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Months ago we began to plan for this year's Holiday Busi
ness. Our stock tells the story. Our store is a veritable
paradise for the little ones who are looking forward to
Christmas. And the older folks will be no less pleased.
Many people have always considered Christmas Gifts hard
to choose, but we have made gift selection easy this season.
Toilet Articles in profusion; Books for Christmas; New Leather Goods,
especially the finest line of Hand Bags and Purses in the city. Bibles make a
nice present. Why not buy a Fountain Pen? A Handsome Medallion? Some
Pretty Dishes? We cannot begin to enumerate the many pretty and useful
gifts our store contains. And bear in mind, that THE QUALITY IS THERE.
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We very cordially invite your inspection of our stock of Holiday Merchandise.
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A. G. WANNER
Phone 63
THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Entered as second-class matter at
Falls City, Nebraska, post office, Janu
ary 12, llk>4, under t lie Act of Congress
on March 3,1879.
Published every Friday at Falls City,
Nebraska, by
The Tribune Publishing Company
E. F SMARTS Manager
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Six months .. - .75
Three months .40
TELEPHONE 226.
Does it pay NOT to advert ist ?
Shoy early and be in good humor
for Christmas.
Encourage every move for the ad
vancement or betterment of your
home town.
The sugar trust doesn't, seem to
grow any sweeter as the probe pro
gresses into it.
Being fairly well “heeled"Dr.Cook
is now in a position to take a little
lay-off atul get healed.
There is nothing enjoying so big
a sale that advertising or more adver
tising will not increase the sales.
The new Brownsville shoot-up in
qulry still fails to put any angel
wii^gs oil those discharged colored
troops.
England is having more trouble
with her budget than some people
have guessing what Santa Claus is
going to bring them.
And now we hear rumors of a
plot to kidnap John D. Rockefeller.
The rich and the poor alike need oil
for their troubled kvaters.
All sidewalk fruit stands at Lin
coin, Neb., have been ordered re
moved. 'Smaller? Mr. Bryan gel
ling loo broad-ganged for the walk.
The season of gifts again draws
near when the kindliest feelings of
our hearts go out to those about ns
and longs to find expression In some
simple token some precious gift
that may serve as a remind *r of the
love and good wishes cherished in
days that will soon have flown far
in the past.
‘•KNOW THY MIND.”
The stores that have the real holi
day offerings and bargains are adver
tising them. Head the ads thorough
ly and you can then do your shopping
understandingly, with it better
knowledge of what you want and
where you ear. get it most sattid'net
orily.
PATRICK AGAIN.
The latest plea of Albert. T. Pat
rick for release from Sing Sing pris
on in New York on the ground that
he is legally dead has been turned
down. The Patrick ease has been a
long weary drag. Some yeaug, ago
Patrick, a lawyer, was convicted of
poisoning to death in New York
William lUee, an aged Texas million
aire. The ease was never proven
except circumstantially. Patrick was
condemned to death, and about every
two weeks since he has hobbed up
with a new plea of some kind. The
latest was that the governor’s com
mutation of his sentence to life im
prisonment arrived at the prison a
few minutes after the time he was
supposed to have been executed, and
that lie was therefore legally dead
and could not longer be held behind
prison walls. The Judge, however,
didn’t seem to take much stock in
the plea and sent Patrick back to
prison as a decidedly live one. Pat
rick is nothing if not original, and
it is a safe bet that lie will be heard
from again within a short time with
another of his unique reasons why
he should not longer he detained.
The FREE Sewing Machine
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The Lightest Running
Full Ball Bearing
DIFEERENT FROM ANY OTHER--ENTIRELY NEW
FOR SALE BY
Wirth & Winterbottom
FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA
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Benefits of Drainage System
'i'o Kails City Tribune:-—-Through
the columns of your paper l desire
to discuss the Drainage question from
the standpoint of a land owner and
taxpayer, in common wit it many
others having but little or no inter
est in bottom land.
There are many of us who believe
that the controversy between the
county and the drainage district
should cease. Your correspondent
is the owner of six hundred acres of
upland farms. and only twen
ty acres of bottom land,
but believes in a square deal and a
compliance with the laws of the coun
try.
If it is a fact that the county will
not be benefttted by the drainage
project, then we should not be re
quired to pay for something we do no
receive. The drainage people tell tts
that they are not Impecunious beggars
asking for a "hand out;" on the con
trary they are asking only for what
is coming to them under the law, as
interpreted by the courts of the
country everywhere. They say,also,
they are paying more taxes, and will
pay more of this special drainage
tax, than all the rest of the county;
and besides this they truthfully tell
us that in recent years their troubles
have come from the upland farms—
in times of excessive rainfall—bring
ing down water loaded with clay and
other heavy material, which drops to
the bottom and fills up the ehaquol
of the streams, these tacts are oh-;
vious to everyone. In former years, |
when the land was new, these eon \
ditions did not prevail.
