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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1910)
M i l m V y V s m v S LU J Tltte Farmers Wifes Best Friend Old Dutch Cleanser Does all the cleaning about the houso and farm and keeps everything spick and span for 10c a month just try it The fanners wife has a ready help in this handy all round cleanser that will save her much labor and tune It does the work of all old fashioned clean ers easier quicker better Cleans Scrubs ScoursPolishes Pots Pans Kettles Mlk Pails Separators etc The Best Way- To clean woodenware tables panby shelves etc etc Wet the article sprinkle with Old Dutch Cleanser and rub with wet cloth or brush wipe up with clean water wring cloth tight ly and wipe dry It cleans clean and is hygien ic ec caustic or acids avoid them 10 ySESSSm LARGE SBFTER CAN DAN3URY The county superintendent Miss Elizabeth Bettcher was in Danbury close of last week on business of her office Jake Clouse and family went over to Clayton Kansas Sunday to see the wreckage of the great railroad accident at that place last week Rev Miller and family departed Monday night for Riverton Nebraska where he will preach during the com ing year Rex Miles will move to California shortly after October 6th D C Boyer and mother attended the funeral of Mrs Burgess at Leb anon Sunday Mr and Mrs T E McDonald and daughter Beth and J L Sims were McCook visitors last Thursday Perry Cathcart was a Danbury vis itor Thursday Prof Gibbs of Lebanon was a vis itor here last Saturday S H Stilgebouer of Marion was a visitor from Saturday to Sunday Jere Noe and George Miller were McCook visitors last Friday A basket supper will be served in the town hall October 8 Slight rain Sunday The lightning struck R O DeMays building but did not cause much damage Drink Wedding Breakfast coffee and be happy At Hubers only INDIANOLA Earl Allen and Dr Minnick were in Omaha last week on business Rrank Marsh and family returned to their home in Bloomfield Monday evening Archie McNeil and Verne Short went to Omaha to attend the Aksar ben this week Mrs Baxter Mrs Stothard and Georgie Short left for Excelsior Springs Mo for a visit Tuesday night Mrs W H Allen was a McCook visitor last week Miss Fox took up the work in the primary room Monday Mr and Mrs R H Thomas were up to McCook on business Saturday Ida and Fred Lafferty were visitors at the R H Thomas home Sunday Mr Cox is expected back for Sun day services Quite a little shower fell Sunday afternoon Mr Quick and Flora returned home from Denver Monday morning C C Bauer is extra agent at- Bart ley while the Bartley agent is away on a vacation i Mrs Wm Collings of Denver is visiting at the Elmer home Mrs Chas Collings and Mrs Geo Burt were called to Colorado by the serious illness of Mrs Fred Burt The Christian Endeavor of the Con gregational church held their monthly business meeting and social out to May Hotzes R F D No 1 Mr and Mrs Jacob Randel of Red Willow returned Tuesday night from visiting in Indiana with relatives several of whom accompanied them back to Nebraska on a visit September 2Sth was stork day on route one This is the record A boy at the home of S J Hughes a girl at William Walls and a boy and girl at Henry Hoffmans Jr Miss Alma Noe opened school in district No 3 Monday Mike Eschs new barn was in the way of a bolt of lightning last Sun day The barn was slightly damaged and a calf surrendered its young life to the fluid Barn was insured to cover damage Lightning killed one of William Baumbachs horses last Sunday Its life was insured George V Corell has gone to Cul bertson where he will engage in the confectionery business Harri Meyer and family expect to depart next week for Nebraska City their new home R F D No 3 Nice rain on south half of route 3 Sunday afternoon School opened in district 86 Octo ber 3rd with Miss Sallie Hawkins as teacher During the rain Sunday lightning set fire to prairie burning over quite a strip of country Francis Albrecht is helping Mrs George Rowland with the housework this week George Sigwing will move to Colo rado soon Daisy Albrecht is visiting her brotr er Joe in McCook this week School opened in the Nothnagle school house Monday A Reliable Medicine Not a Narcotic Get the genuine Foleys Honey and Tar in the yellow package It is safe and effective Contains no opiat es A McMillen Druggist Subscribe for The Tribune M 3i 3 tHf S 3 Magna tf fjrWX MANY MILES APART Not many years ago telephone service was confined to the larger cities but now twenty millions of people throughout the country are at the other end of every