Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1908)
E flStar - Bank by Mail if You Wish You need not nlways como to town to transact your business with us If you have a check on this or any other bank in thh vicinity endorse it on tho back place in an en velope and address to this bank Tho mail will bring it to us and wo will credit your account and mail jou a receipt Wo want your banking business and wo want to make it easy for you to transact it In fact wo want to mako ourselves useful to you in anything pertaining to finance Come in THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK McCook Nebraska By F M KIMMELL Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co Subscription 1 a Year in Advance Johnny Bulls booze budget amount ed in 1907 in round figures to 83S5 000000 Beavkii City is billed for a new Dem ocratic newspaper in June with a woman as editor John Stevens Jr has open ed a law office there too The Hastings Democrat does not like Congressman Norris because he is a Ko publican Strange That is largely the reason a safe majority of the voters of the Fifth district like him The General Conference of the Meth odist church representing 3000000 members at its first days session in Baltimore sent a communication to Speaker Cannon favoring the exclusion of liquors from the national soldiers homes Wall street stems to be feeling bet ter Prices of seats on the New York stock exchange are now quoted at 75000 to 80000 Since the October panic they have only been rated at S50 000 And the people of the country are now doubtless wondering where hades will break loose next Kind friends have you heard of the town of No Good on the banks of the river Slow where the Some time or other scents the air and the soft Go easies grow It lies in the valley of in the province of Let-her-slide its the home of the reckless I dont care where the Give-it-ups abide The town is as old as the human race and it grows with the flight of years it is wrapped in the fog of idlers dreams its streets are paved with dis carded schemes and are sprinkled with useless tears Ex They toil not neither do they study Their only purpose if they have any seems to be to get together and in the brilliant light of the library lamps to observe the beauties of the feminines and the whereabouts of the musculines until it gets late enough to make a re spectable get away Then in pairs and which is more often the case indi vidually they retire to tho hall there to be joined shortly by another and to hio away with all the satisfaction of a full evenings work Such are the follies of youthful days There is no harm done sometimes and then again there is It is like the game of cards good fun if it is not habitual but apt to lead to ventures which are purely speculative Daily Nebraskan Uh I Dont Know Fletcher Supt George H Thomas one of the most prominent educators in the state has resigned his position in McCook and will engage in the banking business at his former home at Harvard This is rather an unusual move from the school room to the banking house If Mr Thomas had remained in education al work we had proposed to run him against Prof Frank J Munday for state superintendent but Frank could beat a banker that is running for office Beaver City Times Tribune 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 Millison Left the Country A young man by the namo of Al Mil lison was arrested Inst Saturday night at a dance over on tho South Side charged with assault and battery and was to have appeared in Justico Berrys court Monday Ho mado an appoar anco in court during tho morning but when tho time camo in tho afternoon when tho complaint was offered in court Millison was not to bo found Charles Masters was tho complaining witness in the case and a son of Mr Masters was the other party involved in tho trouble being tho person Millison is said to have assaulted Millison is said to have gotton tho worse of tho encount er being knocked down and relieved of a knife and revolver Strife for tho favor of a young lady is said to bo back of tho difficulty Millison has been in trouble in that neighborhood before and tho fact that he was armed with a revolver and a knife indicates that ho was out looking for trouble Held In 1000 Bonds John Doe and Richard Roo are now in tho county jail awaiting their fate in tho next session of district court They swiped a suit case and grip last Satur day morning from a Pullman car at tached to train No 13 while in the yard here They wore seen carrying the same to the Bullard lumber yard and temporarily hide them and both were shortly afterwards arrested and brought before Squire Berry who after hearing tho ovidonce given bound them over to appear in tho next district court plac ing tho bonds at 1000 each in default of which both were placed with Sheriff Peterson for safe keeping These same men had in their