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By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Call Republican State Convention March
12 1908
Pursuant to the call of the National
committee issued December 7 1907 the
Republican electors of the state of Ne
braska are hereby called to meet in con
vention in the city of Omaha on Thurs
day March 12 1908 at two oclock in
the afternoon for the purpose of select
ing four delegates at large and four al
ternates to the Republican National
convention to be held in the city of
Chicago June 16 1903 for the nomina
tion of candidates for president and vice
president of the United States
The basis of representation of the sev
eral counties in said state convention
shall be the vote cast for Honorable H
H Wilson for presidential elector at the
general election held for November 8
1904 giving one delegate for each one
hundred fifty votes and the major frac
tion thereof so cast for said H H Wil
Bon but each county to be entitled to at
least one delegate Said apportionment
entitles the several counties to the fol
lowing representation in the said con
vention
NUMBER OF DELEGATES TO EACH COUNTY
1908
Adams 15 Johnson 11
Antelope 12
Banner 1
Blaine 1
Boone 12
Box Butte 4
Boyd 8
Brown 4
Buffalo 17
Burt 14
Butler 11
Cass 18
Cedar 12
Chase 2
Cherry 7
Cheyenne 5
Clay 14
Colfax 8
Cuming 10
Custer 18
Dakato 6
Dawes 5
Dawson 11
Deuel 3
Dixon 10
Dode 19
Douglas 102
Dundy 3
Fillmore 13
Franklin 8
Frontier 7
Furnas 10
Gage 29
Garfield 3
Gosper i
Grant 1
Greeley 6
Hall 17
Hamilton 12
Harlan 8
Hayes 2
Hitchcock 4
Holt 12
Hooker 1
Howard 8
Jefferson 14
Kearney 8
Keith 2
Keya Paha 3
Kimball 1
Knox 14
Lancaster 54
Lincoln 10
Logan 1
Loup 1
McPherson 1
Madison 15
Merrick 8
Nance S
Nemaha 13
Nuckolls 11
Otoe 17
Pawnee 12
Perkins 1
Phelps 10
Pierce 7
Platte 13
Polk 8
Red Willow 9
Richardson 17
Rock 3
Saline 16
Sarpy 7
Saunders 19
Scotts Bluff 4
Seward 15
Sheridan 4
Sherman 5
Sioux 2
Stanton 6
Thayer 13
Thomas 1
Thurston 5
Valley 8
Washington 12
Wayne 10
Webster 11
Wheeler 1
York 17
Total 925
It is recommended that no proxies be
allowed and that the delegates present
from each of the respective counties be
authorized to cast the f ullvote of their
delegations V
Attention is called to the method pro
vided for by the resolution of the state
committee givjng the Republican elect
ors in each county where desired an op
portunity to express their preference for
candidate for president of the United
States which plan of expressing said
preference has been forwarded to each
county chairman
Attention islso called to Section 3 of
Rule VI adopted by the said state com
mittee providing for the filing of cre
dentials and which rule is as follows
Credentials of delegates to conven
tions Bhalf be filed with the socretary of
the state central committee at least five
days before the date of said convention
Pursuant to said call of the National
committee and the laws of Nebraska
the several congressional committees
are instructed to proceed iu the usual
manner to name a time and place for
holding their respective district conven
tions for the election of two delegates
and two alternates from each of said
congressional districts in conformity
with the requirements of the call of the
national committee the same basis of
representation being used in the several
counties as is herein provided for the
state convention It is recommended
that the same place and date be selected
by said congressional committees for
holding said district conventions as
have been selected by this committee
for the state convention
Wm Hayward Chairman
F P Corrick Secretary
January 8 1908 Lincoln Nebraska
PENNSYLVANiAsState supreme court
has declared unconstitutional the two
cent rate law of the state It is note
worthy however that even Pennsyl
vanias supreme courts decision was
grounded not on the proposition that
the law was unremunerative and confis
catory but on the grounds that the
rate violated the provisions of contracts
entered into between the state and the
railroads at the time the latter secured
their charters
John George Benkelman founder of
the town of Benkelman died in Den
ver Thursday night of last week aged
77 years
A Dull Month
Not on your cash register
Dull months are for dull people not
for live ones
If you wre a carpeuter and your saw
was dull would you say I cant work
this month my saw is dull
Not for one blessed minute
Youd get up early in the morning and
