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wlirffl WSSS See that Stripe! That is distinctive of Cooper.Wclls & Co.s Style No. 69 One of the best known 25 cent stockings made. 2-p!y Egyptian yam with sufficient twist to five most wear. Wc recommend No. 69 io our pat rons because ve believe in it. Comes in Mack only. Sica H.. to 10 Try It H. GALLEY iladl m ffiBK JIM fffi. 'nraa l II ii M'imii i ' i i i a i : M WS:tfft fe i M ixo: iron But Lets of Hard Wear in Them. 505 Eleventh Street Columbus ITEMS OF INTEREST U ABOUT OUR NEIGH BORS AND FRIENDS CLIPPED FROM OUR EXCHANGES i i i:iisu. I'rmii tin- llt-i.ilil. PI.ATTK CENTEIt Knim tliitSicniiS. A few iIityH ago we were shown u .tute- j ' Q tin SiVnulV account of tho death of icnt i-nued by h b-tnk in utjiuull village r- nd Mra. Matt Schiltz'fl baby last in Hohomia nmlsi-nt by :: relative ii: that country lo Html Petr of tin Fanners week wc etnted Hint it probably wna smothered. WehavoBinre been inforiu- i ...- . . i. State hunk. Tho .tiit-iiii-iit looks noun- "" "" "cu from sioinuen iroume. what Himihir to tin-on. s belied .piart.-r-( prof otnidoveo ami Dr.Pngh report ly bylhelmnlis here, but it goes r.Uher ( iiavnu, Heen IJalloy's comet about .'WO mor into It-tail Aitoh.-. tho hottom of ''puesdnv mornim?. throneh a field i1hm. ono of th pages .r tin- rvpoit is punted, j They said it was doubtful if it could ho "Thin hank is option Thiiir-day ami iMm w;Ul the nvLw ,.yu t that time. Sunday afternoon of each wei k. That no iloiiht, miswcis wll enough i:i tho Ifiml of Francis Joseph, hut what a kn-k would ho hi-ard hero if our hmk- with A. (I. Parker arrived homo from Omaha Wednesday evening last week, when he had been an inmate of a hospital and . , , . ,, i ,. , .1,.,., I, 'submitted to it surgical operation. He open only two half days in tlie uwu -, . . and ono of those days Sunday. 1,1:11.11. From tin- World. Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Maten c.wiio up from ColumhuH liietMilurdny for a ueeks visit with their .son Citric and family. Charley Hidden ami hi gang of men arc busy this week putting m it eyBtein of water works on ihe farm of (Jus llerchenhun. Mr and Mrs. I Hint: Rrnek and children? of Columbus, and Mm. Fred Wobken and children, of Sciibner, visited fiom lis recovering; in a satisfactory mnnner. j but will not resume his work for a few j weeks. Occasionally a farmer had begun planting corn before the last rain Owing to the pretty general destruction of winter who:tt nearly every farmer will have an increased acreage of com, and they are anxious to get at it as soon as possible. iioMrimnv. From Urn Di-uiut-rtit K. C. Halm is expected home this Wt t-L from Marn, Iowa, where he has ., . , .i.n i .. ii if.... .. i been for tho na-t two weeks assisting Snturduv until Tuesday at the ISei-n m ; ... . . . . ..... ." i Homer KoliiiiKon of Columbus invoice a UlUIUH uoiue. . I r l i - I I . i i r sioi-l; of K'oods which lie traded for re- We just learned that hums Miller had l,.(.,,ijy a runaway with four hoi- hurli-d '- a j .,., Jkyp. ,inH prcllMed B hnnw disc-harrow The hui-.-h i:.i tan'.-.l . ti ,, ,iio nnt, . .- .. . f ii v-iiiiiiiiiio iiuti ud tiit ma nuu unvf ret in ned from Colorado and propose to make their home in Columbus. Their eon GeorRc, we understand has greatly improved in health, and it is thought he is well on the road to com plete recovery. W. 1. Sternberg, a young attorney from Omaha litis pnrchscd the law lib. rary of tha late I'. M. Cookinham anil about the first of June he will locate in Himiphre permanently in the practice of law. Mr. Sternberg is a CSennau and comes highly rerommended by promin ent attorneys of the state Hriiuo Zuerline returned home last Friday from Lost Springs, Wjoming, where lie had been for three weeks doing some brick work for a mining company, some of the stockholders of which live at Dodge, this state. Hruno Miys they hail real winter weather in Wyoming while he was theie. and while we had a slight touch of such weather in Xchras ka. it wa nothing compared with what in a wire fence