The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, July 29, 1896, Image 3

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- A. AN. TIME TABLE.
Paea.
Freight.
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arrive it Liacola.
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rriToa at Columbus S5 p. as; the freutht leaves
ltitxrola at 75 a. as., and arrive at ColaTahasat
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UNION PACIFICTIME-TABLE.
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. Nr. PL Local. 10 p.m
. fart Mail 2:15 p. m
OOMOVUT.
Limited 10JS a. m
Nr. PI. Local. 12 45 p.m
Fast Mail 6:15 p.m
Or. la. Local. 855 p.m
'So. 3. Fart Mail.
carries passengers for
throanh noiota. Gouuc wpt at 6.15 p. m., ar
rtvei at Denver 7:40 a. m. No. 2. Fast Mail ear-
: nee paneeaavra to Fremont. Valley and Omaha
going at at 2.15 p. m.
'The freight train leaving bote at 450 p. m. ear-
. sit paewengem from here to Valley.
COLUMBUS AND NOBFOU.
Pftaaengerarriveafrom Sioux City 1230 p. m
leave for Sioux City 615pm
Miert leaves for Sioux City 8:00 a. m
"Mixed arrives - 11:03 p. m
FOB ALBION AND CEDAR RAPIDS.
Mixed loaves
Mixed arrives
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aVAll notices aader thia heading will be
charged at the rate of $2 a year.
LEBANON LODGE No. 58, A. F. ft A. M.
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WILDEY LODGE No. 44, L O. O. F..
c.meet Tueeday eTeaiage oi eaca
fweek at their hall oa Thirteenth
atreet. Visiting brethren cordially
Invited. W. A. WAV. N. G.
W. B. NotEHTPK. Sec'y. 27janW-tf
riOLUMBIAN CAMP No. 35. WOODMEN OF
V the World, meeta eTery second and fourth
Thondara of the month, 7:50 p. m at K. of P.
Hail, Eleventh street. Begnlar attendance is
Tory desirable, and all viaiting brethren are cor
dially inrited to meet with na. jan23-'85
EORGANIZEDCHUBCH OF LATTER-DAY
Baiata hold regular servicaa evnrj Sunday
at 2 p. m., prarer meeting on Wednesday eTening
at their chapel, corner of North street and Pacific
Avenue. All are cordially invited.
13iol80 Elder H. J. Hudson. President.
ERMAN REFORMED CHUBCH.-Sunday
. 3r School at ih30 a. m. Church every Sunday
at 10.SOa.-ni. Christian Endeavor at 7 JO p. m.
Ladies' Aid Society every first Thursday in the
' month at the church. Unov-W
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umbus agents for the
:I celebrated
Eastman Kodaks
;;l."Price from $5.00 to
' : I $12.00.
EO. j. NIEWOHNER.
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: Dr: Nsnmann, dentist, Thirteenth
street: if
lDrT.- R. Clark, Olive street. In
oice at nights.
.. -r-J. D. Stires had business in Cedar
; Bapids yesterday.
-All kinds of goods for sale at the
second-hand store, tf
... The Farmers' club will meet Friday,
.' August 7, with Mrs. Young.
. --Winston, the board of trade opera
".'tor, is betting A to 1 on Bryan.
V--Miss Bertha Krause is again much
y improved, after a very serious illness.
-r : Drs. Martyn, Evans & Geer, office
T three doors north of Friedhof's store, tf
-., it seems as though a very fine crop
of corn is now in sight of Nebraskans.
' " Dr. L. C. Voss and C. F. O. Miessler,
Homeopathic physicians,Columbus, Neb.
. "Stick to the crop that pays you
;.well, and to what you are successful in
doing." .
-John Clark has accepted a position
in the postoffice, vice George Schram,
resigned.
. Bev. Pulis preached Sunday even-
ing at the Baptist church, the first since,
' his vacation.
". -;Georgie Scott entertained about
Seventy-five guests at a birthday party
Saturday evening.
, Jacob Oerber was in town early
v Monday morning transacting business
' : m at the court house.
' The Methodist Sunday school will
.- . have a picnic Thursday on Shell Creek,
;. near Schmitt'e mill. .
'J . The social at Butler's farm north of
.. - .ue cit? Friday evening was well atten
.''ded by town people.
. Bey. Pulis will preach, as usual,
s. v Sunday next, morning and evening, at
the' Baptist church.
