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HELP YOU
to select your Xmas gifts Re
member that there is nothing
YES we can say NOTHING
that will ever take the place of
China for Holiday Gifts Every
piece we show was selected care
fully and this being a new de
partment of this store everything
in the queensware department is
the seasons latest We want you
to come in and look at our stock
Few people know about the big
stock we have every one yet has
been surprised
Everything Pretty and
Everything Useful
we have adopted for our China De
partment motto
Read over a few of rhe articles
we suggest which make very ac-
gifts
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This store will be open until 10 oclock
after the 15th
Dont forget our FURNITURE
DEPARTMENT China Closets
Buffets Music Cabinets Library
Tables Rockers etc make good
gifts for the whole home
Muslin Underwear
at Wholesale Prices
Not Out of Season but in Advance of the Season
We were exceptionally fortunate in securing the agents
sample line from one of the best manufacturers in the
country In fact so far superior to other manufactured
lines that their entire output is already sold up and by
getting these samples at a discount I am able to give them
to you at POSITIVELY WHOLESALE PRICES
No better opportunity was ever given the ladies of McCook
to buy so early snch desirable values in Muslin Garments
Call and make your selections before the best are taken
For
Gentlemen
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LADIES must keep this paper right side up Also keep
your memories right and give us your trade We ap
preciate it
H C Clapp
Phone 56 - McCook
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Xmas gifts
Dinner Sets
Chamber Sets
Fancy Salads
Sugars and Creamers
Cake Plates
Powder Boxes
Vases
Odd Cups and Saucers
Oatmeal Sets
Bonbons
Olive Trays
Tankards
Salts and Peppers
Pin Trays
Toothpick Holders
Cracker Jars
Fruit Plate Sets
Hand Painted Plates
Childrens Toy Sets
Chocolate Sets
Spoon Trays
Nut Bowls
Card Receivers
Comb and Brush Trays
Bread and Butter Plates
Tobacco Jars
Childrens Mugs
Mustard Pots
Shaving Mugs
Syrup Pitchers
Roll Trays
Candle Sticks
Water Sets
Fern Dishes
Chop Plates
and dozens of other articles
J E Ludwick
The House Furnisher
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Christmas Shoppers
ATTENTION
Check over carefully the items you want for your many
friends out of the following list Then come to the NEW
STORE where you can save yourself money and secure
all your dry goods of
Highest Quality at the Lowest Prices
Dress Goods
Waist Goods
Bath Robes
Kimona Goods
Pillow Tops
Silk Petticoats
Table Cloths
Lunch Cloths
Doilies Belts
Towels Bags
Napkins Purses
Handkerchiefs Collars
Fascinators Stick Pins
Knit Skirts Waist Pins
Gloves Brooches
Mittens Ribbons
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INDIAN OLA
I M Beardslee was an Iodianola vis
itor M011 day
Smith Gilmore has gone east to look
up a location
Miss Stella McCool visited out at the
farm Sunday
Miss Flora Quick went to McCook
Thursday night
Henry Eurling departed for his homo
in Chicago Monday evening
Mr Chase of Cambridge has been an
Indianola guest for the past week
Wm Dolans new house is now spick
and span and he moved into It Wednes
day
Miss Annie Smith who is teaching
south of Trenton is expected home for
the holidays
Frank Burbridge came down from Mc
Cook Sunday morning and spent the
day with friends
Merry Christmas and a happy New
Year with a pocket full of money and a
bottle full of beer
Elmer Thompson has bought ten
acres joining his farm on the south
Consideration 1000
McLean Goddard had the misfortune
to loso by death their infant child which
was only a few hours old
Roy Smith and wife are rejoicing over
the arrival of a daughter that was born
to them Wednesday morning
Rev Carman who has been assisting
in the revival meetings at this place re
turned home to McCook Saturday
Mrs Charles Byfield visited a few
days with her parents Mr and Mrs
Wallace since our last correspondence
Mr and Mrs McCool went over to
their farm Thursday morning to over
see the corn shellers who were there at
work
Mrs Collicutt of Cambridge arrived
on No 5 Wednesday evening and will
visit awhile with her daughter Mrs Roy
Smith
Mr Sullivan and family of McCook
came down Sunday morningand visited
with his son-in-law and wife returning
home in the evening
Cassett Clark died at the home of his
son-in-law Calvin Sunday night and
was buried from the Congregational
church on Tuesday afternoon Sermon
by Rev Hawkins
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Charles Broomfield and Miss
Sadies McNeil which affair will take
place at the home of the bride on Wed
nesday evening December 20th
As Clarence Dolan and Miss Stevens
were out riding Wednesday afternoon
the team became frightened and started
for a spin around town They soon
cooled down however and as far as we
could learn there was no damage done
Strong glasses cause serious eye
trouble in many cases blindness By
refracting the eye the glasses may be
often laid asidn in a short time leaving
the eyes entirely cured Dr T Albert
Jones is one of tho foremost reaction
ists living See him at the Palmerihotel
parlors
BARTLE
Dr Mackechnio was a caller in Bartley
Friday
H L Brown was a visitor in McCook
Saturday
John O Miller is moving to a farm
near McCook
Miss Laura Durbin is staying with
Mrs Henry Martin
Tho revival meeting at the Dry Creek
church are being well attended
W F Miller and daughter Blanch
wore Cambridge visitors Friday
Mrs Joe Hoover and daughter Goldie
wore Cambridge visitors Tuesday
