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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1910)
4i DR PRICES rm will keen you postedlmut -these people and every Body -else you know over the state See the editor ofHhis paper for a special S3 rate for next year A Jh 143 A food compounded from Wheat Oats Rice and Barley Most palatable nourishing and healthful food Ask Your Grocer MARION J II Wicks was to Orleans on bus- -mess a few days the first of the week Flojd Laferty left last mid week for a short visit with the Rodmans ef Hill City Kansas formerly of this place Maxwell Ralsten was up the first pf pst wep and started a motor sycle he sold to Dr Bartholomew i owe1 Nfilsson shipped four car loads of fat cattle to St Joe the first of lat week Maricn Powell came up frciu Lincoln and accompanied the shipment L D Gookley from Dry Creek was in town a few days the first of the week Earl Keih who lives north df town was quite badly hurt by having a horss fall with him while riding near Ihelr home one day last week Earl was confined to his bed several days however with a bruised side and hip Mr and Mrs J C Lafferty re turned irom their Missouri trip the first of last week Mrs Lafferty io u greatly improved by the oper aten she underwent EmasL Galu ha was considerably uder the weather last week County Attorney Sidney Dodge and g andson Cassius came over from Mc Cook lat mid week Cassius return ed to McCook Saturday evening ac companied by his wife and children Jasper Hove who has been work ing in the Eifert store for some months left Tuesday for his home in Trenton Willie Wyckoff accom panied him Rumor says that Will Rozell has rented the hotel and livery barn at Cedar Bluffs and expects to take pos session some time this week Mr and Mrs G T Plumb who have been visiting relatives at Ash land since Thanksgiving returned home the first of last week Mrs Mary Brott came down from Hern Ion last week for a visit at the home of her daughter Mrs F E Lafferty north of town Sam McKague from west of Cedar Bluffs was on oir streets Saturday Track Musgrave from south of Danbury did some shopping in our town Friday W C Shcskley of Danbury was on our streets a few days the first of the week The M B A elected the follow ing Gfficers at their meeting Mon day night Pis T F Gockle Yive Pres Esletta Stilgebouer Tvysician W S Bartholomew Koe J Dode Cuiductor W W Radabaugh Treas S H Stilgebouer vTatchman Clara Radabaugh J E Dodge Tnstee J E Dodge Chaplain Mattie Gockley Our Public Library The public library is supported by taxation and its use is free under reasonable regulations to every res ident of the city It contains a wide selection pf books and every effort is made to meet the needs of its patrons The books are so arranged as to be accessible for ex amination and use by any one wheth er a card holder or not They are issued for hcine use to those persons complying with certain library rules and securing cards The reading room receives many current magazines and newspapers It is open to every one Periodicals cover every phase of literature ed ucation history religion business arts fashions music and all the mechanic trades These with a good periodical index form an encycloped ia of current knowledge The use is large It is a pleasant and profi table place to spend an hour Children are provided with spec ial books and extra attention is giv en to aid in School work The library may be the college for many for others it may be the means of increasing the earning pow er Patrons are asked to make their wants known Every resident is entitled to VS card There are 3263 card holders at the present date The lighting of the library was planned byHhe architect who is an artist in huLline and a patron may sit in anyfjartfofthe room and read Ttrith perfecease Vj t LIBRARIAN VW You knowlots of people who nave movedvfrom Hhestate into Lincoln Real Estate Filings The following real estate filing ave been made in the county clerk - since our last report- Marion Powell et al to Bar nett Lumber Co deed 12 in 6 Marion 250 00 Wm A Dolan et ux to J L Sargent wd 4 5 in 18 Indi anola 3500 00 J L Sargent et ux to Wm A Dolan wd 6 pt n in 26 Indiancla 5000 00 Lillie Robinson to Edward E Smith wd ne qr 25-4-27 5500 00 George Theobald et ux to Lil lie Robinson wd blk 7 Springdale Park Bartley 4500 00 V Franklin et ux to William Lewis qcd pt 13-14-15 in 21 McCook 1 00 Cora A McAchran et cons to Joseph A Albrecht wd to in 4 South McCook 25 00 V Franklin et ux to Elling ton C Britt et cons wd 6 in 15 2nd McCook 2000 00 Virginia F Thiessen et cons to Eva M Thiessen wd e hf sw qr 22-1-28 1 00 Henry N Colling to William Nemechek et al wd se qr 11 ne qr 14 -2-28 11200 00 Gaorge Leland et ux to Nels J Johnson wd pt 1 in 9 1st So McCook 1 00 Take