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CITY LODGE DIRECTORY
A Fa A Ma
McCook LodRO No 135 A F A M moots
evory first and third Tuonday of tho month nt
800 p in iu Masonic hull
cdaulus l fahnu8tock w m
Lok Cone Soc
n b m
Oceonoxoo Council No 16 II S M meets on
the last Saturday of each month nt800 p m
n Masonic hall
RALrn A llAOBEno T I M
8TLVK8TEU COUDEAL SoC
B A H
King Cyrus Chapter No 35 It A M meets
every llrst and third Thursday of each mouth at
800 p in in Mabonic hall
Clahknce R Gray H P
W B Whittaker Sec
KNIOnTH TKMPLAE
St John Comnmndory No 16 K T meets on
tho second Thursday or ouch month at 800 p
m iu Masonic hull
Emeuhon Hanson E C
Samuel S Gaevey Bee
EABTEEN 8TAE
Eureka Chapter No 86 O E S meets the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
800 p m in Masonic hall
Mus Saeah E Kay W M
W E Haut Sec
modebn woodmen
Noble Camp No 663 M W A meots overy
second and fourth Thursdny of each month at
830 p m in Morris hull Fay assessments
fti
at White House Grocery
J M Smith Clork
Sfeiagwggg
S E Howell Consul
ROYAL NEIGHBORS
Noble Camp No 862 It N A meots every
second and fourth Thursduy of each month at
230 p m in Morrishall
Mrs Mary Walker Oracle
Mrs Augusta Anton Itec
W O W
Meots second and fourth Thursdays at 8
oclock in Diamonds hall
CnAS F Markwad C C
W C Moyeb Clerk
workmen
McCook Lode No 01 AOUW moots every
Monday at 800 p m in Diamonds hall
C B Oray Roc Wm Wooton M W
I M Smith Financier
DEGREE OF HONOR
McCook LodRO No 3 D of H meets every
second and forth Fridays of each month at 800
p m in Ganschows hall
Mrs Laura Osburn C of H
Mrs Matie G Welles Rec
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
McCook Division No 623 B of L E meets
overy second and fourth Sunday of each
month at 230 in Morris hall
Walter Stokes C E
W D Burnett F A E
LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENQINEMEN
McCook Lodge No 599 B of L F E
meets every Saturday at 730 p m in Gans
chows hall
I D Pennington M
C H Husted Sec
RAILWAY CONDUCTORS
Harvey Division No 95 O RC meets the
second and fourth Wednesday nights of each
month at 800 p m in Morns hall at 301
Main Avenue S E Callen C Con
M O McClure Sec
RAILWAY TRAINMEN
C W Bronson Lodge No 487 B of R T
meets llrst and third Sundays at 230 p m and
second and fourth Fridays at 7 30 p m oach
month in Morris hall C W Corey M
R J Moore Sec
RAILWAY CARMEN
Young America Lodge No 456 B R C of A
meets on the first and third Thursdays of each
month in Ganschow hall at730 pm
Ray O Light C C
N V Franklin Rec Sec
MACHINISTS
Red Willow Lodge No 5S7 I A of M meets
every second and fourth Tuesday of the month
at 800 p m in Ganschow hall
Feed Landberg Pres
M L SEARcn Fin Sec
Floyd Berry Cor Sec
BOILERMAKERS
McCook Lodge No 407 B of B M I S B of
A meots first and third Fridays of each month
in Odd Fellows hall
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
nrri Trro TJn A9 f of P meets every
Wednesday at 800 p m in Masonic halL
H W Coxover C C
D N Cobb K R S
odd fellows
McCook Lodge No 137 1 0 O F meets every
Monday at 8 KK p m in Ganschow s hall Q
W A Middleton Sec
eagles
McCook Aerie No 1514 F OE meets the
eecond and fourth Fridays of each month at
800 pm in Diamonds hall Social meetings
on the first and third Fridays
R S Light W Pres
G C Heckman W Sec
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
McCook Council No 1126 K of C meets the
first and tliird Tuesdays of each month at 800
p m in Diamonds hall
G R Gale F Sec Frank Real G K
DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA
Court Granada No 77 meots on the first and
and third Tuesdays of each month at 8 p m in
the Morris hall Anna Hannan G It
Josephine Mullen F S
LADY MACCABEES
Valley Queen Hive No 2 L O T meets
very first and third Thursday evenings of each
month in Morris hall
Mrs W B Mills Commander
Harriet E Willetts R K
G A E
J K Barnes Post No 207 G A R meets on
the first Saturday of each month at 230 p m
Ganschows hall
J M Hendeeson Cmndr
Jacob Steinmetz Adjt
relief corps
McCook Corps No 9S W R C meets every
second and fourth Saturday of each month at
230 p m in Ganschow hall
Adella McClain Pres
Susie Yandebhoof Sec
L OF G A R
McCook Circle No 33 L of G A R meets on
the first and third Fridays of each month at
230 pm in Diamonds hall
Jessie Waite Pres
Mattie Knipple Sec
p n o
Chapter X P E O meets he second and
fourth Saturdays of each montj at 230 p m
at the homes of the various members
Mrs G H Thomas Pres
Mrs C H Meeker Cor Sec
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THE DARDANELLES N ISHMAELS OF CEYLON
Changes In the Nams of the Famous
Two Mile Strait
The Dardanelles which Is so fa
miliar today meant to our grandfa
thers not the Hellespont but merely
two ancient and strong castles of
Turkey one of which Is In Itoumanla
and the other In Natolla The fa
mous strait was known In early Vic
torian geography by the name of
Gallipoll But the brave dominating
castles swept away both Hellespont
and Gallipoll and gave their own name
to the two mile passage Those ven
erable castles built In K5o9 to secure
the Turkish fleet from the Insults of
the Venetians were known according
to an early geographer as the Old
Dardanelles to distinguish them from
two others at the entrance of the
strait one of which stands In like
manner in Asia and the other In Eu
rope and called the New Dardanelles
In spite of the four castles how
ever the passage was forced by a
British fleet in 1807 In later years
fortifications of a formidable nature
have been constructed between the
two sets of castles and these are now
properly the Dardanelles The ulti
mate responsibility for naming the
famous strait rests with Dardanus
the gentleman who crossed on his in
flated skin from Samothrace to Asia
and founded the town which after
ward became the city of Troy Lou
don Chronicle
THE ARABS HORSE
How He Is Treated and Why Ho Ex
cels at Long Journeys
It is most interesting to note the
way the Arab treats his faithful
friend the horse So inured indeed is
the Arab pony by long usage and de
scent to the manner of life in the
desert that even my own pony posi
tively improved on the treatment and
I never saw him bo fit as when he
came back from the trip
If the Arab and his horse are by
legend closely allied they are in point
of fact even more intimately connect
ed His mount Is his first thought
and at all times by far the most inter
esting topic of conversation
He is ungroomed undipped unhal
tered for the Arab prefers to shackle
him by means of two ropes a short
cord connecting the fore and hind fet
locks and a long line tethering him
above the hind fetlock to a peg in the
ground Thus he can move about or
roll at leisure and should there be any
rough herbage at hand can forage for
It
Perhaps one of the principal reasons
why the Arab so excels at long jour
neys is that he never worries himself
nor does he ever distress his mount
unless there is real cause to do so He
simply continues a steady walk all
day and hardly ever gallops in the
wild way in which one so often sees
him depicted by artists London Field
Bills Specialty
They found the old man sitting ou
the fence smoking his corncob
Howdy pap Whats your son Jim
doing these days
Jim Oh hes running a telegraph
key at the depot Jims an operator
And hows Zeke
Zeke Waal Zeke is captain of a
lake steamer Hes a navigator
And Pete Is he still living
Oh yes Petes working on an air
ship Hes what they call an aviator
Well what has become of Bill Is
he doing anything
The old man blew a quid of tobacco
at a wide eyed grasshopper
Yep stranger Bills hanging around
the house II day grumbling and com
plaining and saying the countrys go
ing to smash Bills just an aggra
vator just a plain aggravator
Judge
The Tall Chimney
It might puzzle the ordinary mortal
to state in legal form just how much
time and how much monjy he would
require to take down a tall brick chim
ney The contracting engineer would
make it take itself down After doing
a small sum of arithmetic on his cuff
he would direct certain portions of the
base removed In the spaces thus left
he would fit a lot of very stout tim
bers then remove the bricks which re
mained between tbem Then he would
set fire to the timbers and watching
from a safe distance with a camera
