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By F JM KIMA1ELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Ukavkk Oitv expects to hnvo a wnter
works system in operation by mid July
Fkkk city mail delivery will bo estab
lished at Alliance May 15th with
three carriers
Tkcumskh anticipates the proGt of
boing dry next year by laying the
cornerstone for a 20000 Methodist
church
Somk of his friends have been men
tioning John Cordeal of McCook as
being an available candidate for state
sonator this fall on tho Republican
ticket Whilo John is not large in
stature yet ho is well supplied with
those qualifications which go to makp
a good lawmaker and ho has tho hon
esty to keep on tho side of right and
ability to make his presence felt in
tho sonnto Hayes Center Times-Republican
FOR SALE FOR RENTJETC
Foil Sale 65 will buy an 80 new
rubber tired top buggy Seo L E
Baror at tho clothing store
Foil Sale Barred Plymouth Rock
eggs 75c for 15 or 400 nor 100 J
V Proctor cedar 121 4 17 4
Foil Sale A good piano Inquire at
this office M tf
Foil Sale Barred Plymouth
eggs 75c for 15 or 400 per 109
J W Proctor
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Phono cedar
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Fob Sale New six room house on
Manhattan street Seo R E Benja
min or phono red 239
Cottage to Rent three blocks north
of new high school Inquire at this
ofiice Ktf
For Rent Good barn one square
north Catholic church Phone black
286 B J Lane
Lost One pair gold rimmed glasses
encased in folding case with name of II
P Sutton Jeweler on back Finder
will be rewarded by leaving at this of
fice S
True to Life Those new Carnegie
Library post cards at The Tribune
office Two for a nickel Artistic and
neat not gaudy
Dressmaking at home or will go out
Phono red 2S9 from 630 p m to 830
p m Mrs F R Mclntyre 4 10 4t
Post cards local views Easter cards
Taft and Bryan cards greeting cards
etc at The Tribune stationery dept
Pasture to Rent Half mile east
half mile north of McCook Horses
75c cows 50c per month AP Morse
To Insure Prosperity
Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture says that the unbounded
prosperity of the agriculturist is not due
to chance but is the result of intelli
gent scientific business methods A
reader of The Weekly Inter Ocean has
placed before him each week the prac
tical and approved methods to which
Secretary Wilson refers It is a good
investment Only 125 for The Weekly
Inter Ocean and this paper one year
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Dr Peter MacQueen of Boston
the noted explorer writes from
darkest Africt that he is having
much trouble with the Berbers
who recently massacred a large
party of white men The savages
got a hold of the machinery for
Dr MacQueens principal camera
and smashed it up so that the
Doctor was compelled to send to
England for new equipment But
in spite of all difficulties he is
getting some wonderfnl pictures
which he hopes to bring back to
America with him in time to ex
hibit during the CLautauqua
List Your City Property
Farms Ranches with
WHITTAKER GRAY
Office in Electric Light
office rear Citizens hank
Phone 283
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Successful Painting
can be done by using Lincoln A
P Paint and at less cost owing
to its spreading capacity
A McMillen Druggist
Garden seed in bulk lawn
grass flour and feed Call on
C J Ryan
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INTERIOR VIEW OF OPERA HOUSE AT NORTON KANSAS
Eleventh Grade Reception
Tho Eleventh grade gave a reception
Wednesday evening in honor of the
members of tho Twelfth grade and tho
teacher corps which appropriately
ushered in tho functions of tho com
mencement period approaching
A dream of a turkey dinner at the
Cafe was tho opening feature of the
affair with so far as practicable the
menu in class colors gold and blue A
few toasts in happy vein followed tho
feast
Tho reception was held at the home
of Dr J D Hare and was a very clever
and entrancing affair- Tho evening was
given over to music and social gayety
and pleasure There were instrumental
and vocal numbers of high order and
excellence with a recitation or two
Tho affair was a creditable concep
tion and was carried out with charact
eristic eclat
Items of the Conner Murder
Conner is a son of John Conner and a
brother cf Mrs R M Snavely an early
resident of Indianola but later of Den
ver
Lester Dodge of Cedar Bluffs became
so excited over the matter that it be
came necessary to confine him in the
city jail During his occupancy the
bedding and bed caught afire about
930 p m He was taken before Police
Judge Biggs and 555 made good the
legal fracture The fire damage was
but nominal A second fire alarm was
made before the burning bedding was
finally entirely extinguished
FOR THE SPRING
HOUSE CLEANING
Scores of items here that will make
the spring house cleaning easier and at
the same time more thorough
Borax Ammonia Sal Soda Sponges
Disinfectants Chamois Furniture
Polish Household Paints Insecti
cides etc
It is always desirable to add a little
disinfectant to the water used in clean
ing wood work floors etc We will be
pleased to furnish all of your house
cleaning drugs and will guarantee the
quality and price to be right
L W McConnell Druggist
Inspected Chapter X P E 0
Chapter X P E O held a social
meeting Wednesday evening at the
home of Mrs AC Ebert at which time
