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WEDNESDAY.. FEHRUAUY 1. IBIG.
A. N. TIME TABLE.
Freight.
. OATfcf'Colnmbaa
" V . -FHlwoo.1
David City
Sewurd.
Arriveent .Lincoln
2:30p.m.
zao
4:15 p.m.
7:45 "
10:50 "
. . The pa.9cocer leave Lincoln at 6:35 p.m., and
. trive at Oolutabns 9.25 p. m; the freight leave
. Lincoln at 7 5 a. m., and arriree at Columbas at
4.-00;i. ai.
UMOS PACIFIC TIME-TABLE.
norco east, ooiso west.
. Col. Local.... 6.10 a. m LocalFr't. . 645a.m
. AflfntScEx.. 7t5.i. m Limited 1035a. m
fir. In. Local. 9:04 a. m Xr. PI. Local 110 p. in
-. Nr. PI. L-kmI 1:00 p.m Fast Mail 60p.m
.Vt Mail. . 20 p. tn Gr. Is. Local Srp.m
No. 3. Fact Mai). irriva iawnKere for
throush points. Going west at 8.03 p. m., ar-
rives at.Denver 7:10 a.m. No. 2. Fast Mail car
, ries passenger to Fremont. Valley and Omaha
Koine east at 2:00 p. m. No. 31, freight, carries
paooenKeiK, goes west fi;3 a. m.
. . The" freight train leaving here at 4:40 p. m. Car
rie patencer from here to Valley.
COI.UMliCS AND NOBFOLK.
l'aee.
740 a.m.
7.20 "
7:1 "
8:43 "
9Sa. m.
P--wnger arrive from Sionz City 12:20 p. m
"-.. - It-avt-i for-Sioiiz City ...-.. 6.30 p. m
Mixed leaven for Sioux City 7:20a.m
- r i :. . . 11411,. n.
Mixed arme.
...Aim p.m
FOR ALfclOX ASP CEDAR RAPIDH.
-. Mixed leavec
Mixed arrive-i
Paiwenger leaven
. " arriven
. COO a. m
.. 8:20 p. ni
.. 1:30 p. m
..12:40 p.m
godttg Motices.
,JA11 notices under this heading will be
. charged at the rate of $2 a ear.
LEBANON IX)DGE No. 58, A. F. A A. SI.
, llenlar meeting 2d Wednesday in each
X month. All brethren invited to attend
' x J. I). Stikeh. W. M.
W. K. NoTKaTEix. Sec'y. 20july
WILDEV LODGE No. M.LO.O.F.,
meets Tuesday evening of each
rweek Kt their hall on Thirteenth
btreet. Visiting brethren cordially
in.vit.-l. V. A. WA, N. .
. W. K. Notimtein. Sec'y. 27janfl-tf
OLUMUIA CAMP No. a:.. WOODMEN OF
ttie World, ineetr, ever second and fourth
T!iurdMrt of the mouth, 7:30 p. iu., at OehlrichVi
Hall. Thirteenth Mnvt. Kegtilar attendance is
very durable, and all visiting brethren are cor-
tltally invited to meet with uh. jau.ii-
REORGANIZED CI1UUCH OF LATTEK-DAY
Sainttt hold regular service every Sunday
' at 2 .. n.
iiler meeunc on euuenaay evening
1 at tlivir chaiief, corner of North street and Pacific
Avenue. All are cordially invited.
" .ISiulSV Elder II. J. Hudson. President.
EVANO PUOr. C1I LUC II. ifierm. Ueform.)
Herviee every SuuJaj at 10:30 a. m. Ilap
tinoiH, marriages and funeral sermons arcon
ducted b tliA Pastor iu the German and Kn;lieh
lanKilAKen. !(e?idciire, Wa-hiniton Ave. ami
Elrvnth etreetrt.
14nov-''.U V- Df.Geli.EK, PttHtor.
Buy a water meter.
Iferrick for picture frames. 4t
Dr. Geer wjis in IeiKh Inst week.
- Dr. Xauinann, dentist, Thirteenth
street. If
Another new invoice of baby buggies
at Herrick's. 'M
- "Idleness is many gathered miseries
iu one name."
" Dr. T. R. Clark, Olive street. In
ofiiee at nighta.
Born, Sunilay, Feb. lfi, to Irs. Wal
ter Scott, a son.
R. P. Drake of Humphrey was in
the city Sunday.
Mrs. Sparhnwk is sick at her home
so nth of the river.
Return envelops at this office for
Wl cents per hundred.
Dr. Arnold is still confined to his
room, a very sick man.
Dr. L. C. Yoss, Homeopathic physi
cian, Columbus, Nebr.
Barb wire has had its day. See the
Page on Eleventh street.
J. C. Fillman paid Humphrey a bus
iness visit last Thursday.
The Cecil ian club will meet with the
Misses Taylor Monday evening.
The dance Friday night, don't forget,
id for the benefit of tho city poor.
P. J. Hart started for Chicago Sat
urday to buy goods for his store.
--Drs. Martyn, Evans ,t Geer, office
three doors north of Friedhof's store, tf
Chicago Inter Ocean and Columbus
.loruN'AL, one year, in advance $1.75. tf
We are putting in a nice line of new
goods. Call and see them. Herrick. 2t
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Vogel returned
home Monday from their wedding tour.
Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield entertained
a number of friends Saturday evening.
Page fence does not burn up or blow
down. See sample on Eleventh street.
- New goods for less prices than you
can buy second-hand goods for. Her
rick. lit
Wm. Speiee lias been seriously af
flicted with pneumonia the past ten
days.
