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TOroxvnEE o We Pay Your Railroad Fare to Columbus and Return with a Purchase of $25.10 David Goodman grreat At the Schroeder building', on 12th street, Columbus, Neb., commencing' Wednesday morning', March 18th, 1908, at 8:30. A-, lMto M: 3. John Bonk is working in 8ilver Creek. John Btohm has completed a new hog house. Ones. Coupons makes regular trips to Platte Center now. Lottie Bafly ie hauling material for a "new addition to his house. Fred Branken made his usual visit to Columbus Sunday evening. Herman Saunders moved to his farm near Platte Center Thursday. Corn shelling was the order of things at the Newman farm Tuesday. Mm. D. Branken was a guest of Mr. and Mm. Renke Siefken Sunday. Several nice bunches of hogs were marketed from off the route this week. The? Hon. Willie Saalfield was visiting relatives near Richland a few days last weak. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boot were visit tag at Duncan Monday and Tuesday of this weak. A. M. Mahaffey baa returned and is again domiciled at his ranch north of Columbus. Ed Boe went to Omaha Monday Burning for the purpose of taking the Kealafcure. Miaa Moada Bout is home from Ster ling, Colorado, for a visit with relatives and friends. Mr. Henry Barginbruch was a pleasent gnest at the Loacke home Sunday after noon and aveaiag. George Saaliald and Ed Ashe have been indulging in the art of breaking horses the peat week. Mr. Theador 'rXrumland and sister Emma ware waiting relatives at Leigh Saturday and 8unday. Gas Knaamann was a pleasant caller at the William Albert home Sunday evening; Ton all know why. George Bodeaont, who w has been apeadiagesvirsl years in Spokane, Wash ington, is now at home again. Okas. Madura will remove five miles aorthwest of Humphrey where he has engaged hiseervioes on a farm, Walter Loacke was greatly surprised last Sunday afternoon when two young ladies of route 3 paid him a leap year visit. Mr. Willie Krnadand, the famous hataa sasnipnlatorof Shell creek, is busy i daya breakiag the record colt for 8ohmitt was unable to attend the party at KrunUand's Sunday ateaiai en aooouat of the severe sick ness of a very dear Mead. Dent fsrgat tha basket social at the Adamy aahool house Friday avaniag. Ererybedy cordially invited to attend. Quia azpastad to btiag basket and tha boys plenty of mosy. d Hewman and 'Henry Brunhsn re tamedta. latter part of tha week from the gold fields of the far west. They seemed to be very mnch depressed in spirit's in regard to gold seeking. August Brunken and Willie Wurdeman went to Platte Center Sunday. The attractions must have been great as we are told they did not return until the wee small hours on Monday morning. Three very respectable looking tramps spent Friday night in the Brunken school house. One of them wore spurs. The only damage was the taking of a small mirror and a pair of shears, the property of the teacher. At the reception held last Sunday for Bev. and Mrs. Papenhausen, very im pressive remarks were made by the re tiring pastor and his wife, and very ap proriate remarks were also made by Mr. Fred Behan, sr., Henry Myer, Wm, Lange and many others. Mrs. Papen hausen received a very handsome pre sent from the ladies society of the church as a token of their esteem. Miss Martha also received $25 in cash from the members of the church as a remem berance from them for her efficiency and faithf ullness as their organist. Refresh ments were served and the occasion was one long to be remembered as the pastor and his family were very popular in the church community and many tears were shed at their leaving. Several prominent members accompanied them as far as Fremont and Omaha. lamtaSa.4. Albert Iossi drove cattle to Wm. New man's Monday. Wm. Goesman marketed wheat in Co lumbus Tuesday. John Iossi shelled corn for Leopold Seibler Saturday. ' Ernest Iossi was a caller at the Smith Hilliard home Sunday. J. J. Barnes has a fine new carriage and John sports a new buggy. The Misses May and ' Clare Pinson spent Sunday with Florence HillarJ. Albert Heasler was out from Columbus Sunday, visiting bis cousins, the loans. Quite a number of the farmers began their spring work Monday, cutting stalks and plowing. A family by the name of Marquis have moved on the old Winalow place, recent ly vacated by Butler Bros. Gns Pahram, who went to Imperial, CaL, with John Blodgett a few years ago is visiting with J. C. Dineen. Mus Christina Strecke returned home last Saturday, after spending a week visiting relatives at Madison. John Donoghne, jr., who has been seriously ill with pnaumenia the last weak, was reported better Tuesday. Japanese boys who are working W. D. Wilson's place, northeast of Oconee, are getting the ground ready for their seed crop. According to reports wedding bells will be ringing in all dirsctioaa on tha route after lent. Get your tin cans