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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1908)
The San Luis Valley Land ICO ncres four miles from a good town with a three wire fonce nround it and twenty acres fqncod hog tight Has more than enough water for all purposes from the best ditch in tho valley and added to this aro three artesian wells Tho place has n throe room frame house and bunk houso blacksmith shop stablo hay barn stock shod machine shed hen house and other sheds and outbuildings This is tho best bargain in tho San Luis Valley that wo have seen as other land separated from this by only the fence is soiling at from ten to fif teon dollars moro por acre If intorestod write us Wo have other land there at low prices Price of tho abovo land 25 per ncre Wo also have some lino land that can be either homesteaded or taken up un der the Desert Act Write us E W Harris Colorado Springs Colo 12 Midland Block Midclleton Ruby PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING All work guaranteed Phone 182 McCook Nebraska BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach The best of every thing in his line at the most reasonable prices is flarshs motto He wants your trade and hopes by merit to keep it The Butcher Phone 12 Hiss Ha M Briggs i will teach class on piano Grad uate of Bethany conservatory of Lindsborg Kans Studio at home of A G Bump Phono Black 252 Scholars call or phono for further information A G BUMP Real Estate and Insurance Room Two over McConnelPs drug store McCook Nebraska JOHN E KELLEY ATTORNEY AT LAW and BONDED ABSTRACTEB McCook Nebraska KAgent of Lincoln Land Co and of McCook Wator works Otlico Ofllco in Postoffice building CHHoyle CEEldeed BOYLE ELDRED Attorneys at I aw Long Distance P one 44 Rooms 1 anrt 7 second floor xTrinnW Neb MCLOO IXCO Postoffice RuildiDg m 1 IftB tffl H P SUTTON MCCOOK GUNN DENTIST n2 Rooms 3 and 5 Walsh Blk McCook GATEWOOD VAHUfc DENTISTS Office over McAdams Store Phone 190 V JEWELER MUSICAL GOODS NEBRASKA Mike Walsh DEALER IN POULTRY EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Cask Now location just across TrCcnXc street in P Walsh building L HVUUIV Were Just As Thankful For a small package as a large one Each will receive the same thorough and careful attention If wo get the former it may in time grow to the later by the satisfaction you will derive in wearing our laundered work Family washing 5c per ponud McCook Steam Laundry W C BLAIR Prop Successor to G C Heckman PHONE 35 West Dennison St Any time you find yourself in need of Supplies for j 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 ftwSrfcSrV Vlfcb t V FRANKLIN PRESIDENT A C EBEKT UASHIER JAS S DOYLE Vice President V V FRAHKUH THE CITIZENS BANK OF MeCOOK NEB a Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus 15000 DIRECTORS JAS S DOYLE A C EBERT t 3Q 1 Boos 8 f5 The 44A4 S Kj The JOHN AND HIS IDOLS Chinaman Is Utterly Devoid i m ipmxyaMMMgWgcj t the 600 of Reverence In His Religion How the Chinaman regards his idol is told by the Rev John MacGowan The Chinese is a person utterly de void of reverence sentiment or devo tion in his religion With him it ia a matter either of fear or of business but mainly the latter A house is plagued with sickness which is put down not to bad sanitation or other natural causes but to the presence of evil spirits This leads to a visit to the nearest temple to get the idol to drive them away A new business is going to be commenced but before doing so it is deemed essential to get the sup port of the idols If one idol says it will not succeed another is appealed to for its opinion and if it is favorable it Is at once accepted as the correct one Should the venture turn out a fail Tire no reproach of any kind is uttered against the god whose prediction has been falsified The man takes the blame upon himself His character has not been pure he says or he was born under an evil star or he was naturally -at-- A v A m J J sier I II - w - A Thats the official slogan of a certain town In sas which through boosting itself and boosting its boost- ers has doubled its population since the 1900 census tt BOOST THE BOOSTER The Arkansas town had been quarreling among itself for years and standing still It had boosters but it had others who refused to boost the boosters refused to stand by them and yell Good boy keep it up BOOST THE BOOS TER Finally the town got together with itself or ganized a Boost the Booster Club and be gan to boom Now its principal thoroughfare which was a streak of mud is a stretch of as phalt and it has new buildings to match Now everybody boosts the booster and booms the boom BOOST THE BOOS TER This town might take a hint from that one We have our town f X wrLX zriar boosters every town has some But sometimes they get discouraged because of opposition right here in our midst BOOST THE BOOSTER Cut out the criticism Quit the queering Boom the Boom Then watch the old town perk up and plunge for ward You can see it move WHEN YOU BOOST THE BOOSTER YOU BOOM THE BOOM FOUND ITS SOUL Story of a Violin That Was Wrecked In a Fire After the Lucky Baldwin theater and hotel fire in San Francisco years ago there were nine feet of water in