By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Municipal Platters
The city fathers held their regular
meeting Monday evening full board
present
Following bills were allowed
The McCook Republican 8 1015
F MKimraell 3005
J SLellew 1201
World Publishing Co 200
Engineering News 600
McCook Wnter Works Co 42500
City treasurers report was read and
referred to finance committee
Liquor licenses were granted William
Lewis Hendricks Lathrop Patrick
Walsh Clyde Bros Louis Fleischman
William Lewis and William Sullivan
were granted licenses to operate pool and
billard rooms the latter to have two
card tables in addition
Albert McMillen was granted a drug
gists permit
S A Warner was appointed gardener
of the city park and to act as special
police
Remonstrances were filed against
allowing any of the saloon licenses In
case of the application of Fred Bruhn
his bond and petition being incomplete
the matter was laid over
Furthor action respecting the licenses
will bo had at an adjourned session of
the council tonight
Court House News
Marriage licenses since last report
Richard Grosch I Bartley Nob
Louise Ilarsch f
Peter Qnardor I
Bertha Jeffries f
Cnlbortoii4 Nnh
Hayes Center Neb
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COUNTY COURT
Malissa J Clement of Bartley was
appointed guardian of the minor heirs
of C E Clement
Clara Snyder was appointed guardian
of Gertrude M Snyder minor heir of
George R Snyder deceased
The estate of James A Parish de
ceased late of Cook County Illinois
was admitted to probate
5 to 140 Acres
in Egan park Only half mile to school
For prices and terms see
C F BABCOCKMcCook Neb
Large stock of garden hose to select
from both 94 and J Inch Only best
grades kept in stock F D Burgess
This is the season of listlessness head
aches and spring disorders Hollisters
Rocky Mountain Tea is a sure preventa
tive Makes you strong and vigorous
35 cents Tea or Tablets
L W McConnell
RURAL FREE DELIVERY NO 1
J H Warfield is confined to bed
- Edward Downs took the eighth grade
examination in McCook last Friday
Harry Schamel hauled out ton loads
of lumber for his new house Tuesday
of this week
S C Dragoo was called up from
Friend Neb by the illness of his baby
The parents are now both at W P
Burns
N Rodgers is in Omaha this
week with a combination sale He has
been suffering with blood poisoning in
his right hand
Mixed Wive
In the early part of the last century
there lived In an old New England
town a Mr Church who In the course
of his earthly life was bereft of four
wives all of whom were nurecln the
same lot In his old age lt became
necessary to remove the remains to a
new cemetery This he undertook hlmr
self but In the process the bones be
came hopelessly mixed His New
England conscience would not allow
him under the painful circumstances
to use the original headstones so he
procured new ones one of which bore
the following Inscription
Here lies Hannah Church and prob
ably a portion of Emily
Another
Sacred to the memory of Emily
Church who seems to be mixed with
Matilda
Then followed these lines
Stranger pause and drop a tear
For Emily Church lies burled here
Mixed in some perplexing manner
With Mary Matilda and probably Han
nah
Harpers Weekly
The Lnst Vernaillea Bourbon
There is at Versailles an orange tree
some Ave centuries old This tree
which was taken from Fontainebleau
of Versailles on the completion of the
orangery was already famous under
the title of the Grand Bourbon Ac
cording to tradition the tree had been
planted in 1421 by a Princess of Na
varre and after several changes of
owners came into the possession of
Francois I by whom it was placed at
Fontainebleau When It reached Ver
sailles the king came to visit It and
two grand Bourbons were then face to
face The man passed and even his
bones torn from their tomb at St
Denis and tossed into a trench have
perished Not a pinch of his dust re
mains But the tree lives and blooms
and bears fruit the only Bourbon at
Versailles serene invincible enthron
ed Farmers Versailles
In Darkest Africa
A weird tale of witchcraft comes
from the interior of Africa A recent
trial at the Lilongwe court proved that
a native woman killed by a lion had
been partly eaten by another native
who was accused of impersonating the
lion The prisoner confessed freely
that he had eaten of the womans dead
body the excuse being that he had pur
chased from a witch doctor a medi
cine which enabled him to turn into a
