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Dr Herbert J Pratt
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Office 21214 Main av over McConnells
Drug Store McCook Neb
Telephones Office 1G0
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Office over McAdams Store Phone I9t
NOTICE
William D Burnett Plaintiff vs Arthur L
Hugunia Defendant
Arthur L Hugunin defendant will take no
tice that on the TJth day of January 1D10 P S
Heaton a justice of the peace in and for Wil
low Grove precinct Red Willow county Ne
braska issued an order of attachment for the
sum of 3507 in an action pending before him
wherein William D Burnett is plaintiff and Ar
thur L Hugunin is defendant and the property
wf the defendant consisting of money due and
owing and in the hands of the Chicago Burling
ton fc Quincy Railroad Company garnishee as
wages for labor performed by said defendant
for said railroad has been attached under said
order
Said cause has beenjcontinued for hearing on
tho 2Sth day of February 1910 at the hour of 2
27LsPU WILLIAM D BURNETT
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HjULD BUY
NOW
First Ths roads are ganl Thy wont h Knoa when th sprtn thaw
cnmr s Ynnll hav trouble thentr gtstttnK your lnnlrilux mili riM horn
Second This Is the beri tlm to get ready to build You should order
your material now and engage your carpenters The lattvr will all be busy
wlii n pririK opens up
Third Thre is sure to ho an advance or from 2 to 3 psr thousand
f t ot lumber a little later ffei not trylnz to frlgliieu you or force you
Intii buying Thin is on honnt conviction based ubon ixperietice and
cloic ooservaton We have nevr deceived you lo a forecast of this kind-
REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD
BUY FROM
HAFER
rirt Thi C Hfr Lumber Company Is tho best equipped concern
or Its kind In th world for clUnq direct to the consumer lumbar mill
work builders hardware paint md other materials You can rind riffht
liero vrythne that you nued In putting up a building of any kind This
is not a nii order commUslori house but a genuine splendidly equipped
builder itirtitutlon
location In the Krowlng West and our own private track
g facilities insure the qulckuct rvics you can get anywhere
Third N7 are arming the heaviest buyers In the business We have
our own timber sawmills factories and yards So we positively obtain the
lilfficst quality of materials at prices that Klve us a great advantage over
Mil others
GET YOUR LOCAL FIGURES TBEN GET OURS
If vnu intend to build a house ham nhed or anything elso have youi
carpenter rtgure out what you need giving all specifications a completely
as possible Then get your local dealers figures We do net want to see
his bid All wt a Is that you make an honest comparison and we know
that if you do that wa will receive your order
If possible come to Council BlulTs That -will enable you to look over
our great stock and you can see everything- you buy as It is loaded into
your car
Your trip to Council Bluffs will cost you nothing if you buy a carload
or more and provided you live not more than 150 miles from this city We
want you to sto that you are getting the best and well make the trip to
your advantage in the quality anJ price of what vou buy and In paying your
expenses We will also pay the freight on a carload shipment to your near
est railway station and guarantee safe delivery We usk lor no money in
idvance
If you come to South Omaha remember that we have a hranch office
there The manager will be glad to see you and he will run over to Coun
cil Bluffs with you if you want to learn Just what wo can do for you here
As to our financial responsibility ask the banks or commercial
agencies Our business experience covers many years of square dealing- as
everyone who has purchased from us will testify
We are now preparing a handsome catalogue showing the lumber mill
work builders hardware paints roofing and other materials that we sell
It will be ready in about 80 days and we would like to send it to you
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COUNCIL BLUFFS IOWA
County Commissioners Proceedings
McCook Nebraska January 26 1910
The board of county commissioners met pur
suant to adjournment Present C B Gray
F S Lofton and Edward Sughroue county
comnissioners and Charles Skalla county
clerk
Tho minutes of the meeting held January 25
were read and on motion approved
A motion was made by Lofton seconded by
Sughroue that Mitchell Young of Danbury be
appointed as constable for Beaver precinct to
fill vacancy Motion carried unanimously
The following claims were audited and al
lowed aud the clerk was instructed to draw
warrants on the county general fund levy of
1909 as follows
Ed Hethcote fees State vs Quadour
claimed 90 allowed 7 45
E F Osborn fees State vs Quadour 6 00
Wayne S Hethcote fees State v Quadour
claimed 2560 allowed 8 80
James Cummings fees State vs Quadour 1 20
Frank Tawney fees State vs Quadour 1 o0
E Richmond fees State vs Quadour 1 40
R B Campbell fees State vs Quadour 1 E0
Wm Staples fees State vs Quadour 1 40
Wm Koons fees State vs Quadour 1 10
Dau Sclmuf fees State vs Quadour 1 30
Fred Quadour fees State vs Quadour
claimed 120 rejected
Al Winters feesState vs Quadour claim
ed li0 rejected
Pet Konrath fees State vs Quaduor
claimed 190 rejected
James Hart fees State vs Quadour
claimed 190 rejected
Win Williams fees State vs Quadour
claimed 110 rej cted
E F Osborn fees State vs Quadour in
district court 7 CO
James Cummings fees State vs Quadour
in district court 7 55
W H Staples fees State vs Quadour in
district court 7 20
C A Rodgers fees State vs Quadour in
district court 5 00
W H Smith serving on Soldiers Relief
Commission 1909 5 percent of amount
distributed by him 10 CO
J A Wilco erving on Soldiers Relief
Commission 1909 i 25
Barnett Lumber Co lumber 4 61
The b ard commenced the examination of the
accounts of H I Peterson sheriff for1939 and
continued tho same throughout the day
On motion tho board adjourned to meet Jan
uary 27 1910
C B Grat Chairman
Attest Chas Skalla County Clerk
McCook Nebraska January 27 1910
The board of county commissioners met pur
suant to adjournment Present C B Gray F
S Lofton and Edward Sughroue county com
missioners and Chas Skalla county clerk
The official bond of F C Tyler as justice of
the peace for Box Elder precinct was examined
and on motion approved and ordered reeorded
and placed on file
On motion the county treasurer was instruct
ed to refund to Robert Jenkins the sum of 200
being the amount of poll tax illegally assessed
against him in 1909 at McCook aud paid by him
under protet for the reason that he has been
member of the fire department of Syracuse Ne
braska for five years and is exempt from poll
tax
The following claims were presented to the
board
E G CainoCo 39 90
E GCnineCo 33 25
PJ Colling 8 CO
P JColling 15 00
JC Puckett 25 09
JCPuckett 5 00
Red Willow County Farmers Co-operative
Grain Livestock Co SCO
Geo W Short Estate 13 05
Geo W Short Estate 4 C4
These claims were for coal and merchandise
furnished to old soldiers and soldiers widows
upon orders of the Soldiers Relief Commis
sion but for want of funds in the Soldiers Re
lief fund these claims were filed as claims on
tho general fund The board after asking the
opinion of the county attorney who held that
the board had no lawful right to allow these
claims on the conuty general fund laid the
claims over indefinitely
Tho board continued the examination of the
accounts of H I Peterson sheriff throughout
the day
On motion the board adjourned to meet Feb
ruary 1st 1910
C B Gray Chairman
Attest CnAS Skalla County Clerk
Dr J A Golfer
DENTIST
Room Postoffick Building
Phone 378 McCOOK NEBRASKA
HIS HAPPY THOUGHT
It Let tho New Train Dispatcher Off
Without an Accident
An operator for a western railroad
who had served bis company long and
well was called into the oillco one day
and asked if he thought lie could hold
down the job of night dispatcher Lie
promptly replied that he could and
was told to report for duty that night
and his chief Instructed him in what
he was to do Just after the chief left
the office It began to blow and snow
and the trains commenced to run late
The new night dispatcher soon had de
veloped a bad case of rattles and al
most cried lie did not want an acci
dent and he could not handle the
trains So a happy thought struck
him As ftist as u report came in he
replied directing the conductor to take
i a siding and wait for orders and it
was not a great while until he had
every train on the division sidetracked
I Then he tool a book lighted his pipe
1 and sat down to wait for daylight In
the morning the chief appeared with
anxiety written all over his face
Any accidents Johnny asked the
chief
Not an accident Ive got em all on
the sidetrack snowed In and waiting
for orders and you will have to get
em out I am going to blow this job
It took the chief and his force nearly
all day to get the trains straightened
out and traffic resumed on the road
CAT AND FOX MEET
And Reynard Retires the Worse For
tho Meeting
In a recent number of a German
sporting paper a forester describes a
scene which lie witnessed in a clearing
in the foresL
lie came one afternoon upon a big
black cat occupied apparently in the
pursuit of mice and from the shelter
of a tree he watched its movements
through a fleldglass After a few min
utes an old fox made its appearance
Slinking slowly forward toward the
cat it lay down within a few steps of
it ready to spring
The cat had observed its enemy but
beyond keeping a sharp lookout on its
movements it made no sign Shortly a
young fox joined the old one and al
most immediately bounded at the cat
which sprang aside and struck its as
sailant so efficaciously across its face
with its sharp claws that It retired as
quickly as it came After an interval
the old fox advancing slowly and
carefully made its attack but the re
sult was the same The cat spitting
and hissing struck out hard and the
fox retired discomfited
A minute afterward it again sprang
forward but this time the cat got
much the best of it and was left in
peace London Globe
Trotter and Thoroughbred
The trotting horse is infinitely more
practical and useful speaking on
broad lines than the thoroughbred i
said a well known horse breeder to a
Washington Herald reporter A
oughbred has the speed for burst of
time but when It comes to do hard
work every day day after day and
all the year around it cannot com
pete with the trotting horse The j
oughbred is rattle brained has no
sense is beyond all control It doesnt i
know when to stop or what to do in
a nice it simply runs until it cannot
run any longer whereas the trotting
horse is under the control of its driver
from start to finish and obeys orders
at any time The thoroughbred natu
rally exceeds the trotter in a burst of
speed but in the long run it cannot
compete As a general proposition it
is accepted among horsemen that the
trotting horse is superior to the thor
oughbred for general purposes
Artful Legal Tactics
Lord Chancellor Erskine with all his
arts and all his intrepidity in the face
of judge or jury was easily upset by I
anything which touched his amour
propre Vanity was his foible and hef
had all the susceptibility which at j
taches to it One artful attorney
knowing this used to plant a man in I
court in full view of Erskine to yawn
hideously at his most eloquent appeals
or to titter at his most tragic tones
Once when Garrow the well known
counsel lost in thought had fixed his
eyes vacantly upon him Erskine was
so put out that he stooped down and
hissed in his ear Who the devil do
you think can get on with that wet
blanket of a face of yours before
him The same sensitiveness of criti
cism followed him into the house of
commons Law Times
St Elmos Fire
St Elmos fire is a name popularly
given to a luminous appearance some
times seen on dark and stormy nights
at the masthead and yardarms of ves
sels and also on laud at the top of
church spires and trees and even on
horses manes and about human heads
It is due to the presence of electricity
generally at elevated points where it
accumulates more rapidly than it can
be discharged and is named after St
Elmo the patron saint of sailors
Two Faced Babies
Not that deceit is a born instinct
but some babies must be two faced in
the cradle
Oh thats not possible
I dont know I know a child that
looks like its rich aunt when she comes
on a visit and is the exact image of its
rich uncle when he happens to be
there
And Mother Officiates
Eddie Do you have morning prayers
at your house Freddie We have
some kind of a service when father
gets in New Yr c Press
He that always complains is never
pitied German Proverb
CLOTHES AND f HE JUAN
Good Appearance Waits Upon the Way
Garments Aro Worn
You can talk all you please about
clothes making a man said a Walnut
street tailor but I want to say right
now that the smartest clothes in the
world cant make a man natty if he
Is not naturally so There is an old
stoop shouldered doctor uptown that
I have been tailoring for seven years
He buys four and sometimes live suits
a year and yet except for a few days
after he has broken In eacli new suit
lie never looks nice The trousers bag
at the knees the coat falls away in
front and the shoulders begin to look
sloppy The mans drooping figure
and the poor care he takes of his
clothes furnish of course the explana
tion
Did you ever notice the average
college mans clothes Almost In
variably he looks neat and correct
despite the easy swing with which he
walks But youll notice that he car
ries his head high his shoulders fairly
erect and his trousers never break
at the shoes so that the crease is al
ways preserved All classes of men
go to college rich and poor Few col
lege men take more than fair care of
their clothes Its all the way they
wear their clothes I think Notice the
young lawyers and doctors around
town too Few of them can afford the
very best in tailor made clothes That
they usually look nice is due to the
fact that they have picked up the dis
tinguished way to wear clothes 1
might call it Clothes make the man
but only when the man Is willing to
help Philadelphia Record
A TRUE STORY
It Was Vouched For by the Gentleman
Who Related It
Some years ago in a certain town in
the north a gentleman possessed of
more money than education was asked
to address the scholars attending one
of the local schools some Sunday after
noon
Well childwen said he Is not
used to public speyking but I remem
ber when I was a lad 1 was very fond
of hearing a story Shall I tell ye a
story V
Once upon a time many years ago
there was a lad a very good lad who
went regularly to Sunday school and
uivver missed But one Sunday aft
ernoon as he was gawiu to school two
bad boys met him and persuaded him
to gan bird nesting wiv em So they
went alang by the riverside and by
and by they came to a tree and in
the tree on a branch which overhung
the watter was a nest The tAvo bad
lads sent the good lad to climb the
tree and fetch the eggs Up he went
and got on the branch farther and far
ther and just as he was reaching out
his hand to tak the nest the branch
brok and he fell into the river and
was drooned
After waiting a few moments to al
low his hearers to thoroughly grasp
the full extent of the catastrophe he
resumed with
Children the story is true for the
lad that was drooned was me Lon
don Tit Bits
The Act of Dying
The common phrase death agony is
not warranted by what occurs in natu
ral death which is a complete relief
from all pain When death is owing to
heart failure or syncope it is sudden
and painless perhaps pleasant Death
by hanging there is reason to believe
is attended by si voluptuous spasm
Death by decapitation or electricity is
only a momentary shock hardly felt
Death by poisoning varies in painful
ness according to the poison employed
Opium and other narcotics probably
give a painless perhaps a pleasant
dreamful death Hemlock as we
know from the account of the death
of Socrates causes gradual insensibil
ity from below upward On the other
hand arsenic strychnine carbolic and
mineral acids corrosive sublimate tar
tar emetic and other metallic poisons
inflict slow and torturing death Prus
sic acid and cyanide of potassium
cause quick death Exchange
Glasses to Fit Four Eyes
For several months a man had been
going to various oculists getting a pair
of glasses trying them for a few days
and then taking them back Two
weeks ago one of his friends suggest
ed an optician that he thought could
do the trick and persuaded the troubled
man to give him a trial The result
was the same as before however and
the glasses were returned Curious
about the nature of the difficulty the
friend went to the optician and asked
him what was the matter Why
replied the latter that fellow wants
a pair of glasses that will suit both
himself and his wife Philadelphia
Times
Knew Them
I am looking for a quiet place ti
rest said the tired looking man
I think we can safely promise you
all the comforts of home assured the
hotel clerk
Not on your life exclaimed the
tired looking man Ive been married
nine years and have seven children
Philadelphia Record
Prejudiced Opinion
What did tne poet mean when he
called his country the land of the
free and the home of the brave
He was probably referring to bach
elors and married men said old Mr
Sinithers sadly Stray Stories
Logic and Sophistry
Little Willie What Is logic pa Pa
Logic my son is your line of argu
ment in a controversy Little Willie
And what is sophistry Pa The other
fellows Exchange
A BIT OF CHALK
What It Shows When Placed Under a
Powerful Microscope
Few people know what a wonderful
object a bit of chalk is when examined
j under a microscope Take your knife
i blade aud scrape off a little of the
loose powder catch it on a clean glass
slide and place this on the stage or a
good table microscope Use a quarter
inch objective lens and illuminate the
field with a cone f light from the
eancave side of the reflector The pow
der will be seen to consist of a in
fused mass of beautiful tiny shells
many of them of the most curious
form
A better way however Is to rub
