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Iartfe Supply Tank
Tho Crank is Just the
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It follows most closely
every law of nature
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the machine
turn easy
Gears run in oil prac
tically self oiline and
has wido base to catch
all the waste
Made as accurately
as watcfc
increases your
yield of cream
and butter 515 per
cow each year
Ask your dealer about
The Great Western and
dont let him work any sub
Its your money you are
coing to spend you should insist on having the best
t no ureal western ia me worm suesi o
The best of every
thing in his line at
the most reasonable
p r i ces is Harsh s
motto He wants
your trade and
hopes by merit to
eep it
Write Just these words in a letter Sent ml
Thrift Talks by a farmer and yonr book No9100
which tells all about the breeds dairying the cara
of milk etc They are free Write now
SMITH MFO CO 158 Harrison StChIcaQofa
FOK SALE IN McCOOK BY
H PWaite Co
Middleton Ruby
PLUMBING and
STEAM FITTING
All work guaranteed
Phone 182 McCook Nebraska
BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIEF
CURES catarrh of the stomach
The Butcher
Phone 12
Hiss Iia M Briggs
will teach class on piano Grad
uate of Bethany conservatory
of Lindsborg Kane Studio at
homo of A G Bump Phone
Black 252 Scholars call or
phono for further information
A G BUMP
Real Estate
and Insurance
Room Two over McConnells drug
Btore McCook Nebraska
JOHN E KELLEY
ATTOBNEY AT LAW and
BONDED ABSTBACTEB
McCook Nebraska
tAgent of Lincoln Land Co and of McCook
Wator Works Offlco in Postofflce building
C H Boyle
Rooms 1 anrt 7 second floor
PoEtofllce Building
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McCOOK
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BOYLE ELDRED
Attorneys at I aw
Long Distance Innne 44
McCook Neb
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DENTIST PH0NE 112
Office Rooms 3 and 5 Walsh Blk McCook
GATEWOOD VAHUb
DENTISTS
Office over McAdams Store Phone 190
H P SUTTON
JEWELER
MUSICAL GOODS
NEBRASKA
Mike Walsh
DEAIEB IN
POULTRY EGGS
Old Rubber Copper and Brass
Highest Market Price Paid in Cash
New location jnst across
streot in P Walbh building
flcCook
Were Just
As Thankful
For a small package as a larse one
Each -will receive the same thorough
and careful attention If wo fiet the
former it may in time grow to the later
by the satisfaction jou will derive in
wearing our laundered work Family
washing 5c per ponnd
McCook Steam Laundry
W C BLAIR Prop
Successor to G C Heckman
PHONE 35 West Dennison St
Any time you find 3ourself in need of
Supplies for
your Office
just drop in and see if we do not have
exactly what you want whether it
be a box of paper clips or the latest
improved filing system
The TRIBUNE Office
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V t HANKLN PRESIDENT H O CDCHI UASHIfcK
JAS S DOYLE Vice President
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CITIZENS BANK
OF MeCOOK NEB
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Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus 15000
FRAHKUN
DIRECTORS
JAS S DOYLE
A C EBERT
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FLOWERS OF CANDY
NOVELTY OF THE SEASON
TABLE DECORATION
IN
Rosebuds Violets and Jonquils Nearly
as Costly as the Real Flowers
Mint Most Expensive of the
Candied Fruits
There have never been more elabo
rate decorations for the table than
there are this winter and they are
for the sake of novelty made of candy
They are nearly as costly as the real
flowers
Rosebuds somewhat smaller than
the original are made in pink and
white and glisten like their natural
prototypes with dewdrops They cost
15 cents each while violets as large
as tho best of the natural ones and
seemingly lacking only the fragrance
of the real flowers cost five cents
more Jonquils are made somewhat
smaller than the real size and so are
the exquisite purple flags which have
the same variety of shades as the orig
inals The candies are an expensive
item nt a dinner when the guests tako
it into their heads to eat them It
rarely happens however that more
than one or two persons make this un
usual use of them
None of the table flowers is so elab
orate as the large pansies They are
also preserved in the natural colors
Over them is sifted a tiny shower of
sugar which barely conceals the pur
ple and yellow tints These blossoms
cost as much as 30 cents If every
