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is full of up = to = date ideas for
presents. Look through this stock =
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other popular suggestions
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Aluminum Coffee Percolators
Nickle Plated Ware
Silver Knives , Forks and Spoons
Stag Handle Carving Sets
Individual Carving Sets
Japanese China , Glass Ware
and Dishes of all styles
Japanese Straw Baskets and Lacquer Ware
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Doils , dressed and undressed , doH heads and |
bodies. See the large doll in the Display "
Window.
lv f Berry Skates
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for both young and old
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I full line of trunks , suit cases and telescopes.
New Home , White and New Royal Sewing Ma
chines. ( All Standard makes. )
Green Philippine Fibre Rush Furniture. High
grade Reed Furniture , including Foot Stools ,
Tables , Boudoir Boxes and the handy Sew
ing and AYork Baskets.
Weathered Oak Rockers , Book Cases , Magazine
and Umbrella Stands. All sizes of Kitchen
Cabinets , and Couches.
- Tiiis Inj- -4 display of jrooris suitable for Jfolirlav presents
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! STERLING SUN.
As Sterling has saloons and none of
the neighboring towns have any , it
vrill be a good opportunity to make
comparisons during the year as to rel
ative business conditions , amount of
drunkenness and other disputed ques
tions as to prohibition and salrons.
There are a great many temper.vice
people who do not believe in , but dis
courage the use of intoxicating liquors
as a beverage ; who are not prohibi
tionists , so-called , because they do not
believe that prohibition of the liquor
traffic prohibits , nor is it the best way
to control the use of intoxicating
liquors.
KEARNEY DEMOCRAT.
Editor F. L. Whedon writes :
A corporation lawyer ought to know
better than we do , because we are not
a corporation lawyer , why the people
living in any of the outlying town
ships in Buffalo county should not be
permitted to vote to control the ac
tions of a municipality or municipal
corporation. Cities and towns are
separated and segregated from the
control of the county government by
statute and it i,5 in violation of law
and the constitution of the state for
a citizen of Logan township to come
to Kearney or go to Elm Creek and
cast his vote upon any question or up
on any proposition which is being voted
ed upon by the voters of those corpo
rations. He becomes a criminal the
moment he does so. He is not , should
not , and the courts will not give him
legal right to have a voice in such
local government , because tn give him
such a voice in the municipal govern
ment would be to give him representa
tion without taxation , which would be
destructive to the priciple of home
rule , would be illegal and un-American
in every sentiment. The constitution
and the statutes do not abide in the
principles of county option , because
they protect towns and villages
against the domination and encroaca-
ment of a larger number of voters
throughout the county in which they
are situated , who are not taxed to
maintain municipal or corporate gov
ernment and have no more right under
the statute and the constitution of
controlling or shaping the affairs of
these towns and villages than has the
city of Kearney to dominate and vote
upon the affairs of Ravenna or Shel-
ton. The plan of county option is to
have the county dominate the city of
Kearney , providing county option
should receive a majority of the votes
within the county , but permit Kear
ney to work out its own salvation if
a majority of the votes within the
county should be cast against county
option. Kearney always has , and we
believe always will be perfectly able
to understand its own affairs what it
wants and what it does not want
what it can afford and what it cannot
afford better than the voters of Lo
gan township do or can. "
LOUP CITY STANUARD-GAUGE.
The saloons closed their doors at
roon Tuesday , their license having
expired. It has been a dry town
since , but every one seems to satisfy
their thirst as they did when the sa
loons were open. Just the other
evening a case of the best that money
can buy came in from Kansas City.
Does that look like you can shut it
out of the city ? It will be had when
it is desired no matter how the "Wa
ter Apostles" arrange matters , so let
'em go. .
SCHUYLER FREE LANCE. I
Hon. John C. Sprecher , editor of the
Schuyler Free Lance , in a recent is
sue of his interesting and ably-edited ,
paper , says : i
"The leading business firms and in
dividuals of Omaha have organized
what is known as the Merchants' and
Manufacturers' association for the ex
press purpose of fighting not alone pro
hibition in this state , but county op
tion as well. And those business
men are not brewers nor distillers nor
saloon keepers nor "boozers , " but are
the leading business men 6f Omaha
who know the serious effect upon bu
siness prohibition has and also realize
that county option is unfair. They
favor the present Siocumb law , which
is fair to all elements and permits the
majority of any community to rule.
