woman pleases the eye a good woman pleases the heart one is a jewel the other a treasure Napo leon I How wisely it is constituted that ten der and gentle women shall be our earliest guides instilling their own spirits Channing Chimneys Chimneys constructed on modern principles were almost unknown to the ancients being used only in the large baths where great quantities of hot water were needed Chafing dishes bjjaziers of glowing coals and bottles of hot water were employed by the ladies of the middle ages to keep their rooms warm and a curious picture is extant of three Norman ladies chat ting together each with a bottle of hot water placed between her feet Chimneys are believed to have been un known in England until the twelfth century but by the end of the four teenth were generally employed in do mestic architecture For a long time there was a chimney tax all over Eng land London News Winners In Life The people Avho win their way into the inmost recesses of others hearts are not usually the most brilliant and gifted but those who have sympathy patience self forgetfulness and that indefinable faculty of eliciting the bet ter nature of others We have many friends who are more beautiful and gifted but there is not one of them whose companionship we enjoy better than that of the plain faced man or woman who never makes a witty or profound remark but whose simple quality of human goodness makes up for every other deficiency Submarine Divers It Is not safe as a rule for subma rine divers to descend lower than 23 fathoms 1G0 feet at which depth a pressure of 60 pounds is met with The greatest depth to which any diver has ever descended is 34 fathoms or 204 feet This was to the ship Cape Horn sunk off the coast of South America At this depth the diver Hooper must have sustained the enor mous pressure of SS1 pounds per square inch London Engineer Junt n Hint Auntie How smart you look this afternoon dearie Dolly who has been forbidden to ask if she may stay to tea Well you see I put on this costume so that if anybody did ask me to tea I could stop Conscience stricken I I havent asked have I Punch Questioners Tommy Oh my pa says youre a blamed nuisance teacher Teacher What Tommy Well thats what he says I am when I ask questions and thats what youre always a doln Philadelphia Press RED WINGED SEA ROBINS They Are AmoiiK the Most Curious Fish Along Our Shores I suppose the peculiarity which would be noticed first about the sea robin grunter or gurnard as he is variously called would be his clumsy shape The head Is large and deep in com parison with the body One of our ob serving young folks looking at him alive in his tank of the United States fish commission Washington would be apt to exclaim Oh see he has lit tle hook claws which help him crawl along Sure enough just in front of the pectoral or side fins are three little flngcrlike processes on each side which are used to stir up weeds and sand and to rake around among the pebbles and rout out the small animals upon which the sea robin feeds in its native waters While doing this it seems to be crawling along over the bottom by hookiug these peculiar claws into the sand Sea robins feed on small crabs fish shrimps and other diminutive animals which they find among the loose stones In Europe all the gurnard family of fishes are eagerly sought as they find a leady sale in the fish market They attain a length of two feet and a weight of eleven pounds Our species of the sea robin a cousin to the Euro pean variety is found on our northern coast and is taken in great numbers in the pound nets along Vineyard sound where they spawn during the summer months They are much osteemed for the table being one of the most delicate of the edible fishes The iiesh is firm snow white and hard to distinguish from that of the kinglish The Amer ican sea robins are fifteen to eighteen inches long and weigh from one and one fourth to two pounds When taken from the water they grunt quite loudly and if placed on the ground give a little hop forward of a few inches grunting as they do so This grunting sound can be heard quite plainly if one is in a boat lying quietly in shal low water near where they are The head is sheathed with bony plates and armed with sharp points which are rather hard to distinguish at first as they lie quite fiat against It When caught they erect all their spines and inflict very painful wounds on those who try to handle them The pectoral fins are a little more than halt as long as the body and may