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The
First
National
Bank of Mccook
is tho oldost NATIONAL BANK
in Southwestern Nebraska
and in point of Capital
Surplus and Undivid
ed Profits90000
tho strongest
Wo give you a personal invita
tion to make this bank your de
pository whether you have a small
sum or a largo ono to lay aside for
safo keeping
OFFICKRS AND DIRECTORS
B M FEEES Pies
H P WAITE V Pres
F A PENNELL Cash
L TIIORGRIMSON Asst cash
H P SUTTON C H BOYLE
By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Entered at postoffice BlcCook Nebraska as
second class matter Published weekly
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
RAILROAD ITEMS
A new roof is being placed tho black
smith shop this week
Tank No 792 has been repaired and
repainted and is now ready for service
Way car 14133 has been overhauled
and repainted and is now ready for the
road
Fireman E W Houser is back from
Tronton where ho recently sold his
place
Mrs Frank Conley and Mrs J M
Smith depart this evening for Brown
lee this state to be absent indefinitely
Nick Snyder has resigned from the
air service and has been succeeded by
S D Ilughes Nick goes onto a farm
nenr Trenton
Storekeeper E C Hill has been trans
ferred to Alliance and expects to leave
for that p ace on Saturday night the
family to follow shortly
Joseph Knbick closed a term of 22
years service for the Burlington Tues
day morning and with his family de
parted on No 14 the same night for
his homo in Kansas Tho railroad boys
remembered faithful and reliable Joe
with a handsome and splendid chair be
fore his departure All join The Tri
bune in wishing him contentment and
success on his fine farm down in Kan
sas
Joe Is Thankful to the Boys
In closing up a period of 22 years ser
vico in tho mechanical dopartmont of
tho McCook division of tho Burlington
road I wish to thank tho boys of tho
mechanical department for tho beauti
ful present which was prosonted to mo
I wish you all a long life and prosperity
Joseph Kobick
Switch engine 1334 is undergoing
quite extensive ropairs in tho round
house this week
James Burton who servod his time
hero resumed work in tho machinists
ranks Wednesday noon
Engine 1751 is over drop 2 for usual
ropairs cylinder driving brasses now
paint etc also sot of new flues
Now engines in this week for general
overhauling are 13 299 and 1050
Those just out of tho backshop are 133
18 and 1092
February holds tho record for amount
of work finished in tho local shops
General ropairs wero given four engines
and nine received tho No 5
ADDITIONAL PERSONALS
MrsHP Waitk went down to Crete
Wednesday morning Miss Edith not
being well
Mesdamka Mackechnie and Dolan
of Indianola were up Monday to have
some studio work done
Miss Anna Sickler succeeds Miss
Ethel Morrissoy resigned as steno
grapher for the McCook Electric Co
Mrs L M Copkland of Minden
visited her daughter Mrs J G Scho
bel close of la it and early part of the
present week
Mrs Nole Milburn and daughter
Mildred of Minden arrived in tho city
Tuesday evening and were tho guests
of Rev and Mrs Bryant Howe until
this evening
THE TOWN CRIER
Was put out of business
by Printers Ink
PRINTERS INK Will Get Business
For YOU We Do Up to Date
JOB PRINTING - TRY US
Pneumonia follows a cold but never
follows the use of Foleys Hon y and
Tar which stops the cough heals the
lungs and expels the cold from the sys
tem A McMillen
ring is Here
And we must all get busy And we want to tell you we have
just received our spring shipment of
John Deere Implements
This line is so favorably known and in such general use that
it is not necessary to dwell on the subject as the are recog
nized as
The Worlds Best Line
While we have a good stock we want to serve you and have
the goods ready for you in plenty of time and we will appre
ciate your early orders for these SPLENDID IMPLEMENSS
But do not forget the cows which
give you a profit all the year
Come in now and get a
Sharpies
or
Blue Bell
Separator
and get the profits from your cows
McCook Hdw Co
West B street
Our
Business
and mission in lifo is to show tho
ladies how charming thoy aro
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
Jesse Pkedmore is homo for a short
visit to tho folks
CoyBuknett was up from Lincoln
end of week visiting the family
HIiPaden of Norton Kansas grad
uate pharmacist is McMillens new
clerk
Miss Mabel Leland is visiting her
sister Mrs L M Best in Kirby Wyo
ming
Miss Minnie Pade visited Hostinjrs
relatives last week returning home on
Thursday night
Mrs Hauold P Waite was hostess
at the gathering of the Whist club last
Thursday evening
D L Bower departed Monday for
his new home near Wray Colo where
he has a half section
W E Bower departed on 13 Wed
nesday for Denver He will visit in
Wray and Yuma briefly on route
Miss Helen Burns who has been a
student at tho New England Conserv
atory of Music Boston is at home ar
riving last week
Miss Stella Faus returned home
close of past week from her trip and
visit down in New Mexico where she
has relatives living
Mr and Mrs Norman Silver 3re en
tertaining a baby daughter whose birth
day will be suitably observed each Feb
ruary 27th hereafter
R E Lant and family have moved on
to the farm in the southwestern part of
the count and Cedar Bluffs Kansas is
their posloffiea address
Miss Elizabeth Dacgherty closed a
term of school in District st Friday
This is the third successful term Miss
Daugherty has taught in Gerver pre
cinct
Inspector Gregory of Nebraska
high schools was in the city Monday
night leaving on the following morn
ing up the Imperial branch in the line
of duty
W B Mills returned from Grand
Rapids Mich last Sunday after a visit
of three weeks with his mother and sis
ter He reports his mothers condition
as but slightly improved
C E Law of Saranac N Y an old
time friend and former partner in Glen
wood Springs Colorado has been tho
guest of C A Fisher the past week
leaving for home today
L H Lindemann came in from Iowa
last week Thursday night and packed
up their household goods for shipment
The family accompanied him to Denver
fore part of this week
Miss Lillie Farrell left Saturday
for her homo in Colorado Springs Colo
rado She has been living with her
sister Mrs R W Burge here and for a
while was employed on this paper
Mr and Mrs Authur Dodge of
Sutwyn Manitoba Canada are here
visiting relatives in McCook and Mar
ion He is running an extensive dairy
in Canada with success and profit
Albert Berry came in from the road
Saturday and will visit the mother and
family for a few weeks While resting
up he is overseeing and assisting in
some improvements to the home nest
a new porch etc
William Byfield returned last
Thursday from his visit to his aged
and ailing mother in Canada The
mother is past 90 years of age and while
some brighter when he left is gradually
passing away from earth with the in
firmities of old age
E J Brady of the postoffice force
was the representative of Branch No
1386 in the state convention United Na
tional Association of Postoffice Clerks
held in Omaha Februaay 22 A lunch
eon at the Calumet and a ball at the
Rome hotel were among the courtesies
extended the visiting clerks by the clerks
of tho Omaha office
L Morse that magnificently reliable
old stand patter from Benkelman took
in some of the attractions at the Tem
ple last week While The Tribune
did not have the pleasure of greeting
the old warhorse from the state of Dundy
we did note that Leonidas was himself
again as much so as might be since the
crown and sceptre passed from his splen
did control for the boys in that satrapy
CAUTION IN THE MINT
They Almost Strain the Air to Save
Particles of Gold
It has been aptly said that no miser
guards his treasure more religiously
than Ducle Sum watches over the pre
cious metals that pass through his
mints Then too the precautions
against waste are almost Innumerable
Every evening In each of the mints
of the United States the floors of the
melting rooms are swept cleaner than
a New England housewifes kitchen
The dust is carefully put aside and
about ouce In two months the soot
scraped from every flue Is transferred
to the same precious dust heap This
Is then burned and from Its ashes the
government derives no Inconsiderable
Income The earthenware crucibles
used in melting are employed no more
than three times They are crushed
beneath heavy rollers and In their
porous sldos are found flakes of the
precious metal
In the melting room when the cast
ers raise their ladles from the melting
pots a shower of sparks fly from the
molten surface of the metal For the
most part they are bits of incandes
cent carbon but clinging to the car
bon Is often a minute particle of met
al Lest such particles should escape
the ashes and clinkers below the fur
naces are gathered up at night This
debris is ground into powder by means
of a steam crusher and then is sold to
a smelter like ordinary ore at a price
warranted bj the assayer
The ladles that stir the precious met
al the big iron rods the strainers and
the dippers all are tested in a most
curious fashion After considerable
use they become covered with a thin
layer of oxidized silver closely resem
bling a brown rust The implements
are then laid in baths of a solution of
sulphuric acid which eats away the
iron and steel and leaves the silver
untouched
Gradually the ladle or whatever the
implement is will disappear and in
its place remains a hollow silver coun
terpart of the original delicate as
spung glass These fragile casts repro
duce the ladle with perfect accuracy