Mr. Murphy of Rogers, was a guest
at E. D. Fitzpatrick's residence over
Sunday.
kdinond Sullivan, student at the
"state university, wjis in the city over
'Sunday.
Dont forget the mast ball Friday
'-'night greatest fun of the season, in fact
"fun alive."
L.-H. North, who had been on a few
'days' business trip to Denver, returned
home Sunday.
Will and Frauk Eimers of Hum
phrey went through Sunday on their
way to Chicago.
John Wiseman is again dangerously
sick. Friends expected his death any
moment Monday night.
Don't forget the Farmers' institute.
We understand the discussions will be
interesting to everybody.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hardy went to
Leigh, Saturday, where Mr. Hardy has
' some carpenter work to do.
The poultry show at Humphrey last
week was a grand success; the number
"of birds on exhibition was 200.
Bring your orders for job-work to
'this office. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
work promptly done, as agreed upon.
'Pete Ericson has been engaged to
.sink the 1,000 foot well for Monroe.
'What will the outcome be, do you guess?
. Subscribe for The Journal any
day.. Fifty cents will get you the paper
for the next three months, $1.50 for the
. .next year.
Wanted,' to exchange horses and
farming tools for Columbus city prop
erty. ' For further particulars inquire at
the Journal office. tf
-Conductor. M. Nobbs, who a few
months ago lost his left hand in an
aoddenty ia now on the local freight be
tween Golambas and Omaha.
H. E. Babcock met some fanners
Friday night at the Swartsley school
hooae north of the city, to talk irriga
tion. J. N. Taylor left Thursday for Ham
ilton, Montana, to engage in the lumber
badness. The family expect to follow
later.
Marriage license was issued by
Jndge Eilian to Miss Amalia Sohram
and Ludwig Schreim, both of Bntler
county.
The Methodist ladies' union will
give a chicken pie supper this (Wednes
day) evening, at the church, from 5 to 9
o'clock.
There is no admission charge to the
sessions of the Farmers' institute, and
everybody is very cordially invited to be
present.
The Columbus Cornet Band seren
aded Mr. and Mrs. Anton Vogel Monday
evening, and were very pleasantly en
tertained. Pearl Hart has rented of Ed. Rey
nolds for a year, the livery and feed
stable on Olive street, opposite Louis
Schreiber's.
A. J.Arnold and Ira Mullen, the vet
eran fishermen, are exercising their poles
and lines these days. National City
(Cal.) Record.
Mrs. O. D. Butler expects to attend
the wedding today (Wednesday) near
Richland, of Mr. Herbert Nelson and
1 Miss Mnv Garten.
Wm. Baker of Shelby recently went
crazy over religion. Eight men had
hard work in taking him from church
io a neighboring house.
Baptist church, J. D. Pulis, pastor.
Services 11 a. ru., 7:30 p. m. Subjects
Feb. 23d: morning, "Cross Bearing."
Evening, "Washington."
-Dave Smith and Oscar Rochon left
Saturday last for Cripple Creek, Colo
rado. Dave goes to accept a position as
traveling salesman for a wholesale house.
We learn that Gates Bros, of Rich
laud intend this spring to put in an ir
rigating plant capable of irrigating 40
acres, getting the water from the Platte.
Judge Kilian sentenced Chas. Komer
Tuesday to 15 days in jail, every third
day on bread and cold water, for stealing
an overcoat of an advance agent for a
dog show.
M. C. Sullivan of Harvard, 111.,
brother of Jndge Sullivan, was in town
last week, called by the sickness of his
son at Albion, who returned home with
him Sunday.
Rev. Rogers was taken ill Sunday
morning during church service and was
compelled to leave his sermon. He re
covered lefore evening and took the
uight service.
We made a mistake in the program
of t'io Farmers' Institute in our last
week's issue. The Cecilian club will
sing this (Tuesday) evening instead of
Wednesday evening.
- -F. B. Jeffries is out and around
again; although he has not discarded
his crutches, his foot, which was injured
in a railroad accident some weeks ago,
is improving rapidly.
Wm. Benham of Gilmore takes the
place of Mr. Lucas as night operator at
the U. P. station here. Mr. Lucas went
to Omaha Monday to see where his
assignment would be.
Get your disc harrows and cultiva
tors sharpened now. I have a machine
that will sharpen them without drawing
the temper or changing the shape of the
disc. Henry Lnbker. 2
So far as balls are concerned there
are just two classes of people those who
dance and those who don't; the latter
can look on, act as spectators, and will
be a sight to see Friday night.
In Guy Barnum's last letter home
he spoke about it raining considerable?
in Arkansas, which would seem to indi
cate that when spring comes to us we
may also have abundance of rain.
Ernest Dussell went down to Omaha
Thursday afternoon to attend the Master
Plumbers state meeting held Friday and
Saturday. If there is any new way to
wipe a joint Ernest will find it out.
Mrs. Lash, mother of Conductor
Lash, arrived in the city Thursday. Mr.
Lash has been under the weather for
some time, and Saturday he accompa
nied his mother home to Wakefield.
Tuesday of last week the Thirtieth
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wur
deman of Boheet was celebrated by a
large party of friends and neighbors who
spent the afternoon and evening with
them.
The Orpheus singing society have
rented Fitzpatrick hall for a year, and
are now putting it in fine shape. Their
meeting evenings are Tuesdays and Fri
days. They now have 21 members and
expect soon to have 30.