down a portion of chalk witli an old
toothbrush in a tumbler half tilled
with water It you desire to prepare
several slides rub on about a teaspoon
ful of the powder Shake the tumbler
briskly allow the sediment to settle
for a moment and then carefully pour
off the milky looking water
Repeat this until the water remains
clear and you will then have left in
the bottom only perfect shells or large
parts of shells Take up a small pinch
of this deposit and spread It carefully
over the center of a glass slide Dry
over a lamp and If you wisli to pre
serve the slide for future use mount it
in Canada balsam pressing out the
bubbles of air beneath the cover glass
MECHANICAL INGENUITY
A Full Rigged Ship That a Flys Wing
Would Cover
Many instances of mechanical inge
nuity really remarkable to us in these
days when we are supposed to have
advanced in learning are related by
various ancient authors The silver
sphere a most noble and ingenious
performance which was presented to
Sultan Solyman the Magnificent by his
imperial majesty Ferdinand is men
tioned by Paulus Jovius as showing
and keeping time with the motions of
the celestial bodies in various config
urations It was carried to Constanti
nople bj twelve men and there put to
gether by the artist that made it
Mymecides an ancient carver was
so proficient in microscopic mechanism
that he made an iory ship with all
its decks masts yards rigging tied
sails in so small a compass that it
might have been hidden under the
wing of a fly He also made a chariot
with four wheels and as many har
nessed horses which took np scarcely
more room than the ship
George Whitehead m Englishman
made a ship with all things pertaining
to it to move as if it sailed upon a
table All hands were aloft a woman
made good music on a lute and a little
puppy cried in the midship all of
which variety says the old writer
was pleasant and diverting
The Vulnerable Point
Mrs Holt could be depended upon
at almost any time to say the wrong
thing with the best intentions in the
world Nobody minds what poor
dear Fanny Holt says her friends
told each other when repeating her
remarks We know she means all
right
Isnt it queer how differently things
affect people one of Mrs Holts
neighbors said to her the day after
a beach picnic We both got tired
to death you and I You say youve
had just a little bit of indigestion
while I have this fearful blind head
ache
Why thats perfectly natural said
Mrs Holt cheerily Of course when
people are tired out It goes straight
to the weakest part of them Mine is
my stomach and everybody knows
yours is your head poor dear
Youths Companion
The Word Silhouette
The little black pictures called sil
houettes derive their name from Eti
enne do Silhouette who was the
French minister of finance in 1759
His extreme economy in matters of
finance was caricatured by all classes
and any cheap mode or fashion was
sarcastically called bj his name
About that time these profiles were
produced by casting the shadow of a
face on the paper by the light of a
candle and tracing about it Because
they were cheap they were called in
ridicule at the minister silhouettes
and the name has ever since been re
tained Boston Globe
All the Printers Fault
What became of that paper you
were going to start in the interest of
uplifting the poor tramp asked the
interviewer
Ah it fell through confessed the
great reformer with much agitation
and all on account of the blooming
carelessness of the printer
Did he make a grave error
I should say so You know the pa
per was to be named the Bar of Hope
Well that idiot of a printer changed it
to the Bar of Soap and as soon as my
constituents heard the name they
started running and they are running
vet Chicago News
Court Logic
Lawyer My client your honor has
confessed that he committed the bur
glary You will admit this an eloquent
proof of my clients love of truth aud
of his upright conscience and your
honor a man with such a delicate con
scienre should not be accused of hav
ing broken into a house to steal Never
Quite Satisfactory
Stern Father Young man the lights
in this house are put out at 10 oclock
Young Man That suits me Dont de
lay on my account New York Times
Victories that are easy are cheap
Those only are worth having which
come ik the result of hard fighting
Beecher
A CHINESE STRATAGEM
Legend of How a Projoctad Invasion
Was Averted
Rajah Suran who was one of the
earliest rulers of India overran tin
entire east with the exception of Chi
na killed Innumerable sultans with Ins
own hand aud married ail their dauglt
