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CITY LODGE DIRECTORY
A F A H
McCuok Lodge No 135 A F A M meets
every first and third Tuesday of tbo month at
B -00 p m in Masonic hall
Ciiabies L Faiinestock W M
Lon Cone Soc
B 8 M
Occcuo too Conncil No 10 B Ac S M meets on
the last Saturday of each month at 800 p m
n Masonic hull
Ralph A Hagbehq T I M
Stlvestek Cobdeal Sec
B A M
King Cyrus Chapter No 35 R A M meets
every first and third Thursday of each month at
800 p m in Mubouic hall
Clarence B Okay H P
V IJ Wihttakek Sec
KNionis templae
St John Commaudery No 16 K T meets on
the second Thursday of each mouth at 800 p
m in Masonic hall
Emeeson Hanson E C
8AMUEL S GAKVEY Roc
EA8TEUN stab
Euroka Chapter No 86 O E S moots the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
800 p m in Masonic hall
Mus Sarah E Kay W M
W E Hart Sec
MODERN WOODMEN
Noble Camp No 663 M V A meets every
second und fourth Thursday of each month at
830 p in in Morris hall Pay assessments
at whito House Grocery
S E Howell Consul
J M Siirrn Clerk
ROYAL NEIGHBORS
Noble Camp No 8C2 B N A meets every
second und fourth Thursday of each month at
230pm in Morris hall
Mrs Caroline Konert Oracle
Mrs Augusta Anton Bee
w o w
Moeis second and fourth Thursdays at 8
oclock in Diamonds hall
Ciias F Markwad C C
W C Moyee Clerk
workmen
McCook Loduro No 61 AOUW meets every
Monday at 800 p m in Monte Cristo hall
MAURICEGRIFFINRec MS J ENNING8MW
JMWENTZFinancier BoYZiNTForomau
degree of honor
McCook LodKO No 3 D of H meets every
second and forth Tnohdays of each month at
800 p m in Monto Cristo hall
Mrs Della McClain C of H
Mrs Carrie Sciilagel Bee
locomoxive engineers
McCook Division No G23 B of L E meets
every 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 enginemen
McCook Lodge No 599 B of L F E
meets every Saturday at 730 p m m
chowshall
I D Pennington M
C H Husted Sec
railway conductors
Harvey Division No 95 O B C meets the
eocond und fourth Wednesday nights of each
month at 800 p m in Morris hall at 304
Main Avenue S E Callen C Con
M O McClure Sec
railway trainmen
C W Bronson Lodge No 487 B of B T
moets firt and third Sundays at 230 p m and
second and fourth Fridays at 730 p m each
month in Morris hall C W Corey M
R J Moore Sec
railway cabmen
Young America Lodge No 456 B B C of A
meets on the first and third Thursdays of each
month in Ganschow hall at 7 30 pm
Bay O Light C C
N V Franklin Bee Sec
machinists
Bed 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 Search Fin Sec
Floyd Berby Cor Sec
BOILERMAKERS
McCook Lodge No 407 B of B M I S B of
A meets first and third Fridays of each month
in Odd Fellows hall
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
McCook Lodge No 42 K of P meets every
Wednesday at 800 p m iu Masonic hall
H W Conover C C
D N Cobb K R S
ODD FELLOWS
McCook Lodge No 137 1 0 0 F meets every
Monday at 80 p m in Ganschows hall
H G Hughes N G
W A MlDDLETON SOC
EAGLES
McCook Aerie No 1514 F OE meets the
second and fourth Fridays of each month at
800 pm in Diamonds hall Social meetings
on the firat and third Fridays
B S Light W Pres
G C Heckman W Sec
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
McCook Conncil No 1126 K of C meets the
first and third Tuesdays of each month atbUU
p m in Diamonds hall
G B Gale F Sec Fbank Real G K
DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA
Court Granada No 77 meets on the second
and fourth Thursdays of each month at S p m
in Monte Cristo hall Anna Hannan G E
Nellie Ryan F S
LADY MACCABEES
Valley Queen Hive No 2 L O T M meets
every first and third Thursday evenings of each
month in Morris hall
Mrs W B Mills Commander
Harriet E Willetts B K
g A R
J K Barnes Post No 207 G A B meets on
the first Saturday of each month at 230 p m
Ganschows hall
J M Henderson Cmndr
Jacob Steinmetz Adjt
RELIEF CORPS
McCook Corps No 9S W B C meets every
second and fourth Saturday of each month at
2 30 p m in Ganschow hall
Adella McClain Pres
Susie Vandebhoof Sec
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McCook Circle No 33 L of G A E meets on
he first and third Fridays of each month at
230 p in in Monte Cristo hall
Mary Walker Pres
Ellen LeHew Sec
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Chapter X P E O meets he second and
fourth Saturdays of each monta 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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CAVE HOUSES
France Is Dotted All Over With These
Curious Habitations
There are no fewer than 2000000
cave dwellers In France writes n
