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As the Season for
spring
Work
on the farm approaches it is well to look
around and get posted on the best imple
ments to buy Our spring stock is now
arriving and we will be glad to show
Moline Oliver Defiance Plows
Moline Bradley and other makes of
Disc Harrows
Superior and Success Drills
Several kinds of spike tooth harrows and
other machines beside the
Western Belle
Lister
This lister has been tried in this vicinity
for man years and has given universal sat-
isfaction But if any customer prefers -something
else we have other good ones
among which we will mention the Tri
Belle Oliver and Bradley We also con
tinue to sell the
Mitchell Mandt and Milburn
Wagons
Call on us for anything needed in the farm
machinery line
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The Only Place
In McCook
where you can buy
i can Van Camps Saur Kraut - ioc
i can Van Camps Hominy ioc
i can Pump1 IOC
Navel sweet oranges all sizes per peck 65c
1 2 oz pkg seeded raisins for ioc
16 oz pkg seeded raisins for 1 5c 2 for 25c
Evaporated apricots per lb 20c
Extra large evaporated yellow or Muir
peaches 20c or 3 lbs for 50c
Bulk seedless raisins per lb ioc
Bulk two Crown raisins per lb ioc
Bottle pickles Chow Chow Celery Relish
cauliflower stuffed or plain olives ioc
3 cans standard corn 25c
2 large size can tomatoes 25c
1 can Lemon Cling sliced peaches 25c
1 can yellow free peaches 25c
1 can white or black cherries 35c
1 gal can apples 40c
1 gal can peeled pie peaches 50c
1 gal can unpeeled pie peaches 45c
1 gal can white cherries 60c
80 oz K C baking powder 65c
50 oz K C baking powder 45c
In Tea Coffee and all Groceries we
defy competition
We have a large stock of Groceries all
fresh and new and needing money will for a
short time sell at above prices
J A Wilcox
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Time Card
McCook Neb
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MAIN LINK EAHT DKPhKT
So rt CoutrulThno WSK
2 500 A M
12 715 A M
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MAIN LINK west dupaut
No I MouutninTimoj 950 a m
1 1112 P 3f
5 Arrives 8M v M
IS 1025 a 3i
5 300 a Jl
IMillRfAU LINE
Xu ITii arrives Mountain Time 50 i M
So ITSdeparts G15 A 31
Skojiiiitf lining tii recliuintr chair cues
aonts freo on through trains Tickets sold
and baiwiifo checked to any point in the United
States or Canada
For information time tables maps and tick
ets call on or write K K Foe Agent McCook
Xoliraskn or L W Wakoley Goueral lissun
KBT Afjent Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
Car Distributor OscarPiorson Jwas a
Denver vistor Sunday
J W Ridonour was a Lincoln pass
enger Thursday morning
Enginman Jacob Matz is enjoying a
visit from his sister of Denver
Wire Chief lleber was a passenger on
No 2 for Lincoln this morning
Walter Stilwell spent Sunday in
Akron the guest of Wm Krauter and
family
George N Knight of Hazeltou In
diana is visiting B J Line and family
this week
John Murray of the telegraph Jottice
spent Sunday with the homefolks at
iudianola
Ma3ter Mechanic Culbertson is able
to be around again and will soon re
turn to work
F W Bosworth came down from
Denver Monday to visit the family the
rest of the week
Brakeman J B Clark of Alliance is
spending a two weeks vacation with
friends in our city
Mrs Howard Stites and baby are very
low with pneumonia at the home of her
parents in Dean Iowa
Engineroan G W Perkins wont to
Republican Wednesday to take a run
onthe Rpublican Oberlin branch
F D Baldwin who was express mes
senger on 5 and 12 west ofJMcCook left
for his home at Superioi Wednesday
night
Extra Dispatcher Roy Cadman re
lieved J F Forbes in the dispatchers
office during the latters absence at
Chicago on company business
Miss Birdie Ilalavay of Longmont
Colorado was at division headquarters
Friday of last week and successfully
passed examination in telegraphy
Flagman Claude Pierson leaves for
Chicago this week to be gone about
thirty days When he returns Mrs
Claude Pierson will accompany him
Wm Johnson of Ft Morgan came to
McCook last Sunday and is now in
charge of the McCook yard vice Phil
Trout recently promoted to roadmaster
E C Simmons was handing the ci
gars around headquarters Wednesday
and receiving congratulations on his re
cent venture in the matrimonial line
F Jernberg superintendent of the
water service is laying off this week
and with his family is visiting in south
eastern Kansas R R Gwinn is tem
porarily in charge of that department
nv an while
Conductor F A Staik handed in his
resignation Wednesday Tony en
tered the service of the Burlington about
twenty years ago His health of late
has been such as to cause him to be un
fit for duty a good share of the time and
for this reason he decided to retire