. . B. 1L-Wilson, who has been manag-
. ;' Ing the affairs of the J. A. Barber stock,
. returned to Omaha Friday.
.. Mrs. O'Brien, mother of Dennis and
". ' -William, who has been ailing for some
time, is reported-much better.
" .". .-rJuek MacCoU, Nebraska's next gov-
. ' . amor, as ia all probability now appears,
. . .passed through the city Monday.
V. sir. sad Mrs. B. Brandt started
' Saturday for Cripple Creek, Colo.,
where they will make their home.
. .' . Mr. Campbell has sent his accept-1
ance as assistant "high-school teacher for
the comiag school year in the city.
.-. Bring your orders for job-work to
, filial ijslfiii Satisfaction guaranteed, and
'-work prosaptly done, as agreed upon.
jC I .. ASabscribe for The Joubnal any
T day. Fifty eeaU will get you the paper
.tor the next three months, SL50 for the
act year.
E. PoU had a long letter Monday
..from D. Sohapbach, who is now locsted
at Great Falls, Montana, one of the
'ssaTsaBd growing cities of the great
.northwest. He is partner in the Cres-
peat k Bitter Boot Lamher Co.
The wftliw ecmaty eMttsi com
rittoe ia ketcby called to meet at the
oOoe of MeAllieter ConaeUaa, Tneg
day, Augoet 4th, 2 o'clock p. m for the
purpose of organization and the trans
action of each other business as may be
thoaght advisable.
W. A. McAxustbb, Ch'n.
The nilitia compsay hsTe seeared
the services of 8eargent Edwards late of
Kearney, as a drill matter for about
one month.
Wilhelm BoUvarpsnter and buUdsr,
corner of I and Eighth streets, is ready
at all times to talk bnsiasss or do work,
ss necessity calls. 8m '-v-:
A. H. Griswold writss from 'Grass
Valley, Calit, that they Have "sold their
ptypsrty there and mbv thai week to
Wadsworth, Nevada. -Vt-
A ukidw nine from Salver Creek con
tended with a umilaajCbhuabu. nine
Monday, bnt the Utter wan 'Victorious
in a (Mm nf A7 tn 15L ' -'-
The Episcopal Sunday school will
hold a basket picnic at Stevens' grove,
Wednesdsy, the 29th. Children will be
at the church by 9 o'clock.
The rain., early Monday morning
gave the ground another fine soaking.
Nebraska is getting in good trim for a
forward movement with next year's
crops.
Lottie and Stella Becher enter
tained a yard full of friends at the resi
dence of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
G. Becher Thursday afternoon. A grand
time was had.
W. T. Allen, engineer on the Nor
folk freight, is taking a lay-off, being
troubled in hie left arm and aide. He
thinks it may perhaps be a touch of
local paralysis.
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 friends who met Miss Kendrick
of Amherst, Mass, while she waa visit
ing the Garlow's here a few years ago
will be pained to learn of the death of
her mother a short time ago.
Mrs. Alios Francis has secured a
divorce in the district court from Peter
Francis, the court allowing her alimony
and the custody of the two children.
The grounds were extreme cruelty.
A Colorado man writes here that he
has been offered five cents a pound for
bis wool, which means that the policy
of free trade has struck the farm and
stock interests of the mining states.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wake and
daughter Emma will go next week to
Seward, where they expect to reside in
the future. Their many friends here
will wish them well in their new home.
Drs. Willy and Clark have entered
into partnership and will occupy (he
rooms of the latter on Olive atreet.
Both ere well known in the community
as physicians of more than ordinary
ability.
Charles Pulis, son of Bev. Pulis, has
gone to Detroit, Mich., an accountant in
the general office of the Michigan Cen
tral railroad. He is a graduate of the
Nebraska university, and is a bright
young man.
Wednesday night last we had a rain
that was ''business" in erwy sense, and
it is thought that the corn crop is now
assured. The ground is thoroughly
soaked, and it seems the rain was pretty
general in Nebraska.
It has been found by several who
are compelled to use the ear trumpet,
that having the speaker place the
mouth-piece against the cheek close to
the mouth gives a much improved effect,
and does not hurt the ear.
In a recent letter received by friends
from Al. Schram at Seattle, he says he
made a trip to Tacoma, and saw sev
eral former Columbus people. He ex
pects soon to make a business trip to
Alaska for his uncle, John Schram.
