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Their Graduation Exercises on Last Thursday Evening
In the Temple Theatre
WAS A NOTABLE EVENT IN OUR SCHOOL LIFE
Dr Roach Delivers a Forceful Earnest and Practical Class
Address Other Numbers on the Program Were
Worthful and of Interest
A splendid and sympathetic audi
ence greeted the commencement exer
cises of the class of 11 MqCook high
school in the Temple theatre last
Thursday evening and their response
and appreciation were prompt and
liberal to the entire program
The stated program offered is as
follows
Program
Overture K P Orchestra
Invocation Rev D L McBride
Music Summer Fancies Metra
High Scncol Girls Glee Club
Salutaiorj Helen Schwab
Clasj Address Dr I F Roach Ed
ucation As An Investment
Solo Carita Elsie Campbell
Valadictory LoRene Calhoon
Presentation of Diplomas C W
Barnes
Presentation of Eighth Grade Di
plomas
Music Swing Song Lohn High
School Girls Glee Club
Benediction Rev L E Lewis
As salutatorian Miss Helen Schwab
was practical clever and effective
briefly inrcducing tthe speaker of
the evening in well chosen diction
and happy manner
Dr I F Roach of St Pauls Lin
coln delivered the class address us
ing as his subject Education as an
Investment The doctor is a mem
ber of the state board of education
and naturally is an enthusiast on
educational topics He devoted part
of his address to defining what he
consideicd education to be and in
a sentence he eteemed it to be train
ing the mind to think rather than the j
stoiing away in thr brain of data
Then through a splendid practical
forceful address he ought to prove
and we thing succeeded that edu
cation is remunerative from the
standpoint of finance though that is
not by any means his ideal of the
purpose of education Indeed the
speaker left no doubt in the minds
of his hearers that he did not most
highly estimate the mere dollars and
cents side of his great problem but
that the training of mind and heart
and soul to the highest point of ef
ficiency is the chief concery and
desideratum of schools
The doctor touched incidentally
man- eids lines the esprit de corps
of a community toward its schools
the teacher wage question favored
liberal school expenditures and oth
er topics live and apropos but it is
not within the province of this brief i
recital to follow him
It is sufficient to write that his
deliverance was earnest practical
helpful broad and stimulating
The valedictory of Miss LoRene
Calhoon followed It was an artistic
touch with a melody of pathos De
livering to board and teachers and
patrons the gratitude and appreciation
of the class of 11 there was a quiver
in the tone of farewell to the class
of 11
Mr C W Barnes then in the name
of the board of education delivered
the dipciras to the members of the
class in a few congratulatory and
admonitory words
At this point in th3 program a di
gression was indulged permitting
the delivery of the diplomas to the
members of the eighth grade grad
uating class The members marched
across the stage of the theatre and
the board secretary handed each pu
pil the evidence of his progress
The two numbers on the program
by the High School Girls Glee Club
were of the excellent vintage of that
artistic organization The girls nev
er fail to receive the evidence of
appreciation
Miss Elsie Campbell is one of Mc
Cooki favorite young vocalists and
her love eong Carita but increas
ed her local fame as a sweet and ef
fective singer
Aside frcm the fact given by
Supt Taylor that the class of 11 is
one of the strongest high school grad
uating classes he has ever seen the
event was one to draw upon the pride
and imagination of the people of Mc
Cook It was an inspiring occasion
McCooks public school is one of her
superbest assets May its work broad
en deepen and strengthen
Class Roll of 1911
Fred Irwin Archibald
Lynn Arnold
Hazel Barbazette
LoRene Calhoon
Anna Agnes Connealey
Alma J Crar
Mabel E Hegenberger
Adaline Koller
Joseph Wendell Moore
Gertrude Morrissey
Hazel Norris
Arthur John ORourke
Mabel M Randel
Helen Schwab
Ora L Stewart
Gertrude M Suess
Florence Watson
President Fred Archibald
Vice President Gertrude Suess
Secretary Helen Schwab
Teasurer Adaline Koller
Colors Dark Green and White
Flower Red Rose
Motto Jeder ist seines Gluckes
Schmiedt
Eighth Grade Graduates
Walter Lawrence Allison
Rex Albert Bagley
Roy Jarard Bayles
Frank Frees Barnett
Florence Louise Benjamin
