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First
National
Bank of Mccook
is the oldest NATIONAL BANK
in Southwestern Nebraska
and in point of Capital
Surplus and Undivid
ed Prolits600000
the strongest
We give you a personal invita
tion to make this bank your de
pository whether you have a small
sum or a largo one to lay aside for
safe keeping
OKKICKHS AND DIKKCTOKS
B M FREES Prks
II P WAITE V Pnus
F A PENNELL Cash
L THORGRIMSON Asst cash
II P SUTTON C H BOYLE
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By F M KIMMELL
L i ci Circulation in Red Willow Co
Entered at postoflico McCook Nebraska as
second class matter Published weekly
ascription 1 a Year in Advance
Spkaking of that postoflice depart
ment deficit wonder why it doesnt sug
gest itself to the experts who are trying
to place the deficit almost everywhere
but where it exists that the printing of
rot urn cards on envelopes is one of the
Bourops of loss to the department In
Addition further than embossing the
Btaniuo on envelopes thegevornment has
no morp just right to engage in commer
cial printing than it has to run a livery
barn or tooniaR in any other commer
cial ir bu iws i ccupation
S S Union Notes
S S Missionary Webber returned
Jnt week from a four woeks campaign
in ttiH west end of his district and left
HUiiin aturday for Furnas county
wheie he began meetings with one of his
Sunday schools Sunday February 13
The three meetings at Lux Dundy coun
ty were greatly He3sd not only in the
winning of a goodly number of new con
verts and the setting up of several fam
ily altars but there was great spiritual
refresh g and nd ancement in experi
ence among those professing to serve
God Arrangements were made for reg
ular prajer meetings and it is likely
that Rev Mr Lambert will form a
church organization there
Mr Webber was able also to arrange
for a meeting with another of his Sunday-schools
conducted by Rev FraDk
Harmon of Lamar which was- at lest
report continuing with deep interest
and good prospects of precious fruits in
the hearts and homes of those interested
in that S S
Arrangements are partly made also for
another evangelist to hold meetings with
another S S besides the places Mr
Webber can reach himself Com
McCook Markets
Merchants and dealers in McCook
today Thursday are paying the follow
ing prices
Corn 70
Wheat 96
Oats 45
Rye 65
Barley 50
Hogs 7 50
Butter good 25
Eggs 25
Our
Business
and mission in life is to show the
ladies how charming they are
minus superfluous epidermal de
fects Pictures taken by us do
not have that forced artificial
and over - retouched appearance
you so often meet with
A trial will convince you
Kimmell Studio
1st door north
Commercial Hotel
Phone red 428
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Mih B M accompanied Mr
Freeh on his visit here end of last week
Mifia Alick MoKknna is a stenograph
er in the law office of Ritchie Wolff
Mil EiitRiof GreonRivcrv Utah is
f
1 a guest of his brother C E of our city
Rhv R T Bavne returnd to Holdrege
flofle of hut weiK with his mother for a
Hhort visit
Ma and Miia C II IJoyle wont up to
Dfiiver Friday morning on u Bhort visit
to his parent i
Mu and Mrs C E Picklum visited
hit father William Pickiuin in Beaver
City last week
J B Johnson who hs been up from
GenevH nil wtk returned home last
Saturday morning
Miss Anna IJulaNKY who has been
spending the winter in the city return
ed to Denver Mondn
J It Piiklah HpMht Sunday night in
the city oil his way en t from his ranch
it NehntMka
Wiii GaiHEucolk wasin the M irSun
m ign rhooii lai week looking after
Iim huller
ni itn IAVimi of our city has pur
chased the Gjsper store of T O
llutchcroft of Arapahoe
Mils Jamkm C Lovkll of Oilman
City MHSiuri is here for her health
guest of Mrs William Jeffries
Mns F W Boswortji has been down
from Denver part of the week guest of
her daughter Mrs R J Gunn
Miss JoshiHiNE Phelan who has
ieen visiting sisters in Alliance has
j iited the family in California
Mits J E Dolph and son Albert came
iver from Danbury close of last week
Mid are visiting McCook relativos
Wm Byfieid departed last nightfor
Canada called by news of the serious
illness of his mother who is 90 years of
age
Dr and Mrs O L Fahne tock
entertained their Whist club lastThurs
lay evening assisted by Mis F S Va
nue
Mrs I L RodTHOM dp mrted
morning for Des Moi es Iowa on
a visit which will occupy a week or ten
lajs
Miss Katie Mahoney who has been
vsiting her sister Mrs Will Hegenber
ger returned home Monday morningto
Atwood Kansas
M 13 FitkEs arrived in the city cos