John C. Sprecher, editor of the
Schuyler Quill, was in the city Monday
between trains, on his way to the free
silver conference at Norfolk, where it is
expected to select a free-will offering for
the congressional 'sacrifice in this dis
trict. The Monroe school house will be
enlarged and two teachers have been
hired. Last year there was but one
teacher. O. H. Ozias of Kenesaw, and
Fannie Weeks of Skaneatalls, N. Y., will
be the teachers for the coming term. So
says the Platte Center Signal.
The Nebraska State Saengerbund
will hold its annual saengerfest at Grand
bland, August 14-16. Among the so
cieties to take part are those of Omaha,
Lincoln, Seward, Stanton, Madison,
Grand Island and Columbus. The
Maennerchor here are taking up some of
their spare time in practice.
A. J. Tabor, jr., teacher in an Indian
school in the Indian territory, formerly
a teacher in the Indian school at Genoa,
this state, died Wednesday in Iowa. He
waa about 27 years old and well Known
to our Genoa readers. He leaves two
children, a boy and a girl, who are now
both fatherless and motherless.
The Nebraska Farmer saya that hay
has the promise of bringing a fair price
in the west this year. There is spring
ing up a strong inquiry for shipment
east. They are short on hay through
out the whole of the east, and there is a
demand for export to France and other
countries that have no hay crop.
Carl Hoehen had an operation per
formed on him for appendicitis yester
day, Tuesday morning. He has been in
the hospital siaoe a week ago Saturday
and it waa decidedthat he could not re
cover without an operation. Dr. Evans
is the attending physician and it ia
thought the operation will prove suc
cessful. Last Wednesday at Cleveland, Ohio,
there was a centennial celebration of the
founding of the city. Major McKinley
was present and spoke feelingly of the
pioneers, saying, among other things,
uutt -anniversaries like this increase our
pride for the men who wrought so ex
cellently in spite of tbelxiala and hard
ships from which the present generation
woald inevitably shrink." This would
very fittingly apply to that multitude of
Nebraska pioneers who are ratting
away, one by one, from the scenes of
their labors, aad their successes. The
fortieth anniversary of the Platte county
pioneers to be celebrated here some time
next month will he a cceeesom of great
interest to sll of ms.
NOTICE.
Oa aad after August L 1896, 1 will sell
gasohae for cash aad cash only, as fol
lows: Single gallon 7 20 cents.
Twogslkms 35 "
Three " 50 '
Four " 65 u
Five - 80
Those who have one gallon cans, can
purchase tickets calling for these rates,
which will be cash on delivery 30 daya
cannot and will not be considered cash.
Islso carry the best grade of coal oil,
and always sell it as cheap as anybody.
4t J. E. Hoffhak.
Mrs. Fritz Schaffrotb, aged exactly
62 years, died Saturday evening at her
home twelve miles north of the city,
sfter an illness of three months with
dropsy. Mrs. Schaffroth leaves a hus
band and three children to mourn her
loss. The children are Fred, Ernest
and Mrs. Krugger, the latter living in
Humphrey. M"- Schaffroth was a sis
ter of .Mrs. Andrew Matthis of this city.
"Bird Day" originated with Super
indent of Schools Babcock of Oil City,
Pa has been adopted there and at Fort
Madison, Iowa, and indorsed by Secre
tary Morton of "Arbor Day" famewho
adds to a protest against attack on birds
that it is equally important to teach the
best means of preserving the timber,
game and fish, as to teach students how
to develop the agricultural wealth of a
state.
James Cremer is enjoying a fur
lough just now. He ssys that the Col
umbus colony at the Soldiers' home
near Grand Island, are about aa usual:
Peter Plant, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bennett,
Mr. Merrill; James Finney is a gardner;
Ed. Baker is still engineer. Mr.-Cremer
saya to aay for him that the home is
better conducted now than it was, and
he has nothing against the former com
mandant. Boy Jennings writes from Fitzger
ald, Georgia, under date of July 19, to a
friend that hie father (A. M. Jennings),
while working at a saw mill, sprained
his back and hurt a finger, but will be
all right in a few days; all but Edie had
been sick with fever; Mira and George
just getting over theirs; water melons
are plentiful, some weighing 70 to 80
pounds. In July, so far, it had rained
on eleven days, five of them good ones.
