h l rv i E l IS FVA R y DANBURY S E Ralston of Lebanon was in town Monday attending tbo tolophono com pany meoting Earl Peacock of Wilson villo was a soc ial visitor Tuesday between trains Mr and Mrs Samuel Minnioar who have been spending their honeymoon in Colorado arrived homo last g inday George Thomas who has been in the eastern part of tho state arrived homo Wednesday last Floyd Ressler of Wilsonvillo was a businoss visitor Thursday last Tho entertainment in tho hall last Friday night was fairly well attended Tho program was well rendered Pro ceeds go to tho piano fund W C Shockloywho has been in Iowa for the past month returned home last Saturday Mrs James Gumming of Lebanon camo up Saturday for a short visit with homefolUs John Wicks of Omaha who is a trav eling agent for tlio Bell Telephone Co was in town first of tho week visiting with friends and relatives Mrs N Axtell is on tho sicklist Mr and Mrs Bert Powell aro rejoic ing over a visit irom tho stork Sunday January 31st A baby girl Charles Everist went toMcCook Sat urday to get a 10x15 Gordon press for Editor Newman who recently broke his press in a smash up She press was in stalled Monday Fred NeT departed Monday for his home at Bird City Kansas to visit the homefolks a week or ten days Ernest Dodge of Marion was with us socially Sunday G IT Tillitt of Atwood Kansas was in town on business the last of the week The members of the Woodman lodge entertained their families at the hotel Saturday eveniug There were about 195 present and all had a fine time Will Sandon who has been recupera ting in Denver for tho past two weeks arrived home on Monday Edward Stone is quite sick at this writing Quite a business change took place Monday when Webster Dowler and J B Dolph became proprietors of the D E Hethcoto restaurant and confection ery Herbert Stono of Wilsonville is visit ing at the W A Stone homethis week The high windThursday and Friday did considerable damage to the wheat fences and small buildings MARION Cliff Tandy arrived on Thursday from his visit with friends and relatives at Bussy Iowa P E Reeder of McCook was on our streets one day last week A J Greer Milford Pew J H Wicks and Martin Nilsson attended the Powell Smith public sale at Indianola la9t Thursday Several from here attended the M W A installation and banquet atDanhury Saturday night Mrs Eiferl and children visited rel atives north of Danbury Saturday eve ing and Sunday R E Bacon was a Wilsonville visitor from Saturday until Monday Ed Havens from west of town did some painting here a few days last week J E Dodge received a car of ice from McCook Friday John Wicks of Omaha was an over night visitor with his brother and fami ly Friday night S H Stilgobouer and family visited relatives near Danbury Sunday E A Ruby and family visited his mother at Danbury Sunday We experienced one of the severest wind and dust storms for several years last Thursday Milford Pew and family from east of town visited at the Greer home Sun day Mrs L D Goekley has been suffer ing from something like neuralgia in the head but is some better at this writing G T Plumb was a county capital business visitor from Thursday until Saturday The Epworth League met at the home of F M Yealer last Friday eve ning BOX ELDER Mr and Mrs George Younger return ed Monday from their visit in Kansas A W Campbell returned last Thurs day from his visit in Oklahoma and in the eastern part of this state Mrs Martha Johnson is visiting her grand daughter Mrs Charles Wilson this week Frank Wilson left last Monday7 for his homestead in Colorado His broth er Charles went with him to help him build BARTLEY Will Itoimor went to Lincoln iut week to fioiab up tin studied in the universtiry At a recent sale one mile north of Bartley 19 mule colts lo98 than one year old sold for an average price of 878 00 ench One pair bringing S208 John Ritchie moved to town last week Mr Mecham moved onto the Ritchie farm W E McKillip sold a quarter section two miles eaBt of Hartley last weok for 85300an acre The high wind Thursday and Thurs day evening did tome damage to wind mills and chimneys and greatly inter fered with tho Ole Swanson Co at tbo operu house Murry Corbin has been on the sick list for over a week but is getting bet ter now Minniek and Gregg attended the Powell and Smith sale Thursday of last week W E