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TABLE LINENS AND
NAPKINS
Our stock presents patterns and qualities unsurpassed
in city stores and you ought not to miss seeing our
beautiful
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Round Table Patterns
and Napkins
Also call and see our assortment of
Tray Cloths Towels
Doilies and Bed Spreads
Another New Assortment of
LADIES WAISTS
The great demand for our shirt waists has shown to
us that the ladies appreciate GOOD VALUES and our
third shipment of these waists will be here by the time you
read this advertisement Both long sleeves and short
sleeves Call ande them
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EXCLUSIVE DRY GOODS
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BARTLEY
Mrs Flint is visiting is Dundy county
Ross Grisell was up from Cambridge
Tuesday evening
Prof Gallitan and wire are now resi
dents of Bartley
The Arbogast girls of Dundy county
ire here on a visit
Grace Flint had her hand badly bum
ped Sunday It is getting along nicely
Will Flint has gone to Cambridge to
work at his trade carpenter at S3 00 a
day
The Bartley band went to Indianola
Wednesday night to the Indianola band
concert
Rev Kirby and wife and DrArbogast
-and wife were at Cambridge Friday
Tiewing the ball game
Childrens day exercises at the Christ
ian church last Sunday evening were
Lhe best ever held in Bartley
E E Smith recently bought a whole
barrel of paint and has Mr Fletcher
and his crew painting nil the buildings
n his farm
Bartley ball team crossed bats with
sthe Cambridge team last Friday after
ncon A hotly contested game was
tplayed Cambridge winning in the 11th
winning Score 7 to 8
Monday morning at 30 the alarm of
Sfire was sounded and soon our citizens
realized the great loss that must come
The lire started in the southeast corner
-of the Dodd Dodd brick building
which is 59xG0 feet The fire soon gain--d
headway and entered the Jones build
ing adjoining the Dodd building This
building was occuped by A J Crawmer
vwith eneral merchandise By heroic
efforts the post office building was saved
from destruction and the fire confined
to the two buildings above mentioned
Tbo loss by Dodd Dodd was about
3SO0Ginsurance 2000 on buildingnone
n stockTho Jones building was valued
at51o00total loss insured for 600 The
Crawmer stock was about 6000 in-
for 2000 Dodd Dodd will not-
-rebuild nor resume business MrCraw
aner will go into business again soon
This is a bad loss for our town and com
xnunity when two of the leading stores
are entirely destroyed How the fire
-originated is unknown
BOX ELDER
A J Wilson lost a valuable horse
Wednesday
Rev H H Berry preached on this
-circuit last Sunday
2est Sunday is childrens day Every
oody invited to the exercises at 11
Mrs Richey and daughters of Beat
rice arrived Wednesday to visit with
Relatives in this vicinity
McCook
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DANBURY
Mr Phillips came over from Indianola
Tuesday
Fred and Alvin Dow of Indianola are
here visiting
Dr DeMay arrived home from Chica
go Wednesday
Rollo DeMay returned from dental
school last week
Miss Vena Gibson is a proud posses
sor of a new piano
Miss Bertha Gliem started for Chicago
Thursday evening
John Dolph has purchased Mr Plum
mers town property
Mr and Mrs S W Stilgebouer Sr
are visiting in Wilsonville this week
Dr Robinson has improved his town
property by erecting a new barn on it
John Moss has bought the place where
Wm Hindman is living of GB Morgan
Mrs Hulbert asd her two smallest
children of Wilsonville are here visiting
Lindsay Burbridge has fully recover
ed and has taken a position in Sargents
hardware store
Lebanons second nine beat the Red
Devils in a ball game last Monday
with a close score of 7 to 9
Mrs S mons returned home from Cul
bertson last Sunday Her mother and
brother of that town arrived here Wed
nesday for a visit
Rev Roberts of Hendly Neb who is
a Christian preacher will preach in the
town hall Sunday June 10th both
morning and evening
RURAL FREE DELIVERY NO 1
W P Burns has sold his 200 acre
farm to William Uerling for 4000
Rozell the independent phone man
has been looking after the Ash creek
neighborhood
Mrs J P Notley was happily surpris
ed by having an old time friend Mrs W
u Davis of Poplar Bluffs Mo drop in
upon them from Wednesday to Friday
ofiast week
Last Monday Mrs F M Kennedy
was most- agreeably surprised upon the
occasion of her 60th birthday by a large
company of neighbors who descended
upon the Kennedy home with provisions
and a good time in stock and proceeded
successf uly to make merry
Flerman Ramelow who has been at
tending the Lutheran school at Spring
field Illinois during the past winter
and spring returned home Sunday last
JBe was accompanied from Kansas City
by a cousin Mr Schmidt who will re
main here a while on a visit