f week on one of his trips looking after
h i large and varied buaiuess interests
in this part of the land
Mrs F M Kimmkll departed Monday
ni r iiug for Aurora Nebraska tj mak
the acquaintance of th it new nephew
Master Barnard Ellsworth Magee
Miss Nora Moore who has been at
tending school in Denver has returned
to the city and is employe in W
rolsHid real estate and insurance office
Rev Bickford of Indianola filled tne
rnngregational pulpit Sunday last
both morning and evening Rev Bayne
the locrtl pastor exchanging pulpits
with him
Miss EsteliajjB Faus the very effic
ient stenographer for Boyle Eldred
left on Tuesday night for New Mexico
onaviftitto relatives which will con
sume a couple of weeks in the making
Mrs Gray came out from Iowa last
week and went up to Benkelman in
care of her daughter Grace Rowell
If this country is helpful to her he is
siffering with asthma she will remain
here
Miss Besie Rowell was called up to
Wikelnian last Saturday on train 13
by the news of the death of Lester
Stroup a sister of Mrs Elmer
Rowell of that place She returned home
Sunday night
A R Scott superintendent of the
McCook Electric Co departed on Sun
day night for point east on an impor
tant business missi n He will visit in
Omaha Minneapolis and Chicago before
returning end of week
Ex Sheriff H I Peterson recently
turned down an offer of a U S dep
uty marshalship in Nebraska under U
S Marshal Warner of Omaha The
position carries a good salary but Mr
Peterson was averse to moving his family
to Omaha hence declined the position
The Best Ever
The Girl Question is generally con
ceded to have been the classiest best
show yet produced in the new Temple
theatre The company richly deserved
their splendid audience last night
Legal Blanks Here
This office carries all kinds of legal
blank forms and makes special blanks
to order promptly and accurately
Mrs C M Bailey was up from Wy
more last night We learn that Bud is
a victim of an accident and laid up with
a slight fracture
Our Longmont Colorado canned veg
etables are now in This years crop of
peas beans and tomatoes at Hubers
More people are taking Foleys Kidney
Remedy every year It is considered
the most effective remedy for all kidney
and bladder troubles that medical sci
ence can devise Foleys Kidney Remedy
corrects irregularitiep builds up the
system and restores lost vitality A
McMillen
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A SECOND MEETING
The Earl of Stanhope and the Trust
ing Highwayman
One night when the Earl of Stanhope
was walking alone In the Kentish
laues a man jumped out of the hedge
leveled a pistol and demanded his
purse
My good man 1 have no mouey
with me said Lord Stanhope iu his
remarkably slow tones The robber
laid hands on his watch
No Lord Stanhope went on that
watch you must not have It was giv
en to me by one I love It is worth
100 If you will trust me I will go
hack to Chevening and bring a 100
note and place it in the hollow of that
tree I cannot lose my watch
The iuan did trust him The carl did
bring the note Years after Lord Stan
hope was at a city dinner and next to
him sat a London alderman of gril
wealth a man widely respected He
aud the carl talked of many things
and found each other mutually enter
taining
Next day Lord Stanhope received a
letter out of which dropped a 1GJ
note It was your lordships kind
loan of this sum said the letter liat
started me in life and enabled me to
have the honor of sitting next to your
lordship at dinner
A strange story but the Stanhopes
are a strange race and things happen
to them that never did or could occur
to other people London Spectator
A TURKISH LEGEND
The Red Rose Sprang From a Drop of
Mohammeds Blood
A truly religious Turk looks upon
the rose with great reverence said
a florist Jilie rose is beyond ques
tion the prettiest flower that blooms
and it was so considered by the Turks
many years before the conquest of
Granada There is a religious legend
generally believed in throughout Tur
key that the red rose sprang from a
drop of the great prophet Mohammeds
blood Everything beautiful in nature
is ascribed to him The Turks there
fore have great reverence for the
flower and allow it to bloom and die
untouched except on state occasions
and for the purpose of making rose
water
After the conquest by the Turks
they would not worship in any church
until the walls were cleansed and
washed with rosewater and thus puri
fied by the blood of the prophet I
is used on the body for the same pur
pose A Turk whose conscience is
stung by some act or deed he has com
mitted will caress and pay reverence
