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4v ll V i ft tf If V K i iv o Huiskamps Calendar S h o e s These shoes are- equal to any 500 and 600 shoes on the market They look as well are just as stylish and wear as well cost only 300 and 400 for ladies and 400 for mens With every pair of these shoes you get a calendar on which you mark the date you began to wear them when they are worn out count up the days of service you have had and you will never again buy anything but Calendar Shoes VIERSEN OSBORN McCook THE INTERMISSION for all kinds MAGAZINES AND DAILIES Temple Building Kansas City Post 5c week McCOOK MACHINERY AND IRON WORKS Machine Work Blacksmithlng Horse Shoeing We are agents for the Celebrated Ford Auto 206 1st st E -- Phone red 450 REGULAR CHURCH SERVICES Congregational Sunday school at 10 a m Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m The public cordially invited R T BAYNE Pastor CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Services Sunday at 11 a mf and Wednesday at 8 p m Meets now in the north east corner of court house basement CATHOLIC Order of services Mass 830 a m Mass and sermon 1030 a m Evening services at 800 Sunday school 230 p m WM J PATTON O M I Methodist Preaching by the pas tor at 11 a m and 8 p m Sunday school at 10 a m Epworth League at 7 p m LESTER E LEWIS Pastor EPISCOPAL Sunday school at ten oclock Morning prayer and sermon at eleven oclock Evening prayer and sermon at eight Choir rehearsal as usual every member please attend ALPRIC J R GOLDSMITH Rector EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CON GREGATIONAL 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 730 All Germans cordially invited to at tend these services HENRY KATJERZ Pastor GERMAN EVAN LUTHERAN Ser vices every other Sunday afternoon at 230 oclock REV GROTHEER Pastor Terms of District Court 1911 Chase county April 24 and Novem ber 13 Dundy County March C and No vember 20 Frontier county March 20 and Oc tober 2 Furnas county February 20 May 29 and October 23 Gosper county January 30 and September 25 Hayes county March 13 and Sep tember 18 Hitchcock county May 1 and No vember 27 Red Willow county February 6 May 15 and October 9 Robert C Orr district judge We never hesitate to guarantee Lily Patent flour At the McCook Flour and Feed Store Referees Sale By virtue of an order of sale to me directed by the clerk of the district court of Red Willow county Nebraska on the judgment rendered in said court in the cause wherein TJlyssess E Fox is plaintiff and Har rier E Burns et al are defendants on the 7th day of December 1910 for the partition and sale of the land here inaftsf described I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash on the 14th day of February 1911 at the front door of the court house in said county at one oclock in the after noon of said day the following land to wit The northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty four in township three north range twenty nine west of the 6th P M in said county Dated this 10th day of January 1911 P S BEATON Referee Ritchie Wolff Attorneys First publication Jan 12 5t Her Queer Question The rector of a country parish in England having sent blankets gorcer ies coals and some of the good things usual at Christmas to an old parish ioner a lady expatiated warmly to him on the reverend gentlemans kindness Dont you think she asked the old villager that it is very good of the rector to look after you like this and send you all these nice things Good of him exclaimed the old man in blank amazement Why whats he for Pearsons Weekly A Slap at Whistler A young San Franciscan the owner of a large and valuable collection of autographs once wrote to James Mc Neill Whistler politely requesting his signature The letter was sent in care of the Loudon Royal academy with which the famous American painter was at outs After four mouths the letter was returned to the San Fran cisco address from the dead letter of fice in Washington Covering the en velope was the word repeated num berless times Unknown Boston Could Stand It Ralph Waldo Emerson once made a crushing reply to a man who asked him whether the people in Boston did not feel alarmed Said Emerson What about Said the man Why the world is coming to an end next Monday Emerson replied Im glad of it We can get along a great deal better without it Pleasant The Hosts Youngest Dont your shoes feel very uncomfortable when you walk Mrs Nuryche Mrs Nu ryche Dear me What an extraordi nary question Why do you ask child The Hosts Youngest Oh only cos pa said the other day since youd come into your money youd got far too big for your boots Good Reason I wouldnt be in Browns shoes just now Why not He left them in the cellar and they dumped four tons of coal on them before Brown was up A Long Swallow And you give the giraffe only one lump of sugar asked the little boy at the zoo Oh yes replied the keeper One lump goes a long way with him Yonkers Statesman Left When She Learned I have been spending the week training a waitress What for For the family she is now working for Life Getting In Detot Poverty is hard but debt is horrible a man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife which are said to be the two worst evils ofour life Spurgeon Pretty Poor Hicks Bluffer is talking of purchas ing an automobile Wicks Bluffer Why he couldnt buy a charge of am munition for an air gun Boston Tran script A wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart Dean Swift ImmM LIJUUV Mill- Yours for uni formity Yours for great est leavening power Yours for never failing results Yours for purity Yours for economy Yours for every thing that goes to make up a strictly high grade ever dependable baking powder That is Calumet Try it once and note the im provement in your bak ing See how much more economical over the high priced trust brands how much better than the cheap and big can kinds Calumet is highest in quality moderate in cost Received Highest Award v Worlds Pure Food Exposition zsj8f ZMtMEL -- - It i i 1 1 imm Q The Crimson ommo What Happened at a Masquerade In High Life i By MARY L HARKNESS T Copyright by American Press ation 1911 6 w tffc 3 T -6 Pennington is one of those places where wealthy people from the city live all the year round though some have residences in town in which they spend a few months in midwinter But as for social pleasures Penning ton residents have most of the enjoy ments of city life with those of the country added Their summer outdoor sports are prolonged till late in the autumn and they play golf any time when the ground is free from snow Young Mr and Mrs Archie Worth came to live at Pennington at the in stigation of Charlie Erwin Archies intimate friend Had Erwin foreseen what this change of residence would bring about he would certainly not have proposed it There resulted one of the most unpleasant situations that can happen to a man Worth had no sooner settled at Pennington than he was obliged to go abroad on business Before his departure he said to his friend Charlie Im going to leave Winifred in your charge Being a newcomer here it is liable to be pretty dull for her at first and I shall expect you to see that she gets invitations to whats going on both out of doors and inside and when she needs an escort take her about yourself Youre one of the few men I know with whom I would trust my wife without the slightest compunction I hope to get back here in time for the holidays but I may be detained longer Erwin accepted the charge Indeed since the Worths had come to Pen nington at his instance he could not do less and having accepted it he devoted himself during that autumn to giving Winifred Worth a pleasant season He drove her out made up automobile parties for her escorted her to field sport matches and rode with her across country Now in the communities of smart sets the love affairs that go on among HE EXPOSED THE FACE OF MRS EDWAEDS the unmarried and the married as well are not as with people less preten tious Either the courtships of the boys and girls attract little attention or they precede marriages of conven ience Now and again some married woman will make an incursion upon the domain of the girls and carry off an eligible young man gaining noth ing for herself and robbing the girls There was a married woman of mid dle age living at Pennington a Mrs Edwards nearly forty and much given to the society of men younger than herself She was not popular with the women but so long as she could mo nopolize their husbands brothers and lovers she was indifferent to their opinion of her This woman had re solved to make Charlie Erwin her cav alier when Archie Worth went abroad and left his wife in Charlies care One night or rather morning Char lie Erwin went to bed conscious of be ing the central figure of a peculiar situation During the evening Mrs Ed wards had shown plainly that she proposed to monopolize him and Mrs Worth the wife of his friend who had left her in his charge had indi cated that she had been overwhelmed by one of those mad passions for him which will lead a woman to wreck herself tor the man she loves Had Erwin been a lightweight man either Intellectually or morairy per haps he might have hern lateivd that two women should have slurried hi a out for the bestowal of their favoi But lie was a man of ri rieter an1 with a high sese of bono lie ktuv women well and felt assircd that while Mrs lid wards in est ia hit was the satisfaction of jpropnsiij him to herself inifred VYrh lv really heconi infatuated w hi The situation wa riwt d T enus t him and Winifred for not oily had Winifreds infatuation made Iwr re i less but Mrs Edwards would doubt less be on the watch for some slip which she might turn to account against her ma I After thinking the matter over Er win decided that there was no safety for him except in flight True the leaving behind of two women who were at swords points about him he not being on hand to repress either was fraught with danger but less gerous than to remain Besides flight would put him personally in a better position in case the affair came out TrutrnmdernTdTeave mutters in as good shupe us possible he went to the vicious one of the two and assuring her of his devotion to her told her that t was necessary for him to go away for a time on business I have said that Charlie Erwin knew women He certainly didnt know Mrs Edwards or he would not have counted upon her even in this slight respect She conveyed the news of Erwius proposed flight to her rival and knowing that Winifred would see Erwin and endeavor to keep him lay in wait for the couple with a view to surprising them and thus gettiug Winifred in her power Having a maid who was quite bright in observing peoples motions Mrs Edwards instructed her to shadow Er win and report if he visited her rival At 5 