w ould take a snapshot of It as it f ell
Scribners
Grouchy
There is a movement on foot said
Mr Snoope to prevent the marriacre
of weakminded persons What do yon
think of it
1 think its rot answi ivd Mr
Grouch Whv who iIie ever wants
to get mirritI Chiviand Leader
An Earv Siurt
I soi prH r danKou v is adver
tised to dm- e with iv snakes twijed
about h r
Sliuud ti se wnuh if a m k
got on use IU lipt Id dance Ihla
delpliii Ledsrr
The Vsrt cf St
The low eyriey orrtted the
moralizes- is the nrof of al evil
That l eiM I he - rejehiod the
demoralizer the want of money must
be the full grown trpc Exchange
Safe
Hicks You were dreadfully indis
creet to mention that important deal
of ours to your wife Wicks Oh its
all right 1 didnt tell her it was a se
cret Boston Transcript
Possibly the chap who growls about
the wash day dinner would have
found it more pleasing to his taste If
he had done the washing Success
The Rodigas a Curious Tribe of So
cial Outcasts
There is a curious tribe of people In
Ceylon called the Itodlgas who live
the life of social Ishmauls despised
and cast out by their fellows Until
quite recently they lived apart from
the abodes of other men In holes and
caves In no case may they lie down
to rest with other men They may not
enter a temple or a court of justice
and on all occasions are compelled to
stand afar off So low down in the
scale of humanity are they placed that
they may not even speak with stran
gers except through the Intermediary
of a man of the lowest caste above
their own Of late years their status
has been improved and they are less
servile in consequence but even now
they fall on their knees with uplifted
hands to address people of the lowest
recognized caste and upon the ap
proach of a traveler they shout to
warn him to stop until they can get off
the road and he can pass without risk
of defilement from the proximity of
their persons It is curious and yet so
characteristic of society in all coun
tries and all levels that even among
these people who seem to have reached
the very lowest rung of the human lad
der there are classes and social dis
tinctions Thus the ambetteyos or
barbers and the hauomoreyos or betal
box makers are looked upon with con
tempt by the despised ostracized Rodi
gas who go to the length of shutting
up their dogs lest they should stray
into the houses of the lowborn- or
gnaw a bone that they may throw at
them Dundee Advertiser
THE C0CKET WRITERS
What Happened When England Abol
ished Their Offices
In the long room of the London cus
tom house years ago were twelve offi
cers styled cocket writers They
wrote certificates that goods had been
duly entered and the duties paid They
were also known as patent officers be
cause appointed for life by letters pat
ent from the crown Their salaries
were nominal G0 a year but they
were permitted to remunerate them
selves by extorting fees from the mer
chantsfees which in some cases
amounted to a thousand pounds a
year In 1S51 the treasury determined
to abolish patent offices and called
upon the twelve cocket writers to fur
nish a statement of their emoluments
The officers ignorant of the treasurys
purpose imagined that the govern
ment intended to impose an income
tax Ten of the writers therefore re
turned a statement which understated
their fees by several hundred pounds
The other two furnished an honest
statement In a few days ten clerks
were surprised and disgusted and two
clerks were astonished but pleased
The treasury notified the cocket writ
ers that their offices would be abol
ished and that they would be compen
sated by pensions rated according to
the returns they had themselves fur
nished There were gnashing of teeth
and broad smiles in the long room
One of the two honest cocket writers
enjoyed his pension for fifty two years
during which time the treasury paid
him 52000
Where Dollars Originated
Joachimstahl near Carlsbad is his
toric as the birthplace of the original
dollar This was the silver gulden
groschen coined in 1519 by order of
Count Schlick from the metal of a re
cently opened mine and it became
known as the joachimsthaler or
thaler alone for short Before 1600
