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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1905)
THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE , FRIDAY , JULY 21 , 1905. THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Kntorcd as second-class matter as Valla City , Nebraska , post ofllcc , Janu ary 12 , I'3o4 , under tlie Act of Con rcst ' of'March 3 , 1879. Published every Friday at Kails City , Nebraska , by The Tribune PubllshSnrt Compivny One year JUX ) Six months f > 0 Three months . . .35 TELEPHONE 226. Announcement. 1 lierpliy hiinmiMLV inycclf n cniulliliitn for enmity ulutk , Milijfct in llm iltvWon of thu roimcllonli county convention. If .1 K. BIUMIKIIT. V.G.LYFORD FOR REGENT The Tribune is very glad to announce that V. G. Lyford of Falls Git ) * has finally consented to the use of his name for regent of the state university. Mr. Ly ford , while ahvay.s a loyal party man , is in no sense a politician. He would hardly consent to the use of his name for a political office. But he is a business man of high character , possessing tea a great dtcrec ; that sort of com mon sense which men call execu tive ability. He believes in edu cation and is very modern in his ideas along this line. We feel safe in saying that the state has never had a regent better quali fied than is Richardson county's candidate , and his friends who , are legion , will see to it that his claims receive proper recognition. This county sends each year one of the largest delegations of young men and women to the state university , and is entitled to push the claims of Mr. Lyford to the limit. A united effort will bring this nomination to old Richardson.and that's the kind of an effort that will be made. A tongue runs fast with a light load. Election day in Palls City was as quiet as a Saturday afternoon in Hiawatha. "Make Falls City a good place to live in , " may be poor" grammar but it is mighty good business. Cut out the catalogue houses and spend your money at home. Every dollar sent to Montgomery & Ward goes out of circulation so far as this community is con cerned. Saturday was a busy day for the local merchants as the town was crowded with farmers all day. If the present crop pros pects materializes , the country will be full of money this fall. A number of our merchants are intending to adopt The Tribune's plan of a subscription band con cert after the street fair. This has been found to be a good thing by other towns , push it along. The Journal continues its fight on the , beef trust. The service which the front page , top of the column , signed editorials of the Journal have been to the govern ment is inestimable. We have no doubt that President Roosevelt velt will gratefully remember the author of these articles all of his days. Thomas Lawson has been west with his voice and press agent and has returned east to say nice things about us. Lawson is the worst kind of a four ilusher who got pinched in his own game and is squealing about it. The only trouble about a reform movement is that it produces men of the Lawson breed and gives to them a prominence they do not deserve , The republican convention 5r Lancaster county nominated can didates for every county ofiic < notwithstanding the opinion o the supreme court which inferen tially at least excepted the offici of register and supervisor. Tb < extent to which the supreme cour went in the biennial election lav opinion is being carefully' inves tigated in order that the Stell ; convention may be fully advisei concerning the matter. The Tribune guarantees the promises of its advertisers. Our more than two thousand subscrib ers will confer a favor on this paper by doing their trading with our advertisers. In no other way can you be of more assistance to us than by so doing. The Journal makes inquiry as to the reason for holding the county convention in Stella. While the republicans of the county ma ) be somewhat in doubt as to the policy of the party being any of the Journal's business , we suggest that Henry Wellcr , ol Stella , and W. W. Brown , of Jefferson , might en lighten it if the question were asked them. The federal grand jury has re turned twenty-six indictments as , the result of its investigation of the beef trust. Bills wore re turned against some of the big gest packers in the trust , charg ing them with violations of the Sherman anti-trust law , and one count in the indictment against the Schwarxchild & Suhburger campanv charges the illegal pay ing of rebates to railroad com panies. The first step towards enforcing the federal law with reference to the beef trust , is very important and gives to the people the promise of ultimate relief and to the trust a note of warning to the effect that its re lations with people , must in the end be based on the Roosevelt "square deal system. " We believe that there is no such thing as permanently tainted money. If the wickedest man in Falls City were to go to church and put a dollar in the contribu tion box , that dollar would be as potent for good as would a coin of equal value deposited by the deacon who sat in the next seat. In a sense , all money is tainted. Every dollar that passes into a church treasury , or into the ex chequer of a charitable society has most likely at some time passed over the saloon bar or