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the money you blow in
foolishly if invested in a
bank account would soon
put you on easy street
You owe yourself the
protection a Savings Ac
count will afford you
If you are spending all
you earn it is unfair to
yourself and those who
may bo dependent on you
You have noticed the
manner in which small
amounts expended count
up in a month a part of
such expenditures saved
will allow you to have an
account at thi3 bank
Start with a dollar
have money in the bank
The
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of McCook
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By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
If the Republican reactionaries do
not regain the saddle in this country it
will not be due to any lack of activity
on their part and it will spell defeat
for the party
The Beaver City Times Tribune esti
mates that 25000 went from that town
alone last year to mail order houses
Which is just 82499999 more than
should have been sent
The result in Lincoln dry by half
thousand majority must be very satis
factory to the temperance forceB of that
city and of the state of Nebraska Love
the Republican candidate for mayor
wins by a narrow majority
The volume of moral sentiment in
the city of Omaha is perhaps adequately
measured by the result of the last city
election Tuesday of this week One
James Dahlman who has been a hissing
to decency and sobriety for years won
the mayoralty by an overwhelming ma
jority
It is insisted by ThomaB Ashton of
the Haigler and Wray banks that his
First National bank will be duly estab
lished as soon as details can be con
cluded Benkelman now has but one
bank the bank of Benkelman The
second bank the Citizens State Bank
will open for business May 15
By a decision of the circuit court of
the United State3 at St Paul this
week the State of Nebraska and the
railroads each secure a partial victory
The state railway commission under
this decision may not initiate a schedule
of rates on commodities embraced in the
Aldrich maximum freight bill without
the intervention of a complainant on
the other hand the railroads are foiled
in the effort to head off the order of the
commission The net gain is the cut
made by the legislature of 1907 namely
the cut of fifteen per cent in grain rates
The supreme court of the United
States this week upheld the commod
ities clause of the famous Hepburn
bill which makes it unlawful for any
railroad company to transport from any
state to any other state or to any foreign
country any article or commodity other
than timber manufactured mined or
produced by it or under its authority
or which it may own in whole or in part
or in which it may have any interest
direct or indirect except such articles
or commodities as may be necessary and
intended for its use in the conduct of its
business as a common carrier
The decision of the court was unani
mous and The Tribune thinks just
and catholic The wrongs of the
present system are too patent and pain
ful to shippers in that section who have
attempted to compete with coal com-
panics especially in the line in which
the coal companies have been interested
and practically dictators
COURT HOUSE -NEWS
COUNTY COURT
Licenses to marry issued by the coun
ty judge since our last report
Robert EKing 24 and Goldia May
Hoover 20 both oPBartley
Alfred M Randel 23 and Mrs Clara
JA Cunningham 22 both of Indianola
Con Yost 26 and Anna Lisse Brehm
19 both of McCook
Makes Kidneys aad Blazer RIflht
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MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
S R Smith was up from Indianola
Tuesday ou legal business
Douglas Wektz succeeds George
Lecbleiter in McAdnms store
Mips Alice Bkadhury visited her
parents in Imperial part of last week
Mus J AWilcox is attending grand
lodge O E S in Lincoln this week
W H Harmcun was in Omaha Mon
day and Tuesday on business return
ing home on Tuesday night
Mrs Fred Bortfelt and little
daughter went down to Rod Cloud last
week on a visit to her folks
Mrs Harry Bkale entertained n
large company of lady friends Thurp
day afternoon at a kensington
Mrs C A Dixon of Lincoln spen
Tuesday in the city on her way to Den
ver on a visit to her sister there
Mks Z L Kay went in to Lincoln
