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Magnificent Prospect
Last Thursday Senator Cordeal
made a trip thru the wheat terri
tory southwest of the city and return
ed enthusiastic and radiant overr the
mac prospect He reports 85
to i0 x Vnt of all the wheat an
that part of the county as being in
splenddd condition and well advanced
for this time of the season in places
being 4 to 6 inches high and a heavy
stand He thinks Clint Hamilton
has perhaps the finest wheat he
saw The senator estimates that
there are about 15000 acres of wheat
in that locality and thinks there are
not 1000 acres of poor wheat in that
total
Destroyed Flue Shed
The flue house at the shops was
burned Thursday night about 1130
This is a small building of the flu3
department and adjoins the east
end of the blacksmith shop The loss
was small The company fixe de
partment soon had the flames under
control notwithstanding the prevail
ing high wind which together with
the oil tanks and wells in that vicin
ity made it a serious matter for a
few minutes
Cambridge Big Winner
The basket ball teams cf the girls
of the McCcok and Cambridge high
schools had an argument on the local
grounds Friday afternoon with re
sults favorable to the visitors 17 to
2 Cambridge team came up on 13
and returned home on 14
Another Shower
Another fine shower visited this
section Friday night Every prospect
ipleases the eye now
It IS NOT TOO LATE
to get the newest things in wall pa
per in McCocaeUs wall paper room
Money to Loan on Farms
See Rozell Sons at clothing
store
Get our rates on farm loans
DORWAUT BARGER
Call at D Magners store and
get a can of Armour s Prepared
Soup
Might as well have a clean ci
gar from RIGGS SANITARY
SHOP
Wedding Breakfast White Rock
and pure maple syrup at Mag
ners Phone 14
RIGOS SANITARY CIGARS
ARE MADE CLEAN of the fin
est leaf the soil produces
II P Wait Co will furnish
you a garbage can at a reason
able price 22 tf
RIGS Cigars are not spit
on while being made Ask your
dealer He knows
Classified Advertisements
FOR RENT Cottage Phone
black 109
TO TRADE Cadillac 40 II P
5 passenger fully equipped Cost
2000 Run about a year In
first class conditionn Will trade
for house and lot of like valua
tion Address J E Dodge Mar
ion Neb 15
TO RENT 1 store building
fine opening for confectionery
and short order 1 3 room dwell
ing house located in Marion
Neb Address J E Dodge 15
WANTED Pupils on the piam
and organ Beginners preferred
Terms 50c per lesson Susie Mc
Brido Phone black 464
I will pasture cows for 1 per
head and will call for and de
liver same for 50c No extra
charge for delivering additional
cows to same party For infor
mation call up MeCook Milling
Co Phone 29
J B AMSDEN
WANTED TO BUY 1200 oi
IU300 lb work horse Gentle and
not afraid of autos or train Me
Cook Bottling Works 5-2-SW-4
Houses for rent by J E Eel
ley phone 5 furnished
cottage dose in lawn and shade
12 sw
- EGGS FOR HATCHING Barred
Plymouth Rock 4c egg 275 a X00
Extra fine eggs Mrs A O Rogers
route 1 MeCook Write
The Rawei Company
Coming here Chautauqua weekaro
three native New Zealanders with
American education and culture Thej
will give an evening of songs and
stories cf their native land Also
they will present a series of beauti
ful pictures picturing the beauty of
their native land Mine RaweL is
perhapsi the most brilliant woman
among her people In Chicago last
month she addressed an audience of
1500 womam at the Art Institute
which was commented on by Chicago
papers as one of the most able ad
dresses ever given before the Illi
nois Teachers Association Besides
lime Rawed the company is- comyjos
de of Mr Rawei and their son Rae
The Dandelion Pest
MeCook has it already this spring
and lint serious form Property own
ers and renters as well should wage
a vigorous and relentless warfare
against this enemy of the lawn In
this way only can the spread of the
dandelion be limited and the ultimate
destruction cf the lawn be averted
Eight the dandelion
A Chill Producer
That fire alarm Thursday night to
ward the midnight hour made cold
chills run a marathon down the spin
