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ilUHOh ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chuihtian Bblo Kchool at 10 n m
Pretchini ut 11 h m and 8 p ni C E
ui 7 p in All Hib welcome
It 1 AlNdWORTH PiiHtor
liiiBcoiAi Preaching services at St
Altuns church at 11 a m and 7Kp
in Suuduy ricbool at 10 a ru All
nro wuicutnti to tbeae services
E R Eaulk Rector
cJathuuc Order of services Mas
t n m Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Kvening service at 8 oclock Sunday
school 230 p m Every Sunday
Wm J Kikwin O M 1
Methodist Sunday school at 10 am
Sermons by pastor at Hand 8 Class
at 12 Junior Lenguo at 3 Epworth
League at 645 Prayer meeting
oesday night at 745
M B Carman Pastor
Baptist Sunday school at 10 a iu
Preaching service at 1100 a m Evin
ng service at 800 B Y P U at 7 p m
A most cordial invitation is extended to
all to worship with us
E Burton Pa3tor
Evanqklical Lutheran Regular
Jtraian preaching services in the par
don ago every Sunday morning at 1000
Jkl Germans and Russians cordinllv
invited Rev Wm Brueggeman
607 5th st East
Congregational Sunday school at
10 a m Preaching Ht 11 a m and 8 p
d by pastor Junior C E at 3 p m
Ssuior Endeavor at 7 p m Prayer meet
erg Wednesday evening al eight oclock
fctow public is cordially invited to these
eervices G B Hawkes Pastor
Christian Science 19 Main Ave
nue Services Sunday at 11 a m and
Wvdnosdny at 8 p m Reading Room
open all the time Science literature ou
ale Subject next Sunday Spirit gO
Special Lincoln anuiversary service
Friday Feb 12 8 p in subject Free
dom
Evangelical Lutheran Congrega
tional Sunday School at 930 a m
Preaching at 1030 a m and 730 p m
ty pastor Junior C E at 130 p in
Senior C E at 400 p m Prajor
meetings every Wednesday and Satur
day evenings at 730 All Germans
cordially invited to these services
Rev Gustav Henkelmann
505 3rd street West
J TEMPERANCE COLUMN j
S Conductedaby the McCook W C T D
A scene was witnessed the other day
on our streets which ought to arouse
ithe indignation of every parent and of
-every right thinking person One of
the most debauched young men of our
-city was heardto inviteg four other
young man into a saloon to drink one
of the four refused saying that he never
had been in a saloon and didnt intend
to go then his companions insisted he
still refused whereupon they took him
in by force The young man did not
appear to be more than seventeen or
eighteen years of age
f the anti treat law were genforced
-such things could not occur
treating in saloons
Sec 31 treating pcblic
iplace All persons are prohibited
from treating or giving away any liquor
beer wine or intoxicating beverage
whatever purchased and to be drank in
any saloon or other public place where
such liquors or beverages are kept for
sale 1881 sec 1 chap 62
3622 Sec 32 same penaltv Any
person treating of or offering to treat
any other person or accepting or offer
ing to accept any treat or gift of intoxi
cating drink whatever in any saloon or
public place where such liquors are kept
for sale shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and shall upon conviction
thereof be subject to a fine of ten dol
lars or imprisonment in the common
jail of the county for ten days or both
-at the discretion of the court and in
-addition thereto shall pay into said
-court the sum of fifteen dollars to be
paid to the attorney prosecuting the
case if there bo one and if no attorney
prosecutes than to be paid iD the school
fund of the county iu addition to the
fine Id sec 2
R F D NO 1
W N Rodgers entertained his
part of last week the first
time he has seen him in 14 years
School was dismissed in the Asb
Creek district Monday afternoon to let
the telephone people liave a meeting
Mrs A D Warfield was an Ash
Creek visitor Tuesday
-Mrs Mary Schlagel spent Saturday
and Sunday in McCook guest of Mrs
H E Durham
It J Thompson has rented the Gray
farm south of lodianola
Measles has caused the dismissal of
the Sunday school at the North Star
school house the past two Sundays
Tor breakfast we have buckwheat Ral
ston and Adro pancake flours and maple
syrup and mapleine to go with them
HUBER