EGGS -BLOOD PURIFIER
CURES catarrh cf the stomach
BIRD AJMD BEAST
Battle Between a Tlawlc and a Biff
Black Dog- SZlnlc
Silent as an owl In the black of night
the hawk glided low on whist wings
breast streaked
blood from his
and blotched
wounded leg
with
Like
magic the cries of all but the king
birds were hushed while still scream
ing with rage and hurt the hawk rose
heavily skyward and marked his course
athwart the wjnd for the shelter of the
woods Harold S Deniing in Harpers
Magazine
Persian Drnmnilcs
A traveler speaking of some of the
oddities of Persian customs wnen view
ed with occidental eyes said
Depending as we do upon illusion
and scenic effects in our theaters the
presentation of a Persian play by na
tive performers strikes the westerner
as little short of ridiculous the extreme
solemnity of all concerned making the
appeal to hilarity all the stronger In
one of their favorite miracle plays the
prophet is supposed to ascend to heav
en and this dramatic incident is ac
complished by the very simple expedi
ent of drawing him up from the stage
and out of sight with a block and
tackle The tackle is attached to his
belt by an attendant In plain view of
that many of the onlookers will be ob
served weeping openly Harpers
Weekly
The Gardener
It is at once the joy and the despair
of a gardener that his work is never
done His- materials are growing
changing ever varying things This is
an endless delight to a man who -lives
with his garden and watches his plans
grow up When he makes a garden for
another It is a different matter Then
after spending his best thought and
skill the garden must be turned over
into the hands of the Philistine who
may doubtless will spoil his color ef
fects make gaudy what before was
rich Introduce tawdry display where
before was a sensitive delicacy These
are the things that try mens souls and
will continue to try them until the own
ers of large places acquire some de
gree of sympathy with and under
standing of art Century
Childs View of Art
A lover of rare old china had a col
lection that was the envy of her visit
ors One day a little girl came with
her mother for a call and being seat
ed in the living room wonderingly
eyed the array of antique dishes The
hostess was much pleased at the childs
evident admiration of her treasures fed
said Well my dear what do you
think of my china The child iooked
up and pity was in her eyes asske
asked Hasnt you dot any pantry
Kot Mntclied
Mustache cups said the salesuian
Yes sir Heres a pretty design Cup
and saucer 198
But said Mr Nurich Uiat aint
the saucer that goes -with it
Oh yes
Not much it aint There alnt no
mustache guard on it Philadelphia
Press
Unnecessary
Monsieur said the duelists second
all Is ready Let me shake your
hand
Voila exclaimed the duelist with
chattering teeth Can you not see eet
ees shake too much as eet ees
Philadelphia Ledger
The left side of the face Is usually
considered by artists to be more beau
tiful than the right
THE APACHES
Thin Tribe Holds the Record a Bad
Indians
Scarcely a tribe of our American In
dians but what have engraved their
a cross the little open space cleared by ord of crime and infamy high up on
the fallen maple paused an almost Iin
1 perceptible Instant above the
Ing squirrel and then wings closed
dropped upon him with unerring talons
But for some strauce reason the
historys wall yet above them all is the
Apaches
From 1540 to 1853 New Spain and
Mexico carried on a so called warfare
with these people The Apaches were
vastly outnumbered by the Mexican
rier seemed powerless to bear away
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screams drowned out the dying squeak I
of the squirrel he strove with great
rattling wing strbkes to get purchase
on the air but could not Over and
over again he struck downward with
his beak apparently at the squirrel
though of this because of the blur of
his whipping wings I could not be
sure In a moment he half toppled
1 forward and then like a huge broken
that seemed fairly to lacerate his
throat In but little more than It
takes to tell It a dozen kingbirds had
gathered and were buzzing round the
struggling harrier like gadflies round a
horse adding their spiteful cries to his
narsn uin now a crow appeared out
num
bers was more than made up In cour
age and craftiness The Apache ever
had a thorough contempt for the Mexi
can soldier and in later years when
they were fighting with firearms as
well as arrows they would not waste
cartridges on the Mexicans but would
kill them with arrows spears and
Btones saving their cartridges for oMier
and more worthy foes
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a part of the United States the Apaches
among the tangled 1 coils of roots utter- l J
were a serious problem with which we
Ing meanwhile shrill screech on screech x j
