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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advertisements
FOR 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 Reeder
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
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the office of county commissioner for the
First district subject to the Republican
primary election September 1st
George B Morgan
Danbury
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 24 190S
Frank Moore
You can easily discover the printei
man who did not get a slice of amend
ments melon
The Lincoln Star is of opinion that
Shively for land commissioner has it all
his own way
American athletes the winning
sort do not seem to be popular in Eng
land Johnny Bull never did see
Brother Jonathan win out with much
pleasure or satisfaction
It is becoming more and more diffi
cult to keep a good man down Victor
Rosewater has been chosen a member
of the executive committee of the Re
publican National committee
The First National bank of Trenton
and the Commercial State bank of that
burg have consolidated under title of
the first named This gives The First
National the entire local field
It is proper they should and it
doubtless will be required that all legis
lative candidates shall declare them
selves on the important issues of the
coming campaign The people are en
titled to know
The Chicago Great Western railroad
company will make a 1 and cent fare
rate to state fairs in Nebraska Kansas
Iowa Illinois Missouri Minnesota and
Wisconsin Other western roads will
meet the rate The 2 cent passenger
rate has come to stay
There will be no one od the Repub
lican side to contest with Judge Norris
for the nomination for congress this
j ear The congressman is recognized
as one of the ablest advocates of the
peoples rights in congress and his
boing returned at the end of each term
has placed him in shape that he can
accomplish more good for the constitu
ency than a new man could Bloom
ington Advocate
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Miss Haixioan is a guest in the Ryan
horned
L C Stoll has been visiting the
homefolks in Curtis
William Doyle and family have re
turned from Oregon
Mrs F A MurnEN is visiting in
Hastings this week
Mrs G H Thomas departed yester
day for her home in Harvard
John Boasen of Minden joined his
brother Frank here last week
Mr and Mrs J R Burke have re
terned to the city for the present
Miss Gladys Neiswanger of Cam
bridge is visiting the Misses Waite
George Howell of Geneva came up
to the old home Tuesday on a visit
Miss Ethel Ferman of Benkleman is
visiting Mrs Stella Allen and family
Mr and Mrs F S Wilcox are home
from spending a few weeks in Neosha
Mo
Mrs C W Stockton and Miss
Dorothy will depart for the eaBt Sun
day
Mrs Nannie Wright went up to
Colorado Springs Tuesday evening on
a visit
Mrs Lewis Cann of Danbury spent a
few days of the week with McCook re
latives
James Arnold and family of Stock
villo are recent additions to our city
population
Mrs E J Kates and baby are guests
of her parents coming up from Lincoln
Sunday night
Mrs Belle Stephenson is hnmn
from her visit to Obeilin Kansas of
several weeks
Thomas F Noonan represented the
Inland Type Foundry St Louis in our
city last Saturday
Mrs F G Westland visited Mc
Cook friends end-of-week returning to
Liucoln Monday morning
Mr and Mrs A Barnett arrived
homo from their visit in Kansas City
and other points this morning
W H Wyatt father of Mrs I L
Rodstrom spent last week in Minden
visiting his brother A A Wyatt
Mr and Mrs Charles McKenna
welcomed the stork and a seven pound
daughter last Saturday morning
Mrs Sidney Brown has returned
from her visit in Blackhawk Colorado
and is now staying with her son here
Mr and Mrs A C Ebert entertain
ed a small company of 49ers last Friday
evening to meet Mrs C W Stockton
C B Hoag of Indianola and L J
Shippee of Bartley were among the busi
ness visitors to the county capital Mon
day
William Karp was up from Bond
ville precinct Wednesday He reports
some of the corn in that neighborhood
as being hurt already
George McClain was down from
Palisade opening days of the week He
returned home Wednesday morning
He may return here to live
Mrs Burns guest of Mrs M C
Hawley returned from a visit to Colo
rado Wednesday and will leave tonight
for her home in Bloomington 111
Brisbane Hofer fell off the iron rail
ing on the Commercial house front
steps Friday and was quite pain
fully though fortunately not severely
injured
S R Smith was up from Indianola
Wednesday on some legal business and
incidentally to look after his candidacy
for county attorney at the September
primary
Mrs F H Higgins who has been a
guest in the publishers home for the
past few weeks departed for her home
in Fort Collins Colorado Saturday
morning
Mrs C H Boyle and children and
Mrs Mary Northrup are visiting Denver
relatives They were in Fort Morgan
briefly also
Mrs Z L Kay and sister Mrs M J
Castle of Kempton 111 took No 1
yesterday for Trinidad Colo to visit
relatives for a couple of weeks
Mrs M F Horrell and three
daughters of Leadville and Mr and
Mrs L R Carroll are all guests of Mrs
M J Stroud mother of Mrs Horrell
and Mrs Carroll
Mrs C D Ritchie enjoyed to the full
a short visit from her parents Mr and