The Page Company make a fence for
hogs, for cows, for poultry, for rabbits,
for deer, for lawn, for cemetery, for farm
use, in fact, we make all kinds of
fences, for all kinds of purposes. See
sample on Eleventh street.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
give a spider-web sociable at the resi
dence of W. A. Way, this, (Wednesday)
evening. No admission fee; a collection
will be taken for the benefit of the
church. All cordially invited.
The Excelsior literary society of
Stark, Nebr., challenge any society in
Polk county to meet them in a series of
joint debates a good scheme, their ex
pressed wish being to spend the time
pleasantly and get acquainted.
O. A. Stearns of Fullerton was in
the city Friday on his way home from
the G. A. R. encampment. He looks
like he did in the 70's when living at the
half-way Jionse on Stearns' Prairie, ex
cept that he is grayer now than then.
At the G. A. R. encampment held at
Omaha last week, J. H. Culver was elect
ed department commander, John Er
hardt and T.J. Majors, senior and junior
vice commander. Lincoln was designat
ed for the reunion for five -years to come.
We are informed that at the Drinnin
school house Saturday night, H. E. Bab
cock and George H. Lawrence came
upon debatable ground on the irrigation
question, and made the meeting very
interesting to the listeners for a few
minutes.
It comes but once a year the Hook
ies annnal mask ball, and next Friday
evening is the time for "96. The firemen
understand the art of entertaining; it is
by no means a lost art' with them, and as
the years come, each ball outshines its
predecessors, good as they were.
AadrewKuakd,o the Janes Curia;
farm on Shell creek, 5 miles southeast of
Platte Center, will have a pablic sale of
stock and farm implements Friday, Feb.
28. The stock is all in first-class con
dition. Miss Enor Clother took a prominent
part in the "Alabama Coon" lady min
strel show in Albion last Saturday. Miss
Cora Sumption, who has visited in
Columbus, was one of the end "men."'
The show was reported a grand success.
The Linwood, Butler county, Times,
detailing the cases of spotted fever there,
says the public schools were dismissed
for a week, and that Charles Eobza had
been arrested while entering the Novacek
house, after being warned by the guard
to keep away.
The Epworth League will give a
grand musical entertainment in the
Methodist church Wednesday evening.
Feb. 26. The program will consist of
selections rendered by the best talent in
our city. Program will appear in next
week's paper.
A celebrated mental philosopher
says that the practice of music helps
people who are out of sorts to secure and
to keep control of themselves, in fact
that harmony of sounds pervades the
entire human structure and corrects any
abnormal motions.
Wask Goods, White Goods,
Dress Goods, the latest for
spring and sinner, 1896.
Follow the crowd to E. D."
Fitzpatrick's, the White Front
Dry Goods Store. tf
Last Friday the Ninth grade in
Prof. Britell's room passed their final
examination in arithmetic. The twelve
examples given were taken from the
state teachers' professional examination.
Ralph Turner and Lela Stillman receiv
ed 100 in the examination.
Miss Mary Griffin, daughter of Pat
rick S., was the winner of the prize at
Carl Kramer's, for guessing closest on
the limit of the burning candle. It was
50 pounds in weight, bad been 57 days
in burning, and that was her guess.
The prize was a fine celluloid toilet set.
The Cadiz (Ohio) Sentinel says: "A
little eleven year old girl living in Sciota
county was recently fined $10 and costs
and sent to jail for five days for whisper-
ing in nnurcu. u mat court nad gen
eral jurisdiction and could "travel the
wide world through" what a record it
could make!
The Platte Center Signal talks of a
reported gold-field discovery two miles
due east of there. A night-prowler a la
Columbus, with the exception that he
don't write. A couple of young men
were forcibly ejected from the post-office
on Tuesday evening, while the mail was
being distributed.
We received but too late for mention
in last week's Journal the program of
the 12th annnal encampment Nebraska
division S. of V. to be held at Albion
Feb. 17-20, so that they are now in ses
sion. We are requested to say that a
special invitation is extended to all mem
bers of the G. A. R.
"Health is impossible without out
door exercise. The blood must be oxyge
nated to properly carry on the processes
of life." Eleanor Kirk writes thus, and
says that the bicycle has exerted a potent
influence with many of the stay-at-homes
who had thought they could find no time
for out-of-door exercise.
As diphtheria is again beginning to
make its appearance in different parts of
Nebraska would it not be well for the
various communities, through their
boards of heajth, to provide themselves
in advance with the best remedy now
known, so as to be ready? Doubtless
many little ones would thus be saved.
From the Nebraska weather review
for the year 1895, we find Grand Island
credited with a rain fall of 27.77 inches
or the largest amount of any one place
in the state, Kimball being the smallest,
having only 11.13 inches. The average
for the whole state is put at 18.70 inches,
or 4.63 inches below the average for the
last twenty years.
Miss Alice Luth gave a crokenole
party to a few friends Friday evening at
her home. Refreshments were served
and a pleasant evening spent. Those
present were: Misses Laura Ward, Min
nie Becker, Jennie Weaver, Bessie Shel
don and Alice Luth. Messrs. Prof. Wea
ver, Rev. Rogers, W. L. Chenoweth, E.
von Bergen, Clarence Sheldon and Al
bert Luth.
There is an article going the rounds
of the press to the effect that a Mrs.
Dick, of Huntington, Ind., enjoys the
distinction of being the only lady bank
cashier in the country. This is not cor
rect, as Miss Cora Hale, daughter of
Dave Hale of Humphrey, is a cashier in
the Ottis & Murphy bank of that city,
and has proved herself active, energetic
and capable.
