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CRETSEN BROS. Have now got settled down to business in their elegant New Building :n& will bo delighted to welcome all comers, who wish, to provide them gelves with AT- Fair Prices. TJitv have always acted upon the prin eipit" that the best business is that when thi fiistomer gladly conies again to buv. The kind of Bools Slioes That this firm sell are MADE FOR COMFORT AND FOR WEAR, and lhfic CLOTHING -AND- GENTS' 'Furnishing Goods ATM: NOT EXCELLED ANYWHERE. Fair dealing every time is the remark of own the boys who deal with REISEN &CO. SINGLE-COMB, BARRED Plymouth : Rock -AND- SINGLE-COMB, WHITE LEGHORN, ll'-tli thoroughbred.) osfis. for lintching, for taw, ut $1.50 for one betting or is oggn. JrOnhrH from :. distance promptly filled. II. P. COOL1DGE, Columbus. Nebr. Suuir2in 1 1 Harrington & Co, DKAI.r.UH IN HARD AND SOFT C O A. L THE VERY BEST .MARKET. Caledonia Coal, a specially good cheap Coal. Try it. OFFICE: - Near B. & M. Depot. SlfebSm -FOR CHOICE- fflf YORK STATE APPLES BUCKWHEAT FLOUR AND TENNESSEE SORGHUM! CALL AT Herman Oehlriclu Bro's. 17nov2m MAIER & KOTLAR, Blacksmiths AND WAGON MAKERS Good Work, Fair Prices. CORNER TENTH AND NORTH STS., Columbus, Neb. 4janlm S. E. MARTY, DEALER IN Al SALT MEATS, 'Blewnth Street, Columbus, Hsb. I Excellent Ms BR . .. o g IbssaBliAsV. ? o c aWBBBBasakV 7ZZ I - i: aZapSflBMBaaulv' r " " kWBSSasaSsMf T W SBawEaaaf3MsflJI& 5. OB - EjBBjK-' - FISH Columbus iotttual. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 189S. AN. TIME TABLE. Pass. Freight. Leavoe Columbus Hellwond " David City " Seward Arrives at Lincoln 8.35 a.m. 836 " 808 " 1022 " 11-35 a.m. 3:20p.m. 355 4:40 p.m. 7:10 ' 10:40 " The passenger leaven Lincoln at 0:40 p. m., and rriveH at Columbus 925 p. m; the freight leaves Lincoln at 4;40 a. m., and arrives at Colombo at 3:20 p. m. UNION PACIFICTIME-TABLE. OOINO KA8T. OOINO WEST. Atlantic Ex... 7:15 a. m Pacific Ex... .10 JO p. m ChicERo Ex. Limited.... Col. Local. . .1255 p. m . 4:05 p. m . 6:00 a. in Denver Ex.. .. 120 p. m Limited 5:05 p. m Local Fr't.... 70 a. m No. 3, Faat Mail, carries passengers for through points. Going west at 8:55 p. m., ar rives at Denver 7:40 a. m. No. 4. Fast Mail car ries passengers, going east at 152 p. m. LINCOLN, COLUMBUS AND SIOUX CITT. Passenger arrives from Sionx City. . . . 12:30 p. m ' leaves Columbus for Linc'n. 1:15 p. m " arrives from Lincoln 5:00 p. m " leaves for Bionx City 5 JO p. m Mixed leaves for Sioux City 655a. m Mixed arrives 10:00 p. m FOR ALBION AND CKDAB H.U'IDS. Passenger leaves 220 p. m Mixed leaves 6:00 a. m Passenger arrives 1225 p. m Mixed arrives 8:10 p.m Mocietff Rothes. CBAlf-notioes- under-this heading 'will be charged at the rate of $2 a year. ' A LEBANON LODGE No. 58, A. F. & A. M. Regular meetings 2d Wednesday in each L. month. All brethren invited to attend. ' N Gus. B. Spkice, W. M. Gds. G. Becheb, Sec'y. 3jnly WILDEY LODGE No. M, I. O. O. F., meets Tuesday evenings of each week at their hall on Thirteenth street. Visiting brethren cordially invited. H. V. NEWMAN, . U. W. K. NoTEsTEiN, Sec'y. 27janl-tf REORGANIZED CHURCH OF LATTER-DAY Saint hold reiralar services overv Hnndav at 2 p. m.. nraver meeti: on Wednesday evening at their chaj .- - w lapel, corner or worth street ana racinc All are cordially invited. Elder H. J. Hudson. President. Avenue. 13julffi) Salo bills printed at this office. Come to The Joubnai. for job work. Light fall of snow several days last week. Dr. T. R. Clark, Olive street. In office at nights. Horses for sale or trade for cattle. Inquire of J. L. Sturgeon. Dr. E. H. Nauman's dental parlors in North block, 13th street. tf R. Kuminer took some cattle to the South Omaha market Monday. The Genoa Indian Band give a con cert at Monroe tomorrow evening. Miss Ella Compton has been sick with malarial fever the past week. Judge Sullivan took the Saley Gottschalk case under advisement. Curtice Bros, corn and tomatoes only 15 cents a can at Rasmussen's. 2 Wm. Dawson mado this office a pleasant call on business yesterday. Jo. Wells's bird dog was run over by a train Sunday and cut all to pieces. Eye and Ear surgeon, Dr. E. T. Allen, 309 Ramge block, Omaha, Neb. Ed. Keuscher and Chris. .Meedel started yesterday for their western trip. Ex-senator Zerung of Lioeoln was in the city last Wednesday on business. Madison is going to have a plow factory. The machinery is now on hand. The house, recently occupied by P. W. Henrich as an office, sold yesterday for $30. R. J. Gentleman, four miles east of Platte Center, will have a big sale Feb ruary 13. a Fresh fruit, jam, picl;leB,'"capres, finest cranberries and fresh cabbage at E. Pom's grocery. tf A. H. Neidig, formerly of this city, is in the real estate business at Los Angeles California. Bring your job work to Tiie Jouk xatj rooms for correctness, promptness and fair, living prices. For rent, n six room house