A letter from F A Richey formerly
enginman out of McCook conveys the
information that he is now running out
of San Luis Potosi Mexico on the Na
tioual R R of Mexico and is well
pleased with his position He has
two fireman a Jap and a Mexican The
engiues there are quite similar to the
Rls on this system except that they
are somewhat larger and have smaller
drivers
Before an Earthquake
Can an earthquake be felt approach
ing as a shower of rain can be felt
and a fall of snow On the Riviera
in 1SS7 the horses laid their ears back
and gave every sign of uneasiness In
Chile the birds have been observed to
fly inland just before a convulsion In
Talcahuano in 1S35 all the dogs fled
from the city These actions of course
as a scientist who has collected a val
uable list suggests may be mere coin
cidences for birds will fly inland and
kitten become nervous when no earth
quake is nigh On the other hand as
the lower animals are singularly sensi
tive to any changes of weather and to
pressure of the air they may even be
conscious of subterranean movements
which do not come within human ken
or are even not detectable by the most
delicate Instruments Westminster
Gazette
Bound to Get There
I dont know whether to make a
doctor or a lawyer of John said the
old man Ive got a lawsuit to be set
tied an a leg to be cut oX so I sposo
I cant miss it far either way St
Louis Republic
Poit c iew
Susie Wouldu t yor like to be as
happy as a lark
Johnnie NnV Think of the time
1 they have to git up Truth
ARTILLERY CURIOSITIES
Old Time Cannon That Were Mado of
Leather Wood and Rock
Among the curiosities of artillery
ocki inventions have a great place
Criintoii have been made of the most
unlikely materials Leather was used
ss eurly as Henry Vllls day at the
ijlcgc of Boulogne The very articles
were stored In the tower once and
Evelyn saw them there inscribed
Non Marti opus est 011 i 11011 delieit
Mereurius Aj e they still lying in
some corner of a forgotten lumber
room The Scotch employed leather
guns tu ltMO to batter Lord Conways
fortification at Newbourne and the
did the work well Describing the fe
verlsh alarm in Paris in 172 Carlylt
says One citizen has wrought out the
scheme of a wooden cannon which
France shall exclusively profit by in
the first instance It is to be made of
staves by the coopers of almost bound
less caliber but uncertain as to
strength
Two small pieces brought to France
by the Siamese ambassadors as pres
ents from their king to Louis XIV
were the only artillery procurable for
the alack on the Bastille of eccentric
model no doubt adorned with dragons
and golden inscriptions but erticieut
workmanship We rend of gold cannon
in India There were two so de
scribed al Baroda in Burtons time
to which regular adoration was of
fered In fact the tubes wore of
steel but the missive- gold casing cost
20000
For the d feiic of M ta in tn old
days th knights invejsiM i kind of
ordnance of thi b own rriknown to all
the world besib si Itrydone an
eyewitn ss They follow -1 ot th nat
ural rock hi i then in micj fa h
ion that the caky w a moriar
put a barrel of gunp nv tier into the
hole plugged ir with a wooden disk
exactly fitting and heaped miscellane
ous projectiles thereupon About fifty
of these singular iaiiMU defended
creeks and landiiiu places Some of
them were six feet in diameter and
threw 111000 pounds weight of iron or
stone into the air Doubtless if all
weut well they would do tremendous
execution upou au enemy trying to
disembark
But there ave eccentricities still more
curious on record In a tomb on the
island of Chinai near Usumacinta
Mexico was found a cannon four feet
eleven inches long of terra cotta with
terra cotta bullets It is suggested
that when Cortes retired after his
great flight at Ceutla Tabasco the na
tives copied the Spanish guns in clay
hoping to produce the same results
London Standard
LIKE THE INFERNO
Graphic Description of a Climb Over
a Volcanic Island
A climb over a volcanic island In
Bering sea is thus described in Outing
Magazine by Robert Dunn
Cliff sank away into chaos Up
right fans of tuff a crevices like salt
crusted wounds chasms with leprous
edges breathed all like mad Less
steam but more crinkly and venomous
gases Parched white and red and
ocher In their deplhs they seemed al
most to whistle yet they did not
whistle a furtive ambient high
pressure Zjsssho iroo Was it sound
Then I would pause and catch only the
horrid overburdened silence
The thing seemed more friendly
The sulphur no longer choked You
ould have passed a burning bunch of
miners matches inder my nose and I
would have gulped the fumes like
fresh air But the invisible venom
still belched ouf everywhere secret
and furtive now from jaws and
gashes four feet and more across no