That association has a press bureau
and that bureau is sending out litera
ture as well as furnishing the local
press with articles and plate matter.
So far as the association and its mis
sion are concerned , the Free Lance
editor is in harmony with them and
their opposition to prohibition and
county option is in accord with us. We
agree in general with the matter. ,
which is simply presenting their side J
Df the question.
LOUP CITY STANDARD GAUGE.
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Every voter should clearly under- <
> tand the situation and if he wants a 3
law passed that allows his neighbor i
miles away to tell him what to do <
"hen he should vote for the represen- j
Native or senator that will pass it. If i
ic desires to govern himself and j
? rant the other man the same right i
: hen elect a man who is against counI I
; y option. Don't be fooled on the ]
ivord local option , we have that : 1
county option deu roys that privilege. 1
Suppose the fight that the fanatics are i
naking for county option is defeated i
it the polls , what have they lost ? Not I
Dne privilege , or power : but if they i
/in. nuy have succeeded in winding |
he pocplc in one more mesh called
; - v.thrt robs you of your liberty.
) cn't forget that your liberties are
asily given away , but once gone arc
uicnty hard to recover. } i
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HASTINGS TRIBUNE. ! a
That better a
you may understand
ust what these 150 business men are *
ins 1'or we print a copy of their ;
petition , wUch lofiows :
. "We , the undersigned citizens and
business men of Hastings , Neb. , recog
nizing the imperative necessity of con
tinuing the established policy of gov
ernment , wherein the majority shall
rule , believing the business interests
ol this city are best protected by fol
lowing the expressed will of the ma
jority , respectfully call your attention
to the fact that at the last municipal
election a majority of 206 votes were
cast for the policy of local license and
that the general business of this city
is suffering from the effects of thu
present policy.
"We , therefore , pray your honorable
body to at once take up and act upon
the several petitions for liquor li
censes , now on file with the city
clerk. "
GRAND ISLAND INDEPENDENT.
At its state meeting held in Has
tings recently the anti-saloon league
declared its opposition to the Slocumb
lav.- and expressed itself in favor of
the repeal of the same. It also de
clared itself in favor of the county op
tion law , evidently as a temporary
measure. The Slocumb law permits of
prohibition for every community which
wants it. The county option law per
mits of people outside of a community
govering such community provided
they will govern it one certain way.
SCHUYLER FREE LANCE.
The prohibition element in Ne
braska promises to be very active and
they also give evidence of being as
unprincipled as they are aggressive
Abuse and misrepresentation never
win anything and that is their prin
cipal means of attack. This editor
prefers law and order rather than the
opposite and prefers licensed saloons
in lieu of bootlegging and so stands
by the Slocumb law.
FENDER TIMES.
There are lots of good intelligent
people who do not believe in the
liquor traffic who do , however , believe
that while it is with us it can best be
legulated by local license , which is
far more preferable than bootlegging
and other attendant evils even pro
hibition towns must put up with , to
say nothing in reference to the ques
tion of revenue and the wishes of the
majority of the community.
GREELEY CITIZEN.
One of the best weekly newspapers
in Nebraska is the Greeley Citizen ,
published by Messrs. E. P. and E. E.
Compton. Its editorials are uniformly
well written and forceful. Its issue of
June 5 contained the following.
"It is but just to state that the Mer
chants' and Manufacturers' associa
tion is not a saloon organization , nor
is there a saloon man ( either whole
sale or retail ) nor a brewer among
its members. It is an organization of
manufacturers and wholesale and re
tail merchants of that city banded to
gether for the distinct purpose of
working for what they deem for the
best interest of Omaha and the state.
Some of the best and most influential
papers in the state have published
the article and we call our readers' at
tention to it on the last page.
"The Merchants' and Manufacturers'
association or the Anti Saloon League
should enjoy equal facilities at the
hands of the Nebraska press and , with
few exceptions notably our cpntem-
porary they will , and a full and frank
discussion of any public question will
never injure the morals of any one ,
and no one but a hypocrite would ob
ject. "
THE WYMOREAN.