lion at will in other words to indulge
incannibalisni in its lowest form as
themood took him
A Waterspout
A scientist says of a waterspout that
passed over a certain district in France
Its passage was accompanied with a
sound which is described as resem
bling that of a battery of artillery
drawn on the gallop over a paved
street At the base of an extended
nimbus hung the reversed cone charac
teristic of phenomena of this kind A
strong wind was then blowing from
the south southwest The waterspout
was preceded by a storm and followed
by a shower
Consideration
Jimson Now you wouldnt marry
me would you Miss Sears Most cer
tainly not But why do you ask such a
question Jimson Just to decide a bet
A Reflection
Mother Well what is it Tommy
How lucky pumpkin pie aint made
like doughnuts with a hole in the mid
dle Harpers Bazar
The wise are Instructed by reason
ordinary minds by experience the stu
pid by necessity and brutes by instinct
Cicero
The
Food Value
of a Soda Cracker
You have heard that some foods furnish fat
other foods make muscle and still others are
tissue building and heat forming
You know that most foods have one or more
of these elements but do you know that no
food contains them all in such properly balanced
proportions as a good soda cracker
The United States Government report shows
that soda crackers contain less water are richer
in the muscle and fat elements and have a much
higher per cent of the tissue building and heat
forming properties than any article of food made
from flour
That is why Uneeda Biscuit should
form an important part of every meal They
represent the superlative of the soda cracker all
their goodness and nourishment being brought
from the oven to you in a package that is proof
against air moisture and dust the price being
too small to mention
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
PUBLIC LIBRARY ROTES
Mr Pennycooks Boy by J J Bell
is very interesting It is a volume of
short stories dealing with incidents of
child life in the streets of Glasgow Mr
Bell is here in his element his stories
bright humorous and sympathetic with
a certain pleasant teasing quality that
is attractive
Tho Blockaders by James Barns
is the liveliest reading that has ever
come from the pen of this popular au
thor who has written many tales dearly
loved by all boys It tells of blockade
running during the civil war and also
of strange adventures on the coast of Af
rica and other boy exploits in different
lands
The Son of Light Horse Harry by
the same author is a boys story of ad
venture of which the hero is General
Robert E Lee in his youth Tho story
follows him from tho time of his boy
hood through West Point and through
the Mexican War practically ending
with tho beginning of the Civil War It
is distinctly a boys story of adventure
of which the history is accurate and
the life of Robert E Lee is depicted
Fairy Tales Every Child Should
Know edited by Hamilton Wright
Mabie is a collection of the best fairy
tales of all times for young people
forming a series which may fairly be
called classics of this fascinating form of
iterature
Library hours Mornings 1030 to
1200 oclock afternoons 130 to 600
oclock evenings from 7 to 9 oclock
Sunday afternoons from 2 to 5 oclock
W G Jones repairs cook stovesheat
ers and cleans gasoline stoves Work
guaranteed Phone red 306 or box
595 McCook Neb tf
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TnE Tribune McCook Neb
Hitch Your Wagon
to a star
or m other words work up
to the very best of your op
portunities Among the des
irable things away up in
merit are the goods we are
showing and which we want
you to examine They are
all they look to beand more
Its simply following destiny
to buy here You get goods
and priees at the
Ideal Bargain Depot
Opposite PO McCook
OLD TIME LEGAL METHODS
Whrn the Evidence of Gliosts Sufficed
to Hans Men
The testimony of a ghost would not
now count for much In a court of la
but the day hns been when it lias
sufficed to hang a man There was a
ghostly accuser in a case with which
the readers of Scott are familiar Soon
after the 45 an English soldier wan
dering near Braemar met a violent
death Years passed and then came a
story of a communication from another
world
A farm servant declared that in the
night a spirit had appeared to him de
claring itself to be the ghost of the
soldier whose bones it is said lay
still unburied The highlander must