cutting one i-ewn-h and demolishing the disc harrow. A horse belon-ring to Ilmlolph Wurdc niMii was attacked by u bull in the pas ture the other da and iiite badly u-ed up: in fact so much so that it is a p ion ium whether the animal will live. -.in. i :. I'mm tlii,im. While driving home from town hist Friday Edward Helmer's team became frightened ami started to run away. The tongue of the wagon came down, and in jumping out of the wagon to get rid of what threatened to be a bad mix up, 1-Idward lit on one foot in such a manner as to bieak Iih ankle. The marriage of Mr. Charles Weber and Mis- Ijotue Seh-itV occurred here Tin-ftihij at the Catholic chinch, a num ber of friends and relaties being p:e-ent towitiiehS the c-rMiiony. The happ counle will bt'irm hinisekei ii rjir at once on ii farm about m .en miles northeast of ' il vv:i Wyoming, and Kruno is mighty ,i:i.id to get b-.ck to the hot state in the L'nion. Shelby. They have the list ehe of a large circle of friinds. Nearly every automobile ;u Shelby was pressed into service last Sunday to carry passengers to Columbus to ee the Nebraska Indians and ihe Colimibus team play ball, and the upp'y of much Sues was not epial to the demand. The boys all say that it was one of the best games they ever saw played. Ten H ni:gs were played and not a single scoze made bv either team. Got His. Til admit 1 was trying to get some thing for nothing." "Well;" "I uot what I deserved." Washing ion Herald Never t ruet that the nearest np pro:u h t. perfect domestic happiness mi earth is the cultivation of unselfishness. I FRISCHHOLZ BROS. shoes clothing p J RELIABLE GOODS AT RIGHT PRICES. FRISCHHOLZ BROS. 405 Ilth Street. Columbus. MOKltOE. From the Bepnblican. Mr. and Mra Marshall McWilliams and son Raymond and Mrs. David Mc Williams of Shelton arrived here Sunday for a visit with relatives. Mr. and Mra. Chaa. Kelley went to witness the operation on their Bon Eddie who went to Omaha last week. He will be operated on for appendicitis Thursday at the hospital. Cards are out annnnncing the wedding of Neil Hollingshead and Miss Maude Baker of CentrnI City, on Wednesday May 11th at the home of the bride. They will make their home here on a farm. Union Pacific painters nre here painting the depot and coal houee the regulation, color a light yellow with red roof and white interior. This work wonld not have been done for some time, had not the fire necessitated repairs and a partial rebuilding of the depot. The Monroe Presbyterian church will have a pastor in the near future in fact, there will be u man herein a week or two to look over the field with a view of lo cating if other satisfactory arrangements can he made. Now that the church has a good manse, it will be much more con venient for a pastor. The graduating exercises of the Mon roe High school will be held in tho Town Hull, May 20th. Professor Lawrence Fossler, head infractor in the German department of our State University will give a lecture entitled "Life'e School masters." Prof. Fossler comes to us well recommended as one who can entertain and at the same time give us something worth while. Several good musical numbers have also been promised. Ite served seats will he on sale about May 14th at the Drug store. Admission 15 cents. The class consists of Anna Smith. Bertha Kelley, Eva Patterson, Mabel McWilliams, Mary Gillespie, Laura Mann. Raymond Terry, Katie (Ileason and Pearl McCone. Tuesday or this week Win. Welwter II. I. Gipe. A. C McDontld and .1. C. Read, representing the Monroe Com mercial club, went lo Columbus to get a hearing before the board of supervisors regarding tho proposed bridge across the Loup river, south of town. Owing to the amount of business before the hoard they did not succeed in getting a hear ing, but tho board gave thorn a date, which will he May 25, to hear their case. While the committee did not present the matter at this meeting of the board, they have good hopes for fnvoi able considera tion. And from the scope of country this bridge wonld accommodate, there should be no opposition to the