al column of the average citizen as
he contemplated the fierce gale pre
vailing and ithought of the nearness
of the fire to the companys oil and
gas houses
Of Kansas City Branch
The Tribune is pleased to learn
that Charles Northrup son of Mrs
M A Norrthrup cf our city has
been made general manager of the
Kansas City branch of the Jchn Mam
vjlle Co
PAINT THE TOWN
Your portion cf it any way your
home Well furnich the S V
Paint
McCONNELL Druggist
District Court in Session
The May term of district court con
vened this morning Judge Perry on
the bench
Everything in drugs McCcnnell
Your dealer sells RINGS Pure
Food Cigars
Insist on RIGGS SANITARY
CIGARS All dealers
Will some one kindly sell the
brother a Nebraska Telephone Co
directory on time
Dont part with your hair
Use Rexali 93 Hair Tonic
McCONNELL Druggist
Buy base ball goods cameras and
sporting goods of
WOODWORTH Druggist
See our display of mens ties at
25 cents each North window
DeGROPPS
Mrs W N Cratty who has been
vioLting iher daughter in Colorado for
some time returned heme on No 10
Friday evening
J F Helm will begin first of this
week to plant his acreage of sugar
beets on the Willow He wiMi plant
about forty acres
The city department responded to
the alarm Thursday night but tihe
prompt and efficient work of the
companys department made their ser
vices unnecessary
The season of house cleaning io
on in earnest be sure to get our
prices on wall paper paints and var
nish
WOODWORTH Druggist
Mrs Mitten of Sutton and Muse
Coleman of York who have been out
west on a fcut and were en route
home were briefly guests of Mr
R C Cole leaving for home on 10
Sunday night
When you use Heath Milligan
house paint you use the besji that
money can buy Heath Milligan
paints have been sold for 65 years
and are prepared by experts who
have grown eld and gray headed in
the study of paints and pigments
It is not economy to use some cheap
paimt made of burnt clay coal oil
and gasoline H M paint is un
surpassed in either quality or dura
bility by any oher paintt made Use
it and you use the best For sale
by
J C R WOODWORTH Druggist
Monday Evening Edition
McCOOK RED WILLOW COUNTY NEBRASKA MONDAY EVENING MAY 6 1912
BOOST FOR McCOOK
The MeCook Commercial Club Met in Special Session
Thursday Evening
RAILROAD EMPLOYES PICNIC TO BE JULY 4TH
Will Start Auto Trade Excursion Soon K of P Day in SeptemberSound
Currency Meeting June I4th Will Boost
Rairoad Employees Picnic
The members of MeCook Com
mercial club was well represented
at the special session of the club on
last Thursday evening and several
matters were discussed and acted up
on in the meeting
C P Heber and E S Howell ap
peared before the club in the inter
est of the Railroad Mens picnicask
tiing the hearty cooperation of the
business man of the city in making
thair coming picnic the first one
by the employes of the MeCook di
vision to be held at MeCook a great
and creditable success These rep
resentatives were as a matter of
course granted their requests and
given unqualified assurances of the
support and cooperation of the citi
zens and business men of MeCook
in this large enterprise
A motion unanimously prevailed
tliat the commercial club provide the
services cf the MeCook Land for the
day and that the club and citizens
assist the municipal parks- board and
the railroad men in getting the wat
er wcrks park in the best possible
condition for the picnic by the rail
read men of the MeCook division to
be held en the 4th of July
As to the city parks Dr C L
Fahncstcck secretary of the board
reported that the 2 mill levy of the
city would make available about
1400 fcr park purposes for the year
and that about 700 would socn be
available for use At the city park
the usual spring cleaning up and
work is well advanced and at the
water works park development and
improvement effortsi are quite vig
orously under way Dead trees have
been cut down and dead limbs lopped
off and underbrush removed some
grading and filling has been dome al
ready and more is under way Some
trees have been planted The drain
age litem is to be enlarged and some
rustic bridges provided over the same