see to their decent interment and
have the murderers two men named
brought to justice The highlander
promised but did not keep his word
and a second and third time the spirit
appeared and upbraided him for his
breach of faith Alarmed at last and
no longer daring to delay the man
called a companion and went to the
spot which the spirit had indicated
and there found the bones of the mur
dered warrior concealed in a moorland
tract called the hill of Christie
The story of the highlander came to
the ears of an anti Jacobite who caus
ed the matter to be brought to trial
before the court of judiciary Edin
burgh There the tale was corroborat
ed by a woman who had seen a naked
figure enter the place on the night
spoken of by the man It was an age
of superstition In a district more than
commonly given to superstition and
the jury seemed disposed to find the
two men charged guilty of the murder
but It happened that the principal wit
ness spoke only Gaelic Now said
the counsel for the defense in what
language did the ghost speak In
as good Gaelic as I ever heard in Loch
aber was the reply Pretty good for
the ghost of an English soldier said
counsel and that question and com
ment saved the necks of the men at the
bar The jury could believe In a ghost
but not in an English ghost speaking
Gaelic London Standard
NAMING A TOWN
How Abilene Came to Be Selected
by
Mrs Hersey
Abilene was named by the wife of
the founder of the town T F Ilersey
With her husband she had come to
central Kansas in the spring of 1837
They lived in a log house on the west
side of Mud creek and were the first
settlers on the town site although no
town then existed nor was there one
until 18G0 Then C H Thompson who
had moved to the county from Leaven
worth bought from the Kansas Pa
cific Railway company a tract east of
Herseys and laid out a town
When it came to the naming of the
future city Mr Thompson went to
Hersey and asked him to suggest a
name
No was the reply let my wife
do it She Is a great reader
Mrs Hersey was a graduate of a
seminary in the east and her little
library which she carried with her in
her wanderings was one of the ties
that bound her to the girlhood life She
was a devout Methodist and knew her
Bible from cover to cover When
she was asked to name the town she
turned to the New Testament for sug
gestion There in the third chapter of
Luke first verse she found this Now
in the fifteenth year of the reign of
Tiberius Caesar Pontius Pjlate being
governor of Judaea and Lysanias
the tetrarch of Abilene
Call the town Abilene said she
It means City of the Plains and that
exactly describes the location
So Abilene it was and in the fight
for the county seat wherein It contest
ed with Newport Smoky Hill and Un
ion City all long since passed away
good fortune attended it and the new
town became the county capital for
the 378 dwellers then in Dickinson
county Kansas City Star
Flcslimnklnpr Food
Cream gruel according to an emi
nent English authority is the ideal
nourishment for thin folk A teacupful
taken at night immediately before re
tiring is said to give marvelous results
To be at its best it must be perfectly
made then thinned with sweet cream
Taken in that condition and warm it
is agreeable as well as fattening and
produces just that sense of satisfied
hunger essential to ideal rest It is
claimed that perseverance in the treat
ment yields such apparent results that
the cheeks can be seen to expand from
day to day
The Pepper Vine
The pepper vine grows best in a
wooded valley where there is plenty of
moisture and abundant foliage to pro
tect it from the heat of the sun It is
given a rude sort of cultivation The
growers plant it keeping the grass
from its roots and when the tree near
which it is planted has no lower
branches strings or poles are placed in
proper position to enable the vine to
climb the tree It needs no further at
tention
Sarcastic
Yes my dear I believe in transmi
gration of souls I may be a brute in
my nest life
Wouldnt that be discouraging or
dont you care for a change Hous
ton Post
In Plain Words
What asked the judge was the
cause of the altercation
I didnt see anny yer honor but It
was him callin me a liar thatshtarted
the fight Chicago Record Herald
The Bengal canal 000 miles in length
is the longest artificial water course In
tho world
Sipper Time
Oxford Time
We can and will bo pleased to 6how jou a full line of
Babies Childrens Misses and