project. The increase in land values, and conse quent increase in the amount of tax paid will more than offset a slight increase in the levy for the present. While the hridgo will be more benefit to Loup and Oconee township, it will also be an ad viintnge'to the entire county. Electric Light Always Ready Brilliant Clean Safe Have your house wired Columbus Light, Heat & Power Co. Hir.VKK CKRKK. From lint Siiml L A Gates and family moved this week to Columbus to make their home there. They have ha.l this matter in contemplation for some months and it is noi-i matter of surprise, but of regret to their many friends that they have moved out of town. (t)uite a crowd of Silver Greek fans took in the ball game at Columbus Sun day between the Nebraska Indians and Columbus. It was a good game, neither side having scored at the end of the 10th inning, when the game whs called in order to allow the Indians to make train connections. If Columbus keeps this gait up she can count on a good crowd from Silver Creek quito often. The Haven bridge seems to be a sure go. At the meeting of the Hoard of Supervisors last Tuesday the matter was practically placed in the hands of tho bridge committee, which, with the exception of M. J. Harry was in favor of the proposition. It looks as though this was a matter favored by T. B. Uord, The Western Bridge and Construction Co., Dana Little, jr., and two or three peo ple living in Polk county who have a political pull on at least one of the members of the board of Connty Com missioners o'f Polk county Merrick is under obligations to pay $4,000 towards the construction of the bridge and Polk county obligates itself to pay an equal amount and the same sum has been subscrlted by private parties. ST. KDWAllD From the Advance. Nels Hasselhach returned home Mon day afternoon from Omaha where he has been taking treatment for rheumatism. Mies Hilda Johnson of Newman Grove took the noon passenger here Monday for Columbus where she intended visit ing a few days. Miss Bell Newman who has finished a very successful term of school in Diet. 47, Platte county, left Tuesday for her home at Columbus. A. J. McKelvey and Mcsdames F. L. Sisson and E. L. Sisson, left Tuesday for Uaswell, Colo. Mrs. E. L. Sisson to make her home there and Mr. McKelvey and Mrs. F. L. Sisson to visit relatives. E. C. Kennedy and Jnlius Wolfe, left today for New York City to meet Max Wolfe who will arrive in New York next week from Europe with forty head of Belgian and Percberon horses. This bnnch of horses will even surpass in ex cellence and quality the importation made during the fall and will Gnd a ready market ic and aronnd Albion and St. Edward where good horses are being more and more appreciated as money makers. Rewarded. Actor I have been iu your company ten years. Is It not time that yon do something extra for me? Manager Yes. From now on you shall play all the parts in which there is eating. Fllegende Blatter. Columbus Plumbing Co. LUEKE ii MULLIGAN Proprietors Sanitary Plumbing Steam and Hot Water Heating 13th and M Streets Columbus, Nebraska A MEMORY TEST. The Act by Which One Controversy Was Decided. Three men were disputing in Berlin one day :i to which of them had the best memory, and finally they asked a well known writer to decide the mat ter. "Rend me any page of Coot he's prose works." said one of The three, "and I will :it once repeat It word for word." "I ran do better than thai." said the second one "Put me in :i corner of this room, and I will play three games of chess simultaneously without ever looking at ihe iMt.irds." "Thai's nothing lo what I can do." said the first speaker again. "Begin a conversation with me now nbout the most absurd things possible, and at the end of an hour I will repeat the entire conversation to you.' The third mail was silent, and the referee said to him: "Wiry don't you tell us what you can do? A few min utes ago you were boasting a good deal of your wonderful memory.' "I know it." was the reply, "but I did not then know that my two friends took the matter so seriously. And as