the chapter was inspected by the state
president Mrs Maud C Harrison of
York of the grand chapter
There was a special music program
after the inspection and a two course
lunch was a final feature
It may be superfluous for us to add
that tho state president holds chapter
X in highest esteem
For Sale
One hundred sixty acres good farm
land 22 miles from Denver all smooth
near neighbors half mile from running
stream some fence seven miles from
postoffice eleven miles from Brighton
Homestead right can be used relin
quishment can be had very reasonable
if take at once Call on or address
D W Colson McCook Neb
They Are Doodles
A new consignment of clothing for
young men and boys just received at
Rozell Bargers clothiers to the peo
ple Dont buy that spring suit before
seeing these
Herrick Refrigerators
Absolute dry air circulation no mold
or rust wood and enamel lined perfect
ly sanitary McCook Hardware Co
Hard and Soft Paper
in convenient sizes for desk use in fig
uring and making notes at the Tribune
office Very reasonable price
Detroit Jewel Gas Ranges
and water heaters solve the summer
probably in a satisfactory economical
way McCook Hardware Co
Plenty ot Good Pasture
for 25 or 30 head of stock during season
Good well water Pasture cant be
beat A Shera
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MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Mrs R M Douglass is in tho city
this week
S A Elder has gono to Lamont
Oklahoma to live
II W Keyes of Indianola is in town
today on business of the law
George Scott is entertaining his
brother from Goodland Kansas
P C Emmons tho John Deere plow
man from Holdrege was in town today
on business
V Franklin and Miss Vtrnice were
Bartloy visitors Tuesday making the
trip in an auto
Mr ANn Mrs E S Byfield of In
dianola Reporter spent Sunday with
McCook relatives
Mrs C H Meeker writes from Pas
adena California that her father is
slightly improved
Mrs T O Beardsley of Bertrand
who has been visiting McCook friends
departed for home Monday
Mrs Maude C Harrison state pre
sident P E O was the guest of Mrr
C W Britt during her official visit
this week
A R Clark is just home from a
visit to his daughter in Kansas where
Mrs Clark and son accompanied him
and remain longer
F E Kidder formerly in the rail
road service here but now engaged in
the dray business in Elwood was a
McCook visitor Tuesday
A Edgar Hawkins went to Lincoln
Wednesday night to be with his family
his daughter Mrs Mable Kelley who
has been seriously ill being worse
Mrs Pearl Robinson of Fairfield
was in the city yesterday enroute to
McCook to attend the funeral of her
grandfather Fridays Hastings Tri
bune
Mr and Mrs S E Vandervort of
east of Indianola came up to McCook
last Saturday on business and pleasure
bent They were guests of Mrand Mrs
J I Lee driving home on Sunday
Mrs E J Pendell mother of Mrs
J P Crouse and Mrs F A Woods
and children all from Seward this
state have been the guests of Mr and
Mrs Crouse since Wednesday of past
week going home on this week Wed
nesday
M B Hogan Miss Sarah Hogan and
Dan OBrien departed Wednesday
morning for their future home on a
farm in the Crow Creek valley Colo
rado Their postoffice will be Grover
The Tribune wishes them sucess in
this new venture and occupation
Campbell Bros Surprised Them
It is safe to say that most of those
who came to town to see the Campbell
Bros show were agreeably surprised
and disappointed The parade espec
ially was unexpectedly fine and elab
orate the equal of the best of them
The circus was a doodle and there were
no unpleasant features quite common
with many of the big concerns on tho
road The Campbell Bros are a Ne
braska product and they are making
good You got your moneys worth
and then some Heres wishing them a
successful season
Farmers Attention
I am receiving cream for the Fair
mont Creamery Co of Crete Neb
Bring your cream to me and I will guar
antee good results You get your
checks every shipment To those part
ies that are delivering cream to other
creameries if you will divide give one
half to me I think after a few ship
ments you will bring it all to me
M Walsh
McCook Wins Both
Wednesdays game between Arapahoe
and McCook went to McCook M to 12
and yesterdays result with Culbertosn
was 12 to 6 in McCooks favor
A Handy Receipt Book
Bound duplicate receipt books three
receipts to the page for Bale at The
Tribune office
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Natures Vengeance
Pliny Informs us that twelve cities
In Asia Minor were swallowed up In
one night In the year 115 the city or
Antlocli and a great part of the adja
cent country were burled by an earth
quake About 300 years after It was
again destroyed along with 40000 In
habitants and after an interval of six
ty years was a third time overturned
with the loss of not less than GOU0U
souls In 1G02 the city of Port Koyal
In Jamaica was destroyed by an earth
quake and the houses sank into a gulf
forty fathoms deep In 1003 an earth
quake occurred in Sicily which either
destroyed or greatly damaged lifty
four cities The city or Catalonia was
utterly overthrown lJOOO inhabitants
of the city perishing in the ruins In
1755 Lisbon was destroyed by an
earthquake and it buried under Its
ruins above 50000 inhabitants In Au
gust 1S2L two thirds or the cfty or
Aleppo containing a population of 1100
000 -were destroyed by an earthquake
Thirty thousand of its inhabitants were
buried in the ruins