oclock on the afternoon Erwin was to depart the maid telephoned her mistress that he had gone to Mrs Worths home Mrs Edwards went there immediately entered without ringing and found Charlie and Wini fred in the library Winifred In tears Mrs Edwards having made the two aware of her presence said that she had called and not getting a reply to her ring had ventured in Then she withdrew Erwin saw at once that he had made a mistake in informing Mrs Edwards of his proposed departure He felt that he and Winifred Worth were as mucu in her power as if she had had a dozen witnesses to the scene she had come upon for a married woman must be above suspicion He abandoned his plan of going away feeling it neces sary for him to remain and if possi ble scotch the viper who he was con vinced had determined to put her poi sonous fangs into her rival That year the smart set of Penning ton concluded to give a masquerade ball at the close of the season and be fore the opening of Lent The cos tumes worn on the occasion during the first part of the evening were to be covered with dominos until the un masking when the dominos with the masks were to be thrown off Charlie Erwin resolved to take ad vantage of this ball to spring a trap on Mrs Edwards that he hoped would put her out of business as to do ing Winifred Worth or himself any harm Worth returned a few days be fore Ash Wednesday He thanked Charlie for his attentions to his wife but Charlie could see that he had heard more of those attentions than he cared to hear Nevertheless he was cordial and invited Charlie to dinner on the evening of the ball After din ner he went out leaving his friend alone with his wife thus indicating his confidence This gave Charlie an opportunity to give Winifred so much of his plan as was essential He told her to tell her husband that she would wear a crimson domino but to use one of another color This she prom ised to do There was no hall in Pennington suitable for a ball so one of the lar gest dwelling houses was offered by Its owner for the purpose A crimson domino was seen moving about always attended by a purple one the two dancing together nearly every set Presently some one stand ing behind Worth said Look out for the crimson Worth saw the crimson and the purple dominos going out of a door together Worth was an honorable man and above spying especially on his own wife But Mrs Edwards had con trived to let out enough of his friends attention to his wife during his ab sence colored to suit her purpose to make him anxious He turned to look behind him and saw a pale blue domino just passing away The figure turned and pointed to the crim son There was something about this person which the domino did not con ceal that was familiar to him Wheth er it was the walk or the gesture or what it was he could not tell But this did not concern him as much as the crimson He remembered that his wife had told him she would wear a crimson domino and he had seen the domino constantly attended by the purple one Indeed the green monster had begun to take root in his breast before the warning came Fol lowing the two retreating figures he was led through several rooms on the ground floor The figure in purple evidently a man occasionally turned bis head and looked back Wortii believed the man fancied him self followed and was making an ef fort to shake his shadower This only added to the formers determination to remain on the scent Nevertheless he lost sight several times of the pair who mounted from one story to an other till they entered an apartment built on the roof and used for plants Before going in the purple domino turned evidently to see if others were about but by this time Worth had learned that if he were to discover what he dreaded be had better keep out of sight He waited impatiently for awhile then stole to where the two had entered The crimson domino was encircled in the purple dominos arms Rushing forward there was a muffled shriek He tore off the mask of the woman he thought to be his wife He exposed the face of Mrs Ed wards The man uncovered and Worth saw his friend Charlie Erwin With an humble apology Worth re treated and Erwin felt sure that any expectation of trouble with his friend had been eliminated The next morning both Erwin and Mrs Edwards left Pennington but not together Mrs Edwards did not re turn and Erwin remained away un til the next spring when the Worths removed to the city Then he re turned Thus by judicious management a woman who yielded to a passing fancy was savedfrom the worlds cold criti cism x w HE WON THE HOUSE Ned Harrigans Plea at a Critical Point n a Play Edward Harrigan once said that the most trying moment in his theatrical career occurred in New Orleans soon after the civil war He had gone south with his company and yielding some what to popular request put on The Blue and the Gray The play had been a success up north but down south with the air still full of the bit terness of the war it was a dangerous experiment Tony Hart was to repre sent the Confederate gray so he hunt ed up a uuiform of the Louisiana Ti gers and when he came marching on young stalwart handsome the typical soldier boy in the beloved uniform the house men and women cheered and shouted and cried for all their heroes embodied in this boy Harrigan stand ing in the wings in his northern blue waiting to go on had just one thought Theyll kill me Then he stepped out the embodiment