McKillip will build a new house soon 2 miles east of Bartley Mr and Mrs D J Riehmoud return ed from California Wednesday evening Several members of the Christian church here attended the funeral of their pastor J Stuart Miller at Edison Sunday P D Ridge will take nossession of our hotel about tho 20th ot this month Mr Ridge comes highly recommended Ground Hog day was the topic of conversation Tuesday Aunty Smith widow of Prof Smith is improving from the paralytic attack she recently suffered Mr and Mrs Mose King have rent I their farm four milps northeast of town to their sons and will move to Burl ley in a few days and reside in the V F Miller building George Rlwson has rented a fine lulf section four miles east of town and will move there soon Mr Rsiwson fornix rly resided on this farm and made money Wo predict he will do so again Real Estate Filings The following real estate filings have been made in the county clerk d office since last report Surah A Crosby guard to John E Ford guardians deed to lot 1 blk 53 Bartley 151 00 Sarah A Crosby to John E Ford qcd to lot 1 blk 54 Bartley 374 00 Frank H Coleman et ux to Thomas A Clapp wd to lots 19 20 blk 1 Willow Grove 125 00 Her ert D Tread way et ux to David P Treadway wd to ne qr9 128 5900 U0 George W Predmore et ux to Clementine M DeLoy wd to part lots 7 8 blk 19 Mc Cook 800 00 C E Corell et ux to Samuel Current wd to pt lots 8 9 10 11 12 blk 32 Indianola 4000 00 C E Corell et ux to Samuel Current wd to lots 1 2 3 blk 19 Indianola 2000 00 James M Brown et ux to Lillie Robinson wd to pt lot 1 blk 3 Esther Park 225 00 William H Sullivan et ux to Harry E Reilly wd to se qr 32 4 2G 5500 00 Harry E Reilly et ux to O N Overton wd to same as above 6000 00 Fred Bieber et ux to Florence A Hartman wd to lot 12 blk 3 1st South McCook 500 00 John Condon et ux to Loyal Baker qcd to pt lot 9blk 11 West McCook 250 00 J L Dalton et ux to Charles A Benedict wd to nw qr 24 2 2G 5000 00 Etna B Dye to Ira P Dye wd to lot 2 blk 32 2nd McCook 1300 00 C H Boyle et ux to Reuben J Branscom wd to lot 1 blk 13 1st McCook 350 00 S F Cordeal referee to C H Boyle r deed to lot 1 blk 13 and lot 9 blk 21 1st McCook 420 00 Won a Wife by His Skill Action was a Grecian painter ol about the time of Alexander and hi won his wife by his great work H painted a picture called The Nuptial of Alexander and Itoxane which wai exhibited at the Olympic games Ii created such a stir that one of th judges cried in admiration I reserv crowns for the victorious athletes bu I give my daughter in marriage to th painter Action as a recompense for hit picture Action was one of the art ists who excelled in the art of mixinj colors He could not go to the nearesf store and purchase them as artists d today Drawing the Line I dont mind listening to a man wh is paying for my dinner tell me th story of his life said the woman Mens lives are generally interesting but I wont stand to hear a woman tel everything she knows even if she doei pay for my dinner Id rather pay fot my own dinner and get an occasiona shy at the conversation New Yorl Press A Hard Shot Husband angrily What Jtf on money When Im dead youll prob ably have to beg for all the monej you get Wife calmly Well Ill bi better off than some poor woman wh never had any practice - S SrtrT RELIGIOUS ACROBATS Dangerous Aerial Slide Annually Per formed In India Intla offers many curious things in the way of religion and the strangest of them all Is the aerial slide which is performed annually at Kulu In the Himalayas At t point where there Is a cliff overhanging n precipitous gorge several hundred feet In width and a hundred feet In depth a rope is made fast to the reck The other end of this is carried across tho gorge and there secured to a stake The total length of the rope between the two points is when drawn taut 2500 feet and the end attached to the cliff is several hun dred feet higher than that fastened on the opposite side of the ravine Thus a slide is contrived and it Is a danger ous one to all appearance It is down this Incline that the per former has his path For the lofty journey a sort of saddle is provided made of wood with holes In it through which the rope passes But before a the Flying Dutchman is only a peace sight of it altogether Left alone in pitch darkness on the grewsome craft the pirate went mad with terror and seizing the wheel raced away before the wind and according to the legend was condemned to range the seas for ever thus In command of his horrible prize Woe to the ship that encountered it scudding along by moonlight or in the lightnings glare manned by skeletons and steered by a shouting gesticulat ing madman and when on several oc casions it was sighted in the fog off Medford it was considered as the her ald of storm and disaster and the loss of many ships New York Press Iiiiinv MAkrtrJ Jennys uncle who was a school teacher met her on the street one beautiful May day and asked her If she was going to the Maypole dance No I aint going Oh my little dear said her uncle you must not say I aint going You must say I am not going And he proceeded to give her a little lesson in grammar You are not going He is not going We are not going You are not going They are not going Now can you say all that Jenny Sure I can she replied making a courtesy There aint nobody going Ladies Home Journal Jury at the Theater An unusual spectacle was witnessed at the Theater Royal Nelson Auck land when the jury who had been locked up three nights because they could not agree to a verdict in a mur der case were allowed to witness a living picture display They had ex pressed a desire to attend the theater as a relief and the judge consented Auckland News A Work Maker Binks is weak financially Isnt he He hasnt much money but he gives employment to a great many men Who are they Other peoples bill collectors Lon don Tit Bits A LITTLE TRICK How tho Puffer Discomfits His Enemy and Saves Himself All the lltitle sea folk nave their own clever way of protecting tben selves from their enemies but the spiny boxfish has about the cleverest way of all He belongs to the great family called puffer and you will see In a moment how well the name fits ulm Just imagine the little puffer swim ming around in the water looking like a small round box with a head on A big fish comes along sees the lit tic puffer and thinks Theres just a good mouthful for me But just as he darts toward him the little puffci blows himself up like a ball tunis over on his back and floats around with all his sharp prickers sticking out toward his enemy The big fish is dazed he stares at the puffer and thinks Can that great prickly thing be the same little fish I tried to swallow He cant ui derstand it but he sees there Is no Rfnrt is nMfio iho wimio loiifMi of tim use trying so he goes sadly on his rope is wet to prevent the saddle from way and when the little puffer h catching fire from the friction The sure he is gone he just empties the performer sits astride this seat and to water out of his skin and goes btck his legs are fastened bags of sand to uis U3ual r5 Which serve two purposes they enable i Now isnt that a pretty clever trick him to maintain an upright position for a little fish to play But you see during his lightning like descent and Mother Nature gave the little puffer they increase the momentum The i Just that kind of a body that he might lower cud of the rope is carefully I escape from his enemies St wound with bits of carpet to check the las speed before the stake is reached Without this precaution the performer SCOTCH RING would be dashed to pieces The terrific velocity of the descent one of the Royal Jewels It Had a for the first few hundred yards Is Melancholy History shown by the stream of smoke that j Tbe traditjonni iiistorv of the Scotch trails from the of do- wake the saddle reaHa rill is of llemost trak m the fact that the has spile rope been o sav moiilnuolv character It is be- wet Afterward the incline diminishes lfeVG3 tbat Jt was lhu favcrlto Eoiuewnat ami me pace uecomes corre spondingly slower By the time the goal is reached the jheri as the per former is called is able to come to a standstill without disaster This slide in the air Is supposed to reveal the will of the gods as to the crops of the approaching season If the perilous trip is accomplished in safety a plentiful harvest is assured Naturally therefore every care is tak en to minimize the dangers of the per formance The ceremony is of ancient origin and those who engage in it as jheri form a small caste apart New York Tribune A MEDF0RD STORY Legend of the Phantom Ship and Its Mad Pirate Captain The town of Medford Mass has a legend of a phantom