ready, boys. Smith Hilliard and sons, Thomas and Robert, left Saturday for Clearwater, Neb., to visit Mr. Hilliard's daughter, Mrs. Earl Hoerle. Ed Donoghue and Cbos. Reins, who have been attending the Commercial col lege during the winter, have returned home for spring work. Henry 8eibler and the two Newman boys had a runaway last Friday night. They had been visiting Geo. Seibler, and while returning home the horses became frightened and upset the bnggy. No damage was done except to the buggy top and a few brusises received by the boys. Xante ls- 5. L. P. Hahn was at Osceola Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hahn were at Osceo la Wednesday. August Volkmann purchased a new cultivator and harness this week. Robert Bell moved to a farm eleven miles north of Columbus; Monday. Mrs. W. H. Thomas will entertain the Kensington at her home Saturday, March 21. Ray Coffey is suffering from a broken collar bone, as a result of a horse which be was riding falling on him. Farmers on route No. 5 are getting busy with their spring work, some cut ting stalks, plowing and discing. - O. A. Church moved from the Franz Jahn place, on the Island, to the H. L. Olcott farm, recently vacated by Robert Bell. You may talk about good things to eat, but last Saturday Carrier No. 5 received a good old fashioned handout, the kind that make your month water, from 259 Lazy street. Chicken avenue. Carrier No. 5 attended the basket supper in the Hahn school house Fri day night, in the place where he attend, ed school when a boy. He passes this school house every day, but this is tne first time he. has been inside of it for six years. Mike Kampovitz has moved the other portion of his blacksmith shop 'Monday and part of the house Tuesday to the old home place. He will move the re maining portion of the house Wednes day, making a clean sweep, and what is known as Rochon will be removed. While crossing the bridge over the south channel of the Platte. Wm. Hen ningVhorse stepped through a hole in the plank, and trying to get out fell off the bridge, hanging by one foot. The animal remained in that position until Mr. Heaaiag could get help from Mr. Homers and release it. An examination of the foot did not disclose say serious injury. Tha basket sapper in the Hahn school house was a success. Tha program, which consisted of sosgs, recitations and dialogues, entertained the crowd the greater part of the evening, after which the baskets were sold. The proceeds amounted to $28, baskets ranging in price from five cents to $1.85, and will be used for a library for the school and other purposes. When Like Cures Like. "If you want to be forever cured of smoking cigarettes,' said the woman who is, "have a cigarette fiend visit you for a couple of weeks. I inherited one recently. Now she is gone. I breathe again. She was like a little chimney, smoking, smoking, day and night I would wake at the sound of the scratching of a match, then smell the smoke. I shudder at the smell of the smoke. I used to come in out of the fresh air and find the flat filled with smoke and the smell of it 1 would throw up every window. I felt like throwing her out of one of them, sitting there with the fiendish cigar ette between her " teeth, smoking, smoking, smoking. Not any more cigarettes for me, I can tell you. I am cured." New York Press. Curious Cyclone in Japan. In a bulletin printed in Japan Prof. Omori reports a regular phenomenon which attended the passage of a cy clone near Tokio. There was a tilting of the earth's surface in one direction as the storm approached and in the other direction after it had gone. Both movements, registered at the professor's seismologies!, observatory, indicated a sinking of the earth where the atmospheric pressure was lowest The expert accounts for it by sup posing that suction at the storm cen ter raised the level of the adjacent sea. and thus imposed an abnormal burden on the bottom of the ocean. JIM ONCE MORE UNSHACKLED. Parents Held Responsible. New York has adopted very strin gent rules for the preservation of the health of school children, one of the latest developments being the rule that parents who do not keep their children in good health shall be pros ecuted. This seems a little autocratic at first glance, but those who have studied the subject will readily under stand that it Is only common justice, as many parents are utterly indifferent as to the health of their children, ex posing them unnecessarily, clothing them inadequately and not providing good food for them, even when their moans allow. Wary. "So you heard my speech?" said the orator. "Yes," answered Farmer CorntosseL "And you enjoyed it?" "Very much." "And you agreed with my opinions?" "Entirely." "Then, of course, I can depend oa your support" "No. I've thought It all over, and Eve concluded that as slick a talker as yon are ain't to ha trusted." Wash ington