Mrs LeGore of Lincoln who arrived in
town Friday night of last week and
returned home on No2 Tuesday morn
ing
Mrs L W Stayner and daughter
Leila departed last Saturday for Des
Moines Iowa to be absent about two
months visiting in Lincoln and Omaha
en route A niece of Mrs Stayner
Mrs Dora Thorpe is a guest of the
family remaining in the city
A B Thorgrimson came up from
Kansas City last Saturday and spent a
few days in his former home visiting his
brother Louis and friends Albert is a
member of the commission firm of C E
Van Dusen Co and is doing well
He has developed into a robust man
since the day when he served on The
Tribune force as his satanic majesty
with distinction and is doing well in
his business in the city on the Kaw
A wife baby and home are among his
assets and he is entitled to be well
pleased with the world and his status
therein
THE FISH IN HIS BED
Funny Climax to an Angling Experi
ence of General Gallifet
Long ngo in the days of the second
jinpire General Gallifet was the
of Napoleon III At St Cloud
his quarters were just over the im
perial bedroom Everything u round
him was very grand and very gloomy
The window of his room looked upon
the pond that washed the walls of the
chateau The water was clear and
the surrounding scenery was beautiful
but the young lieutenant felt like a
prisoner Early one morning while
seated at his window trying to drive
away the blues with a cigar he espied
below In the crystal water an enor
mous carp The instinct of the angler
strong in Gallifet made the young
mans eyes snap and set his heart
throbbing
The big flsh was the private property
of the emperor Consequently for Gal
Ifet It was forbidden fish But it was
such a One fellow The resistance of
the soldiers conscience was useless It
surrendered unconditionally The re
maining part of the campaign against
the carp was simple enough Gallifet
went to his trunk brought out his
trusty line to which he fastened a
hook and an artificial bait With his
accustomed skill he cast his line The
carp was hooked and hauled In through
the window
Here the lieutenants fun ended and
his trouble began The flsh landed
upon a table overturned a large globe
filled with water and caromed from
that to a magnificent vase which it
also upset and smashed to pieces upon
the floor Then it began to execute a
genuine pas de carpi among the smith
ereens
The emperor hearing the strange
racket overhead and seeing the water
trickling through the ceiling was as
tonished lie rushed upstairs to find
out what was the matter Gallifet
heard him coming aitd endeavored to
grab the carp and throw it out of the
window and thus destroy the evidence
of his poaching in the imperial pond
But the slippery thiug was hard to
hold so he tossed it into a bed and
covered It up with the bedclothes
When the emperor entered the room
he noticed immediately the quivering
bedclothes He pulled them down and
uncovered the floundering flsh His
majestys face assumed an almost jim
jamic expression which gradually
faded into a faint smile He took in
the entire situation saluted and left
the future war minister to meditate
upon the mysteries of a fishermans
luck
The Wrong Bird
One of the well known magicians
not along ago had a queer experience
but the people in the theater had more
fun out of it than he did One of his
tricks was to shake a sack to show
that it was empty and then to draw
out of it an egg after which he would
always reach in again and bring out
the hen that laid the egg Of course
he had to have help in this and one
night he had a new man who did
everything just as he had been told
until it came to this act Reaching
into the bag he drew forth the fowl
at the usual time but instead of the
hen an old rooster hopped down on to
the stage ruffled its feathers and
strutted around crowing with all its
might while the audience laughed
and the magician went out to hunt his
new helper London Opinion
Had Experience
tCot long ago there entered the office
o the superintendent of a trolley line
in Detroit an angry citizen demanding
justice in no uncertain terms
In response to the officials gentle In
quiry touching the cause of the demand
the angry citizen explained that on the
day previous as his wife was boarding
one of the companys cars the conductor
thereof had stepped on his spouses
dress tearing from it more than a yard
of material
I cant see that we are to blame for
that protested the superintendent
What do you expect us to do get her
a new dress
No sir I do not rejoined the angry
citizen brandishing a piece of cloth
What I propose is that you peopie
shall match this material Harpers
Why Indeed
The five-year-old son was asking his
father some severe questions about a
recent addition to the family
That baby likes ma said the
youngster sharply
Oh yes he likes your ma said his
father but he likes me too
Thereupon the five-year-old from
whom great things were expected ex
claimed
Likes you Then why does he cry
when he looks at you Chicago Record-Herald
Necessity the Mother
Who got up those hanging gardens
of Babylon
Some king
For what purpose
I judge he wanted to outwit the
neighbors chickens Louisville Courier-Journal
Always Tired
Political Candidate Which way do
the farm hands lean around here
Farmer Ryetop Well stranger around