they are so much iu earnest I will not try to surpass them, for I cannot for get that each of them did me a favor yesterday." "Yesterday?" asked the referee. "Yes." was the reply. "And you have not yet forgotten It? In that case the laurels belong to you, for you have indeed a wonderful mem ory." Guarded His Beard. As Sir Thomas Mure laid his head ou the block he begged the executioner to wait a moment while he carefully placed his beard out of reach of the ax. for, he said, "it hath not commit ted treason." which reminds one of the story of Simon Lord Ltivat, who the day before his execution tin Tower hill bade the operator who shaved him be cautious not to cut his throat, as such an accident would cause disap pointment to the griping crowd on the morrow. English Magazine. COLUMBUS MEAT MARKET We invite all who desire choice steak, and the very best cuts of all other meats to call at our market on Eleventh street. Wc also handle poultry and fish nnd oysters in season. S. E. MARTY & CO. Telephone No. I. - CoInmbuB. Neb. WANTED I The riclit party ran secure mi excellent ixi-itinti. -.ilarj- iir coninu ion lor vyoiuniuii- mm vi cinity. State nee, former orcnimtinn ntul kiv reference. Addre?? MN'K HOX W, Lincoln, Nob. UNION PACIFIC TIME THLE west unrsn. east nocsn. No. 11 n.lOnin No. 4 !:JI a m Xo.13 l:IOnm Nil 12 10iT7iim No. 1 lii:.Cntii No. It .'ullnin No. ii ll0atn No. i :!:! pra No. 17 Sditi p m No. Ill 2:1.1 p m No. iri ii3iin No. 10 :'.l" in No. 3 ijlj p m No. IS ."i!7ini No. S liuti p in No. 2 ....... S;1 p ni No. 21 :ir. ptu No. 22 7:t2nm No. IS 11:2."; a in No.2U 10 p m No.Ti'.t 7:0) am No.r.S 7iCi p m BBANCUES. JCOUFOLK. SIWLMNO & ALBION. No. 77 inni 1 7:20 am No.7'. msil..d eKXani No.2Vikis . il7.G0pnf N.31i8 . illiHOpni No. SO pas -a 1:111pm No. 32 pas ..nlJ.SOpiii No. 73 m xil.. at; 10 pm No. SO mxil..a7:00p in Dai I j- except Snnday. Notz: Nos. 1, 2, 7 ami P nre extra faro trains. Nix. 4. 5, 13 ami II are local iiaf-feecw-ra. No. !& nnd r,!l are local freight. Nos. 9 and 16 are mail trains only. No. It due in Omaha t:!5 p. m. No. S dne in Omaha 5:UU p. m. C. B. t Q. Tint Tablt Remarkable Capture of a Wolf. "In the winter of 1896-7, I was depot agent at Duncan, Nebraska, a small town on the main line of the Union Pacific railroad, 09 miles west of Omaha. The weather was bitterly cold. One morning shortly after daybreak. Herman Ernst and his hired man were going after hay, and a short distance west of my station detected a gray wolf standing between the rails, his head down to one rail as though tied there, and as the wolf did not leave as the wagons ap proached nearer, Herman grabbed his fork and ran up to the wolf, thrusting the fork repeatedly through its body, and in its last death throes the wolf tore loose from the rail leaving the tongue fast to the steel. I investigated this enrious incident and came to this con clusion: A passenger train had passed just a few minutes before the wolf was discovered and had ran over a jack rab bit at this point. The wolf bad either been chasing the rabbit or camo along immediately afterwards and had attempt ed to lick the blood oft the rail, when his tongue stuck fast to the steel and the more he slobbered the tighter it stuck, nntil at the time the wolf was killed the ice was almost an inch thick over his tongue, cementing it solid to the steel. I bought the hide from Mr. Ernst and sent it to Omaha and had it tanned. The hide is now need for a rug in one of our bed rooms nnd shows between thirty and forty holts where the fork tines went through. The above facts will be ratified by Herman Ernst if anyone wishes to investigate them by address ing him at Duncan, Nebraska.' The above story was published in the Wide World Magazine, of New York City, in the April number. W. L Kan did, of this city, was awarded second prize by this magazine, which offered prizes for the most unique actual hap penings. Gothenburg Tiiiien. CKNTHAI. CITV. From the Nonpareil. Running broadside into a hure driven by Mr. Jllaseof llnrdville, Jim Smith'e auto proved its superiority over iU equina competitor K.ittiid.iy night nnd left it lying dead n the Ii I ! of l-.tth-. although it siitdhim-i! miiiih dmiiiu-ug niHrks of tho encounter Air Sn.rl. wis taking Dr. Itoyd on a t-ali to Arehr, tie latter'.