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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
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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
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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
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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
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in such shape that the fall wheat
sowing will be
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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
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