in all its details although their sur
faces are perforated with innumerable
little holes Scarcely have they been
molded however before they are cast
into a crucible to become in time dol
lars quarters and dimes
In one corner of the melting room
there is a large tank into which new
ly cast silver bars are dropped and
left to cool Infinitesimal flakes of sil
ver scale off and rise to the surface of
the water which acquires the metallic
luster of a stagnant pool Here is
silver that must not be lost so be
neath the pipe through which the tank
is emptied is banked a thick layer
of mud As the water filters through
it the mud retains the precious resi
duum Four times a year this mud
is removed and each experiment dis
closes the fact that some 50 has been
saved Baltimore American
His Text
The three-year-old hon of a Metho
dist minister was with his mother at
a gathering of ladies At the proper
time he was given a cooky He ale it
in short order and asked for another
The hostess said
Ill give you another if you will
sing for us
Cant sing was his reply but I
know something I can say
That will do all right the lady an
swered expecting to hear Twinkle
twinkle little star or some other
nursery classic
But the little fellow drew himself up
in real Sunday school fashion and said
his piece
God loveth a cheerful giver
The lady gave him the cooky and
tho -whole company seemed to be very
cheerful about it Harpers Magazine
A Water Telescope
Norwegian fishermen use a water
telescope to ascertain the position ol
the herring shoals This is the way
to make the water telescope
Procure a tube made of tin and fun
nel shaped about three and a half feet
long and ten inches in diameter at the
largest end It should be wide enough
at the top to take in the observers
eyes and the inside should be painted
black At the bottom or wide end a
clear thick piece of glass must be in
serted with a little lead in the form
of a ring to weight the tube When
the instrument is immersed in clear
water it is astonishing how many
fathoms down the observer can see
The Sybarites
The Sybarites were the inhabitants
of the ancient city of Sybaris in
southern Italy founded 720 B C They
were so greatly addicted to voluptu
ousness and self indulgence that theii
name became a byword among the
peoples of antiquity The word syba
rite is used at the present day to de
note a person devoted to luxury and
pleasure
Sometimes There Isnt
Flubbe Im going into the manu
facture of something there ought to
be money in
Dubbe What are you going to man
ufacture
Flubbe Pocketbooks and purses
London Telegraph
Why He Couldnt Work
The Lady My usband sir as sent
me to say e wont be able to come
and do the little job you arst im to
Es promised to go round the town
with the unemployed London M A P
One More Disappointment
Poor old Myer is dead 1 see lie
led a life- full of disappointments
TIow glad he would have been to
see his name in print Fliegende
Blatter
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H C CLAPP
Dry Goods - Millinery - Ladies Furnishings
We Desire to Announce Our
Opening Display
of Spring Millinery
on Friday and Saturdayl
March 11 and 12
TTi nou
On these two afternoons
exhibition a very beautiful
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stii hi
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and evenings we will have on
line of the latest MILLINERY
NOVELTIES including an
unusual number of
Latest
Imported
Models
and many very artistic cre
ations from our own work
rooms
Our display will also in
clude many beautiful hats
which can be offered our
customers at prices from
500 Tfgj
to SI 500
A cordial invitation to visit our store is ex
tended to all Your presence will be welcome
HC CLAPP
EXCLUSIVE DRY GOODS MILLINERY LADIES FURNISHINGS
Phone 56
222 flain avenue
McCook
MofFareatBMapers
Hot Cakes and 3 Star Coffee
White Flakey Bread from Pure Gold Flour
Cheese with Mixed Nuts
Fresh Fish Oysters and Wince Pie
Oranges Bananas and Apples
220 Main ave
McCook
Phone 14
THE TRIBUNE Office for Office Supplies
HjPJWAITECO
HAVE just received large consignments spring
11 goods in theirHardvare Harness and Farm Ma
chinery Departments They wish at this time to call
especial attention to the famous
Molinc Line
of Disc andJPipe Frame Harrows Plows and Listers
The WESTERN BELLE and TRI BELLE LISTERS are
toowell known to require any recommend from them
but in the
Lay By Listed Corn Cultivator
theyjhavega machine they wish an opportunity to
show to every farmer who plants corn They also
sell that best of all seeding machines the
Superior End Wheel Disc Drill
and wiU have a supply of them on hand in a few days
Call and see them before buying anything in their
lines
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