of the enemy and a cold dead silence fell upon the house Not a hand moved for him The audience was tense with emotion and there was only an instant to act if the play was to be saved Harrigan big kindly good looking came swiftly down to the front and stepped over the footlight gutter leaning down to them For the love of heaven wont you give the Yankee a hand he ex claimed At once the house was caught and all the pentup feeling turned the right way There was a yell of ap plause RULE OF THE ROAD Decided Abroad by the Sword and Here by the Gun Several travelers were seated in the hotel lobby discussing the difference In customs of the various countries they had visited What struck me as most peculiar abroad said one is the custom of keeping to the left instead of the right as we do here Why is the rule reversed I think I can explain that said a reserved looking man In the corner In medieval and later periods abroad men were in the custom of wearing swords The sword was worn as it Is now on the left side Consequently in drawing their weapon it was done with the right hand and to get quick ly upon guard a man had to have his right side to his opponent hence the custom of keeping to the left In America when every man carried his life in his hand on account of sav age Indians all men carried guns The easiest and most natural way to carry a gun either afoot or mounted is over the left arm with the muzzle pointed outward and it takes but a very slight movement to throw the butt against the right shoulder For that reason the early settlers kept to the right of the road so their weapon could In stantly be brought to bear on any mark that was necessary Philadel phia Times Romance of a Shadow It is hard to believe that a shadow is probably the origin of all astronom ical geometrical and geographical sci ence The first man who fixed his staff perpendicularly in the ground and measured its shadow was the ear liest computer of time and the Arab of today who plants his spear in the sand and marks where the shadow falls is his direct descendant It is from the shadow of a gnomon that the early Egyptians told the length of the year It is from the shadow of a gno mon that the inhabitants of upper Egypt still measure the hours of work for a water wheel In this case the gnomon is a lhurra stalk supported on forked uprights and points north and south East and west are pegs in the ground evenly marking the space of earth between sunrise and sunset In a land of constant sunshine a shadow was the primitive chronometer It was also the primitive footrule Lon don T Ps Weekly Men With Green Hair Copper is scarce said a broker but there is still enough of it left to turn the copper workers hair green His hair green Precisely In those copper districts where the ore is of a low grade it is roasted in open furnaces to refine it and make it more marketable A gas emanates Erom the furnaces that turns the firemens hair a bright green this arsenic green that the firemens hair takes on So if jou ever see a man with green hair you can say a la Sherlock Holmes There my dear Watson is a cop per furnace tender A Request I shall never forget says the emi nent man of wealth during the course of his little speech on How to Become as I Am I shall never forget how I saved my first hundred dollars At this juncture a weary individual in the audience who has heard this story many times and has read it many times more interrupts Well if you cant forget It for heavens sake give the rest of us a chance to Chicago Post A Friendly Tip Sapleigh Would you er advise me to er marry a beautiful girl or a sen sible girl nammersley Im afraid youll never be able to marry either old man Sapleigh Why not Ham mersley Well a beautiful girl could do better and a sensible girl would know better Exchange All They Could Find Whats all that noise in the rexr room My wife and three of her girl friends are trying to play whist with only forty seven cards in the pack- Louisville Courier Journal JSSp3 LaGrippe Coughs Strain and weaken the spstem and if not checked may develop into pnett monia No danger of this when Fo leys Honey and Tar is taken prompt ly It is a reliable family medicine for all coughs and colds and acts quickly and effectively in cases of croup R efuse substitutes A Mc Millen Subscribe for the Tribune PROFESSIONAL AKD BUSINESSJ1RECT0RY 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 Alain Ave oa DR HERBERT J PRATT Registered Graduate Dentist Office 212 Main av Trver 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 Walai DR J A COLFER Dentist Phone 378 Room 4 Postoffice building ire Cook Neb R H GATE WOOD Dentist Phone 163 Office Room 4 Masonic templ McCook Neb -or DR EARL O VAHUE Dentist Phone 190 Office over McAdams store 1 Cook Neb 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 c McCook Water Works Co Office in Fostoffice building McCook Neb JAMES HART M R C V S Veterinarian Phone 34 Office Commercial barn McCook Nebraska 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 JENNINGS HUGHES CO Plumbing Heating and Gas Fitting Phone 33 Estimates furnished freeBaseme Postoffice building A G BUMP Office store Real Estate and Insurance 302 over Woodworths drag Go to NELMS FEED STORE for the FAMOUS CAMBRIDGE FLOUR and all kinds of feed Phone 186 Your combings made into switches and puffs MRS L M THOMAS Phone Ash 2354 The McCook Tribune It is the year in advance M ti M