in block just north of Congregational church. Inquire at State Bank. tf The assessors must remember that this spring they are to assess improve ments on school lands. Elston & Newman have purchased another tract of land 80 acres of James Marshall at $30 an acre. Mr. Kearville has sold his drug store to Mr. Van Schoick, the latter taking possession Wednesday last. Go to Van Schoik's City Drug Store for pure drugs and medicine of all kinds. Successor to Wm. Kearville. Our 1893 baby cakbiages are beau tiful, stylish, durable and cheap. E. D. Fitzpatrick's is headquarters, tf The Y. M. C. A. reception to have been this week for the business men, has been postponed until March. Hagel & Co. have puf. up about 230 tons of ice this season. The capacity of their cold-storage is 250 tons. The celebrated Quick-Meal, and Monarch gasoline stoves, the best in the market. For sale by A. Boettcher. 4tf The ladies of the Congregational church will give a supper at Fitzpatrick's hall, Wednesday evening, Feb. 22d. John Engle has a farm on the island, 17 miles from Columbus, well improved and fenced, for which he asks $4,000. Bring your orders for job-work to this office. Satisfaction guaranteed, and work promptly done, as agreed upon. The ladies musical took a buss ride out to Miss Maud Alexander's Monday where they held their weekly meeting. There will be a social dance at Fitz patrick's hall, Thursday evening, Feb. 2. Tickets, 50 cents. Everybody invited. When in need of an auctioneer, call on Dave Smith. He will act for you with promptness, safety and dispatch, tf Married, Jan. 30, by Rev. Elliott, at the Presbyterian parsonage, Mr. G. W. Gates of Chicago to Miss Edna L Benson. February 3d has been appointed for the hearing of the will of Christian Michaelson, dee'd, before the county conrt. Wanted, ten copies of The Columbus Joubnai. of Sept. 7, 1392, for which 10 cents each will be paid, on delivery at this office, tf The Times. Dayton, Ohio, April 12, 1892. Miss Baldwin sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Congregational church, Feb. 10th. Now is the time tosulmcribe for The Journal- and the "Semi-Weekly Lincoln Journal, both for $2 a year, when paid in advance. Wm. McEelvey has brought suit against Sarah E. McKelvey for divorce on the grounds of wilful desertion the past two years. A. Nash, state secretary of the Y. M. C. A. has resigned and will start soon for foreign countries where he will take up missionary work. Children Cry for Pitcher's Cattorla. . "" s ja A. jlbsIVe R T. Lisco has purchased a hay press, capacity eight to ten tons a day, and of the variety known as the full circle press. The Children's Guild will hold a Blackbird sociable at Fitzpatrick's hall, Feb.-9, '93. Admission free. Something new. Gome and see it. A full line of paints, oils, varnish and brashes, alabastine, gypsine, etc., at Van Schoick's City Drug Store. Suc cessor to Wm. Kearville. On account of the union meetings continuing this week, the reception that was to be given by the Y. M. C. A. to the business men has been postponed. Gottlieb Gerber has sold his farm near Henry Leuschen's to Mr. Boettcher, getting 332 an acre for 80 acres of it, and $27 an acre for the other 40 acres. C.H. Sheldon has recently sold from his section near A. W. Clark's, the north west quarter to Herman Ahrens at $30 an acre, and the south half to Mr. Arne at $37. Norfolk citizens are working to have the telephone company connect Norfolk with Columbus, thus giving them con nection with Omaha, Grand Island and Lincoln. Dixon, Illinois, Telegraph, Miss Grace Clark plays the violin beautifully and she herself is beautiful. Will be at Congregational church, Friday evening, Feb. 10th. Friedhof & Co. have been taking invoice of their immense Btock the past two weeks, and expect to continue at least that long before they will have completed the work. W. T. Ernst has sold to Herman Leusche and Henry Wurdeman his 160 acre pasture tract of land in Creston twp. for $3100 cash. It was bought six years ago, at $11.50 an acre. The celebrated Linden Trio Com pany, accompanied by Miss Grace Clark, will give a concert at the Congregational church, Friday evening, Feb. 10tb, for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A A union meeting was held Sunday evening at the Presbyterian church, Rev. Elliott preaching the sermon. A large congregation was present, and evidently mucu interested in tne discourse. The Omaha dailies last week in their first report of the treasury matter, stated that Leander Gerrard, president of the State bank of this city, was one of the bondsmen. Such is not the case. The case ot Effie atrainst Geortro Alexander tried in the district conrt last week, resulted in the granting of a divorce to Mrs. Alexander, each party to pay their own witnesses and half of all other costs. The 3d day of February has been appointed by the county judge to hear the petition of Elizabeth