possession another suit case but no trace of the owner could bo gotten it was empty The grip taken from the traveling man con tained goods to tho value of 8100 Will Quit No rehearing will be asked in the supreme court by the Nebraska lum ber dealers association as to the find- ings mado ten days ago conaemning certain practices of tho organization as illegal aid enjoining their contin uance Instead the associations board of directors is preparing a statement to the public which will be issued in a few days giving reasons for not at tempting to carry the litigation any farther Secretary Bird Critchfield has al ready announced that the supreme court injunction will be obeyed by himself and other officers of tho asso ciation He regards the courts opin ion as partly vindicating the existence and methods of the association and as to features which have been declared unlawful ho asserts they will be aban doned Lincoln News Newspapers as Business Ventures Considered as a manufacturing busi ness newspaper making is enormously hazardous and absurdly unremuner ative With other manufacturing con cerns the rule is that if they dont make profits they quit but that is not the rule with newspapers They al ways have moral and political reasons for clinging to life long long after there has ceased to be any pecuniary warrant for it A newspaper in these days is about as apt to declare a divi dend as a church is Competition be tween papers is intense the prices of nearly all of them is too low the cost of white paper and manufacture too high and they give a great deal too much for the one meagre cent that most of them now sell for Life Standard Sugar Plant to Be Sold The plant of the Standard Sugar Co at Ames Neb is again advertised to be sold the date being May 29fcn Fre mont is the place where the sale will take place The plant cost a million dollars and 198 acres of land are includ ed in the sale The probabilities are that the big plant will be taken to Scotts Bluffs and operated where beets can be pro duced on land near the plant it being claimed that the question of transporta tion makes Ames or Leavitt an impos sible point of operation The company has a fine list of lands near Culbertson which are also included in this sale Will Fight High School Law Rulo Nebraska May 5 Thirty four school districts of this county have risen up in their might and in a meet ing held at Falls City Saturday raised 170 to test the constitutionality of the present high school law which allows all schools to attend city high schools their tuition being paid by the district from which they come They have em ployed Clarence Gillespie of Falls City to fight their legal battles and the mat ter will be taken to the supreme court for final construction The districts fighting the case feel confident of victory as the supreme court has decided two very similar laws to be unconstitutional in the last five years Lincoln Journal Married by Squire Berry George H Althouse Gi of Haigler and Catherine Luscomb 60 of New Bedford Mass were united in marriage Tuesday afternoon May 7th 1908 Squire Berry officiating the ceremony being performed in the Palmer House parlors The groom is a well-to-do ranchman of the Haigler neighborhood Seeds at H P Waite Cos MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE F D BuncHSS is improving quite rap idly now J R Nkkl was up from Indianola Monday on business Mks C L Fahnkstock was a Lin coln pilgram early days of this week Mns C R Livingston has been very ill this week but is some better ot this writing Mns N B Bush of Almena Kansas is visiting the parents Mr and Mrs F D Burgess V Franklin of tho Citizens bank at tended tho bankers convention in Hast ings Wednesday Rev B L Webber has rented tbo Westland dwelling house corner of Da kota and Melvin streets Miss Cora Corder of Holbrook is spending a few days in McCook tho guest of her aunt Mrs J W Hasy Mrs J T Utterhack of Arapahoe visited a few days first of tho week with her daughter Mrs J W Hasty Mrs A C Wiehe arrived home last night from a groat meeting of tho grand chapter O E S in Omaha this week L R Hileman was up from St Joseph end of week on business and to visit his daughter Mrs C A Rodgers Elder R M Ainsworth from Buffa lo Kansas has accepted the call as pas tor of the Christian church of this city Mrs Harry Rogers returned early in the week from her visit of several weeks in her former home Galesburg 111 Miss Maudie Johnson of Harvard re turned to her home Thursday morning after a tew days visit with Mrs E R Earle Charles M Bailey was down from Hayes Center close of last week on business in probate court in Red Willow county Mrs J G Stokes has gone to Ham burg Iowa on a visit to relatives She will also spend some time in Chicago with relatives A R Scott is attending the electrical exposition in Omaha this week Hn will visit his homo in Corning