Bell telephone Twenty millions of people day and night up in Maine or out in California connected by eight mill ion miles of wire await at the far end of your line That is why your Bell telephone is valuable Jlv Nebraska Telephone Co 4 EVERY BELL TELEPHONE IS A LONG DISTANCE STATION To the Voters of Red Willow County whatever and rather than let Dodge do it for nothing he was willing to pay for it and have it right It was not the first time that Mr Sughroue was at Ritchies for advice The 2500 was not for the special tax notice alone but for three or four times when the whole board includ ing Sughroue went to Ritchies office to have him look up points of law and at other times they called him before the board At dozens of times the board has had me read law to them in Mr Dodges pres ence and I had to act as county at torney while he was drawing the sal ary If the board has no right to al low that sum to Ritchie as Dodge stated to individuals in the last few days then Dodge as county attorney is not doing his duty by not holding up the payment of the warrant or by going to court and suing the board WHY wasnt Dodge present at the meeting of the board when said res olution was adopted and said claim allowed to advise the board on both propositions Why he was election eering at Indianola that day WHY doesnt Pontius tell his read ers that Dodge attends the commis sioner meetings very seldom when the law directs him to be the legal advisor of the county board and at tend all their meetings Not only did the county board get advice from Ritchie but so did a good number of other officers for months and Mr Sughroue was the first man on the board that openly said at the commissioner meeting that the claim was not a bit too high His signature is on the claim approv ing it and ordering its payment Dont you think that the 2500 ought to be deducted from Dodges salary Pontius continuously harps about my loafing over the country when hundreds of people at McCook will tell him that I spend more time at the court house than ony other of ficer WHY doesnt he tell his readers that this summer Dodge spent two weeks either at Marion or electioneer ing when there were from one to half a dozen people calling for him here every day Talk about misleading malicious statements No one can ever beat Pontius record on that He has told his readers time and again that I drew a salary of 280000 which the commissioners allowed me I cer tainly wish he was right as I could use the money That salary talk is the most childish talk ever put up by a grown man Ask some ten-year-old child in your public school and MARION H A Reed was a Danbury business visitor Monday afternoon Robert McWilliams of Indianola helped in the lumber yard last week Arthus Rozell is a new hand in the mill beginning the first of the week L D Gockley and wife were out of town visitors Sunday L D Newberry has leased the livery barn and will use it for a feed stable J E Noe of Danbury put down a well for E G Caine Co Friday Grandma Gockley was a Cedar Bluffs visitor between trains Tues day E Galusha plastered Caine Cos office the first of the week Ralph Smith left last midweek for Ashland Neb to visit relation Geo Godown of Danbury was in town between trains one day last week Mrs A J Green did some shopping in McCook a few days last week George Rogers and wife of Fontan els Iowa visited his sister Mrs San den north of town a few days last week F M McFadden had a car of sand hill potatoes on track the first of the week but they didnt last long Wilbur Haven of Fairview is help ing E Galusha with his work R F D No 4 Still dry except where they irri gate the roadd Weed3 are becoming too tall along the roads Where are the mowing machines Tlie road master could ease us up a little by making it less difficult to climb up on the bridges Otherwise Ave will have to use ladders Then it is hard on ones dinner bumping off them R S McDonald has been working for W S Morlan in the city for the past week or so on the stone work on improvements at the residence It surely did blow some Tuesday For More Than Three Years Foleys Honey and Tar has been a household favorite for coughs colds and ailments of the throat chest and lungs Contains no opiates A Mc- Millen Druggist fe Continued from Fourth Page it will tell Pontius two things he evidently doesnt know First that the salary of the county clerk of ev ery county in the statte is fixed by the statute and that the commission ers can not raise or lower it a cent Second that the county clerks of fice is absolutely a fee office and does not cost the taxpayers one cent outside of work actually performed for them The county pays the same fees as an individual as regulated by law It pays four cents a line for making the tax lists 30000 a year for clerk of the hoard which means the filing of claims keeping commis sioner record drawing warrants and many other duties it pays 25c for issuing a certificate of elec tion 100 for recording official bonds 200 a day for canvassing elections and it doesnt pay a cent for a hun dred of minor matters that come up daily All the work in this office is piece work and it is paid for as the work is done All the fees from the county and those collected from in dividuals are put together and every cent accounted for to the county The county clerk gets 1500 a year not a cent more and not a cent less and he would get 1500 a year if Pon tius were county clerk The balance of the fees pay first the salary of the deputy who gets 80000 and the assistant who gets 4500 a month or 54000 a year making a total of 284000 for the whole office force which is still 16000 less than the county treasurers office which pays 300000 to two persons And they earn it every cent of it and are en titled to it and yet there is not two thirds the work in that office there is in the clerks office If the total amount of fees earned over runs 284000 the balance must be paid and always has been paid into the treasury If the amount of fees falls short the county does- not pay the balance We simply would be that much short on our salaries If the amount allowed the office force would be less than above figures the fees to be turned over to the treasurer would be heavier So would Pontius profit from his paper be heavier if he would pay his office help less Neither the law nor the taxpayers expect this office to be a money-making institution for the county They expect the very best and efficient ser vice and all records kept up to date The Reporter tries to compare this county with other counties Why doesnt he tell that the total amount of fees in Red Willow county in 1909 was 276592 while in Frontier coun ty it was 219693 A little differ ence in the amount of work to be performed wasnt it He says that BARTLEY Mr and Mrs Ira Ritchie and fam ily returned to their home in Waun eta Tuesday night after a short visit here with homefolks Dr Arbogast has gone to Bird City where he will practice medicine for a time at least Frank Doak who has been playing ball with the Breckinridge Colo base ball team this summer is spend ing a few days here visiting friends He intend to go to Minnesota this vinter F G Stilgebouer returned Tues day morning from Omaha where he went to attend the Bankers conven tion He reports a very pleasant and profitable time A J Crawmer and S W Clark are in Omaha attending this week Mrs E D Hatborn is in Hastings this week S W Stilgebouer and wife of Mar lon came over Saturday for a short visit with home folks All grades of Oxford flour and each sack guaranteed at the McCook Flour and Feed Store u iBs POWDER Absolutely Pure The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Gream of Tartar No Alum No Lime Phosphate oc - Hitchcock county pays only 180000 If he would have said 220000 he would have told the truth All of Hitchcock county together does not make as much of a tax list as the towns of this county alone This whole proposition was placed before the people squarely in the campaign of 1909 when the Red Willow County Standard ably assisted by Mr Dodge stirred up the matters and the peo ple have spoken very plainly that time WHY dont they tell their readers that as far back as 1901 ten years ago the commissioners Bolles Water man and Reddy two Republicans and one Democrat allowed R A Green the Democratic clerk one deputy and one assistant as I can show by the commissioner record of that time and further that in 1902 the board composed of Waterman Reddy and Bennett one Republican and two Democrats allowed E J Wilcox the same number WHY dont they tell that this number was allowed every year since regardless of who was clerk or commissioner except in 1906 and 1907 when my predecessor had two assistants beside the deputy making four persons in all in the of fice and one of those assistants was Pontius RELIABLE AUTHORITY McCook correspondent They were required at the time In his deceptive statement Pontius has repeatedly said that I got 2800 trying to convey the impression that I got that amount myself nothing said about the assistants He tried to convey the idea that they got pay extra Pontius Dodge and a few narrow minded incompetent fellows like them simply want