l M I N I rtr Stock Sale Clifford Burbridge and Griff DeMay attended the basket supper at the Mil fler school house Saturday night Mrs Phillips of Indianola visited at ibe homes of Mrs J L Sargent and -Mrs J E Noe the first of the week Mrs Cathcart and Mrs Greenway Hvero called -to Red Oak Iowa on ac count of their mothers serious illness J LNewman shipped two car loads of ihogs to St Joe Snnday In the future Mr Newman will do the buying and shipping Mr and Mrs S W Stilgebouer re turned from Omaha where Mrs Stilge bouer had an operation performed for a cataract on her eye Wednesday A fire occurred in J E Dolph s house 3Ienday morning It damaged quite a Sot of their clothing They got it ex ttinguised before it did much damage to fthe house Mr Simonton sold his land for 4500 W A Minniear his land for 810000 to Mr McGuire J L Sims to W A Minniear J section for 6000 Mr Smith to Soren Simonsen for 2500 Sam Messner to Mr Rodman of Mis ouri for 1800 Pain may go by the name of rheuma tisniTneuralgia lumbago pleurisy No matter what namo the pains are called Hollisters Rocky Mountain Tea will drive them away 35 cents L W McConnell educing In order to reduce our grocery stock - largely by the first of the coming year we have de cided to give our patrons the advantage of a Reduction of 10 to 20 per cent on many items in our large line of fresh and first class goods such as California Fruits wOiTCCSa ETC You will save 5c a gou nd on your coffee and proportoinaiely more on other items Take Advantage of This Opportunity The IN-ER-SEAL CADETS will be with us Saturday aweek Never Fail 5 gallon Oil or Gasoline Cans for 150 The are world beaters Son DANBURY John Delong is building a burn 20x60 Edward VanPelt sold hid land to some eastern man W A Minniear and family expect to smove to California soon Jar Robinson is building a fine resi dence in the north part of town Mr and Mrs Dolph an child are visiting at the home of former Mr and Mrs J as Dolph went to Norton County Tuesday on a visit Mr Calvin of Indianola is training She choir in the Congregational church Marion Dow of Indianola visited Sriends and relatives in Danbury Sun day John G Raes Comedy Co was with us Monday Tuesday and Wednesday mights Mr Hay of Lincoln has bought 50 -acres of land of W A Minniear for 535000 The farmers elevator is looming up We understand it is to be completed in 30 days Born to Mr and Mrs Stilgebour a Sbabyboy Nov 14 mother and child are etting along very well SCHOOL CREEK Mrs Grey is on the sick list Anna Sargent is spending this week at home Charles Vandervort and family visited his mother Sunday Gilbert Rankin is treating John Dutchers house to a coat of paint Mrs George Wheeler and Edith Allen of Indianola called on Mrs John Dutch er recently Ed Mack and aunt Mrs Hunter of Iowa started for Carlysle Colo to look after their land interests there OBITUARY Newman Dutcher was born in Her miker Co N Y May 3 1813 He died at the home of his son C K Nov 3 1905 aged 92 years 6 months At the age of 33 he moved to Ohio where he lived nine years Then he moved to Greene Co Wis where he lived three years On account of poor health he came west as far as Floyd Co Iowa where he farmed 28 years Then he again moved west to Nebraska in 1883 His wife and 9 children survive him His sons J WE S and OK and families and daughter Mrs Hunter of Iowa were present at the funeral which was held at the M E church in Indian ola at 2 oclock Nov i conducted by Rev Erastus Smith pastor of the M E church assisted by Rev Hawkins pastor of the Congregational church A large concourse of friends followed his remains to their last resting place PLEASANT RIDGE Allen and Prank Hakenkamp have been losing horses from sore mouths Perry Shepherd and wife and baby visited at D H Shepherds last Sun day Mrs Marion Kimerling is visiting at her mothers Mrs J B Kilgores near Indianolathis week Mrs August Miller died at her home on the Willow November 11th and was buried Sunday from the Lutheran church The little two weeks old babe died and was buried last week Mr Miller has the sympathy of all in his loss Salemen Wanted to look after our interest in Red Willow and adjacent counties Salary or com mission Address Clover Oil and Paint Co Cleveland Ohio TTVTa Afc r Dr O G Reynolds Rooms 19 20 Burr Block Surgery and Gynecology PhcnJAafoff Bell UnCOll Neb e Jm INDIANOLA Gus Shupert was an Indianola visitor Sunday Mrs Frank Powell of Lincoln is the guest of her sister Mrs Thomas Duncan Mrs Simmons of Beaver City is here visiting her son L B Simmons of the depot force Henry Shouse has bpen out at his brother-in-laws this week helping him on the farm Mrs A M Teel took the train for Wauneta Sunday night where she ex pects to bo for some time I M Smith was in Indianola between trains Tuesday and called on a few of his friends during his short stay in town Alex Brown of Missouri Ridge has gone to Dodge City Kansas to see his brother who is very low with dropsy of the heart Mrs Christian Stevenson who has bepn visiting Agent Lawritson and