traveler Whether you travel north
south east or west you find these cu
rious imitations of the homes of prim
itive man They stretch for fully sev
enty miles along the valley of the
Loire from Blols to Saumur and as
the train proceeds jrou can catch a
glimpse from time to time of their pic
turesque entrances surrounded by
flowers and verdure As likely as not
you will see the inhabitants standing
or sitting In front of their mysterious
looking caverns and unless you have
learned the country jtou will be In
clined to Imagine that they possess
some of the characteristics of the
troglodytes of old and that their
homes are mere dens Kot so as you
will find on visiting them
They are nearly all well to do peas
ants owners perhaps of some of the
vineyards that deck the slopes on all
sides and their habitations are as a
rule both healthy and comfortably
furnished These singular houses are
remarkably cool in summer without
being in the leat damp while in win
ter they can be warmed much more
easily and better than ordinary apart
ments The health of the modern
troglodyte is as a rule excellent and
it is not uncommon to find centena
rians among them This however is
by no means surprising when we con
sider that their homes are not only
healthful to live in but are also com
fortably furnished and fitted up
In the majority of cases these rock
houses were not excavated for the spe
cial purpose of being inhabited but
with the object of obtaining stone for
the building of houses At Itochecor
bon there is a rock dwelling carved
out of a single block of stone and the
Ingenious owner in addition to making
a two story villa therefrom has pro
vided himself with a roof garden
from which a fine view of the valley
can be obtained A similar house ex
ists in Bourre in which locality the
disused quarries are said to date back
to the days of the Romans
WAYS OF THE ARABS
Dodging the Evil Eye and Tests of
Filial Piety
Yery curious to the occidental mind
are some of the ways of Arabia and
other Mohammedan countries A trav
eler sajs One of the objects of the
most anxious solicitude for Moham
medan parents is the shielding of their
children from the evil eye Any person
expressing admiration for a child ex
cept by pious ejaculation or the invo
cation of blessings upon the prophet
fills the heart of the parent with ap
prehension When children are to be
taken into the street their faces are
often even smeared with mud or
greasy substances lest their comeliness
should attract attention and in order
that the person of the child itself
should escape attention gaudy and glit
tering ornaments are hung about it
and written charms sewed into leather
medallions suspended from its neck
One of the best of Arab character
istics is that of filial piety Sons and
daughters of deceased parents take
upon themselves all sorts of irksome
tasks accounted as expiatory of the
minor faults committed by the depart
ed ones during their lifetime and dis
charging faithfully every payment or
obligation left unfulfilled by dead par
ents for has not the prophet said that
martyrdom even will not atone for an
unpaid debt
Eloquence is accounted the greatest
of all possible gifts According to
Arab tradition the most superlative
degree of eloquence was attained by
King David such being the beauty of
his diction added to the poetry of his
words that when he declaimed the
Psalms even birds and wild beasts
were spellbound while on some occa
sions as many as 400 men died from
the excess of delight induced by his
reading Chicago News
Fumigating Library Books
The library subscriber sniffed suspi
ciously at the copy of The Three
Musketeers which she was about to
take home Carbolic acid she said
Have you been fumigating the
books
No we havent said the librarian
but some subscriber has Many of
our patrons like to do their own fumi
gating Usually they use carbolic acid
At times when a good deal of sickness
is reported the fumigating craze is es
pecially severe and one third of the
books brought into the library smell to
heaven with carbolic acid New York
Press
A Raw Rocruit
Corp- to town recruit on stable
guard for the first rinp Now youve
got to iUI rhiw linos an am
mcr in peg that grt Ioojw an gen
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EIwy uti iiU yen- friends
got tho i of you ijnpricd the in
qulitivt riorsotj
They got lusy Whilo J waswatch
lng my onainics oxphiwed the man
who had gst tho short on of it Chi
cago News
Simplified Spelling
Write me an example of simplified
spelling children said the teacher