ship beside which Mary Stuart and that after her ju dicial murder in Fotheringay castle it was transmitted to her son From James it descended to Charles 1 at whose coronation at Scone in 1G33 it played a distinct part Once more did this ill fated ring figure at an untimely and ill merited death for with alinsv 1 his last breath upon tho Scaffold at Whitehall Charles bequeathed it to Iishop Juxon in trust for his son In due course of time the ring came Into the jesession of James II and was canLd away with him on hb igh to tie continent When however he was detained by the fishermen at Kheerness the ring which had been secreted in the kings underclothing only escaped robbery by the luckiest of mistakes on tho part of the sailor who searched him Thus the ring was passed on uninjured to James de scendants till by bequest of Cardinal fork it became the property of the ful merchantman The Medford story reigning dynasty once more and was runs that a ship laden with rum and gold and silver bars put out from that place in the days when the Spanish main was infested with pirates It was headed for a West Indian port J but got into the doldrums and was so long becalmed that water and provi sions gave out and all hands perished of thirst and starvation When the wind came up again the ship sailed away with her ghastly crew was seen by a buccaneer chased and over hauled The pirate captain made fast to his prize without firing a single shot and attributing the vessels uouresistance to fear or lack of arms he was the first man to leap on board But the rope with which the captured ship had been carelessly lashed tp his own parted under the strain of the seaway and he found himself rapidly borne away from his comrades on what he soon discovered to be a floating coffin A stiff breese filled the sails of the derelict and before his own vessel could overtake it night descended on the ocean and the pursuing ship lost i by them replaced among the royal jewels of Scotland from which it had been separated for many a long year St James Gazette A Penalty of Genius It seems to be the frequent penalty of genius that it Is denied the privilege of perpetuating its name and kind be yond a few generations at most Thus it is said that there is not now living a single descendant in the male line of Chaucer Shakespeare Spenser Milton Cowley Butler Dryden Pope Cowper Goldsmith Byron or Moore not one of Sir Thilip Sidney or of Sir Walter Ra leigh not one of Drake Cromwell Hampden Monk Marlborough Peters borough or Nelson not one of Boling broke Walpole Chatham Pitt Fox Burke Graham or Chauning not one of Bacon Locke Newton or Davy not one of Hume Gibbon or Macaulay not one of Hogarth Sir Joshua Reyn olds or Sir Thomas Lawrence not one of David Garrick John Kemble or Ed mund Kean Loudon Standard Raikes Ragged Regiment Bobby Wild Goose and his ragged regiment was the name hooted after Robert Raikes the first modern Sun day school advocate and his scholars The thoroughfare was Sooty alley and the scholars -were the ragged boys who toiled in the pin factories of Glou cester England Robert Raikes paid Mrs Brandon a poor woman a shil ling each Sunday to teach the boys the Bible That was in 17S0 Four years later there were 2u0G0O boys and girls attending Sunday school in the king dom Delineator Wearing Work Hows your husband doing said the pale woman Bout the same answered the thin woman Hasnt he got any regular work yet Yes He said be felt the need ol some steady occupation So he thought hed make it his business to wind the clock Did he stick to it For awhile but now hes kicking for an eight day clock Kansas City Independent The Bishops Rebuke A conceited young cleric once srid to an A uerican prelate Do you not think that I may well feel flattered that so great a crowd came to kai me preach No was tbe answer for twice as many would come to see you hanged From The Old Time Parson by P H Ditchfield M A Ambiguous Dobber I dont know whether that critic meant to praise or blame my work Cutter What did he say Dob ber Well I had a picture of The Dead Sea and he said It was full of life Cleveland Leader The hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can aspire Emerson TIME IN TURKEY Tho Hours Are Always Changing and Holidays Aro Numerous In addition to laziness In Turkey there is Inaccuracy The Turkish of