fam ily left for her home in ITolbrook Sun day morning The lectures are over at the Catholic church for the present We are in ro ceipt of the news that we are to have an other course soon A ball was given at the opera house in honor of Henry Crabtree and bride last Friday evening 4 large number was in attendance The Adventists hold their meetings every Saturday at the home of Mrs Phillips We have not been informed as to the name of their minister C W Dow is having some new side walks put down in front of his new im plement house It is of concrete and W P Elmer is doing the work L B Simmons was granted a vaca tion to recuperate and rest up for awhilo He has been a very faithful and efficient helper in the office for a long time Dick Roper whose home is in Oregon and who has been working in McCook the past summer visited friends and relatives in Indianola a few days this week Henry Crabtree Jr and Miss Rose Meyers were married last week The vill go to housekeeping shortly in the house recently built on the Powell ranch Mrs Hatchers sister who has been in these parts for the past several weeks on business and pleasure combined left on No 5 Sunday 6vening for her home in the west R E Smith is putting the finishing touches to Wm A Dolans new house It is almost finished and presents a very pretty appearance It will be ready to move into soon Word came to Indianola last Satur day that W E Rollings who has been living in Lincoln for the past few years is dead Mr Rollings was a resident of Indianola in days gone by Miss Verna Brown who has been visit ing relatives in this county left for her home in Dodge City Kans last week in answer to a telegram announcing the serious illness of her father Fred Burt has bought a farm near Haigler and will take possession in the near future We are sorry to lose these people for they are among our best cit izens but hope that our loss will be their gain Wm Porter of this place now has one of the finest farms in Dundy county He bought six hundred and fifty acres His farm is situated about eight miles from Haigler He will not move his family until spring Mr Holland living west of town had the misfortune to break his leg one day this week He seems to be particularly unfortunate in this instance as this is the third or fourth time the same limb has suffered a fracture Mrs A N Puckett died Saturday morning at half past two oclock and was buried Sunday afternoon from the Congregational church sermon by Rev Hawkins Many beautiful tokens in the way of flowers were in evidence A large crowd of relatives and friends were present at the funeral BARTLETf E R Moon has been quite sickthis week Mrs Frank Purvis is visiting friends in McCookthis week Rev Kirby and wife of this place are Benkelman visitors this week Mrs Lewis Hart was immersed in the river last Sunday by Elder Wilson Mr John Wilber and wife of Wahoo are here visiting Mr Webbers parents Miss Nellie Rittenberg and Miss Grace Brown were visitors in Indianola Tues day Mrs Will Hanson of Holbrook is in Bartley this week visiting friends be fore moving to Bloomington Neb Otis Farrer has rented the property recently vacated by Mr Ryan who has returned to his old home in Indiana Harvey Athey and H L Brown were in Cambridge Tuesday getting pointers on electric light system with a view of putting in electric lights in Bartley A large number of the relatives and friends of W D Williams gathered at his home last Sunday to help him cele brate the anniversary of his forty third birthday The occasion was also the anniversary of Mr and Mrs Williams marriage A -1 s RED WILLOW Mrs Hatchers sister has been visiting hor Nearly everyone has his fall grain sown Mrs John Longnecker is still confined to her bed Mr Smith will improve his place by building a granary Mr Holland fell and broke his leg Do not know the particulars yet Mrs Smith and Mrs Taylor and son visited Mrs Longnecker last week Wm Randel has the jtone hauled for building the foundation for an additipn to his bouse Mrs Ilolton Longueeker left the farm to remain a few days in McCook before returning to Colorado Miss Clandia Hatcher is much pleased with her school in Oklahoma and they are pleased with her and offer an increase in salary There will be a protracted meeting at the church the last of the month Elder J E Wilson will preach Everyone in vited to attend A number of Mr Sexsons friends gathered at his home to remind him that he is a year older They had an enjoyable time Mrs Meyers returned from her visit to her sister this week Will said it had been nine years since she was away and he hoped it would be nine more be fore she went again RURAL FREE DELIVERY NO 1 Miss Sadie Evertsou is on the sick list W E Bower returned home from his visit last Saturday Miss Lovie Jacobs is stfiying with Mrs Gerald Wilcox for a few weens Alexander Conrad returned homelast Fridayafterasbort visit with his grand parents in Iowa Mr and Mrs John Ilammell are re joicing over a fine baby girl which came to them on election day MrsOH Angell and