There have been several street con
tests, debates, discussions, political
talks, or whatever else they may be
called, that have developed more or less
bad blood. Gentlemen, wait till the
campaign is well under way before
drawing on the reserve forces. It is
never wise for the skirmishers to pre
cipitate a battle before the lines are
fully drawn. When it does come, let the
fight be purely and scientifically politi
cal, exclusively political.
The sneaks that try to steal from
Friedhof generally get caught, and so it
happened with one of the men who last
wees stole two felt hats there. One of
the fellows attracted the attention of the
clerk while the other slipped the two
hats under his coat and got out. Chief
of Police Schack found the man with
the hats at a room in the Grand Pacific,
and Judge Kilian gave him 15 days in
the county jail, half the time on a bread
and water diet
Talk over the money question in all
its phases. Learn the truths in regard
to our currency, "primary money,"
"ratio" and all the other phases that
are being used, and you will come to the
conclusion that the republican party are
the true bi-metalliata, and that they will
hereafter, as heretofore, favor the largest
possible use of silver compatible with
the general welfare, and with keeping all
onr dollars equal in their ability to pay
debts and to purchase goods.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pitman and son
John seem to have had a narrow escape
from' dissolution by lightning on last
Saturday night about 11 o'clock. The
"bolt" or "fluid" struck the top of the
roof, coursed down between plaster and
siding, and came out into two different
rooms, making three holes about an inch
in diameter. In John'a room, a banjo
about an arm's length from him was
knocked down, and papers, pictures, etc.,
scattered all around. Of course, all
were shocked, and John when he woke
up said that everything seemed to be on
fire.
The secretary of agriculture has
established a department which he calls
the "biological survey." It is intended
to investigate in as thorough a manner
as can be done, and prepare a map show
ing the exact position in each state and
territory where certain animals and veg
etables can be advantageously raised.
Charts will be published, and it is
thought that the hew department will
save many million dollars to investors
by the accurate information that it is
intended to supply; Nebraska farmers
will watch with interest the development
of Mr. Morton's idea.
"The Controversy of Zion" is still
"on" in the Monroe Looking Glass, the
last number containing the 99th letter of
W. K. Kay the particular theme being,
"The Third Foundation Creation; the
Dual Throne of Physical Power." Very
few readers either can or will follow Mr.
Lay through the mazes of this dance,
not being need to thinking of suns and
planets aa male and female, or taking
much interest in the occult forces of the
universe, outside of those which bear
upon the practical affairs of this present
life. We must say, however, that there
are paragrapha in Mr. Lay's letters that
for style forcibly recall those of the
great German philosopher Kant.
George Turner in a recent letter
writes of having seen Barney Beverstock
at Massillon, Ohio. He expects to visit
Nebraska about the first of October.
Mr. Beverstock waa a resident of this
city in the We. At Steubenville, he
met a number of old Cadiz friends,
among them Martin S. Kennedy, who
visited with him and exchanged news.
George also gives some further particu
lars than in the published accounts of
the accident at Msssulon to the Italian
band of the "Wild West.'' The eight
hone team attached to the band wagon
got frightened and no driver could atop
them; besides there were two roadways
under the bridge, one higher and the
other lower, the team taking to the
higher one, scraping off a number of the
Bombers of the band. At Columbus,
Ohio, he met Will Slemmons and family;
Allen, formerly here, is clerk in a dry
goods store, aad Mendel hess position
inahotsL
HeKialey aad Fraaaerity.
WILLIAM U'KOrLKT.
The republican campaign in this city
was opened by a rousing meeting
Thursday evening at the council hall.
Carl Kramer presided over the meet
ing. An opportunity was given to sign
the roll of membership and the name of
the club was changed to the McKinley
club of Columbus.
Col. M. Whitmoyer was the first called
upon for a speech, and from the time
the Colonel began until the meeting
closed with three hearty cheers for the
national ticket, at the call of Mr. Woos
ley, the last speaker, the large crowd
present were treated to eome old-fash
ioned, republican doctrines good to keep
uppermost.
We cannot pretend to give what was
said, as it was said, scarcely even a good
summary.
Col. Whitmoyer referred to the time
in '73, when he came to this country,
then a comparatively new country and
sparsely settled. He attended the first
district court held in Polk county,
assisting in the first jury trial; also in
Boone county. In those days here there
was plenty of vacant land. Since that
time what has happened? This county
and those around it have been settled
up; thrift followed industry, and many
who came here with little or nothing
became well-to-do, prosperous and con
tented, under republican administra
tions which fostered the general in
terests of all sections of our country.