Erb asking for such proceedings as are required by law for the descent of the homestead of M. Erb, deceased. It is Miss Mary Sheehan, and not Miss Lizzie, who has a clerkship at Lin coin. The latter is teaching school in the Brunken district, and we know that her patrons would be very sorry to see her go to Lincoln. Come in and subscribe for the semiv weekly Lincoln Journal along with your Columbus Journal, so that you can get the complete report of legislative pro ceedings. Only $2 a year for both papers, in advance. It was reported on the streets last week that C H. Sheldon of the Com mercial bank, this city, was among the bondsmen of the state treasurer, and, as such, interested in the safe-keeping of state funds. This is not true. To those looking for seamstress for plain family sewing, I cheerfully rocom mend .Mrs. J. F. Mudora as being both neat and quick. Price 75 cents per day. At the Millet place, corner 14th and Ne braska; Avenue. Rose T. Page. Miss Smith of Council Bluffs, the costumer, will be hero in ample time (60 we are informed), to supply those desir ing them, with costumes for the Fire men's ball of the 22d. A fine assortment of new costumes to select from. -iTlie cards are out for the marriago at Plattsmouth of William Coolidge to Miss Mattie Smith. The young couple are expected to be here on the 15th. The Journal tenders congratulations in ad vance to the happy young couple. The Capital National bank of Lin coln has gone under with $285,000 of state funds. John P. Dorr lost $200, and was in luck as he had drawn out $3,000 a few days before tho institution busted. Platte Center Reporter. A young man of Platte county made an investment of $1,900 in land three years ago, and sold recently at a clear profit of $1,900, another instance of the fact that a clear title to Nebraska land is a good thing "to havo in the house." The account printed elsewhere, rel ative to the late Charles P. Miller, con densed from the Omaha World-Herald, is denounced by tho Bee as without a word of truth, except tho mere fact that the body was taken up for examination. J. A. Van Schoik has purchased Mr. Kearville's stock of drugs, etc., and in some local advertisements in today's Journal asks a share of your patron age. He has had sixteen years' expe rience in the business, and is thoroughly well informed. Elston & Newman start today for Missouri to purchase a car-load of mules for this market, expecting to return in about ten days. They are bound to make business hum and when horses do not fill the demand, supply their custo mers with mules. Hay is a fairly-good price in the Omaha market, ranging from $6.60 to $8.50, according to quality. The re markably fine weather we have had thus far along in the season, has, of course, had its effect upon the prices of stock provender hay among the rest. Fred. Meedel of the south side was in town Monday, as were a goodly num ber of his neighbors. They supposed from the notice they had had ten days previously that the sale of the Stonesifer goods was to take place that -day, but today, Feb. 1st, was the day fixed. Charles Olcott accompanied his cousin, Mr. Coleman (who has been visit ing him two weeks), to his home at Bel videre, Illinois. As this is only a short ride from Chicago, Mr. Olcott can pass the summer very pleasantly chassezing between the two points. , While the banks in several places in the state are shaking, quaking and fall ing, it is gratifying to know that con servatism is Bafe and sound when rip plied to the banking business, and that our Columbus banks are as solid as the rock of Gibraltar, above the raging sea of trouble. Of course we must have some little winter weather during the season it wouldn't do to go right -along and not be able to distinguish one season from another, but up to within a few days we just had spring, summer and "late in the fall." The growlers have had no show this year on the weather. W. E. Bunce of Ohiowa,(a Nebraska town whose people were mainly from Ohio and Iowa, and who combined the names of those in harmonious union), was in the city Wednesday. He was an Eleventh street barber here in 'SS, and recognized the fact that Columbus has greatly improved in the last four years. Mrs. A. C. Ballon is preparing a rich treat for the people of Columbus in the form of a lecture descriptive of her last summer's trip to Alaska, to be given at and for the Congregational church, at some time in the near future, probably in two weeks. Keep this in mind as no one can afford to miss it. Children Cry for Pitchers Caetoria. William E. Hoke, of the St. Louis Engraving Plate Co., was in .the city Thursday and Friday, on his way to San Francisco to establish a supply-house for the coast and mountain regions. Mr. Hoke is an accomplished artist, and 'can sketch a face in a very- few expressive lines. , Van Schoik's! Van Schoik's!! Van Schoik's!!! is the best place, to buy drugs or have a prescription put up. Why? He having had 16 years' expe rience in the drug business in some of. the largest cities of the east, knows how and where to buy goods. Come and see, once. 1 To any ot our readers who wish, a. Chicago paper, we make the following offer: The Columbus Journal, the Semi-weekly Lincoln Journal (published; Tuesdays and Fridays of each week), and the Inter Ocean, all one year, when paid in advance, for $2.70. Call and see us; we can start your 'subscription at any time. . tf Tuesday evening, February 7th, at the M. E. church in the interests of the Young Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Mrs. B.