ficial is naturally Inaccurate au i habit ami conceit make him more so This perhaps Is due to the way iu which Turkey measures time Twelve oclock in the day corresponds with sunset that is to say whatever hour the sun sets it must always be 1 Conse quently the hours change always get ting later the first half of the year and earlier in the last which compels ev erybody to put his watch to daily tor ture So no one in Turkey can Hatter himself that he has the exact time Tne most strict of Englishmen soon loses his national punctuality so when two Turks make an appointment it is within the limit of half an hour or an hour and even then they dont gen erally arrive till after the time agreed on each one calculating on the utmost possible delay on the part of the other Consequently the state employees are not bouud down by very severe dis cipline No one expects them to arrive at their office at any particular time especially as the majority of them go hardly at all As for the most indus trious they appear for two or three hours in the afternoon only and rather late In the morning state offices are usually closed Besides this workdays are rather scarce for the race of offi cials Friday is the Sabbath of the Mohammedans Saturday is the day after a feast day and one does not do much then Sunday the Greeks and Armenians remain like good Chris tians at home and the Mohammedans generally imitate so good an example Monday is again the morrow of a feast day Wednesday there is a meeting of the council of ministers and few em ployee go then to the ministry With religions festivals added in it is easy to understand that out of the 3Go days of the year there are not many left to con secrate to the interests cf the Otto man empire Nicholas C Adossides in American Magazine THE CABIN BOY He Has Become Practically a Thing cf the Past An old sea captain who brought his ship into port recently after a long voyage from the east was talking about the changed conditions in the merchant marine since he entered it fifty years ago 1 was thinking particularly he said of how the cabin boy has com pletely disappeared or at least how ex tremely rare he is now I went to sea when I was twelve years old and gol my full share of the many duties and few pleasures that belonged to the jot I took I waited on the officers or the passengers if we had any helped the steward in the pantry and even had to assist cookie despite the chron ic kicking I put up over that imposi tion Besides all those things ol course the crew made me run errands for them and everybody in general seemed to regard the boy as the scapegoat for anything that went wrong All new cabin boys were un mercifully laughed at if they were either homesick or seasick and there were various practical jokes which had to be tried on them by the seamen I remember well how I was told the first day I came aboard never to throw any thing to windward except hot water and ashes and how I was green enough to follow these orders implicitly The sight of my red and streaming eyes set the crew into roars of laughter Those times are gone Theres nc place at sea for any one but an able- bodied man now Even the mess boys1 so called on the liners and in the navy are all men The modern changes in the build of vessels have loft no work fit for a boy and I dont believe you could find one now unless on some very small craft Philadelphia Ledger Power of Habit Strong The hahit of lookiit tiulr tht bed for burglars tin- yoinj wninsin said is somerhiuj that fols h at but I have never been al n e tnyell out of ir I iKver feel - un fortable Millers 1 lot no marvr where I happen to be T in - -re isnt any plan exeetu a il p i vault bircrv av fact the lmhir i s In me that oe ii inp in a r Wifi v 1 there i - v- in the r oi - iV looked - - t Thats a fft minute aiJpr Vr r Vvt - - iv rr t H -- After a f -- j - rrT oie frete r - v- washiriir rre vrl c 1 Why not White 5 ve In f v irv Ow v romc lh r vr ti hitIis more IOM Ic ie ir ui a --rd-en sy white deiirht fu If we coud i rly niae fie whole city white to be i with aed tien riaeually and spartejiiy cvr what a beautiful oity London would be Brit ish Architect Kecpng Up to Date Yes said the housewife yours Is a sad story Cut it isnt the same story you told hist year Well Iauy answered Plodding Pete you surely wouldnt expect a man to go