Truman Wood went Saturday to
visit bin son Arthur near Gothenburg
Neb
Mrs Jennie Catlott and Mrs A F
McCord were Cambridge visitors Sat
urday
Auntie Smith was a visitor at the
homo of Mr and Mrs G W Iloppe
Sunday
Will Lohr of Red Oak Iowa will
visit during the holidays with his par
ents here
Elmer Oxl y was struck in the eye
last week with a piece of steel from a
scoop shovel he was repairing
Prof Gallitin and wife of Brunning
Nob are here for a visit with Mrs Gal
litins parents Mr and Mrs A J Lohr
Dr Arbogast reports a fine girl baby
at the home of Mr and Mrs Honry
Martin near Freedom last Friday even
ing
There will bo entortainments and
Christmas trees at tho C hristian and M
E churches Saturday evening Decem
ber 23d
Mis Sadie Hamilton will be home
from Gothenburg this Friday evening
to ppend her holiday vacation with her
mother
MrsC HBarrett came down from Mc
Cook Saturday and is visiting with
her daughter Mrs Perry Ginther north
of Bartley
Charlie Catlett came home from Uni
versity place at Lincoln Saturday to
spend the holidays with his mother Mrs
Jennie Catlett
Henry Cozad was at Stockville sever
al days last week nursing his brother-in-law
Henry Arnold who has been very
sick with typhoid fever
The bazaar and box supper at the
Christian church Wednesday evening
was a success socially and financially
Over 85G was taken in for church pur
poses
School closes Friday for two weeks
holiday vacation Miss Ellis principal
will go to her home in Curtis and Miss
ualkington to her home near Cam
bridge
Married at
parents Mr
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tho home of tho brides
and Mrs Otto Webber
I 1905 Mis Caroline
Webbi r mid Al O Vorhees Rev Kirby
officiating
RURAL FREE DELIVERY NO 1
Ira Kennedy moved into his new house
Tuesday
Miss M A Evans had company from
the east last Saturday
Mrs J I Lee has mado arrangements
to have a furnace put in their home
Ralph Warfleld has returned from
Lincoln His eye is getting on nicely
Miss Mamie Rinck and Mrs Black
spent last Saturday with Mrs J I Lee
J I Lee has ice seven inches thick
on his pond A few more cold days and
the ice crop will be ready for the har
vest
William Baumbach arrived home last
Friday from his visit in Canada A
brother accompanied him home from
Buffalo N Y
August Bahr and Joseph Downs have
been doing their winter butchering
Frank Dudek assisted the latter last
Saturday killing two beeves
Warnie Darnell one of McCooks
doughty nimrods donated 65 and costs
last week to McCooks school fund for
getting caught in John Burtless barb
wire fence while incidentally out hunt
ing on forbidden ground
COLEMAN
D Griffiths corn is yielding forty
bushels per acre
Christmas tree at the Bymer school
house Saturday evening
Clarence Wales corn is yielding forty
to sixty bushels per acre
W M Sharps corn is yielding forty
to forty five bushels per acre
Mr Bair hauled out lumber Satur
day for a new house Go for him girls
Mr Rawe of South Dakota is here on
a visit to his sister Mrs Griffiths and
playfully picking seventy bushels of
corn forW M Sharp
SCHOOL CREEK
J B Rozellea have anew piano
George Wheeler shelled corn Satur
day
Edd Vandervort is picking corn for
Jno Dutcher
Jno Dutcher and family visited Roy
Jones Sunday
A baby girl came to the home of Wm
Buhler and wife recently
J Seeden lost a horse last weekfrom
the effects of too much corn stalks
A Christmas tree and entertainment
will be given at the Luthern church
Christmas
COURT HOUSE NEWS
COUKTV COURT
Licenses granted and ceremonies per
formed since our last report
Murray Graham 27 and Dolores G
Plum23 both of Danbury
A G Kincaid 26 of Danbury and
Hattie Weatherwax 27 of Lebanon
Married by the county judge December
20th
M O Voorhees 32 of Cambridge and
Caroline Webber 22 of Bartley
Neal J Wyne 33 of Chester and
Lucy Peake 29 of Indianola
Jacob Harsch 22 of Bartley and
Augusta E Peters 23 of Indianola
Charles M Broomfield 26 and Sadie
McNeill 21 both of Indianola
Stock
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Reducing
In order to reduce our grocery stock largely
by the first of the ccming year we have de
cided to give our patrons the advantage of a
Reduction of
to 20 per cent
on many items in our large line of fresh
and first class goods such as
California Fruits
Coffees Etc
You will save 5c a pound on your coffee and
proportionately more on other items
Take Advantage of
This Opportunity
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Never Fail 5 gallon Oil or Gasoline Cans
for 150 They are world beaters
WllCOX
Son
A 5 Suit of XTRAGoop clothes
FREE to the Best Boy
Detective
The man who sells XTRAGOOD 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
H
Stokes9
Grocery
TARTSCH
The Clothier
PHONE 30
CITIZENS BANK BLOCK
MCOOK NEB
VEGETABLE SICILIAN
Hair Renewer
Renews the hair makes it new again restores the freshness Just
what you need if your hair is faded orturning gray for it always
restores the color Stops falling hair alsoftrfcoL00
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For bent Three farms near McCook
If you want to sell your farms list them
with me I have the buyers
J Fletcher
Immigration Agent Burlington Route
Bartley Nebraska
You will find the largest assortment
of Christmas toys at W T Colemans
The eminent eye specialist DrTAlbert
Jones late of 1234 Masonic temple of
Chicago is at the Palmer hotel If
your eye sight is failing consult him
Consultation free Dr Jones is a grad
uate of Northern Illinois college of
Opthalmology and Otologv as well as
others also member of Northwestern
Optical association of Minnesota
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