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Ladies Dress Shoes
Ladies 350 and 400 shoes at per pair 300
Ladies Tan Button Shoes at per pair 349
Ladies 300 and 3 50 Odds at per pair 249
Mens Dress Shoes
Broken lines of mens 500 shoes in lace and button at
389 a Pair
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Tfte M Gooik THitite
ESTABLISHED 1882
F M KIMMELL Editor and Publisher
Largest Circulated Newspaper Published in Red Willow County
SUBSCRIPTION 150 A YEAR
Entered at postoffiee McCook Nebraska as second class
matter Published Semi Weekly on Mondays and Thursdays
ANNOUNCEMENTS
I announce 1113 caudidacy for
the nomination for state repre
sentative on the Republican tick
et subject to the primarnjps to
be held April 19 1912
W A REYNOLDS
I hereby announce myself as
a candidate for the office of
County Assessor Red Willow
county on the Democratic ticket
subject to primarv election held
April 19th 1912
JOHN H WESCH
Florida splits with two seits of
delegates one favorable to Pres
ident Taft the other for Colonel
Roosevelt
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There are some fairly well de
fined indications that there as a
joker in the water bonds re
funding project It is said -to be
about the proportions of 800 of
over due taxes Banquos ghost
is stall in evidence Stand pat
Mr Mayor
China the oldest empire in the
world Monday became the young
est republic in the world Em
power Pu Wi lias abdicated and
the destinies of the new republic
to be are being directed tempor
arily by Yuan Saii Kaii and pre
sumably Da Sun until a presi
dent can be chosen
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The railway commission has
been asked to adjudicate the trou
bles of the Brown Creek Irriga
tion canal in the Bridgeport re
gion The ditch company has in
creased its price for water rights
from 650 per acre to 3500
The case seems to be somewihat
similar to that af the McCook Ir
rigation and Water Bower Co in
this vicinity The rates of the
Inter State company on tin
Platte are still worse 55 per
acre and 225 maintenance The
general trend of these irrigation
enterprise seems to be in the di
rection of squeezing out the lit
tle fellows and- leaving the big
fellows in possession of a good
filing unless the law siays nay
McCook General Hospital
Located in the Heckmaa House one block west
of the Court House
Will be open to receive patients after Janu
ary 18 1912 A Hospital devoted to McCook
and southwest Nebraska Skilled attendants
in charge
D J REID Surgeon Proprietor
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Ladies Shoes
Ladies shoes for everyday wear worth up to 300 at
200 a Pair
Mens Shoes at 349
Mixed Lots worth up to 00 and 450 at
349 a Pair
Special Cash Prices on Overshoes
Mens Bali Brand I buckle overshoe worth 200 at
Mens Good 1 buckle overshoes worth 150 will close out at per pair
Ladies 1 buckle overshoes worth 125 will close out at per pair
General James B Weaver the
famous Populist and civil Avar
veteran died in Des Moines la
Tuesday afternoon
Let us keep in mind
the fact that the colonel knows
haw to play the game of politics
with the most courageous and
astute Watch the game
Chaotic about describes the po
litical situation in the country
With a lot of fellows who ought
to know better trying hard to
make it no better fast
Senator La Poll elite has been
compelled temporarily to retire
from the Progressive program
on account of illness The sena
tor has for years been driving his
machine rather fast for Ins
strength and health and he lias
suffered a temporary break down
The town of Curtis has petition
ed the board of public lands and
buildings foa permission to take
the agricultural school farm into
the corporate limits The- object
of the town is to get certain pri
vate lands within the corporate
limrifc and to do this suit will
be neeessairy to take in the state
land The state board has not
acted and it is likely tlmt the
petition will be rejected Some
members of the board fear the
town might later attempt to cut
up the farm with streets A any
rate the state land would bring
mo additional taxes to the town
because state land is not taxable
Lincoln Journal
The secretary of state will
place the five constitutional
amendments to be voted on at
the April primaries on the ballot
in the order of their passage by
the legislature In answer to an
inquiry by a representative of
the direct legislation league Sec
retary Wait said he tiiought he
would number the amendments- in
their order also to enable the
different amendments to be know
by number as in the recent Cali
fornia election Under this plan
the five amendments will go on
Hie ballot in the following order
No 1 initiative and referendum
No 2 term and salary of
laitors No 3 board of control
iiO 4 Dienniai eiecitnjons jno 0
hoine rxile for cies1 Lincoln
Journal
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OMAHA-TO-DENVER ROAD
ASSOCIATION HAS MEETING
Hastings Neb Feb 6 Spec
ial Telegram Oven- 100 delegat
es and visitors representing
towns from Omaha to Denver as
sembled iheTic today for the sec
ond annual convention of the
Omaha Denver Good Roads as
sociation Avhieh projected and
improved the South Platte route
as a part of the transcontinental
overland highway Resolutions
committing the members to a pro
gram for the promotion of good
roads were adopted and all mem
bers were urged to use their in
fluence with the state represen
tatives in congress to secure fed
eral aid for road making
McCook was chosen as the place
for ithe 1913 convention
It was decided to assess the
various towns along the route for
an annual fund of 1300 to pay
the current expenses of the or
ganization
The following officers were re
elected
President J E Davis Sutton
G- E Parisoe Minden secretary
W A Taylor Hastings treasu
er D M Prime Oxford and S
A Searle of Omaha members of
the executive board
Omaha and Lincoln sent dele
gates of a dozen or more who
did much to inspire enthusiasm in
plans for the good roads cam
paign Omaha Bee
Advertised List
The following letters and cards
remain uncalled for at the post
offiee
Letters
Brimster Mr Ben
Cox Mr Andrew
Cnover Mrs Edfttii
Johnson Hans
Nelson Mi Fred
Sellers Mr Nelson
Thompson Mr Thonias
Walsh Mr E J
Cards
Dye Edgar Perry
Deny Miss Ruth
Haines Mr Joe
EJincMon Miss Mary
Kaiap Mrs Ethel
31JoiffQtt Arthur
Miller Miss Mary
MeCulflah Mass Jennie
Person Mr Philip
Russell Mr and Mrs 0 3
Vlint Mr Jesse
LON CONE Postmaster
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Misses and Childrens Shoes
Odds and Ends in Misses and Childrens shoes worth up to
175 will close out at
Boys Shoes at 198
One lot of Boys Shoes worth up to 250 will close out at
198 a Pair
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