the nimble English language had al
ready made dollar of this There
fore this name was loosely used of
all manner of coins varying in value
from 75 cents to 125 and belonging
to all manner of countries from Swe
den to Japan It was from the prev
alence of the Spanish dollar in the
British American colonies at the time
of their revolt that the modern al
mighty dollar was derived while in
modern English very recent slang has
given the name to the crown piece
What Jt Was
She was visiting a Chinese restau
rant for the first time and had ordered
among ether things an omelet After
sampling the succulent chop suey and
fhe appetizing chow meiu she turned
her attention to what seemed a dish
of pancakes Puzzling over the com
binaricn of ham onion and other in
gredients she suddenly exclaimed to
her companion Whv theres ecir in
this
Sure its the nrt he replied
New York Press
Civilized Poverty
irj Ivrrors so horrible
as n e n o iaiir and sheer misery
of p rr y Poverty i i
grira evil i -my srte but the ivorh
bar net l iwn any poverty so fu
so linr 1 i ko utterly hsaihsonv
the pvf C the ritv sn the sweat
ing den v pawnshop and the gin v
ace Chin-
Happy Schooi Days
Tomiy v rvnu t eve the school
where he h i syt his trst years He
went to the tea her to say good by and
added I am awfully sorry to leave
this school I had such good times at
recess Lijvmicotts
Encouraging
The Suitor Johnny your parlor clock
is an hour fast The Kid Brother I
know it but dont tell sister so The
Suitor Why not The Kid Brother
Because she thinks you dont know it
-Cleveland Leader
One swallow does not make a sum
mer it is true but a banana skin will
often make one fall Pathfinder
TIT HI HI
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HARTLEY
Merchants nro busy invoicing It is
believed net income will bo lower than
1007 However all business hero has
been profitable and all engaged havo
something on tho credit sido
j George Theobald of Yuma Colorado
was a business visitor few days of last
week
i Miss Enlow of Cambridge enjoyed tho
Now Year festivities with her sister
Mrs H J Arbogast
Mrs G C At hoy of Wauneta come
down on 12 Sunday and visited this
week with relatives and friends
Born to Mr and MrsCliff Uox a fine
girl Friday January 1st 1909 Clih
says it is the nicest New Year gift ho
over received
Born to Mr and Mrs Dan Jennings
a bright little daughter Sunday Jan
3rd Mother and baby getting on fine
and dandy and Dan is happier than a
big sunflower
Tho Workmen installed officers Tues
day evening
WB Downs returned Sunday morn
ing from near Topeka Kansas where
he had been visiting his father who is
over 90 years old - and very sick Tho
probabilities for his recovery arc very
doubtful
Mrs Babbitts brothers are here from
Atlanta assisting Mr Babbitt invoicing
the drug store
The Farmers Elevator people are get
ting affairs straightened out and will be
ready for a big business this year
Tho cold wave swooped down on us
Tuesday morning At 730 temperature
10 above zero at 11 a m down to zero
where it remained most of the day with
wind in northeast Wednesday at 730
a m 6 below zero which is 10 degrees
below any previous temperature here
this winter The sudden change of over
50 degrees from Monday noon to Tues
day noon caused many to complain of
cold and stock to seek shelter from the
piercing wind Coal dealers have plenty
of the black diamonds on hand and were
busy all day delivering to those in want
The lack of snow is a great saving of
fuel and feed
INDIAN0LA
Fine weather for ice
Charles Allen went to Cambridge
Sunday night
fl W Keyes was a McCook visitor
Monday
Earl Calhoun and wife of Cambridge
speut Sunday at the home of W 11
Allen
Mrs E S Byfield was a McCook
visitor Monday
Wilmer Hardesty and George Mmnick
were passengers on No 5 to McCook
Sunday night
Ernest Dodd and E S Byfield went
to McCook Monday night on No 5 re
turning on No 14
Mr Morosic arrived Sunday night
from his home in Crete for a few days
visit with friends and relatives
Ida and Clarisa Dokn returned home
from Omaha Monday night
Al Henderson was a McCook visitor
Monday
James Murray returned home from
Omaha Sunday night