across the poker table. Ethically speaking it has become tainted. But if money can become ethi cally tainted , it can also be ethi cally disinfected. We hold that when money that has been taint ed is accepted and used for a good purpose , all the sin germs are destroyed and that it becomes purified. This is not the age ol graft. The county is not going to the devil , neither is the majority ot the people dishonest. This is the age of the fearless and hon est official , and in his wake lies the exposure of corruption in public life. The world is said to be made up of two classes , the caught and the uncanght. Whether or not this be true , certain it is that there are a good many of the first class at the present writing. There h a s always been corruption , and there will always be corruption in the present state of man's morality , but there i no more now than formerly ; the only reason for thinking so , is that honesty on the part of certain public officials has brought to our view those things which dis honest public officials permitted to remain hidden. Such men as La Follette , Folk , Roosevelt , Jerome and Deneen would have been impossible under the politi cal conditions of twenty years ago. No , my pessimistic friend , the world is not all dishonest the world is growing better and purer t a rapid rate. It is grow ing popular to be honest , almost as popular as it is to be rich. The Falls City Exchange mills are being overhauled and will be equipped with modern improve ments. The mill will be ready tc receive grain in a short time , am special attention will be givet the farmers' trade , as the nev improvements and cheapness o manufacturing will enable tht mill to give them good returns. CONGRESSMAN FROM THIi FIRST DISTRICT. HON. E. M. POLLARD The special election huhl on lu t Tun-day resulted In the ulei'tlon of lion. H. M. Pollun1 , republican candidate for congress in this First District of Ne braska , by u majority approximating 2.f > 00. Ill * miijorltj In Ulonardson county was 281. Semt'Ollluial returns indicate the minorities' are us follows : For Pol lard SplcL-r , . ' ! ; Ilnmbolilt precinct. 0 ; tlninbolilt oil. . . > ' (0 ( ; Kranklin , U ; Nemaha , 15 ; Grunt , 20 : Salem , 2. ) : Utterly , 7 : Kuht Muihly , 2. > : We-t Muddy II ; Fulls City preclnot. ; Fulls City , let ward , 10 ; FalU City 2nd ward : ti ( : South Barada , 12 ; North Barmlu , IIS : Arittfo. " > : JalTjrsnn , II'J. Perhaps never In the history of this district hits so much uputhy existed us was shown on lust Tuesday. In Fill's City there wasserrcelv un outwurd vial- Ible slun to Indicate that on election was In progress The vote was very slow- In corn In > * in and throughout thu county probably sixty per cent of the total vote was oust In view of these facts , the results are very satisfactory to the republican- * Had the full vote In thi- district been c t , Mr I'ollanls majority would have been In the nei < hlnrhood of tlvo thousand mid he would have Car ried lUehardsou county by at least live hundred As it win ho carried every county In this district by majorities in proportion to tlto figures above slven. In Lancaster county , the home of hlonpouent atid where It was alleged that a fight would be made upon him. his majority was over ODD thousand. The result was very satisfactory and not only a. ) endorsement of Mr. Pol- lurJ and the campaign he made , bulls an endorsement of the Uooscve.lt admin istration and thu ' 'square deal" policy. HUMBOLDT E. C. Colhap spent Sunday at his old home in Tecumseh. Tim and Edwards Oummings , of Dawson , were vi-itors in this city Monday. Clemantine Rousek returned home last week from Omaha and will spend several weeks in the city. city.Mrs. Mrs. Hayes Beyer returned home Saturday from a visit to friends at Tecumseh and Have- lock. Elmer Rotisek came home Tuesday from St. Mnrys , Kan. , where he attended school the past year. Mrs. Elmer Wood , of Elk Creek , spent Sunday in this city with her parents , L. C. Mann and wife. Mabel Carne , who is employed i the Miller & Paine store at jincoln , is spending her vaca- ion with her parents. Don Linn , with a party of wenty little folks invited to is home , celebrated his sixth irthday Saturday last. Sadie Rauh returned Monday o her home at Beatrice after a ouple of weeks visit 'here with ler grandmother , Mrs. J. C. A. Morris. Herbert Jones and son , of Col orado Springs , arrived here sev eral days ago on a visit to the onncr's parents , W. G. Jones tnd wife. Pearl Hasness arrived home Friday from Sheridan , Wyo. , where she had been employed the past year in the schools as : t teacher. She will return in the autumn and resume her work. Ben Drake.son of Rob't. Drake and wife , fell from a water wagon Saturday and struck in such a manner that he fractured the bone of his left forearm about midway between the el bow and wrist. The injury was promptly attended to and he is getting along nicely. C. A. Welch came in from Odell Tuesday to get his house hold effects stored here for sev eral weeks. He says he and his family are to locate at Diller as soon as he can find a suita ble location. He operates a photograph gallery in both Dil ler and Odell , and is meeting1 with much success. The city hall bonds of $4,000 were sold on Friday evening. Mrs. Emma Vorhees and son , George , of Seneca , are guests of Geo. Peake. Brook Hitt , of Shenandoah , Iowa , is here as a guest of her grandfather. Dr. Cox. The fanners of this section have been busy the past week threshing and marketing grain. The city council has ordered that crossing's be built on each of the four sides of the public park. The ladies cemetery associa tion have asked the city council to build a new fence enclosing the cemetery. F. Harding residing south of town who has suffered from a cancer on the face for a cou ple ot years past , died "Wednes day at his home. Police Judge Enoch has re signed his office owing to ill health and Justice of the Peace John H Smith has been ap pointed in his place. L. C. Edwards was a guest of friends atSabetha , Kan. . Satur day and on the following day joined the Rock Island excur sion crowd to the Beatrice chau- tauqua. A new machine for the man ufacture of cement building block has been received by parties here and it is believed an effort is to be made to induce the contractors to use this kind of material in the erection of the new city hall. BARADA. Mntt Shnlenborg made a business - ness trip to Fnlls City on Monday. William A. Shcrnft of Stella is visiting at the homo of Louis Smith's. The liquor question nt Bnrada is not settled yet , if we may judge from the " free for nil" fights that occur nightly. Mrs. Frank Eberhnrt has made rnther a long visit with her parents in Forest City but is expected home to day. Dr. Miuist , Mr. Eberhnrt nnd Mr. Shears have been hunting chickens on the westrond , but ap parently without much success. Wes Tindlewns called nt St. Joe last Saturday to visit with his in valid sister he returned the follow- tig Monday and reports her on buying and selling real IN estate , the services of a bank are usually needed. In these transactions we make loans , advance money on mortgages , take care of contracts A tracts and deeds and other BANK wise assist in closing up deals USUALLY WHEN you sell orbuyprop- let the business NEEDED erty , ness end of it pass through the Illllll FALLS CITY STATE BANK Illllll Illllll You will be pleased with our services. it M ft DID YOU KNOW ! That we have an Optical Department and that we fit glasses every day ? We have recently brought our stock entirely up-to-date , with a fresh line of rimless goods. We can meet your wants with the newest and most approved patterns in rimless eyeglasses. Our prices will surprise you you'll find them to be considerably lower than what other jew elers charge for the same article. If some other jeweler has disapyointecl you sold you glasses that don't fit or charged high prices don't take it that we will do the same. We are as skillful and honest in our optical work as we are in our repairing. A. E. JAQUET "TheOld Reliable" JEWELER. < sxxS > < § > < ! $ xx § > < 8xK Just Come and See The largest and best line of buggies , surries and bike wagons in the city , and we are making on them for the next 21 days. Call and see them before buy ing. We will also sell you riding plows at actual cost. Remember , we are not going out of business , but we want to close out some as we have too many on hand. We also always have a big line of Windmills , Pumps , and Pumping Engines on hand. Just call and sec them before buying. Our prices are right on this line of goods and we can save you money. Don't forget th have W. C. Shim : Lightning Rods put on your building. They are the best and our prices are the best. Call and see us before buying. We can save you money. Your's truly , WERNER & MOSIMAN CO. the road to recovery. j Quite a erowd of our young pee pie will go to Langon tomorrow on n fishing excursion of whose suc cess we will tell in next issue of the paper. Clins. Lmndsny ret timed from Shermnn County , Knnsaslnst week nnd reports it a fine place. He hns recently purchased n half sec tion of Innd there. Uncle Dick Willinmson hns been existing on soup for several days owing to the fact , that he had lost his fnlse teeth , but nt the present date we lean , that he hns found them. Mr. Allen of Omaha was here last week looking after the interest of the canning factory. Our factory - tory now has good financial bases. And all rumors of n possible fail ure in the matter have been scattered - tered to the wind. A Chicago University professor claims to have compounded a concoction that will produce life. This is a work of supererogation. If some professor wants to bene fit mankind let him produce a compound that will kill chiggers PLEASANT VIEW The ladies cleaned the church last week. Mrs C. P. Summer is entertain ing a guest from Kansas City. The wind blew Hnrry Avery's wind-mill down Thursday night. Miss Jennie Leech spent npnrt of last week with the Misses Phil lips. lips.Mrs. Mrs. Phillips entertained the the ladies of the the W. F. M. S. last Thursday. T. H. Edmonds nnd family visited - ited with Uncle Jnke Shroyer and family Sundhy. Shock threshing is in progress Wheat is making a large yield and is of excellent quality. The W. F. M. S. held their an. nunl thank-offering meeting , Sun- dny. An interesting program was given. During the storm Thursday evening , the liny born on A. M. Leech's west farm was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. It had recently been filled with hay. The loss was partly covered by insurance.