-H. Badley oMndia, a returned missionary of twenty years' experience, will lecture on experience and customs. A rare treat for all. Come and hear her. You will be wel come. J. F. Belford has nearly completed a nice dwelling on the land he recently purchased of John Hoffman, adjoining, and south of R. W. Young's, a mile north of the. Sisters' School. The building was ready for the plasterer on Wednes day last. rred. Suaad is erecting a dwelling in the same neighborhood,--east' of Mr. Young's. William Taylor has a natural curi osity in the shape of a five legged hog. The animal is about seven months old, weighs oyer ,200 pounds and is healthy. iu uvoij wuj At uua IWU UUIU IBgB uuu- tnree forward ones and when it walks ubos them all. It is a wonder that some show man has not purchased this curi osity. Howells Journal. The county officers selected a super visor to represent the city of Fremont, and now the city council ought to be allowed to select a member of the legis lature to represent the county. Fre mont Tribune. We do that sort of thing differently up this way, and think that we are letting the government rest upon "the consent of the governed." ' A number of our Columbus gentle men and ladies are intending purchasing bicycles soon. Nearly every one can afford one at the prices offered by F. H. Lamb & Co., and it is a luxury for all. Think of riding one hundred miles in one day without any special effort. This is done by many. Before buying, call and get prices of Lamb & Co.; they can do better by you than if you send away. Sund iy, Feb. 5th will be railroad men's day for Columbus. Mr. Cecil L. Gates, Y. M. C. A. International Secre tary of railroad work in the United States and Canada, will speak at Con gregational church, Sunday morning 11 a. m., upon Y. M. C. A. railroad work. At 3 p. m. there will be a meeting for railroad men addressed by Mr. Gates. John Paten shipped a train load of corn last Saturday, containing 8,000 bushels, direct to Glasgow, Scotland. Our little city may not at once nso to the dignity of a "Port of entry," but she has the honor of exporting a good supply of cattle and corn, to feed the pauper labor of Europe. Our energetic busi ness men think there is money in it. Fullerton Journal. One of our reporters, who takes a lively interest in the meetings now being held, saj's: "Moetingswill be continued in the Presbyterian church this week. Fifty have already signified a dosiro to become christians now, and some of these are already able to say that they have accepted of Christ and are saved. Don't miss these services. Prayer meet ings at 3 p. in., and services at J7:30." Fannie H. Lightner informs us that they havo sold 3,250 pounds of butter during 1892, at an average of 23 cents per pound. This foots up to a goodly sum. It is needless to say that they have regular customers, make first-class butter and always furnish their own make. They have got a separator lat terly and find it a material advantage This is successful farming. Monroe Looking Glass. Hallock & Co. and Marder, Lubs & Co. havo joined their establishments at Omaha, the new concern to be under the management of Mr. Hallock, who is one of the best men in the country in the handling of printers and printers' sup plies, and the former qualification is just a little more important than tho latter. To be a good judge of human nature is an indispensable requisite to success in any line of business. Of all the great, great newspapers of the middle and western United States, the Chicago Inter Ocean, as a paper for the home, is the best, because it can be enjoyed by every member of the house hold, and the paper has not only struck its gait, but is bettering it every week. We have made arningements so that we can furnish you this paper along with your other literature. Come and see us about it, or drop us a line. S. B. Clemmens and Louis Phillips are engaged together in the butter and egg business at Norfolk, and expect to put up a cold-storage building in the spring. Mr. Clemmens is an expert on cold-6torage, and in addition to his well known patents which he has utilized to such good purpose, he recently succeeded in perfecting a method of securing a 23s below zero freeze, in a second of time, simply using chemicals. 