closets and possibly lavatories pro
vided Access to this park wil be
broadened and the grade lessened and
in general every reasonable improve
ment made within means available
The railroad men this year expect
to largely finance their great picnic
with funds derived from fees from
the sale of concessions hence will
not call for personal siubooriip tilers
among the men or community
The commercial club authorized
President Cordeal to appoint a com
mittee of three to solicit funds for
the purpose of assisting in any man
ner thought advisable in this big
enterprise which will bring several
thousand people to our city on July
4th
The club decided to have the Me
Cook Commercial club represented
in the meeting of Nebraska Commer
cial clubs in Hastings next Tuesday
and Wednesday May 7th and Sth
Mayor D F Hostetter and Secretary
W B Mills of the County Automobile
associattion were named as the dele-
gates
The club decided to provide an
automobile ride for the members of
the Junior Normal school at some
date during the session of the
school this summer June Cth to
July 29th
It was announced that Murray S
Wlldman of the Northwestern univer
sity and a high official in the Sound
Currency League would be in Me
Cook June 14th to address the peo
ple of MeCook and this section of
Nebraska on the great problem of
sound currency and banking
H C Clapjp of the committee ap
pointed in this matter reported that
the committee advised the use cf
newspaper advertising in extending
McCooks trade in surrounding towns
the character of the publicity to be
left to individual merchants The
committee further recommended that
an automobile trade excursion be
started at as early a date as possible
for the purpose of boosting MeCook
and extending her trade relations
On this matter Messrs P Walsh
chairman H C Ciapp H P Sutton
J E KelJey aad H P Waite were
chosen
An advance announcement of K
of P Day was made There is eorae
talk cf lengthening this event from
one to possibly three days and if so
it lis hoped to interest persons out
side the order The date in mind
for the opening is Labor Day which
comes on Monday September 2 this
year If the present idea is unfold
ed this annual event will take a
much wider scope this year and wi11
become in- fact the community event
of the year
PERSONAL MENTION W H Cooper who has Lcen llvla j
at Udall Kacsas for a few years
Miss Mary Wray has returned from pat has returned to Red Willow
her visit to Wallace and resumed county coming from Southeastern
her desk in the county clerks of- Karoas in his- automobile and will
fice jinake klj home here for the present
V T March returned home Friday at least
evening en 5 from a little trade ex- j Mis Vera Carlson who has been
cureion of his own in the interest of trimmer for H Clapp fcr past two
the MeCook Greenhouses
seasons has received and accepted
tMr and Mrs Clyde Shirley mourn a flattering offer from a Chicago
the less cf their new born baby boy wholesale millinery house as a de
Friday and have the sympathy of signer and this week will close her
their friends in their bereavement engagement with Mr Clapp she
H J Cox expects to leave Wed- ing for Chicago end of week
nescay fcr New York city again en Judge Dtagan cf Hastings who has
business corrected with large bezn ci2 utirG court for Juice Per
tercsts there in which he claims a ry c Inhcaal lact week came dov n
port the braSfih Friday evening en nil
Mrs G N Fringle of Parks iz way heme He will return there or
wilth foer parents Mr and Mrs V Mcy 17th to elar up the desket The
Franliuln Mr Pringle was down famous Jcres murdcr cars i 3 one of
over Sunday returning to the ranch the unfiV frhed caes co the docket
this morning Mr and Mrs William Weygint
Mrs G H Thomas departed arrived heme Sunday moron from
urday evening on No 10 for her sper ffng winter with their daughter
home in Harvard after a vioit of a Mrs Starbuck in Salt Lake City
few weeks here with her sister Mrs Bch are lookiag and feeling well for
G L Burney their advanced years They are
Mrs T E McCarl Mrs G L Bur- Ting for the pres ent with their
