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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1908)
JO 40 FIRST NATIONAL BANK Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Established 23 Years Start a savings ac count next payday and save regular ly for some defin ite purpose You will be surprised to see how fast your account will grow when you McCook Nebraska Get the Saving Habit By F AI KIMMELL Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co Subscription 1 a Year in Advance POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Advertisements FOB COUNTY ATTORNEY At the very urgent request of many Republicans I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination of county attorney before the Republican primary to be held September 1 1908 S R Smith Chairman Republican Co Central Com 1 hereby announce myself as a candi date for re nomination for the office of County Attorney at the Republican primary on September 1 1908 P E Reedek FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself as a candi date for Commissioner of the First dis trict subject to the decision of the Re publican primary election September 1st 1903 T F Gockley FOR REPRESENTATIVE At the request of numerous voters I hereby offer myself as a candidate for the nomination to the office of represen tative for Red Willow county on the Republican ticket subject to the decis ion of the primary election to be held September 1st Indianola Neb July 2i 190S Frank Moore It is just as well for us to sit up and take notice of the fact for county op tion will demand enough attention in the next legislative campaign to be heard distinctly The editor of Harpers Weekly recent ly ventured out of Manhattan into the wild and woolly west and returned home with the conviction that the western man is the trun American Governments are constantly at work trying to save the people from them selves The postoffice has recently is sued an order barring cocaine and its derivatives from the mails The cocaine habit has become one of the alarming vices of the day It is not conspicuously clear to the average Nebraskan why a special objec tion should be made to the reelection of J A Williams the railroad commission er - He has made an efficient officer but that fact should not be a liability but an asset The opposition comes in the main from a source which ought to be a stimulus to the people of the state to return him to the position by an in creased majority A state or government guarantee of deposits in state or national banks will do what the work of state or federal bank examiners ought to do and largely fails to do At all events it is a matter of small and indifferent moment to a de positor how or why he loses his money That it is lost is the fact he wants pro tection against not against the specific manner of its losing or whether in a wildcat or supposed solid bank Banker C M Brown of Cambridge scents the activity of the railroads in an effort to capture the next legislature and thus forestall proposed legislation and possibly undo some of the accomp lished work and vigorously warns the people of Furnas county in an able open letter This he urges is no time to take the back track He favors keep ing the railroads out of Nebraska poli tics and the voters of this district will too if they understand the situation Even the Omaha Boo prints it Bon kleman Russian strikes cost employers and employes two hundred million dollars during past Mooney is lined up for Merwin that do settle it Until we hear Ready anyhow And from The law of Louisiana makes drinking on a railway train even out of ones own bottle a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment or both Train men are vested with police authority John C Gajimill the old Frontier county war horso is the latest knight to enter the lists for the Republican nomination for state senator in this district John is one of the old guard and will give an interesting account of himself at the coming primary J M Shively has no more formid able handicap in his race for land com missioner than the fact that ho is now deputy in that office He is however a splendid young fellow well qualified for the position a Republican of the new order of things and without guile A SERPENT STORY Terrifying Experience With a Deadly Lancehead The Paris Eclair tells a blood cur dling serpent story the scene of which was the island of Martinique and the dramatis personae Sergeant Legraud and Private Durand and the snake a deadly lancehead The soldier had been punished with a night in the cells for some trivial of fense but as the night was very hot the sergeant had left the door open In the morning at 5 oclock Legrand went to wake his prisoner and to his horror beheld a lancehead snake coiled up and fast asleep on the mans breast The sergeant did not lose his presence of mind He stole noiselessly away ran to the guard room and followed by all the men on duty returned