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Fall
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Millinery
The Latest and Choicest Fancies
In Tasteful and Stylish Millinery
Yr p are just home from eastern markets with such stylish
and up-to-the minute millinery as will appeal to the
fancy and pocket books of the ladies of McCook and vicinity
whom we urge to attend our opening from 2 to 1 1 oclock
p m Come and see An expert trimmer as usual
Lovell Nies
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Great Fall
Op
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To the people of McCook and our regular
patrons we wish to announce that we are now
showing our complete line of Fall and Winter
Shoes We cordially invite the public to come
in and look at the different lines and compare
prices and we feel sure you will say we are
giving you the same styles and values to be
found anywhere else in the state
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I Special Discount for Cash
on All Spring and Sum
mer Shoes and Oxfords
Patent Ox
500 grades
Patent Ox
400 grades
Tan Oxfords
grades
Kid hoe
grades
450
350
350
350
Ladies Patent Ox
fords 400 grades
Ladies Patent Ox
fords 350 grades
Ladies Tan Ox-
rades
Ladies Pat Shoes
350 4 00 grades
350
300
300
300
Headquarters for School Shoes
Now is the time to be looking for strong ser
viceable shoes for the boys and girls We have
just what you want and at prices that you will
say are right Come in and let us fit the bo s
and girls We take just as much pains in
fitting the children as we do the older people
The Model Shoe Store
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Mutilated Stamps Dont Go Hereafter
A new order has just been promul
gated by the postoflice department by
the terms of which postmasters are in
structed that any mutilation however
small such as tho tearing off of a cor
ner of a postage stamp will render it
worthless The postmasters are in
structed to hold letters bearing such
stamps for two weeks for recovery and
if they are not claimed at the end of
that time to send them to the dead-letter
office However persons wishing
to mark stamps for the purpose of
identification in the matter of anony
mous letters theft or mutilization of
private mail are permitted to make a
reasonably small perforation in the
stamp
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MAIN LINE IAfiT DEIART
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MAIN LINE WXHT DiPAIlT
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No 170 arrives Mountain Timo 505 P 31
No 175lujmrt8 710 A JI
Slopping dining nnd reclining cliair cars
son In fno on through trains Tickub old
and baggago checked to any point in tlio United
States or Cunada
For information time tnblos maps and tick
ets call on or write 11 E Foo Agont McCook
Nebraska or L Y Wakeloy General Passen
ger Agout Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
F J Kolfo went up to Denver today
on a visit to his son
Conductor Clydo Dalton baa gone to
Illinois on nn exconded furlough
Engine 19G3 is getting n new spark
arrester and some work on her brasses
No 7G Thursday morning consisted
of HO cars of range cattle all from the
Moffat lino
Conductor E M Cox returned to
work yesterday after about three weeks
on furlough
Conductor Bagloy and family return
ed early in the week from their vaca
tion in Colorado
Engine Inspector Ferry is on this di
vision conducting some experiments
with the lignite burners
Tho stock pickup west was annulled
Wednesday on account of the prevail
ing shortage of stock cars
J M Butler chief clerk of railway
postal service Lincoln went up the Mc
Cook Imperial line Tuesday in his
oflicial capacity
I S P Weeks tho well known civil
engineer of the Burlington system died
in Lincoln Monday of this wsek after
an illness of some length
Conductor Foley was sick first of
the week and unable to come out of
Denver on his run Conductor J A
Roaik had the turn on 1G and 15
The chairman of the grievance com
mittee representing the trainmen on this
division are in Omaha this week con
sulting with the general manager
Conductor and Mrs G L Burney
went to Harvard on No 2 Sunday and
he returned on No 3 to umpire the
ball games at Cambridge this week
Dispatcher T B Campbell and broth
er Jim from Memphis Tenn went up
to Denver last Friday night to 9pend a
few days there and up on the Moffat
line returning here on Wednesday of
this week
A BROKEN PANE OF GLASS
One That Once Cost Citizen George
Francis Train 60000
A broken -window pane once cost
George Francis Train more than G0
000 It was this way Citizen Train
with tho brains of twenty men in his
head all pulling different ways went
to Omaha in the spring of 1SG4 At
that time he was the most talked of
man in America He had not a thing
but money He bought 5000 city lots
and altogether spent several hundred
thousand dollars He boarded at the
ITerndon House the best hotel in sight
The quixotic Train was regular in only
one thing his habits He always oc
cupied tho same seat at the table One
morning a pane of glass was broken
out of a window directly behind his
chair He protested and was advised
to change his seat He would not In
stead he paid a servant 10 cents a min
ute to stand between him and the
draft After breakfast he expostulated
with the landlord but received no sat
isfaction
Never mind said Train In sixty
days I will build a hotel that will ruin
your business
And he did The contract was let
that day Scores of men were put to
work The site selected was Ninth and
Harney streets near the Missouri riv
er Citizen Train went to New York
and engaged Colonel Cozzois a noted
caterer of that city as mau sger for his
hotel
The building alone cost 40000 The
furnishings cost 20000 more In the
basement was a gas plant the only
one west of St Louis The work was
done on timo and true to his word
sixty days after he threatened the man
ager of the Herndon House George
Francis T ain citizen of the earth
opened his hotel which he called the
Cozzens House The grand opening
ball was attended by the governor of
Nebraska and his staff the mayor of
Omaha and many notables from other
states The house was a blaze of glory
and a scene of almost oriental magnifi
cence Just when the big reception
was well on there was a sudden dash
a strange noise and then total dark
ness The gas plant had collapsed
The Cozzens House did a flourishing
business for a year or two and the
Herndon House was badly crippled
Finally Train fell out with his man