Tuesday morning to attend the grand
lodge meeting of the Eastern Star
Mrs AC Wiehe is attending gram
lodge Eastern Star in Lincoln part oi
the week goiog down Tuesday morning
Mrs Margaret West county sup
of Hayes and her daughter Mrs Thot
ONeill were guests of McCook friends
last week
Mr and Mrs George Clay of Canb
precinct Chase county visited thei
daughter here Mrs Benjamin Aske
last week
Mr Vina Wood departed Mondax
for Iowa on a visit to ber aged fathei
who is not in good health just now H
is in his 89th year
Dr O E Robinson of Danbury wjj
in town Monday on legal business an
incidentally to see the Beell Acto
wrestling exhibition
Mrs R E Counce and Mrs Willian
Barker two Hayes Center friends c
Mrs Charles Bailey have been hi
guests since last week
Captain and Mrs C H Barrett dt
parted on laBt week Thursday for Rom
berry Idaho where they will rema
luring the summer Mrs Barrett has
married daughter there
Mr and Mrs James Campbell caroi
up from Hastings end of this week I
be guests in the C F Pade home for
few days They will then go up to In
perial to visit his brother A S Camj
bell a few days
George Lechleiter who has bet
nm ployed in McAriams store for son1
time departed on Monday for Goodim
Idaho where he will go into a lumb
yaid with his brother Frank th
representing a Salt Lake City compan
in that business
Mr and Mrs Charles Kwnw
bave tender sympathy in the death of
their new born baby girl Wednesday
morning of last week The remains of
the little one were interred in Longview
cemetery on the afternoon of the same
day The mother is recovering favor
ably
Mr and Mrs A C Ebert entertain
ed a score of friends last Friday at a
dinner of four courses Carnations
were table floral decorations Hand
painted place cards in marguerites for
the ladies and apple blossoms for the
gentlemen were attractive particulars
while Happy Houligan Bu3ter Brown
and other current humorists decided
the couples for dinner
Mrs J W Wimer arrived home
Monday morning from Denver and re
ports her son Nye who was injured at
Brighton a suburb last week as pro
gressing favorably He was attempt
ing to board a suburban passenger train
for the city and failed to note a switch
lever along side the train He ran into
the switch mechanism was knocked
down and the wheels of the passenger
car passed over one of his feet making
amputation above the ankle necessary
ADVERTISED LIST
The following letters cards and pack
ages remain uncalled for at the McCook
postoffice May 7th 1909
letters
Anderson Mr A G
Dunn Mr E S
McUride H
Potter Wilber
Snider Mrs Jane
Wilbur F W
Burchett Mr Sam
Gordon Miss Cecil
Hanson Mr A C
Jones Mrs W L
Miller Miss Edna2
Shevlin Mrs P J0
Burgwin Miss Maltila
Evans Prof W F
McDaniel Mr Cyrus
Smith Mrs D W
Trutson Mrs A
cards
ChadwicJc Mrs Joy
Gordon Mrs Mallilla
Johnson Charley
Lehmeir Mr Ernest 2
Osten Mrs Katherine
When calling for these please say
they were advertised
Mr Lon Cone P M
Engraving and Embossing
Your wants can be supplied at The
Tribune in the line of engraving and
embossing such as calling cards invi
tations and announcements monogram
correspondence paper etc Handsome
samples of all on display Prices rea
sonable Prompt service If interested
come and inspect
If you have headache and urinary
troubles you should take Foleys Kid
ney Remedy to strengthen and build up
the kidneys so they will not properly
as a serious kidney trouble may develop
A McMillen Druggist
Typewriter ribbons papers
sale at The Tribune office
etc for
Madame a ia Mode
Noxv la dresses tightly drawn
Now in skirts full blown
Now In gowns of whitest lawn
Now of startling tone
And everything shell dare
If but fashions code
Says this Is tho style to wear
Madame a la Mode
Golden hair or black or brown
Pompadour or straight
In a stack or hanging down
Who can tell its fate
What next fall will bring about
No one can forebode
Ah what should we do without
Madame a la Mode
La Touche Hancock in New Yort
Press
Charitable
SI Summers Was it really the nig
gu3t show on earth as they advertised
in the country papers
Wes Winters Waal makin allow
ance for the leetleness of the tents
an eonslderin the fewness of their
animals an takln account of the
small number of performers I reckon
It was Iuck
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Joe Cone In Boston Herald-