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-Patronize homo industry by smoking
-Commercial Club 10 centcigar and
the Sncoke 5 cent cigar
faWf
FINDING HIS INITIAL
self
I said Oh
Just now you said K
Allow me to finish what I started
to say I said Oh because I did not
understand what you were asking mc
I did not mean that it was my initial
Mr name is Kirby Jepson
Oh
No not O but K said the man
Give me the pencil and Ill write It
down for you myself There Its
O K now
THE HAUGHTY TURK
neutral ground They were not al
lowed to drive in public with their
wives and at one time it was pro
Without Horns
A clergyman was an important wit
ness in a horse dealing case He gave
a somewhat confused account of the
transaction in dispute and the cross
examining counsel after making sev
eral blustering but ineffective attempts
to obtain a more satisfactory state
ment said
Pray sir do you know the differ
ence between a horse and a cow
I acknowledge my ignorance re
plied the reverend gentleman I hard
ly know the difference between a horse
and a cow or between a bull and a
bully only a bull I am told has
horns and a bully here he made a
respectful bow to the advocate luck
ily for me has none
Beans Spanish Style
Sonk overnight two cupfuls of white
or pink beans In the morning boil
with a pinch of soda fifteen minutes
and drain Fry one large sliced onion
with a piece of pork or bacon Add
these to the beans also a cup of
canned tomatoes two shredded chili
peppers salt and sufficient hot water
to cover well Boil briskly for ten
minutes on the stove before putting
in the cooker Leave in for five hours
Good Housekeeping
Dental Incubation
Tommy said the visiting uncie
seems to me that- baby sister of yours
Is pretty slow She hasnt any teeth
yet has she
Shes got plenty of teeth replied
the indignant Tommy Shes got a
whole mouthful of teeth only they
aint hatched yet Womans Home
Companion
Barefaced
Freddie said the visitor I hear
jour father gave you a watch on your
birthday Was it a hunting case
watch
No maam replied Freddie It
was a barefaced watch Exchange
jSaBdasJJaEalinfiaSLaJS
CrowdTng Kim
Mr Pogsons three sons had married
ln1 irnnn tn unitln flitwti In
A Tangle of Letters That Was Finally
nf tIm ltinfrv no lv i -
Mad O K
CeIml tlte feinim from the eldest-
The man with a soft low voice had
FIne
you have
a CTindson Uoy Ten
Just completed his purchases founds GEORGE
What Is the imme asked the clerk Mr n0son answered It at once
Jepson replied the man Good Buy finest baby carriage you
Jefferson tan find and send bill to me
No Jepson I father
Jepson In due time the bill came It called
Thats It Eighty two for and he sent his check for the
Your first name Initial please bniount
Oh K A few weskB later his second son
O K Jepson rent him this dispatch
Excuse me it Isnt O K I said You are the grandparent of a fine boy
Oj f fi Not weighed yei bin a bouncer
HENRY
U Jepson To tll5s e rejpomed
No rub out the O and lot the
GIai t0 hear lt Buv good servIceablo
K Stand baby carriage and forward bill to me
The assistant looked annoyed j FATHER
Will you please give me your j Promptly came the bill It was for
tials again 23 and he piiid It
I said K Ton days elapsed and then came a
I beg your pardon you said O K dispatch from the third son to this
Perhaps you had better write it your- effect
Iou have another grandson Large fine
boy Named for you ALBERT
Mr Pogsons response to this was
us follows
All right but looks like crowding me
Am sending 1250 Buy baby carriage
With It FATHER
Youths Companion
I Very Luclcy
I The following is a genuine essa by
a boy
My life has been a very luc kv uiie
When 1 was three years old 1 fell
downstairs and cut my head When 1
was five years old I was looking at
some hens and a doir bit mv leu
High Handed Diplomatic Methods of when I was eight I went with my
the Seventeenth Century brother in the trap and the horse fell
Indignities to which foreign envoys aUd threw us out of the trap my
were formerly subjected in China were brother lit on his feet and I lit ou the
mild in comparison with those occa j horses back Last year I was play
sionally meted out to them in inffi and I ran into a surrey aud cut
tinople M Julian Klaczks in his my eyebrow aud it has left a mark
Etude de Diplomatic j One day I went into the slaughter
relates that in 1073 the grand vizier house and a big sheep ran after me
having Intercepted some French and knocked me down I have had a
patches tried to force Del la Haye happy life
first secretary to the French embassy j This cheerful acceptance of what are
and son of the ambassador to give usually regarded as the ills of life re
him the cipher of the embassy The minds the writer of an old school
young diplomat indignantly refused fellow who took part in the fight at
and was in consequence bastinadoed Elandslaagte at the beginning of the
struck in the face with such force that j South African war After the engage
his teeth were broken and he was ment he was taken to the hospital at
thrown into prison No attempt was Pietermaritzburg As soon as he was
made by Louis XIV to obtain redress able he wrote home and sent his peo
for the wrongs inflicted on his pie the tunic he had worn in the
sentative
Until the beginning of the eighteenth
century Christian envoys to the porte
were forbidden to visit one another oi
even to confer with one another on
I
battle
You will see he wrote that there
are eleven bullet holes in it but I was
awfully lucky Only six of them hit
me Cleveland Leader
Ben Franklins Keenness
Two incidents recall the keenness
posed to prevent them from importing and the thoroughness the great twin
wine for their own consumption A abilities to see and to utilize of Ben
compromise was effected on this point j Franklin One day he chanced to ob
on the understanding that the serve a lady in the possession of an
ed liquor was to be conveyed from the imported whisk broom With his usual
harbor to the embassies at night and interest and careful consideration he
in great secrecy examined it as a novelty He
ered on the brush of the broom a seed
The Order of the Seraphim which he carefully removed Present-
The Order of the Seraphim is the JJT hc planted it and the growth from
oldest and most famous of the decora 1 this seed was the first crop of broom
tions in the gift of the king of Sweden cor m this country Again one day
Originally it was instituted by Magnus when Dr Franklin was walking by
Dock creek he stuck in the mud
1Y some GOO years ago to i saw
rate the siege of Upsala the ancient a wiekerwork basket which had
capital of the Swedish kings and its sprouted Carefully he fished out tli
statutes bound the reeinienrs of the basket and carefully took it apart He
order to fight to the death for the main
tenance of their religion and to consti
tute themselves the special protectors
of the widow and the fatherless
When it was revived about the middle
of the eighteenth century by King
Frederick the obligations laid upon the
members were somewhat less onerous
The decoration consists of an eight
pointed star in white enamel with cher
ubs heads of gold and is worn on a
broad band of pale blue ribbon Bos
ton Transcript
gave cuttings to his friend Mr Cbarle
Norris who planted the twigs iu his
garden where they grew to great size
They turned out to be yellow willows
and as Franklin had foreseen proved
of great commercial value
Found a Better Place
Mark Twain said Once when I was
going out to visit some friends I told
George my negro servant to lock the
house and put the key under a certain
stone near the steps He agreed to
do so It was late at night when I re
turned I went to the stone under
which the key was supposed to have
been hidden It was gone I hunted
around for about fifteen minutes but
still no key Finally I went to
Georges house he roomed outside
and rapped vigorously upon the door
A black head which I had no dif
ficulty in recognizing as Georges pop
ped cut of an upstairs window
Where did you put that key you
black rascal I roared
Oh massa answered George I
found a better place for it
It Ignited
Little Rollis four years old came to
the table where we had tomato soup
of which he is very fond Being very
hungry he could not wait for it to
cool but hastily ate two or three
spoonfuls then laying down his spoon
he exclaimed My goodness that sour
is so hot it makes sparks all down me
Delineator
Why He Was Mad
Stubb Whats the trouble with the
writers husband He looks angry
enough to chew tacks Penn And he
is She dedicated her latest book to
him Stubb Gracious I should con
sider that -a compliment Penn Not
if you knew the title of the book It
Is Wild Animals I nave Met Chi
cago News
Proved It
What started the riot at the per
formance of Hamlet last night
Why Hamlet held the skull and
said Alas poor Yorick You are npt
the only deadhead in the house
The Missing Part
Mrs Boardem How do you find the
chicken soup Mr Boarder Mr Board
erI have no difficulty in finding the
soup madam but I am inclined tc
think the chicken will prove an alibi
TaJk not of a good life but let thy
trood life talk Schiller
fffjiy
ODD EPITAPHS
The Tombstone Inscription Willed fa
an Ardent Republican
At Attica in the little burying ground
Is the grave of Nathaniel Grigs by H
died in 1890 and was a man of much
force ne had a war record Fervlna
as second lieutenant In Company G
Tenth Indiana cavalry Grigsby wai
an ardent Republican He stood by
the G O P at all times and even iu
death This epitaph is on his tomb
stone
a n
Through this Inscription
1 wish to enter my dying
protest against what is
called the Democratic party
I have watched It closely
Flnco the days of Jackson
and know that -all the mis
fortunes of our nation have
come to it through this so
called party Therefore be
ware of this party of treason
c -a
Grigsbys heirs did not want this in
scription to go on tho tombstone but
the lawyer declared that the will pro
vided that it must be used and the
family had to agree But the inscrip
tion is headed with a line that Grigs
bys will made the epitaph mandatory
At Lincoln is a very odd tombstone
A traveling man of that town who had
been on the road many years and was
quite eccentric framed an epitaph that
Is decidedly original He died several
years ago and a traveling bac hewn
out of marble stands at the head of his
grave On one side of the bag is this
line
Here is where Bill stopped last
Kansas City Journal
A VISION ON YHE VELDT
The Form on the Rocks That
Con-
fronted the Soldier
I thought I saw a form of some kind
between the bowlders I jumped ta
the conclusion that it was a soldier In
one second it had vanished I chal
lenged but got no answer Those
pieces of rock seemed to terrify me
I advanced toward them but saw
nothing I retired back and took up
my position leaning on my rifle My
eyes went again to the same place and
there standing betAveeu the two bowl
ders was the outline of a woman I
brought mv rifle to the present cover
ing the form which stood before me
I saw her walk from one piece of rock
to the othr
I watched and saw her repeat her ac
tion She then stopped and leaned up
against oue of the bowlders with hei
back toward9 me I again advanced
to where she stood When I had got to
within forty or fifty yards of her 1
saw her turn round and look straight
at me with a careworn and sorrowful
face
Then I saw and knew who she was
It was my own mother I was not mis
taken for she walked within a few
yards of me at the same time looking
me dead in the face She then turned
about aud walked to the two pieces oi
rock and I saw no more of her About
three weeks after I received a letter
from home telling me of her death anc
burial A Grenadiers South African
Reminiscence in Occult Review
Gambling For Maids
Many queer reasons are advanced
by servant girls for losing a place
said the manager of the employment
bureau but the queerest I have ever
heard was given by a girl who blew
in here last week Her late mistress
was a bridge fiend One day for the
want of money to bet she and he
friends played with their maids foi
stakes At the end of the game each
woman considered herself in honor
bound to stick to her agreement and
an attempt was really made to swap
servants according to the ups and
downs of the game Some of the girls
thus raffled off changed places willing
ly enough but that client of mine re
fused to be swapped and hustled
around hunting a new job New York
Sun
Rough on His Lordship
A carpenter in an English town hav