the basement where the instruments of the orchestra were stored When a lit tle of it had been pumped out August Hinrichs leader of the orchestra hired a man to swim in and get out his fa mous Amati violin It was wrecked water soaked warp ed twisted and broken up into sixty eight pieces The hot water had soak ed out all the old glue and every piece had fallen away from its neighbor be sides a good many patches of wood put in when repairs had been done To all appearance the thing was smashed be yond recall Nevertheless Ilerman Muller a local violin repairer who knew and lovet the old fiddle took it in hand Twictf he carefully joined the time darkened pieces of wood Twice he decided tha the Amati would not do So once more he soaked the sixty eight bits of wood apart Then he carefully modeled out of clay an arch such as he remembered that of the old Amati to have had and for nine weeks kept the bits of wood bound to it until they had gained the proper shape Once more he put the bits of wood together Then for five weeks more he patiently varnished and polished the more than 200 year old fiddle until it shone Then LTinrichs once more drew his bow across the vibrating strings and the violin spoke It sank wept bubbled with life and joy The Amati had found its soul San Francisco Examiner - SSSs4S Sd3t4s WSvtsvV4V44ViviX9 unlucky Unci so was bound to ran m anything that he undertook Men never dream of thinking about their idols as we do about God No affection is shown for them It is most amusing to watch the faces of the Chi nese when you ask them if the idols love them The eyes gleam the face broadens into a wide grin and soon hearty laughter is heard at this most facetious and side splitting joke Chicago News A Remarkable Church At Stivichall near Coventry Eng land 1here is a unique place of wor ship In 1S10 John Green a stonema son of a strongly religious turn of mind laid the first stone of the edifice and seven years later he completed the building In all that time he had as sistance from no one doing all the work with his own hands until tho church was ready for its interior fit tings Wooden and even brick build ings erected by one or two men are not uncommon but this is the only structure in England and probably in the world of which every stone was laid by one man The building accom modates quite a large congregation and the church derives a considerable revenue from the contributions of sightseers who are drawn to the place through curiosity The Equinox Storm Fable The United States weather bureau has denied that the coining of tho equi nox brings with it a storm The be lief it says that the old fashioned peo ple put in this theory is all misplaced Any big storm that happens to occur within a week or two of the time that the sun is crossing the line say the weather men is dignified by the name of equinoctial storm when as a matter of fact there is generally some atmospheric disturbance every week or two and those that occur about the time of the equinox are just taking their turn and are not the result of the crossing or tne sun A Fine Pair What do you think of the two can didates asked one elector of another during a recent contest What do I think of them was the reply Well when 1 look at them Im thankful only one of them can get in London Telegraph Through Her Head Bugby gets out of all patience with his wife He says she cant get a thing through her head Thats funny He told me every ithing he said to her went in one ear and out of the other Hot Water Hyker Troubled with indigestion eh You should drink a cup of hot wa ter every morning Pyker I do but tbey call it coffee at my boarding house London Express THE COUNTRY BANKER His Influence on National Finance Dur ing Crop Harvesting Enter the small town for almost any purpose to sell books to seek a loca tion to look up land titles to write life Insurance to get a news story to col lect a debt and early in your visit you will go to the ornate Imposing build ing on the corner of the two busiest streets You will pass a lattice crown ed counter and be admitted to a room large enough only to hold a desk and two chairs There you will come face to face with the towns linancler the rierpout Morgan of the community the banker Not an enterprise not a siderable busiuess undertaking is started without consultation with him The man who sells a farm and wishes to put his money where It will earn In terest goes to the banker The widow with a few thousand dollars of life in surancemore money than she ever saw together in all her life before asks the banker how to invest it It would be better if more of this class would take the bankers advice when it is given Then there is the merchant who owes for a large portion of his goods He comes nervously asking If the bank will see him through the dull season The banker gives assent to one explains to another refuses a third and comes at last to wad unconscious ly the business record of every man he meets on the street Tha country banker exerts his great est influence on national finance dur ing the crop harvesting season Wheth er it he in the gathering of fruit in California of cotton in the south or of wheat in the plains region the banker comes