Even four years ago we were a prosper
ous, happy people, and' what has brought
about this great change? The pros
perity, the up-bnilding, the increase in
wealth came with the republican ad
ministrations, and the loss in business
in the last three years in this part of the
country under the other administration.
We are apt to forget some things. I
recall the facts of a strike at Pittsburg
during the progress of which it devel
oped that some leaders of tho strike
were getting 87.50 a day as wages, and
yet striking for higher pay. There is no
occasion for striking of that kind these
times. There is many a man who would
be pleased to get a job at all, at wages
barely sufficient to keep his wife and
little ones until better times come to us
all. There is a constant effort on the
part of' some to array the west against
the east, as though the true interests of
all sections are not together. Let us
not forget the situation of things. We
are all, or the most of us from the east,
where manufacturing interests have
been developed by means of the greater
wealth of the country. Bloomsburg,
Penn., a place the Colonel was familiar
with, used to be very prosperous, having
smelting, furnaces, iron mines, coal
mines, etc.; one rolling mill occupied
eight acres of ground and another ten
acres, and all these gave employment to
thousands upon thousands of men, sup
porting a numerous population. These
people were not "poor white trash."
They were good people, got good wages,
had comfortable homes; from their
wages they set good tables; were able
to eat meat three limes every day; they
bought of the merchant, the butcher,
the dealers in all lines of goods and
wares which go into the homes of the
American workmen in prosperous times,
and in just such communities as that in
those eastern states is where the surplus
products of this western country have
found their market, when the factories
were turning out work at fair American
prices, without interference from a free
trade policy that not only has necessi
tated the issuing of millions of bonds to
pay the current expenses of the govern
ment, but has deprived American work
men of more millions in lost wages.
Preserve the borne market for American
workmen, and all the agricultural dis
tricts will find sale, good sale, for their
surplus products, and with good money,
we will all be prosperous again.
Judge Kilian was next called upon.
He began by referring in very compli
mentary termB to the eloquent speech
of Col. Whitmoyer, as the common
sense view of the political situation.
There seemed to be a tendency with a
certain class of campaigners here to re
gard our German-American population
as not really and truly citizens of the
United States. This is altogether
wrong. Speaking for himself and for
the German element in general, he de
nounced the idea. While of course
there were many born in the old coun
try, all German-American citizens who
had come here had done so to make it
their home, to cast their lot with the
Americans, be prosperous with them in
their prosperity, and suffer with them
in times of trouble. For himself, and
in this sentiment there were hosts of
Germans to think with him, he believed
the republican party always had advo
cated principles which were for the best
interests of the country. There are very
few business men but who now see that
protection and reciprocity, as advocated
by that great statesman James G.
Blaine, are the only true policies for this
country. Four years ago the opposition
raised a hue and cry against the surplus
in the treasury and they started a poli
cy, after coming into' power, that not
only got rid of all the surplus, but issued
bonds to help pay running expenses.
We don't want this kind of business
continued.
As to the money question it is no leas
important than protection. The meas
ure of values for all our commercial
transactions cannot be radically chang
ed without the greatest risk of peril to
business. If a dry-goods merchant
knows that there is to be a change in
the length of tho yard from that by
which he purchased his goods, he will
be compelled, in justice to himself, to
make the price in accordance with the
change. The owners of silver have no
more right to compel the government to
coin it for them on a ratio of 16 to 1,
when the true commercial ratio, ia 30
ounces of silver to one of gold, than ike
owners of oats or of aay other commodi
ty have to exat a like increase in price
of their product The Judge referred
to Altgeld's leases on his property in
Chicago. He said that Charles Pear
sail's company are renting of Altgeld
(one of the leaders in the Chicago con
vention), and the contract calls for the
payment of rent in gold, showing that
Altgeld has a level head for business
he may profess what he pleases, but he
takes good care that prosoises to pay
to him must be with gold. '
W. A. McAllister waa next called upon
and said that thia is to be pre-eminently
a campaign of education. The conser
vative part of the democratic party at
Chicago had been knocked out by the
pops, and it looked aa though the pops
at St Louis had been swallowed by the
democrats, so that the republican was
all the one left with a .platform aad can
didates to suit Protection and sound
finance are the issues, and twelve or
sixteen years from now the democratic
party will be occupying the camp we
are now in, just ss they always have
been doing after we had passed on.
