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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1908)
r h K S I iBprrpiiw Middlelon Ruby i PLUMBING and STEAM PITTING All work guaranteed Phono 182 McCook Nebraska fliss I la M Briggs i will touch class oti piano Grad uate of Bethany conservatory or Lindsborg Knns Studio at homo or A G Hump Phono Mack 2j2 Scholars call or phono for further information A G BUMP Real Instate and Insurance Room Two over MeConnells drug store McCook Nebraska JOHN E KELLEY ATTOENEY AT LAW and BONDED ABSTRACTEB McCook Neiiraska CaAKentof Lincoln Land Co and of McCook Waterworks Oillco in Postollico buildiiifj C II Hovir HW Buckbee n C EErDEKD BOYLE ELDRED Attorneys AT I AW Louk Distance Iono 1 1 Rooms 1 and 7 second lloor Pof tollieo Building I 1KB IB McCook Neb nFNTI VT Phone 118 Oillco Rooms 3 and Walsh Blk McCook GATEW00D VAHUt DENTISTS Office over McAdaras Store Phone 190 H P SUTTON Mccook JEWELER MUSICAL GOODS Were Just As Thankful NEBRASKA Registered Graduate Oilico over McCounells Drug Store WIcCOOK NEB Telephones Oilico 1G0 residenco 131 Forr uor location Atlanta Georgia For a -mall pack ace a- a large one Earh will receive the same thorough and careful attention If we get the fi inner it may in time grow to the later by the satisfaction you will derive in wearing our laundered work Family wa hing 5c per pound McCook Steam Laundry W C BLAIR Prop Shcco -or to G C IIeckman PHONE 35 West Dennison St BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach BUCKBEES SEEDS SUCCEED 1 SPECIAL OFFER ilado to bntld New KunIncM A trial Will xnako you our permanent customer Plize Collection 11 the finest Turnip 7 splendid union 8 best varie ties lOSprimj aowniiic Uulbi C5 varieties in aU COAEAItTEED TO MJiASE Write to day Mention this Paper J C SEMD 10 CENTS to corei porta g ana picking asa rcc tiro this volnnblo l collection or oeeas postpaid tcpeuier with my big answnciivc iicsnunu occa on a rinnt jsook teiu all aDoat tbo juest varieties o Setii Plaats etc buy BUCKBEE STREET BOCETODILL Jan 3 19US 3 mos jjiajgnt f Vi -V - i J KNIGHTS OP COLUMBUS McCook Council No 112G K of C meets tho Urst and third Tuesduj oi each month atS00 p m in Diamonds hall G It Gale F Sec Frank Real G K g A K J K Barnes Post No 207 G A R meets on the first Saturday of each month at 2i0 p in Gauschows hall 1 M Hendeuson Cmndr J If Yargek Adjt eastern star Eureka Chapter No SO O E S meets the second and fourth Fridays of each mouth at bU0 p in in Masonic hall Mrs Sarah E Kay W II Sylvester Cordeal Sec degree op honor McCook Lodge No 3 D of H meets every second and forth Fridays of each mouth atS00 p m in Ganschows hall Mr Laura Osburn C of H Mrs MatieG Welles Rec ROYAL NEIGHBORS Noble Camp No SG2 R N A meets every second and fourth Thursday of each month at 2o0p m in Ganschows hall Mrs Mary Walker Oracle Mrs Augusta Anton Rec LADY MACCABEES Valley Queen Hivo No 2 L O T M meets every lirst and third Thursday evenings of each mouth m baupchov liall Mrs W R Mills Commander Harriet E Willetts It K DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA Court Granada No 77 meets on tho first and and third Tue days of each month nto p m iu the Morris hall Anna Hannan G It Josephine Mullen F S l of g a r McCook Circle No 3 L of G A R meets on the first and third Fridays of each mouth at 230 p in in Diamonds hall Adeline Dole Pres Matie Welles Sec p e o Chapter X P E O meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 230 p m at tho homes of the various members Mrs C W Britt Pres Mrs J G Schobel Cor Sec FENNEY WALKER GENERAL CONTRACTING PAINTERS AND DECORATORS Not How Cheap but How Good with Us Office and Shop west of First National Bank Steel Ceilings Sold Put Up and Decorated KILL THE BRUTE SKIN HIM PROPERLY AND SHIP HIS SKIN AND ALL OTHER URSHIDESPaT5WQ01 TO THE SHIPMENT HOUSE MM1LIAHFURW0BLG Minneapolis Minn THERES MONEY IN IT Write for Circulars ZM V W I - aiessyi wp CITY LODGE DIRECTORY A V A A M McCook Lodgo No iB A Ffc A M moots ovory iiretnnd third Tucxday of tin month at 8WJ p in in MuMtnic hull iiaumm L Faiinbhtock W SI Lon Conk tine II H M Occonoxoo Council No H5 IttS 31 moots on thu last Kutiinluy of ouch month ntb00 ji in n Masonic hull KaiIii A IlAOiiKno T I M Svivkhtku Couiiai Soc it AM KiiiKCyniKCiiniiUir No It A M moots ovory llrnt and third Thursday of each month at 800 i m in Mnt onic hall ClauinciH Guay If l Cmnton It Sawyku Sec KNIOIITHTEMIIAU St John Coiiimandory No 1G K T moots on tho second Thnreday of each month at 800 p in in Mahonic hall JJMKKHON HANSON J U Svivihtju Coudkai Hoc MODISKN WOODMttN