1HE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Eflteftd us second-c 1 as- matter at
Fall*City. Nebraska, post olhcc, Jami
urv 1-, 1904, under the Act of ' ongress
on March S, 1879,
Published every Fiiday at 1 .tils i ity,
Nebraska, by
Th« Tribune Publishing Company
E F SMARTS Manager
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A comparison of the two tick
ets, man for man, should satisfy
every voter who is actuated by
decency and tlu* town’s welfare.
Bert Baker will make one of
the best city treasurers ever.
Be is popular, accommodating
and on the square and that com
bination should satisfy the most
exacting.
Who are you with in this con
test? What do you stand for,
the good or the evil, the home
or the saloon, the general wel
fare or the good of an individual?
It's up to you!
The Tribune serves notice that
it will not be a party to a cam
paign of abuse anil vindication.
We refuse to publish letters sent
this week concerning the pri
vate life of an individual or to
concern ourselves with .1 n y
street fair incident. We will
conduct our share of this contest
in a legitimate and decent way
or we will get out of it entirely.
Mr. Keeling sjjid lie was in
favor of the open saloon.
In other words Mr. Keeling
would provide a place for labor
ing men to spend thejr earnings,
Mr. Abbey said, I am in favor
ol sewerage, paving and otliei
necessary improvements.
In other words Mr. Abbey
would improve the city and pro
vide a means for laboring men
to increase their earnings.
The anti saloon ticket was
nominated by such men as l\ S.
Heacock, .James Slocum, Dr.
Reneker, Dr. Miner, W W. Ah
bey, John Lichty and others of
like high character. These men
have no selfish interest to serve.
They are not working to add a
Jittle rental money to t h e i r
pockets even though others must
suffer to accomplish that end.
They have only questions of
morality, decency, sobriety and
good order as their motives, and
such motives mean much to this
community.
Mayor Abbey has given the
best part of a year to the inter
est of Falls City, lie has per
sonally investigated every im
provement that has been estab
lished. Every dollar that has
been expended has been spent
only after the fullest investiga
tion on his part. There remains
much undone that he should, in
justice to himself and the tax
payers, be permitted to finish.
His defeat would be a rank in
justice to him and the communi
ty he has so faithfully served.
Tlie second ward has been
getting the worst of it for years.
Every saloon in Falls City is in
the second ward. Many voters
in the tirst ward who are sup
porting the saloon ticket would
vote otherwise mighty quick if
it meant the establishment of
saloons in his ward. So long as
the second ward has to endure
the traffic it’s all right.
Isn't it about time for second
ward men to put an end to this
sort of arrangement? if the
other wards wont have them
why should we of the second
ward be compelled to take them?
? ? ?
Wasn't it the News that asked
tlie question when Bert Whit
aker was npminated for council
man and Prof. Barrett was nom
inated lor mayor: “Isn’t it pos
sible to have a city ticket with
out the family from Tennessee
Kiel)ardson County. n .» »
UNFiT OR UNWORTHY? WHICH
When an investigation was on
concerning the accounts of Ir
vin Hode. Mr. C. C. Davis, can
didate on the saloon ticket for
councilman in the first ward
tiled with the school hoard a
statement, saying that lie had
investigated Mr. Hade's ac
counts and found everything
straight.
Geo. Holland, D. 11. Jussen,
D. D. Keavis, John Holt and an
expert accountant examined his
books and found him *12,000
short.
If Mr. Davis found a shortage
in these accounts and reported
otherwise he is unworthy the
position to which lie aspires.
It Mr. Davis found nothing
wrong with these accounts when
every other man who examined
them found a .*12,000 shortage,
lie is unfit to hold the position
of councilman.
However desperately the pa
per up the alley strives to pros
titute this campaign into a mere
partisan contest the voters are
not to be deceived,
H’liis i> n<>t a contest between
republicans and democrats or
factions of either party. This
is a contest between men of all
parties who believe in sobriety,
decency and progress against
men who believe everything cen
ters about an open saloon.
It is true that every republi
can saloon keeper voted at the
democratic primaries last tall
and worked against the republi
can ticket.
It is true that E. S. Towle
contributed money to the demo
cratic campaign fund last fall,
These tilings are incidents and
not essentials. Any man who
Is deceived by the News into be
lieving this to be a partisan con
test is confessing his incotnpe
tency to control his right of
suffrage. Don’t lie fooled
This is going to be a bitter
campaign. Personalities will
be indulged in, in which the
Tribune will not participate.