all dat time an not show any improvement Washington Star Accents In the midst of a rambling speech the political orator declared The sit uation is grave the crisis is acute And the gentlemans speech added the newspaper reporter was circum flex Yo a ths Companion V Harrison Harrison Win Ribbons At the stock show nt Donver Insi week Harrison IlarrisonH flno herd of Aberdeen Angus cattlo mndo a iint showing and brought back many rib bons winning three firsts iivo seconds three thirds one fourth and one fifth prize This was the greatest number of prizes won by any Annus herd in Xebrapka nnd only ono lefin than th Miller herd of Iowa tho leading hrdoS the state ORDKIt OKIIKAHINO AND NOTICE ON K T1TION 1 OK SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNT In the County Court of Red Willow county Netriisku State of Nibruskn Red Willow county s To Mny H Hedding Grace V Short M illiam II Short Minnie N Short nnd C Imrles Y Short hrirftof and all person- interested in tho cm utc of Junius it blioi t dcteat rd On rending tho petition of lenn L Jhorintr prnyiiiK n Until s ottlemciit and ullownnco of her account Jiled in this Court on tho 2tith dny of January irOy nnd for alignment of homo stead nnd dower to her as widow of tlicdi coneo and for tho distribution of -aid Ohtate it is hereby ordered that you and nil perilous inter ested in t nid matter may and do appear at tho County Court to he held in and for said County on tho Kith day of ebrunry T 1C ntOno oclock 1 M to t how cnti e if nny there ho why tho prayer of tho petitioner should not bo crnnted and Hint notice of the pendoncj of said petition and tho hearing thereof be Bhen to all persons interested iu said matter by publishing a copy of this order iu the Tribune a weekly newspaper printed in said romity for Hire successive weeks prior to said dnv of ln utintr IsinrJ J C Alt oku l tKits County Judge NOTICE OF SC1T Nellie Smith Ann Smith John P Smith Lizzie Smith Rosa Telle Dodge Arthur S Dodge I rank Real John Ii ieal Julia F Real mid llelcnllargucritelcal wilt take noticn that on the 22nd day of January lit Charles K Smith tiled his pctitition in the District ourt of Red Willow county Nebraska against aid defendants the object and prnjer of which ire that the defendants and each and nil of them be required to set forth tho interest they and each of them claim iu the northeast quar ter and the north half or the southeast quarter of section 21 town 3 N range of tho llth 1 M in Red Willow county Nebraska that the plaint itF b decreed to he the owner iu fej simple of an undivided i wo tjiirdi intere t if -aid laud that the defendants John Smitb and Rosa Relic Dodge ench Lo decreed to h ihe owner of an itudhidcd one ninth therein and that ench of the defendant - 1 ran 3k Real John II Real Julia 1 Real and Helen Marguerite Real be decned to I e the owner iu fee simple of anuudiided in terest in said premises that u judgment bf hud confirming the share of tho parties a hereinbefore set forth am for the partition of -aid premises according to the rights of tht respective parties therein and if said real estate cannot be equitably dhided that the same and the proceeds of such sale be distrib uted among the parties accoiding to their respective rights and forsuch other and further relief as may be just and equitable You are required to answer said petition on or before the 8th day of March IliO Dated this 27th day of January IWift 1 SU lts Ciiahm h E Smii i rinintiir Cordeal ifc McCarl Attorneys for llniutiH Mike Walsh DEALER IN POULTRY EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brush Highest Market Price Paid in Cash New location jnst acro3 TnCrrlr 1 street in P Waleb building l ivuuiv AUTOMOBILE LIVERY DALLAS DIVINE Prop PHONE 166 McCOOK KEBR Night or day trips made anywhere Prices Reasonable Good Service Guaranteed iSBNXSva vJC5NK F D BUKGESS Plumber and Steam Fitter Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass Goods Pumps an Bo er Trimmings Estimates Furnishea Pree Base ment of the Postoffxe Building McCOOK NEBRASKA fcJSSSS ASHa H E DURHAM PAINTING and PAPER HANGING 1 make a specialty of paper hanging and carry a well se lected stock of wall paper Work guaranteed and prices reasonable Phone Red 267 wytwtnwo XA WE HAVE v YH WMm yBltVa A f tft 1 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