be ex tended like a fan when in use or fold ed quite ciose together when on the bottom thus giving them the name of butterfly fish The rays of the tail may also be much extended to look like a Japanese fan The color of this peculiar fish is a brownish yellow over th back and sides and cream white below The pectoral fins are deep orange color with a blackish marking toward the tips crossed all over with little dark brown lines and edged with light yel low orange color The lower jaw is a beautiful turquoise blue edged with a vein of brassy yellow St Nicholas PlacinKT the Responsibility A small bay not more than seven or eight years of age was once sent to the oflice of a Brooklyn school prin cipal for some offense The principal saw that the little fellow had an un usually straightforward and honest appearance so he concluded to lead up to the proper punishment for the young offender by asking him a few ques tions If you were a teacher what would you do with a boy who acted as you did this morning in the classroom he asked Id send him to the principal promptly replied the boy What do you think the principal ought to do with such a boy contin ued the questioner Thats up to you was the reply The boy escaped punishment School Journal Giants nnd Dwarfs In life giants are usually weakmind ed s well as frail of body and as a rule they do not live long Dwarfs on the other hand are often nimble witted and stand a good chance of longevity An Austrian empress in the seven teeth century took the whim to round up all the giants and dwarfs in her empire and turn them in together Ap prehension was expressed that the big ones would terrify the small ones but it was the other way The giants were compelled to ask for protection from the impish tricks of the dwarfs and they had to be separated before peace reigned among them Philadelphia Telegraph A Logical Inference No said the business man I dont want a man in my employ who plays the races Then you think gambling is wrong It Isnt so much that but I am con vinced that a man who would make the loose one sided contract required by a bookmaker is not competent to take care of his own interests or those of anybody else Washington Star A Bad Habit The Heiress Papa I am consider ably embarrassed to discover that I am engaged to marry both the duke and the count How like your mother to jump in and buy more than she wants just because it is cheap Life Very Xcyf I thought you told me that Miss Pastelie was old She is old as the hills Dont believe it I kissed her a few minutes ago and found that the paint was still fresh Cleveland Leader It Is impossible for that man to de spair who remembers that his helper Is omnipotent Jeremy Taylor i e WILCOXS DUROC JERSEY AND POLAND CHINA HOGS at auction TUESDAY NOVEMBER 14 1905 at his farm 2 miles southeast of McCook Nebraska 45 DUROC JERSEY spring boars and gilts nil sired by tho Groat Jumbo Red Boar Jumbo Jum 26313 a son of Morton Cos celebrated Jumbo Red 7873 This boar weighs 800 pounds as a two year old and headed my show herd at tho stato fair 25 POLAND CHINA spring boars and gilts strong in Missouri Black Chief Tecumseh and Perfection blood Sale will bo held at tho farm in comfortnble qunrters commencing tit 10 a m regardless of the weather Free conveyance from town to the sale Breeders from a distance will be entertained free at the Commercial Hotel in McCook Mail bids may bo sent to either auctioneer Send for catalogue Free lunch at noon Gerald Wilcox owner L W LEONARD and E J MITCHELL Auctioneers p SStSS9AbASsibS BANKRUPT STOCK OF SHOES i of Good Quality to be sold at auction SATURDAY NOVEMBER 4 1905 commencing at i p m Wilsons Second Hand Store Dennison St East of DeGroffs These are new goods secured from an enormous Omaha bankrupt stock and will go to the highest bidder without re serve Come out and get anything you need In the shoe line at your own price rlonest treatment guaranteed to all E J MITCHELL Auctioneer s rent Mrs Hannah Johnsons farm the coming season on the halves We understand that Wm Meadville left Tuesday for Ohio where he will en gage in the banking business with a brother-in- law Charles Burgess has built a new barb er shop 24x30 on the east side of main street He will put in a bath tub and will have an up to date shop Mr and Mrs Walter Pennington come over from Bartley Sunday He is help ing Ernest Mitchell a few days on tho house while waiting for roads to clear up Joe Jolly who sold his Kansas farm to Martin Kidder last summer has bought the