and Tommie wrote The man who
carves monuments urns his living
New York Times
Mans great fault is that he has so
many small ones RIchter
RECORD OF THE TUR
Has Won and Lost More Land
Than Any Other Nation
ONE TIME A WORLD BUGBEAR
Then the Tide Turned and One Great
Misfortune Followed Another Till
He Was Almost Swept Out of Eu
rope by the Treaty of Berlin
The Terrible Tuik who may be
taken as typifying the empire of the
sultans holds one record at least
which he is not likely to be deprived
of He has won and lost more terri
tory than any other nation
There was a time when the sultan
was the bugbear of the world Even
little children in England shook in
their shoes when they heard his name
mentioned and those people who lived
anywhere near him dared not call their
lives their own
But at last the tide turned The
Turk began to lose and one great mis
fortune followed another
Spain was the first big bit of the
Turkish empire to break free The
Moors who were subject and paid
tribute to the sultan were driven from
province after province until at length
they were cooped up in the solitary
kingdom of Granada
The last Moorish king to reign in
Spain was or Boab
dil the Unlucky In 1482 Ferdinand
and Isabella the king and queen of
Aragon and Castile declared war on
him and in 1492 he had to surrender
everything
Hungary which now forms half of
the dual monarchy of the Emperor
Francis Joseph was a province of the
sultan for 150 years Then it was torn
from him by the sword
After this came the turn of the
czars The Russians whom he once
despised have been the Turks worst
enemies They have either robbed him
themselves or encouraged others to rob
him
Peter the Great set the example but
was not on the whole very successful
in his wars against the Moslems At
one time the Turks could have cap
tured and massacred Peter and his ar
my but were frustrated by the slave
girl Catherine whom Peter had mar
ried
Catherine the Great tore the Crimea
from the unhappy Turk together with
thousands of square miles of territory
along the shores of the Caspian
In 3S21 the Greeks who had been
slaves of the sultans for many centu
ries rose in rebellion and drove the
Turks out of the country But then
the Greek leaders began to quarrel
among themselves and civil war fol
lowed The Turk took the opportunity
to seize the country once more
But the massacres and other horrors
which followed aroused Europe In
1S27 the Turkish fleet was destroyed
at Navarino The combined fleets of
Britain France and Russia took part
in the operation
In 1S2S Greece was acknowledged as
a free and independent kingdom with
a king of its own
For nearly a century Egypt which
the Turk conquered in G41 has been
part of the sultans empire in little
more than name and since 1SS2 when
the English occupied Pharaohs coun
try after Arabi Pashas rebellion the
Turk has had practically nothing to do
with Egypt
The Moorish corsairs who had their
lair in the pirate city of Algiers ac
knowledged the sultan as their suze
rain but were defiantly independent as
regarded all the rest of the world
Their swift sailing dhows preyed on
the commerce of all Europe and from
start to finish they seized many thou
sands of white captives many of
whom they ransomed while others
they doomed to slavery
When asked to keep his piratical
subjects in order the sultan declared
himself helpless to do anything The
freebooters went on doing as they
liked for a long time Then France
became weary of patience and forcibly
took possession of the city in 1S30
Since then she has annexed 307980
square miles of Algerian territory once
subject to the sultan
Then came the Turks worst time
Russia made war on him and the Bai
kaii states which had boon held as
provinces by Turkey for hundreds of
years revolted flew to arms and did
overything they could on the side of
Russia Had the czmv been left to him
self the Turki h onipiv would have
been practically Octroyed The other
great powers however wore afraid to
4joo Huwia owerfiil They insist
ed on pummenin the ecnirross of Ber
lin
Dy the tcrnis of the treaty of Berlin
the Turk wa alirfPt pwpj t f it of En-rope-
rcrii and Herzegovina werp
handed over to Au nia t kepp in or
der Rriiniarii Herri i r 1 Montene
gro were declared absolutely independ
ent of him Bunria ws vi itod into
a principality i Jmii1y nrclor th
sultans Mirriatiiiy but in rc iT free
And then Austria iexed Bcpuia am
Herzegovina Pearsons Weekly
tThe True Bohemian
A true bohemian is a man who bor
rows a dollar and then invites you to
lunch with it
Wrong again A true bohemian is
a man who invites himself to lunch
with you and then borrows a dollar
Kansas City Star f
I thinir there issucceia3aall honest
endeavor and that there is some vic
tory gained iu every gallant struggle
that is made Charles Dickens
A TEMPERANCE UNION
Members Limited to Fourteen Drlnki
of Liquor Daily
Signing the pledge is no new thing
as is proved by researches In Italy
Interesting particulars of what would
appear to be the earliest examples of
written pledges to abstain from gam
bling and excessive drinking are given
In the Turin Studi Medlevall by Signor
Glrolamo Biscaro who has discovered
three such documents in the archives
of Milan Tho first of these records Is
an oath sworn on the gospels by Gia
como Pasquali and Armanino Duca
to the effect that for two years they
will abstain from gambling In Pavia
or within three miles thereof and will
likewise refrain from inducing others
to gamble on their behalf The penal
ty for any breach of this oatli is fixed
at 5 soldi payable to Paplo Bovatorio
In the second document Perano de
Bono promises Uberto de Proto to
abstain from gambling for a certain
period exception being made on be
half of the game of bfsmentiro at
which however he was not to lose
more than 2 denari on any one day
Further he undertakes not to visit
any inn for drinking purposes before
the hour of vespers on Monday A
breach of either clause of the pledge
Involves the payment of 5 soldi to De
Proto By the third document Sileto
Ferrario expressed his willingness to
pay 12 denari to his brother Lamperio
should he be persuaded to play for
money in any place of public resort or
to spend more than 2 denari on intoxi
cants in any one day
The motive for these contracts is not
stated but it is presumed that they
were entered into by employees whose
masters wished to keep their proclivi
ties in check There is nothing in the
documents to suggest the existence of
any organization for the promotion of
temperance The honor of being first
in the field in this respect therefore
still rests with Germany where two
temperance societies were founded in
the sixteenth century
Of these the Order of St Christo
pher was formed by Slgismund de
Diettrichstein on Jan 18 1517 and the
Order of Temperance by the landgrave
of Hesse on Dec 25 1G00 The mem
bers of the one order were pledged to
abstain from toast drinking and the
members of the other undertook not
to drink more than seven glasses of
liquor at a time and that not oftener
than twice a day Chicago News
A PARISIAN RUSE
The Dressmakers Lure That Ensnared
the Americans
Grace Margaret Gould tells in the
September Womans Home Companion
some of the ways the Parisian dress
making establishments sell their goods
to American women Here is one ruse
that she saw worked in one of the big
gest establishments in Paris
There was a sudden and evident
commotion among the employees
The princess The princess She
has arrived they cried
American eyes began to bulge
Out from a magnificent equipage
stepped a regally gowned grand lady
attended by footmen and maid and re
ceived by the whole bowing estab
lishment to the neglect of all other
customers She was in a gracious
mood this day and easy to be pleased
praising their past efforts and select
ing several of their new creations with
out regard to cost After she had
made her departure amid like cere
monies there was no need of the sales
woman bothering her head over sug
gestions Every American woman
present wanted a gown copied from
the one the princess had bought and
she got it after much pleading and at
a price far beyond the limit she had
set
And the point of this fable is this
The princess was no princess but an
employee of the house
Every French gown has two prices
an American price and a French price
It is needless to say which is the
greater price
Along about April the cry goes up
The Americans are coming and then
the prices go up too
Along about November when the
Americans have left you might almost
say they are giving away gowns only
the Frenchman never does give away
anything Then it is that the French
woman in general and the French
actress in particular selects her ward
robe
The Bad Spot
An Irishman one day was told to put
up a signboard on which were tho
words To Motorists This Hill Is
Dangerous
Away went Mike with the signboard
and placed it at the bottom of a very
steep hill A few days later his em 1
ployer went to see how the board was
put up and finding it at the bottom of
the hill sought and found Mike
You blooming fool he cried Why
didnt you put that sign in the right
place
Shure and aint it asked Mike
Dont all the accidents happen at the
bottom Harpers Weekly
Crazy to Expect It
Harduppe Say old fellow lend me a
hundred will you Kiggs A hundred
what Hardnppe A hundred dollars
I Riggs Oh stop your joking
Harduppe earnestly Tokinc I was j
never more serious In my life Im i
broke Riggs My dear man youre
not broke youre cracked Catholic
Standard and Times
- Not Designed For Lovers
-Her-I am sure Cupid had noting to
do with the alphabet She What
gives you that impression He If he
had been doing it he would have placed
TJ and I much nearer each other St
Louis Reoublic
IflDIANOLA
Bessie Toogood was a Cambridge
visitor Friday
The basket supper given by the high
school Inst Thursday evening was very
well attended but the proceeds were
small
Nick Uerling is all smiles this week
over the arrival of a baby girl at his
home
Mrs H W Keyes was a McCook
visitor the last of last week
Mr and Mrs Sam Minniear returned
home from California Sunday morning
where they have been spending their
honeymoon
Frank McNeill returned home from
Indiana Saturday bringing with him
a charming young bride
Mr and Mrs Boldman and Mr and
MrB Powell were McCook visitors Sat
urday evening
John Harrison is suffering from a
severe attack of heart disease
Jim McClung returned home Tuesday
from Denver where he has been exibit
ing his fine cattle
Albert Harrison returned home from
Denver Monday with Harrison Har
risons fine drove of black cattle
Joe Harrison returned home from
Denver Tuesday where he has been at
tending the stock show
Fred Thompson went to Fillmore
county Tuesday evening for a short
visit with relatives and friends
Paul Hume is homo from Denver on a
short visit
McCook Views in Colors
Typewriter Papers
Box Writing Papers
Legal Blanks
Pens and Holders
Calling Cards
Manuscript Covers
Typewriter Ribbons
Ink Pads Paper Clips
Brass Eyelets
Stenographers Notebooks
Photo Mailers
Memorandum Books
Jiel
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Tho friends of Mr and Mrs McNoill
treated them with h charivari Monday
night
W N Kodgera and family of near tho
Willow were Indianola visitors Sunday
Mr Mort of Nebranka City was in tho
oity Monday in the interest of tho
Duff Grain Co
Miss Bossie Toogood was a McCook
visitor between trains Saturday eve
ning
Miss Gertie Teel gave a 5 oclock din
ner to ten of her lady friends Tuesday
evening
Mr and Mrs Jas Boldman entertain
ed the whist olub Wednesday ovening
Tho Degree of Honor gave n basket
supper in tbo Masonic temple Wednes
day evening
GRANT
Born to Mr and Mrs P II Blunck
Jan 20th a ten pound boy P H is as
proud as a peacock
John II Wesch bought u driving
pony at E E Rogers sale
John A Hoffman will rent his farm
and go to work on the Miller ranch
southeast of McCook
Tom Momsby had a dance Friday
night with 23 numbers out All re
port a fine time
August Wesch sold a fine bunch of
hogs to James Decker last week
John H Wesch made a trip to
lin Kansas Sunday to see his best girl
Tho Anderson sale was well attended
and every thing sold well
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Are You Doing Yourself Justice
MR FARMER Are you looking ahead for your son or if you are a renter
are you looking ahead for yourself Are you going to accept this chanco for a
homestead that Uncle Sam has made possible for you Are you dozing over this
while your more alert neighbor is acting Dont you realize that tho irrigated
homesteads now being offered by tho government in the Big Horn Basin and the
North Platte Valley will prove to be the richest land prizes that the government
has yet bestowed on its citizens You certainly ought to know of the present
land hunger in this country Now you have the government furnishing you 80
and 160 acre tracts of land irrigated by the intelligence and financial security of
Uncle Sam Who has suddenly become the greatest irrigator the world has over
known who offers you abundant and perpetual water with the choicest land at
33 to 45 per acre in ten annual payments without interest land that will yield
more in one year per acre than the price of the farm Do you realizo what a
good thing this is in this day and age If you do not let me tell you some
thing about it Personally conducted homeseekers excursions first and third
Tuesdays of each month
Write D Clem Deaver General Agent Landseekers Information Bureau
1004 Farnam St Omaha for literature No charge for his services
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