5 At a meeting at Dr. Voss's office Tuesday evening of last week, the name of the new hospital was determined upon, Colu mbus Public Hospital. Shares $1 each, no person to own more than one share. Committees of five each were appointed on organization, soliciting, grounds and buildings, and finance. A meeting will be held this (Wednesday) evening to perfect the organization, after which it will be incorporated under the etate laws. f At the meeting of citizens Monday evening, called by Mayor Schupbach "to make arrangements for the entertain ment of the State Press" Association at their next meeting, the 16th and 17th of this month, Messrs. Henry Ragatz, Louis Schwann, J. G. Pollock and E. D. Fitz patrick were appointed a soliciting committee to raise the necessary funds. It is proposed to provide a banquet, and what is to be done must be done quick ly. Mayor Schupbach presided over the meeting, and D. F. Davis acted as sec retary. James Warner came to Florence, Nebraska, from St. Louis, in 1853. Even in Omaha there were just two stores. When he came to Columbus, the mercan tile business was transacted on a small scale, two bolts of muBlin being the stock on hand at one time, of that val uable commodity. Like so many of the early settlers, Mr. Warner worked for Pat. Murray on his farm near this city. Not the least part of his good record as a citizen is the fact that he has been a constant reader of The Journal during the twenty-three years of its publication. C. E. Early has opened out in the rooms in the rear of the First National bank, Twelfth street, this city, as a real estate and general insurance agent. In insurance he represents a number of the best, most reliable and strongest com panies known in the country, and will transact business for them on strictly business principles value received at all times. Mr. Early is a young man well known in this community, and whose business record is a very enviable one indeed. Being thoroughly informed in prices and values of land and city property, those having purchases, sales or exchanges of land to effect will do 1 well to give him a call, tf -v-"i-rvr" - In the olden time, E..D..Fitzpatriok was a,-plasterer, and- sometimes Pete Albaugh tended him in his. work. Ed. says, that they had some, good times together, and many a witty remark was dropped by. Pete in the course of their work, but he remembers one in particu lar. They were at work on the Catholic church near Shell creek. The thermom eter was below zero, and a roasting fire was kept inside, of course, and Fitz was warm enough, with the work and the heat of the fire combined, but Pete had to go out and in, and was entirely dis satisfied with the weather, his part of the wqrk being very disagreeable, especially .when it called him out into the cold, cold world, and his ejaculations were not such as would be appropriate, either for the Sunday school or for The Journal. They were more than usually strong and emphatic, so much so that Fitz remon strated: "Why, Pete, such language as you use would not be becoming for the street, say nothing in the housoof God." The retort came immediately: "If the Lord wants us to make a good job on his House, why don't he provide us with tho right kind of weather?" Supervisor Speice's salary as pur chasing agent of the county for the ensuing year is fixed at $15. The pub lished proceedings of the board do not set forth the extent or limits of his duties, but judging from the amount of the salary, $1.25 a month or a little over four cents for each of the working days of the year, it is not expected that he will do much purchasing, or else that the rate of commission is not intended to be large. It is not clear why this salary should be just fifteen, and not ten or twenty, round numbers, so to speak. Legislative matters are nearly always compromises, however, and we suppose that there was a question as between tho two Bums, and, as juries sometimes do, the difference was split in two. Was Jimmy Kiernan in when this thing was decided? We see no call made upon County Attorney Gondring for his legal opinion, in writing, as to the power of the board to employ a purchasing agent, and must take it for granted that Super visor Kiernan could hardly have been present. "Eighty -five teachers entered a spelling contest at a teachers' institute, and only five spelled 'Rensselaer' cor rectly. 'Acknowledgment' was misspell ed by 63, or about 74 per cent of the entire number of contestants. 