E. M. Burnham , editor of the Wy-
morean , expresses this view of the sub
ject :
"If prohibition prohibits , I am for it.
If voting the saloons out \Vymore
means that the liquor traffic will still
be continued underground , by boot
leggers and in holes in the walls , I
say license the saloons , and have the
liquor business carried on in a way
that gives the city a sum of money ,
which is badly needed , and conducted
by men whom we know and who are
good citizens. In towns and states
where saloons have been shut out , the
liquor traffic has been transferred
from responsible hands to outlaws and
scalawags , and from an open business
to an underground one. I do not be
lieve that shutting out the saloons in
Wymore will stop the sale of liquor
and for that reason Iam for local
license. "
COLUMBUS TELEGRAM.
Hon. Edgar Howard , one of the
ablest democratic editors in the state ,
makes the following editorial reply to
an anonymous correspondent :
"This liquor problem is a large
problem , and it cannot be settled and
settled right by men who are so lack
ing in courage as to write an anony
mous postal card. It is a question
which needs the best of thought of all
; oed citizens. Men may honestly dif
fer as to the mode of dealing with this
; reat question. Some men are honest
n the opinion that the traffic in in-
: oxicating liquors should be wholly
prohibited. Other men honestly be-
ieve the traffic should be regulated (
jy law. Why should it seem neces- !
5ary on the part of those who believe
u prohibition always to question the
: onesty and integrity of those who do
lot believe in prohibition ? "
SCRIBNER NEWS.
In its. issue of June 5 , the Scrlbner
says :
"A great deal of misrepresentation ,
las been ptit in circulation in regard
o the Merchants and Manufacturers
LssOciation of Omaha Vhfch mating
: strong and dignified fight against
irohibition , and what is still worse ,
ounty option. The association is
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Omaha whose nsmes are jinaincr
throughout the state. No distille %
brewer or liquor dealer is eligible 'o
membership.
"Now if those advocates of prohiU-
tion will read and consider the weekly
columns furnished by the above
named association , they will notice
that some of the best business men of
the state are strictly against county
option. "
WESTERN NEBRASKA OBSERVER.
Kimball , Neb. , May 2G , 1908. Mer
chants' and Manufacturers' Associa
tion : Gentlemen : I came here over
a year ago from Kansas where I lived
fifteen years. I had ample opportuni
ty to observe the workings , or rather ,
the non-working qualities of the pro
hibitory law. I am sick and tire'd of
drug-store saloons and joints which
pay no license and cause more drunk
enness than open saloons. The
Slocum law in Nebraska is all right
as it now stands and needs no chang
ing. A saloon run strictly in accord
ance with this law is a great deal
more to be desired than a "dry" town
with its drug stores , its bootleggers ,
and its numerous shipments of mail
order booze and consequent drunken
ness. \ ery respectfully , R. D. "Wil
son.
SCHUYLER FREE LANCE.
Schuyler , Neb. , May 29 , 1908. Mer
chants' and Manufacturers' Associa
tion : Gentlemen : In response to your
letter of recent date , will say that I
am opposed to statutory prohibition in
Nebraska and am a great believer in
the efficiency of the present Slocumb
law , which is a measure designed to
fit the prevailing sentiment of any
community. It is a model local op
tion law and , regardless of what any
person's individual opinion may be , he
can endorse the provisions of ihe SI )
cumj law. Public sentiment is always
stronger than statutory provision and
the latter becomes obsolete when mat
sentiment is not in harmony witn it.
Under the provisions of the Slo
cumb law , in communities where the
prevailing sentiment is against sa
loons , the people can have prohibition
as effective as they could under tl e
most rigid prohiuitory laws , and in
communi ies where prohibition woulu
not prohibit and would be a farce , the
traffic can be held in check under a
wise license system and bootlegging
and the attendant lawlessness will not
be the common metnou. If the Slo
cumb law cannot be enforced in a
community , most surely any prohjb-
itory law cannot be. Enforced legis
lative provisions of a personal nature
must follow in the wake of public sen
timent , and the-wise Slocumb law
seems to have been framed to fit the
conditions of each and every commu
nity. Public sentiment as expressed
by the majority makes each commu
nity one of prohibition or one of vari
ous degrees of high license under not
alone the general restrictions of the
state law , but under additional pro
visions of ordinance at the will of the
local majority as well. The Slocumb
law is the best possible , and should
be let alone. If there is a genuine
criticism of that law , it is that it'gives
the saloon man little right and sub
jects him too much to the malice of a
citizen.