Howard Herman Brown
Leroy Carter
Ida Genevieve Copeland
Leonard Crandall
Vernon Finity
Eva Mabel Gollehon
Jessie Beulah Hall
John Alfred Hartman
Marie Leroa Hculihon
Dean Wi lard Hon
Ethel Emma Huber
Ollie Huet
Frank Warn Jeffries
Gage Ray Kenady
Eessie May Knosp
He1 en Irene Knipple
Leila Lamb
Ruby Linea Lineburg
Ruth McBride
Regina Cecilia McKenna
John Gregory McKillip
Amanda Keturah Nelson
Gustnve Arthur Pade
George Arthur Ray
Pauline Lamberta Ryan
Joseph Richard Schmidt
Iva Utter
Gladys Utter
The closing event of commencemej
week was the annual gathering ol
the lalumni which was held in the
high school auditorium last Friday
evening being attended by a hun
dred or more of the graduates facul
ty members of school board and
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tv nuHUnrium was curtained on
in separate apartments for tne reg
ular session and for the concluding
banquet and the room was decorated
becomingly tho alumni colors being
most in evidence green and white
There was a rustic well from which
punch was served and vines were
trailed from walls to electric lights on
the ceiling whMe flags added a
tional tint to the effect j
The banquet was served by Mrs
Vuna Wood Mrs E M Day Mrs
Leroy Kleven Mrs Hiram Brown
Aire rnltor Stokes
The members of the junior class
assisted in the serving
The menu was dainty and delicious
Menu
Strawberries on Stem
Pulverized Sugar
Vegetable Salad Escalloped Chicken
Creamed New Potatoes
Parker House Rolls
Brick Ice Cream
In Class Colors Green and White
Coffee Cake
The class colors came into use in
tho tnhip deenrations ereen candles
and crepe paper and white carnations
acting io the pretty effect
Perhaps the most humorous stunt
n tho ovonin r was the sesi icn of
the kangaroo court in which the
members ox the class ot n were ui
itinfpH into the alumni association
Barrister John L Rice presided over
ir was chief srmer anu au-
miciistrator of the third degree and j
the manner in which he drew Joe
Ainnw iTitn n recital of that hay rack
cLair and Fred Archibald into a con
fession as touching that ice cream
disappearance was keenly appreciated
by the alumni
The popular K of P orchestra
provided the musical numbers of the
evening leaving nothing to he de
sired in that line
The Toast List
The toast list was interesing as
usual the president of the alumni
association Miss Edna Waito being
the toastmistress of the evening
Supt Taylor spoke to the toast
The Alumni
Fred Archibald of 11 represented
his class in a few remarks
J E Ludwick of 97 responded to
The Road of Yesterday Earl
could remember when Charlie Kelley
wore knee pants instead of knee
coats
Miss Emma Perry of 03 had for
her topic Ask a Womans Advice
and Whateer She Advises Do the
Very Reverse and Youre Sure to be
Wise
John Rice 02 gave his usual
breezy and humorous response
Oscar Green of 05 responded to
A Book of Verse Underneath a
Bough a Jug of Pop a Loaf of
Bread and Thou
C W Kelley of the class of 03
on account of his patriarchal appear
ance and demeanor generally was
called upon for a little fatherly ad
vice He delivered it gravely
Harold Sutton of 06 the Poo Bah
of the association gave a disserta
tion in this instance upon the ques
tion of frenzied finance
George Campbell of the class of 03
closed the incident in his brief re
marks
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NEBRASKANS INJURED IN FIRE
Six Persons Sustain Hurts in Hotel
Blaze at Brush Colorado
One May Die
Brush Colo May 27 Special
Telegram Injury to five persons
with possible death to one resulted
fiom the burnin of the Southern ho
tel here early this morning
The injured
Prof C N Anderson instructor
Nebraska State Normal school at
Kearney leaped from second story
internal hurts May die
E E Otto traveling salesman 524
S Twentieth street Omaha broken
ankle cuts from broken glass
C E George traveling salesman
Council Bluffs Iowa burned while
trying to save wallet
Mr and Mrs George Weller Ne
braska singed and burned while es
caping
Charles Smith porter injured in
jumping
Fire was discovered at 130 oclock
this morning
brick building was destroyed
Quie Home Wedding
The heme of Mr and Mrs C G
Budig was tne scene of a happy
quiet home wedding last Friday even
in when their daughter Lilyan was
of this week
which wU be their future home
The well wish as of many accom
pany them
Return Donations
On account of the fact that tho
German Congregational people do not