ing neglected to make a gibbet that
had been ordered by the hangman on
the ground that he had not been paid
for the last one he had erected gave so
much offense that the next time the
judge came to the circuit he was sent
for
Fellow said the judge in a stern
tone how came you to neglect mak
ing the gibbet that was ordered on my
account
I humbly beg your pardon replied
the carpenter Had I known it was
for your lordship it would have been
done immediately
The Wave of Indulgence
Indulgence nowadays is very much
exaggerated We have even come to
admire clever thieves and as long as
we are not the victims of the theft we
are quite enthusiastic for the rogue
wr shows great cunning and daring
in his primes He is almost a hero in
our eyes and we call him a genius
Paris Fignro
He Discovered Why
Mr Oldboy VThy do you bring so
much water Tommy I merely asked
for a drink
Tommy I thought youd need more
fhan a glassful cause sister said you
was the driest old stick she ever knew
Illustrated Bits
Mostly Down
Brown sxpatiating on the merits of
his latest bargain in motors I dont
say shes much to look at but yon
should see the way she takes a hill
Friend callously Up or down Lon
don Punch
Nature never did betray the heart
that loved her Barrow
RED WILLOW
The dust storm Inst week made gpn
erul house cleaning necessary in order
to remove the loads of dust blown into
the houses
The wind blew down miles of fencing
The farmers had to upend prt of Sun
day in putting enough up to keep the
etock in
Mrs Charles Allen is still nt hor
mothers but Chnrles returned to his
work at Fairbury the Intter part of the
week
Mr Wilkinson a returned missionary
from Porto Rico will lecture at the
Christian church in Indianola on Thurs
day evening
Owens Longnecker and family and
Louis wife and baby spent a pleasant
evening nt he old home with Holton
and family and Mrs Burtless
Mrs Hatcher whh calling at Owtns
Longntckers one day this week
ADVERTISED LIST
The following tetters cards and pack
ages remain uncalled for at the McCook
potoffice February 5 1900
LKTTERS
Hryent Mr J O Driseol Mr Harry
Gardner Mr John McCtilough Kobert
CAHDS
Kailcy Mr Frank L DeLoino Mr Wayne
Foster M S R Marten Mrs Hunery
Parks Dave A Smith Miss ioldie
Wright Mr Frcad
When calling for these please say
they were advertised
S B McLean Postmaster
Public Sale
I will sell at public auction where I
now live 5 miles southeast of McCook
known as the Phillippi farm on
Thursday February 18 09
commencing at 1000 a m the follow
ing described property
3 Head of Horses one bay mare
coming 3 years old wt about 1100 one
bay mare 7 years old wt 1200 one bay
mare 9 years old wt 1200
12 Head of Cattle -five good milch
cows two fresh now one will be fresh
this month two fresh later in spring
four yearling steers one 2-year-old
heifer two calves une registered Short
llorn bull
Farm Implements etc two McCor
mick binders one 6 foot cut one 7 foot
cut nearly new one Dutch Uncle riding
cultivator nearly new one Baby riding
lister nearly new one top buggy one
8 hole disc drill one 10 foot hand dump
hay rake one 1 horse shovel plow one
14 inch walking plow one sod plow one
3 section steel harrow one Kingman
disc- one 5 foot McCormick mower S50
bushel slat corn cribbing nearly new
one good truck wagon and rack one set
work harness one set double buggy
harness one single buggy harness three
small buildings nine dozen chickens
ten and a half bushels good seed corn
three hundred bushels corn household
goods and other articles too numerous
to mention
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
Terms Sums under 31000 cash on
sums of 1000 and over a credit of
eight months will be given purchaser to
give bankable paper drawing ten per
cent interest from date until paid Five
per cent discount for cash on sums of
1000 and over No property to be
removed until settled for
E A PHILLIPPI
J II Woddell Auct F A Pennell Clk
Public8alel
ONTHE H P SUTTON FARM
I will offer for sale at public auction
on the above farm 3t miles southwest
of McCook on
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19 1909
commencing nt 10 oclock a m the
following property