to punish me and they can have all the fun they can get out of it If a campaign of blackmail slander and mud throwing which is their long suit will dis credit me with the voters of this county all right I am ready for them We shall see who has the conffdence of a large majority of the people of the county they or I WHY doesnt Pontius talk about the hold up attempted by him by charging 50 more for printing com missioner proceedings than the law allowed 50 more than the county ever did pay 50 more than either Barnes or Kimmell asked for and 100 more than the bid filed by Ed Byfield while at the same time Pontius was howling about the others asking too much and claiming that the bid was still good I have an extra statute here that I would like to loan him a while so he can post up on these matters Respectfully CHAS SKALLA The Widow Perkins Out of the fullness of his experience Samuel Weller ejaculated beware of the vidders but then neither Dick ens nor Weller had known The Wid ow Perkins who is to be at the Temple theatre one night only Mon day Oct 10 General Butler wise in his know ledge of the world described a widow as onewho knows what she wants and is not afraid to ask for it He must have known The Widow Per kins The Widow is the central character in the one and only decid edly novel musical comedy to be pre sented here this season The Widow knows what she wants she has the desire to present to the public some thing different something out of the ordinary melodrama with its stabb ings and stabbings and out of the musical comedy which is a thread to hold together a lot of second rate specialties The widows motto is Laugh Youll scream and in order to make you do this the management has grouped together AVarda the greatest character impersonator of ec centric females on the stage Gruber and Kew the unique comedy duo and wonderful musical artists and a sup porting company evenly balanced and exceptionally clever Special scenery is carried for each act including the great transformation Watermelon scene the Indian Tepee scene and the Lake of Killarney so that the settings shall be of equal merit They are determined to give you something different something that will make the name of The Widow Perkins a household word and in order to do that every detail must be just right This seasons feature df The Wid ow Perkins is the Dance du Vam pire with elaborate stage settings and handsome French costumes an act long to be remembered founded on the theme of Burne Jones paint ing and Kiplings poem Prices 25c to 75c Good results have always followed the use of Foleys Kindey Pilis They contain just the ingredients neces sary to tone strengthen and regu late the kidneva and bladder and to cure blackheads A McMillen Drug gist y PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY DR BEACH Physician and Surgeon Office over McConnells drug store rooms 2 and 3 phone 99 Residence 512 1st st E phone 185 J A TOREN M D Surgeon Removed to Tremaine Bldg corner Homan avenue and Adams street Chicago 111 ROLAND R REED M D Physician and Surgeon Local Surgeon B M Phones Office 163 residence 217 Office Rooms 5 6 Temple building McCook Neb DR J O BRUCE Osteopath Phone 55 Office over Electric Theatre on Main Ave DR HERBERT J PRATT Registered Graduate Dentist Office 212 Main av over Mc Connells drug store Phones Of fice 160 residence black 131 DR R J GUNN Dentist Phone 112 Office Rooms building McCook 3 and 5 Walsh DR J A COLFER Dentist Phone 378 Room 4 Postoffice building Mc Cook Neb R H GATEWOOD Dentist Phone 163 Office Room 4 Masonic temple McCook Neb DR EARL O VAHUE Dentist Phone 190 Office over McAdams Cook Neb store C E ELDRED Lawyer Bonded Abtracter and Examiner of Titles Stenographer and notary In office McCook Nebraska JOHN E KELLEY Attorney at Law and Bonded Abstracter Agent of Lincoln Land Co and of McCook Water Works Co Office in Postoffice building McCook Neb JAMES HART M R C V S Veterinarian Phone 34 Office Commercial barn McCook Nebraska MARTIN HANSON D V S Veterinary Surgeon Residence at Indianola Nebraska Phone 105 L C STOLL CO Jewelers Opticians Eyes tested and fitted Fine re pairing McCook Neb H P SUTTON CO Jewelers and Opticians Watch Repairing Goods of quality Main avenue McCook Nebraska C W DEWEY Auctioneer Will cry sales anywhere any time at reasonable prices Dates made at First Natl Bank or phone Red 381 McCook Neb JENNINGS HUGHES CO Plumbing Heating and Gas Fitting Phone 33 Estimates fagrnlshed freeBasement Postoffice buTldfng A G BUMP Real Estate and Insurance Office 302 over Woodworths drug store -- 1 MLS 4 i I i r J