Answered
Bobby Whats the simple life pa
Father Doing your own work ray
son
Bobby And whats the strenuous
life
Father Doing some other fellows
work Now run along and play Lip
pincotts Magazine
A Song of Finance
Sing a song of finance
A pocket full of chink
Four and twenty lambkins
Hover on the brink
When the market opens
The lambs begin to bleat
Come ye kings of finance
And share the dainty treat
Judge
The Arriving Hour
In Edwins home there is a clock
which strikes with a soft chime much
like the ringing of a silver bell The
other day he thoughtfully listened to
its stroke then said solemnly Mani
ma another hour is ringing to get in
Womans Home Companion
Widow Grimes
Old Grimes is dead that good old man
We neer shall see him more
He used to wear an old gray coat
All buttoned down before
But Jlrs Grimes who still survives
No longer wears the black
But sports a gay and festive gown
All buttoned down the back
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mr
ago r
None can
The Happy Family
Scrappington Only two weeks
paid for a new spring suit for
you
Mrs Scrappington Yes I
did and you screeched as
if you
Puck
were paying for a
know you
loudly as
lawsuit
Retort Pert
If I should lend a ten to you
And youd keep every cent
That would be a lent sacrifice
And also keeping lent
Nay I would call it neither one
Though you may think me dull
If youd lend me a ten Id say
It was a miracle
Kansas City Times
To Be Sent
The Bride I want you to send me
some coffee please
The Grocer Yes maam Ground
The Bride No third floor front
Womans Home Companion
Whats the Use
be all he wants to be
The
man
Who would be strong some fatal weak
ness grapples
I posed once asi a vegetarian
Then found that I was eating wormy
apples
Cleveland Leader
Uncle Allen
If I was a doctor said Uncle
Alien Sparks it would puzzle me to
know whether I ought to thank the
Lord or not when 1 prosper in
business Chicago Tribune
my
And So May She Ever
Shes given up candy and matinees
And bridge and she will not dance
But still from her pew with mischievous
eyes
She casteth that little glance
New York Telegram
Evasion
Whats the plural of hippopota
mus asked the grammarian
You dont have to use any
A hunter is lucky to see one of
Washington Star
plural
em
Both Out of Business
Dan Cupid drew his tiny bow
And aimed his fatal dart
Now they are brothers in their woe
She had a marble heart
J J OConnell
Killing Time
She I heard you singing in your
room this morning
He Oh I sing a little to kill time
She You have a good weapon Bos
ton Transcript
The Flowing Fountain
A splendid poem flows from
Doms fountain now and then
But most of those in print like this
Flow from a fountain pen
Kansas City Times
Painful Progress
You dont seem to be getting along
well groaned the victim In the chair
No rejoined the dentist I have
i evidently struck a snag Brownings
i Magazine
TIKSI81IGLISG
The Way Uncle Sam Is Swindled
Through the Mails
WATCHES IN WEDDING CAKE
A Scheme That Was Disclosed by a
Gleeful Girl Who Cculd Not Hold
Her Tongue Gloves That Came One
at a Timo and Corsets In Sections
Too few people think it a crime to
swindle the customs For that reason
many bright and brainy persons think
hard how to get goods from abroad
without paying toll to Uncle Sam As
most of the successful operators in
this line are women who have more
time to think -bout such things than
men it can he imagined that the cus
toms ollieers hiive to he eternally alert
to protect the government
Tlt avenues through the steamship
passenger route are pretty carefully
guarded and as comparatively few
people go abroad the great mass of
dwellers in this protected land are de
barred from sharing in the humorous
little game of hide the diamond or
smuggle the silk But there is an
other avenue that is being used enthusi
astically by the anti duty aggregation
It is the United States maii
With the immense volume of foreign
mail delivered to this country it is
manifestly impossible to open and ex
amine every package that seems to
contain newspapers or merely a bulky
letter to see whether or not some duti
able article is concealed therein So
far as it Is possible however it Is
done and the addressee has to go to
the postoffice and pay duty on the
amount at which the dutiable article
is appraised