had to contend Our government vacil
lated between a simpering peace poiicy
and the other extreme their extermina
tion
Their zone of wandering being inter
sected by the International boundary
line further complicated matters They
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woul a down into Mexico and then
of nowhere and searched deep In his
f i x j rush back with the plunder to our side
throat for his hoarest cry blue jays
flashed across the clearing and back
again In a frenzy of clamorous exclte
1 ment a swarm of chattering black-
birds rushed Into the tree above me
till its branches sagged and creaked
like those of a laboring tree over
j weighted with fruit all in an instant
bedlam was let loose round that old
wind wrecked maple
Under cover of the uproar I crept
nearer and saw that a big black dog
mink his bulldog jaws clamped on
the upper leg of the harrier was grim
ly fighting to pull him down from be
hind while the harrlec -with the spaed
1 of terror and hate sought desperately
to reach his assailant with his beak
It looked as If the mink must win for
the harrier was perceptibly weakening
in his vain counter attack but a sud
j den lift with the harriers long wings
half tore the mink from his hold and
swung him for one brief moment with
in distance of that rending beak
Rip a big red gash gaped open on the
minks writhing flank and he let go
and tumbled back among the roots
Up leaped the hawk his pearly white j
of the line out of reach of the pursuing
soldiers Next it would be a raid on
the AriEona side and a flight Into the
wild mountains of Sonora The Mexi
can government attempted to assist
their miserable army by giving a scalp
bounty and for years they paid out
their gold coin for Apache scalps
Scalp hunting became a recognized in
dustry The horror of this was that to
the Mexican official all scalps looked
alfke whether from the head of a hos
tile or a friendly Indian The price
was 100 for a man 50 for a woman
and 25 for a child It Is small wonder
that the tribe sank deeper into sav
agery than ever when we stop to think
that the men knew there was a price
set on the scalps of their wives and
children and there was a horde of
human fiends white in color but more
savage than the savage himself who
were hunting them as they would a
cougar of the mountains B S Curtis
in Scrlbners
QUICKER THAN LIGHTNING
Action of the Human Body Outstrips
Everything In Motion
As quick as lightning is a phrase
colloquially used to express the maxi
mum of rapidity but according to a
well known scientist electricity itself
Is outstripped by that old fashioned
machine the human body by which it
appears powers can so to speak be
generated in the brain transmitted
through the nerves and developed in
the muscles in an infinitesimal frac
tion of a second
I It is stated that a pianist in playing
a presto of Mendelssohn played 55R5
notes in four minutes and three sec
onds Thestriking of each of these It
has been estimated involved two
movements of the finger and possibly
more
I Again the movements of the wrist
elbows and arms can scarcely be less
than one movement for each note As
twenty four notes were played each
second and each involves three move
ments we would have seventy two vol
untary movements per second
Again the place the force the time
and the duration of each of these move-
uie uuuiemc oU onuiig uuem is
ments were controlled
tne imaginative power in tue oriental
All these motor
reactions were conditioned upon a
knowledge of the position of each fin
ger of each hand before it was moved
while moving it as well as of the au
ditory effect to force and pitch all of
which involves equally rapid sensory
transmissions
If we add to this the work of the
memory in placing the notes in their
proper position as well as the fact that
the performer at the same time partici
pates in the emotion the selection de
scribes and feels the strength and
weaknesses of the performance we ar
rive at a truly bewildering network of
impulses coursing along at inconceiva
bly rapid rates
Such estimates show too that we are
capable of doing many things at once
The mind is not a unit but is composed
of higher and lower centers the avail
able fund of attention being distrib
uted among them Pearsons Weekly
Lesrend and Reality
Legend tells how Napoleon while
Moscow was in flames found time to
draw up a decree organizing the Thea
tre Francais Alas the story is not
true Napoleon was in Poland when
he received the decree ready to be
signed He there signed it and sent t
back to Paris but in the margin wrote
the following To be forwarded when
the army will be at Moscow It is his
majestys intention that the decree
should be dated from that town
Obedience
Every duty oven the least duty in
volves the whole principle of obedi
ence And little duties make the will
dutiful that Is supple and prompt to