longer red yellow but with fangs
crusted white or brilliant green and
bristling with rapier like stalagmites
Heat tremors pulsed as the whole
were a vast roof too close under the
eye of the sun And below on the
blasted acre under the beak the pant
ing steam flashed out the supreme des
olationcrumbling clinkery and over
parched trailed away its smear of the
dull rainbow hues of sulphur from
grotesque mosaics It was a pudding
of slag fresh from that great furnace
of the unknown fusing point and how
alien to the cold waves and winds of
the subarctic
Srain Growth
The brain usually stops growing at
about fifty and from sixty to seventy
it is more likely to decrease It has
been related by Canon MacColl that
Mr Gladstones head was constantly
outgrowing his hats As late as the
Midlothian campaign when he was
nearly seventy he was obliged to have
his head remeasured for this reason
Canon MacColls conclusion that this
continual growth of brain contributed
to Mr Gladstones perennial youthful
ness appeals not unwarranted Lou
don Spectator
Oratory
What am eratory Brudder Jock
son
Brudder Sinmiius I will elucidate
If you says black am white dat am
foolish but if you says black am white
an hellers like a bull an pounds on a
table wif bofe fists dat am oratory
an some people will believe you
Atlanta Constitution
A Juvenile Wriggle
Mother an invalid Elmer whal
did you do with the orange Mrs Neigh
bors gave yoo tr rjive to me yester
day Small lUnierIt was too som
for yon mamma o i put some sugar
rj It and ate it myself Chicago News
It is from the remembrance of joys
we have lost that the arrows of af
nVtion pointed Mackenzie
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We would disckre clerk vlo would ot
tell tie trutl to customer kbout piece of
goods but we Jve 90 trouble kbout tlis
becuie clerks love to be 19 store wlpere tlpey
fykve good goods belpipd tfyen t fkir prices ad
bout wicl tiey lfcve 09 to tell tle pla19
trutlp 19 order to rgke sede
O9 9ew goods we njke profit yet we try
to ndke our profit so little tt tle price will
be low 9d tle goods will 9ot get to be old
O9 odd lots 9d left overs we cut prices
sonjetinjes but you njy k9ow tlpt vle9 tye
price is cut it is cut
To tell tlpe trutl is good e90ugl for us
Cordially
C L DeGROFF CO
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What is better than a Good Shoe
A Good Shoe
that fits the foot
These jou will find at The
We carry none but the best Our prices art
right Come in and get a fit
Were Nagged by Their Wives
Rip Van WinkK Socrates Petruchio
Agamemnon Joseph Gargery Solo
mon Mr Caudle Mr II Peck and
Beadle Bumble Any additions scut in
to this list will be regarded in the
strictest confidence Chicago Tribune
Rebuked
Yaas said Choliy SiUey she was
out when I called but I hope for bet
tah luck next time
How ungallant of you exclaimed
Miss Knox You should wish her the
good Kxf hnnge
Maude When you refused him my
hand papa did he get down on his
knees Pater Well I didnt notice
just where he fell New York Mail
Always the
same
T The onU liph grodo S1
i Lu Baking Pinncr rold
Jf at a mcilcrato price Tj
Fisher Perkins
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A Thinking Part
The Old One In adopting a theat
rical career yon an entering a touchy
and jealous profession Keep guard
over your loinjue The New One Oh
Ive found out that Ill have ample op
portunity to think before I speak
Puck
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Closing Out Sale
Having decided to move to Oregon
will sell at public auction at the place
where I now live known as the Sam
King place 4 miles north and 3 miles
east of McCook on
Wednesday February 26
commencing at ten oclock a m the
following described property
9 iead of horses
Oae bay horse 5 rs old 1300 lbs 1
bay horse G yrs old 1300 lbs 1 grey
mare 7 yrs old 1100 lbs with foal 1
grey mare 6 yrs old 1100 lbs 1 buck
skin mare S yrs old 1000 lbs 1 bay
colt 2 yrs old 1 bay colt coming 2 yrs
old 2 wanting colts
3 HEAD OF COWS
One to be fresh soon
15 HEAD OF SHOATS
4 DOZEN CHICKENS
FARM IMPLEMENTS
One McCormick header with boxes 1
riding lister 1 2 row cultivator 1
fiteel harrow 2 walking listers one
wagon one top buggy
MISCELLANEOUS
Three sets work harness 1 set single
harness 1 saddle 3 sets fly nets 1 lot of
cobs about 15 loads 1 steel tank 1
chicken house 1 buggy fehed about 10
bushels of potatoes household goods
other articles too numerous to mention
Free lunch at noon
TERMS Sums under 10 cash on
sums of 610 and over a credit of eight
months will be given purchaser to give
note drawing ten percent interest from
date with approved security A dis
count of five percent for cash on sums
of 10 and over No property to be re
moved until settled for
Maxwell L Wolfe
J IlWoddell Auct V Franklin Clercr