plowing and planting time you will see
them leaning against the barn or fence
every time your back is turned Des
eret News
Expensive
I should never have thought that
studying would have cqst so much
money
Yes father and if you only knew
how little I have studied Judge
Everything unkuowu is taken for
magnificent Greek Proverb
Just a Fish Story
Forty years ago when my father was
captain of an East India trading ship
while off the coast of Africa near the
equator the ships carpenter was taken
sick and died He was sewed up In
canvas and with him were sewed his
kit of tools and grindstone for ballast
to sink him Services were held and
the body committed to the sea
Four days later the ships boy fell
overboard and a great shark came up
under the stern and swallowed the boy
before he could be reached
The next day the shark was still fol
lowing the ship A shark hook was
baited and put over the stem and the
shark was caught but was so large it
could not be taken on board and they
were obliged to shoot him He looked
so plump and large the mate who was
an old whaler wanted to go over the
side and cut the fish open He was
lowered over and cut a hole in the
shark and was surprised to bear voices
and on looking in saw the ships boy
turning the grindstone for the ships
carpenter who was sharpening his
ax to cut their way out
My father who is eighty years old
can vouch for this that it is a fish
story Boston Journal
His Old College Chums
A conductor sent a new brakeman to
put some tramps off the train They
were riding ill a box car The brake
man dropped into the car and said
Where are you fellows going To
Atchison Well you cant go tc
Atchison on this train so get off
You get came the reply and as the
brakeman was looking into the busi
ness end of a gun he took the advice
given him and got He went back to
the caboose and the conductor asked
him if he had put the fellows off
No he answered I did not have
the heart to put them off They want
to go to Atchison and besides they
are old schoolmates of mine The
conductor used some very strong lan
guage and then said he would put
them off himself He went over to the
car and met with the same experience
as the brakeman When he got back to
the caboose the brakeman said Well
did you put them off Naw theyre
schoolmates of mine too Wellington
Kan News
Halevy and the Due de Morny
It may not be generally known in
what circumstances nalevy owed his
advancement in the French civil serv
ice to the Due de Morny The duke an
amateur of the arts had begun to write
the libretto of a comic opera of which
Offenbach was to provide the music
He found that he had not the time or
perhaps that he had not the talent to
finish it He sought a collaborator and
Halevy came to the rescue and kept
his secret When therefore the office
of the ministry of Algeria which ho
held was suppressed he had no hesita
tion in asking his august patron for the
post which he sought on the Journal
Officiel The very thing exclaimed
the duke There is six months vaca
tion when the chamber is not sitting
so that you will have plenty of time
to write for the stage And he gave
him a note to the head of the depart
ment consisting of the simple words
Make arrangements to give the bearer
the post for which he will ask you
Westminster Gazette
Nor a Hospital Either
Talking of our British cousins In
quired the tax attorney of the South
ern Pacific Well I heard one the
other day Big fat Britisher shoved
into one of those compartments at the
last moment There was an American
in there reading his newspaper
Its sixty miles to my station re
marked the Englishman and 1 say
old chap Im treating myself for a
wounded foot and I say if you dont
mind Ill put some of this iodoform or
my ankle Beastly smelling stuff
Go ahead said the American But
when he got the full odor of it he
shoved up a window and pulled out a
cigar and lighted it and began puffing
away vigorously
Here here my good fellow pro
tested the Englishman this is no
smoking compartment San Fran
cisco Chronicle
As Others See Us
Mem sahib asked a young East In
dian girl of her English mistress why
do you wear those sad colors I dont
like them
I am in mourning Lattoo It is the
custom of English ladies
But black is the color of night mem
sahib and yet you believe that when
you die you go to heaven at once Then
why not be glad for your friends who
die and wear colors such as we see in
birds and flowers and falling water
when the sun shines God doesnt
maki your colors Ah well Christ im
nre stramre people From The In
dlan Alps
A Vcirnrs Country
The Fnciivonn imi not he su
classical is form nr outline many nl
Englands iieimiii women hut sh
has iinduuhii iv w irf t of charm
by virtue r iu elusive titiii7iv
quality he for rciiiuries lewitcned
and enthralled all the men of her ccnin
try France tolav i the most worn--ridden
coaatn i d aisu the iu
peaceful prospj rewN and coiiiemci
The women rule clsartn Sionm
Petrel
The CItl Master
Mistress to iie u hcrvanti i must
impress upuu you wIimj o u to the
diiiim room trit to try to irit the dirt
off the Old Master with a wet in
but use a dry soft cloth only Serv
antMercy oil us inarm be I to wash
the master Loudon Tatler
The world is dying for want not of
good preaching but of good hearing
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