guest should decide to eat one it can
be seen how much of an expense such
a dish would be
Among the candied fruits which are
to be found in all shops none costs so
much as the candied mint But it is
in the end less expensive than some
of the others because so little of it
Is required A pound of candied mint
costs more than four dollars But a
taste is all that anybody requires so
strong is the flavor The old fashioned
sugared violets have been almost en
tirely superseded at dinner by the
new candied reproductions of the flow
ers These colored flowers in candy
are arranged just as the natural flow
ers There are not violets and rose
buds jonquils and fieur de lis all in
one bonbonniere The same color
scheme is maintained throughout all
the dishes Just as the real jon
quils are grouped together in the
flower vases so are the yellow sugar
blossoms placed together with no
other flower to break the color
scheme
Fortunate nowadays is the hostess
who possesses low flat candy dishes
The tops are covered with fine white
perforated papers and on them the
flowers are laid They must not be
crowded together s in that way
much of their effectiveness is lost
They are placed so as barely to touch
They do not retain nearly so much of
their beauty when put into a deep dish
GOOD AS DRAUGHT PROTECTION
Newest Use to Be Made of Flowered
Cretonne
The newest use for the popular flow
ered cretonne is in a draught pro
tector It is about half a yard deep
and is used to prevent too great a
draught when the lower sash of a win
dow is opened To make one tako a
strip of the cretonne and a strip of
sateen the width of the window and
sew them together all round having
first put up an interlining of stout
brown paper Then edge the whole
thing with a pretty cord making a
loop of the cord at the two top cor
ners by which the protector Is hung
on to two brass hooks in the window
frame
These draught protectors make cap
ital gifts for men living in rooms or
at college and will be received with
much approval For this purpose it is
better to use a smooth surface ma
terial that will not catch the dust as
housekeepers and laundresses usually
are not willing to do too much shaking
and brushing
HOLDS THE KNITTING NEEDLE
Easily Made Case That Will Be Found
Very Serviceable
We give a sketch of a very useful
little case for holding knitting needles
which will be found of great service
when traveling or when carrying ones
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work from place to place In fact It
will be handy on any and every occa
sion when the needles themselves are
not actually in use It can be made
in any strong piece of silk satin or
brocade or in kid or leather if pre
ferred The lining should ba of wash
leather in any case while the straps
which serre to hold the pins In place
should be of elastic firmly stitched at
intervals It is intended- that the
flaps should fold over on to the
needles and the case than rolled up
and tied with tho ribbons as shown in
our firastratlon
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THE LAPORTE MURDER FARM
Grewsome Finds Beneath the Burned
Homo of Mrs Belle Gunness
Criminal records contain no parallel
of the grewsone story revealed in the
finding of the clearing houso for mur
ders kept by Mrs Belle Gunness at
Lnporte Ind Just how many persons
met their fate in connection with the
bloody business carried on by this
woman and her confederates will per
haps never be known The skeletons
discovered beneatli the cellar of her
house and the fact that expressmen
had many times delivered to her boxes
and trunks now believed to have con
tained human bodies form the chief
MBS GUNNESS AND THE ItUINS OF THE
HOUSE WHEHE HER CRIMES WERE COM
MITTED THE ARROW INDICATES SITE
materials for the construction of the
strange story of her career She is
supposed to have lured rich men to her
den by matrimcftiial advertisements
and then made away with them for
their money andalso to have run a
murder fence for the benefit of her
partners in the awful trade offhuman
slaughter the latter operating in Chi
cago and sending the bodies of their
victims to her for burial
The burning of the house at La
porte in which Mrs Gunuess lived
with her three little children a short
time ago led to the remarkable revela
tions as to her history
The story of the Lnporte murder
farm recalls the notorious doings of
the Bender family in Montgomery
county Kan about forty years ago