obey Little obediences lead Into
great The daily round of duty Is full
of probation and of discipline It
trains the will heart and conscience
Womans Life
A Biotyrnphy In a Xntslicll
Born welcomed caressed cried fed
grew amused reared studied examin
ed graduated in love loved engaged
married quarreled reconciled suffer
ed deserted taken ill died mourned
buried and forgotten
Sure on One Point
Out late last night What time
did the clock say when you got In
I dont remember what the clock
paid but I will never forget what my
wife said
SO-
A LITTLE THING
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Free
On all
chairs
this store
fastener which we
elusive sale for will
on free of charge
Gives Chairs
Two Lives
INDIANOLA
Dyer Dragoo is now living in the Tom
Taylor home
The new bank opened up for business
last Saturday
Harlow W Keyes has an awning in
front of his office
A fine rain fell here Sunday which
was well received
Miss Nellie Holland is home from
California on a visit
William A Dolan and family returned
from California last Monday
Tim Haley moved into the W II
Smith property Tuesday
Jay Holland is in Denver Colo where
he will spend the summer
The Farmers Merchants state bank
has a new awning in front of their build
ing
Miss Lena Short has been very sick
We do not know the nature of her sick
ness
Quite a number of our young people
went to McCook last Wednesday night
for the dance
The graduating class of the Bartley
school came up last week and had their
photos taken
The Christian Endeavor netted a nice
little sum from their ice cream social on
Decoration Day
Mrs David Kelliher of Boulder Colot
is in this vicinity visiting with old
friends and neighbors
Mr Claude Shupert of the Central
office visited friends north of town Sat
urday evening and Sunday
Bartley was well represented here on
Decoration Day From some cause
Bartley did not observe the day
The construction train loaded with
cement ran into a push car at this place
Friday and completely demolished it
yet one of the greatest little
things we haue ever struck to
make rocking chairs strong to
keep the legs from coming out
This dry climate is hard on glue
and it is very easy for chairs to
come apart but they cannot become loose when this little
patented article is used A rocking chair lasts twice as
long with this leg fastener on
rocking FT
bought at XyrGE SKO
this mv r ur
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have ex- tW JsrJ c
be put isr TH
J E LUDWICK
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LOAN
The House s
Furnisher C
with the McCook Co operative
Building Savings Association
can be paid off in rf - cq
monthly payments of P
If you are paying more you pay too much We can
mature your loan on smaller monthly payments and
less money in the aggregate than any comepting associa
tion Call on the secretary who will explain our
system Office in First National Bank
Mr Cook Building Savings Association
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Decorate Your Home
We have just received from Japan
a large assortment of fine hand painted
china nut sets sugar and cream sets
cups and saucers salad spoons and all
the latest in Jap china novelties
Prices range from i5c to 250
A call is respectfully solicited
The Ideal Bargain Depot
Opposite Postoffice McCook
Carl Korns arrived home from Califor
nia Thursday night Carl thinks Cali
fornia is not what it is preached upto be
Mr and Mrs Cosgro have returned
from Denver where they went a couple
of weeks ago in regard to Mr Cosgros
health
Mrs Belle Gintherand Miss Georgia
Short went down to Cambridge Sund
day morning on No 12 returning in the
evening
Mr L B Corbin is suffering from a
lame back caused by stepping off a lad
der too quickly while engaged in paint
ing his house
The railroad company is putting in
a gasoline engine for the purpose of
pumping water when the weather is to
calm for the windmill
A free concert and exhibition of mov
ing pictures was given on our streets
Tuesday evening to a large audience
The show was fine
Word was received here that Wm
Coleman an old land mark in Eed Wil
low county was dead his death occurr
ing on the twenty ninth
Mr Hedges shipped three car3 of
cattle and one car of hogs Monday
morning Whitman and Fritsch also
shipped two carloads of hogs all to St
Joe
Memorial day May JOthwas observed
in Indianola The exercises at the
cemetery were very impressive and at
tended by a large crowd of people Snel
len berger spoke at the opera hall in the
afternoon A sacred concert was given
by the band in the evening
It may be noted as an agreeable evi
dence of tho spread of Egyptological
enthusiasm In America that nearly
half the aggregate income of the fund
lor the last year came from tha
United States London Spectator
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