A Short Talk I have purchased the tailoring establishment formerly conduc ted by John Wilson, and I take this means of introducing my self to the public. In addition to high-class tailoring I will in stall a French Cleaning Mach ine. All work guaranteed. A TRIAL ORDER IS ALL THAT IS ASKED H. Nothorf 320 Acre Free Homestead WYOMING, COLORADO AND MONTANA —The Mondell Home stead law makes provisions for 320 acre homesteads in certain local ities, instead of the usual 160 acre tracts. The requirements of the law are practically the same regarding residence, improvements and cultivation. These lands are going fast; if you want a homestead close to the railroad, you should act now. Crops and Rainfall—Visitors to the Omaha Corn Show will re member the magnificent display of f. rm products from Weston County, Wyoming, grown on exactly the same kind of land that can now betaken in 320 acre homesteads. The Mondell Act in eludes lands that receive from 16 to 21 inches of rainfall annually, and you only need-to see the crops grown by the farmers already located there, to b> convinced. These homesteads can be taken along the Burlington’s new line now building in Wyoming. I personally conduct excursions the first and third Tuesdays of eacli month to these lands, and am employed by the Burlington to answer ali inquiries, and to assist you in every possible way to locate along the Burlington Lines. Write for new folder and map of these lands. I) CLEM DEAVER, General Agent, d Seekers Information Bureau, Omaha, Neb. 1004 Farnam St., Omaha. Nebr. YOU WILL SHARE OUR PRIDE in dental work if you have need of our services and avail yourself of our skill, experience and fac lities. We don’t do half way work—it’s all or nothing with us, as rrany people know to their own great gratification. Note, please, that we make no charge for expert examin ation . DR. YUTZY BERT WINDLE, I). D. S., Assistant Falls City, Nebraska STEARNS A FOSTER MATTRESS Don't confuse it with any ordinary cotton mattress. The word cotton is the only thing they have in common. Of Purest, Springy Cotton Felt Test it for 60 Nights Our cotton felt has the springiness i3 the offer that we make cn every that makes a mattress comfortable. Stearns & Foster Mattress. We Also the cleanliness that makes a are authorized to return your money mattress safe. Stearns & Foster without question if vuu are willing to Mattresses are made ot pure, fresh, with it after a test of Co nights, new cotton crossed and recrossed by P us send a n,attress today our wonderful web process into clean, - , ... t buoyant, elastic sheets, forty to a so you will benefit by this great layer and nine lavers to every mattress. offer. Four Grade* of Superiority Anchor Grade—Soft and springy, better than Lenox Grade—A little better, a little more .". *■•■» sswasir* ""“'.i'S W^r?^han“7yeo.h«W.dvS Style“A"-Amattr««deluxe anperiorma^r makes at any price . . . *13.50 mattress of any material at any price *22.50 Reavis & Abbey Not* the opening in th* end of this mattress, ft proves the content*■ ^ IlnuiJl DqiIAII Gives you the reading matter ia g §M& gg Offlv ■ gmfggSm which you have the greatest In - . . - ■ — terest—the home ntws. Its every issue will prove a welcome visitor to every member of the family. It should head your list of newspaper and periodical subscriptions. THE COMERS ANO COERS HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TO YOU ANO ME. What Your Friends and Their Friends Have Been Going the Past Week. —Eat Sowle’s Candy. —Dr. Wilson, Wahl’s building. Miss Fields spent Sunday at her home in Lincoln. See Clarence Heck for your coal t iis fall, Phone 101. Henry Gerdes attended the street fair at Shubcrt Friday. Stanley Crook of Salem spent last | Sunday with friends here. Hussell lliait of Salem spent Sun day with Falls City friends. Eugene Meridith of Salem was i down on business last Friday. Miss Jessie Paxton returned Sun day to her home in Nebraska City. Kev. R. C. Hailey returned Friday from Lincoln and Bennett. Neb. Miss Bessie Arnold returned last Thursday from a visit to Denver rela tives. Miss Itnth Heacock went lo Lincoln Sunday where she will attend the university. Patrick Walsh was down from Humboldt for the K. of L. festivities last Friday. Miss Lois Spencer left Tuesday for Lincoln, where she will commence a library course. Miss Winifred Taylor lms been as sisting at Dittnmr’s store during the busy season. Mildred Holland left Sunday for Lincoln to take up her duties again at the university. Mr. and Mrs. 1). J. Spragins moved into the house with Mrs. Martha Weaver this week. Fied Herbster left last Friday for Des Moines where be will enter a school of pharmacy. Miss Minnie Murphy of Humboldt j was down for the K. of C. dance and | to visit with friends. E. E. .lames is maiding a garage on 11iproperty recently purchased from Mrs. Pat Casey. Misses Gertrude and Grace Lyford left Sunday to resume school duties at the stale university. Mrs. A. Keller went to Auburn Iasi Frida)' to visit a few days with Iter daughter, Mrs. Ed May. Mr. and Mrs. George Slocum of SStella were down circus day. guests of .1. L. Slocum and wife. Mrs. Lillian Stephenson was down from Humboldt to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. .1. Oliver. Mr. and Mrs. Flemming Robb of Verdon were guests of l>r. 1). G. Giffith and wife over Sunday. Reavis Gist went to Lincoln last Monday where lie enters the univer sity upon his freshman year. Mr. and Mrs. N. 15. Judd went to Pawnee last Saturday to visit their daughter, Mrs. George Crocker. —Don’t fail to see the premiums given with cash purchases at the Patzman Sisters’ millinery store. 