niey and Mrs G H Thomas return
ed on 5 Friday nqght from a visit
to Mirs McCarls parents the An
drews in Cambridge
Mayor Hostetter was in Colorado
Friday looking up some business mat
ters of the city at Fort Morgan
and other iploces buying a small en
gine for use at the wells etc
Dr and Mrsi C L Fahnestock
departed Saturday evening for the
east The doctor will spend a month
in Chicago taking post graduate
worlc in medicine and Mra Fahne
stock will visit in Pennsylvania
daughter Mrs Matt Stewart but
wall occupy their own heme later in
the summer
Mr and Mrs A Galusha Sr had
an unpleasant experience in com
ing home Friday night from the
Christian ranch and the D A R
meeting but fortunately neither
was severely injured In a misun
derstanding wiith the driver one of
the teams got away in the darkness
and Mr Galusha was cut somewhat
ini the barb wire fence and Mrs Ga
lusha was slightly injured in mak
ing her exit from the carriage
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The Venetian Troubadours
Coming here one day of the Chau
tauqua made their first notable ap
pearance at the Venetian Gondolier
Excursions in Venice at the time of
the visit of King Edward to that city
a number of years ago They have
played at royal command on several
occasions at the seating of the
cabinet in Rome on the Royal Yacht
Savoy and Avon honors accorded- few
organizations of Venice
In America they have appeared for
whole seasons at Brighton Beach at
the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New
York city and at more than a dozen
notable resorts
It is one of the most novel and
most magnificent musical organiza
tions that has ever been known This
is their first trip west of the Alle
ghany mountains
River Bridge Afire
Eridayi afternoon the south ap
proach of the middle river bridge was
discovered to be burning and alarm
brought the department and people oi
the neighborhood to the scene who
soon extinguished the fire and with
but slight damage to the approach
Hay and straw had been scattered ov
er the approach recently to facili
tate the crossing of some hogs Some
trash near ihe approach was being
burned and sparks communicated to
the approach in this manner
DONT NEGLECT
To see our wall paper before you
buy You may net find exactly what
you want elsewhere and you will be
sorry as- long as the paper is on the
wall if it is not satisfactory Cur
out borders and portfolios to suggest
suitable decorations for any room in
your home
McCONNELL Druggist
At Fridays Assembly
An interesting program marked last
Friday mornings assembly am the
high school auditorium Mrs Julia
Taft Bayne spoke at considerable
length on Reminiscences of Lincoln
with instructive interest Miss Min
nie Viersen sang a solo and Miss
Nina Tomlinson played a piano num
ber
SOCIAL AND LITERACY
The Thirty Seventh Star chapter
cf the Daughters of the American
Revolution held their regular meeting
at the heme cf MIc Alpha Christian
in Driftwcod precinct last Friday af
ternccn members from the city gc
iirg out In carriages After the regu
lar business session refreshments
ere served
In the evening a number of guests
were entertained in honcr of the D
A R Refreshments were served
NUMBER 99
McCOOK PHONE CASE TAKEN UP
Citys Application for Reduced Rates
Will Be Heard by Railway Com
mission June 7th
Representatives of the city of Me
Cook and the Nebraska Telephone
company were before the state rail
way commission Friday and laid the
foundation- for a hearing which hast
been set for June 7 on the cityTa
complaint against rates for service
charged by the company The city
claims the present rates are excessive
and demands a reduction of 33 1 3
per cent
At present the rates in force arer
Individual business 3 individual res
idence 2 two party business 275
four party 2 two party residence
150 There are also established rat
es for grounded lines but as the
company no longer maintains that
class of service the rates for such
lines are obsolete
The city contends that rates in Me
Cook are much higher than those
collected by the same company- ia
other cities cf the same population