Held Down the Speaker
The sanctity or the speaker is an in
violable law of parliamentary England
yet once the necessities or the nation
were so great that an assault and bat
tery had to be made upon his sacred
person It was In the third parliament
of Charles I that the angry commons
framed their petition of rights This
cut at the very root of the kvgs pre
rogative and among those in lie house
who opposed it was Mr Speaker Upon
Sir John Elliott moving its acceptance
the speaker essayed to leave the chair
which would of course have proved
fatal to the bill But they were ready
for him and Ilollis and Valentine seiz
ed him one on each side and literally
held him in the chair until the for
mality of the reading was over So
vital was the petition considered that
Cromwell said in the lobby afterward
LTad we been defeated I should have
left England tonight -London Chroni
cle
Undodgeable Taxes
In the past said the tax assessor
governments were wiser They levied
taxes that could not be sworn off
There was for instance the English
birth tax of the seventeenth century
A laborer paid 2 shillings as birth tax
a duke paid 30 You couldnt get
round it
Burials were taxed according to
the station of the dead rrom a shilling
to 25 That too could not be dodged
Marriages Avere taxed A duke to
many paid 50 a common person
like yourself paid half a crown
In those days you paid a tax on
every servant on every dog on every
horse on your carriage your hearth
your windows watches clocks wigs
hair powder plate ribbons bricks
coal gauze and candles Cincinnati
Enquirer
A Madmans Strange Belief
An unfortunate maniac was confined
in one of tho Scottish lunatic asylums
his particular infirmity being an un
shakable belief that every day was
Christmas day and that he was din
ing sumptuously on turkey or roast
beef and a good slice of plum pud
ding His real diet howevor was of
the plainest he being served twice
daily with a dish of oatmeal porridga
After daily describing to his attendants
the pleasures he had tasted in his cut
of turkey or what not he as regularly
added Yet somehow or other every
thing that I eat tastes of porridge
This story it was which gave rise to
the saying As palatable as the mad
mans porridge
Some Famous Salt Lakes
The Dead sea is forty miles long and
nine miles wide The Great Salt lake
is seventy miles long and eighty miles
wide the largest body of brine in the
world There is evidence to show that
once the Great Salt lake was at least
C50 miles in length and 150 in width
nine times its present area The Dead
sea contains about 24 per cent of sol
ids one third of which is pure salt
while of the 23 per cent of solid mat
ter in the waters of Great Salt lake
nearly all is salt
Not a Question of Grammar
The green reporter turned to Editor
McKehvay Which should I say he
asked hesitatingly My boy Henry
laid an egg on the table V
Well said Editor McKelway im
patiently if you want something to
crow over and hes that kind of a hen
nery let him lay it on the table if he
can Otherwise have him put it there
Judge
His Distinction
A solemn funeral procession slowly
wending its way up the slope from the
church to the grave was intercepted
by the old verger who pulling his
forelock in the usual rustic style ad
dressed the clergyman whispering in
a couGdential manner
Please sir corpses brother wishes
to speak to yer London Tit Bits
A Nautical Secret
Passenger What makes this boat
pitch so Sailor Thats a nautical se
cret maam that we dont like to give
away but seein its you I dont mind
tellin you that its the waves San
Francisco Call
He Wanted to Know
The Employer coldly Why are you
so late The Suburbanite guiltily
There were two wrecks on the track
this morning and The Employer
testily Who was the other one
Partly True
Mr Nix I dont believe a word of
your story Weary Well that part
about my bein out of work for nine
years is as true as gospel Philadel
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ALL THE YEAR And good corn tools are next in im
portance to good seed
John Deere Listers
with EDGE SELECTION DROP that plants 95 100 percent
perfect The arrangement of the seed box is such that it
must drop And then the balance of the lister is built on the
John Deere Plow Standard
just what you want in a long life tool with Mould Boards
and Shares of highest carbon steel Then with a
John Deere Two Row
Lister Cultivator
that you will surely want if you have ever seen one used
Or ask your neighbor who used one last year He will tell
you that they
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We have all of these IMPLEMENTS for you
are the best we can buy as well as the
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and that is what we all want to do
as fast as we can So come in and
LOOK AT THESE
MONEY MAKERS
McCook Hardware Co
w b mills phone 31 R- B- simmons
Look
If you want a Side Walk Curb
Stone or Cement Work of any kind
H Nc Rosebush
Successor to Rosebush Northrup PHONE RED 1 96
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and Most Fashionable
in the straw
Also SOFT FELTS in
Brown Gray Blues
and Blacks
The latest and niftiest
offerings in
Stein
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Suits
and
Spring Overcoats
Come and see the leaders
in all garments for men
and bovs
And the Prices
Are Right
ROZELL BARGER
THE LEADING CLOTHIERS
New Library Post Cards
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