Iowa be fore his return Dr J A Toren has been enjoying a visit from his mother this week Both are now visiting in Denver to return first of next week F L Wolff of Morlan Ritchie Wolff was summoned to Washington Kansas Monday by news of the sudden death of his father D C Higley formerly with the F C Krotter Co at Wauneta came down first of the week to take a position in the yard of the Barnett Lumber Co C C Vennum the Stratton banker was in town between trains Thursday on his way home from attending the bankers association meeting in Hast ings T C Beardsley late of Holdrege in the optical business has rented the new Johnson residence north of the Baptist church and will occupy the same first of next week Decoy Burnett has returned from a flying trip Since he left before vaca tion he has been traveling in three states from Colorado to Iowa But he is back Daily Nebraskan of U of N C B Stephens of Beverly briefly visited his parents Mayor and Mrs J H Stephens Monday night coming down the valley Monday evening and returning to his business on Tuesday mornings train Mrs J A Wilcox Mrs Z L Kay and Mrs W M Lewis departed Tues day morning on No 2 for Omaha where Mesdames Wilcox and Kay will attend the state meeting of the O of the E S and Mrs Lewis will visit a broth er After which all the ladies will go to Harlan Iowa on a short visit to Mrs George C Paup Rev B L Webber missionary of the American Sunday school Union is a recent arrival in McCook where he will make his home and headquarters while doing the missionary work of the Union in the 14th district Mrs Web ber who is now in Minnesota their late home will join him as soon as a home is secured and settled Mrs G W Bede of Odell Gage county and sister Mrs C W Donald son of Seattle Wash nee Miss May Nelis arrived in town close of last week and were guests of McCook friends for several days Bedes and Nelises were early residents of McCook leaving nearly twenty years since Mr Bede is now publishing the Wave at Odell Mrs J W Spencer entertained Monday evening at a four course lunch eon in honor of Mrs C W Donaldson of Seattle Wash and her sister Mrs G W Bede of Odell Neb Mrs M S Jennings presided at the punch bowl The guests were Mr and Mrs M S Jennings Mr and Mrs Leon Clark Mr and Mrs J R VanHorn Mrs Gleed Wallace Miss Joy Cook Mr C W Wimer Mr John McManigal Misses Mary Donaldson Hazel and Mabel nings and Masters Lyle Corey and Ralph VanHorn Hard and Soft Paper in convenient sizes for desk use in fig uring and making notes at the Tribune office Very reasonable price LITERARY BULLS For Instance tho Groan That Gurgles From the Slain Macaulay once reviewed a poem In which a oLhiiax of absurdity was reach ed with this line And liearst each groan that gurgles from tho slain The poetic license which lots a groan gurgle from a slain man is capable of letting him walk Into town from the field of battle collect tho amount of his life insurance policy and hand it to his widow It brings to mind tho heroic warrior of whom It is said that thrice he slew the slain and the Irish member of parliament who convulsed the house of commons by exclaiming that he would die as a soldier first and a man afterward But strange to say Macaulay himself has made a similar blunder In his Battle of Lake Kagillus the follow ing lines occur The shouting of the slayers And screeching of tho slain Did these writers make these slips in the heat of battle or were they testing the intellectual acuteness of their readers There is a story of a German schoolmaster who used to call out his class in history and begin to tell them of the Thirty Years war Yes children he would say this is a sub ject in which I am especially Interest ed as my grandfather often told me about it He was a well to do innkeep er and one day as he was standing in his doorway a mounted soldier came galloping up at a furious rate Whats the matter asked my grandfather Matter enough answered the dragoon Dont you know that the Thirty Years war has begun today At this point the ancient pedagogue would pause and survey his class Then a smile would overspread his rubicund countenance if a hand was raised and a boyish treble asked how the dragoon knew the war would last thirty years Perhaps our poets too would play the schoolmas ter and smile if we should ask them how it is possible for the slain to groan or screech George Seibel in Pittsburg Gazette Times Graceful and Beautiful the Bird Is a Nincompoop To THE STUPID SWAN the mind of the average farmer nothing which walks on two legs is quite so stupid as a hen He is mis taken though for there still remains that beautiful graceful nincompoop the common swan The swan is so stupid that it will stand in the shallow part of a pond and allow the water to freeze round its legs till the ice is so thick that it cannot lift its feet and it Is stuck fast Not infrequently owners of these