file that saw before breakfast Youd
put the edge on that saw that would
make it eat its way through an oak
board like a hungry boy through apiece
of pumpkin pie
The live dealer does exactly the same
thing If business doesnt come the
way he wants it he sharpens up his
business tools and goes after business
And he gets it too
The man who expects business to be
dull and is willing it should be dull
will have it dull
The man who sits back in a soft-cushioned
chair when Christmas is over and
says Ill rest up now for January will
be dull anyway will get just what hes
looking for
Its all in your mind This childish
prattle about dull seasons is a mongrel
theory sired by indifference mothered
by mental weakness and nursed by the
universal tendency of human nature to
fight shy of work People have got to
buy things in January and theyll buy
them of you if you let them know youre
still alive and still full of red blooded
ambition for more business
You canhaye dull months if you want
them but youll be out of date if you
do Theyre not-in-style any more
Genuine imported Swiss cheese at the
White House l
The Huntsmans Mass
every year on St HUDerrs
day one may seehundreds of dogs In
tho Cathedral of Notre Dame at Brus
sels At the huntsmans mass on that
day The owners of hunting dogs take
the animals to church with them
and for a short time the sacred edifice
becomes a dog show place saysn
writer In a Berlin paper To heighten
the effect all the worshipers attend in
hunting costume and the bugle plays
an Important part in the musical serv
ice When the last celebration took
place a stranger In the city who was
staying at one of the large hotels near
the place strolled toward the cathedral
and took with him a pet spaniel Ev
ery dog has his day he said and
this is it At the church entrance
two pointers growled at the little dog
and did it so fiercely that the little fel
low turned and ran lie was coaxed
back but again driven away by anoth
er large dog The owner took the
hint says the writer and returned
to the hotel with his little pet con
vinced that the big dogs looked upon
the spaniel as an Intruder that he had
no part in the St Huberts mass and
that the day was not every dogs
Worlds Finest Fruits
An interesting discussion In the Brit
ish Royal Horticultural society a few
years ago as to what was the finest
fruit In the world ended by giving the
palm to a certain yellow nectarine
raised from a peach by the late Fran
cis Rivers Next to this perhaps comes
a properly ripened greengage one of
the best varieties of the plum The
greengage came into Europe by way
of Italy and from Italy was brought
to France early in the sixteenth
tury by the -wife of Francis I In
whose honor it received the name of
Reine Claude by which it is still wide
ly known Soon afterward it was In
troduced into England from Italy un
der the old Italian name Verdoch aud
about the same time from France
The latter Importation however came
with lost labels to a family of promi
nent English amateur horticulturists
of that day named Gage from whom
the fruit received its present name
London Chronicle
Suicide Without Pain
Yes admitted the man who had
his feet on the table it is true that
I did once attempt to commit suicide
I was disconsolate out of work out
of health and I brooded over my un
happy lot until I
Never mind what drove you to at
tempt the deed All that interests us
is how you made such a failure
I can hardly account for it myself
even now I fired a pietol straight at
my heart
Blank cartridge
Toy pistol
Had chain armor on
Bullet hit a rib and glanced off
No said the man looking scorn
fully at the scoffers about him The
bullet hit the looking glass in front of
which I was standing and broke it in
to a thousand pieces Strand Maga
zine
Lockjaw
The fearful tetanus or lockjaw was
ascribed in all the books when I was
a student to puncture or irritation of
a nerve and both hands and feet were
sometimes cut off to stop the irritation
going up the nerve to the spine Now
we know that it is due to a fatal
poison in the blood which acts like
strychnia though more painfully and
which is produced by a bacillus lodged
in a punctured wound made by some
stick nail or pistol wad on which this
evil bacillus happened to be It is a
soil bacillus and swarms in rich gar
den earth particularly where guano
or fish manure is used All wounds
therefore into which earth has enter
ed should be promptly cauterized Dr
William Hanna Thomson in Every
bodys Magazine