intend to build a new church at pres
ent all the subccriiptions of McCook
business men and others will be re
turned to them and they will be re
leased from payment I wish to thank
all the friends for their generosity
in this matter however
Rev Henry Kauerz Pastor
THEY MAKE
HANDSOME WALLS
Those independent permanent oat
meal wall paper patterns of ours
L W McCONNELL Druggist
Will Wait Awhile
The Trbune is advised that the
German Congregational people have
decided to wait awhile before build
ing a rew church edifice
A Half Inch of Rain
Residents cast of the city a few
miles report a half inch of rain in
that neighborhood last Friday night
Everything in drugs McConnell
The collections for ay in the
treasurers office for May have ex
ceeded the collections of any month
of May in the history of Red Wil
low county The excess will be
about 4000
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TUESDAY EVENING EDITION
McCOOK RED WILLOW COUNTY NEBRASKA TUESDAY EVENING MAY 30 1911
Elmer the Whole Thing
Mr Sheaffer has retired from the
White Line Transfer and Elmer
Hawkins is now the whole thing
HAMMOCK SEASON
is here and you should get one of
those new hammocks at McConnelPs
Drug Store and enjoy it all summer
Regular Fixed Date
The next regular meeting of the
board of county commissioners is on
June 9th 1911 a date fixed by law
The County Board of Equalization
will meet on June 13th 1911
Eldred at Danbury Today
All the orders at Danbury are unit
ing today in observing Decoration
Day with the members of the G A
R and other military organizations
and C E Eldred of our city is the
orator of the day
Practically No Damage
An alarm called the fire denartment
The hotel a two story to the re3idence of James Woolard
Patronized Home Industry
The Cambridge Class of 1911 were
vcj unfortunate in not getting their
commencement programs until after
the graduating exercises were held
They purchased them from a mail
orJer hou -e in Philadelphia and tey
were ether loct ii shipment or were
not thirepu en time perhaps the
latter as these mail order concerns
generally have to have the cards
made after receipt of order Phila
delphia is a long ways to send for
a commodity that can he purchased
at home If the class did not care
io patronize the Clarion office they
could have recured as nice programs
at as reasonable rates at either
Bartley or Holbrook printing offices
as they received or will receive
from Philadelphia and would surely
from Philadelphia and would surely
have gotten them on time Cam
bridge Clarion
on Thursday afternoon about three
oclock Some excelsior and other
materials used in wrapping and pack
ing were found to be on fire The
flame was extinguished with slight
damage
Initiated Five
Eureka chapter O E S initiated
five new members last Friday even
ing and a goodly number of members
afterwards indulged in the usual ban
quet and post prandial joys Installa
tion of officers and initiation of can
didates in two weeks
Cheap Milk
Some parties in or about this city
are securLng cheap milk betimes by
milking the city herd cows pastured
in the Jones enclosure north of the
city The Tribune is authorized to
state that a reward of 10 will be
given for information leading to the
apprehension and conviction of any
one guilty of milking said cows
Sidnev Dodge Stricken
Sidney Lodge was rtrikc wth
naraljsis in the right side Monday
forcrccn ard has hern in quite a
serious condition since Mr DoJge
united in maniags with Mr Alvin has been working pretty hard Intely
II Murray of Plattsmcuth Rev L for a man of his age and t is
E Lewis of the 7irst Methodist thought ho has a broken bloc 1 veise1
chinch performed the ceremony atiairin r z eet oi the bniin He has
tho hour of eight oclock in the been able to get up and help himself
once of a few intimate fricnus some but has haen delirous a good
A wedding supper of bountiful and part of the time Marion Entiprise
excCTIent sort was served after the i
ceremony OUR EXQUISITE
Quite a number of handsome Pres sjEW PERFUME
ents wjre received j If you je3jre something different
The young couple departed Mon- for a perfume something so much
day for Plattsmouth i delightful than any scent you
have ever dreamed of then our
EUTASKA
will just fill the bill
The most fastidious laJes are jut
roing into ecstasy over it Try it
100 oz
L YV McCONNELL p uggist
McConnell for drugs
MoConnell fills prescriptions
Kodaks and kodak supplies