Care Remember that when your kidneys are affected your life is in danger M Mayer Rochester N Y says My trouble started with a sharp shooting pain over my back which grew worse daily I felt sluggish and tired my kidney action was ir regular and infrequent I started us ing Foleys Kidney Pills Each dose seemed to put new life and strength into me and I am completely cured and feel better and stronger than for years A weekly newspaper that publishes twenty one columns of good reliable news each week is rare in these days of cheap weeklies intended only to -ell some article that the publisher is interested iu Credit is due The Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer for keeping its columns filled with fresh iaJ up ro dart- Give it s trial subscribing Miroug The McCook Tribune Salesmen Wanted We want I CAN and I WILL men for our permanent sales force This is an opening for the man who wants to be a REAL accident sales man with exceptional money making opportunities If you believe in do ing business on a 100 per cent hon esty basis if you want success if your wishbone is not where your backbone ought to be write us today for full particulars National Fidelity Casualty Co National Fidelity Casualty Bldg Omaha Neb Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture says that this unbound ed prosperity of the agriculturist is not due to chance but is the result c Ocean and Farmer has placed before intelligent scientific business met hods A reader of The Weekly Inter him each week the practical and ap proved methods to which Secretary Wilson refers It is a good invest ment Only S1 2 Wprkly In ter Ocean anu a his papi one j ear Mrs D Gilkeson 326 Ingles Ave Youngstown Ohio gained wisdom by experience My little girl had a severe cold and coughed almost con tinuously My sister recommended Foleys Honey and Tar The first dose I gave her relieved the inflam mation in her throat and after us ing only one bottle her throat and lungs were entirely free from inflam mation Since then I always keep a bottle of Foleys Honey and Tar in the house Accept no substi tutes A McMillen THE INTERMISSION for all kinds MAGAZINES AND DAILIES Temple Building Kansas City Post 5c week DAYS SHAVING PARLOR E M Day Prop Shampoos Face Massage Baths Expert Workmen West B Street -- -- McCook McCOOK MACHINERY AND IRON WORKS Machine Work Blacksmithfng Horse SKoelng 206 1st st E -- Phone red 450 Advertisement for Bids Notice is hereby given that the ounty commissioners of Red Willoi oint Nebraska will receive seal d bids fo the furnishing of the fol owiug supplies o said county tiur ng the yea- 1911 to wit BOOKS One 8 nif re mortgage record plai Cne pcnonal tax ijst for 1011 One real estate tax hot or low tots 1911 One teal estate tax list for farm lands 1911 One 6 qr medium treasurers cash JGOi 7000 tax reeirtc original and uplicate per t 013111I One f1oe chattel mortgage files urnm rtub numbered each L tho raphed warrants one color i oie per thousand 23 sets p unary election poll books tally sheets or all parties and reg ster ol voters all combined in one jook rr book 23 set cneral election poll books per booc 92 poll book envelopes per dozen 46 ballot sacks per dozen 225 primary election Instruto r to Voters per 100 225 general election listractions fo Voters per 100 5000 assessors schedules punched ind folded per thousand 27 assessment schedule binders complete 25 assessors personal assessment books Patent backs for records per quire 21 primary election laws 24 general election laws 1000 loose leaf record blanks print ed form per 100 1909 or 1911 statutes per book All records to be full bound extra tsnds bands and fronts and to be made of Byron Weston 36 lb medium Mnen ledger paper I LEAL BLANKS Size 81x2F printed one side per irst hundred and each additional hundred Size SVx2S printed two side5 per i st hundred and each additio al xundred Size 8xl 1 printed one side per firrt hundred and each additional hundred Size 8xl4 printed two sides per first hundred and each additional hundred Size 8x7 printed one side per first hundred and each additional Size Sx7 printed two sides per first hundred and each additional hundred Size 8x5J2 printed one side per first hundred and each additional hundred Size 8x51 printed two sides per first hundred and each addition al hundred Postal cards printed cards furn ished by county per hundred Ill STATIONERY Class 1 Senate pads 81xl4 per package of 10 Senate pads 4x7 per package of 10 Writing Fluid Carters Sanfords Staffords Arnolds Bankers per1 qua t Lead pencils E Faber No 2 gross Lead pencils Memphisto No copving per dozen Election pencils per gross Velvet pencils rubber tips 557 per gross Venus copying pencils No 165 per dozen Typewriter carbon paper best grade 8xl4 per dozen Tvpe writer ribbon best grade Typewriter paper best grade heavy medium light per ream Mucilage best grade per quart Library paste 8 ounces Utopian each Pen holders cork tip bank each Pens Easterbrook Blyner Bros Glucinum Silver Series per gross Rubber bands No 18 No 16 No 30 and 31 No 002 No 00 per gross Eraser rubber No 102 and No 104 per dozen Blotting paper best grade per pound IV STATIONERY Class 2 Memo heads 6x9 7 pounds flat paper per 1000 Letter heads size 8xll 10 pound bond paper per 1000 Letter heads size 8xll 12 pound flat paper per 1000 Envelopes printed No 6 No 1 rag paper per 1000 Envelopes printed No 10 No 1 rag paper per 1000 Bar dockets 4x7 per page Notice of election per hundred Sample and official ballots for pri mary and general election for 1911 including precinct changes per hun dred Claim blanks against county per 1000 V LEGAL NOTICES COMMISSION ERS PROCEEDINGS AND DELIN QUENT TAX LIST Publishing legal notices per square Publishing commissioners proceed ings per square Publishing delinquent tax lists Separate bids must be furnished on each one of the 5 sections or any one of them All supplies must be furnished as ordered Bids must be addressed to Coun ty Clerk and marked proposals for books blanks stationery and legal printing or any one or more of these items All successful bidders must file good and sufficient bond for the faithful performance of their contract Bids will be opened according to the requirements of the law at the regular meeting of the county board January 10 1911 Sealed bids will be received at the county clerks office up to noon Jan uary 10th 1911 The county commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids and to enter into separate con tract for each one of the five sec tions advertised Dated at McCook Nebraska De cember 8th 1910 CHAS SKALLA County Clerk Subscribe for The Tribune per 77 t I i Vf VM y x JtfVtlrfKJittJM vTflyS MrfV F it- AT7 6 S - V X t y t AVt Z MK vro JJ Vi lj - S f J 1 f i - SH SOX v i n J iy fit - V MADONNA AND CHKIST CHTXD A GH1SMS DRYAD By ADDISON HOWARD GIBSON Copyright 1910 by American Press ciationJ T was Christmas day and the sun shed a golden radiance over the Arizona desert brown breasted and splotched with mesqulte and cactus As the cow pony bore Lela Warren over the indistinct trail Bhe took deep breaths of the ozone of the foothills This is living she cried stretch- ing her arms toward the trees which A TAIX MAX IS ntJNTEns qarh Suddenly a stir in the manzanita bushes behind her attracted her attention Peer ing through the leaves of her re treat Lela saw a tall well built man in hunters garb picking his way through the 5SSS tread of virile manhood resting his rifle against the oak Then he flung himself at its trunk and stretch ed his limbs upon the earth to rest For a minute she studied the In truder debating in her mind the best means of acquainting him with her prior occupancy of that retreat Sud denly a spirit of mischief overcame her and she let fall an oak ball she had plucked from a nearby twig The small green globe struck the man squarely on the head Instantly he sprang to his feet caught up his rifle and began peering up through the live oaks branches You cant challenge me that waj Mr Squirrel he said pointing the rifle upward not with impunity Lela gave a little cough Dont shoot me please she called down I plead guilty She encountered a pair of surprised brown eyes looking up at her Drop ping his rifle to his side the man lifted his hat politely I never shoot dryads he answered I suppose she said a smile hov ering on the lips that you are per fectly familiar with dryads Hardly he answered smiling up at her I know very little except they are said to live in trees Are the other live oaks in this canjon in habited by your cousins A twinkle came into the dryads R A lflS23 S VS338J 2 pardon me If I have seemed overpre sumptuous Having no cards with me Ill introduce myself by telling you 1 am the mining engineer from the Cop per Knhrht property I came over to the mins to do some construction work but the men deserted me for a holiday so in self defense I turned uimrod and found a dryad From her leafy perch the dryad watched the man as he went whistling away over t the spring There was something in his half playful speech and the easy swing of his cait that seemed strangely familiar to hr He was building a tire between some rocks when he called to her If the dryad will look Ill show her bordered the canyon Its grand to hou to Lool a no or nan spenu Christmas all alone by one- IndIan An fle 8howed me fae ex self out on this great desert plained To see me now no one would think 0ver a fire of dry birk and twJ ne me thirty five years old she laughed fised some green mesquite sticks to swinging lightly to a seat on a favor- whieu tue game wag carefnIly sus ing branch of a live oak The west pended The aroma of the broiling has given me back strength youth and rabbits was sufficient to cause the -well In a degree forgetfulness of the drvld ro descend for the ride across past The change has taught me a tm foothills had given her a vigorous wonderful philosophy not to keep appetite trouble She took an apple from her lunch bag and ate it 1 will spread the table she an nounced spreading paper napkins over a smooth rock Here are beef sand wiches olives cheese crackers tig wafers and one large apple she con tinued taking the various articles from her Inn li bag and arranging them on tile improvised table A fe st for a drvad aid the man And a niijrod -he added meeting the boyish riile on lis face wiiu ion fidenc e It viil be a miiiiu Christ mas dinner It will bw the nijst delightful one ever eaten rei klesiii ditited chaparral directly man deftlv turning the ii i ii game toward her tree When iln jiuie wa U in- the two He approached sat down and ate togetliiT with im with the elastic constraint ami with tea t As she stood undei t live iai fas tening up her aiitwiditi light onwu hair which had provoinu tuns down the man trae hei a pwMjr searching gaze I have certain met you befou he said abruptly but before you entered the dryad state Are you from the eastV Formerly from Vermont she answered mas tering the re fractory mass of hair Lela Warren he cried his face glowing with gladness 1 wondered from the first if I hadnt met you in some aeon long ago lela warrex HE And you are cried johu Fletcher she returned shaking hands Then her eyes fell under the radiant light in his Your beard prevented my rec ognizing you before she added 1 was a mere stripling in those days and you a girl just through high school he said Then he asked with gentle reproof Why did you sell the old home Lela and go away without leaving one word for me When 1 re- blue she returned eyes Possibly turned from Europe x searcned every u - v -co where for you but no one knew where Do they all have turquoise eyes like you jad gone this one he asked A shaiow from the past crossed the A frown crossed the dryads face womans face but the mans good natured playing of course you heard that my broth- quickly banished it and she said Oh defaulted Mother and I sold the yes and their color Is beryl looking 0lcl home to settle up for him she ex- at her sage green sweater plained Then we went to Chicago I dont believe he pursued that where I taught school After moth- the woods would reveal another just ers death I came west I am llke you if one looked all day erness for the Evans family at Clrcl Not likely she replied continuing T ranch the play I think all my kind turned Lela he said tenderly I have into topaz when the forest became never forgotten you We are both petrified still unmarried thank God Look The dryad thinking the play had pro- he commanded his boyish spirit re gressed quite far enough made no an- turning as he pointed to a cluster of swer The man started toward the mistletoe that clung to a branch of the spring whistling Suddenly he wheel- oak just above her head As she look ed about and called back ed upward he kissed her muroraring Miss Dryad not being familiar with with endearing accents your code of etiquette I hore you will My Christmas dryad DAVID MAUL Tuner of Pianos South McCook Leave orders with C C Brown in Rishels store I carry a complete line of j hair goods Switches puffs and curls made from 3our combings L Al CLYDE PHONE 72 Ill W B St UP STAIRS UPDIKE GRAIN CO handles the following POPULAR COALS Canyon City Lump Canyon City Nut Maitland Lump Baldwin Lump Sheridan Egg Iowa Lump Rex Lump Pennsylvania Hard These are all coals of highest heat producing qualities Give us your orders they will be filled promptly and to your satisfaction S S GARVEY Manager Phone 169 COAL We now baudle the best grades of Colo and Penna coals in connection with our grain huaines3 Give us a trial order Phone 262 Real Easterday Walter Hosier Drayman Draying in all its branches promptly and carefully attended to Your patronage is earnestly solicited Phone black 244 Leave orders at any of the city lumber yards Osborn Kummer Co DRAY LINE All kinds of Hauling and Trans fer Work -promptly attended to Your patronage solicited Office First Door South of DeGroff s Phone No 13 Fire and Wind I Insurance C J RYAN Flour Feed Several Fine Young RED POLLED BULLS Inquire of Written In First Class Companies A Main av Mjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj White Line Transfer Company Hawkins Sheaffer Props Specialty of moving Household Goods and Pianos Only covered van in city Phones Office G8 residence red 456 FOR SALE y vs JOS DACK McCook R F D No 4 N McCook Tribune 100 a year L fi