We will do our share towards
electing the anti-saloon ticket
because of decency, good morals
and the general welfare. We
feel that there are other tilings
more potent than the question
of selling' booze. We teel that
if Falls Pity’s future can hold no
greater issue than that of whis
key selling, then it were better
to place a monument at the head
of Stone street, close <>ur church
es and relegate such ideas as
paving, sewerage and kindred
improvements to the clas- of
things unimportant.
••We stand for many thing'- in
the way of improvements." de
clared Mayor Abbey.
“We stand for saloons." said
M r. Keeling.
And there you are!
Clarence Heck for clerk should
and doubtless will be elected.
While the salary is not large it
will help a deserving young man
He did not try to get the nomi
nation on both tickets, but was
content to stand by his princi
ples without regard to results.
He lias no sinister motive in
seeking the office, but is willing
to make the race upon his mer
its and the merits of the cause
he represents.
The cry that no saloons means
no business is all shot to pieces.
There was a time when the sa
loon keeper, who got a large
share of the money which should
have gone in legitimate chan
nels of trade, could frighten the
merchant with the cry “you
must have saloons or you will
lose business,” but that time is
gone._
Imitation is tbesincerest flat
tery, of course, and we appre
ciate the compliment, to be t-ure,
icVc ■» *■ j **4*irti -1 &<. rm f-a r 1 v
Even the cloys of the sporting
editor of the only paper on earth,
are wearing placards “Vote for
Kchmeb-.el for city clerk.'' It
remind' one of the story o! “the
whole Dam family.'’ They ah
appear to get busy at this time,
even to the dogs.
We often hear of the “candy
kid1' but our son in law at the
News certainly must be the
“rubber kid." When we consi
der the vast difference in the
platform of the two tickets be
fore the people, then watch the
alertness with which he tries to
manipulate both without seem
ingly straining a joint, he is
something of a juggler to say
the least. Hut then the family
instructed him to do the 'tunt
and he made his very be>t effort.
It is a cold day when the
“largest and best " paper can
not dictate the policy ol the city,
county, state and nation at
least to its own idea “to just the
proper caper.” If you cross the
idea of this astute author ol
high ideals, you area tit subject
for personal abuse -o long as a
desire to that end remains in his
fertile brain. In fact it is a “rule
or ruin'" policy with that great
journal and always has been.
Just how long the public will
tolerate this system of family
graft remains tobeseen. If you
like it. perpetuate the game by
your voice and vote. If it has
lost its taste, this i>a good time
toiet your voice be beard against
such a spirit.
The promise is given on the
part of a lew individuals that
the third ward will five one hun
dred majority against the anti
saloon ticket. How the good
citizens of this ward feel about
having their votes cast for them
is yet to be learned. Those who
so boastingly make this agree
ment are not actuated by a de
sire to >ee the law entorced, but
are doing so from a belief that
it is their inalienable right to
violate the law. The arrogance
of such elements has driven
many men into the anti saloon
ranks.
We do m>t say that all men
who oppose the anti-saloon
ticket are in favor of law-break
ing, but we do say that some of
the men who are intending to
cast the third ward so unani
inously for the saloon ticket are
doing it in the hope and belief
that they will be permitted to
follow an avocation not permit
ted by the laws of this state.
St. Joseph Paper Suspends
With Monday’s issue the St.
Joseph Stat, published by F. W.
Kellogg, suspended publication.
Kellogg announces that the plant
will lie dismantled and witkdtawu
from St. Joseph,where it has been
published three years as an after
noon penny daily.
Quaker Philosophy!
Said the good old Quaker to his
boy: "Nathan, it is not what thee
reads that makes thee smart: it
is not what thee eats that makes
thee fat: it is not what thee earns
that makes thee rich. BUT WHAT
THEE SAVES
Try one of our Vest Pocket
Banks and watch results. It will
help you save many a dollar.
THE
| Fails City State
ON MOST IMPORTANT MAHER
Sandy's Mind at That Moment Was
Lifted Above Such Frivolous
Things as Love.
Tiny sat each at an extreme end
of il horsehair sofa. They had
In on cooiiin’ now for something like
two years, hut the wide gap between
had always been respectfully pre
served.
“A penny for your thoughts,
Sandy,” murmured Maggie, after a
silence of an hour and a half.
“Wool,” replied Sandy slowly,
with surprising boldness, “tae tell ye
the truth, I was jist thinkin’ how
line it wad he if ye were tae gie me a
wee hit kissie.”
“I've nae objection,” simpered
Maggie, slithering over, and kissed
him plmnply on the tip of his left
ear.