'Super sede' was mispelled by 58 contestants; 'resuscitate' by 51; 'excellence' by 56; 'benefited' by 58; 'business' by 50; 'medal' and 'maintenance' by 45 each; 'milliner' by 48; 'pretentious' and 'gaseous' each by 43, and 'concede' 49. That is, each of these words was missed by over one-half of ; the contestants." We clip the above from the Cadiz (O.,) Republican, and suppose that this is a fair sample of the work of Ohio pedagogues, but we doubt whether eighty-five persons picked up at random in any profession, ontsido of the publishing fraternity, could do better Tho way to learn to spell is to make.it very inconvenient or expensive to do bad spelling, and if this theory were acted upon by teachers, there would be more good spellers in the country. Miss C. C. Tennant Clay, a young lady of rare business ability, and a thorough adept in musical matters, has organized at Omaha a school of opora, an' incorporated institution, with fifteen charter members, all of them, says the World-Herald, bent on establishing in Omaha a Bchool which will give musi cians in this part of tho country an opportunity to study without going to New York or some other distant city for their instruction. The school will be opened in tho spring with Max Maretzek at its head, and will at first be limited to sixty scholarships. The Journal hails with great delight this project, which promises so much for the ad vancement of the art of music in this section. What is Omaha's gain is also Nebraska's gain, and we would like to Bee as many of our folks as can take advantage of the facilities to be offered by'the Omaha school. A gentleman, formerly a resident of Platte county, removed to Chicago twenty years ago. He continued to pay taxes on his Platto county farm prompt ly, and thought he was doing his full duty as a property owner, but was sur prised lately to find that there was a judgment recorded against his land, operating as a lien upon it, to tho amount of $160. It seems that there was a man living in Omaha, Neb., of tho samo name, precisely, and we are told that ho represented himself as the owner of this piece of land. This is a kind of co-incidence that does not present itself every day, but there is no day of tho year when it is safe to "bank on" for tho purpose of raising money or paying debts. The owner of tho land in this case may be put to some trouble and expense in proving that he is not tho person owing the debt. Two little Columbus girls are re sponsible for the following lines, which they will see now for the first time in cold print, and not know just how The Journal reporter happened to catch them: "Minnie and Dollie are two little girls. " " both havo curls. " " are always together. Rain or sunshine or nicest of weather. Minnie has blno eyes, Dollie has, too. Minnie has one ring, Dollie has two. I love Dollie and Dollie loves me. Two happier little girls you never did see." The lines may not be in strict meas ure, and some of them sound like old familiar friends, but certainly the little tots are moved by the influence which puts one and one together to make two, which after all is the beginning of every art under the sun, whether it is writing poetry or fashioning garments. A great metropolitan newspaper dis covered one of our Columbus wits in tho person of A. L. Bixby, and transplanted him into a larger field of work; just so it will be one of these days with another Columbus wit, who has developed a con siderable capacity in the lino of news paper work, but who has not had, up to date, full opportunity to show to the world the stuff of which he is made. The man "who proves himself, must next approve himself to the outside world, who: are looking for such wares as he manufactures, and Columbus is just now giving rest, as it were, and recreation to a wit of unusual capacity. David City, our neighbor south of the river, has a free, public library organized under the state law, and it is doing good work; last week fourteen new tickets were taken out, and nearly fifty books went into as many homes. New books are being added every once in a while. Columbus ought to take advantage of the facilities that the law provides, under certain conditions, and put herself in the foremost rank among the self-respecting cities of the state. Light is the best police, and knowledge is the best light. Byron Dieffenbach. who returned .some days ago from Fort Belknap, Mon tana, where he had been employed by the government as superintendent of an Indian school the past two years, was in the city Saturday, and called at The Journal office. We are pleased to learn that Mr. Dieffenbach will remain here, having resigned his position in Montana. He would have returned sooner, but a disturbance in which Agent Simons was shot and killed by the Indians delayed somewhat the acceptance of his resig nation. -Once in a while the common boys, who are not professional "funny men," say something that is real cute, as for instance: Nell I think it is nice to be married on one's birthday, don't you? Kate I don't know. I have known it to bring bad luck. Look at Eve! Breath ing through the nose is the only proper .way to sleep. If you awake in thenight and find your mouth open, get up and hut it. Tamaqua Recorder. PERSONAL. Judge Post went WLincoln Monday. Guy C. Barnum returned Friday from Peoria, 111. Mr. and Mrs. John Keeler were in the city Friday. Harry