It is not surprising to., know that Alt
geld requires his rent to be paid in gold.
Stewart the popocratio party god father
requires his tenants to pay him in gold.
Altgeld, Tillman, Coxey, Judge Scott of
Omaha and that class of men are those
who come to the front with the Chicago
populistic swallow of the democratic
party. Mr. MoAllister then referred to
the steady increase in the output of sil
ver as compared with gold, and the con
sequent change of ratio from 13 to
1 in the fourteenth century until now
when it is 31 to 1, and declared that the
country at large, in using what silver is
now coined at the ratio of 16 to 1, and
sustaining it with gold, is doing all that
it can do and much more than it ought
to do for Bilver-mine owners. Pnt the
government under a protective policy,
which will give us again work and wages
the country over, and, instead of having
to borrow money to pay our running
expenses, it will not be a year with Mc
Kinley and a republican congress, until
we will be living under prosperous con
ditions again, and laying by some money
to pay off the public debt.
We are sorry that we cannot give at
length points in the speech of S. C.
Gray who followed, and who for nearly
an hour, in a plain statement of the sit
uation, set forth republican history,
republican principles and prospects.
There had been no time since the war
when so much importance was to be
attached to the result of a presidential
election. It seems to be a time favora
ble to demagogues and ambitions lead
ers to foist themselves upon the people.
He spoke at length of the alleged crime
of 73, the passage of a bill in congress
which was printed eleven times, and
after being on the string three years,
and under discussion in both houses,
became a law. It was said that this
law had lessened the use of silver as a
money metal, whereas the contrary has
been the actual fact.
He illustrated, by the example of a
young man starting in business, how
necessary it is to preserve financial
credit by fair dealing. Good credit will
carry a man ten times as far as his cash
capital will go, and one of the great
questions now with the American peo
ple is how to preserve the financial
credit of the nation under the peculiar
and trying situation in which we find
ourselves placed. That going to silver
mono-metallism under free and unlim
ited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1
is the repudiation of one-half of our in
debtedness of all kinds is as clear as the
noon-day sun, and would be disastrous
to business interests of all kinds, great
or small. The gold would go out of
circulation; our $600,000,000 of silver,
now equal with gold in debt-paying
power, would go immediately down to a
32 to 1 silver basis, and our paper
promises to pay would be the same.
The story of Parson Brownlow is appro
priate: a famous character on the border-line
in secession times, who declined
to go into the confederacy when solicit
ed said: "If yon want to go to hell, I'll
get out" If you want to go to financial
hades, vote the democratic ticket.
C. A. Woosley was called upon bnt
said as it was late he would not under
take to make a speech, but he did throw
some hot shot at the enemy for a min
ute or two, winding up with a glowing
tribute to the republican candidate and
a call for three cheers for McKinley,
which were very heartily given.
The Ceafereace.
A mass convention of the free-silver
forces was held at the council chamber
Friday last to Belect delegates to the
conference at Norfolk, July 28th, which
is to name a candidate and recommend
the various conventions to nominate
him.
G. W. Phillips called the meeting to
order, A. W. Clark presided as chairman
and C. A. Brindley acted as secretary.
Platte county was entitled to four
delegates from each party, and the fol
lowing were named:' populists, W. A.
Way, J. C. Byrnes, D. L. Brnen, alter
nates. B. E. Wiley, Jsmes Kiernan, Joe.
Paschal; democrats, J. J. Sullivan, D. A.
Hale, S. J. Byan, alternates J. F. Bel
ford, Paul Hagel, W. N. Hensley; repub
licans, S. L. McCoy, Henry Lubker, H.
J. Hudson, alternates Charles Swain, L.
G. Zinnecker, L. A. Wiley; prohibition,
A. Lutb, E. W. Borders, E. A. Gerrard.
Short speeches were made by D. B.
Duffy, Wells of Central City, L. Ger
rard, D. L. Bruen and H. J. Hudson.
A move was made to put Judge Sulli
van on the track for congress, but he
flatly and positively declined to allow
his name to be used.
The delegation are not instructed and
it is not known, so far as Tux Journal
is aware, whom they will support
Sesahlicaa Senatorial CoaTeatlea.
Notice is hereby given that at one
o'clock on Tuesday August 4, 1896, the
republican senatorial convention of the
Twelfth senatorial district, composed of
Platte and Colfax counties, will be held
in the hall over the hardware store of S.