two children Joy and Willie accompanied her father on a visit to her sister Mrs Will Miller of Trerit n W II Smith and daughter Bessie went to Trenton this weeK to Iook at some property nnd visit his daughter Mrs Will Miller Miss Lovie Jacobs and nephew Clay Wright went to Hayes county to attend a dance in Mr Wrights new house A fine time is reported W N Rogers was pleasantly surprised by the appearance of an old time friend from Tamora Neb this week who will visit with him for a few days Ira L Kennedy is busy hauling rock for 1 he foundation of a new house which he will build for himself in the near fu ture It will add one more new box for the route Charlie Byfields nervous system was visibly effected last Saturday while going over No 1 At a point on the route he was shocked to find that his bag of letters was missing He retraced a considerable distance of the way with out success and finally set his face south ward again in hope of finding that which was lost A little farther along he re ceived shock two times he was sitting on the bag LEBANON The McCart Brothers have rented Abbott Bros new livery barn and fur nished it with new rigs Ernest Fletchers new house is nearing completion Mrs Ward C Hunt from Holdrege with her two children are here visiting Moses Thompson has moved from Wilsonville onto his farm southeast of town His son Walter has moved onto the farm which William Sullivan bought of Chas Thomas Waltor McTaggartwas a McCook bus iness visitor a few days bacK Miss Daisy Slutts writes from Creston Iowa that they have a larger and pret tier home in Creston than here They are holding special meetings at the Presbyterian church Rev W II Scofield being helped by Rev Books Mrs W R Pennington has beenqnite SICK Amos Thomas has built a new house on his farm southwest of town and his son Bennie and wife will live there next year Public stock Sale Thomas Andrews Son and A C Shallenberger will hold a sale of Short horn cattle and Clydesdale horses at Cambridge Neb November 25 1905 They will sell 12 bulls and 21 cows and heifers bred to their great herd bulls The cattle from these herds are famous all over the country and have furnished the winners at Nebraska and Iowa state fairs and American royal show Bar None second champion bull of Nebras ka will sell also other equally good Three stallions and five mares will be offered Write A C Shallenberger at Alma Neb for catalogue Be Humane to your faithful animals Buy a horse blanket at W T Colemans A large and fine selection New changeable Gloria Silks in navy wine and gray 42 inches wide 100 yd Thompsons - Would You Refuse a Are AH New ITS New Walsh Block Dollar Offered You No Of Course Not Well that is what we are offering you and that is what we give you for on every five dollars spent with us we will save you on the average of a dollar and A Dollar Saved is a Dollar Made so join the ranks of THE WISE and file in to the NEW STORE where your money finds nothing but bargains and where EVERYBODY is treated alike where ONE PRICE is given to all and where YOU are not charged with the losses sustained by extensive CREDIT BUSINESS OUR GOODS Are All Fresh ----------1------------- Stokes Grocery NORTH SIDE S O Houge sold his farm Saturday James Kirby sold his farm last Satur day Irve Spaulding attended the Wilcox salp Tuesday John Fitzgibbons of StAnn was doing business in McCook Saturday Fred Carter is done threshing and is now busy hauling off his wheat Joe Kennedy came down from StAnn and visited with his parents He is now working for Joe Harr Mrs D C Shaw has been very sick the past three weeks but at present is very much improved Are Up-to-Date Were all bought right are all sold right and will make you glad you came OUR MANY SATISFIED CUSTOM ERS are our best advertisements AND WE WANT YOU as one of our re porters Come and See Us DRY GOODS n JL J w Clapp Phone 56 3- flcCook A 5 Suit of XTRAGoop clothes FREE to the Best Boy Detective The man who sells XTUAGOOD boy clothes for Ederheimer Stein Co Chicago is coming to see us within ten days We will give free any XTRAGOOD suit in our store to the first clever boy under 16 years of age who finds THIS man before he leaves town What You Must Do When you think you have found the right man say to him You are from Ederheimer Stein Co Chicago and sell xtragooD Clothes Re member these words If you say any thing else he will not answer HH TARTSCH The Clothier PHONE 95 CITIZENS BANK BLOCK MCOOK NEB H T Miss Ethel Middleton of MnHonlr ia teaching a very successful term of school in the Kennedy district Mr and Mrs D C Little were doing business in McCook Tuesday and visit ing friends on the Willow Walter Hickling was offered 25 an acre for his 160 acre timber claim This is a good piece of land all broke out bufcj no other improvements Corn husking is the whole thingnow days Corn is making from 25 to 50 bushels to the acre of good quality There is not a very large acreage this year From three to four cents a bushel is the price paid for husking 1 47 A fc v X T SH s