I am also opposed to the proposed
county option , for it destroys , in a
measure , local option and the princi
ple of home rule. It is unjust in that
it gives men a vote as to municipal
affairs wnen they pay no municipal
taxes and have no real interest in the
municipal government. Taxation witn-
out representation all Americans agree
is wrong , and the reverse is equally
so. Very truly yours , John C.
Sprecher.
GENEVA'UA'ZETTC.
Syracuse , Nebraska , went dry and
the town board had to cut expenses
to meet the pocketbook they were to
carry for the year so they cut out the
street lighting service , reduced the
salary of the treasurer , did away with
the office of attorney and made the
water and light commissioner act as
town clerk.
The prohibitory law in Georg'a ,
which went into effect the first of
January , stopped the manufacture
and open sale of liquor. The secretary
of the Commercial club at Savannah
says1 that the club has sent agerts
over the state to ascertain the effect
of the law upon the business of
Georgia. He writes that insofar as
an estimate can be made at this tin e ,
he finds that merchants are losing
hundreds of thousands of dollars ot
trade a month , which is going to out
side dealers cf liquor who are ship
ping liquor into Georgia in original
packages. The commercial clubs of
Georgia have combined to see what
can be done to keep such money in
the state. They hold that there is
just as much liquor being consumed
as ever.
Be it remembered that local option
a.s defined by the Slocumb liquor 1-iw
affords the fullest measure of home
rule. It is a vital quality of the low.
Destroy it , and the whole structure
must fall. So-called county option , as
iefined by the Anti-Saloon league , is
intended to destroy this element of
lome rule by putting the power in
: he hands of rural voters to dictate
: o the taxpayers of villages and tov. na
is to what they shall or shall net Jo.
Pretended county option means tl at
he limits of villages and towns shall
10 ignored , when the people of a
vhole county may be permitted to
rote to prevent the issuing of liquor
icenses. With such a law as that in
iffect , the home rule of villages and
cywns Wotil'd bo destroyed , and tbsfr
joilc xvitli respect to the control oi
he liquor traffic would be dictated by
he farmers of the county , who pay
ib fds jn tlife
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on Gordoa Crek north of Simeon.
A.lheri VVnipple & Xm *
Rosebud iD. .
Cnttle branded
SOS on iclt side
ONO.nriirbtsids
Some cattle also
S OS nave aJ Jon neck
Some with A on
left shoulder and
some branded
with two bars
Acres * hind quar-
Some Texas
unbmuled * O on ieit aide and s
> n left side.
Jnrse- branded SOS on Ml hip. rfome
randed AW Har conneoted < m bntb sides ann
' bin of horooa
N. S. Rowlex
Kennedy , - Nebraska
Same a * rut < n Jef
tide and hip , aiid oi >
eft shoulder of hor-
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'ft side
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or p on left Jaw and M ' - > honlner
f-i on left hip of
jf on left Jaw of horses
O. P. Jordan
Koat bud. 3D
Horses and cattle
tame aa cut : also
CJBE fj oo rlflrht
hip.
KAIIK * * on Oak and
Rtitt1 creeks.
A liberal reward
r o r information !
eadiu to detection"
if nistler * of stock
KOIIL & FEURILL.
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< "atllf branded as
in cut on left
side. Some
brar.ft-d M T Y
on li'ft hip. Range
on North Loup
river two mil-s
went of lirewulee
.1. A. VARY AN
Pullman. Noor
Cattle branded Jl
on right side
Horses branded .11
on right shoulder
Reasonable reward
for any Information
leading to the re
covery of cattle-
strayed from my
range
Pat Pelpar
D. M. Sears
, Nebr
Cattle branded
.s on cut.lef t side
J'Mne on left nip.
rforses same 011
< ft shoulder.
Kaupe Squart-
Roan Brothers
voodlake Neb
on
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Fr.i els Mis-
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branded
nywliere on left
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Lanark , square
crop ri ht ejir.
Horses have
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II tlilgh.