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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1910)
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show that they are capable of producing a good strong corn plant which will give the farmer good ears of corn or even average ears If two ears in twelve fail to grow one sixth of the corn land in Nebraska 1076946 acres will be idle this year That means that the state will produce about 26923633 bushels of corn less than the land should grow That means the farmers will lose 134 i3 16 by failing to make that amount when the land is there and the labor has to be done whether corn fails to grow in one sixth of the hills or not Take this rule and apply it to counties in Nebraska and see what each county will lose even if two ears out of every twelve fail to grow or produce weak stalks which will not give ears of corn Using the above figures as a basis it is estimated that the loss to Red Willow county this year assuming the usual acreage of corn will be planted will be 13673 acres and the monetary loss 165912 These figures show unmistakably the Fact that the farmers of Red Willow county cannot afford to overlook the very importanf question of seed corn selection WE GET WHAT WE REALLY GO AFTER Hkoadly speaking we American people do what we really want to do This truth applies to individuals to communities states and tlu nation Laws we really want enforced we enforce Vit Jiess our laws for the protection of property If on the other hand there are crimes we would allow to go unpunished we easily and readily overlook and forget This is true in McCook and the land over Our moral and legal spasms are like the Irishmans stidy by jerks An inebriated man attempts a rape No matter that it is simply an attempt and harmless in result that the would be rav isher was practically unaccountable for his crime In our righteous indignation in our pharisaical impulse to repair the injured dignity of an outraged law we consign the poor human wreck to a long prison sentence This evidently is one of the things we wanted to do and the doing was easy and practically uncontested The man had no friends He had dissipated his money and manhood in riotons living But he lacked not while his money was free Money gone when sin had done its perfect work he was bankrupt in purse in body and in mind characterless friendless powerless Money friends pull lawyers the delays and possible evasions of the law who doubts the result might not have been otherwise But how is it when we come to note and punish the actual the accomplished crimes against womanhood True drink is an ele ment in these occurrences but no extenuation An incident in a recent term of district court in this city will serve to point a moral Three unfortunate women of the town were fined each in the sum of 250 and costs for having liquors in their resorts note that vice and immorality were not involved in the case for in a quarter of a century no man has ever been even arrested in one of these re sorts charged with immoral unlawful or sinful practices This is one of the laws we do not want to enforce TO BRIGHTEN FARM HOMES Work of Miss llena Bailoy a Univer sity of Missouri Student Miss Ilcnn M Bailey a student U the home economics department of th hoard of agr ire she oi Hie statj goe over l he state to fanners institutes Her ob ject Is to get the women and girls of Missouri Interested in better home woik and the lessen g of I lie drudg ery foutd I- Country homes Tle hoar I s her out to talk a Jifw side if iir 1 life at the institute in the v ir months I bellow the girls should have the sitie chan e as the hoys Miss Bailey fsvs The farm boys are given tht opisiTtinitj to take part in corn grow i ard yUv c juJglng contests and tin jlrs likewise should have something to Miiiulite their interest In the jrroat woi I of the home At Sarcoxie we hac started the first of our contest fcr girls it is a buttonhole contest In her talks Miss Bailey wiusse foods eothl g hoire and home fur nhhigs She attempts to organist honiemakers clubs at all these insti tule meetings Miss Bailey lias several dates foi fanners Institutes to fill yet tlii spring A NEW CANAL ON MARS Positive Proof That Flanet Is Iniiabi ed Claims Professor Lowell A new canal on Mars a thousaM miles long has been discovered b Professor Percival Lowell of the Flag staff observatory Arizona This it evidence according to the astronomer that the planet is inhabited The an nouir ement of the discovery wa when it was first observed Professoi FARMERS HINTS ON LIVING Drop Style Pay Your Debts Buy For Cash and Look Ahead Be a farmer and snap your fingers at the monopolists says O C Siggs worth a Venango county Pa agricul turist But if you must live in the city he says then buy your apples when they are at rock bottom prices and make apple butter Lay in fiftj quarts of tomatoes when they are cents a peck and preserve them I take issue with those who sa things cost more