-, son, Ei.-gt-n-, acuomp-injing them. Just this side of the Wil!oughh school house they met Mr. Mlnse, who with his brother had been to the Carn pasturo north of town with a herd of cattle. The brother was riding borne back liehind the buggy. For some ren son Mr. Blase turned to tho left to pass the auto and got directly in front of the machine. He suys that he thought Smith was going to turn to the left. Jim saw that ho was going to strike the rig and threw on the emergency brake, bnt it was too late to stop. The car strnek the horse squarely and crashed over it onto the buggy. The three occupants of the car were hurled out, but fortunately nonn of them was in jured. Mr. Blase was slightly scratched about the head, but received no .serious injury. The hor.-e was so badly hurt that it died before n gun could be secur ed from tho Hartford home to shoot it. Its front and hind legs on the side next the auto were both broken nnd it was badly crushed. . The auto was badly damaged, the radiator, lumps, hood nnd springs being smashed. The dnmage to the car will amount to between 20U and StOO. A COOL RECEPTION. It Was Nat Surprising, Though, In View of the Explanation. Letters or introduction are not in variably serviceable. For one reason, they may le too fr.ink. Harry Fur niss in his -Confessions of a Carica turist" says that when a brother artist was setting forth on his travels in for eign climes he was provided with n letter of introduction to a certain Brit ish consul. The writer of the letter inclosed it in fine to the artist, saying that he would find the consul a most arrant snob, a bumptious, arrogant humbug, n cad to the backbone. Still, he would probably offer some courtesies to any one who had a good social standing nnd thus compensate the traveler for having to come in contact with such an insufferable vulgarian. On the return of the artist to Eng land the writer of the letter asked how he had fared with the consul. "Well, my dear fellow." drawled the artist, "he did not receive me very warmly, and he did not ask me to din ner. In fact, he struck me as being rather cool." "Well, you do surprise me," rejoined his friend. "He's a ead. as I told you in my letter, but he's very hospitable, nud I really can't understand this state of things. You gave him my letter of Introduction?" "Why. I thought so; but. do you know, on my journey home 1 discov ered it in my pocketbook. so I must have handed to him instead your note to me about him." The explanation was quite adequate. Surmounting a Difficulty. A man of tact always manages tc gel out of a ditliculty. The clerk of a parish in England whose business it was to read the first lesson iu the church came across the chapter In David in which the names Shadrach Meshach and Abednego occur twelve times. Finding It extremely difficult to pro nounce these names, he went tbrougo the chapter referring to them as "the aforesaid gentlemen." No, 22, Pats, (daily ex. Snnday) leave... .73.'. a m No. til, Krt. A Ac. (d'y ex. Saturday) lv.r.-U0 p m No. 21, Pass, (ilailyex. Snnday) arrive. . 9:211 p m No. 21, Frt. & Ac. (d'y ex. Snnday) ar. ..6:15 a m Her Self Possession. "Miss Oldcastle is always self pos sessed no matter what happens." "Well, she ought to be seeing that she has had practice in the self pos session Hue for at least thirty-five years."