to the cell with a bowl of milk and a tin whis tle Placing the bowl of milk at the entrance to the cell the sergeant began to play the Blue Danube It is need less to remark that the weakness of the lancehead is milk and music Tho serpent which was a six foot speci men awoke glided from the soldiers body toward the bowl but it had no sooner buried its head in its beloved drink than ten cudgels descended on it with terrific force killing it outright The soldier Durand who was in a swoon was taken to hospital where he lay for many days on the verge of madness He finally recovered and re lated his horrible experience how he had awoke in the middle of the night as the serpent was coiling itself on his bare breast and how he had lain there in an agony for hours not daring to move a muscle Durand was sent back to France as soon as he had sufficiently recovered The only trace of his terrible experi ence adds the Eclair is that his hair is now snow white Time She Began It was on a Sixth avenue surface car A woman sat with her little daughter who to all appearances was seven or eight years old The conduct or came for the fares and the woman gave him a five cent piece Is the little girl with you madam asked the conductor Yes assented the woman Her fare please said the man But I never have paid for her be gan the woman And does that prove that youre never going to asked the conductor taking the fare reluctantly tendered New York Press His Narrow Escape I tell you the closing of the Steenth National was a mighty close call for me How was that Why a friend had advised me to put my money in it and And you took his advice No but I would if Id had any mon ey Philadelphia Ledger Net the Kind He Wanted Little Willie ran away to hunt red skins Yes But he didnt find any until his fa ther had finished with him Harpers Weekly My face Ungalisnt is my fortune sir she said Well he replied poverty is no dis grace but its awfully inconvenient at times The Wicked Husband Why does a man lie to his wife asks a woman writer Dear me does he Duluth Herald A moral sensible well bred man will not insult me No other can Cowper ADDITIONAL RAILROAD Engineer and Mrs J M Henderson Jr arrived from San Bernardino Calif on 14 last night and will spend a month or two visiting relatives here and hereabouts Mr and Mrs Hiler parents of Rdy Hiler have been visiting in the city part of the week Engineer George Pronger has sold his North Madison street home to Mrs Elizabeth B Monks Consideration 1400 The property is being im proved MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE Mrs H M Tyler of Orleans was a visitor Wednesday Miss Frances McCarty returned to tho city first of the week Mr and Mrs Russell Rutherford spent last week visiting in Republican City W C Bullard was out from Omaha Monday looking over his lumber inter ests in McCook Frank Burbridge of Orleans arrived in the city Monday and went to work for R L Okerson S R Smith and C M Gobon were up from Indianola Tuesday on some matters of business Miss Gertrude Storer high school principal went to Nelson Neb her home Saturday night M U Shurtleff is up from Tecum seh looking after his real estate interests in this section of the state Miss Nelle Gunn returned Saturday night from her two weeks vacation which was spent in Colorado Mrs A P Ely was called to Red Cloud Tuesday night by the serious illness of her youngest brother Mrs N B Bush and children arrived from Almena Kansas Sunday morning and is the guest of her sister Mrs J C Marshall James Powell of Dundy county near Max was in town close of last week Jim for years was in charge of the Mc Cook yard section J M Miller of Carleton Neb was hero end of last week looking after his real estate interests in Coleman pre cinct this county Mrs J E Kelley and Mrs J E Morrissey who have been spending a number of weeks in California arrived home early in the week Howe Smith was in Hastings Tues day to see Grandma Kendall He found her well and improved physically but failed and failing mentally Mrs E R Briggs and Mr and Mrs Bert Briggs all of Oberliu Kansas who have been guests of McCook relatives returned home Tuesday evening Miss Fay Eikencerry departed close of past week for Iowa on a visit to re latives which will be extended on to Kokomo Indiana on a similar mission E S Byfield of the Indianola Re porter spent Monday in the city solicit ing advertisements for the premium list of the county fair at Indianola this fall Mr and Mrs Lewis Fleischman and family Mr and Mrs Ray O Light and Mr and Mrs J L Clark arrived home Wednesday from their trip to Colorado of a few weeks Miss Tessa Fish was thrown from a horse she and Miss Vera Fitzeerald were riding Saturday evening It was at first thought her injuries were severe but they proved slight Joshua and Jacob Gerver moved in from the farm in Gerver precinct end of last week and have located in West McCook in the Sherman dwelling and will enjoy town life for a while