tcrs It is said that when the Chinese
heard of his triumphant progress and
learned that he laid reached their
frontier they became much alarmed
The emperor called a council of liH
generals and mandarins aud upon the
advice of a crafty old mandarin the
following strntcgem was carried out
A large ship was loaded with rusty
nails trees were planted on the deck
the vessel was manned by a numerous
crew of old men and dispatched to the
rajahs capital When It arrived the
most wonderful part of the story
that it did arrive the rajah sent an
officer to ask how long It had taken
the vessel to make the trip from China
The Chinamen answered that they had
all been young men when they set sail
and that on the voyage they had plant
ed the seeds from which the great
trees had grown In corroboration of
their story they pointed to the rusty
nails which they said had been stout
iron bars as thick as a mans arm when
they started You can see they
concluded that China must be a very
long distance away
The rajah was so much Impressed
by these plausible arguments that he
concluded he would not live long
enough to reach China aud abandoned
his projected invasion
SNEEZING
It Must Have Been a Violent Operation
Before Jacobs Time
We frequently hear the expression
God bless you uttered after some
one has sneezed The expression if
we can believe Clodd in his Child
hood of the World dates back to the
time of Jacob We are told in Jewish
literature that previous to his time
men sneezed but once in a lifetime
and that was the end of them for the
shock slew them Jacob prevailed in
prayer and had the fatality set aside
on the condition that among all the
nations a sneeze should be hallowed
by the words God bless you In the
Jataka one of the books of the
Buddhist Scriptures we read that the
expression was May the blessed Lord
allow you to live
Buddha on one occasion while
preaching to his disciples happened to
sneeze The priests gave vent to the
exclamation and Buddha lectured
them for interrupting his discourse
If when a person sneezes he ask
ed and you say May he live will
he live the longer
Certainly not cried the priests
And if you do not say it will he
die any the sooner
Certainly not was the reply
Then said Buddha from this
time forth if any one sneeze and a
priest says May you live he shall be
guilty of a transgression London
Spectator
The Kind Caddie
Once in a game said the golfer
I had the good fortune to be six
holes up on my opponent by the time
the eigth hole was reached At the
eighth green something went wrong
with our reckoning of the strokes
and I claimed that I had won that
hole too while my opponent claimed
that It was halved After a mild dis
pute I yielded
But as I moved on with tny caddie
I couldnt help grumbling
Well you know Joseph I gave in
But I still think I won that hole after
all
The boy with a frown turned
shocked and reproving eyes on me
Disgusted with my greed for holes he
whispered hurriedly so that my op
ponent should not overhear
Shut up cant you Do ye want
to break the mans heart Ex
change
Laughter
Overindulgence in laughter is repro
bated by Emerson Explosions of it
he says should be under strict control
and he quotes approvingly the saying
of Lord Chesterfield I am sure that
since I had the use of my reason no hu
man being has ever heard me laugh
But Emerson is not altogether consist
ent in this matter for whereas in one
passage he refers to laughter as t
contemptible squeal of joy in an
other it becomes a pleasant spasm
and he gratefully acknowledges the
rest and refreshment we get from the
shaking of the sides Moreover he
admits that to see a man in a high
wind run after his hat is always droll
Presumably if the man is bald and tin
road is muddy even Chesterfield might
be led to emit a contemptible squeal
London Chronicle
Invisible Dcgs
The coat of a red setter normal
stands out fairly clear against heath
er of the ordinary hue When how
ever it gets soaked with rain it dark
ens very much and blends very close
ly with the heather The Gordon set
ters are perhaps the worst in this re
gard of assimilating with the color of
heather and so being liable to get a
charge of shot Country Life
His Practical Mind
Sculptor to his friend Well what
do you think of my bust Fine piece
of marble isnt it Friend Magnifi
cent What a pity to make a bust of
it It would have made a lovely
washstaud
A Comeback
Why do so many otherwise clever
women write silly letters to men
Theyre probably making collections
of the answers they get Cleveland
Leader