-ChIcago i:ecordneraId. Elusive Economy. Economy, unlike charity, doesn't usu ally begin at home. In fact, economy doesn't beglti anywhere as often as 11 should. Atchison Globe. COAL 4 Pocahontas Smokeless Illinois, Rock Spring's and Colorado Coals at prices that will interest you. Let us figure with you lor your winter's supply. T. B. Hord Grain Co. Bell 188 Ind. 206 11 . ttBNMMBV 9WZW I m Km zwmr - Better Plumbing "jfc ! Pfc'OtsO 1 TVTANY homes should have better bath rooms 1 A than they now have. We have always tried not only to do better . plumbing than we ever did 2 ( before, but better than any body else can do. The vol ume of work we are now doing shows how we are suc ceeding. Wc use only genuine "StomdmdT plumbing fixtures and employ only experienced workmen. Our repair ing service is prompt and reliable. A. DU&SEUL fit SON. Columbus, Nebraska i lfi g ISI 1 wgm Ax Ksad Money. When Schlieiuauii was diguing :.t tin j supposed site of Troy he dNcovei I masses of siher in the form .f :: heads. Uotze suggested that the-i were intended not for implements. .u; for money, llronze ax heaiN have :d-i been fli::covercd in aiioieul rei.:ii is. mingled with metal pieces in the form of rings, in such :: manner as to sug gest that all alike were intci.dcd ti serve a money, and the coiieIi:.-i :i i; drawn that iu ancient times the met::' :t. head had come to he a j.'-:mi!:ii unit of a!iie for purpose- of barter After it had disappeared ::v actual money the memory of it. :n-co'Vii..g to thi theory, was jm-trv.-d in te -o:n:: of Teiicdos. which bore the figure of an ax head. It ha:: been suggested that the "wedge of gold" which Aehan stole from the spoils of .leri-l- ami for the stealing of which Joshua had him stoned to death was a specimen of the ancient ax head money. -Harper's Weekly. A Youthful Joke. "When .Mark Twain was the editm of the Virginia City KuicrpriM-." sail1 an essayist at the Fn'ulcliii inn hi Phi! adelphia. "a crv:uit uirl in th. ne"'i boring town of Lovelock u:topoetcdh fell heir to $:t:n.t;no. Her name v.a .Miriam Rogers. A day or two aftei the announcement, while all Virginia City and Lovelock hummed with Mir Iain's good link. Mark Twain printed on the editorial page -S th. Hnterprisr this paragraph: "'If Miriam Rogers of L-vehv-k. who recently inherited a large fortune will call at this ollice sh v.i!t hea: something greatly to her advantage We are bachelors. "New York Press Seven. Numerous are the ipieer beliefs con corning the number seven. From the very earliest nges the seven great plan ets were known and ruled this world nud the dwellers in it. and their mini her filtered into every conceivable matter that concerned man. There are seven das in the week, "seven holes in the head, for the master stars are seven." seven ages both for man and the, world iu which he lives. There are seven material heavens. There are seven colors iu the spectrum and sei ou note in the diatonic octave, and the "leading" note of the scale is tin seventh. Re it noted that the seventh son is not always gifted with benefi cent powers, iu Portugal he is be lieved to be subject to the powers of darkness and to be compelled every Saturday evening to assume the like ness of an ass. St. James Gazette. Microscopic Measurement. The measurement of microscopic ob jects is done by rulings on glns. which are produced by wonderfully delicate inacliim-s. These rulings are const ruct-d -so :: to ar-.-rrntery divide an iii'-h or any other init of measure menl into any dodrcd number of part ; a. for i::-!:mm-i-. o.ie one-htm dredth of an inch or fin- omr-thou saudlh t I" an inch i.r even one ten thousandth of an iin h. The lim-st nil ings thus far pn dtici-d b. any of the maehim.; are :;t the rate of something like liOtUKKi to the inch. Home idea or the closeness of tin- ruled lines can be obtained from considering that a thou sand such line-; would occupy only the space inch.-h-d iu the thickness of a sheet of ordinary writing paper. New York American. THE JOURNAL FOR PRINTING i Go Out Into The Union Pacific Country Where there are greater opportunities and less com petition; where nature is generous in both climate and soil. It is in this section that thousands will find homes in the next few years. Go via UNION PACIFIC "Tho Safe Road" Electric Block Signals Dining Car Meals and Service "Best in the World" Low Homeseekers' Fares Firfit and Third Tuesday of Kucb Month During HUM To Mnny Points in (Jolorndn. Wyoming, Utah. Idaho. Oregon and Washington For information relative to rates, routes, etc , call on or nddresn E. G. BROWN, Agent, Columbus, Neb.