Mr and Mrs Rev Gibson who have
been visiting at the home of W A Mc
Cool left for their home in Fort Mor
gan Colorado Wednesday night Mrs
Gibson is a sister of Mr McCool
James Murray was a McCook visitor
Monday
Harry Whitmore returned home
Wednesday morning from Mazon 111
where he went to attend his fathers
funeral
Mike OReilly and George Malack
were McCook visitors Monday
The colonial social given in the Powell
building by the young people of the
Congregational church was well attend
ed and their proceeds were large
The little infant daughter of L Sar
gent is quite sick
Mr Coleman has sold out his feed
store business to Mr McWilliams
Colored and Black ana White
The Tribune has for sale a nice dis
play of local view post cards in colors
and in black and white Also a well
selected line of greeting and other post
cards
He Gave Them Latin
Once before he was president An
drew Jackson was making a political
speech in some obscure campaign in a
backwoods Tennessee district His ad
dress was very well received but
somehow there did not seem to be ex
actly the enthusiasm wanted for the
occasion naving vainly tried to
warm up his hearers the general
was just going to sit down when the
chairman of the meeting plucked him
by the coattail For the Lords sake
general give em some Latin he hur
riedly whispered in the speakers ear
They wont think you know anything
at all if you quit like this Smith the
opposition candidate talked Latin to
em half the evening
Old nickory rose to the situation
Advancing to the edge of the platform
he extended his arm and thundered
out E pluribus unum Sic semper
tyrannis Habeas corpus
The audience roared with applause
The credit of the orator was saved
and the Jackson ticket won out in that
county St Paul Pioneer Press
R F D K0S 3 AND 4
The young folks had a wntch party at
M Austins New Year eve
Milton Clark gave his son Fred a
beautiful buggy as a Christmas present
Amos St German who has been visit
ing his sisrer Mrs W C Cooper has
returned to his home in Kankakee Illi
nois
Miss RoseSohmitz visited the Randal
girls last week
George Adnms who has been visiting
his brother Fred returned home Wed
nesday of this week
Mr and Mrs Oacar Schmitz are visit
ing at tho home of Schmitzs folks
Thomas Kennedy and a friend from
the eastern part of tho state spent Fri
day night at the home of J W Randal
Rose Schmitz Lucy and Susie Ran
dal spent Friday evening at the home cf
W C Cooper
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Mr and Mrs Milton Clark and bob
George spent tho first part of Inst weok
at Oberlin Kansis
Miss Floronca Jncob spont her Xmna
vacation at Culbortson at the home of
her sister Mrs F L Bnrnen
COLEMAN
Charlos Nelson spent the day with
Mr and Mrs Schneitman in McCook
New Year
Elmer Smith nnd Frank Wiluon carao
back from Kansas Saturday and are
guest9 of Mr and Mrs John Smith
Dallas Schlngel has been losing
cattlo in the stalks this week
Mighty shaky weather this
There was preaching at Zion Hill on
Sunday a line sormon and a fair at
tendance Preaching again in two
weeks
The mail carrier on No 2 has a now
wagon properly lettered
Trees and Seeds That Grow
For the past 23 years we have supplied our customers
m uu ocaies wun xrees ana cseeas tnat grow we
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Flower Seeds to select
from Write for our large 112
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We mail same free of charge to anvone
interested also sample pkt May Kine
Lettuce the earliest and finest of all head lettuce
German Nurseries nnd Seed House
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you and your family have taken a winter vacation tour
Put your thoughts on a change from snow and blizzards to the
soft southern sunshine of California the Carolinas Cuba and Gulf
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Personally conducted through tourist sleeper excursions to
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Ask for free descriptive literature Consult me as to lowest
prevailing rates with all kinds of variable routes
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