K fnritfAi NOTHING BUT SHOES Time Card McCook Neb MSBs MAIN ITNE EAST DEPART No C Central Time 1153 pm 2 580 am VI 800 am 14 955 pm main line west depaet No 1 Mountain Timo 1206 P M j iiwr m 13 937 am impeeial line No 176 arrives Mountain Time 540 p M No 175 departs 645 am Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars beats fro on through trains Tickots sold and baggage checked to any point in tlio United States or Canada For information time tables maps and tick ets call on or write George Scott Agent Mc Cook Nebraska or L WWakley Genoril Pas senger Agent Omaha Nebraska RAILROAD NEWS ttpmc No 1086 from the Wymoro line is hero temporarily C II Stennett helped Agent Scott in the express office during the holiday rush Locomotive No 1757 got some new cylinder packing and her brasses lined up this week The wages of machinists and boiler makers it is stated will be 31 cents per hour after January 1st Mr and Mrs Julian Andrew spent part of the Christmas holidays with her mother Mrs Anna Benedict in Lincoln Conductor F M Washburn in enter taining his father and mother Mr and Mrs George Washburn of Giltner Ne braska Slight repairs were made on the round house pump this week It will be over hauled in the near f uturewhen materials arrive All three of the stationary boilers are to be repaired No 1 got a full set of flues No 2 half a complement and No 3 will be given all she requires The wrecker is being piped for steam heating and will be run out of the back shop to make room for engines which will bo pushed in for overhauling and repairs Sarnie Uplinger of the branch was handed an acceptable Christmas present in the form of an ad vance from class one to class two in the railway mail service with an increase of pay from S600 to 8900 per annum Thirteen new machinists were hired and went to work on Wednesday morn ing These with the half dozen or more employed close of last week make things lively in both the roundhouse and backshop these days And more are coming Howard M Finity is on the relief with a severely injured thumb as his voucher He was working on a 100000 pound ca pacity car Sunday afternoon when a nut gave away and let a heavy coupling fall onto his thumb almost cutting off the end of the thumb cutting bone and all The Problem of living on a few cents a day and living well is solved by using CALIFORNIA Flaked Wheat Food VCooks in two minutes Containing aH the elements necessary to life All the fibre removed all the body building wheat retained As delicious served cold at noon with fruit as hot with cream in the morn ing An ideal dessert for dinner when made into pudding and blanc mange In packages Sealed to protect Its purynd flavor All good grocers BIRTHDAY GIFT TO No 19G3 is in the backshops for a set of new Hues The 1910 has been given another new cylinder this week Engine 708 is in the backshops for some additonal crownstays A number of locomotives have been sent off tollavelock for an over hauliDg Conductor and Mrs L C Wolff moved to Lyons Colo close of last week C T Watson car distributer is spending Christmas with his mother in Lafayette Iudiaua Engiue 2703 a P3 has been given a few new flues besides some repairs to her pilot and steam dome Earl Spencer who recently returned from Crawford Nebraska joined the boilermaking force Tuesday It is proposed to keep four or five en gines in the backshop being overhauled regularly after the first of the year Engineer L I Meserve of Sheridan Wyoming is now running on the Mc Cook division making his first run out east on 118 Tuesday James Stangland returned to the city Saturday last from Ilavelock and points east Jim is feeling better but will be off some time longer to upholster a little Engine 1065 which was in the San born siding wreck a few weeks since has received a new cab and other re pairs and is about ready to go out on the road again Frank Green formerly of the black smith shop here but now at the arsenal blacksmithshop at Rock Island will shortly go to Panama to work for the government on canal work Conductor C W Bronson is improv ing nicely now from his severe attack of pneumonia being able to be about on the street some now to greet his friends while gradually nursing back his old time strength A bulletin is now effective requiring passenger engineers and firemen to re port early and to examine and inspect their engines before going out on their runs Engineers are held responsible for their machines being in condition when they take them out on the road DANBURY J E Noe spent Christmas in Auburn Neb School has closed for one weeks vaca tion Rollo DeMay is spending the holidays at home G W Fletcher is visiting at his home in Beaver City The Hulbert children of Wilsonville are here visiting Miss Alice Delonjr is spending the hol idays in Wilsonville Mrs Greenway arrived at her home in Danbury Saturday Mr and Mrs E M Woods and Mr Doud are on the sick list Married Murray Graham and Guy Plumb Monday at high noon J L Sims brother-in-law Mr Mick of Bussey Iowa is here visiting Rev Hall returned to his home in Stockville to spend the holidays Miss Alta Morgan entertained quite a number of young people Christmas Miss Sarah Morris returned to her home in Imperial Neb for the holi days Miss Ruth McDonald of Indianola is visiting at the home of J E Noe and family J E Noes family and J L Sargent and family spent Christmas with rela tives in Indianola The Ruby family had a reunion Sun day in which all of the children were present A niece of Mrs Ruby was there and spentSundaywith them F GJJStilgebouer and family were there also HollistersJfRocky Mountain Tea is simply liquid electricity It goes to every part of your body bringing new blood strength and new vigor It makes youjwelljand keeps you well 35 cents L W McConnell EVERY M The Model Shoe CCXZCtRGL3iaCBXaF23Z RUSH ON McCOOK DIVISION Crews Taken From Lincoln for Use On the West End Seven train and ongioo crews and en gines have been sent from the Lincoln division to the McCook division of the Burlington These forces aro at work on the west end trying to remove the congestion of business that has mulated on Superintendent CLEat ons divisiou This congestion of business is attrib uted to many engine failures on that part of the road Seven engines were takeu from the Lincoln division and re ports from there indicate that this bat tery of railroad men and machines is Engineer W H Dungan has been en 1 making a big hole in the