13 r J i -v 50 Cent Butter before Christmas and What it Means 50 cent butter before Christinas is the prediction freely made by the big leaders in butter production based on their close knowledge of trade conditions Butter anywhere near that price means that a Sharpies Dairy Tubular Cream Separator Will Pay for Itself before the end of the year in its saving over any gravity or setting system Time Card McCook Neb siijisjiiU HUL ILZJIYflTl MAIN LINE EAST DEPART No CentralTimo 1045 p m 1G -500 am i 530 am 12arrC5pm 715 am 14 942 p M 10 600 P M MAIN LINE WEST DEPART No 1 Mountain Timo 115 p M a 1142 p M 5nrr850pm 930 am 13 905 A M 15 1230aM 9arr910am 820 AM IMPERIAL LINE No 176 arrives Mountain Time 420 P M No 175 departs 710 A M Sleeping dinin and reclining chair cars seats free on through trains Tickets sold and baggage checked to any point in the United States or Canada For information time tables maps and tick ets call on or write D F Hostetter Agent McCook Nebraska or L W Wakeley General Passenger Agent Omaha Nobraska We have fresh lettucend celery every Wednesday and Saturday HUBER fxiiHr WL The Sharpies is the easiest to run easiest to clean gets all the cream and costs nothing for repairs And Dont Forget Our Special Low Price Sale on Discs and Drills We can save you Dollars phone 3 1 IcCook Hardware Co- RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS A daughter was born to Mr und Mrs Darve Burnett Monday Mrs Elmer Bocock and family came up from Holdrege last Thursday on a visit of a few days to friends Mrs Jos Hegenberger two daugh ters and a son of McCook arrived in the city Friday noon for a visit at the H C Shriner h ome Curtis Courier R H Shriner of McCook son of our fellowtownsman H C has been given the appointment as store keeper at Om aha and South Omaha for the Burling ton company Curtis Enterprise Charles Dimmick the Haigler hotel man was a Wray visitor Saturday be tween trains Mr Dimmick has sold his interest in the hotel and has accept ed the position of night operator at Haigler for the C B Q Wray Vrat tier Gcorjje Something of a Sprinter Wesley Dean the town scavenger and nllrnround flunky for tho boot loggers was caught in the act of steal ing a box of merchandise from a cut near the coal chutoa by Agent Scott last Tuesday Scott discovered the thief as be was getting out of the cur and the sight of Scott caused Dean to dt tnch himself from the box and make his get away Then a footrace started but Scotts long stride and sprinting ability soon closed up tho gap between him snd the thief Dean claimed drunken ness and not knowing what he was do- be saw Scott The marshal arrested him for drunkenness to chich charge he pleaded guilty on Wednesday morn ing in Polico Magistrate Sweetlctnde court Another charge for stealing wa ffled against him on which he Tuiiven examination before Justice Swtetland and was bound over to tho district court in the sum of SoOO Hern his friends failed him and Lid wa commilt ed to trie county jail to await trial Brush Tribune Wno Knows Him A crazy man by the name of Din Bailey gave the Burlington pH enger trainmen on No 14 quite a scaro near McCook last night He displayeda re volver and caused the sudden evacua tion of tho second chair car The con ductor and brakeman were also made to dance to his whistle and wore con of him by the trainmen whether he w killed or not Tho trainmen handed night policeman Gourlay his grip stat ing that he had a ticket to Superior Upon opening tho grip his name was learned and his address givpn as Green Forest Ark Rfd 3 Box 19 The name of Miss Ethel Hatton was also found on the inside of the grip Superior Jour nal Homer Shriner Jr went over to Cur tis end of last week on a visit to his parents Conductor G L Burney is laying off for a week or ten days and Moore has 1 his car The big 80 foot turn table will soon be put in position at the round bouse j and then the big engines can be housed Red Cloud Advertiser Mrs Robert Moore formerly Miss I Nellie Clark of this city who has been visiting her parents Tony Clark and wife for several days has returned to her home in McCook Red Cloud Ad vertiser The new semaphore is now up and working in the west end of the B M yards This is the one the railway com missioner oraered in so that thero might not be any more accidents out there similar to that one of November last when two men lost their lives by a colli sion The west end of the yards is about 1J4 miles west of the depot Red Cloud Advertiser Conductor II H Miller is on and Kent has his run iirakeman John Ames resigned fr the service Urst of the week Brakoman Tom Clianey retired from tho semes last week without a dis senting vote Dispatcher and Mrs T i Campbell and Miss Ruth returned Tuesday from their trip east No 70 Tuesday had a C S coach for the accomondation of stockmen in charge of 23 cars cattle Rupt W M WiedetihamT wife hiH ing but he knew enough to ruu when family of tho Sterling line wore MuCouk usors Monday of tlnn week Conductor V V 0 on lias been as siuiied to llui Orleans St Fnuich inn which vwis recent bulletined Conductor Humphrey was in Denver Tuesday and Wednesday on grievance committee biHinehs airl Hawkins had his car An equipment Iiain of eleven C S rais passed through hern Tuesday for u e on Wj more division during the state fair Conductor Knowand returned to work Tuesday hiving gained a little relief from his tttck of rheumatism by his trip to Excelsior Springs PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES McCook public schools began last T11nafl1v It 1 rnrnllmnf n T1 0 - t - m OllJ llltll till UIUUIIUJUHL JL li 111 spicuous for their absence when he gave 1 I the grades and 111 in tho high bchool r them permission to go He was finally t This shows a slight decrease in all UUUUUU w ou vuu voitsuu ui uu j car and sometime while there he leaped fpftm f lin fnin ml In - ntnn full I grates Of the old corps of 25 teachers 0 are iiuiu mo ifiniu wijiio it yc3 luujl lull i 1 i ji - j T I back this year and speed ine train stopped after going - Trice will sOon be auoui ten miies out notning was aeara one other Miss She expects to bo able to resume work next week having undergone a slight operation August 24 at her home in Lincoln Mrs Arnold is substituting in her place Of the five new teachers one Miss Millicent Slaby is really an old teacher in the corps Miss Slaby spent all of last year specializing in primary work in Chicago Miss Dora Oyster was graduated from the McCook high school in 1907 and has taught the past two years in the rural school of this county Miss Oys ter has charge of the fourth grade in the east ward Miss Louise Donisthorpc was gradu ated from the Geneva high school in 189S and took special work in primary methods in Fremont College She then taught eight years in the Geneva schools During this time she had charge of model schools in three state junior normal schools and has had con siderable experience as a primary spe cialist in institute work The other two new teachers are in the high school Mr George R Mc Pjonald is a graduate of Fremont Col lege with the degree of JJ Sc and holds a life certificate Mr McDonald has taught twelve years in rural and graded schools holding all positions He comes to us from two 3 ears service as superintendent of the public schools at Baver Crossing Nebraska Mr Mc Donald has specialized in athletics and will be physical director having charge of the athletics I Fall and Winter j X x Tlllllllii V IBEfilllliy x H X lTllIIlIlvlj ijpvlllll x v BHUI September 14th and 15th 1909 i X FiYPliicivA Pflttprns X mlf RWW4M ulPllI X A 9 Nobfey Tailored Hats V xf X X I X Elderly Ladies Bonnets v v Y O Everyone is Very Cordially Invited to See X Spyj 1 j I Jf Our Beautiful Display X X - I Miss Anderson X 2 1 o JLTJLJLy AAjAvsvji wvjij v racLOOK iNeorasKa 1r X Y 2 - - - a a cw w - XQO0OOWWQKK9QQQQQQ9QP99QQQ9C99QQQQQQ Special Lclvv ZION LACE INDUSTRIES ZION CITY ILLINOIS VION LACES and many interesting features in their manufacture are on exhibition in one of our show windows This display is educa tional and every person should see it From 3400 to 4500 bobbins are required to thread one lace machine besides the beam and warp making a total when the machine is threaded of 13000 threads in actual work When a machine is fully threaded there are 6700 miles of cotton on it enough to reach from here to England and nearly back again See the illustrations of the various machines in operation where they take in the thread and turn out the dainty attractive laces also skeins of yarns yarn spools pieces of lace just as they come from the machines Especially interesting is the process of clipping scalloping and sepa rating The exhibit is so unique and the values so unusual that a visit will be of materia interest to you SEE OUR WINDOW C L DeGroff 6l Co Miss Cora Scott was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1904 and holds a life certificate She has had several years experience in rural two years as teacher in grades and five years as principal of high schools For the past year she has been principal of the county high school at Ouray Colo rado Miss Scott will teach Latin and German Following is the assignment of teachers- Central Building Miss Julia Eed nir principal of high school and cen tral building mathematics Elizabeth Bettcher English Mary Hartwell sci ence Cora Scott language Geo E McDonald normals history athletics Mary Powers 8th A Grace M Fackler 8th B Ada Skjelver 7th A Martha Abel 7th B and 6th B Millicent Slaby 1st East Ward Laura McMillen 5th A and principal Rachael Bayard 6th Susanna Ward 5th B Dora Oyster 4th Grace Lant 3rd Peoebe Waite 2nd Louise Donisthorpe 1st Cleo Rector preparatory West Ward Leonora Dougan prin cipal and music supervisor Anna Han naD 4th Christine Hollister 3rd Sadie Sweeney 2nd Lillian Price pre paratory South Mrs May Douglas prepara tory Mies Claudia B Hatcher went to the state fair to take care of the Red Wil low county educational exhibit the early part of the week VtttW V V V 1 V fH ANNOUNCEMENT Miss Lillian Moore was called hone at Bartley on account of the death ofT her brother last Tuesd u Parents of unvaccinated children am requested to attend to it at once At present there is no run of contagious disease of any kind in the coimnunUs and the school authorities wish to take every possible precaution to insure tbtii health of the children A number of boys want to earn pad of or all of their board and room wh2tti going to fcchooJ Any oce knowing tfT any such work to be had will help thai cause of education by reporting the in formation to Supt Taylor GRANT A nice rain latt week Most of ffira farmers are plowing for fall wheat Fred Wesch arrived from Tualatix Ore last Sunday on No 16 John Wesch and brother will hare their 6nle Wednesday Sept 15th Jim Relph is putting up bay on iWt land owned by Mills brothers John H Wech went to McCook or business Saturday niht P H Blunck made a spe in I trip frcm McCook to Kansas Monday night wiUc a passenuer who arrived from the wea Sunday Card of Thanks Our hearts are full with iratitude in all the friends and neiyhhors for thek assistance and sympathy in oar bereave ment the death of our dear mother J H Wadh and Family Mks EEUaykb and Family I yflfifi VI V V V1JfYriiriittVtWiFfE Fall Millinery Opening You are cordialfy invited to attend our FALL OPENING on Tuesday and Wednesday September 14th and 15th Hours from 2 to 1030 p m Be sure to remember the date Elizabeth Ashford Successor to Lovel Nies 111 West B street Open Evenings after r September 14th i yrfirtdimuh iWii 1 it v v ifr 1 11 t 1 i - L 1 1