to the rose to appease the wrath of
the prophet and Allah
With these ideas inculcated in him
from youth it would shock him severe
ly to see the pretty flower strewn in
the path of a bridal couple thrown on
the public stage or banked up in hun
dreds at a swell reception or party to
be crushed and spoiled in an evening
Notes on Speed
The maximum speed acquired by the
average person in swimming comfort
ably is thirty nine inches a second
while oarsmen in an eight oared boat
acquire a speed of 197 inches in a se j
ond Skaters average from nine to
ten yards a second The horse can
gallop six miles in an hour for a con
siderable length of time The swift
est dog in the worU the borzoi or
Russian wolfhound has made record
runs at the rate of seventy five feet in
a second while the gazelle has shown
measured speed of more than eighty
feet a second which would give it a
speed of 4S0O feet in a minute if it
could keep it up The whale struck
by a harpoon has been known to dive
at the rate of 300 yards a minute A
species of falcon known as the wan
dering falcon flies from north Africa
to northern Germany in one unbroken
flight making the distance in eleven
hours
Rules of Sleep
Those who think most who do most
brain work require most sleep and
time saved from necessary sleep is
infallibly destructive to mind body
and estate Give yourself your chil
dren your servants give all that are
under you the fullest amount of sleep
they will take by compelling them to
go to bed at some regular early houi
and to rise in the morning the moment
they awake and within a fortnight na
ture with almost the regularity of the
rising sun will unloose the bonds of
sleep the moment enough repose has
been secured for the wants of the sys
tem That is the only safe and suffi
cient rule and as to the question how
much sleep any one requires each
must be a rule for himself Great na
ture will never fail to write It out to
the observer under the regulations just
given London Globe
Bunched His Blunders
John said Mrs Billus after the
caller had gone away I wish you
wouldnt bunch your blunders so
What do you mean Maria asked
Mr Billus
I didnt mind your telling her that
you were ten years older than I but
you followed it up a minute later by
letting it slip out that you were fifty
two Chicago Tribune
Listen
Well Henry how do you like your
neighbors
Not at all theyre so quiet that 1
dareut move or mamma cant hear
what theyre saying Bon VIvant
A Question of Time
How much does it cost to get mar
ried asked the eager youth
That depends entirely on how long
you live replied the sad looking man
Philadelphia Record
BEANS IN BOSTON
Tne Millions of Quarts That Aro An
nually Baked and Eaten
Boston baked beans are known
around tho globe In the city of Bos
ton alone about 152000000 quarts of
baked beans are devoured annually to
say nothing of the pork that goes with
them and the brown bread that Is also
served There are factories or baker
ies which handle nothing but baked
beans from one years end to the other
One of the largest of these which sup
plies restaurants wholly bakes 1 1000
quarts of beans a week Other baker
ies also furnish brown bread while
nearly every bakeshop that makes
bread pastry and pies also bakes
beans several limes a week There
are bakeries with oveus that will hold
2000 quarts each
Tin preparation and baking of beans
are interesting operations In estab
lishments where beans only are baked
it is done on a huge scale There are
great kettles that hold two or three
bushels of beans and into these the
beans are put to soak and parboil
Then the pots of earthenware varying
in size from one quart to two gallons
are ranged around on tables and iJled
from the big kettles Every quart of
beans is carefully picked over and
sorted and cl ed of all dirt and dead
beans before being put into the kettles
The ovens are huge brick affairs glow
ing red with heat Experts consider
that beans cannot be properly cooked
except In a brick oven Some of the
ovens hold 2000 quarts each Filled
with the loaded pots they present a
sight worth beholding So hot are the
ovens that long handled flat shovels
are used to push the pots in and take
them out New York Tribune
ASBESTUS
There Are Many Varieties of This Pe
culiar Puzzling Substance
Of all the queer minerals which na
ture seems to have provided for no
other purpose than that man might
show his ingenuity in their use notti
ing compares to that mineralogical
vegetable asbestus which in its native
state is both fibrous and crystalline
elastic and yet brittle a stone which