tonnage accum tertaining his father and mother from ultion on the west end Lincoln Hastings during the week J a Sunday ROCKEFELLER IN A WIG In This Dlspmiso He Was Talcen For a Stranger at His Cliurcli John D Rockefe ller looks so different in the wig he now wears tliat when he appeared on a recent Sunday morning at the Euclid Avenue Baptist church in Cleveland where he usually wor ships in that city the ushers did not recognize him at first It is said that one of them thinking him a stranger gave him a cordial invitation to come again and learned too late for apology that the supposed stranger was the pastors richest parishioner and thu richest man in the world The Standard Oil company the child of Mr Rockefellers brain Is just now especially in the public eye and its affairs are soon to be subjected to vi- actWBaBggflaacaoowjyMiJiiiJiajiuuuijiwiiiiiiiLJBfloMwaMMBOiawiaaiaM JOHN D EOCKEFEIiIiEB IN HIS NEW WIG orous probing A federal investigation of this giant corporation ha been plan ned and in the west a close examina tion of its methods and operations is to be made Mr Rockefeller will be summoned to the stand to testify In this connection as to many matters which have already been discussed in consequence of the attacks made upon the system by Thomas W Lawson Ida M Tarbell and others noted for their assaults upon this titanic crea tion of industry and finance Twenty one Standard Oil millionaires have been summoned to testify in the suit which the state of Missouri has brought against that institution and Mr Rockefeller is among this number There will be hearings in New York and it is intimated that the testimony elicited will arouse as much intfvest as that brought out in the course of the now famous insurance investiga tion In the distribution of his gift tlio American billionaire as the Standard Oil president is sometimes calle l has shown special favors to the cltv of Cleveland An enterprise in which ho has recently taken an inteivst is a home for newsboys which ii to cost 150000 and which he is backing sub stantially It will be a home rather than an institution and the boys who sell papers in the Forest City and have no homes of their own deserving of tho name will find It a place better to live in than the streets and less forbidding in its rules of decorum than the aver age asylum for homeless children Mr Rockefeller has taken much interest in the newsies of Cleveland and not long ago entertained them at his home Good reading cheap may be secured from The Tribune clubbing list J Store T BORN jtfleiKrad women 6e WHO ARE ipspp tr XL 8 IN CTIAIILES E who represents the Second A sioual district of Michigan and has just begun his sec charles e town- measure for the reg send ulation of railway rates As a member of the house interstate commerce com mittee he submitted a proposed law on this subject and It was combined with that of Representative Esch to make the Esch Townsend bill which passed the house last winter He is one of the props of the administration in the house this session Mr Townsend is a native of Michigan and was born in Jackson county in ISoG He studied at Michigan university and began the practice of law in Jackson in 1S93 When Mr Townsend was making his first canvass for election to congress he visited a household where the voter was not in sight but where a buxom woman and six children were very much in evidence It has been said that the man is the head of the family but that the woman is the neck and can turn the head at will So the con gressional aspirant started in to have the woman turn the support his way Every child was tossed into the air and kissed The best looking ones re sembled the mother and the others were very sturdy The last one to receive the political hazing had a red top and a face frec kled like a turkey egg He squared away on his bare feet after being re leased and piped Say mister why dont you kiss mother too Fred Wood and Bob Bragg did when they was here Guess they dont know yet that shes a wid der BRIDGE OF SIGHS Venetian Structure Alont Which Cluster Romantic Associations A visit to Venice would not be com plete without at least a glimpse at the famous Bridge of Sighs Celebrated in song and story in history and in ro mance this structure has become a favorite with the artists who now flock to the Pride of the Sea as Venice used to be known and come back laden with canvases showing l ond tcr in in the H house of tives jumped into i fame by framing a THE BRIDGE OP SIGES IN VENICE tian skies and canals and gondolas The Bridge of Sighs spans the Rio della Paglia and connects the ducal palace with the carceri or prisons It dates from lo91 and is an elliptical arch thirty two feet above the water inclosed at the sides and arched over head The bridge contains two sep arate passages through which prison ers were led to trial or to hear their doom pronounced Over this bridge tOv they were often led on their way to execution Many a person in days gone by when justice was not meted out with ns much fairness as now went over the bridge to meet a tragic fate when not guilty of any crime BABE At this joyous season when every Christian nation has just celebrated the birthday of the Redeemer of the World and at the birch of a New Year we will present to every babe born between January i 1906 and July 1 1906 in McCook and vicinity with its first pair of shoes FREE A 1 PETTY Proprietor McCOOK NEBRASKA jm iihf i innnsni tflll L II I II I II I II illl II I I II Ullll IIIIIIHIIII llll m MJJC REAM BARING WWDffi A Cream of Tartar Powder Made From Grapes No Alum NOTHING BUT SHOES J M May 1 906 e a prosperous and happy one for you DeQroff Co gyrgyJfu vm COURT HOUSE NEWS COLNTV COURT Licenses is fiilows haw lipn issued oy tne county juugt siud our msc re port Jacob Htr fi i22 nf Rirtley and Au guste E Peters - of Indianola W E Finch 23 and Evelyn G Mal lory 22 both of Cambridge C C Burt 21 of Iniianok and Alice C Wolfe 20 of Box Elder John S Miller 21 nd Vinnie M Phillippi 22 both o MKook Fifty Years the Standard McCook Market Quotations Corrected Friday morning Corn i i Wheat Oats 2 Rye 4 Barley v Hogs 4 - Eggs QoodButtei i u mez 3gb A Sound Argument The one that blows without any thing to blow about wastes time and energy The excellence of our goods and delivery service warrant us for blowing Always the best always the greatest variety always the highest quality DAVID MAGNER Phone 14 Fresh and Salt Meats br I J