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National
Bank
Protection
means a great deal to you as
a depositor In point of work
ing capital capital surplus
and undivided profits of 885
00000 The First National
Bank of McCook ranks first
among the banks of western
Nebraska
Our books are examined by
National Bank examiners un
der the supervision of tho
Comptroller of tho Currency
at least twico a year There
is no better security than that
For Your
Savings
Thrift is a simple thing but
it means a great deal It is
the foundation of financial
success and contentment
Save money and put it away
safely for a rainy day De
posit in
The First
National
Bank
of McCook Nebraska
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET
For President
WILLIAM H TAFT
of Ohio
For Vice President
JAMES S SHERMAN
of New York
For Governor
GEORGE L SHELDON
Taft stock is on a strong and rising
market Better buv and hold on
This has proven a hard week on po
licemen in Red Willow county Two
have been decapitated and one had his
jaw broken on both sides
The meeting tomorrow to select the
chairman of the Republican county cen
tral committee and the state delegate
is absorbing no little heated attention
and discussion not to mention precinct
committeemen
The last place this side of perdition
in which liquors should be allowed sold
even legally is a house of ill fame to
arouse and stimulate the brute in men
lo3t to a sense of honor and virture
What might be said of their illegal sale
could not be written on less enduring
stuff than asbestos
After perusing the primary election
returns the Alliance Times was forced
to tho evident conclusion that the rail
way employees protective association
operated on the boomerang principle
Williams nominee for railway commis
sioner leads them all Such is the
fact here in Red Willow county not
withstanding his name was last in the
list The American idea does not take
naturally to mere organized selfishness
under the guise of the over worked
square deal proposition
29th Senatorial Vote
Counties
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84 40
87 78
57 246
173 337
20 53
41
139 44
516 314
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12
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Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
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THE PRIMARY ELECTION LAW
Tho primary election law Is again
under fire from some and so far as
we are able to see and learn by those
largely of the old lino politicians
The Tribune stands squarely for the
law believing It to be a step forward
In clean politics perhaps we had bet
ter call it cleaner politics and that we
should not under any circumstances
stand for a repeal of the law but at
most should but amend those features
which experience has taught should
be changed to meet the best and
wisest operation of the law
Two things are urged against the
law with particular emphasis In the
first place it is charged that the peo
ple are not showing much interest in
the law that they do not turn out and
vote in sufficiently large numbers
There Is some basis for this complaint
but the reflection if any is upon
the people not against the law How
ever it is a fact that at last weeks
primary election in Red Willow coun
ty there were 1329 votes cast As an
expression of the will of the people
how does that compare with the mere
handful of men who usually attend
county conventions to express the pur
pose and will of a much still smaller
number of politicians who have manip
ulated them into the position of dele
gates to the convention Certainly if
it is the expression of the will of the
people the advantage is clearly on the
side of the primary election
It is again charged that the wrong
fellows are often chosen It is just
possible that this is occasionally the
fact and that the people do not act
with the degree of intelligence in se
lecting candidates that they should
Position on the ballot has its undue
effect and influence on the case too
While this is the case in some in
stances we observe that where the
voters are really interested they have
no difficulty in locating their candi
dates though they are the last on the
list for the office they are seeking
And this brings us to the real gist
of the matter the law is opposed by
the politicians because it is too suc
cessful because they have not as yet
succeeded in controlling the primaries
with the ease they managed the old
convention system and not because
the primary fails to meet the occasion
for which it was drafted and made
into statute
The people of Nebraska should see
to it that the legislators in both upper
and lower houses are chosen and
placed on record in this matter It is
evidently one of the laws which will
be attacked in the next session of Ne
braskas legislature And it should
not be repealed
COUNTY OPTION SENTIMENT
The result of the late primary elec
tion indicates what The Tribune has
several times recently stated as a fact
a strong and growing temperance sen
timent in Red Willow county which
in the lare primary crystalized itself
into the selection of two candidates
for the legislature Avho are in favor of
and have pledged themselves to vote
for such a measure in the next iegislo
ture if elected Soth Mr Frank
Moore Republican nominee and Mr
J W Hoppe Democratic nominee are
so recorded The same may be said
of the 29th senatorial district Mr
John C Gammill the Republican nom
inee in his platform pledged himself
to assist in the passage of such a law
should he be successful in November
If as it is now thought to be the case
Mr Cecil B Matthews is the Demo
cratic nominee for state senator both
nominees are favorable to county op
tion These facts we assume make
it pretty clear that the people of Red
Willow county and the 29th senatorial
district are becoming somewhat