21 Richard Dittmar left Monday for JUjica, N. V., where he will this year, be a sophrhore ai Cornell University. Miss Mable Lyford went to Cham paign, 111., last Friday where she will take a library course In the college there. Mrs. Mary Kentner lias gone to housekeeping and is now comfortab ly situated in the Hermes cottage on Chase street, Mrs. James Stewart, who has been visiting her parents, Conrad Brecht and wife, left Sunday for her home, in Sabetha. Mr. Van Doian and family of Hia watha visited his mother and sister, Mrs. Van Doran and Miss Brebeck, a few days last week. Misses Jennie and Ollie Thompson went to Peru Monday,where both will graduate from the normal school at that place this year. Miss Maude Maddox went to Lin coln last Saturday for a short, visit with friends. She was a guest of Mrs. Charles Fordyce. Fred Brecht returned last Saturday from Denver, where hi’ went as a delegate to tli Grand Exec tlive Cas tle of Royal Highlanders. Mr. and Mrs. William Stiffen, who came from Rowen, la., to attend the funeral of their nephew, Will Bohrer, returned home Monday. Messrs Guy Crook and Ralph J«-li ne*, Mrs. Edwin Ewing and Miss Rea Fuller composed an auto party u> Verdon and return Sunday. Mrs. Charles Rowe of Lincoln sur prised her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Abbott by coming down from Omaha unexpectedly last. Saturday. Mr. and.Mrs. S. L. Davies and little Gwendolyn and Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Davies spent last Sunday with Evan Owens and wife neat’-Verdon. Mrs. Ada Wells is Having me property recently purchased of Mrs. Eva Davidson greatly improved by a new roof, painting and plastering. Miss Cecil Kanaly came down from Salem Friday evening with Miss Setble and spent Sunday with her at. the home of her uncle, W. H. Put ham. Charles Hanna recently sold his home in the east part of the city to George Zoelier, a farmer living near Preston. He will live there until spring. Hube Horrocks accompanied his daughter, Mrs. Tom Palmer, to her home in Shlekley Thursday and spent a few days duck hunting. He re turned home Monday. Mrs. Jake Nedrow and Mrs. Frei berghouse were down from Salem on Friday. Mrs. Freiburghouse will visit friends at this place for several days before returning home. Phillip Sehlater, who a couple of years ago was a member of the Tribune force, came up from Nash ville, Tenn., last. Saturday and will be employed on the Daily Journal. Mr. and Mrs. Carey Cooper, Miss Jennie Fellers and Lou -Howe were down from Humboldt in the Cooper car Sunday. They were guests at the W. It. Holt home, a mile west of town. W. A. Gre.enwald and wife and Ferd Parchen and daughter, Ethel, went to Verdon Sunday to visit at the home of Ed Frauepfelder. A punctured tire on the homeward way somewhat mar-' red the pleasure of the trip. Parents, if your son or daughter don't like the fibrin give them a chime to prepare for a business position. The Grand Island Business and Nor mal College, Grand Island, Neb., will educate five hundred students next term—no fees to be paid until t tie pupil 1ms had time to gaduate, when a position will he pro vided and expenses can he paid in small sums each month. This is a high grade school, established twenty one years and lias 1,000 students yearly. 37-lt Miss Carolyn Hough, of the Chi cago school of dressmaking and de signing, will occupy rooms two doors north of the Harlan Street school house and will be prepared to take orders for customers on and after September 27, 1000. 21. Karl Marts, wife and two sons pa sod through ibis city Tlmsday, en route to Kansas City where they will visit relatives for a time. On their way home to VVymore they will stop off and visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Marts. I. C. Maust left Tuesday for Hard in, Mont., where his wife is visiting her parents. They will all he mem bers of a hunting party and when Mr. Maust returns in October Mrs Maust will come with him. For Sale—Gasoline engine, saw and saw table, complete in good run ning order, $100. Must be sold at once—going to leave town. See same at KaebPIries’ wood yard. 37-tf. M. Seff and son. Louis, returned from Kansas City, where they passed the Jewish holidays with Mr. Seff’s daughter. He also bought new goods while there. Mrs. Joy Beyett and two daughters were down from Lincoln several days. They were