Star. Probably Mrs. Jones' Views Coincided with Her Husband's. One day a tall, gaunt woman, with rope-colored hair and an expression of great fierceness, strode into the office of a county clerk in West Virginia. "You air the person that keepa tha marriage books, ain't ye?" ahe de manded. "What book do you wish to see, madam?" asked the polite clerk. "Kin you find out If Jim Jones was married?" Search of the records disclosed the name of James Jones, for whose mar riage a license had been Issued two years before. "Married Elizabeth Mott, didn't her asked the woman. "The license was issued for a mar riage with Miss Elizabeth Mott" "Well, young man. I'm Elizabeth. I 'thought I oughter come In an' tell ye that Jim has escaped." Harper's Weekly. According t. Training. The traveler belonged to the "ef fete civilization of the east" and when the unmistakable odor of sauerkraut permeated the atmosphere of the lit tle Pennsylvania inn where he had halted for his midday aseal he was first perturbed and then Irritated be yond measure by tha smell, says tha author of "Old Schuylkill Daya." "Sauerkraut! Ugh!" ha shuddered, with sa indignant glance at the vener able Dutch landlord, who was asd dlng over his pipe in a corner of the room. "How anyon. can eat sauer kraut I cannot see. I'd as lief eat dirt as to eat sauerkraut" The landlord stirred In his chair. "Well," be began, without opening his eyes, "that is just as you were brought up. If you were brought up to .eat sauerkraut you eat sauerkraut If you were brought up to eat dirt you eat dirt" Youth's Companion. "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN." ANYTHING TO OBLIGE A LADY. Gallant Dancer Simply Misunderstood Fair Partner's Request. The story Is told of a yonng Oregon girl, a favorite In society, but who was poor and had to take care not to get her evening gowns soiled, as her num-! ber waa limited. At a dance not long ago a great big. red-faced, perspiring man came In and asked her to dance. He wore no gloves. She looked at the well-meaning but moist hands despairingly and thought of the immaculate back of her waist. She hesltsted a bit and then said, with a winning smile: "Of course 1 will dance with you. but, if you don't mind, won't yon please use your handkerchief?" The nu looked at her blankly a moment or two. Then a light broke over his face. "Why, certainly," he said. Aad he pulled out his haadkerchlef aad blew his bos.. Woman's Home Comsaaioa. Csmmandsr Craven Yielded Life That Pilot Might Saved. The higher and more valuable a life the more ready It Is to lay Itself at the service of others. It. would some times seem that the sacrifice were too great, as In the example Instanced by Mr. Hutchinson In his "Battle of Mo bile Bay." Yet the very act of heroism Impresses the merit of the whole char acter with a dignity and worth which carries it far in influence aad rev erence. During the battle a shot from the shore struck a cask torpedo and ex ploded it near the Tecumseh. A hole was torn la the bottom 29 feet square, and the ram sank like a stone, turn ing over as it went down in eight fathoms of water. One hundred aad ten men out of lzv were lost in an instant. Commander Craven, one of the most gallant ofJcers of the service, was la the pilot-house with the pilot, close t. the only opening 1b the vessel. There waa only room for one man to pass. Craven felt himself grasped by tan leg: It was the pilot "Let me get out flrst for God's sake, captain!" he cried. "I have Ave littln children." The captain drew back. "Go on. sir." he said, aad he went dowa with the ship, while the pilot was saved. Twa Halves. "Looks count a lot." remarked Slo pay. "About half the good I get from dinner is the look of things." "AU right Mr. Slopay." repHed Mrs. Bordem. "Well just give you two looks In future." He Hadn't Expected It Mrs. Beaham Mother died Benham Wonders will never :A SPRING GREETING Our Spring Clothing Shoes and L0WSlH)6S consisting of some nob by and interesting pat terns are now ready tor your inspection. We have them inall styles and fabrics. Prices that will sore please you The finest that the season pro duces. Some beautiful black and tan lad pumps. Just what you want for dress and party wear. Our children's depLhaa not been forgotten and you'll fad them equal to the beat for wear Oir Finiskiig Gills Display is complete with the newest and latest patterns in Shirts and Ties. Don't fail to ask about our guaranteed Hosiery. Six pairs for $1.50 that will positively last six months wear Our salesmen will cheerfully instruct yon bow strong a guarantee we place on them. Come in and be convinced. Our motto is always your satisfaction or your money back. Tours for business GREISEN BROS COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. k i U ) . -,'J'S. -O.' i r "SV ft v r & . -'Tr .-& - Ar. '- ,.- K&- ttt s-0 i ,. .-?-i .!.!'. t& ,-y. aa? --S A'il. n-.- -t .