His Dance
An organ grinder had been playing
before the house of an irascible old
gentleman who furiously and amid
w7ild gesticulations ordered him to
move on The Italian stolidly stood
his ground and played on and at last
was arrested for causing a disturb
ance At the court the magistrate
asked him why he did not leave when
he was requested
Me no understan mooch Inglese
was the reply
Well but you must have under
stood by his motions that he wanted
you to go said the magistrate
I think he come to dance was the
rejoinder London Tatler
Progress
My wife knew nothing of house
keeping to begin with but shes learn
ing fast
Thats encouraging
03s shes a bright little woman if I
do say it It has taken only two cooks
to teach her to keep away from the
kitchen and I suppose thats at least
half the battle Puck
How She Said It
Indignant Mother And so he kissed
you three times Now what did you
say to him
Artless Daughter Why I said
Dont Stop
She did only it sounded like Dont
stop
He Had Room
Dear me Tom you eat a good deal
for a little fellow remarked Uncle j
John to his nephew
I spect I arent so little inside as I
look outside was Toms ingenious an
swer
Where He Got His Money
Howell That fellow has made a for
tune out of one book Powell Hes an
author Is he Howell No the book
I refer to was his father-in-laws check j
boot Exchange
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Opposite Monte Cristo
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Eev M B Carman is in Benkelman
part of the week
Miss Mae ODonnell was a city vis
itor fore part of week
Miss Lizzie Fisher of Oxford was a
city visitor last Saturday
John Gilchrist the accountant was
a city visitor close of last week
Mr and Mr C J Ryan attended
the burial of Mrs Ellen Real in Graf
ton Monday of this week
Earl Standish of Ottumwa Iowa
has taken a clerical position with Fish
er AjPerkins in The Model Shoe Store
Mrs Chas Luke of McCook is visit
ing in Holdrege at the home of her par
ents Mr and Mrs Will Douglas
Holdrege Citizen
Rev and Mrs Edker Burton return
ed Saturday night last from their sad
mission to Pierrp S D the burial of
Mrs Burtons father
Mrs W M Weidenhajier and the
children returned Friday night from
Galesburg 111 where they accompan
ied the remains of a relative for burial
Mrs Robert Dillon Austin nee
Miss Viola Ward of McCook is paying
a visit to her parents this week Col T
J Ward and wife Red Cloud Adver
tiser
John W Ketrick of McCook who
bought the Tom Newlander place north
of Loomis is here this week attending
the Newlander place and looking after
land business We understand Mr
Hetricks son will tend the Newlander
place this year Holdrege Citizen
MissKathryn Sawyer returned last
Thursday evening from Omaha Mrs
Sawyer accompanied her as far as Lin
coln where and at University Place she
is visiting friends It is a pleasure to
record the fact of her gradual improve
ment injhealth Her early return home
is looked forward to
State Inspector Wilson of the Ne
braskaJBoard of Health was in the city
last Wednesday in the line of duty and
commends the activities of the McCook
Board of Health as certifies his note
appearing on the front page of this
issue He also visited in Bartley
Wauneta and other points in this part
of the state on a similar mission
Miss Sadie Sweeney was down from
McCook Sunday visiting relatives
Vanderhoof of Mc-
Cook visited her brother Ray Tuesday
and attended the dance Tuesday eve
ning George Casten was in town
Tuesday settling up his business af
fairs and preparing to move his family
to Grafton where he has purchased a
I olacksmith shop Arapahoe Mirror J
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Big Sale On
Clothing
January 15 to February
The Last But Best for Our Goods are New and Will Stand
the Wear and Tear
All StelnBloch Mens Suits and Overcoats
Included in this sale
Twenty Per Cent Cut
on the Following Goods
Mens and Boys Suits
Mens and Boys Overcoats
Mens and Boys Flannel Shirts
Mens Boys Sheep lined and Duck Coats
Underwear both union and 2piece Suits
Sweater Coats Mens and Boys sizes
Caps Smoking Jackets Bath Robes
Lined Oloves and Mittens
All our Woolen Hosiery
Full line Golf Gloves
Come in and Get Acquainted and See Our Goods Whether
You Buy or Not Always Glad to Show Our Goods
Rozell
Bargcr
West Dennison
Rules Adopted Governing Expression of Choice for a Republican
Candidate for President
First The chairman and secretary of the state committee are hereby in