The custom house experts at the
postoffice have their hands full check
mating the clever moves of those who
are constantly devising new ways to
disguise dutiable things as innocent
looking parcels
We used to pass cakes through
without question said one of the ex
aminers ft seemed loo had to lay
hands on a Christmas pudding sent by
relatives in England to some exile in
this country It also disturbed the sen
timental side of a customs olBcer to
demolish a section of wedding cake
that had been sent from the old home
In Germany to Fritz in America So
we let these sacred things pass
through But one day we had an
awakening One of the customs men
heard that a neighbor had obtained a
new watch from abroad It had come
through duty free and the gleeful girl
who was wearing it could not keep
quiet about the clever way the post
office had been deluded ft seems the
watch had been baked right into the
cake and had come through without
discovery Now this forced us to take
some step to prevent a repetition of
such smartness and ever after that
we held on to all cakes or puddings
that came in packages through the
mail A letter is sent to the person to
whom the package is addressed and
this person it is almost always a wo
man has to come to the postofiice and
cut the cake or slice the pudding right
In front of the customs officer Do we
catch a Tartar occasionally Well you
may take it for granted that any one
who would try this trick is a Tartar
to begin with and so we dont get off
without a scene when the cutting time
comes
A trick that fooled us for a time
was the sending through the mail of
one glove a trifle creased to give the
idea that it was merely a worn glove
that had been left in Kurope by a tour
ist With the glove would come a let
ter to that effect You went away
without one of your gloves etc Of
course we passed it through unsuspect
ingly But we got so many of these
that it began to look suspicious So
we held on to one of them and by the
next mail there came another glove
from the same address to the same
person The glove was the fellow to
the other Then we got another left
hand glove and later the right hand
glove to match it The trick was sim
ple and admirable in its simplicity
Gloves were being sent through in
quantities one at a time
But the queerest trick we exposed
the other day A woman was accumu
lating a large stock of fancy orsets
without troubling about the duty that
should have been paid on thm The
trick was to send half a corset through
the mail We knew of no rue about
paying duty on half a cornet It ap
peared to us to be a mere remnant of
the up to date womans attire and not
important enough to consider as duti
able
So we passed the half corset along
and thought no more of it But half
corsets began to drop in with all too
great frequency It looked as though
corset remnants had suddenly attained
considerable importance in some ones
estimation So one of the men put it
up to uis wne ana sue iouu yim
thing less than a fraction of a second
to juncture the scheme The half cor
set was useless in itself but when the
other half arrived there was a French
corset ready for wearing
We find fine silks done up in pack
ages of herbs watches diamond rings
and bracelets concealed in the leave
of books in holes cut for the purpose
and separate diamonds hidden away in
bottles of transparent liquid where the
gem Is scarcely visible No doubt
many dutiable articles escape us but
we are getting wiser every day to the
tricks of the mail smugglers New
York Tribune
to the sun
I Keep your face always
shine and the shadows will fall be
hind you
H LIVE AND LET LIVE H
Some people cant see straight but they do not have to
see they can feel that we have as good lumber as money can
buy and you hit the mark every time you let us figure your
lumber bill If we do not sell the bill there is no harm done
You can rest assured that you have bought your lumber right
if you buy on a basis of our figures We do not get sore and
chew the rag with anyono because we do not sell you your
lumber We want to figure your bill every time you want a
stick whether we sell it or not Drop in We have books
with cuts of modern houses from S 100 up and take a pleasure
in helpingjto arrange your home
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