We hear a strange story of music,
oysters, Bud Newman, eta, but we can't
just exactly make it out. It seems to
have been a question of choice whether
to expend a certain amount of money
for oysters or for music, and there not
being quite money enough to furnish the
oysters for the crowd, Bud's ingenuity
wss called into requisition, but how it
terminated, we did not learn. ,
A gentleman wrote to the Yontb's
Companion to ascertain its publishing
rates for a one-inch card yearly, con
tract, and was horrified to learn that it
would cost him $3,000 per year, a single
line $12 for one issue, no reduction on
yearly contracts. And yet there are
business men who "kick like a bay steer"
if their advertising bill amounts to over
$15 per month. South Omaha Sun.
R. D. Williams of Loup county was
a Columbus visitor several days the past
week. He is one of the dozen fanners
who have organized a company among
themselves and done all the work (except
the surveying) in construction of an irri
gating canal, not a dollar being furnish
ed from outside parties. The ditch is
complete, except one-half mile, the 14
miles being finished, since the survey
last August.
Somebody has been visiting F. B.
Jeffries' coal bins, taking a half ton of
coal, hard and soft. Appearances
seemed to indicate that the coal had
been taken out of the bins in baskets
and carried to the alley, loaded into a
wagon and hauled off. Werner Schup
bach, returning home late one night last
week, saw a man coming out of Jeffries'
alley, and thinking that he was after
him, betook to the middle of the road
and got home. Probably that was the
night the theft was committed.
Alien E. Morrison of Grant, Nebras
ka, who bad been released from the
asylum at Norfolk, took the train east
from here the other day instead of west
and got off at Schuyler. His conduct
there evidencing insanity, Superintend
ent Mackay was informed and came and
secured him, after he had tarried in jail
a night and a day. When he was search
ed he had about sixteen dollars in money,
several railroad tickets, a bottle of whis
key, letters from his wife, etc.
Friday evening a number of young
men gave a ball in the Maennerchor hall
in honor of the young ladies who had
honored them with the leap year balh
The hall was handsomely decorated,
divans and rugs giving a parlor effect to
the surroundings. Tho Italian orches
tra of Omaha furnished the music. A
supper was served in the ball by Bert
Osterhout, the well-known Twelfth
street caterer, which was fine. Those
present enjoyed a very pleasant evening.
At the Omaha High school, once
each week two pupils are selected by the
teacher of the English department to
deliver before tho school a twenty-minute
lecture on an assigned subject, in
whioh they are not allowed to use any
written manuscript or notes of any kind.
A somewhat similar exercise here was
instituted the other day by one of the
teachers, viz: calling upon pupils, at
random, to arise and tell what they
could about a subject, given them at
the moment.
Myron J. Brown or Polk county was
in the city last week staying over Satur
day. He had a drive with Charlie
Morse behind "The Corporal," the fa
mous race horse that Myron sold to
Charlie two yr-ars ago. Asked whether
he wasn't sorry he had sold the horse,
he replied that he wasn't sorry Charlie
had got him, but it was rather unpleas
ant for him to think that Mr. Morse,
after seeing the horee one day, knew him
better than he did, after having him
several years.
G. W. Bennett of Hampton, Nebras
ka, was not, it appears, a guest of the
Clother House, although it was near
there that he fell and broke his leg one
night recently and from there taken to
the hospital. He had delirium tremens
while there, broke his leg over again, and
died Thursday night last at 10 o'clock.
C. Newman, an undertaker of Hampton,
came after the body Saturday. It was
in readiness for him, having been in
charge of Undertaker Herrick, and was
taken on the train to Central Citv.
It seems to be a general thought
among our farm exchanges that Nebras
ka soil, notwithstanding the dry weather
of the past few years, is in fairly good
condition, and that with a few good
spring rains, the coming season will be
favorable for crops. Somehow, the soil
seems to be gathering moisture from
some source, either from the "underflow"
which undoubtedly runs under all Ne
braska, or from the atmosphere by con
densation, although it would appear
strange if much could be due from this
source.
Hon. W. E. Peebles of Pender, was
in the city Friday looking after his
chances as a republican candidate for
congressional honors in this district.
There are eighteen counties in the dis
trict and there will be about 153 dele
gates in the nominating convention,
which will probably be held in Norfolk.
Mr. Peebles is an energetic business man,
and has worked his way in life, relying
on his native ability and his individual
efforts for success. What he does or
starts out to do, he goes at with energy
and a determination to succeed.
C. J. Garlow of this city is a candi
date for delegate to help represent this
congressional district in the St. Louis
convention, which will doubtless nomi
nate the next president. Mr. Garlow's
candidacy will help settle several ques
tions, thus early in the campaign. He
is an active republican; has asked for no
office at the hands of the party, and
would certainly represent the wish of the
republicans of this district in the St.
Louis convention. Platte county is en
titled to recognition in the coming con
vention, and if republicans work to
gether Mr. Garlow's candidacy will be a
success.
J. M. Wolfe, the famous directory
man of Omaha, and who has been in that
business since 1869 (when the first direc
tory of Nebraska's metropolis was gotten
out by him) is in the city and has started
work on a directory of Platte county, to
contain a brief description of each town,
with a business directory of all towns in
the county and a list of farmers of Platte
county, giving the name and post-office
address of each property owner, etc. He
has just completed a handsome directory
for Norfolk and has lately issued a State
gazetteer. Mr. Wolfe has no rival in his
business, and it goes without saying that
his work is first-class.