Frank Moore of Indianola was in town yesterday He announces his candidacy for representative and while here took an initial inventory of his friends and well wishers in the capital city Mrs Robert Gunn is visiting her parents in Denver and will be joined there first of next week by her husband and then accompanied by the Bos worths will go to Spearfish S D on a camping and fishing trip Rev G B Hawkes of the Congrega tional church departed Tuesday morn ing for New England where Mrs Hawkes and the children have been visiting for some time where he will spend his vacation of several weeks Mis3 Ila M Briggs who has been teaching music in our city for several months past has decided to return to her home in Oberlin Kansas leaving on Tuesday evening She has the best wishes of many friends made during her residence in our city Dr ERONeill of Uncle Sams An imal Industry Bureau who has been located here for a few years has been transferred to Kansas City Mo which will be his headquarters He will work in the southwest The doctor wife and baby departed Wednesday evening for their new home We hope success and contentment may be their portion Mrs C W Stockton and daughter arrived from New York via Kansas City Monday on No 13 and will be guests of her sister Mrs A C Ebert for two weeks Mrs Stockton will be remem bered by early settlers as Miss Lillian Stockton She and Miss Dorothv have been briefly visiting in Chicago St Louis Kansas City and Omaha Mr Stockton is assistant to the president of Wells Fargo Express Co in New York Mr and Mrs J W Wimer are en tertaining old friends from Iowa Mr and Mrs Bradford Ferson of Frendale Iowa and Mr and Mrs Merton Ferson of Iowa City Iowa Mr Merton Fer son is librarian of the law depaitment of the State University of Iowa he be ing a graduate of that department His wife is a member of the P E O and other societies After visiting here they will go to Denver and Colorado Springs for a few weeks vacation BANISHED THE BORE A Remedy That Dampened Hi3 Ardor For Sitting The head of a bureau In an Impor tant government department has long been afflicted with a friend who calls upon him regularly and sits down and sits and sits and goes on sitting till assault and battery becomes a virtue The other day this sedentary bore was In tho full exercise of his functions when suddenly the official who had been scrutinizing him closely cried I knew it I was sure of it Confound those office boys with their tricks on strangers Theyve been putting glue on your chair again Hi Jimmie bring a sponge and a pall of water And pressing with all his weight on the shoulders of his victim to keep him down he continued Dont stir youd tear the cloth sure Nothing is half so adhesive as glue on a cane seat chair Here Jimmie moisten this gentleman so that we can get him loose Dont spare the water the cloth wont shrink or fade The faithful messenger obeys and when the operation is con cluded the official conducts the visitor to the door and bids him farewell with the remark Perhaps you want to hur ry home and change your clothing so I wont keep you Goodby bless you If your trousers are spoiled let me know and Ill stop the price of them out of the pay of the infernal scoundrel if I can find out who he was and to that task I will devote all the energies of my lifetime and the whole machinery of the government Goodby The scoundrel I thought for several days past that there was something wrong His friend goes like the visions of youth never to return Argonaut COIN SWEATING An Illegal Practice Which Has Fallen Into Disuse Closely allied to the making of coun terfeit coins and usually combined with that nefarious trade is what is known as sweating which requires considerable skill to accomplish suc cessfully A rubber mold is used into which a gold coin to be sweated is in troduced and held with a clip Qopper wires having been adjusted the coin is immersed in a bath of cyanide of potassium and an electric battery set going The action of the electricity upon the coin in the acid uniformly sweats the metal that is to say causes so much of it to become detached This process is gone through with a large number of coins and the gold deposit thus obtained is extracted from the acid It is for the purpose of detecting the existence of such reduced coins that bankers weigh gold coins in a balance and if one is in the scale it will imme diately be shown by the indicator The light coin is then taken out and what ever the shortage represents that amount the customer will have to make up or be fined 3ut all things considered sweating Is but a poor business says II L Adam in his interesting book The Story of Crime and evidently it is thought so by the criminal fraternity for it has dwindled to a mere nothing A sovereign weighs 12327447 grains and the limit of error in the weight is 2 of a grain from which it may readily be gathered that sweating can not now be a very lucrative business London Tit