will float and which may be carded
spun and woven like flax or silk As
bestus is mined iu practically every
section of the globe and the asbestus
of the various countries differs as
greatly in appearance as does the foli
age of the trees and plants native to
each It is alike iu but one feature
that it is absolutely indestructible no
known combinations of acids even af
fecting the strength or appearance of
its fiber and the fiercest flames leav
ing it unscathed It is a nonconductor
of heat and of electricity
Some varieties of asbestus are as
compact as marble and will take the
highest polish others have loose silky
fibers Mountain wood is a variety
presenting an irregular filamentous
structure like wood and other vari
eties taking their names from their
resemblance to the various materials
are rock cork mountain leather fossil
paper and fossil flax
Asbestus is really a variety of am
phibole or hornblende composed of
separable filaments with silky luster
Its colors are various shades of white
gray or green passing into brown red
or black Although as perishable as
grass it is older than any order of
animal or vegetable life on earth
Respectfully Referred
Chief Justice Marshall used to nar
rate with great glee the following cor
respondence on a point of honor be
tween Governor Giles of Virginia and
Patrick nenry The governor wrote
Sir I understand that you have called
me a bobtail politician I wish to know
if it be true and if true your meaning
W R GILES
Patrick Henrys reply came prompt
ly
Sir I do not recollect calling you a bob
tail politician at any time but think it
probable that I have I cant say what 1
did mean but if you will tell me what
you think I meant I will say whether
you are correct or not Very respectfully
PATRICK HENRY
This was leaving it to Giles with a
vengeance but as there was no fur
ther correspondence the governor of
Virginia must have read satisfaction
somewhere between the lines of Pat
rick Henrys brilliantly equivocal reply-
A Mean Accusation
The plump and pretty waitress was
being teased by a youthful male board
er when a sedate middle aged man en
tered the dining room To him she
made prompt appeal
Is there anything on my face she
demanded
Whv ves was the renly after a
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lengtny scrutiny -mere is auiiie cu
ticle on it
Oh there is not she said in high
dudgeon and flounced out of the room
Lippincotts
There They Were
I am here gentlemen explained
the pickpocket to his fellow prisoners
as the result of a moment of ab
straction And I am here said the
incendiary because of an unfor
tunate habit of making light of things
And I said the forger on account
of a simple desire to make a name for
myself And I added the burglar
through nothing but taking advan
tage of an opening which offered in
a large mercantile establishment in
town
Ignorance
Esie Theyre twins arent they
-- Twine T rm lnfFrirJ
Do not put off under false pretexts
Homer
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H C CLAJLE
Dry Goods - giYlillinery - Ladies Furnishings I
ANNOUNCES FOR
ONE WEEK BEGINNING SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 19
A FinaJ ClernUv on AH Fall and 1
Trimmed
Hats
worth
fr tn
300 to
600
each
will go
this
week
for
1
50
Winter flillinery
1ffTfWHIffJJlMMB wmm9LifW9w in pi
Trimmed
Hats
worth
from
700 to
1200
each
will go
this
week
for
5
00
Have a new hat for the remaining sijc weeks of winter
now that you can buy one for less than the actual cost of
materials
Our Work Room is Now Busy on
New Spring Pattern Hats
Miss Murphy our Chicago trimmer is with us again
and you are invited to call and look over the NEW SPRING
MODELS as they are being brought out preparatory to our
GRAND SPRING OPENING which will be announced later
HCCLAPP
EXCLUSIVE DRY GOODS MILLINERY LADIES FURNISHINGS
Phone 56
222 flain avenue
McCook
ofFareatBMapers
Hot Cakes and 3 Star Coffee
White Flakejr Bread from Pure Gold Flour
Cheese with Mixed Nuts
Fresh Fish Oysters and Mince Pie
Oranges Bananas and Apples
220 Main ave
McCook
11 u
Great Cash
Phone 14
THE TRIBUNE Office for Office Supplies
01IOC 31C
NOW GOING ON AT
The Model Shoe Store
I Mens 400 and 500 shoes at
Ladies 300 and 400 shoes at
250
250
Boys shoesat Less than Cost
Misses and Childrens shoes Below Cost
Babies soft sole shoes in broken lots at JQc the Pair
SALE CLOSES SATURDAY NIGHT
The Model Shoe Store
ant7ou see ones a boy and one is a ijgg SHOE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY
girl London opinion
Fisher Perkins
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