The company alleges that it is not
earning an unreasonably large re
turn on the plant at MeCook regard
less of what the rates are there or
elsewhere
A showing was filed by the com
pany to support its side of the cast
This will be checked over by the phy
sical valuation department of the rail
way before the hearing in June at
which time evidence is to be taken
for and against the citys application
Attorney P L Wolff appeared for
the city of MeCook while the tele
phone corporation was represented bj
these officers President Copper E
Yost Attorney E M Morsman Gen
eral Manager G E McFarland and
Commercial Superintendent G H
Pratt
President F H Woods and Gener
al Manager L E Hurtz of the Lin
coln Telephone Telegraph company
were also present at the hearing
Lincoln Star
and social games enlivened the cc t stlons staff belia
caslon Miss Christian was assisted
by Miss Bailey Miss Thorndyke and
MTos Holfoter
Those present from the city were
Mr and Mrs A Galusha Mr and
Mrs S E Harvey Mr and Mrs B
J Lane Miss Juliet Galusha Mi33
Phoebe Waite Miss Esther Bailey
Mni Thorndyke Miss Hollister Mrs
C H Husted From the neighbor
hood Mr and Mrs- C H Harman
Mr and Mrs Robert Nelee Mr and
Mrs J M Somsrvalle Mr and Mrs
S B Rankin and Mrs E F Flit
craft Mrs D E Bard Miss Reta
Randiro Mr Chester Nelee
It was a social event of large en
joyment and well prepared details
Communicated
The new officers of the P E O
are Mrs G L Burney president
Miss Mary Powers vice president
Mrs E S Waite recording ssecre
tary Mrs G E Thompson corres
ponding secretary Mrs J R Mc
Carl treasurer Mrs Fred Schwab
chaplain Mrs R J Gunn guard
Congregaticral Miiortonary society
will hold a social gathering at the
home of Mrs Barney Hofer Thurs
day afternoon Mrs Hofer being as
sisted by Mrs T A Endsley
The next O E S kenisington will
be held at the home of Mrs Ear
ney Hofer Wednesday of this week
Mrs A C Wi ehe assisting
The new officers of the Research
club are Mrs Albert McMiJleni pres
ident Mrs A M Williams vice
president Mra Clarence Stokes secretary-treasurer
Put a little Sunshine in your
home We sell it in all size cans
Makes old furniture and woodwork
look like new
WOODWORTH Druggist
Awaits Physical Valuation
City Attorney F L Wolff returned
Saturday morning frcm the hearing
at Lincoln before the state railway
commission on the citys complaint
concerning the Nebraska Telephone
Com panyd rates in MeCook The
commiissicn has ordered the case
continued to May 4 in order to give
its engineers time to make physical
valuation of the McCcok telephone
plant but as they had been unable to
reach this matter the commilEsCon
found it nrecesziSiry to continue the
case to June 7th by which time it is
thought that the work of making the
physical valuation will be comjpleted
Engineer E C Hnrd of the
expected in Me
Cook in about tea days The commis
sion ruled that the burden was on
the company to justify its rates
The company suhmitted figures to up
hold its rates but besides the phy
sical valuation it is intended to
give the companys figures as to its
MaCook expense account as thorough
an examination as that girven the
Lincoln Traction company
To My Patrons
I will be in Chicago dnrinig the
month of May taking special work and
will leave my books with Miss Nel
lie Smith at MeConn ells drug store
and any one desiring to do so can
pay their account there
DR C L FAHNESTOCK
iMcConnell for drugs
Destruction to Dandelions
Call for RTGGS SANITARY
CIGARS All dealers of course
VISIT RIGGS SANITARY CIGAR
SHOP when in Hastings then you
wuU know why RIGGS cigars sail
The little folks the big folks the
boys with other boys sisters the sis
ters with some other girls brother
all go to Woodwcrths to get ice
cream and ice cream sodas
When in Hastings visit RIGGS
SANITARY CIGAR SHOP See
how good clean healthy cigars
are made You are always wel
come
There are more pretty designs in
wall paper this year than ever before
if you are undecided how you want
to paper come in and see our sam
ples in cut outs crowns friezes oat
meal plain and figured importd
and domestic Wie feel sure we
can please you
WOODWORTH Druggist