The Cedar Rapids Outlook says that
in the last five months, Rev. Broes has
preached the funeral sermons of four old
soldiers of that community. This re
minds that Rev. Rogers preached his
first funeral service a short time ago over
the little Jenning's child, and the second
for that of its mother last Thursday at
the Congregational church. The service
held for Mrs. Jennings was the first
funeral held from the Congregational
church since it was built in 1891. Rev.
Moore of the Methodist church informs
us that in his many years as a pastor he
has only preached one funeral sermon
for a member of his church.
The Norfolk Journal was never
known to get off its feet or out of its
head, and this is what it says of local
gold: '-Few people realize that there is
a gold mine located within a short dis
tance of Norfolk, yet such is the fact.
George L. Hies has in his office some
samples of gold-bearing rock taken from
a ledge of decomposed granite found on
a farm on Union Creek in Stanton coun
ty, about 13 miles southeast of Norfolk.
The ledge is a blanket sheet of granite
apparently about three feet in thickness,
and its extent is yet a matter of conjec
ture. A sample of exposed surface rock
assayed $320 in gold to the ton, and a
sample that was unexposed assayed $7.50
gold to the ton. The owner of the land
has a sample containing free gold. These
assays were made by the expert who
made the examination and report on the
Milford gold field, who seems much
elated over the prospects held out by the
surface rock and is extremely anxious to
make a personal inspection of the ledge
from which it came. Undoubtedly there
will be interesting develonments within
la short time."
FKBSONAL.
Prof, and Mrs. Williams visited Lin
coin Friday.
Judge Kilian was a visitor to the Cap
itol city Friday.
J. E. North passed Sunday with rel
atives in the city.
George Taylor of Omaha was visiting
friends in the city last week.
Will Becher came np from Omaha
Friday to visit friends over Sunday.
A. M. Jennings arrived in the city
Monday evening from Fitzgerald, Ga.
Miss Ole Jones, a teacher near Dun
can, was the guest of Miss H&ttie Baker
over Sunday.
F. J. Beaton and little daughter Eu
nice of Sioux City visited their relatives,
the family of Dan Condon, last week.
Miss Herrick started Wednesday for
her home in Warrensburg, New York,
after a visit of several months with her
brother.
Coaity Saptrvhion.
The board at its last meeting adjourn
ed subject to the call of Chairman Wig
gins, it being understood that they are
ready to take up any general business
that may come before them. The im
portant business, no doubt, and that for
which the tax-payers are waiting, is the
state of affairs as will be shown by the
reports of the committee of supervisors
appointed to examine the books of cer
tain county officials, and the affairs of
ex-County Treasurer Lyuch as shown by
the report of Experts Fodrea and Ged-
dis, which, it is supposed will be ready
either at the opening session today
(Wednesday), or by tomorrow.
Of course there need be no questioning
of the board not doing their duty in any
contingency, and there is none, so far as
The Journal hears. We believe that
Platte county has now as competent,
capable and conscientious a board aa she
has ever had.
The functions of the supervisors' office
are the greatest in the county; the office
is one of trust, rather than pay; some
times, in the dull routine of business,
when supervisors are doing their very
best to guard well the approaches to the
people's hard-earned treasury, and the
inconceivable cheek and persistency of
unconscientious officials makes it neces
sary to opposo them in their designs
upon the people's money, the supei vis
or's office seems almost a thankless sine
cure, but it is not. Duty, well done,
I carries always its own reward, and cer
tainly Platte county, in this crisis of its
history, is expecting every official to do
his duty. Again we say, there is no
reason whatever to doubt that, strike
where it may, affect whom it will, the
board of supervisors will do their whole
duty.
The Al. G. Fields Negro Minstrel
company, who were here Feb. 11, filled
the opera house so full that standing
room was at a premium and proved to
the play goers that we are sadly in need
of a new play house, for had the house
been larger Fields would have been able
to put on a much better entertainment.
The tableau at the end of the military
drill, which was lighted by Greek tire,
was very fine, but the stage was much
too small for the drill. There were about
twenty-five high grade artists on the
stage, every one of whom were good
singers and dancers, giving an entertain
ment of over two hours duration, keeping
all present laughing mo9t of the time.
The crowd were slow to leave at the end
of the show and if Fields comes this way
again ho can fill a much larger house
than he had last week.
Gus G. Becher was at the meeting
of the republican state central commit
tee at Lincoln Friday, representing the
Twelfth district. It was decided to hold
two state conventions, one for the elec
tion of delegates to St. Louis and a later
one for the nomination of state officers.
Lincoln was selected for the first, Wed
nesday, April 15 at 5, and Omaha for the
latter, time to bo settled at a special
meeting. The basis of representation is
the vote for State Treasurer Bartley in
1891, one delegate for each 100 votes
cast, or major fraction thereof, and one
delegate at large, giving a convention of
1,057 delegates. Mr. Becher says there
was a very considerable amonnt of Mc
Kinley talk, mixed with Manderson for
president, and that everybody there
wanted to go to St. Louis as delegates.
The Current Events class of the
Woman's Club met with Mrs. Herman
Oehlrich on Saturday afternoon. Mrs.
Stires was elected leader for the ensuing
month, succeeding Mrs. Page; Mrs.
Chambers succeeding Mrs. Gray as sec
retary for the remainder of the year. The
meeting for next Saturday will be with
Mrs. Clinton Gray. Programme. Paper,
"Osteopothy," Mrs. Chambers; paper,
"American Women,"Mrs.Cnshing; paper,
"Theosophy," Mrs. Page. Mrs. Oehlrich
furnished an excellent reading on Queen
Victoria and message; Mrs. Voss a paper
on parliamentary practice in the club,
and Mrs. Baker a paper on St. Valen
tine's day. A great interest is taken in
this department, the above papers being
discussed at length.
, St. Cathariar Reading Circle.
Will meet at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Geitzen on Wednesday even
ing, Feb. 19, 1896.
Roll call.
Quotations from Tennyson.
American History, Period 2d, from 1607
to 1689.
Astronomy, Period 1st, to the Solar
System.
Song, selected. Anna Geitzen.
Pleasant paragraphs. Will Gregorius.
Essay, "Early Irish Art." Mrs. J. H.
Bates.
Paper, "The Canses which Led to the
French Revolution." Mr. Wm. O'Brien.
Notice of DiMoIatioa.
The partnership heretofore existing
between S. E. Marty and B. Engolmann,
doing business in Columbus under the
firm name of Marty A Engelmann, was
dissolved Feb. 1st, by mutual consent.
Either is authorized to receive claims
due the late firm; debts owing, by the
firm, if. there are any, can be presented
to either.
S. E. Martt,
2t B. Engelmann.
Male aad Hen.
I wish to sell a car load each of good
work mules and work horses have too
many to keep. I will trade them for
mole colts, cattle or hogs, or will sell
them on nine months' time, good banka
ble paper.
Patrick Murray,
Residence 2. miles west of Columbus.
Address Columbus post-office. 4t
fee Sena rancr laatitate for Platte u4
Adjeialafr CeaaUca
Will beheld in the Maennerchor hall,
Columbus, Neb., Tuesday and Wednes
day, February 18 and 19, 1896.
rusi uu xvrauu.
2 p. m, prayer by Rev. Pulis.
Address of welcome by Mayor Phillips.
Response by A. W. Clark, president
Farmers' club.
Address on Beekeeping by L. D. Stil-
son, secretary State Beekeepers' Ass'n
Paper. Future of the Horse and the
kind of Horses to raise to meet the fu
ture demand, by C. F. Gleason.
Paper on Cattle, by George Barnum.
EVENING SESSION 7:30.
Song by Prof. Leavy's Class.
Dairying, by R. B. Stonffer, secretary
State Dairymen's Ass'n.
Cultivation of Lawn and House Plants
and Flowers by C. C. Gray.
Recitation, "Dried Apple Pie," Miss
Myrtle Clark.
Chorus, Cecilian Club.
Hemp Culture, M. Jerome.
Song by Prof. Leavy's Class.
SECOND DAT, WEDNESDAY MORNING SES
SION, 10 o'clock.
Sugar Beet, by Fred Jewell.
Paper, The Poland China Hog the
Best for Farmers, by Wm. Meays.
Paper, Mixed Farming for the general
Farmer, by H. J. Hendryx.
AFTERNOON SESSION 130.
Conservation of the Rainfall, by G. D.
Swezey, meteorologist of the experiment
station.
Irrigation for Platte county, by Geo.
Lawrence.
Corn Culture, by S. C. Gray.
EVENINQ SESSION 7:30.
Song, Prof. Britell's Class.
Poultry for Profit, by John E. Mego
han of the State Poultry Ass'n.
Experience of a Platte county Farmer,
by M. Maher, Platte Center.
Wind Mill Irrigation, by John Tanna
bill. Song, Prof. Britell's Class.
It is designed to have tho Institute of
practical value to the ordinary farmer.
The opening papers will be prepared
with special reference to this end, and it
is expected that farmers and others will
promptly engage in the discussions
following.
Farmers, this Institute will help every
one of us. Come and lend a hand.
Executive Committee.
District 44 and Viciaity.
Tom Johnson has filled a cave with
ice for summer use.
Members of tho family of P. S. Griffin
have been having a tusse! with la grippe.
Mrs. John McGill, living north of the
city, has been quite sick the past week.
Frank Taylor was in this district Sat
urday buying fat stock; he bought a car
load of steers.
Harry Reed saw two large gray wolves
Friday morning on the bluff just north
east of the city.
We are told that Fred. Stenger con
templates moving onto his farm about
the first of next month.
A quantity of homemade hominy was
being made Friday afternoon at the
home farm; a large kettle over a blazing
fire out of doors, did the work.
Now is the time for farmers to put
their harness in order, and also their
doubletrees and farm tools; all that kind
of work can lie done this fine weather,
without neglecting the care of the horse,
cows, and all young stock. Then as soon
as the time approaches for field work, we
will be ready to spit upon our hands and
push the business for all there is in it.
We read in your valley correspondence
last week of an incubator that Sam.
Drinnin was making and on Friday morn
ing we called there to see his handiwork.
I cannot give an intelligent description
of the machine, but it was indoors and
was -working under the supervision of
the lady of the house. Eggs had been
placed in the incubator and heat applied
on Thursday evening. The capacity of
the laying hens were overtaxed, and but
130 eggs were put in place, where there
was provision for 1;"0; a small lamp
underneath was burning low, and two
thermometers about midway from centre
(of broad chamber) to each end lying fiat
upon their backs, each indicating 103; on
feeling of the eggs we found them to bo
quite warm. In about three weeks we
may note the result of the experiment.
OfoBrr .lottiBs.
Mrs. Southard and Miss Preston were
in town Saturday.
Mrs. Kenyon of Platte Center has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. H.B. Fennimore.
John Dawson lost a fine colt the last
of the week, got into the river and was
drowned.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Postle of Columbus
spent the day with their brother, D. Pos
tle one day last week.
The son and sister of Mrs. Wm. Mc
Come who were here at the time of her
death and funeral, returned home Thurs
day, morning.
School closed Friday for a week's
vacation. Stuart Kennedy of St. Ed
ward will continue as teacher. He seems
to give general satisfaction.
A meeting was held at the school
house Thursday night, among the farm
ers of this vicinity in regard to building
a creamery on the cooperative plan,
with excellent success.
Miss Jennie Dawson gave a surprise to
her sister, Miss Emma, and her brother-in-law
Mr. Buschman, who is visiting
them from Missouri. John Dawson's
and D. Murdock's families attended and
report a fine time.
MailiMtH.
J. A. Griffin was selling goods in Mad
ison the first of the week. He will be
home Thursday for a short time.
A large number of men are at work at
the ice business on the Madison ice
field, sending it in all directions.
Ab. Lash, the well known conductor
on the Norfolk branch, was taken home
last week, a very sick man, an aggrava
ted case of grippe.
The U. P. R. R. Co. are shipping three
hundred cars of ice from here to Omaha
and Grand Island. Ice here is a foot
thick, and pretty good quality'.
The Par4ie of thr Parilr.
Three, grand tours to Honolulu,
Hawaiian Islands. 'The Paradise of the
Pacific," via Union Pacific system and
Oceanic Steam Ship Co. Leaving Omaha
the morning of Jan. ICtb, Feb. 11th, and
March 6th. Only nine days from Omaha
to Honolulu. $205.00 for the round trip,
including stateroom and meals on steam
ers. Tickets good for nine months, with
stop-over privileges. For information
and tickets apply to J. B. Meagher.
HEEY RAGATZ 4 CO.
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We invite you to come and see us. We regard the interests of our
patrons as mutual with our own, so far as our dealings are concerned our
part of the obligation being to provide and offer
Good - Goods - at - Fair - Prices.
-EVERYTHING KEPT that is expected to be found in a. first
elass, up-to-date grocery store.
Many Year Aro.
Twenty-four years ago, this week, the
following were among things referred to
in The Journal:
Dr. Pinkney advertises a new drug
store.
The receipts of the Lincoln post-office
for 1871 were $4,168.
We have not heard that small-pox ia
nearer to us than Omaha.
Two brothers named Moon were frozen
to death soma four weeks ago on Battle
creek.
Vehicles for snow roads may bo seen
on our streets every day. (Issue of
January 10.)
Gen. Halleck died at his residence in
Louisville, Kentucky, Jan. !), of conges
tion of the brain.
The State Agricultural society name
Wednesday, April 10 as "Arbor Day," and
offer special premiums.
The chains of habit are generally too
small to be felt till they are too strong to
be broken. Dr. Johnson.
The settlers on the head of Shell creek
have named their village Newman Grove,
and it is becoming quite a settlement.
A petition is being circulated by H. G.
D. Squire for a post route between
Columhu3 and Twin Grove, Antelope
county.
Kcatskotoose, (the Indian name for L.
W. Platte) shows the editor a large buf
falo robe, containing a surface of 75
square feet.
Yost and Sperry, the Omaha post-office
officials who assaulted E. Rosewater,
have been fined 85 and $20, respectively,
and costs of suit.
The exciting topic of conversation in
Columbus the last two days has been the.O'eoMostek tolnieI J luck, n'.i sw.li
supposed departure of A. J. Stevens, land
a?ent and banker.
Tho train carrying the Grand Duke
Alexis to his buffalo hunt passed Colum
bus last Friday evening. "What went
ye out for to see"?
The Hoffman mill recently sold to
Jacob Ernst & Co. is in operation again,
Frank Becher in charge, and G. A.
Schroader, engineer.
We learn from a reliable private source
that in many places in Utah snow is
lying on the level to the depth of six
feet. (Issue of Jan. 31.)
Tho speaker who said, ''Remember that
the eyes of the vojc jvtpul! are upon
yon," didn't understand Latin so well as
the Columbus pupils do.
During the year 1871, at the Grand
Island office there weie taken 920 pre
emptions. 133,000 acres; 1,407 home
steads, 173.S56 acres, total, 316,756 acres.
The name of John Strasser, Jackson
station, reminds of the time when Stras
ser was going to get a hundred men and
ox teams and remove the Sixth principal
meridian.
Tho roll of honor for District No. 3
was: Marion Warner, Marion Jones,
Anna Warner, Anna Grant, Walter Dress,
Peter Murie, Stephen Hendrix and Paul
Jones. C. W. Stuart, teacher.
Frank Simraea' speech on a festive
occasion is given in TriK Journal. The
burden of bis thoughts seemed to be
that a dozen young Columbus men had
gone east lately to get married.
Al. Arnold, one of our greatest hunt
ers, has killed during the last few weeks,
no less than sixteen deer, within seven
miles of Columbus. When he goes out
something has to come in, sure.
The statement for December 1871,
shows a decrease of the public debt dur
ing that month of four and a half mil
lions of dollars.- President Grant's ad
ministration is making its mark.
We received last week the first num
ber of an agricultural paper published at
Grand Island by S. P. Mobley. Mr.
Mobley was in the city Friday and look
ed very much like his former self.
The telegraph reports Jim Fisk, jr., as
mortally wounded, and the editor adds:
"beware of women of the wrong sort."
Jim would have done better if he bad
taken proper thought on his own con
duct. TnE Journal those days devoted a
half column to the Columbia retail
markets. Among the prices of Feb. 7,
72, are: Nails 36 by tho keg, retail 7c
per lb.; stoves, heating 86 to 830, cook
ing, 20 to 860; milch cows, 840 to 860.
In the annual report of county clerk
(II. J. Hudson) to the board, the amount
of bonds issued by Platte county is:
Court House 816,000; Lonp'Fork bridge
86,000; General bridge 825,000. The
amonnt of Court House bonds assumed
by Colfax county was 85,223; by the
town of Columbus 83,700.
Mr. S. L. Holman of Columbus, Ne
braska, has been visiting his many friends
of this county, and getting married, re
cently. He has taken to his western
home, one of Laporte county's fairest
daughters a Miss Stanton, a daughter
of Mrs. O. Rose of Springville. Laporte
(Ind.) Herald. Tax Journal editor adds
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L. Gerrard gives us the following list
of persons for whom patents to land are
now ready at the Grand Island oflce:
John Fitzpatrick, W. B. Dale, Thomas
Maher, John Moriarty, Geo. E. Willard,
Samuel Smith, Margaret Cloug, Peter
Reinhammer, C. B. Stillman, W. T. Cal
laway, David Lynch, Adolph Ernst, G.
Rosenberger, Henry Welsh, D. Andman,
Wm. Becker.
The first while wedding on the Pawnee
Reservation (now Nance county) took
place the evening of the first day of the
year, 1872, at the farm house on the Res
ervation, the contracting parties being
Mr. George Howel and Miss Phoebe
Sutton. The marriage ceremony (Socie
ty of Friends), was impressive in its ex
ceeding simplicity. Taking each other's
hands they each vowed to love and to
cherish until death do part. Then came
tho silent prayer, after which the mar
riage certificate was road aloud by Major
Troth, and then every one present placed
their signatures to it as witnesses.
Krai Katatr Iransfipr.
Becher, J&ggi & Co., real estate agents,
report the following real estate transfers
filed in tho office of the county clerk for
the week ending February 15, lrilNJ:
Holwrt W Oentletnan to Oeorgo Scliei
lel, lot 7 l.lk i, 1-t aiM to Platte Ou
ter, wd $ 3J0 U)
HoDPf r Town Hite Co to School Dint
29, lots 7, 8, , 10, bl 11. Lindsay, wd.. 1M 00
Peter Larson to John E Dark, ," acres
ia nwU ee4 l-17-3w, ocd 230 W)
Jonah David to Kraa Evans), wJi nwJi
2S-19-2w,wd 1910 00
Elizabeth Mnegrave to Christ Wieth
rick, ei nli !K-17-lw, wd 2100 00
Co Treasurer to Peter llender. lot 2.
hi 3, Comlea. tax del
City of Colnmbns to Mason K Beall.
lot 1 bl 101. Co'.nmbtis, nnl
1.'. 00
niid w?ii aw'i 23-3)-le, wd
3.V)U0
E (' McDonald to Frank Hopkins et al
t loti 2
ami r, and all lot tl. etc S-W-
wil
Nine transfers, total
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Gkanu Island, Neukaska, (
February 15th, 1896. )
Our books are now open for contracts
and will remain so until the Eleventh of
April (Saturday) unless the required
acreage shall bo made up previous to
that date. No contracts will be accepted
from any other than parties purposing
to give the crop the l39t of attention,
and who either own or rent desirable
land adapted to the growth of the sugar
beet. Not less than three-acre contracts
will be arcepted. Blank contracts can
lie seen by applying to John Kryzeke,
Columbus, Nebraska.
3 Oxnabd Beet Strr. r Coupasy.
Attention, Fanners !
I WILL SELL YOU A FENCE from 2 inch
to M inch and cioo enoaph to stop rabbits.
I can sell yon a hog fence, 2t-inch, for 10 ct. per
rod, and a W-inch, 11-bar. for Keneral farm one.
for 65 eta., warranted to stop all domestic ani
mate. All this fenrt ir fully warranted by the
PAGE WOVEX-WIRE FENCE CO.. and put up
by me. I will be at von Heron's store eyery
Satnnlay.
Webtf C. S. KA8TON, Agent.
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Norfolk News: J. P. Wright has suf
fered no relapse since he was treated for
rheumatism by Schlatter at Denver, just
before the healer left that place. Al
though Mr. Wright has exposed himself
more than ordinarily lately, in the dis
charge of his duties as night policeman,
he has not felt a twinge of the old com
plaint. He rather expected the hard trip
of Friday night, when he was after hog
thieves in Stanton county, would use
him up, but ho has been none the worse
for the experience. When it is remem
bered that he went to Denver on crutches,
and that n3 soon as treated by Schlatter
he threv; them away and came home, the
cure seems remarkable. He does not
attempt to explain it, hut is very well
satisfied that it is so.
Schuyler Quill: Under the depository
law, which the populist legislature gave
us, Colfax county in four years was the
gainer of 85,000 which otherwise would
have been in tho pockets of the favorite
bankers of the city. The rate in this
county has ever been four and the First
National bank paid five per cent the last
year for it as there was a sharp competi
tion. But even that wan not high for
what there was a ready market at ten
per cent. This year by some combina
tion of our banks the banking house of
F. Folda secured it at three percent and
were the only bidders. There was evi
dently some combination among our
local bankers and there is probably a
division or an agreement as to future.
Herein comes a wrong and unless there
is a stop put to combinations the public
money will go begging and the deposi
tory law be void in real meaning. If the
bankers have a mind to combine the
public will get no interest. Three per
cent is too low.
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