17 Head of Horses one bay horse
7 years old wt 1250 one roan mare 7
years old wt 1250 one black mare 7
years old wt 1250 ono black mare 5
years old wt 1250 one black mare
coming 3 years old wt 1200 one bay
driving mare wt 1000 one roan mare
coming 2 years old wt 1000 sorrel mare
coming 2 jears old wt 800 one black
horse colt wt 700 one brown mare 4
years old wt 1650 two bay mares 3 and
4 years old wt 1300 each one brown
horse 2 years old wt 1250 one bay
horse yearling wt 900 one iron grcv
weanling colt one bay mare coming 12
years old wt 1J00 one sorrel horse 11
years old wt 1300
9 Head of Cattleseven milch cows
one fresh extra good four giving milk
one dry one G years old one yearling
heifer one yearling bull
Farm Implements Etc--one 3 inch
wido tire wagon oue top buggy one
SxlC foot hay framf ono bleming hay
stacker oiip Dain hay buck one Giant
Deerins mower nearly new one Mc
Cormick bay rake nearly new one
Dutch Unclo riding cultivator one
Thompson riding cultivator one
new Bradley walking cultivator one
Canton riding lister one IG inch walk
ing plow two 1G inch sod plows one
3 section steel harrow onp steel frame
enndstone one Planet Junior garden
drill four sets double farm harness one
et double buagy harness one set single
harness one wind mill wheel and en
gine one 12 barrel stock tank one 10x12
hen house twenty rods woven wire hog
fence one 16 inch sulky riding plow
many othpr articles not listed
One and a Half Dozen Chickens
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
Terms Sums of 10 00 and under
cash on sums over 81000 a credit of
eight months will be given purchaser
to give bankable paper drawing ten per
cent interest from date Five percent
discount for cash on sums over S1000
No live stock or property to be removed i
until settled for
A L OVERMAN
J n Woddell Auct V Franklin Clk
rfSNSr3M
1000
ffven for anv nibatance in
jurious to health found in food
xesulting from the use of
Calumet
Baking
Powder
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It rtCTCHDATH
i Telephone 55
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McCook Neb
Office over Elecrlc Theatre on Main Ave
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DR EARL 0 VAHUE
DENTIST
Office over McAdams Store Phone 190
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DENTIST icnk m
Otlica Booms 3 and 5 Wulsb Blk McCook
Dr J A Golfer
DENTIST
ROOJI t POSTOFFICE BUILDING
Phone 378 McCOOK NEBRASKA
k R H Gatewood i
DENTIST
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Phone 163 McCook Nebraska
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JOHN E KELLEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW and
BONDED ABSTRACTER
McCook Nebraska
SSAgent of Lincoln Laud Co aud of McCook
Waterworks Oflico in PostofHce hnildin
C H Boyle
C EEldbro
BOYLE ELORED
Attokneys AT I AW
Long Distance Pona 4 J
Rooms 1 and 7 second floor
Poetoffice Building HCtOOK Utb
A G BUMP
Real Estate
and Insurance
Room Two over McConnells drug
store McCook Nebraska
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t Real Estate Farm Loans j
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MUSICAL GOODS
NEBRASKA
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PLUMBING and
STEAM FITTING
All work guaranteed
Phone 182 McCook Nebraska
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COAL
Phone 169 S S GARVEY Mgr
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rayman
Prompt Service
Courteous Treatment
Reasonable Prices
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Office First Door
South of DeGrofPs
Phone 13
Fresh Reliable Pure
Guaranteed to Please
Every OarC er ard
PlanterEhc in U e
suoerlor inrr borOur
Northern Grown Seed
SPECIAL OFFER
FOR 10 CENTS
we will send postpaid onr
FAMOUS COLLECTION
I pfcrWl It Tomato 20
1 plj fvinwn Rdih 10
t pK SIWrowln5 Clry 20
1 pkr Earlj trrowhr4 iabbarv 15
1 pk Fulterton JUrkt fcttnrr 10a
Ako 12 arlttle Choice FIoerSd Sa
100
Writ toll j Send 10 cents to help pr pottaga ind
picking and rtctire the aboro Famo i Collection to
gether with car er and InitractiTe Garden Guide
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