and the famous case of Henry II
Holmes who swindled insurance com
panies and was held responsible for
the murder of quite a long list of per
sons He was hanged in Philadelphia
The Benders husband and Avife and
son and daughter were supposed to
have murdered nine or ten persons
and buried the bodies in the vicinity
of their home robbery being their mo
tive The Benders mysteriously disap
peared and their fate is unknown al
though rumors were abroad at the time
that indignant citizens put an end to
their infamous careers
MISS JEAN REID
Ambassadors Daughter Who Is to
Marry In England
Miss Jean Templeton Reid daughter
of Whitelaw Reid American minister
to England has had many suitors and
now that her engagement to the Hon
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MISS JEAN TEMPLETON KEID
John Hubert Ward brother or the
Earl of Dudley has been announced
by Mr and Mrs Reid it is suspected
that several young men prominent in
exclusive circles in England are suf
fering from disappointment It was
supposed not long ago that the young
Viscount Acheson son and heir of the
Earl of Gosford would win her hand
The viscount was quite devoted and
Miss Reid was believed to have a fond
ness for his society Before his time
she was very popular with Lord
Brooke son of the Socialist Countess
of Warwick Her accepted suitor is a
favorite with King Edward to whom
he is equerry in waiting He was born
in 1S70 and educated at Eton and in
1900 compaigned in South Africa with
the imperial yeomanry He has since
Eerved in the war office
Miss Reid is about twenty four years
old slight of build and fair of complex
ion and has a sweet face She Is popu
lar among the younger set in English
society
Mr Ward inherited about 1500000
from his fathers estate but there is
little likelihood of his ever being an
earl He is quite handsome inheriting
hJs good looks from his mother who
was one of the Moncrieffe sisters noted
beauties of the time
Whitelaw Reid is said to have pre
ferred that his daughter should marry
an American As It is she Is not likely
to bring a title into the family
OUR COUNTRY 77 YEARS AGO
Two Generations Have Seen America
Rise from Primitive Rurality
In 1831 the American people were
free but they hold in their hands the
hind tools of slaves They had to la
bor and sweat in tho fields with the
crude implements that had been pro
duced by ages of slavery For two
generations the sickles flails and
wooden plows with which they had
tried to build up a prosperous repub
lic had held back agricultural progress
Let us try to reconstruct mentally the
America of those days
Enterprise was not then a national
characteristic The few men who
dared to suggest improvements were
persecuted as enemies of society The
first iron plows were said to poison
the soil The first railroad was torn
up The first sewing machine was
smashed And the first man who
sold coal In Philadelphia was chased
from the state as a swindler
Even the railway was a dangerous
toy The telegraph was still a dream
in the brain of Morse John Deere
had not invented his steel plow nor
Howe his sewing machine nor Hoe
his printing press There were no
stoves nor matches nor oil lamps
Petroleum was peddled as a medicine
at one dollar a bottle Iron was 75
a ton Money was about as reliable
as mining stocks to day and all the
savings in all the banks would not
now buy the chickens in Iowa
The total exports amounted to no
more than we paid last year for dia
monds and champagne Chicago was
a 12 family village There was no
west nor middle west Not one grain
of wheat had been grown in Minne
sota the Dakotas Nebraska Colo
rado Kansas Washington Nevada
Idaho Montana New Mexico Oregon
Utah Arizona Wyoming Oklahoma or
Texas Everybodys
One on the Purser
Prosperity smiled on a certain man
of Marthas Vineyard Like all men he
is in pursuit of happiness So he hied
him away to a neighboring city and
purchased a fine automobile Of course
it had to be shipped to the island on
the steamer
A few days after the arrival of the
machine a friend of the proud owner
went to Boston on business When
this friend arrived in New Bedford to
take the steamer for the Vineyard
somebody told the purser that the
gentleman in question had brought
down an automobile from Boston and
asked him the purser if they had
room on the steamer for the machine
Ah said the genial purser he
ha- got an auto eh Well well When
of those two fellows gets anything