in direct touch with the worker Take tho wheat harvest as covering the widest area and creating the most intense demand during its existence In a single state 20000 harvesters are needed besides those already at work on the farms Through the labor bu reaus and railway departments whole train loads of workers are secured from states at a distance These helpers are mostly itinerants and they have no lo cal standing A grain raiser went among his laborers one Saturday night and asking their names proceeded to make out checks for the weeks work What shall we do with them ask ed one Cash them at the bank of course Who will identify us The employer saw the point tore up the checks and secured currency with which to pay the men That made a demand on the bank Scores of other farmers were doing the same thing Hundreds of other communities did it The result is that the country bankers draw millions of dollars from the re serve centers every harvest and to smjo degree change national financial crrvents thereby C 31 Harger in At lantic Monthly Helping the Postoffice It is surprising said a postoOice employee how many people there are who think they know better than tho postal authorities the most direct way for a letter to reach its destination It is quite common for us to handle mail that has instructions in regard to speedy delivery written in one corner of the envelope Not only are we di rected to send domestic mail by a cer tain railroad or steamboat line but the route by which the writers wish for eign bound letters to travel is also desig nated These instructions frequently denote a lamentable ignorance of trans portation facilities on the part of the writers If they were obeyed the de livery of the letters would be delayed rather than expedited Fortunately such directions are disregarded by the postal authorities unless they happen to coincide with the governments ar rangements for handling mail sc no body is inconvenienced except the clerks who read the unnecessary ad vice New York Sun Mother At a mothers meeting a young wom an recounted with some pride a num ber of proverbs about mothers Its easier for a poor mother to keep seven children than for seven children to keep a mother That sad and striking proverb she said is from tho Swiss A mothers love is new every day He who will not mind his mother will some day have to mind the jailer Better lose a rich father than a poor mother A fathers love is only knee deep but a mothers reaches to the heart Those proverbs are all German The nindoos say poetically Mother mine ever mine whether I be rich or poor The Venetians say Mother He who has one calls her He who has none misses her The Bohemians say A mothers hand is soft even when it strikes The Lithuanians say Mother means martyr Novelty In Cement Wall There is a wall of cement in Los An geles which shores up one side of a building lot that has an artistic value never intended by the builder He had moved his bags of cement on to the ground to be ready for work and was then called away on some other job for a day or two In the mean time oue of the very infrequent rains came on and each sack turned Into stone under the action of the water and the fabric of the sacks themselves was absorbed into the cement so that it was Impossible to remove it Conse quently each sack was wrought Into the wall as if it had been a bowlder on the line of an old stone wall They were then chinked and bound together with worked cement and after a time the weather disposed of the gnnny sacking but left the blocks marked with the impress of the weave The result is a highly ornamental cement wall resembling at a little distance a wall of some woven material Government Land i iii tn cnnA wntnr 1 nny CVCSS 5w wf no Iocntono ses wliilo here t - jiiy 18 years yw v - - amh voy corners on iniiiiua -- Ecf Hntishaw Laird Colo I mi 1113 rv umistind9 locnted Writo Hon lot 105 uso and lot in Rood condition on block 4 lhorth McCookfor salo on terms I rice Laird Colo Write to Ed Hanshtiw NEILL BROS Contractors and Builders Estimate Furnished Free Pliones Shop Black 321 Residence Mack 312 nix Updike Grain Co GOAL Phone 169 S S GARVEY Mgr YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE J M Rupp FOR ALL KINDS OF Rpjnf VIOfR P O Box 131 McCook Nebraska A Edgar Hawkins Phone Red 193 H H Evans Phone Red 21 HAWKINS EVANS Contractors and Builders Plans drawn and estimates furn ished on application McCook Nebraska E FOSBORN J V VENTZ OSBORN WENTZ raymen Prompt Service Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices GIVE US A TRIAL Office First Door South of DeGroffs Phone 13 RSKVSVESVBVJKNJBSJgNafvHyasJB 7 F D BURGESS Plumber and Steam Fitter Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings Estimates Furnished Free Base ment of the Postoffice Building McCOQK NEBRASKA Ssx cawoyM FSANK SEISTLE ENGRAVER and ELECTROTYPES r0l 1114 U20 24 LAWRLICt DENVEB COLO 2t jTjfc A i t A I ft R uDDer o ooiin i Old Hickory 2 pIy Rubber Roof ing per square complete includ ing Rubber Cement and Broad Headed Xails 225 American Rubber Roofing 1 plj per square complete including Lap cement Tin Caps and Nails 195 MBIT LIIMI MtMIMMM tTTf fi t r a 7 Ml 1 i v ii Ar X et j 1 t f r H