C. and C. C. Gray, in the city of Colum
bus, Platte county, Nebraska, for the
purpose of placing in nomination one
candidate for state senator for the
Twelfth senatorial district, and to trans
act such other business as may regularly
come before the convention. The rep
resentation ia as follows:
Phtfte. 9 Colfax 9
- C.J. Gablow,
Fxaiox H. KoLU, Chairman.
Secretary.
PXBflOKAL.
Miss Maud Naylor is visiting ia Grand
Island.
Ellis Brown, visited Sunday with his
parents at Cedar Bapids.
Miss Bertha Nitch has gone to Helens,
Montana, to visit her-brother,
August Wagner and Frank Chapia
are rusticating ia South Dakota...
Miss Alma Gavin of Omaha is visiting
her cousins, the Misses Sheehsn.
Miss Eula Bickly is spending a part
of her vacation at Spirit Lake, la.
Miss Hattie Baker went-to Genoa Fri
day, to spend a week with friends.
Mies Bessie Sheldon returned Friday
from an extended visit in Clifton, IU.
Mrs. E. O. Hockenbsrger and children
are spending several days in Beatrice.
D. P. Bradford is making an extended
visit with his daughter, Mrs. Gus G.
Becher.
Mrs. Palmer of Grand Island is visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mis. Joseph
Tiffany.
B. Nieman of Omaha, waa in the city
Sunday, visiting his sister, Mrs. L Sib
berneen. Mrs. M T. Kearne of Council Bluffs,
lows, is visiting hsr parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Began.
Miss Hannah Harris, one of the teach
ers of Central City is, visiting her sister,
Mrs. J. B. Geitzen.
Prof.-1. H. Britell returned yesterday
from hie sojourn in the north. He is a
little under the weather.
Mrs. J. N. Tsylor is in Iowa, where
she went for her health. Her daughter,
Miss Kate, accompanied -her.
Mrs. Will Coolidge returned to her
home in Plattsmonth yesterday, after a
two weeks' visit here with friends.
Miss Anna Murphy returned home to
Seward -last week, after spending several
months with the family- of S. J. Byan.
Miss Alice Wise left Saturday for Chi
cago, where she will take instructions
for preparation as a professional nurse.
Mrs. Pannalso and little daughter
Harriet of Omaha are visiting their
cousins, the Misses Martin and Mrs. Dr.
Naumann.
Mrs. Emma Williams of Dayton,
Wise., is visiting with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs.tfohn Huber, called hereby the
sickness of her mother.
E. von Bergen left Friday morning
for Chicago, after which he will spend a
few daya at Lake Geneva, Wise., the Y.
M. C. A. camping grounds.
W. T. McKean, an old-time resident of
Columbus, was in the city two days last
week, stopping with his son Robert.
He was on his way to Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Barber left Friday,
Mr. Barber going on to Chicago, where
he has a position. Mrs. Barber will
visit her parents in Tama, Iowa.
. For CoasreM.
There is considerable interest being
taken in congressional matters just now,
so that it becomes every republican to
keep track of what is going on.
At the time of the county convention
here, when the delegates to the congres
sional convention to be held on the 27th
of August were selected, Boss Hammond
was the preferred candidate of those
who had anything at all to say while
making the canvass. Judge Kilian, who
since then has entered the lists, was not
then spoken of or even thought of.
The delegates are: Carl Kramer, W. E.
Kent, A. Weisshand, Charles Kelley,
John Tannahill, W. A. McAllister, C. A.
Woosley, Ed. Hoare, H. G. Cross, C. H.
Sheldon, Frank Kenyon and Wm. Dress.
It is supposed that at least two-thirds
of these are now favorable to Mr. Ham
mond's candidacy.
The situation rather puts Mr. Kilian
in a bad light, as, possibly, if his candi
dacy had been announced before the
county convention, he might -have been
directed to select the entire delegation,
which would, of course, have been quite
a send-off with him, and put him on an
equality in that respect, with Mr. Ham
mond, at his home, Dodge county.
School Board.
At the adjourned meeting of the
school board Wednesday last the min
utes of the previous session were read
and approved.
The following bills, having been aud
ited, were allowed and warrants ordered
drawn in payment: Andrew Connor
$20.60; John Clark $4,50; Hugh Hughes
f 1.50; Foster & Smith $8.74, the first for
cleaning the wall paper in eome eleven
or twelve school rooms; the second for
mowing the yard in First ward; the
third for lumber got by A. Connor, and
the fourth for lumber and bricks used in
repair of sidewalk west of Second ward
building.