Phelps of Schuyler was in the city Thursday. W. M. Cornelius, esq?, went to Osceola Monday on legal business. G. N. Hopkins of Platte Center was in the city Thursday and Friday. John Engel of Duncan was a business caller at this office Wednesday. Miss Ida Meagher returned Saturday from several days' visit at Lincoln. John A. Kehoe of Platto Center was in the city Wednesday on business. Mrs. S. W. Buzza has been visiting mends at brand Island several weeks. Miss Sybil Butler is in Kansas City, where she has a position as book-keeper. Miss Lyda McMahon was tho guest of Miss Kittie Hays last week ut Platte Center. Wilson Rice returned to Omaha Thurs day after u few days' visit with his parents. Mrs. P. A. Krause of Albion came down Friday to spend a few weeks with relatives. E. H. Jenkins of Kalamazoo, Nebraska, was in the city Monday on his way to South Omaha. Mrs. J. R. Meagher and Miss Kittio Kavanaugh went to Omaha Monday for a few days' visit. John Bradford, editor of the Platte Center Reporter, was in the city on business Thursday. W. F. Beckett was in the city Sunday, returning home to Genoa from a busi ness trip to Lincoln. Miss Mary Turner went to David City Saturday and visited with Mrs. M. S. Reed, returning Monday. Mrs. C. A. Speice and daughter Lettie returned home Friday after several weeks' visit at Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Hon. Michael Maher went to Lincoln last week, to take a look at the legisla tors. Tho ex-senator knows how it is himself. August' Smith of Platte Center was in the city Saturday. One wonldn't think by the sprightly way in which he trav eled through the storm that he was a sharp-shooter in the "unpleasantness" of 1861-'5. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Winterbotham and daughter Maud, and Miss Minsky and Mr. Breech, all of Genoa, were in the city Tuesday. Miss Winterbotham and Miss Minsky went on to Lincoln, where they will attend the Western Normal school. From Earl Pearsall, who represented Columbus at the recent state convention of firemen, we learn some additional facts not given in our paragraph of last week. There were about two hundred delegates present at the convention, and their reception by the citizens of Kear ney was all that could be desired. One afternoon was spent in looking over tho town, visiting places of interest, tho manufacturing plants, &c. Thirty-eight carriages were provided for the use of the firemen. One evening of their stay tney were provided with free admission to an entertainment at the opera house. and the next evening to a banquet all in all, the Kearney liremeii deserve the unbounded thanks of their visitors for courtesies that will not soon be forgot ten. The next tournament to be held at Chadron, will have guaranteed purses amounting to $1,750, which was about $200 more than the next highest bidder. The tournament will take place in June, probably the first week. Six hundred dollars will bo offered as tho free-for-all purse. In this connection wo notice that Chadron is making ample preparations for the entertainment of the fire laddies when they come. Five hundred Sioux Indians aro to furnish samples of their many curious and weird dances and rites, and the city is determined to do all in its power for the comfort and pleasure of its guests. Tho old friends of Charles P. Miller" formerly of this city, and who met death at Omaha in a mysterious way some months ago, will be interested to learn that his body was recently exhumed, the brain; stomach and part of the head re moved for closer inspection. The object in removing the brain was to determine, if iossiblo, by examination, whethor Mr. Miller's mental condition was sound when ho met with his tragic death. The examination of the stomach was to de termine whether poisonous drugs had been used, his friends claiming that ho was drugged and then taken down into the quarter or the city where ho was found, and thero murdered. The re sults of tho examination havo been kept a close secret, and it is now givon forth that three arrests will -shortly bo made on si new clue. Detectives have been at work ever since Berlin and Hayes were examined on a charge of murder and cloared. The claim is now mado that Miller was drugged at a certain place. that tho shot which resulted in his death was thon fired, and that he was then removed to tho point whero ho was afterward found in an unconscious and dying condition. The friends of tho dead man are satisfied that death was tho result of a conspiracy, but time alone will tell whether they can establish the guilt of those suspected. Letter List. List of letters remaining in tho post offico at Columbus, Nebraska, for the week ending Jan. 31. 