Nohlo Camp No f M W A moots ovory second and fourth Thursday of ouch mouth at 8l p m in Ganschows hall I ay assessments at Wiiito Hoiiso irocory J JI Ssm li Clerk S E IIoviii V C w o w Sloots Horotid and fourth Thursdays at S oclock in Diamonds hull Ciiah F Makkwad C C V C Moykk Clork WOIEKMKN McCook Lodge No 01 AOUW meets ovory Monday at 800 p in in Diamonds hall C H Guay Roc Fuki Sciiiagii M W joroMonvi hnoixkkrs McCook Division No ffiSJ It of L E moots ovory MM oiid and fourth Saturday of ouch month ntJ 0 in Morris hall Waitku Stokus C E W I HUttNKTT F A E LOCOMOTIVE riltEMEN McCook IodKo No rS9 It of I meets ovory Saturday at 7 p m F in E chow s nail I D Pennington M Geo A CAiir nnii See KAIMVAY CONDUCTOKS Ilarvoy Division No 95 O It C moots the second and fourth Sundays of each month at 300 p m in Diamonds hull Joe Hegeniierger C Con M O McCiure Sec RAILWAY TRAINMEN C W Rronsm lodno No 4S7 It of R T meets iirht and third Sunday at 230 p in and econd and fourth Fridays at 730 p m ouch month in Morris hall Neal Heeler M It J Moore Sec RAILWAY CARMEN Youhk America I odco No 15G R It C of A moots on tho iirst and third Thursdays of each month in Diamonds hull u730 p in Con Kreiger C C N II Snyder Rcc Sec MACHINISTS Red Willow LoiIko No fiiiT I A or M moots every second ami fourth Tuesday of the month at S00 p m in Gauschow hail D O Hewitt Pres W II Anderson Rec Sec 1IOILERMAKERS McCook Lodpo No 407 It of It M I S 15 of A moot first and third Fridays of each month in Odd Follows hall knights of rrriiiAs McCook LoiIro No 12 K of P meets every Wednesday at 800 p in in Masonic hall M Lawritson C C J N Gaarde K It S ODD FELLOWS McCook Liodfjo No 137 1 O O F meets ovory Mouda atb00 p in in Ganschows hall Scott Doan Sec E II Doan N G EAGLES McCook Verio No 1511 F O E meets tho second and fourth Fridays of each month at bU0 pm in Diamonds hull Social meetings on tho first and third Fridays It S Light W Pres G C IIeckman W Sec Kc tk 3j gW zl dk M tl Vjl 1 HIE CLEARING HOUSE Methods of the Big Bank Ex change In New York City MARCH OF THE MESSENGERS The Way Millions on Millions of Dol lars In Checks Change Holders In a Few Minutes In the Daily Balancing of Accounts Between Banks Clearing That word Is the order for the shuffling of many feet and the pattering of thick envelopes upon hard wood Men with leather hags hung against their chests like bass drums pass up and down rows of desks at which other men sit and as they go by deftly hand out brown paper packages containing the equivalent of millions in gold Thus do the banks of New York transfer money each business day As vast as the figures involved in the operation are they do not make an impress upon the mind One is more apt to wonder whether the gray haired messenger in the blue serge suit would succeed in disorganizing the line if he gave the wrong envelope to bank No 40 and if so whether he would lie con demned forever by his associates But no one seems to make a mistake and the visitor has no reason to worry about the possibility of misplacing 2S 000000 even for half a second The machinery of the clearing house is al most loo perfect to slip a cog Tho clearing house begins to show signs of activity as early as 930 oclock when the vanguard of bank runners makes its appearance They travel in pairs and are mostly young men al- j though the veterans have not all re- i tired Their badge of olliee is a bag i any sort ot bag suit ease telescope kit bag canvas bag Sometimes it has the name of the bank it came from printed across the end More often it bears no distinguishing mark Further its identity is frequently hidden behind an exceedingly shabby exterior That is perhaps a virtue At all events it is not considered good form in banking circles to bo ostenta tious A strong bag even though it be old and chafed is just as good a vehicle for a fortune as a new one and is less likely to produce burnings in the heart of a thug So this is the reason why the young men avIio sweep up the mar ble stairs look as if they were carrying bags filled with their own clothing in stead of other persons checks Self conscious thoy are not despite the loads they carry and one might well imagine they were going upstairs to change their garments for gymnasium suits But when the visitor reaches the floor above and climbs to the little gallery at one end he realizes that not basket ball but another game is to be played Already the players are preparing to take their positions At the side walls are benches on which delivery clerks are silting their bags at their sides and opposite is a solid counter divided into about seventeen compartments to the front of which are affixed if occu pied the name plates of different banks Beyond the first is a second counter and between the two a rack for hats and overcoats A broad aisle with more benches and hatracks separates the two rows of counters from dupli cates on the opposite side of the room Settling clerks who take their places on high stools behind the outer rows of counters face the walls Those at the inner counters face the center aisle At the elbows of the settling clerks stand their assistants who are re quired to sign the exchange slips pre sented with each package of checks As the clock nears 10 one glances from tho high dome with its row of electric lights to the scene below The clerks at the compartments have made themselves comfortable The messen gers standing at ease before them have slung their bags and are ready A minute passes A man appears at the rostrum in the gallery and rings a gong twice Eyes below are uplifted as he makes an announcement about out of town banks that will hereafter clear through different correspondents That is not of particular interest but he pauses briefly and then utters the magic word Clearing The messenger for bank No 1 crosses the room at one end of the counters and takes the place of No 97 who has moved down a pace Simultaneously fifty other men have taken a step for ward and the tramping and scraping of feet come No 1 has slapped an envelope down before the clerk at No 97s compartment dropped a ticket into a slot offered an exchange slip for signing and passed on to No 0G without uttering a word Each of No 1s fifty associates has duplicated his performance in every detail and so the exchanges as they are called have been fairly started In the meantime the settling clerks are doing their share of the work Long sheets of paper in front of them are being filled out with the totai amounts of the checks presented by the men who are circling about the counters making monotonous but not unpleasant sounds with their feet Suddenly when you are just beginning to understand what it is all about a halt is called No one says anything but every one stops You ask why and some one says the exchanges have been completed You ask how 300 000000 can change hands in exactly fifteen minutes by the clock and tha same person looks at you with a pity ing smile and remarks Why youve just seen it done There is marked silence for a mo ment after the feet have stopped mov ing The crowd in the room beclns to - thin out for the delivery clerks are mmmmem rz5Xzgryk going taking with them tho packages of checks which have been deposited with the settling clerks The latter still have work to do Their assistants rescue the little tickets from the com partments Into which they were drop ped and the settling clerks scan the amount of them to see if they agree with the totals on the exchange slips When first he entered the room the settling clerk gave the proof clerk In the managers gallery tle amount of the checks he brought with him Now he ascertains the total of the amount deposited with him Soon he Is able to tell whether his bank has a debt or credit balance and this information he communicates to the proof clerk Then the clearing house knows exactly how much cash will have to he moved from bank to bank in adjusting balances Forty five minutes is the limit allow ed for making the exchanges and prov ing the balances and fines may be Im posed if the allotted time is exceeded But it is rarely necessary to impose fines so rapid is the work of the mes sengers and so simple the system of exchange Most of the work is done before the messengers get to the clear ing house The checks for exchange with other banks are Inclosed in sep arate envelopes and these envelopes are arranged in consecutive order in the delivery clerks bag so all needless delay in depositing them is eliminated To make the clearing finally complete it is of course necessary to exchange the cash Accordingly says James O Cannon in his book on Clearing Houses before half past 1 oclock each debtor bank in compliance with the requirements of the constitution pays into the clearing house tho amount of its debit balance and obtains a re ceipt for tho same signed by the as sistant manager After half past 1 oclock the creditor banks receive at the clearing house their respective bal ances and give their receipts for the same in a hook provided for that pur pose but in no case can a creditor bank receive its balance until all the debtor banks have paid in New York Post A MARKET IN MOROCCO The Best Place to Study the Ways of the Wily Natives The place of all places to see the Moorish people is at their markets for every class and kind of them is there and when you have sccn one market you have seen them all for there is a racial similarity in the Moors the world over The first thing about a Moorish mar ket that attracts the attention of a traveler is tho fan caching odor or rather the multiplicity of odors for there is a composite character about the smcil of a Moorish market that can not be equaled anywhere outside of China Before you can even hear the continual wrangle and jangle of the market place you can smell it Once there the interminable jumble of things and folks is disconcerting and the evidence of dirt everywhere takes from an American all desire to deal in eatables for the Moors seem to bo wholly insensible to dirt of any kind and every kind and have no objec tion to fruit and berries that have come In unprotected over miles of dusty and sandy roads These people are natural traders sec ond to none in their ability to obtain the highest possible price or equally ready willingness to let the article go for a mere pittance rather than miss making a sale They will begin the price of a lamp at o shillings and after a little haggling will come down to 1 shilling but if you move on they will thrust the lamp into your hand and ask you to give them anything for it that you will and it is a sale no difference how small may be your offer in nearly an countries tne every where present and always the same donkey is an inevitable adjunct of a Moorish market The whole animal kingdom would be searched through in vain to find any creature more wholly devoid of impulse and sentiment than this imposed upon little beast Like a fatalist philosopher he is wholly resigned to the order of things and nothing can cause him to stir from the even tenor of his ways Caressing and even food do not seem to add any to his satisfaction and beating and abuse do not detract from his tranquil lity His features are perfectly immo bile As he stands in the market place one may pet him and give him bits of grass or fruit and he will not raise his head or even open his eyes He is the su preme ineffable resignation in flesh nnd blood And no Moorish market is complete without him by the score Worlds Events Magazine How to Stick Stamps Say remarked the postoflice clerk who was off duty as he watched a friend affix two stamps to the corner of an envelope why dont you put those stamps on horizontally instead of vertically Dont you know you would save a lot of work for us stamp ers if you put your stamps beside each other instead of under each other We always have to make two strokes when canceling vertically pasted stamps by hand and they dont work well through the stamping machines either Is that so inquired his friend as he took another envelope and proceed ed to affix two stamps to it In a ver tical position Then by the great horn spoon why doesnt the govern ment sell its stamps in horizontal lines Look at these nere I bought 20 cents worth of two cent stamps and they come to mo in vertical lines If I buy five twos I get them attached one to the bottom of the other Do you think Im going to the trouble of tearing each stamp off just to please a government clerk by pasting them side by side Guess again New York Press intj w ws - wt SS sp 5 cs -- - - INDIAN0LA James Kennedy viaitod at tho Maisol homo Sundny Mrs Tom Ilnlcy and fnthor returned from thoir visit to Arapahoo Sunday evening on 5 Andy Bnrbor was a loser by fire Friday aftornoon to tho oxtent of most of his hay and a lot of cattlo sheds Tho fire is supposed to liavo boon start ed by somo ono Hinolting and caroless ness Mrs Walker Andrews and daughter Nellio woro visiting friends in town Tuesday Miss Edna Thompson is tho guest of Bartloy friends thia week Miss Kato Vering who has just closed a successful term of school on School Creek roturnod to her homo near Marysvillo Kansas Tom Haley was a Cambridgo visitor last Wednesday Mrs li li Duckworth who has boon very ill for tho past two months is re covering J L Curry of Yuma Colo was in Indianola Tuesday on business Lewis Sargont accompanied by his daughter and nophow Marion Dow drovo over to Danbury Monday Miss Grace Smith of McCook was a visitor in tho V II Smith homo Satur day night and Sunday Miss Lottie Kennedy was a guest of homofolks for a fow days last weok Miss Dolly Ilaydon eamo down from McCook Sunday morning and spent tho day with friends Thomas A Haley and family attended church on Ash creek Sunday morniug J L Townley and daughtor Alice ex pect to visit