Now let us investigate the reasons
why we should pay any part of the
drainage lax. The first is that (he
drainage law, See. 19, Chap. 89, Com
piled Statutes of Nebraska, provides
that the county shall he made charge
able for these benefits. Judge llarnes
of the Supreme court, the entire
court concurring in the opinion, says
that counties and railroads are chang
eable with these benefits.
The C. H. & Q. It. It. Co., and the
Mo. Pacific It. K. Co., the County al
so. each appealed to the Supreme
(court. The Burlington Co., however,
have recently compromised their ease
by paying the amount of their claim
in full. The case against the Mo.
Pacific is now in process of settle
ment on the same basis.
Your correspondent is reliably in
formed that Judge Kelligar, who is
the attorney for the Drainage Dist.on
the Utile Nemaha, told the drainage
board of Dist. No. 1, here, that Ne
maha county had settled with the
drainage board of that district, on
the basis of $1*8,000. They have fif
ty-one miles of country roads in the
district, about the same as we have
here. This is $10,000 more money
than is asked from us. Judge Kelli
gar also told the board here that the
(entire county of Nemaha concurred
with the drainage board in this cquit
able settlement. It is a fact, 1 am
told, that there is not a case known
wtiere counties, cities, townships,rail
roads anti other eorpoiaiions are ex
ethpt from payitig the drainage bene
fits. I mu also reliably informed that
it is the concurrent testimony of the
engineers who looked over the situa
tion here that the amount originally
fixed was $24,000 instead of $18,000
as now claimed: it- i.i.uh engineers
saj-ln.e, that it she eld have been
in a, ;i■,i’• that Me courts of the
county we;.id l.ave sustained this
amount.
Some are contending that the
drainage people should have sued
the township instead of the county,
t am also told that, under the amend
ed law, this might be true, when a
county is under township organization
but. we are under the lOO.'i law, in
which the county only is made charg
able with the benefits.
The amount chargable to the
county is $800 per annum, or about
20 cents per quarter section per an
num. Your correspondent lias to
cross these bottom roads, with farm
products, to tlte station. If the
drainage project will eliminate one
flood in the twenty years 1 shall be
fully compensate for the amount of
my special drainage tax.
I hear some farmers saying that
the county board should have accept
ed the proposition of the drainage
board to build tin* bridges “even up"
for the benefits. Somebody must pay
for these benefits. This is a settled
proposition, and somebody will have
some costs to pay.
For three years in succession, and
for many other years at intercession
periods, owners of bottom lands
have paid taxes to the county and
did not receive the amount of the
taxes in products, losing their en
tire labor also.
When these lands are reclaimed it
is estimated by competent engineers
that the benefits will be $40.00 per
acre. “This means $1,3000,000 added
to the taxable wealth of the county,
state and nation. One yor cent of
this amount is $13,000. One-fifth, or
twenty per cent of which, is $2,600,
which is approximately what the
county will receive annually in taxes
for ail investment of only $800 per
annum, and then, besides that, the
county will receive taxes on the prod
ucts annually raised on these lands,
amounting to more than $800 per
annum. The county will also be
benefitted, in the near future, in re
duced expenses for repairs on county
roads and bridges, very greatly in
excess of $S0O per annum.”
if a taxpayer, because he has no
children to send to school, should say
that he should be exempt from
school tax, all of us would say that
there are other benefits under the
school system besides the privilege
of sending one's own children to
school.
To dispute the feasibility and ben
efits of the drainage project, be
cause of the fact that we have not
j seen it in operation yet. is like sav
i ing that we do not know that An
drew Jackson or Thomas Jefferson
ever had an existance, simply be
cause we never saw them. However,
we all know that they once had an
existence here, and that their seals
still "go marching on."
In conclusion, we do not believe
that out county board are rascals. We
believe that they are honorable men
and that they want to do right and
act for the best interests of the
county, and that they will, ere long
see this in a different light.
Your correspondent also believes
that the members of the drainage
board are all honorable men, seeking
to do right between their fellow men
In tbi3 they certainly have the en
dorsement of competent engineers a,
well as the decision of the highest
courts in the land. Yours truly,
M. C. RILEY.
GIFT HINTS
Dainty, Attractive and Practical Little Things, withv
the Jaquet distinction of being genuinely good.
We have just received a
shipment of rich American
Cut Glass at surprisingly
low prices.
Sugar and Cream Set, S3.75 up
Water Jug, $6.00 up
Finger Bowls. . $1.25 up
1 ea Sets, Cake I )ishes,
Baking Dishes, Percola
tors and other like articles
in the new designs, in Sil
ver plated ware.
RICH COLD
Bedroom and Desk
Clocks
From $2.00 and Up
Large Mantel Clocks, all the
best makes, $5.00 Up
Conklin Self Filling and Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens make
ideal gifts. $2.50 and up.
A. E. JAQEET
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY
