The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, June 10, 1896, Image 3

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WEDNE8DAY. JUNE 10. IK.
. A. AN. TIME TABLE.
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Freight.
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. The-pasneiUEerlaeTes fincola at 635 p. m.. and
tirrjree at folambos 9 J5 p. m; the freiiht leaves
Lincoln at 723 a. m., and arrives at Couuataa at
.-00 p. m.
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UNION PACIFICTIME-TABLE.
ooixa east.
'Col. Local.... 600a.m
A:UntirEx... SS0a.m
Or. In. Local. Ma.ai
Nr. PI. Local. 1:00 p. m
Fast Mail 2:15 p. m
OOIXOWKST.
Limited 1035 a. m
Nr.PJ.Local.12t5 p. m
Fast Mail eaSp.m
Or. la. Local. 836 p. m
No. 2. Ft Stall.
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llimnffk nnintfl lartiflv WAAt At A'15 1. 111. MX'
ri w at Denver 7:10 a. m. No. 2. Fart Mail car
tine pameaiN'ra to Fremont. Valley and Omaha
going eant at 2:13 p. m.
The freight train leaving here at 450 p. m. Car
rie paueccers from here to Valley.
COLCJCBC8 AKD SOBFOLK.
Pk-wnxei arrive from Sioux City 12:30 p. m
IravM for Sioux City 8a0p.ni
Mixed leaves for Sioux City 6:00a. m
Mixed arrive ll)p.m
FOB ALBION AND CUAB BAFID8.
Miied leaves 215 a-m
Mixed arrive JiS1"1
Tawentcer leaves ,lp'm
" arrive 121 p.m
gicietg Jgttices.
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LEBANON LODGE No. 58, A. F. A A. M.
r Regular meeunKs aa weonemay in arnica
month. All breinren inviiea iu uimu
' J. D. fiTTBKS. W. M.
W. It. NoTESTEiN. rtec'y- 2Dal
W1LDEY LODGKNo.44, LO.O.F
Pfcweek at their hall on Thirteenth
" street. Visiting brethrea cordially
Invited. W.A.Way.N.G.
W. K. NoTBrrKix. Hec'y. 27janM-tf
COLUMBIAN CAMP No. S5. WOODMEN OF
tho World, meets ever)' second and fourth
Thursday of the month, 7 JO p.m.. at K-of P.
Hall, Eleventh street. Regular attendance is
very desirable, and all visiting brethren are cor
dially invited to meet with us. jan23-95
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EOltOAMZEDCHUKCH OF LATTEB-DAY
.. ... nM.1 tnutinit ntl UrullnAwlai' Aronill
at their chapel, corner of North street and Pacific
Avenue. All are cordially invited.
lSialttl Elder II. J. Hcdhojc. President.
GERMAN REFORMED CHURCrL-Handay
School at a .30 a. ro. Church every Sunday
at 10 JO a. tu. Christian Endeavor at 7:30 p. m.
Ladies' Aid Society every first Thursday in the
month ut the church. 14nov-V4
There are rho, like the seer of old.
Can see the helrs God has sent.
And how life's rugged mountain side
Is white with mtny an angel tent!
Whittier.
Miss Abbie Hurd is quite sick.
. Miss Lena Costello ia still very sick.
Fine job work done at The Journal
office.
Dr. Naumann, dentist, Thirteenth
street, tf
Wasn't it a fine day after the
storm?
T o lots of now iron bedsteads at
Herriek's. 2
Born, Thursday, to Mrs. Paul Hagel,
. a daughter.
Born, Friday June 5, to Mrs. L. A.
Wiley, a eon.
Dr. T. R. Clark, Olive street. In
office at nights.
Ned Post is very sick, being threat
ened with tonsilitis.
Another invoice of room picture
moulding, at Herriek's. 2t
The supervisors expect to be in
session nearly all week.
Born, to Mrs. Louie Phillips, Wed
nesday, June .'5, a daughter.
Hammocks and croquet sets, very
tiheap, at von Bergen Bro's.
Miss Ella Hutchison is attending a
teachers' institute at Wahoo.
The White Front
Dry Goods Store. ,r
Joe Hutchison has gone to Mem
. phis, Xebr., to visit his father.
Ice cream and cake for ten cents at
the Park Wednesday evening.
Go to A. B. Cramer's for fresh gro
ceries. He wants your trade.
The pile driver has gone up to Ful
lerton and beyond, for business.
F. H. Howey of Humphrey waa in
town Monday on his way to Lincoln.
New invoice of nice pillar dining
tables. Something new, at Herriek's. 1
"Drs. Martyn, Evans .& Oeer, office
three doors north of Friedhofs store, tf
Dr. L. C. Voes and C. F. O. Miessler,
Homeopathic physicianB,Columbus, Neb.
John Dack of Monroe, started
Thursday for Illinois, for a few weeks'
visit.
Mrs. R. B. Kummer was dangerous-
ly- ill' last week, caused from heart
trouble.
.. Miss Lizzie Sheehan returns home
fraii Humphrey today to spend her
-,
vacation.
Ask your grocer for Mannoy fc Sim
mons' vegetables. The best is the
cheapest. 3t
Judge Julian issued a marriage li
cense to Wm. Engelbart and Miss
Sophia Sander.
The Odd Fellows and Knights of
Pythias held appropriate Memorial ex
ercises Sunday.
The yellow potato onion is said to
be a delicious as apples, with "no disa
greeable aroma."
Envelopes with your return card
printed on them, for 50 cents a hundred
at The Jodbxai office.
Who. Welch of near Genoa shipped
a car load each of cattle and hogs to
South Omaha last week.
Bev. Rogers and Jan. Sparhawk at
tended the Congregational association
held at Albion last week.
.About twenty couples of young
people enjoyed an evening in dancing at
Maennerchor hall Thursday.
'David City and Columbus have the
fft" namber of old soldiers buried in
their cemeteries twenty-five.
'Bev. Frank Bross gave the Memor
ial day oration at Cedar Bspide, of which
the Outlook speaks in high terms.
Ernest Mayes has not yet recovered
the .fall ase of his left arm, injured by
the ranaway team on Memorial day.
On Tuesday evening, June 30, at
the Congregational church, and for the
beneit of the Congregational church
'Mrs. Pam will have a recital of her
'pupils. Admission 25 cents. 1
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BdiitriM?
It neither, then you don't want to do
it over again right away, and should use
Page Coil Spring, which is permanent.
IT well put np, it will last as long as
you live.
Bring your orders for job-work to
this office. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
work promptly done, as agreed upon.
Am elegaat orgam ckeap, to
Make reoat. E. D. Fitrpat
rlek. ' 3t
-REMEMBER!! E. T. Bowers, vet
erinary surgeon, will be in Columbus
the first week of each month, to answer
calls. tf
J. 6. Beeder, H. T. Spoerry, A.
Koon, C J. Garlow and Wm. Gerhold
went over to Osceola Monday to attend
court.
Wanted, a good home for a twelve
year-old boy. Will pay his board. For
particulars, address lock box B, Colum
bus, Nebr. tf
Miss Phoebe Gerrard will graduate
from the State University, the com
mencement exercises being Thursday of
this week.
Conductor Hugh Compton laid off
a couple of days last week to get ac
quainted with his family. Madison
Chronicle.
Subscribe for The Journal any
day. Fifty cents will get you the paper
for the next three months, $L50 for the
next yean
Rev. Powers of Lincoln, formerly of
this city, preached Sunday afternoon in
the park, the first outdoor meeting of
the season.
Frank Mayo, the celebrated actor,
died of heart disease Tuesday, just be
yond Grand Island on the fast mail train
coming east.
AL Schram started Monday evening
for Seattle, Washington, where he will
have a position in the office of his uncle,
John Schram.
M. J. Clark of the vicinity of Corn
lea, made us a pleasant call on Tuesday
of last week, renewing his subscription
to The Journal.
Wilhelm Roth,carpenter and builder,
corner of I and Eighth streets, is ready
at all times to talk business or do work,
as necessity calls. 3m
German school at the German Re
formed church is open for the summer,
three times a week, Mondays, Wednes
days and Fridays.
The Orpheus singing society and
their invited friends hold a picnic in
Higgins' grove in the eastern portion of
the city next Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Krause of Genoa,
and Paul Krause of Albion were called
here Thursday by the serious illdess of
their sister. Miss Bertha.
Dr. Vosa gathered a mammoth
strawberry the other day, 4J inches in
circumference from a plant got from
John Tannahill last year.
About thirty ladies pleasantly en
joyed themselves Wednesday afternoon
at the home of the Scofield family, three
miles northwest of the city.
About fifty of Carl Schubert's
friends gave him a great surprise Mon
day evening. Of course enjoyment for
all was the order of the evening.
E. H. Jenkins and his son Levi
made a trip to Madison county last
week, returning Saturday. They report
all vegetation as looking its very best.
J. H. Pierce, representing the Omaha
Bee, was in the city Monday. He is
one of the heavy guns of the Bee bat
terya straight shooter and a hard
racer.
Albion, Wahoo, Beatrice and Logan,
la., have put in bids for the Union Pa
cific Pioneers' association picnic this
year. Columbus has been twice honored
by them.
June 30, Mrs. Page's pupils give a
recital at the Congregational church.
It will be a rare musical treat, and well
worth twice the quarter charged for ad
mission. After reaching a depth of 600 feet
in the well at Monroe Eugene Bacon,
the contractor, concluded his machinery
waa not strong enough and has stopped
work for the present.
Within the last week we have made
arrangements so that we can furnish to
our readers the Chicago Weekly Inter
Ocean and Columbus Journal, when
paid in advance, at $1.75. tf
The "Western Swine Breeder," a
journal devoted to swine exclusively,
can be had with The Journal, one year,
when paid in advance, for $1.60, for the
two. Now is the time to subscribe, tf
The music pupils of Mrs. R. T.Page
have organized a musical society. One
of the classes, consisting of pupils of
about 12 to 15 years old, met with
Blanche Niewohner Friday afternoon.
Charley Morse writes from Denver
that "The Corporal" has about recov
ered from his lameness, but thinks he
will not be able to start in Omaha or
Lincoln, but will go in the Red Oak, la.,
races.
Mrs. Martin Spicer is at St. Mary's
hospital for treatment. Friends hope
that with the splendid care which can
always be given to patients at the hos
pital, she may soon recover health and
strength.
Roadmaster Murray has a four
wheel cycle, with pedals, handles and
seat similar to those of the bicycle, and
with which he can ride on the rail at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. The cycle
weighs 60 pounds.
Frank Taylor, who was here some
days ago, has so far recovered from the
abscess in his eye as to be able to go to
work in the drug store in South Omaha,
where he was previously employed.
David City Press.
Marmoy & Simmons have started
this spring to do a wholesale business.
Vegetables will be left at grocery stores
for sale. They ask a continuance of the
liberal patronage of former customers
and the public generally. 3t
A correspondent in the 'Kearney
Standard advises farmers to plant sor
ghum this year, in view of the Cuban
troubles and also of the fact that sor
ghum is with us a certain crop, and
yields a good form of syrup for home
Messrs. Allen Gerrard, Murdock,
Hendryx and Strother were down Mon
day from Monroe, and were more or less
interested in the proceedings at the
court house the board of supervisors
listening to the arguments, pro and con,
om the district irrigation petition.
lit!
NextSimday there will beafaauly
gathering of the SwissGraetli society at
Bora's near Duncan. Speeches and
music will be the order of the day. As
there are some three hundred members,
all told, a large crowd may be expected,
if the weather is good.
WnuKrug of the famous brewing
company of Omaha was in the city two
days last week. He owns the two busi
ness lots next adjoining The Journal
office on the east, on which there has
been some talk of erecting brick build
ings in the near future.
Harry Newman and Dave Martyn
went fishing Monday, for tackle they
taking a pitchfork, an axe and crowbar.
They didn't expect to taae any fish
weighing less than eighty pounds.
When they came back they reported no
fish but too much water.
Fred Stenger tells us that a worm
about two inches long and half as thick
aa the ordinary lead pencil, and quar
tering down on the field in myriads, has
destroyed a twenty acre field of rye for
him. The same kind of a pest is work
ing on Will Ernst's corn.
Now is the time to subscribe for The
Columbus Journal and the Lincoln
Journal, semi-weekly, both for $2.00 a
year. Tnree papers a week at a cost of
leas than 4 cents a week. This very
liberal offer will only last until May 5th,
when the rates will be raised.
Albert Price died May 29, at Wood
ville, after a long illness, aged 33 years.
He was one of the most respected of
Woodville's citufens and his death is
greatly mourned by a large circle of
friends. Rev. Mitchell of St Edward
officiated at the funeral. St. Edward
Sun.
Fruit men at Council Bluffs are
watching the 17-year locusts as they
come out of the ground, which they are
doing by the million. They are de
scribed as big, lusty fellows with broad
backs and shining wings, but as yet have
only nipped a few tender buds or shoots
on the forest trees.
When you talk about there being a
better state than Nebraska, every potato
winks its eye, every cabbage shakes its
head, every beet gets red in the face,
every onion is strong, every oat neld is
shocked, the rye strokes its beard, the
corn pricks up its ears and every foot of
ground kicks. Ex.
W. M. Geddes of Grand Island was
a Columbus visitor Tuesday of last
week. If he should happen, in the
whirligig of events to become state
auditor, we have no doubt he would be
a good one. But what is the matter
with Gus G. Beeher? He, too would
make a good auditor.
Thos. Boyd and Miss Cora Scott
were married at the residence of the
bride's parents Wednesday evening,
Rev. Olcott officiating. Both parties
are well known to most of our readers,
who will all join in wishing them an
abundance of happiness. They began
housekeeping in the western part of the
oity.
The "McKinley Tin" cane, which
will be very much in evidence during
the coming presidential campaign, was
designed by C. W. Thomas of Niles, O.,
a brother-in-law of C. W. Talbitzer of
near this place. Mr. Talbitzer and the
next president of the United States were
school boys together in Niles. Monroe
Republican.
In these busy times, the Columbus
city council might not have noticed that
at Wymore recently the council were
enjoined from issuing warrants on the
incidental fund. The warrants were
issued, however, and now the court re
quires the officials to show cause why
they should not be punished for con
tempt. Mrs. Arnold Oehlrich entertained
her lady friends Thursday for her Ger
man friends and Friday for her English
friends. Both days the rooms were
crowded with guests who were enter
tained in Mrs. Oehlrich's inimitable
style. Refreshments were served that
made Airs, uenincn tne envy of many
a housekeeper.
Miss Mae Cushing gave a high five
party at her home Friday evening.
About sixty young people responded to
invitations, and all enjoyed a pleasant
evening. Miss Minnie MoMahon and
Mr. Ed. Early received the royal prizes
as best players. Dainty refreshments
were served and the Mandolin club fur
nished several selections.
Judge Norris of Ponca, was in the
city Wednesday. He is looking some
what carefully after his chances for
nomination as a candidate for congress
in this district. By the way, he is to
deliver the address at Humphrey on
the Fourth of July, and desires to be
come acquainted with Platte county
people of all shades of political opinion.
Miss Laura Person of the Norfolk
college will give an elocutionary recital
Monday evening, June 15th, at the Con
gregational church. She will be assist
ed by the following local talent: Piano
and violin, Mr. Schroeder and Miss
Schroeder; Mrs. Jaeggi, piano solo; vo
cal solos, Mrs. Reader, Mrs. Chambers,
Miss Bickly; vocal duet, Mrs. Evans and
MiaGeer.
George Lehman received a letter
Wednesday from "Bill Harvey," an old
comrade who served three years with
the Pawnee Scouts, and who left here
twenty years ago. He has become
somewhat famous since then, having
discovered the Creede mines and re
puted at one time to be worth a million
dollars. His letter was dated at Los
Angeles, Calif.
So far the army worm is reported at
the Fuller ranch, Colfax county, at
George H. Moore's and east of Schuyler
on John Prokes' farm. At Fuller's they
began on the growing crops and to save
the rye on a fifty acre field, it is cut for
feed. It is claimed that while the army
worm is new to Nebraska, it was here
once before in the early days. So says
the Schuyler Quill.
To form the nucleus of a fund for
finishing, by flooring, the basement of
Grace Episcopal church, Mrs. F. H.
Brown will give a concert Tuesday even
ing, June 23, in the Congregational
church. She will be assisted by Miss
Gleason, Mis Morse, Miss Lehman, pia
nistes; Mr. Schroeder, violinist; Mrs.
Evans and Mrs. Chambers, vocalists;
Mrs. Stares and MiaB Martin, elocution
ists. Mrs. Brown will sing rmila and
a prominent feature will be a quartette
consisting of Mrs. Evans, Miss Gleason,
Mrs. Chambers and Mrs. Brown. Tick
eta, 86 eta, detailed program aext week,
Clean old newspapers for sale at this
osaoe.
The Albion News says Dr. CBrilell,
wife and children, of St Edward, passed
through Albion Wednesday on an over
land trip to the Black Hills and pos
sibly Yellowstone Park. They are on
pleasure bent and expect to spend the
summer.
Wm. Terrell, of the freight depart
ment of the Union Pacific in this city,
returned Sunday evening from a visit of
twelve days with relatives in Philadel
phia, Pa, Qn the return trip he took in
the sights of Washington, visiting both
houses of congress, the museums, gov
ernment buildings and an elevator ride
to the top of Washington monument.
He says he enjoyed his trip very much.
Invitations from Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Hunneman have been received here, to
the wedding of Miss Nellie Viols Hun
neman and Mr. Robert Stickney Dut
ton, Wednesday evening, June 17, 8
o'clock, at St Chrysostom's church,
Dearborn avenue, Chicago. The many
acquaintances here of the fair bride will
wish the happy couple a long and happy
life together.
Gold, silver and greenbacks will be
received at The Journal office in liqui
dation of all dues or for subscription in
advance. We are perfectly willing to
take our chances on either kind of
money separately or all together in such
proportional, parts as may suit you. So
long as the government stamps the gold
or the silver or the paper, and makes
one dollar as good as another, that is all
we care for.
J. L. Thayer, a recent resident of
Smith county, Kansas, was in the city
Saturday. He had encountered four
successive years of crop failures in Kan
sas, and sold off most of bis possessions,
retaining three horses. He had four
offers of work since he came here and
thinks he will settle down, somewhero
near Columbus. He speaks of alfalfa
and hogs making a good combination
for profit on the farm.
The western Nebraska fair, to be
held at North Platte, is one of the re
sults of moving the Nebraska state fair
to Omaha, on one side of the state, and
making it a horse instead of an agricul
tural fair. There should be only one
big fair in the state every year, and that
ought to be a fair worthy the greatness
of the state, and it ought to be held, as
nearly as possible in some central loca
tion instead of on the Iowa line. lork
Republican.
Why not pick on Columbus, some of
these years?
The Schuyler Quill speaks of some
160 pupils failing to pass the required
80 per cent, and were not promoted.
The Qnill thinks their schools "need
this sort of discipline and nerve. Slack
work in the past is now showing itself."
Of course slack work in the past is apt
to show itself, but it seems to us if there
was a little more urgency right along,
hour by hour, day by day, on the part
of each teacher, it would be better in
school work.
Mrs. J. D. StireB was elected Grand
Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star in
Nebraska, at the annual meeting at
Fremont last week. This is the highest
office in the lodge and the order here
feel a just pride in the election. Mem
bers from here who attended the con
vention were: Mesdames Haight, Fox.
Watts, Meagher, Gluck, Pollock, McCoy,
Beardsley, Coolidge and Misses Minnie
Meagher and Effie Beardsley and Mr.
M. H. Watts. Mrs. A. Haight was in
stalled Worthy Matron of the Eastern
Star lodge here, succeeding Mrs. Stires.
The party returned home Thursday.
George Henggler tells us that he
has seen quite a number of patches of
thistles, which some call the Canada
thistles. They are so full of thorns that
cattle can't touch them, and where they
are let go to seed, they become a great
nuisance to a neighborhood. He found
some on his own farm after his atten
tion was called to it, and destroyed
them by digging them out deep with the
corner of a spade. He suggests that
where they have assumed possession of
acre tracts of land, the mower be run
over them before they go to seed, and
then repeat the dose twice during the
season. He has not noticed any spread
of the pest into hay lands, but has seen
them only in the pastures, and concludes
that the tramping of the soil by the
cattle must be favorable to the growth
of the seed.
The State Journal says the follow
ing in regard to a Nebraska lady. "The
last number of the Art Amateur con
tains a portrait of Mrs. L. Vance Phil
lips, author of 'The Book of the China
Painter.' Mrs. Phillips and her sister,
Miss Letta Horlocker, are now of New
York, but their family is of Hastings,
Neb., and Mrs. Phillips is well known
over the state. Her work was greatly
admired four or five years ago, when Bhe
was teaching China painting in Nebras
ka towns." Dudly Buck and Rhoda
Holmes Niccolls the composer and artist
respectively says that art is rapidly
moving westward, a fact that is being
recognized by many. Write for the
Amateur; no artist can afford to be
without a good magazine. Address
Montague Marks, 23 Union Square, N.Y.
Joseph Frevert brought into The
Journal office Thursday a scroll, which,
when unrolled, measured 276 inches in
length, by 18 in width. On it was
drawn, with very considerable skill, a
pen and ink, and crayon sketch of the
Union Pacific Fast Mail train No. 2,
consisting of engine, tender and nine
coaches. The artist is a Fremont boy,
named Chris. Peterson, 16 years old, who
has taken a few drawing lessons. He
will undoubtedly make his mark as an
artist, as this large picture not only
evidences his skill, but also his perse
verance, in the use of it, which, after all,
is at least half the battle. A pretty good
story is told briefly, thus: A boy says,
"Father, I would rather chop down
trees in the woods with you than go to
school and study my arithmetic and
grammar." The father replies: "John,
how was it we got those trees down the
other day?" "Why, one stroke at a
time and just keeping at it" said John.
"Just so," the father told him, "one
letter at a time, and the syllable is
formed; one syllable at a time and the
word; one word at a time and the sen
tence; one sentence at a time, and the
book; one problem at a time, and keep
ing at it is all there is of education."
This way of looking at it was new to
John, bat it is the proper view.
Last Friday afternoon this vicinity
was visited by the worst storm we have
had this year, or perhaps for many years.
Bain began to fall about 1 o'clock and
by 2 great torrents were coming down
with such force that it was almost im
possible to see one block away, and gave
the appearance of a Nebraska blizzard.
About 2 o'clock hail stones fell for some
fifteen minutes and with smch" force and
rapidity that muoh damage waa done to
growing crops, fruit and other trees, be-
sides breaking hundreds of panes of
window glass.
The storm as it struck Columbus,
came from the southeast and just east
of the oity and also west, between us
and Duncan, the wind came from the
northwest At Msyes farm, two miles
east of town, the barn of Ernest Mayes
was twisted by the wind into kindling
wood and the residence waa moved
from its foundation.
The east-bound mail train was com
pelled to stop on this side of Duncan
and wait for the wind to subside and
most of the window lights on the north
side of the train were broken out by
the hail.
Out on Shell Creek the wind and hail
did considerable damage; F. Seefeld
living near the mill says the rye is
damaged considerably and the com was
knocked down but will not be serious.
On the bluffs just north of town the
hail was very light
A party of girls were on a fishing ex
cursion at Smith's mill on Shell Creek
and when the storm came up three of
the youbg" ladies were almost carried
into the creek. Miss Ruby Bickly saved
herself by holding onto a barb wire
fence; Miss Ellis fainted away under
the excitement and Miss Helen Jerome
was just saved by her brother reaching
her. The storm was almost a cyclone.
Among those who had window lights
broken are the following: Perry Losh
baugh, Ernest Dussell, Con. Hewitt, C.
A. Lindstrum, Mrs. Sheehan, Mr. Hein
aman, Presbyterian church, M. Weaver,
John Geisen, Bucher livery barn nearly
all the south windows, Schroeder's mill,
a great many lights broken; the sehool
bnildings in the three wards had about
seventy lights broken.
STORM NOTES.
It was a young cyclone at Lusche's
place on the bluffs.
At Albert Stenger's everything in the
way of crops was knocked' down.
One hundred and fifty dollars worth
of glass was knocked out at Marmoy &
Simmons' green house.
Bud Newman thought to go to the
cellar for safety, but found when he got
onto the stairs, that there was four feet
depth of water, and chanced the wind.
At Peter Smith's mill on Shell Creek,
there was quite a marked rise in the
water, bringing down on the flood all
manners of products, among other
things, a large oak tree and a large, dead
Hereford bull.
We interviewed John Tannahill
Saturday and in brief he tells the story
of the storm at his place on the east
edge of the city. The wind was from
all directions lights being broken out
on the south, on the north, and the big
gest hailstones coming at the last, as
big as door knobs and about the shape,
from the east. There were 1,000 lights
of glass broken in his green house.
Early apples an inch through were
knocked off the trees; cherries were
bruised the crop of fruit virtually de
stroyed; same with apricots; worse still,
the trees were in some instances very
badly damaged by the storm; of veg
etables, he will have nothing, until he
plant8 again. He had corn tasseling
out, getting ready to supply his cus
tomers with early roasting ears, but the
hail knocked it all. He never saw the
plowed ground packed so solid. After
the storm, for distances around he could
see hail making the landscape as white
as snow; at his place the hail was four
inches deep. His neighbor, Jacob
Lewis, thought the destruction was
great at his place, but he acknowledged
when he saw Tannahill's, that be had it
worse yet
School Board.
At the meeting of the school board
Wednesday at 2 o'clock, the monthly re
port of the superintendent was read and
filed. It showed the number of pupils
enrolled since the beginning of the
school year, 812; number belonging dur
ing the month, 632; average daily at
tendance, 591.8; average per cent of
attendance 97.2; number of visits by
superintendent 40; by board 0; by oth
ers 34; number of non-resident pupils 3.
Mrs. Merrill's school won the half holi
day on an attendance of 99.99 per cent
Bills were approved and warrants
ordered drawn: To Miss Laura Person,
elocution teacher, $25; J. G. Beeher,
seven months' pay as secretary of the
board, $43.75.
On motion of Turner, the board pro
ceeded to ballot for the teachers yet to
be selected, the first ballot in each case
to be informal.
The summary of the result after two
hours spent in balloting, was the elec
tion of Mrs. Brindley, Miss Chattie Rice,
Mrs. Page (music teacher), Miss Rickly,
Mias ' Watkins, Miss Kate Taylor, Miss
Ward, Miss Agnes Keating, Miss Luth,
Miss Vira Morris, Miss Griffin (suburban
school).
Besides these, there were a number of
teachers voted for, one election assum
ing quite an appearance of contest for a
number of ballots the vote being three
and three, for Miss Parker and Miss
Coleman, resulting in the election of
another by a vote of 4 to 2.
George Ballon, James Warner and
Wm. Novel were re-elected janitors.
The superintendent as custodian of
books was authorized to allow the use
of text-books, by pupils during vacation,
on their depositing with him the price
of the books, to be returned to them on
presentation of the books unimpaired,
before the opening of the schools in
September.
Adjourned to June 24, 4 p. m.
IN THE RACE.
You may not take part in the races at
Omaha, June 9 to 13, or at Lincoln, June
16 to 20, but you certainly should see
them.
The Union Pacific has made a rate of
One Fare for the Round Trip, plus 50
cents for admission from points within
150 miles, and will as usual give une
qualed service. Be sure and get your
tickets from J. R. M"rff,
8 Agsat
Black clouds rolled by wind, and
stretching from the southeast 'to the
west point of the compass frightened a
good many people Satarday evening
about six o'clock and developed in a few
minutes into quite a storm of wind and
rain. It caagkt a number of people
away from home, and some of them, in
the effort to reach their usual place of
rendezvous, got thoroughly soaked.
There was but little hail with the rain
and no special damage anywhere near
here by the water except what was
added to the volume already supplied
by previous rains.
At Cedar Rapids the water rose ten
feet in two hours.
At Fullerton all the tracks in the
yards were washed out and the depot
was swung around across the main
track.
The Monroe wagon bridge went out
The creek at Barnum's, south of the
city, raised eight feet; the approaches
to the bridge were both awept away, and
in the road between the Loup and the
Platte bridges there are holes ten to
twelve feet deep, making it unsafe driv
ing in the dark.
The ovei flow of the Loup from the
heavy rains or cloud bursts in the west,
struck the tracks of the Union Pacific
here west of the coal chutes late Satur
day night, and swept out about two
hundred feet of the filling, but extra
work was done all night, bags of sand
placed where they would do the most
good, and thus considerable damage was
prevented.
Saturday night there was consider
able movement in the southern portion
of the city, (portions of which are more
or less subject to overflow in freshets of
this sort), there being a fear that the
river would be still higher as the night
wore along. Although the fear was jus
tified by reports from the west, they did
not realize, and there was no loss of
human life. Some stock were drowned,
and some gardens in the very lowest
places (where the floods always pour
along in such freshets), were washed
out. Hundreds of people were out Sun
day viewing the results of the freshet.
It was quite an annoying incident to
many families, but, all will be grateful
that the property loss was comparatively
slight, and that there was no loss of
precious human lives.
The chimney at Rightmire's residence,
about 30 feet high, blew over.
About eighty acres of sand was added
to the south side of Albert Stenger's
farm.
The smoke stack at the round house
was blown down. Tom Wilson got into
the fire-box of an engine, and Schroeder
and Bristol into the pit.
George A. Wells, W. Saunders, C.
A. Speice, Charles Wooster and L. Ger
rard, committee, have issued a call re
questing the free silver voters of this
congressional district to meet in this
city June 15, at 2 o'clock for "a full and
free consultation as to the most favora
ble plan to effect our object" a union of
all the free-silver forces for the election
of a congressman from this district.
They request a full attendance at the
conference without regard to former
political affiliations. According to their
figuring, the single gold-standard voters
in the Third district are five to six
thousand in the minority. In counting
noses, however, they lose sight of the
fact that, while there are all shades of
opinion on the silver problem, from the
man who advocates the free and unlim
ited coinage of all the world's product
of silver by the United States mints, at
the ratio of 16 to 1 of gold, without
waiting for any other nation to do the
same, to the man who believes that sil
ver should not be treated as primary
money at all there are a majority of
the voters of the district who feel very
sure that the entirely safe thing to do is
to elect a mau to congress who will rep
resent the views of this district on the
protection and reciprocity line, and
bring the general government under an
administrative control that will issue no
interest-bearing bonds in time of peace.
If the primary money of the country is
to be on a one-metal basis, we believe
that silver alone rather than gold alone,
would more nearly and more fully rep
resent the general interest, but we are
satisfied that the bi-metallists are more
nearly right; time out of mind gold and
silver have been used as primary money
and this double-use has proven a more
stable, Bteady currency, subject to less
fluctuation than any other. The great
body of voters in this district are
grounded in the belief that they will
make no blunder in supporting a good
MoKinley republican in this year 1896.
We need as much gold and silver as we
can buy (for it is a fact that we must
buy money just the same as we buy any
thing else we must have for use) but the
consideration of first importance now is,
in government affairs to see that our
income shall be greater (at the very least
equal to) our expenses, so that there
need be no shadow of excuse for increas
ing our interest-bearing debt by the
issuance of bonds to enrich money syn
dicates and increase the burden of the
people. All indications are that the
common people understand the issues
and that they will make no blunder.
They certainly cannot afford to blunder
now.
Tke Water rower.
We add the following expressions of
opinion to those given in last week's
Journal:
Very expensive to keep it up. Think
more costly than Bteam power. Paul
Hagel.
If we can get water power for Colum
bus, and not cost too much, I say, all
right & good thing to have. Hugh
Hughes.
I am in favor of doing all we can to
have power in connection with the
canal. It will increase the value of
land, make Columbus a much larger
city and increase the volume of busi
ness in proportion. Carl Kramer.
There are no two sides; it admits of no
dispute. We need the water power if it
can be had. W. M. Cornelius.
To develop the immense water power
in the Loup river at Columbus would
mean a city of 15.000 or 20,000 inhabi
tants in the next five or ten years, with
a tin-bucket-brigade to amply keep it
up. J. N. Heater.
Mr. Herrick went to Norfolk last
evening to attend the State Undertakers'
ooavsatioa.
HMY RAGATZ & CO.,
Staple and
Fancy Groceries,
CROCKERY,
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We invite you to come and see us. We regard the interests of oar
patrons as mutual with our own, so fax as our dealings are coacened oar
part of the obligation being to provide and offer
Good - Goods -
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COLUMBUS,
Conpaay K Muttered.
The Columbus militia company
mustered into the service of the great
state of Nebraska on last Wednesday
evening at their armory. Major Fechet
of the regular army called the roll and
made a short speech. Adjutant General
Barry administered the oath to the men
and gave them a short talk. Captain
Kilian introduced Gov. Holcomb who
delivered an appropriate speech. After
the ceremonies a banquet was held at
the Meridian, at which Captain Kilian
presided as toast master, announcing
the following toasts:
Welcome Mayor Speice.
Response Col. Colton.
Our Honored Guests Judge Hensley.
Our Boys Col. Whitmoyer.
Response Gen. Barry.
In Peace Prepare for War I. L. Al
bert. N. N. G.-Col. Steel.
Patriotism W. M. Cornelius.
Nebraska Judge Norris.
Response Gov. Holcomb.
Our Defenses J. G. Reader.
Exit Sitting Bull Major Fechet.
When the military and the civil forces !
commingle there is alwayB a pleasant
and enjoyable time, and this was no ex
ception to the rule.
Gov. Holcomb returned to Lincoln
Thursday morning, and the other dig
nitaries went to Madison to inspect a
company there.
The Monroe cornet band was present
and at intervals during the evening
rendered good lively selections.
Weather Report fur May at Colambas.
Maximum temperature, Cth-8th.. 86"
Minimum " 17th 43
Mean maximum temperature 76
" minimum ' 56.8'
Mean temperature CG.4
Do last year 62'
Total precipitation inches 5.50
Do last year inches 1.87
Greatest precipitation in any 24
hours ltith inches 1.58
Clear days 2
Partly cloudy days 25
Cloudy days 4
Number of days on which .01 in. or
more of rain fell 11
Total precipitation since Jan. 1st
inches 13.20
Do last year 6.82
Prevailing wind from S.E.
Thunderstorms occurred on the 1st,
12tb, 13th, 14tb, 16th 27th and 31st.
Total rainfall for April and May, 1228
inches.
Clinton C. Gbat.
For 90 Days !
The J. A. Barber &
Co's stock to be closed
out in 90 days, at the
old stand, Thirteenth
street, Columbus. The
greatest opportunity ev
er offered to the people
ol this vicinity to buy
first-class Dry Goods at
less than the price of
trash.
Mr. Barber always
carried a high grade of
goods, much to his own
misfortune, but now
that the stock must be
closed out and we
bought it for about 50c
on the dollar, we are in
a position to sell goods
for about half what oth
er merchants have to
pay for them.
The store opens Wed
nesday, June 10. Come
early for the best al
ways go first.
Thomas Kilpatrick i Co.
of Omaha.
Every day is adding to our list of
subscribers, but there is yet plenty of
room for more. We give you now. The
Journal and the Lincoln Semi-weekly
Journal, both, one year, when paid in
advance, for $2.00. Subscription can
begin at any time. Now is the time to
subscribe. The Lincoln Journal is issued
Tuesdays and Fridays, and will give you
a mass of news that you cannot hope to
equal anywhere for the money. Both I
for $2.00,
COLUMBUS, NEBR.
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Tortoise shell-back Combs,
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All lengths belts 50c on the
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50 new belt buckles 25c,
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