England somo time this spring W II Smith has just finished putting up a now windmill in place of tho old one blown down during tho late storm At the caucus Friday and Saturday evening tho following nominations were made anti saloon ticket For mayor C S Quick For clerk Frank Marsh For treasurer Frank Neol For councilmon 1st ward J R Noel and J 13 Hillers For councilman 2nd ward Chester Strockey CITIZENS TICKCT For mayor W W Wilson For clerk J E Ryan For treasurer G W Short For councilmen 1st ward Win Fritsch and Charles Thompson For councilman 2nd ward Austin A Gamsby DANBURY Albert Allen of Lourle Mont is hero visiting friends and relatives A fire escapo is being put on the school house this week John Remington and family of Kan sas are hero visiting this week George Bastian and Beth McDonald were visiting in Marion Sunday J L Sargent and daughter Phyllis and Marion Dow of Indianola were Dan bury callers Monday Mrs W A DoMay was a Traer visit or Monday CliUord Naden and family of McCook are visiting friends and relativos this week Mrs Earl Peacock of McCook is visit ing at the Dolph home this week Mrs Carrio Shepherd and children of Indianola are visiting tho parental Boyer home this week Prof Gibbs mother from eastern Neb is hero visiting this week Miss Myra Poole of Lebanon the first part of the week with Beth McDonald Mrs spent Miss RED WILLOW Taylor has been sick for some days Mrs Charles Rinck is in very poor health Vira Laomis has como from Mullen Nebr to visit her sister Mrs Rue Haux well and then to go to Ilaigler to see her brother and sister before leaving for Michigan where she expects to make her home with her father Mrs Guttridge from Crete was a visitor of a day and night at Owens Longneckers Mr and Mrs Maiey who spent the winter in California are visiting Mrs Sexson Mrs Lewis Elmer and little daughter spent several days at Louis Long neckers A Guaranteed Cure For Piles Itching Blind Bleeding or Protrud ing Piles Druggists refund money if Pazo Ointment fails to cure any case no matter of how long standing in G to4 days First application gives ease and rest 50c If your druggist hasnt it send 50c in stamps and it will be for warded postpaid by Paris Medicine Co St Louis Mo A weekly newspaper that publishes twenty one columns of good reliable news each week is rare in these days of cheap weeklies intended only to sell some article that the publisher is inter ested in Credit is due The Weekly Inter Ocean for keeping its columns filled with fresh and up-to-date news Give it a trial by subscribing through The McCook Tribune i flt 5gjr3J Mike Walsh DEALER IN POULTRY EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Cash Now location just ncroti rl rC rrYr street in I Walh build im ll nOK xsTf h teswiSl5r ftNS FRIEND TO FRIEND The personal recommendations of peo pie who have been cured of coughs and colds by Chamberlains Cough Remedy have done more than all elso to make it a staple article of trade and commerce ova a large part of the civilized world You Carry Insurance on your life on your property Why not insure yourself against adversity iu tho future by invest ing your surplus funds in a bank account Allow it to ace u mu la to until a time comes when you need it badly that is when you will appreciate its true worth Just as the value of yourlifo in surance increases as you grow older so will your bank account grow as you add to it weekly monthly or yearly In fact tho possibilities of your bank account is limited only by your earning and saving capacity An account with this bank is Good Insurance The Old Reliable 22 Years in Business THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK McCook Nebraska mMBM Go Somewhere Make That California Trip Now Low one way colonist rates dally until April 30th to Utah Cali fornia Oregon Washington and Montana Winter Tours To the south and Gulf resorts daily until April 30th Homeseekers Rates 1st and 3rd Tuesdays to Colorado Big Horn Basin Montana and Northwest The Big Morn Basin Mr D Clem Deaver Landseek ers Information Bureau Omaha will personally conduct landseek ers to this country the first and third Tuesdays in April Write Mr Deaver for information about very desirable irrigated lands in the basin subject to homestead under tho big government ditch or under private ditches 100CG0 acres of new basinjland will coinei under water in 1903 Business Openings Wo have a list of excellent busi ness chances in new growing towns on Burlington extensions get established early ahead of the coming population Write Mr Deaver R E FOE vicket Agent McCook Xeb L W WAKELEY G P A Omaha Neb