L W McCONNELL inrjeri
Reports of rattlesnake bites are to
be read in many exchanges
warm May weather
NO CHEAPER
BUT WE HAVE CUT THE PRIC
We pay as much for coal as we ever did also
salaries etc but we will sell you a 0 lb iron for
4 50 that has always sold for S330 a i lb
iron for 390 which sells for 8300 tho world
over These are General Electric Irons and
will not burn out IF THEY DO WE WILL
GIVE YOU A NEW UNIT The only apilojjy
we have to offer for this iron is IT WILL
LAST FOREVER
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If quality and quantity of cal and
county news appeals to you com
par lat weeks Tribur with rnv
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You may eat what vou like when
you like if you use Rexall Dyspep
sia Tablets 27c oOc and 3100
L W McCONNELL Druggist
The Tribune did not intcntionalh
ovcilcok the fact but the Old Fel
lows and Rebekahs have ha 1 those
new globe lights out for some time
Feat the othrr fellows to it as it
w ere
Come to our store and learn how
to grain with the Chi Namel ready-to-use
graining materials
Do j cur own graining and wood
finishing
L v McCONNELL Druggist
McCook Electric Company
PHONE 127
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Monday morning about 7 oclock one j one of the engines was the cause of
half mile west of Indianola when pas I quite a number of passengers being
senger trains No 12 and No 9 met badly scalded by steam a few were
on the main line head on in a dense 1uite severely burned in this way
fog going at a rapid speed No
0 does not stop at Indianola and was
probably making its schedule time
of nearly 40 miles an hour and No
12 was likely making half that speed
at the time of the accident
Engine No 804 on train 12 was
badly damaged and both Engineer
Hyder and Fireman Dameron were
killed
The express car on 12 was demol
ished and Express Messenger Freer
killed
The front end of the following mail
enr Tvn5 mnshpfl in mifl ATnil Olorlr
Anderson slightly injured His com
panion on the car escaped injury en
tirely however
The passengers on the train were
scurried about like balls but none
were severely injured among the pas
sengers on train 12
Lngme No 282o on tram 9 was
lea
B Kelley member of Omaha base
bail team
Robert M Anderson of Washing
ton D C
Miss Grace Dean of Minden Neb
H V Snipen of Adena Colo
Sam Davis of Williamsburg Colo
Erasem Gorse of Denger Colo
E B Kent of Lincoln Nebraska
A C Higbee of McCook
P A Irvin of Omaha
Irving Stiff of Pontiac Mich
W W Marks of Omaha
L O Nobel of Oxford Nebraska
E W Kensella of Denver Colo
M H Feekin of Havelock
C H Anderson of Lincoln
Maggie Sontance of McCook
Publo Waskino a cook
L B Thomas porter on No 9
Dennis Hart Oshkosh Iowa or
Mt Pleasant Iowa badly bruised and
burned serious
Davis Stryker electrician Chicago
fractured skull serious
J G Gavin Jewel City Kansas
slight
W H Hatson a clerk not severe
Special trains were quickly made
up at McCook and sent to the scene
of the disaster all the physicians in
the city being called in the service
In a few hours one of the relief
trains returned to the city and when
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APPiACTNG
NUMBER 52
ACCIDENT
Worst Wreck in the History of the McCook Division
Monday Morning Near Indianola
SIXTEEN DEATHS HAVE ALREADY RESULTED
And Many Are Injured of Whom Several Yet May DieProperty Loss
Is Also HeavySome Details of the Disaster
The most appalling accident in the
history of the McCook division of
the Burlington system occurred on
The dead were mostly Lincoln and
Omaha men in the companys employ
The bursting of a steam pipe of
LATER DEAD
Since the first report of the dead
the following injured have died
Harry McCall of Denver Colo
R B Wilson of MJCook
Mrs H H Culbertson of Wyoming
III
F J Gateley of Gretna Neb
A G Tuamo a section foreman of
Palisades Colo
Hitam J Feekin of McCook Em
ploye in the storehouse department
Miss Grace Dean ofMinden died
this morning
This increases the list of dead to
sixteen -
Remains Shipped for Burial
The body of Express Messenger
George Freer was shipped to Oma
ha Tuesday morning on No 2 of
Express Messenger E M Frazier to
Mrs Maggie
of Conductor C
rtunatcly
Kke No 12s locomotive practically Lincoln of Engineer J V Hyder
damolisned Engineer Leahy and Fire
man Ohlson being likewise killed
The baggage car suffered a like
fate with No 12 and Express Mes
senger Frazier was killed