aroused over the temperance question
along with the rest of the state the
United States and the world at large
and that there will be something doing
in that line from now on
CIVIC HONOR AND PURITY
Developments of this week have
emphasized the need of a campaign in
McCook for civic honor and purity
and law enforcement Every law-abiding
citizen must necessarily feel the
tinge of shame at the developments
which we for prudential reasons can
not here relate There is a crying
need of improvement vast and radi
cal improvement iii social purity in
McCook Besides these crimes at
womanhood and virtue we are con
fronted with repeated and continued
and brazen violation of the liquor law
of the state and the ordinances of the
city violation of that great and good
law the Slocumb law held in such
high repute as to some of its sections
by- the liquor interests and disregard
ed by them in all such particulars as
conflict with their gains And last
but still requiring attention is the
rumor of graft under the guise of pro
tection These and allied and asso
ciated matters require the attention
of such citizens as believe in a better
as well as a bigger McCook
Red Willow County Fair
The dates fixed for the Red Willow
county fair are September 22 23 24 25
Write James E Ryan secretary at In
dianola Nebraska lor premium lists
and other particulars
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AS TO MR WILLIAMS
Tht result In Red Willow county and
in the state Indicates that the voters
of Nebraska are not ready to reverse
themselves in this railroad regulation
matter that they are unprepared as
yet to turn over to the transportation
companies of the state the privilege
of naming the railway commissioners
The fight largely concentrated against
Mr Williams and the record shows
that the people did not coincide with
the railroad management in this im
portant matter but gave Mr Williams
an increased vote of confidence and
endorsement The people should rule
in Nebraska rather than any interest
or organized body The general good
under our form of government should
be paramount to any special or merely
selfish interest or alliance
Be Tender to the Old
There are many readers who have
living with them either grannie or
grandpa or it may be some other
elderly relatives
Those who are so fortunate should
see to it that these old folks have the
warmest and sunniest corner in the
house and a goodly portion of the best
that can be afforded of comfort con
venience and beauty so that their aged
blood may be kept warm and cheerful
that failing limbs may have restful re
pose and that the dim eyes that have
watched through so many toilsome
years may see around them the ever
present evidence of faithful and grace
ful care Also the children of the
household should be taught to be ever
watchful and ready to wait upon the
old folks never omitting courtesies
and polite attentions
There is nothing in the world more
pathetic than the meek timorous
shrinking ways of certain old people
who have given up their home to their
sons and daughters and subsided into
some out-of-the-way corner of it to
sit by the fireside and table henceforth
as if they were pensioners afraid of
malting trouoie airaul or being in
the way afraid of accepting what is
their due and going down to their
graves with a pitiful air as if con
stantly apologizing for living so long
There is no scorn too deep and
sharp for sons and daughters who will
accept this attitude on the part of
those to whom they owe so much who
have cared for them for so many
years
Sometimes people grow old with bad
grace They become embittered by
misfortune or affliction or are peevish
and unreasonable under the goadings
of ill health
Yet all the more do they appeal to
great gentleness and faithfulness We
should ever bear in mind that we too
are hastening on toward the sunset of
life and that it is possible that we
may ripen into very uncomfortable old
people to demand much more patience
and devotion than we as children yield
And as we treat those who are depen
dent on our care so shall we be treated
in our turn
Let us therefore make it a special
point of honor to be ever tender
watchful and considerate toward all
old folks paying reverenceand re
spect to their silver locks and bent
limbs
Public Library Notes
John Ruskin in his lecture Of
Kings Treasuries which he says
plainly is about books and about the
way we read them and could or should
read them gives this thought which
is worth considering
You might read all the books in
the British Museum if you could live
long enough and remain an utterly
illiterate uneducated person but if
you read ten pages of a good book
letter by letter that is to saw with
real accuracy you are for evermore
in some measure an educated person
Are you aware that the children of
today are reading the very same
stories that you read when you were
a child and enjoying them with the
same avidity There is a constant
call in the childrens department of the
Library for Another Fairy Story
Something about Fairies A real
Fairy Story And so Grimms and
Andersons Cinderella Hop O My
Thumb and Jack and the Bean Stalk
are just as popular now as they have
always been and may they so con
tinue with the addition of The Coun
terpane Fairy Prince Silver Wings
The New Arabian Nights and others
irom the modern pen In this age of
care and worry yish and hurry that
is a happy heart that can retain its
faith in the fairies that can withdraw
into a little world of its own creation
where there are castles and princes
knights and ladies kings and queens
where it can have the company of
nobles nay can be one of the nobles
through the quick transformation from
scullery to castle which only the fairy
god mother imagination can bring
about
Long live the old old fairy story
and hail the new one which can take