structed to have printed a sufficient cumber of official ballots which ballots shall
contain the names of all announced candidates for the Republican nomination for
President of the United States and two blank lines immediately under the names
of the candidates where any elector may write in the name of any person for
whom he desires to vote whose name does not appear on the ballot Said ballot
shall contain the words Official Ballot and the words Preference for candi
date for President of the United States with a square opposite each name and
opposite each blank line and shall contain the words Vote for One and be
arranged as the official ballots in the elections are arranged except as to the
position of the names on the ticket In printing ballots the position of the names
of the candidates thereon shall be changed on each 500 ballots so that the candi
dates shall alternate as to the first position on said ballot
Second The vote for preference for a candidate for President shall be taken
in each precinct at the time of holding the caucus or primary for the selection of
delegates to the county convention which shall elect delegates to the state conven
tion to be held in the city of Omaha on March 12 190S
Third Upon the request of the central committee of any county official
ballots shall be sent by the secretary of the state committee to the chairman of
such county committee who shall send the precinct committeeman at least five
days before the caucus or primary is held in said precinct the ballots for such
precinct
Fourth At the time of holding the caucus or primary in each precinct a
separate ballot box shall be furnished for said ballots
Fifth All qualified Republican electors shall have the right to vote their
preference for President ac said caucus or primary
Sixth Before any ballot is delivered to the voter the chairman and clerk of
the caucus or the judges of the primary shall write their names across the back of
said ballot
Seventh The clerk of the primary or caucus shall make a list of the names
of the voters voting their preference for candidates for president which list to
gether with the ballots cast and the tall -sheet showing the tallied vote cast
shall within 21 hours after said caucus or primary be transmitted to the chair
man of the Republican county committee of the county wherein said precinct is
located
Eighth Within five days of the time of holding such caucus or primary the
chairman of the county committee shall appoint two Republican electors of said
county to canvass the vote on said preference and the result of said canvass with
the certificate of said canvassers shall be at at once transmitted by mail to the
chairman of the state central committee at Lincoln Nebraska
Ninth The chairman of the state central committee shall at once tabulate
the vote so received and transmit by mail to the chairman of the congressional
committee in each district a statement showing the vote on presidential candi
dates in each county in his congressional district and the chairman of the state
committee shall deliver to the chairman of the state convention to be held in che
city of Omaha on March 12 lflOS a statement snowing the vote received by him
on presidential candidates fmm all the counties in the state
We certify that the foregoing rules were adopted by the Republican state
central committee at Lincoln Nebraska January S 190S
F P Corrick Secretary William Hayward Chairman
What Is a Mission
A Mission is a series of religious ser
vice There is a daily celebration of the
Holy Communion there is a daily
preaching of the Word and there are
expositions upon Scriptural texts The
object of these services is to instruct
people in things that make for righteous
ness to stir up their consciences and
their wills and to awaken in them sor
row for sin No one can attend a Mis
sion and give heed to its teachings and
not be better for it Such a series ot
meetings is profitable in making better
citizens a better husband and parent
and a hetter neighbor A mission is to
be held in Saint Albans Episcopal
church beginning on Tuesday evening
February 4th D V The missioner
is Rev Lewis A Arthur of Grand Is
land Nebraska Rev Arthur is an
able expounder of the Word Those
who hear him will surely be helped and
edified We invite you to attend thi3
Mission E R E
Another large consignment of those
oranges that are SWEET at the White
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