called here by (lie death of the former's grandmother, Mrs. Re becca Clark. liter Bilenkos came down from! Beatrice Monday evening, lie has j !i i'ii looking alter the confectionery lie recently purchased at that place. Guy Cook left Tuesday for Buhl. Idaho to look over some of the land. I He will go on to Seattle and other i Pacific const points of intercut. Mr. and Mrs. M. II. Sipe of Gan ark. lit., who came to attend the I’ll-j nerul of the latter’s brother, Will Bohn-r, returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. II. O. Bohrer, who were called here for the funeral of Will Bohrer, returned to their home in 1 lazellmrst, ill . Sunday. Mrs. I lii am Spencer of Gong Beach. Cal., arrived Thursday and will be tlm guest of her daughter, Mrs. Jake S liaihle for some time. John Braiiigiin. who lives with his aunt, Mrs. Janies Powell, left Mon day for Peru where lie will attend the Normal. Mrs. Will Selimelzel and Miss Sarah Hutchings speent last Tliurs-1 daay and Friday with Shubert rela I ives. J. G. Dalbey and wife of the Shu bert Citizen were down Tuesday to visit relatives and attend tlie circus. Samuel 11. Huffnell arrived from -Abeline, Kas., last Thursday for a ‘visit with relatives and old friends. —Dont fail to see the premiums givop with cash purchases at the Patzman Sisters’ millinery store. 2t Miss Dorothy Morehead was among the students from this place to re turn to the university at Lincoln. Mrs. Hammer came down from Weeping Water last Thursday to visit her sister. Mrs. Morton Miss Jennie Prater visited her gjater, Mrs, C 10. Peabody in St. Joe the latter part of the week. Dr. Bert Windle and Miss Myrtle Kamel spent Sunday in Verdon with Mr. and Mrs. Dave Griffiths. James Baeakos went to Beatrice Sunday where he will work in his brother’s confectionery. August Scholl gave up his position with Dr. Kerr. Monday and left for Peru to attend school. Inez Wachtel went back to Peru Monday and will enter the senior class at the normal. Sterling Mendenhall nnd Dan Uat ekin word among the Ritlo people up for the circus. Jno. Moehe&d’s residence lias been in the hands ot a good painter this week. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Maust return ed Sunday from their trip to Den ver. ,T. L. Morehead and wife were down from Barada for the circus Tuesday. Mrs. George Story visited relatives at Craig. Mo., the past week. See Clarence Heck for your coal this fall. Phone 101. —Dr. Trumpore—Massuer and face Massage, Phone 267. 31tf. Milt Bohrer returned to his work in Red Cloud Sunday. Tuesday was circus day. Our Jeweln) Learn to admire rightly and you will learn to purchase wisely. People of refined taste admire . our jewelry most because real jewel ry art appeals to them as only real art of any kind does. Wise jewelry buying begins with your selection of a store which pro vides jewelry of artistic and in trinsic value extending deeper than the outside coat. To know if our prices are low, compare them with values as high. 5- Simpson North Window Kerr's Pharmacy Falls City, Neb. College Creations /^OLLEGE clothes ^ made by “WEIL PFLAUM & Co.” are especially designed for the College Chaps. They portray all the features desired by these tasty dressers. 1 here is that tone of quality and* style, that life and swing that bespeaks individual ity. They fit every curve of the body perfectly and are moulded in the season’s most becoming styles. We have cn display the ca’. • . ! !.■'■ t weaves* rxh cJors and *> i } ■* ( r* * *y~i ' C. * v I » l - - K q * ' Maker* Weil l*H iu,u St Co. A , i f . * .». • / k < wC '• • Chicago And we carry all the accessories that go with a becoming suit, such as Shirts. Collars and Ties, Underwear and Hosiery of latest patterns and designs. Call and Inspect them, It will pay you. Wahl & Parchen NEMAHA VALLEY Pressed Stone and Brick Co. W. H. PUTNAM & SONS, Props. We manufacture and carry in stock a full line of Cement Blocks, Brick, Tile and Plain and Fancy Trimmings, which we would be pleased to show and price you before you place your order elsewhere- We also wholesale and retail Sand, Cement and Crushed Rock We are agents for the Boelt’S Concrete Mixer. Visitors al ways welcome at our yards. Located on the CORNER 14th & MORTON STREETS 2 Blocks from Burlington Depot FALLS CITY, NEB. Falls City Marble Works R. A. & F. A. NEITZFL, Managers We are now carrying the largest and best selected stock of Marble and Granite ever carried in Southeas tern Nebraska. We would be pleased to show you through the stogk, which is made up of the latest de signs in and which we are prepared to turn out in the highest degree of art at a cost as low as any responsi ble firm can quote you. Write for Designs and Prices Before Placing Your Order Falls City Marble Works WANTED From 50 to 100 more entries for the Horse Show, Sept. 29. There is room for every good horse. Get them ready and make your entry with the secretary. 29 classes. $220 in Premium Money N. B. JUDD. President W. F. RIESCHICK. Secy.