than they used to he continued In 1S72 1 pi id 1 foi four pounds of green coffee V2M cents a pound for sugar 13 cents a pound for prunes and 23 cents a pound foi rice I paid 3 for a hat 1 could bu now for 1 3 for gloves that I could duplicate now for 130 43 cents a yard for checking for shirts 10 for wedding boots and S for an ordinary pair of shoes The wage earner is hampered by credit He goes into debt for twe weeks and his money has to be paid out the day he gets it It would be better for him to go hungry- for two weeks than never to have any monej ahead My advice to those who dont like life on a farm is Drop style pay your debts buy for cash and look ahead Actors Want Postal Savings Bank A petition has been put in circulation among actors and other theatrical folk advocating the establishment of a post al savings bank in the United States The petition is directed to congress and reads We the undersigned en gaged in the theatrical business de sire to express our interest in the pas sage of a bill establishing a postal sav ings bank as an adjunct to the United States postal service Such a depart ment would be of the greatest service not only to several hundred thousand people connected in some capacity with the acting business but to every one compelled by business to travel con tinually PKOFESSOB PEBClVAIi IiOWKTjIi made the other day to Professor S W Burnham of the Yerkes observatory Professor Lowell spent a few liours ir Chicago recently on his way west Not only did he see the new canal but he photographed it Previous pho tographs of this region made as latt as last May failed to show any tract jf the canal The fact that it devel oped between May and September HIS VERY WORDS WATER EXPERTS mimEmmsmimsmnsBss The Property Man Cheerfully Cluster Them to Beerbohm Trco Beerbohm Trco the English actor had a comical experience on it ir i University of Missouri at Columbia h1 pist tl I I tl PI I 11 u mm imii ivu a huiv iiiin auu is n l tlVii to friiuiv tmil iiiirHfiiiirl I - t to dinners wives Pnder the direct h n file last act I he had arranged that 111 uisioui ericu ijy giiiet ni u 1 I s of the fairies in Windsor lor e- make one herculean effort U climb the oak tree The pegs thif were to serve as supports fr that in were always conspicuous by their ah fence Ci the mcrning before the pvr formance Mr Tree was told the should positively be tbed on the tree The morning came Irt with it no p Iloqueuce was siiJlcd i ven invective faltered He pointed to the tree an with the calm of despair blurted out to the defaulter No pes Such an ejaculation spoken mere h sorrow than in anger would he hoped appeal to that last remnant of con science whifh evi ih papier mai hi bosoii of 1 1 ro ert man might be UMp kv 1 to letain In the everii there was a dress rehearsal but still no pegs could be seen Mr Tree form quivered beneath the padding with pent up emotions and in a torrent of passion and a voice shakoi by right eons wrath he exclaimed Where are those pegs Pegs pegs exclaimed the pi pet ty master with exasperating affability Why guvnor what was your onN to me this morning No pegs And there aint none London Tit Bits Feats of Diving That Are Performed by Swedish Swimmers The Swedes delight in combination diving and two men will perioral many clever feats together One of the most grotesque of these is wlwu one man stands upright on a spring board and tightly clasps another man body round the waist holding Inni head downward and putting his own head through the mans legs When the upright man springs from th board he throws his legs into the air so that the two men clasping each oth er tightly round the waist turn a soni ersauit and when they reach the v a ter the man who started upside dowi arrives feet foremost The handspring dive is a very eflec tive specialty of Swedish swimmers The performer takes off from the dic ing board with hands instead of feet turning his body in order to descend feet foremost or somersaulting to ar rive head downward Very graceful also is the back dive in which the spring is made backward the body turning toward the spring board Double somersault dives are made from platforms thirty to fifty feet high the diver making two turns in the air and entering the water feet foremost London Saturday Review An Effective Alarm Flannigan had been discharged from the artillery and went to live in a cot tage in his native village One day he left on a weeks visit to some distant relatives and a day later the village constable was standing at his door when he heard the sudden boom of the rusty cannon Flannigan had mounted on his front hedge An instant later a brick whizzed past the constables ear and smashed his door to smithereens The indignant officer followed by Lowell regarded as positive proof thai tIie populace rushed to Flannigans it was artificial aud therefore that liv ing beings exist on Mars The new canal extends southeast from the region of vegetation known as Syrtis Major through the greal