Then she slithered hack.
Sandy relapsed inio a brown study
once more, and t he clock ticked 27
minutes,
*• \n’ what arc ve thinkin’ about
noo—anither, eli ?”
“Nae, nae, lassie; it's mair serious
the noo.”
“Is it, laddie?” a>kcd Maggie
softly. Her heart was going pit-a
pat with expectation. “Aid what
mirlit it he?”
“I was jist thinkin',” answered
Sandy, “that it was nboot time ye
were paying me that penny!”—
Answers.
SUGAR AND FRUIT FOR HORSES,
drain is not the only food on
which the horse thrives. In Egypt
the khedive’s best maj'cs are fed
lar-jely on currants, and these fruit
fed animals are noted for their en
durance and speed, Figs, during the
A Chance for a Wise Farmer
< > W as Sprite is at hand and yon art* going
to need some Farming Machinery, we
have tried to supply your wants and it will
certainly pay you to come and see our immense
stock of good, which we will sell at a very close
margin. Our method of doing business is
known to everyone. If you have a “kick a
eoni'in. don’t tell your neighbor, but teil us
and. wt- will make it right.
We carry everything in the implement line,
from a graden hoe to a double-row lister.
We lead them all. Call and see our gaso
line engines, from 1 h. p. to v h. p.
The way the 1. H. C. Manure Spreaders
are selling you cannot afford to he without one.
•lust come in and look them over and get our
prices.
For Wagons, Buggies and Surries we are
headquarters. We are expecting a car of new
spring stjles in a few days and you can’t afford
to miss seeing them
We also sell Lightning Rods. Protect
your house and barn; be wise and buy your
machinery and lightniut* rods from a reliable
rirm. Yours for a square deal,
WERNER iVIOSIMAN & CO.
fig harvest, form the food of the j
horses of .Smyrna. They turn to it j
from oats or hay.
The green tops of the sugar cane
are fed to the horses of the West
fndies, and for long weeks in many
parts of Canada windfall apples
form the horse’s only food. In Tas
mania peaches and in Arabia dates
take the place of hay and oats, corn,
and bran.—Xcw Orleans Thnc>
Democrat.
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"Women's Tailored Suits
Never lias the supremacy of this store been more emphatically shown than
in the favor with which our Tailored Suits have been received this spring. We
have fully demonstrated that we can furnish stylish, up-to-date garments for
women, at less cost and on more satisfactory basis than can stores of Omaha,
Kansas City, St. Joseph or Lincoln. Our purchases are made of the same manu
facturers as the largest retailers in the country buy from, and we sell on margins
much smaller than any city store can possibly afford. We still have a splendid
assortment of Wool Suits and will have in a few days an excellent display of Tub
Suits. Wash Suits will be in great favor for hot weather wear.
At $12 to $25 are Wool Suits, in all the prevailing shades, in designs that
are attractive and strictly new. We do not have a single old suit on sale.
A dressmaker of large experience is constantly in the department, to make
alterations. A satisfactory fit is guaranteed.
Shirt Waists--Si!k. Net, Cotton
New Silk Waists arrived this week. The most popular styles of the season
in mulls, lawns and nets comprise our -lock, which is more complete than in any
previous season.
At $!, $1.25, $1.50, $1.8-, $2 and up to $8 is so wide a display that you
will find it difficult to select.
Wool Suitings j Waist; Suiting Silks
Suitings in every fabric that is in vogue, will be found in a variety that we
have never approached before. The choicest patterns and colors, from the looms
of the best makers in the world, are on our counters. Ladies going to Omaha
and other cities will find these same fabrics in the best stores.
Rugs—Large and Small Sizes
In an honest endeavor to serve this people and leave no excuse for anyone
to go elsewhere to buy floor coverings, we have from season to season enlarged
our variety until we now cover almost the entire field of domestic rugs. Almost
every si/.e made, up to 1 2 by 15 feet, will be found in our stock in a satisfying
assortment. W e are selling many of these rugs at from ten to twenty per cent
less than city stores; we are at your door; we will deliver as many rugs as you are
interested in to your home, where you can satisfy yourself in matching furnishings
walls, etc., and give you other accommodations that no foreign merchant can
furnish. At present we are making a $10 price on an excellent quality 9 by 12 ft.
Brussels Rug and a 520 price on a high grade Axminster, 9 by 12 it. rug, both in
several patterns.
Other Floor Coverings
Ingrains, Hemps, Mattings, Petrolene, Linoleums. Oil Cloths, all-in full
assortments. Also Shades and Curtains.