Slippers and Oxford Ties
ciy CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Christian Sunday school at 1 and
Christian Endeavor at 11 oclock every
Sunday morning All are welcome
Catholic Order of services Mass
8 a m Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday
school 230 p m Every Sunday
J J Loughran Pastor
Congregational Sunday school at
10 am Preaching at 1 am and 8 pm
Christian Endeavor at 7 p m led by
Miss Dora Oyster Evening preaching
at 8 All are invited to these meetings
Geo B Hawkes Pastor
baptist bunday school at 1U a m
Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m B Y
P U at 7 p m In addition to the
regular service next Sunday Mrs J H
Kerr of Ansley Neb will speak in the
church at 3 p m We invite you to at
tend our services
A A Holmes Pastor
Methodist Sunday school at 10 am
Sermons at 11 am and 8 om Class at
12 Junior League at 3 Epworth League
at 7 Brotherhood of St Paul at 4 All
men invited Dr C C Wilson will
preach in the evening and administer
the Sacrament Preaching in South
McCook next Sunday
M B Carman Pastor
The Proof of the Pudding
Well you know it is not in chewing
the string This holds good in meats as
well as in puddings The B M meat
market guarantees you the best the
market affords in the meat line in any
and all kinds of meats They throw in
liberal and courteous treatment and
prompt delivery You will find the
market at the old stand first door south
of the Walsh block We bespeak a liber
al portion of your patronage during the
new year David Magner Prop
Call at The Tribune office and see
what can be done for you in the way of
reading matter for the coming year It
will save you money
Ladies
in White Canvas Kid Patent Leather Tans in welts hand
turned high low and spring heel Not the extreme too or
price but a line carefully selected for stylp fit and comfort
Dont forget that we always carry the LOW COMFORT
SHOE for homo wear GENTLEMENS LOW CUTS
and DANCING PUMPS If you are a customer of ours
we will be gladto take caroofyour footwear Nailing and
sowing always gratis
NOT THE ONLY ONLYBUT JUST
THE BEE HIVE
INSURE WITH
The Farmers Mutual
Insurance Company
OF LINCOLN NEBRASKA
The Cheapest and Most Reliable in the State
Owned operated and controlled by farmers entirely
Over54oooooo in force 5 1417 1 1 losses paid in 1905
JOHN W BURTLESS McCook Neb
Phone Ash 135 1 Local Agent
Free Free
AN IDEAL CLOCK
This High Grade 8 Day
flantel Clock
will be given away absolutely free
with purchase checks One check
with every 10 cents purchased
Description Best black enamolpcl wood gilt
feet and side ornaments marhleized columns willi
gilt ombopd capitals gilt msli white dial with
fancy gilt center cathedral gong and half hour
bell fctrike 8 day wt about 12 lbs
This beautiful clock is now on dis
play at
THERMAL BARGAIN DEPOT
Opposite P O McCook Neb
M - miii
Always Eemenfeer the Full
Nome
Cures a Cold in ee Pay 9 Grip In Two
Married
gMr Eichard Grosch and Miss Louiso
Harsch were united in marriage April
17th shortly after 10 a m in the Ger
man Lutheran church on the School
Creek After congratulations had been
extended a well prepared dinner was
served at the home of the brides par
ents Mr and Mrs Henry Harsch Ex
tended preparations had been made to
welcome the large crowd which had
come from far and near to celebrate the
occasion A ball game played by the
boys in the afternoon ended with a score
of o and 9 Kev E Pluedemann um
pire At the supper table several des
perate efforts were made to steal a shoe
from the bride but thanks to the ever
watching eyes of the best men especial
ly Max Grosch and L C Kreidt all
attacks were repulsed with heavy losses
the best men ever conquered a mans hat
in the battle The y oung couple are
so well and favorably known all around
here as to make comments necessary
They will move for themselves and start
farming in the neighborhood May
they live happy and prosper
Rev E Pluedemann
Indianola Xebr April 23 190G
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A McMillens
The Ideal Store
The Tribune Office
L W McConnells
The Post Office Lobby
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Other designs are in preparation
Price Two for five cents
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For particulars call at ticket office
G S Scott Agent
Cream in sealed 10c aaSL 20c bottles
or sale at Marshs meat market
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