ager and the place was closed
After the business part of Omaha
moved back from the river the Hern
don House declined and Anally re
lapsed into a state of innocuous desue
tude A few years later it became the
property of the Union Pacific railroad
Sarcastic
He Look at this infernal bill You
know I cant afford it Now Im go
ing to give you a piece of my mind
She Are you quite sure you can afford
that papa dear London Opinion
TILSlilALS
Curious Custom That Prevailed
In the Middle Ages
PROSECUTED FOR HOMICIDE
A Bull That Killed a Man Found
Guilty Sentenced to Death and Exe
cuted Fate of a Cock That Was
Charged With Having Laid an Egg
Among the many curious customs of
the past is recorded a singular feature
of the jurisprudence of the middle
ages when animals were indicted for
injuries inflicted upon human beings
The custom was not abolished in
France until the middle of the eight
eenth century and the French court
records show that at least ninety two
trials took place between 11U0 and
17 11
There is some Biblical precedent for
these proceedings for in the twenty
first chapter of Exodus one finds If
an ox gore a man or a woman that
they die then the ox shall he stoned
and his flesh shall not be eaten
An early instance of the custom was
In loM when a hull escaped from a
farmyard in a village in France in the
duchy of Valois and gored a man to
death The Count of Valois being in
formed of tho case directed that the
bull be captured aud formally prose
cuted for homicide This was done
and evidence was given by persons
who had seen the man attacked and
killed The bull was thereupon sen
tenced to suffer death which was in
flicted by strangulation after which
the carcass was suspended from a
tree by the hind legs
In 13S a sow was executed in the
square of Falaise for having caused
the death of a child and throe years
later a horse was condemned to death
at Dijon tor having killed a man In
14f7 a sow and her six young ones
were tried at Lavegny ou the charge
of having killed and partially eaten a
child The sow was convicted and
condemned to death but the little ones
were acquitted on the ground of their
extreme youth and inexperience the
bad example of their mother and the
absence of direct evidence of their
having partaken of the atrocious feast
One of the most grotesque of these
trials took place in Basel when a
farmyard cock was tried on the ab
surd charge of having laid an egg It
was contended in support of the prose
cution that eggs laid by cocks were of
inestimable worth for use in certain
magical preparations that a sorcerer
would rather possess a cocks egg than
the elixir of life and that Satan em
ployed witches to hatch such eggs
from which proceeded winged serpents
most dangerous to mankind
The prisoners advocate admitted the
facts of the case but contended that
no evil intention had been proved and
that no evil result had taken place
Besides the laying of an ess as an
involuntary act and as such was not
punishable by law also there was no
record of the devil having made a com
pact with an animal The public pros
ecutor stated in reply that the evil one
sometimes entered into animals as in
the case of the swine which drowned
themselves in the sea of Galilee
So the poor creature was convicted
not as a cock but as a sorcerer or per
haps the devil in the form of a cock
whereupon the bird and the epg that
was attributed to it were solemnly
burned at the stake
Even stranger than this were the
proceedings instituted in 144 and 14S7
against certain beetles which had made
havoc in the vineyards of St Julian
Advocates were named on behalf of
the vine growers and the beetles re
spectively but by n singular coinci
dence the insects disappeared when
cited to answer for the mischief they
had done aud the proceedings were in
consequence abandoned
That was in 1445 In 14S7 how
ever they reappeared and a complaint
was thereupon addressed to the vicar
general of the bishop of Maurienne
who named a judge and also an advo
cate to represent the beetles A com
promise was finally agreed upon
wherein the vine growers consented to
cede the beetles certain fields to their
exclusive use Some time after the
beetles through their attorney pro
tested that there was a right of way
through these fields which would be
to their detriment Consequently the
case had to begin again but how ir
ended is not known owing to the muti
lation of the records F C Evans in
New York Pest
Lotteries
The first scheme for the distribution
of prizes by chance in modern times
is generally attributed to oue Bene
detto Gentile of Genoa who establish
ed his lottery in 1020 The proper lot
tery in which each person takes part
by means of tickets costing each a
fixed sum of money bad its origin in
more ancient times being known even
in the middle ages Such a lottery
was established at Florence as early
as 1530 New York American
Ladylike
You say you acted like a perfect
lady throughout Sure yer honor
When he tips his hat to me an me not
knowin him I ups with a rock an
caves in his face Houston Post
Habit
Action repeated becomes habit
Habit long continued becomes second
nature We are today what we were
accustomed to do yesterday and the
day before Lyman Abbott
Evil comes by talking of it Irish
Froverb
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Do9t you vjL it will be well for you to
leed tre writii 09 tle wII 9i buy your FII
outfit 90W
If you buy your FII ad Wi9ter tli9gs 90 w
you will fydive just tlpt npucl Io9er to e9Joy
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tley re09ew itysted of witigg U9til tley re
pickedUoverJad picked out
It reIIy sves you njorje to buy your
clothes erly 19 tle sesoi because you C9
use tlperr Io9er
Tlese re sonje of tfye erly fell ternptktio9s
Ladies iuits Ladies Cots Dress Goods
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C L DeGROFF CO
For Sale Chea
Fine
Busines
Close in Farm
Good Business
McCook Holier Mills 90 barrels good running order good patronage
excellent location
Eighty acres fine farming land 55 acres in alfalfa Splendid build
ings new modern house seven rooms and bath completed three rooms
unfinished hot and cold water furnace heat two miles from this city
My residence corner of D and 5th street E 100 feet front and house
and lot corner A and 4tn street E about GO feet front both 140 feet deep
I wish to sell any or all of this property at once on account of sick
ness in my family
E Ho Doan Pro
No 310 5th Street E
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