th other fellow thinks he must have
or too Were pretty well filled up
with freight said he but I suppose
well have to take it aboard
With that he gave orders to clear
away the forward deck and make room
for an automobile
A few moments after the above con
versation Mr appeared down the
gang plank with a toy automobile un
der his arm which he had purchasej
for his little boy who lives in Vine
yard Haven Vineyard Gazette
The Moon and Mount Kood
Perching itself for a few moments
on the very top of Mount Hood the
big new moon illuminated that ma
jestic peak so clearly that its mantle
of glistening white toned to a soft yel
low hue could be distinguished plain
ly from Portland and vicinity Never
before say old time Oregonians has
the moon been observed to scale the
summit so fairly and with such perfect
balance The big yellow disk appar
ently could not have been more ac
curately adjusted to the top of the
mountain And as it passed on up
ward the top of the mellow circle
buried itself in a big black cloud so
that no great stretch of the imagina
tion was required to fill in the pic
ture of an eruption from the peaceful
old mountain
From an artistic standpoint the
spectacle was one to be hoarded in the
fond memory and those who saw it
may regard themselves as having been
peculiarly fortunate Every year the
moon pays a visit to the big peak but
possibly not once in centuries would
it climb to the precise central point
on the summit and present a picture
so perfect Portland Oregonian -
Frances Flag
The tricolor as the national flag of
France is called consists of red white
and blue in equal vertical stripes the
blue stripe coming next to the staff
Blue and red were the colors of the
city of Paris and white was the color
of the Bourbons In 17S9 the national
assembly of France decided on the
suggestion of Lafayette that the na
tional colors should consist of those
of the city with the old color of
France white added Here is a cock
ade that will make a tour of the
world said Lafayette in offering the
new colors From 1S14 to 1S30 the tri
color was displaced by the white flag
of the Bourbons
Duchess a True Philanthropist
Duchess Philip of Wurtenberg has
contrived a bandage that is so scien
tifically constructed that manufact
urers have taken out patents covering
the right to make it in foreign coun
tries The duchess is said to be the
most popular of all the royal ladies of
Germany and much of her popularity
is due to the Interest she has always
shown in the sick poor
Adam
Her Trouble
-What are you
about
Eve Im afraid these new fi
arent going to wear well
worrying
leaves
NO TRESPASSING OR SHOOTING
No trespassing or shooting al
lowed on sections 15 and IG in
Valley Grongo precinct under
penalty of the law A Edert
I havo good pasture for about
73 head of cattle on sections 15
16 Valley Grange precinct nt
10 cents por month
A Ebert McCook Nob
Government Land
Level shallow to koo1 water 1 pny expen
ses while here VJ to locate no locnte no
pay IS years experience I furnish rsur
ey corners on Homesteads located Write
Ed Ilanshaw Laird Colo
Houso and lot in Rood condition on block I
lot 4Xorth McCookfor sale on terms Price
I Write to Ed Hnnshaw Laird Colo
Call at
HECKMAN S BAKERY
FOR
CIGARS AND STATIONERY
NE1LL BROS
Contractors and Builders
Estimates
Furnished Free
Phones Shop Black 32 J Residence Klnck 312
lily Updike Grain Co i
COAL
Phone iCq S S GARVEY Mgr
YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE
J M Rupp
FOR ALL KINDS OF Rpfak gpfc
P O Box 131 McCook Nebraska
A Edgar Hawkins
Phone Ited 193
II H Evans
Phono Red 2t
HAWKINS EVANS
Contractors and Builders
Plans drawn tind estimateb furn
ished on application
McCook Nebraska
E F OSBORN
J V WENTZ
OSBORN WENTZ
raymen
Prompt Service
Courteous Treatment
Reasonable Prices
GIVE US
A TRIAL
Office First Door
South of DeGroffs
Phone 13
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I F D BURGESS
f Plumber and
Steam Fitter
Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass
Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings
Estimates Furnished Free Base
ment of the Postoffice Building
McCOOK NEBRASKA
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Rubber
Roof in
Old Hickory 2 ply Rubber Roof
ing per square completo includ
ing Rubber Cement and Broad
Headed Nails 225
American Rubber Roofing 1 ply
per square complete including
Lap cement Tin Caps and
Xaiis 195
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