plain of Libya cottage and found It still tenantless but showing signs of recent burgling When Flannigan returned the next week he heard the news and was de lighted Oi prepared for burglars afore Oi wint away he said by thrainin the gun on yer front door constable and connicting it by sacret wires to the doors and windies and loading it wid a brick An it hit the door slap in the middle Bedad Oi wasnt a gun layer in the artillery for nothin Pearsons Weekly Why Hale Would Not Do When X O Nelson the profit sharer decided to transfer his co operative business from St Louis to the country he looked about carefully for a favor able location His personal friend Dr Edward Everett Hale accom panied him on one of his tours in search of this A site was chosen and a name for it was then in order Among others Hale was considered but rejected because as Mr Nelson said the uame differs from its dis tinguished owner in being only four letters long while he was six feet four or thereabouts So Leclaire was A Case of Overcrowding I dont see why I keep on getting so much fatter I only eat two meals a day I know my love but you shouldnt insist upon crowding your breakfast and luncheon into one meal and your dinner and a late supper into the other Cleveland Plain Dealer My An Angel wife always forgives my faults Ive got you skinned to death How My wife forgets mine Cleveland Leader No Glutton The Unsuccessful Counsel Im very sorry I could not do more for you my man The Prisoner Ho Dont apolo gize old sport Five years is enough London Sketch Glory is after all the thintr which has the best chance of not being alto gether vanity Renan P una u i i uimim AiMuiiimii iimmu i AK 1 LlFi U I - i RAILWAY CONDUCTORS The Many and Varied Duties They Have to Perform As a conductor he will probably be gin in the freight service ills caboose will be a traveling ollice and more than that it will carry all the gossip of the division up and down the Hue It may be a homely little car but it is just as sure to be a homelike place From its elevated outlook lie may com mand a good view of the train away I nhead to the engine aud he will be supposed to know all the while that the brakemen are attending to their duties that the train is in good order particularly that there an no hot boxes smoking away and in imminent danger of setting tire to the train and the valuable contents There is a deal of bookkeeping to lie aci oiupllieil in that traveling otllce The conductor will receive the waybills of the cars of his train and their contents and he is held responsible for their safe de liveries to their destination or tin junc tion points where they are to be de livered to other lines When coiiiex to the passenger service then will be t ill more book keeping to i iititniit him aud m will have to In a man of good iiinal at ttiimiMils all the m iny many varieties uf loi al -Mid through tickets mill -age boid pasMs and oth er forms nt iran piiiiaiioii mntt ieis that come to him 10 deic 1 tn from the had im iIii mu mm tin ui terfeits thai are oii iini Si mg tiller ed to him He wil iim in quite a money an nuiii lr i h nnl he kllo ihe nils Ifs 1 Itive In lie paid for nut of -wit pti kei All that is oolv phasi t nis ness lie is iepiiisiiita or tin- ei and safe loedin t of hi iriin eqiinv responsible in iH li witli Hi engineer He iKu ie etes ami the Main miters inil in j requrel to keep in mind everv detail n tin trains progress over the line Me will have his own of quest inns to answer at everv stage of in jnir ney and he will be expected to main tain the discipline ol the lailroad upon its trains Tint may mean in the one instance the ejectment of a passenger who refuses to pay his tare and still he must not involve the road in any big damage suit or in another the sub jugation ot some gang of drunken loaf ers The real wonder of it is that so many conductors come as near as they do to the Chesterfieldian standards Edward Flungerford in Outing Cracked Furniture Ugly marks caused by splits or cracked places in furniture are easily filled in with beeswax and the mark Is never detected In fact this is how furniture dealers cover such blemishes First slightly soften the beeswax until It Is like putty then press firmly into the cracks and smooth evenly with a thin knife Sandpaper over the surrounding wood and work the dust Into the beeswax This gives a wood finish or color and when the furniture Is varnished you will look in vain for the blemishes It is better than putty since putty soon dries crumbles and falls out while beeswax will remain forever just where it Is placed Up and Down Mistress Heres the man for that clock to be repaired Get it for him Nora And shure where is it Mis tressUpstairs of course Nora Faith an I thought it had run down New York Press MARION J E Dodge was a county capital business visitor last midweek Henry Miller from south of Danbury helped at the implement store last week Mrs R E Bacon is rapidly regaining healtb from her recent