1893: Mr. Henry Reintz, Ralph Rockwell, Mr. C. D. StebenB, Master Henry Filke, Frank Moore, Mrs. Allie Morris, C. 11. Milveretcd, C. G. Miner, Mr. C. D. Laure, C. D. Lanrense, 2, Miss Blanch Lawnair, .John Ijiwrence, esq., Tho H. C. Goodman Co. Mr. Th. Gonlrey, Mr. C. W. Grinncll, M. D. Haddox, 3. Miss Libbie Hammond, Mr. James Hurrie, Mr. John Klaweman, Mr. Thomas Kingery, Mr. Sam'l Doffo, Mr. M. Dumgan, Mr. R. H. Doweesn, W. S. Crawford, Miss Gladys Conroy, Mr. Gas Clark, Mr. Harvey Drees, 2. Parties calling for the above letters will please say "advertised." Carl Kramer, P. M. Oconee School. The following list is tho names of the pupils, who havo not been absent and have maintained good behavior through out the month of January: Lena May berger, Mabel McCreth, Clara McCreth, Inez Hawkins, Frank Mayberger. Fred die Truolove, Ezra Hawkins, Bert Grier, Harry Grier. Miss Mcsetta Wheeler, Teacher. TAXES. The '92 personal taxes for the city of Columbus become de linquent oir February 1, and draw 10 per cent interest, after this time. Real estate taxes become delinquent on May 1, payable at the office of 3 ,BECHER, JJ1GGI & 0. DIED. NICHOLS-Sanday night last, after a pro tracted illness, Mr. E. R. Nichols. He took a relapse on Saturday. The funeral will probably take place today, Wednesday. Mr. Nichols was a christian gentleman, an energetic man and a scial companion. Ho and lita family had recently united with tho Presby terian church. Those that remain here consist of wife and her mother, who expect to go east to reside among their kindred. They have tiie sympathy of the many friends they and Mr. Nichols liave made since residing in our city. l. gashtess Notices. Advertisements nnder thia head five cents a line each insertion. WMD 8CHILTZ makes boots and shoes in the best styles, and uses only the very beat tockthat can bo procured in the market. 52-tf HiimmitrtttNmMmwriimitttfmimitiuiimiiiHHijiHwwImmmMMii A JUST An immense you 20 per cent. lino ot I OYEECOATS ! In abundant Styles and Varieties. Men's Overcoats, $3.50. Boys' Overcoats, $2.50. German Beaver Overcoats, in brown and black, $10.00 everybody asks $12.00 for them. Men's all-wool Kerseys, in brown, $12.00, worth $15.00. WE ALSO CARRY A FULL LINE OF MEn and BOYS' SUITS ! Our WINTER CAPS cannot be surpassed in iilyles ALL SIZES. DON'T FORGET m 0NL7 DDE PBXCE STDBE IN PLATTE All Good Marked in Plain Figures. MAURICE A. MAYER, THE GLOBE CLOTHIER, Thirteenth St., jiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiJiuiiiuiiriiiiiiiiuimmmitiiitimuirtiumruiiiiiiiituHiiiH GU3.G.HECHER. LEOPOLD JA'GGf. Established 1870. BECHER, JEGGI & CO., REAL - ESTATE - LOANS, - INSURANCE -A.23.a. X3ea,l 23sta.te. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. MONEY TO LOAN ON FARMS at lowest rates of interest, on short or long time, in cmoun t to suit applicants. RONDED ABSTRACTERS OF TITLE to nil real estate in Platte county. Represent THE LEADING INSURANCE COMPANIES of the World. Our farm policies are tho mout liberal in nso. Losses adjusted, and promptly paid at this office. Notary Public always in office. Farm and city property for sale. Make collections of foreign inheritances and sell steamship tickets to and from all part of Europe. lang'91-tf SPEICE & General Agents EZEIj&JL, ESTAT Union Paelie aad Midland Pacilc R. R. Lands for sale at from JHL00 to flO.OO par acre for eaafe or on five or taa yean time, in tititih1 payments to suit purchasers. We have also a large and choioi lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for salo at low prico and on reasonable tarms. Al business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstract of title to all real estate is Platte County. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. " W.T. RICKLY, Wholesale and Game, Peiltry, and Fresh Fish. All Kiids of Saisage i8peeialty. IV Cash paid for Hides, Felts, Tallow. Highest market price paid for fat eattle.Tn Olive Street, twt Deere North of the Fint Natal a! Baak. HENRY RAGATZ k CO., KEEP CONSTANTLY ON Staple and Fancy Groceries, ALSO AS FINE AN ASSORTMENT OF Lamps, Glassware, Queensware, Etc., As Can be Found in This Section of Nebraska. E&Tiic very highest market price paid in trade for countiy produce.'ra ELEVENTH ST., COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. Maj27.'M-tf -THE SEED -HOUSE OF HERMAN OEEBIGH & BRQ. Offer all kinds oi Field Seeds at VERY LOW PRICES. Call and see them. 2 Mar Z mo. Ill RECEIVED! V them, and guarantee to save and Jinees. ALL PRICES. Columbus, Nebr. II. F.J. IIOCKENBERGER l.SIUUEUNSEN. :N"OKTH, for the sale of KetsllDdee la HAND A FULL LINE OP M. E. BALLARD i CO., General Produce Commission Mer chants and Shippers. 341D Cottasje Grove Avenue, Chicago, HI. To all Shippers of Produce. Wanted: Butter, Chr-eoe, Eiikh. Potato, Apples, Onions. Beans, (ahhaicc. Dried Fruits. Poultry. Game, Veal. Imb I-f. Mutton, Pork, Furs and Hides. PHts. Tallow, Honey. Beeswax. Broom Corn, I; jnijenjc Root, Cidw, Feathers, Vinegar, Flour, Buckwheat, etc. Send for our daily bulletin. Pay cash or sell on commission. A 1 reference s,ven- 9nov-em Children Cry for I, A ' fA