The following smoker and chair
car of train 0 were reduced to kind
ling wood and two persons met j
death in these cars and many were
injured Hilsabeck and Shepherd of
io LiMicoin ot fireman waiter Dam
eron to Lincoln of Engineer W T
Leahy to Lincoln of Fireman A J
Ohlson to Lincoln Tuesday on No
13 of Fireman T H Bowers to Den
ver Body of Clarence A Hilsabeck
was shipped to Hcldrege Monday
night on No 6
His Condition is Serious
H H Culbertson of Wyoming 111
Holdreee met death here 1 in a verv serious condition m tne
Ever car in train 9 but the last Cambridge hospital with terrible
two sleepers went into the ditch The scald hums He is not expected to
impact was tremendous and the recover
wreckage something indescribable Mrs Feekin Very Low
Quite a number of nassensers were Irs Hiram J Feekin of our city
burned bv escaninsr steam from an now at Cambridge is horribly scald
ergine and some of these were tak
en to hospitals for treatment
THE DEAD
The list of dead is as follows
Engineer William T Leahy of Lin
coln
Fireman A J Ohlson of Lincoln
Engineer John W Hyder of Lin
coln
Fireman Dameron of Lincoln
Express Messenger George Freer
of Omaha
Express Messenger Frazier of Oma
ha
Clarence A Hilsabeck of Holdrege
a traveling man
Robert Shepherd of Holdrege a
traveling rrsn for Simmons Hardware
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ed and her condition is one of ter
rible suffering and anguish She is
not expected to recover
All Train Running Regularly
Traffic was resumed and alltrains
were running as usual by Monday eve
ning
P P Davis and Harry Hohl of
our city escaped with practically no
injuries and returned to McCook on
ihe first returning relief train
vireman T H Bowers was riding
on the engine of train 9 dead head
A second 12 was made up here
leaving for the east at about 5
oclock Many McCook people went
down to the wreck on this train
The news of the great disaster
brought hundreds of pecple to the
vtck fiom all over that part of the
T H Bowers of McCook a Burling county In McCook it caused almost
tor fireman who wa a passenger t a suspension of business for hours
on Engine of No 9 hundreds of people flocking to the
THE INJURED
The list of injured is long most
zi them being passengers on tram 9
depot
Sentance mother
B Sentance was
t brought to the city on No 13 Mon-
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anu nemg in tne cnair or smoKmjj day afternoon and taken to the
of taat train No passengers on nome of her son she has slight in-
tiain 12 were seriously injured juries about head and face but they
V H Harris Jr of Max are not of a serious
ture
The injured were taken to the
hosnitals at Holbrook and Holdrege
and to Indianola for treatment and
care and the deaths reported later
in the day occurred at these places
Mrs Robert Shepherd came up
from Holdrege on No 18 and ac
companied the remains of her hus
band on No G same night to
York Nebraska for burial
Passenger train 13 arrived at this
station at n0 in the afternoon and
was run on west from here as n
double header
Mondays wreck caused one of the
busiest days the telegraph office has
experienced in many a day And the
telephone people went the limit
also
Passenger train No 1 was detoured
around by Holdrege an2 Sterling
Colorado
Cambridge Neb May 29 Spec
ial to the Bee Four of the serious
ly injured passengers who were in
the fatal wreck at Indianola were
brought to the Cambridge hospital Hi
ram Feekin and Lena Feekin of Mc
Cook and Mr and Mrs H H Cul
bertson of Wyoming 111 Mrs Cul
bertson died at 400 p m and phy
sicians say both members of the
Feekin family cannot live
The engine men killed are regard-
the nine bodies were removed to the ed as among the best men on the di
Pade undertaking parlors the vision All were popular and highly
ity began to realize more fully the regarded Their tragic deaths have
terrible natutre or tne accident an caused a pall to rest over the rail-
accident unprecedented in the his
tory of the McCook division of the
Burlington road in the loss of life
McCook has not in years been so
deeply stirred and scores of citizens
drove to the scene of the accident
1 during the day
road men of this city None but good
words are heard of both Messenger
Freer and Messenger Frazier Fire
man T H Bowers lived here where
a brother still resides and his asso
ciates have a tender regard for his
memory
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