The election of officers of the school
board then took place, on motion, and
by ballot, there being no contest in
either case, the old officers being re
elected by sll votes except their own,
viz: President, J. H. Galley; vice presi
dent, G. W. Lehman; secretary, J. G.
Becher.
The balloting for assistant high-school
teacher resulted in the selection of Mr.
Campbell, who was principal of the
Platte Center schools last year.
The committee on buildings snd
grounds bad some suggestions in regard
to. repair of platform walk at First ward,
and also the water supply at the same
building, and were directed to look
after them.
S. W. Storm appeared before the board
and briefly presented the merits of his
roof cement and paint The subject
matter of the communication was re
ferred to the committee on buildings
and grounds.
Adjourned. The regular meeting of
the board is the first Monday of each
month, and at the office of LGluck.
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Raaaiag oa Time.
As illustrating the degree of efficiency
to which the present management of the
B. A O. B. B. has brought its motive
power equipment and esprit de corps of
the operating staff, we call attention to
the fact that during the months of April,
Msy and June the passenger trains and
fast freight trains have almost invaria
bly arrived at their respective destina
tions on schedule time. The very few
exceptions to the general rule were due
to causes inseparable from railway ope
ration, and against which no forethought
can wholly guard. It may be safely
said that during the period named no
road in America, comparable in magni
tude to the B. k On can surpass its
record for puactuality in train move-
hem mm k co.,
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Elevator Aaaociattea.
Annual financial statement of the
Farmers' A Merchants' Union Elevator
Association dated July 1, 1896:
UABTUTIES.
Capital stock fully paid up. . . .$2,400 00
Mortgage on elevator property 884 00
Interest accrued 63 06
TVna First Natl bank of Co
lumbus, Neb., July 1, '96. . . . 70 73
Partial payment on stock sub
scribed 356 75
Checks unpaid 98 42
Taxesl895. 33 05
Due on book account 41 00
$ 3,947 01
.ASSETS.
Elevator property. $2,750 00
Book accounts 282 49
Grainonhand 5?
Cash in shipper's hands 12 31
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r. i S. C. Gbat, President.
Aiiesi:j Wjf Meays, Secretary.
Al. Hagaman went fishing the other
day with some companions and came
home tired, and before retiring took a
few drops of medicine for inside relief,
and somebody started the report that
he had endeavored to commit snicide by
taking laudanum; that two physicians
were brought in who used a stomach
pump, etc., etc., but the whole story is
worse than the usual fish stories, be
cause with them there is occasionally
some foundation in truth. It is best to
tell a plausible lie, when one sets out
about it, especially when it is being tele
graphed to city papers as "news." Truth
nearly always upsets falsehood when it
has anything like a fair show. Mr.
Hagaman, who ia a fireman on the B. k
M., got up earlier than usual the next
morning and made his run as usual, and
was not informed of the wonderful
things ascertained by the correspondent
until he read about it in a Lincoln
paper. The chief business of an editor
ia certainly to keep lies out of his paper."
A new swindling scheme wss tried
here by a traveling agent a few weeks
ago. A woman purporting to be an
agent for a book company gave glowing
inducements to a young lady to travel
aa a general agent for her oospaay.
Her expenses were to be paid aad she
would receive a salary besides. All re
quired of her was to buy the prospectus
of her snd send in her orders for books,
eta, to the firm. The victim paid $3.00
for her prospectus and sent to the firm
for further orders, when she was sur
prised to receive an answer that they
had no such agent traveling for them
and that they made no such contracts.
Sale bills printed at thia office.
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Notice ia haraby aivaa that taa craditor of
aaid daeaaaad will aaeet the adaaiaiatrator of
aaid aatata. before aw. coaatjr Jadca of Platte
coaatr, Nebraaka. at aay oatea ia Colaaibaa, ia
aaid coaaty. oa taa 15th day of Aaamat. 1886, oa
the 14th day of November. WW. aad oa the 15th
day of February. 1887. at 10 o'clock a m. each
day, for the parpoaaof preaaatiaa their claiaw
forezaaaiaatioa.adjaataaeat aadaUowaace. Six
moatha are allowedfor ereditora to priaaat their
claims, sad oae year for the adaaiaiatrator to
aettle aaid estate, from the 15th day of Aagaat,
18M.
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