Bits The Waist Came Back The other day I hung my prettiest waist out on the line at the kitchen window said the flat dweller after I washed it Then I forgot all about it and when I went to look for it two days later it was gone I rushed fran tically down to the janitress and we climbed together over the coal into the area to look for the waist I lamented deeply It was a beautiful waist We couldnt find it The janitor came irom tue next House ami Helped us look but there was nothing doing I came sadly in at the window back over the coal and ascended to my sixth story flat The next day I Iiokcnl in the draw er of my chiffonier and found the there Say anything the janitress Well I reckon not Xtuv York Press Curbing the GurYcgclle Its all rignt Mary lu s iU pi tiently Go in for politics and via id for the London county council if via want to But oic tiling vf cartoonists wii be after you as soon a youre a candidate I dont care And thc yH put your picture in the paper with your hir out of curl and your hat i u crooked Bo you think tuy would dy thai apprehiii ivey Of coursf And theyll nirke yoi Paris gown hok lio nd say that your sivi cloa imitation William sin said I think 11 m J stay hero and the home happy London Taller Too Krarcouc Yessir adniittcl a waiter I shali be compelled to throw up my situation here Indeed What Ls the matter More thau I can put up with The governor insists on my eating mush rooms in the presence of customers to prove they are edible fungi London Tit Bits No End of Trees Did your ancestors have a family tree Mr Maguire Family tree is it maam One of me ancestors controlled th intire tim ber privilege of the garden of Eden Cleveland Plain Dealer An Irish philosopher says its a great blessing that night comes on late in the day when one Is too tired to work longer 1 SECTION OF A V SECTION I H ORDINARY I BODYANEL ON - OF - I ADEEREBlJGaYly - BODY PANEL I One of the most important parts of a vgH Hk vehicle is the body Our illustration tells the fH HWr aiuiy ah u ltiv nuiuD ujjjt miu iuiu uuv j SK I II III IV soon goes to pieces When the selection of EHILE5 is puzzling- you do not decide hurriedly but carefully investigate the merits of Beere Vehicles We are desirous of having you make a thorough and conscientious investigation We are willing to have DEERE VF HIUes subjected to the most rigid scrutiny Of simple design strong in construction thoroughly painted and varnished making them of lasting qualities Dcerc Vehicles Are AH Right and not only command themselves to the attention of pros pective purchasers but immediatly challenge their admiration Let us tell you more about the JEERE fetfyZJES and refer you to the people who are using them and who KNOW a wfotetrs W fC v A tffcaA - tet y v J W crx s y Jr K y H McCook W B MILLS Hardware Co Phone 31 b summons HASTINGS COLLEGE HASTINGS NEBRASKA Founded in 1882 Location Hastings is the fourth city of Nebraska having a population of over 12000 and is supplied with handsome public buildings elegant resi dences metropolitan stores and beautiful churches It is also an import ant reilroad center being located on the C B Q St J G I C and N Wi and M P railways There are also three branch lines of the Burlington route so that access is easy from any quarter Faculty It consists of twelve cultured men and women representing eight different universities and colleges Post graduate work at Harvard Chi cago Princeton Yale Berlin and Heidelberg gives their teaching and scholarship unusual breadth and thoroughness Departments The College offering two courses for degrees with many electives The Academy ofTering high school training under college pro fessors The Normal School issuing teachers certificates under state authority The Conservatory of Music with courses in voice piano pipe or gan vioim ana musical tneory Equipment There are four buildings Ringland Hall a mens dormitory and refectory McCormick Hall the principal recitation building Alexander nail a womens dormitory Carnegie building the library and scientific work are unsurpassed and all buildings have steam heat and electric light Next year begins Sept 8 190S Handsome catalogue and illustrat ed souvenir free upon application to A E TURNER LL D President IJ J Hi i i m n i up I ii i i i I A SLASH IN 1 OXFORD RICES We have cut every pair of Oxfords in ourstore Simply had to do it to move our unusually large stock Tan Oxfords for men and women are cut with the rest only they are odd sizes Splendid black calf and gun metal Oxfords Mens and Womens Your size Mens from Io50 tO 450 Ladies from 100 tO 350 You cant buy such shoes anywhere else in the state for less than 350 to 500 For women particularly this sale means an opportunity to get a handsome comfortable pair of Oxfords for street and everyday wear at 200 Buy a pair for this and next summer They will be a genuine shoe investment The Model Shoe Store New Library Post Cards at The Tribune Office A m i 4 Li ri r r t n