handsome but witless birds are compelled to chop away sufficient ice to make it possible for them to withdraw their imprisoned feet The stupidity of the swan in this respect is emphasized by the intelli gence exhibited by ornamental ducks when the weather turns cold As night comes on and the water begins to freeze the ducks begin swimming in a wide well defined circle Round and round they go during the entire night keeping all the water within that circle free from Ice so that when the day dawns they can float about and doze in the sun Ducks are al ways most active during the night and choose the day for sleeping But to return to the swan If j ou find one of these birds some distance from the water and startle it the swan will rush a few feet toward the pond and then drop down on the ground and try to go through the motions of swim ming apparently unable in its fright to realize that it lias not yet reached the Avater Neither is the common swan a good fighter The black swan although one half its size is invariably the vic tor in the combats which are some times engaged in and generally kills its antagonist The black swan usually provokes the fight too for it is rather a quarrelsome bird Washington Star Do Fish Feel Pain now sensitive to pain are fish A correspondent writes I have a small pond which is stocked with trout I keep au accurate account of those I catch and note when I lose any One morning a big rainbow trout broke the worm hook with which I had hooked him That evening I hooked and land ed a good trout also with worm tackle which proved to be my friend of the morning as right down in his stomach was the broken gut and hook and be side this in his lip was a March brown fly hook which according to my fish ing book must have been there many weeks A fish with a fly hook in his mouth a worm hook in his stomach and ready to gulp down bait must be quite impervious to what we mortals call pain Dont Bear Msiice A man who harbors malace is liable to commit murder A man who hates another a long time is sure to get into a fight with him sooner or later and when the fight finally comes there Is likely to be mischief done Men wait for years for the first blow and the first blow is liable to be with a deadly instrument Dont waste your energy In hating people Such a course wouM make you wretched and finally get you into trouble Atchison Globe Water Schoolmaster at end of object les son Now can any of you tell me what is -water Small and Grubby Urchin Please teacher waters what turns black when you puts your ands In it Dundee Advertiser The attire of some men would seem to indicate that their tailors cant tell the difference between a fit and a con vulsion New York Times aBBBaaaBBBamaiB CornisKingofCrops That is why so much pains has been taken in constructing the John Deere Lister Cultivator St- rjk y ems - JMdslTXff i A jTfflffl1 writ na y v wxi J aFa7 f u JM KWr jrj mwM ran m m Kn ntf -- - Crr - ii i Si 1 tlb - arrA wMbi 33 1 tit wt i t i l T-9- lM I is tfiiTZPZi -- - UZJ x KouSSAh e it rr i f if I If- 14 sv MM f - h TBa LABEL3TA3PSrOS3YAKSl or KKOW1VG HOW U A ym if M V sr y gfimayc r rv ifitfmfevXMfc This cultivator is made of Malleable Iron and Steel no wood parts to warp or rot and you can set it to do any thing you want in fact FAIRLY HOE THE CORN But the most important is to throw the dirt out and widen the furrow a little at first so the sun can get in and START THE CORN QUICK These cultivators have high frame and can be used to finish your corn But if you have the time you should have a JOHN DEERE HORSE LIFT CULTIVATOR which will pay for itself in going over the corn once more with either four or six shovels Then for the man with a LARGE CROP AND LITTLE HELP we have the TWOROW HIGH CULTIVATORS of JOHN DEERE and OHIO makes They are made with nri - gSsZ McCook W B MILLS different levers so you can make them go anywhere and leave your ground in such shape that the fall wheat sowing will be easy GRASS GROWS WHERE WEEDS DO and to get the benefit of it if you have three or more cows you should havo a Shakplks Skiaratok which pays for itself in tho sav ing of cream and is so easily washed that it is really a plensuro to uso them and still more satisfactory when you figure the profits of your cows over tho old method Wo have these tools and its up to you to got tho best Hardware Phone 31 R- b Co SUMMONS AVftlWWV lS3Sfi Look If you want a Side Walk Curb Stone or Cement Work of any kind see The Seasons BEST and Most Fashionable in the straw A New Line of Wilson Bros Fancy Shirts The latest and niftiest offerings in Stein Bloch Suits and Spring Overcoats Come and see the leaders in all garments for men and boys And the Prices Are Right ROZELL BARGER THE LEADING CLOTHIERS H No Rosebush I Successor to Rosebush Northrup PHONE RED 196 New Library Post Cards at The Tribune Office Straw Hats are Here S i