illness- J T Bnnegar and O II Weaver of Belvidere Nebraska were in town on business last midweek W HEifertand S H Stilgebouer chosen in honor of the pioneer French j were Kanona and Oberlin Kansas profit sharer Worlds Work visitors ono day recently Mrs Wingo from south of Danbury I visited her daughter Mrs Pepper and Mrs C Reed Miss Beall of Woodruff Nebraska is the new clerk in F M McFadaens store We experienced about as cold weather a few days last week as we have had this winter the thermometer being ten below zero with a light skift of snow Saturday night Several from town attended the pub lic sale of George Godowns south of Danbury Friday and of A L Weavers of Gerver precinct Monday After an absence of four weeks Mil ton Greer arrived in town via McCook Sunday his brother A J meeting him at McCook Marion was represented at a Band concert and program at Danbury Saturday- night W M Deck formerly from this place now of Bussey Iowa arrived in town Saturday night en route to his home afrmifrr S7P 0 m mi s m - - mrT mm3 s ntfld wfth ono horeo Alo our flat PUSII KAKE and Boavor Mado MO wiiu Our Clients and Competitors Acknowledge Tnu 225000 Invostod In onr factory to hackonr poods Onr ologant i llustrutnd printed jani tor and prices dollvored at joar staUou sont freo for tho asking AlCERTIFICATKand SOOVENIRFREE THEPLATTNER IMPLEMENT CO DEPT 7 DENVCnj COLO Kindly mention this paper m as xik xa 1 ftiU vmi fmm a trip in Colorado Albert Kemp spent Sunday and Moa dny with frientis in the country The revival meetings are drawing will filled ioties each night BARTLHY Hurry L Brown mido a business trip idomoU WVdnes ny J Fletcher returned from Omaha tbia w ec Operator Shell and wife have moved j to Minden Nebraska Lu e Flint will bo night agent here nft r March 1st Several land buyers have been in this vicinity recently less fnn if Jsidn Nebraska whs here ht t imm visiting bis mother ami S t r Birthday anniversary wa observed by program at the school and lodge room Mr rWiiin has a new barber in his -hot a young iuhii from Lincoln who is a first class artist Krwin llnpt was recently appointed pr f9T of Agroiiiin by the Regents of iho Nebia tUM State University Prof Hopt was once a resident of Hartley and at one time principal of our school For several years be resided with his parentB on a farm a few miles east of Hartley whom they yet reside on one of the beat farms in East Valley j recinct Harry L firown is at Brush Cclo working in the Tribune omce G W Jones with his auto went to McCook Tuesdaj with Mr Urawmer and several other parties who wire to be witnesses in the burglary case Mr Wills and family will move up north next week arid M D Hobbs and fmiily will move into the bouse they vacate Mr Hobbs will only reside here temporarily until the weather warms up Home and then they will go to Colo rado The town was all wrought up this week by the burglary of A J Craw- mers store Both rooms were broken into sometime Monday night and over a hundred dollars worth of goods stolen Two tramps were prowling around town all day Monday aud left in the night Ono of them was found at Indianola and arrested nnd taken to McCook where some of the poods were found on his person The other tramp Lad not been found at this writing Tuesday evening but the officers are after him and hope to get him in a short time CITY CHURCH NKOUNCEMENTS Congregational Preaching at 11 and 8 oclock Sunday school at 10 a m Christian Endeavor 7 oclock Prajer meeting Wednesday evening at eight oclock The public is cor dially invited to these services Rev R T Baynk Pastor Episcopal Preaching services at St Albans church at 11 a m and 730 p m Sunday school at 10 a m Com munion 1st Sundays II a m 3rd Sun days 745 a m each mouth All are welcome to these services E R Earle Rector Catholic Order of services Mass -30 am Mas3 and sermon 1030 am Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday school 230 p m Every Sunday Wm J Kirwin O M 1 Methodist Sunday school at 10 am Sermons by pastor at 11 and 8 Class at 12 Junior League at 3 Epworth League at 645 Prayer meeting Wed nesday night at 743 Bryant Howe Pastor Baptist Sunday school at ten oclock am Preaching at 11 a m and 745 p m B Y P U G5 p m Prayer meeting and Bible study on Wednesday at 8 p m A most cordial invitation is extended to all to worship with us Francis E Iams Pastor Evangelical Lutheran Regular German preaching services in church corner of E and 6th street east every Sunday morning at 1030 All Germans cordially invited Rev Wm Brueggeman 607 5th st East Christian Science 219 Main Ave nueServices Sunday at 11 a m and Wednesday at 8 p m Reading Room open all the time Science literature on sale Evangelical Lutheran Congrega tional Sunday School at 930 a m Preaching at 1030 a m and 730 p m by pastor Junior C E at 130 p m Senior C E at 700 p m Prayer meetings every Wednesday and Satur day evenings at 730 All Germans cordially mvited to these services Rev GcstavHenkelmakn 505 3rd street West s 1 I A