equal hold upon the little readers to
the crowding out of the lurid sheet
which passes under the misnomer of
the funny paper
Typewriter ribbons papers etc for
I sale at The Tribune office
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MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Verlie Berry is visiting tho homo
folks
D O Marsh was a Haigler business
visitor yesterday
Miss Vkrgie Ludwick went up to
Stratton InstSnturday on 13 on a short
visit to friends
Mrs J P CnousEand that precious
baby daughter arrived from Seward
first of the week
W B Whittakkr has purchased the
A R Clark residence corner of Main
avenue and I street
Rodburn Simmons arrived homeTues
day night from a visit of a week or two
in Lincoln and Omaha
County Judge Moore attended tho
sessions of the county judges of Nebras
ka at Hastings Tuesday
II F Bruhn was out on the road
this week securing orders for his cigars
manufactured in our city
G E Thompson arrived homo Tues
day night from his absence in eastern
markets after winter goods
Mr and Mrs Albert Barnett left
for Chicago Sunday last he to bo ab
sent a week and she two weeks
Mias Dollie Pennell departed Wed
nesday morning for Omaha to resume
school for tho fall and winter term
Mr and Mrs- W B Mills and his
mother arrived home Monday morning
from a visit in Denver and the moun
tains
Rev E S Bickkord the new Con
gregational minister at Trenton was
the guest of Rev Hawkes Wednesday
night
Benj Meyers departed thismorning
for his homo in Turkey River Iowa
after a short visit with his brother-in-
law Peter Foxen
Miss Craw of Stratton was a guest
in the Schobel home first of the week
She was en route to Lincoln where she
will attend school
H Gearty of Springfield returned
home first of the week after a visit
here looking after some real estate in
terests in this vicinity
Schell Kimmell departed Thursday
morning for Illinois where he enters a
school of photo engraving and photog
raphy for the ensuing term
Mrs S A Haley has arrived from
Kansas City Missouri and will occupy
her old home on 2nd street E Her
daughter and husband accompanied
her
Mr and Mrs Thomas Constant of
Lincoln were guests in the Ludwick
home close of last week on their way
homeward from a visit in the moun
tains
Mrs Linnie Raitt and son and II O
Woodbeck late of the Pastime moving
picture theatre departed yesterday
for their former home in Sheridan
Wyoming
W M IIiller has sold his cosy resi
dence on East First street to Georoe
Whittaker the consideration being 82-
500 The Hillers expect to remove from
the city
Miss Olive Rittenhouse arrived in
the city Sunday morning from a vaca
tion in the mountains and after visiting
oldtime friends continued on her way
to Oklahoma Oklahoma
Mrs Joseph Menard arrived home
last week from Pueblo Colorado where
she has been taking baths for rheuma
tism much to her betterment as she
returns home much improved
Mrs George Chadderdon and son
Glen of Stockville were guests of Rev
and Mrs Carman last week The son
will attend school here this year mak
ing his home at A C Eberts
Miss Emma Burrows who has been
a guest of her sister Mrs Herman Pade
during the summer vacation departed
for her home in Fond du Lac Wiscon
sin Thursday morning She is princi
pal of a ward school in that city which
opens on coming Monday
Miss Fay Hostetter arrived in this
city from McCook Tuesday morning
and remained until yesterday morning
with friends Miss Hostetter has been
teaching music at McCook until re
cently and wont from here to Boston
Mass where she will enter the New
England Conservatory of Music Hold
rege Progress
Commercial Club Will Banquet
There was a special meeting of the
McCook Commercial club Tuesday
evening
Reports of several committees were
heard
Tho chnutauqua committee made a
report and the committee was continued
in the service for the present The com
mittee has secured in the neighborhood
of 630 tickets on the required guarantee
The club agreed upon a conditional
guarantee of the entire amount 700
tickets It was hoped the date of the
nest Chautauqua might be earlier than
the one held this year
Messrs Bump Waite and Scott were
appointed a committee to investigate
and report upon a proposition to secure
a lease of the ground at the water works
pumping plant for park purposes
Messrs Phelps Kimmell and Clapp
were appointed a committee to have in
charge the contemplated banquet
It is hoped in this connection to in
crease the numbers and efficiency of the
ciub to the end that more good can be
accomplished for the city
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Matson McClain
At my farm 3 miles north and 1 mile west of DanburyandO miles
south and 1 milo west 61 Indianola beginning at 10 o cIock
Tuesday Scptcmbcr220g
I will offer the following property at public auction
14 Head of Cattle 18 Horses and Mules
30 Head of Hogs 6 Dozen Chickens
MACHINERY ETC McCormick 12 foot header peering 8 foot binder
Deering mower and rake 2 row weed cutter John Deere lister wraiaj
gang disc plow three walking plows breaking plow Molina wagon eei
truftk wagon 12 disc Superior drill 5 hoo drill 5 disc drill 2 faol corn
shellor DeLaval cream separator top buggy feed cooker 2 horse gasoline
engine Champion blower Champion press drill bone cuttor tank neater
two sets work harness single buggy harness two header boxes nay racK
fence machine 3 section steel harrow feed grinder Aermotor wmtt mm
rond scraper steel tank Chattam fanning mill two heating stoves U noie
range and numerous other articles
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
TERMS Sums of S10 and under cash
On sums over that amount a
credit of 12 months time will bo given on bankable notes bearing 10 per
cont interest 5 percent discount for cash on sums over 810
JOHN CASHEN Auctioneer
W A REYNOLDS Clerk
James Williams
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