Schuyler Dow quarterand moved in the granary until the has time to build Mr and Mrs Al Fough are here again from Missouri They will live next year on the M F Davis farm Mrs Fough had very poor health while in Missouri Ira Pennington was home from Mc Cook visiting with A E until Tuesday evening Ira has been firing on No 13 and 14 McCook to Red Cloud and re turn lately The sales of lumber here of late run up into four figures in six days and the supply of carpenters is short of the de mand Young men who a few years ago went to Colorado to find work beg for it can find plenty of work here at 8200 per day The train service is sometimes hard to understand Ore day last week the men were called at 730 a m at Orleans they got out of town at two p m sever al hundred tons short of the required ton nage They set out cars all along until when they reached Lebanon at eleven p m they had one lone car and the coach At 35 cents per hour the con ductor would earn eight dollars from Orleans to St Francis Mr and Mrs Wm P Thompson are here from Hudson Iowa Mrs Thomp son is a sister of Wm R and F M Pennington and Mr Thompsonis a brother of Wm R Penningtons first wife Mr and Mrs Thmopson are the parents of the late Mrs Speicher whose husband is associated with Doc tor Dowie of Zion City Illinois Mr Thompson is not am believer in the Dowie doctrine however W H Wilson fefel fSt6S2S LEBANON Frank Dunton is here on a visit Havilah Hupp is here from Illinois John Hoobler is feeding a bunch of cattle Robert Orr has sold his farm to Rob ert Morgan Mart Scarrow has bought the old Ed Decker 160 for 1600 Fremont Breech had a brother here looking for a location Frank Anderson and family are ex- pected home this week from Illinois George and Albert Abbott are build ing a large livery barn in the east part of town Nelson S West was visiting old friends hero a week while on his way to Colo rado to live We understand that Harry Pool will r5 John Judley Jr is building a residenc just south of Wm Smidts residence Mr and Mrs Allen E Pennington left Tuesday They will visit about a month in Illinois and elsewhere before returning to his railroad job and their home at Raton New Mexico Farmers are offering from three to five cents per bushel for corn pickers One man on the north divide has sold his farm and is anxious to get his corn out is paying five cents per bushel His hand husks eighty bushels per day and earns 8400 each good husking day In 1S96 we know of corn husked for one and one half cents per bushel three counties east of here A farmer hunt ing a hand on tho street Tuesday says Maybe I will strike somebody before I leave town He was immediately told to be careful for some would strike back A very pleasant at home was given bv Mr and Mrs E M Pennington Tues day at their farm home one mile east of Lebanon when the relatives of Rev and Mrs Wm P Thompson met for a visit Those present were Mr and Mrs Allen E Pennington of Raton NM I D Pennington of McCook Mr and Mrs Walter M Pennington and three chil dren of Bartley and Mr and Mrs F M and Wm R Pennington of Lebanon Mr Thompson is a very pleasing conver sationist and a splendid time was had Mrs Pennington served one of her splendid dinners One feature of the dinner was the large smooth apples raised on their own trees also plum butter made from their own tame plums Word had been sent to Mrs F B Cum mings of Hill City Kans and also to nephews of Mr Thompson living near St Francis Kans but the storm pre vented their coming Mr and Mrs Thompson leave last of this week for their home in Hudson Iowa very much pleased with this country BOX ELDER Fred Rang sold his farm last Satur day to Mr Burt of Indianola Mrs Ella Templin is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs I H Harrison Special meetings will begin at the church next Sunday morning Miss Jean Ashby of Upland Nebraska will assist in the meetings A W Campbell who has been visit ing his son J L Campbell of Osburn returned home Tuesday evening N Tubbs is putting down a cistern for the school house W B Wolfe was quite badly hurt last Saturday by his horse slipping and falling with him RURAL FREE DELIVERY NO 2 Miss Myra Marshall is home from Grand Island where she has been at tending business college She is re covering nicely now from her attack of pneumonia which made it necessary for her to be brought home for care and treatment D E Bard who bought the W O Marshall farm in Perry precinct with his family this week has moved onto the farm hmi mirm i s - m r I tf