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.vv.jtvv; MMaMaiaBi r w i k 'flBSsaRRl PLUMBING- if) more Heasonahle now than at any otLer time in the year. If you have plumbing that should be done for the betterment of. .sanitary con ditions, you ought to eend for us at once. WE WONT OVERCHARGE but we will guarantee to do your work as well, if not better, than you could have it done elsewhere. 411-413 W I3th St. Columbus. Neb. ITEMS OF INTEREST ST. KIWAK1 Fnirn V.iv Admni'e. Mrs. Pat McCurty went to Columbus Tuesday where she will take treatment at St. Mary's hospital. Mrs. 1'oBtle and Miss Osborne or Col umbus were guests of Mrs. Jos. West brook the fore part of the week. Mrs. Lizie Lewis returned from Cali fornia where .she baa resided for several years, and will make her home in St. Edward. M.N. Wilson of Columbus was a St. Kdward visitor the fore part of the week, a guest at the home of his uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. E. Q. Criss. Mrs. IX N Jennings and son returned home last Saturday from Denver where they bad been visiting for the last four months. Mr. Jennings will be gone for another week. OENOA. From tlitiTitiu-. F. II . Itudat, of Columbus, was a bus iness visitoi in Uenoa Tuesday. He was here to confer with Russell Goodwin relative to securing the agency for the Indian motoreyclo at Columbus. On the morning of February stb, Hor ace L. Brooks, of Albion, passed away. Mr. Hrooks was well known in this part of Nebraska s the secretary of the Boone County Fair Association. He was the live wire in the management or the fair which has the reputation of being the best county fair in the state. Married, at the miic of tin- bride's mother, Mrs. Hannah Larsoii.in (Jenoa. Wednesday evening, February lfi, l!ll, Mr Howiml K. Christman to Miss Min nie Larson, Rev. Joseph .1. Parker ofll- dating. The wedding was a iiuiet allair, only the relatives of the contracting par ties being present. The groom has tented the Pugeley farm in Platte county where the couple will reside. KKNTHAI. riTV. From the Nonpareil. Mrs. Frank Tooley was a passenger to Columbus Sunday, where she expects to visit a sister aud other relatives for a week or ten days. During her absence our marshal will be compelled to enjoy bachelorhood days. James F. Pease has sold his farm con sisting of a quarter section of land and lying about sis miles north and one mile west of Central Oity to Henry McCart ney, of Unadilla, Neb. The considera tion was 612,000 or an average price of i75 per acre. As will be noted in the minutes of the supervisors' proceedings in another column of this issue Merrick coanty is no longer able to have its court house insured and if at any time in the future, the building should happen to burn or be wrecked the same, together with all the records and other contents, will be a total loss to the taxpayers. Thi9 fact became a reality when the company carrying the insurance on the building cancelled the policy they had issued and advised the board that they no longer desired to assume the risk, owing to the dilapidated condition of the structure. FR1SCHH0LZ BROS. SHOES CLOTHING Gents' Furnishing Goods RELIABLE GOODS AT RIGHT PRICES. FRISGHHOLZ BROS. 405 lltli Street, A. Dussell Son ABOUT OUR NEIGH BORS AND FRIENDS CLIPPED FROM OUR EXCHANGES 1'I.ATTK CKNTER From ttm Signal. The railroad company baa been using dynamite to break up the ice in the river at Columbus this week. Not only can the sound be distinctly heard here but in many instances the conenssion is plainly felt. The Sidney Smith family, of Hum phrey are surely drawing more than their share of attlictionB. In the early part of January an II year old daughter was operated on for appendicitis at the Columbus hospital. Last week Thurs day a 7 year old son was treated in the same manner, and on Tuesday this week Mr. Smith underwent the same ordeal. Arthur Watts was in town Wednesday for the first time in two month?, having been confined to his home with a ner vous aflliotion, caused, he is assured, by the excessive use of tobacco. lie quit using the weed some time before he was taken sick, but so thoroughly had he become poisoned with it that he don't mend as rapidly as he had hoped for. He went to Columbus Wednesday to consult a physician, and if he receives no benefit, will probably go to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and try a course of treatment there. Hut no more tobacco for Arthur. SIIKI.IIY. From tlit'Sim. Miss Freda Kipple. of Columbus, who was teaching the District IV.) school, re signed and returned home last Sat urday . Mr. John Henggeler. of Stockville, returned home Saturday, by way of Columbus, after a week's visit with friends and relatives here. John Ingalls and family were under quarantine with the small pox while their son, Arthur, who hnd had them was fumigated and set free. He had good reasons for wanting to get out bb his marriage with Mits Horns would have been postponed. They celebrated Saturday, last week, after his folks were over the sickness nnd out. Mr. C. J. A. Pahl, of New York City arrived here one evening last week and was met at the train by Mrs. Rosy Oads. We are told that through a mat rimonial agency Mr. Pahl and Mrs. Oads began a correspondence which was kept up until marriage was agreed upon and Mr. Pahl came to Nebraska to claim his bride. Hut in this case, like so many others, the course of true love lacked a considerable of running smoothly. Mrs. Oads has a guardian appointed to look after her interests and the county judge would not issue the license for their marriage. But neither the judge, guardian nor the smiles or frowns of the world could deter them from em barking on the matrimonial sea. They both became of age several years ago and felt that they were old enouph to do as they pleased in this matter, so they bid good-bye to the friends and rela tives of the bride and boarded the train last Saturday morning for New York, where they intended to get married on their arrival and it is hoped they will live happy ever afterwards. Columbus. MOSROB. From the Republican. E. A. Gerrard visited with Columbus relatives Tuesday sad Wednesday. Mrs. M. Sheridan of Columbus arrived Tuesday for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Gleason. Misses Addie and Louise Keeton of North Bend were guests at the H. L. 8mith home the first of the week. The Misses Gert9ch gave a valentine party February 14. at the home of Mrs. Joe Brandt. About thirty-five attended and spent an enjoyable evening. The annual town meeting of Monroe townBhip is called to meet Tuesday, March 7, in the town hall, to provide for annual levy and transact each other township busines as may properly come before it. Mrs. J. O. Gillan, Mrs. N. Nelson and Miss Gertie Fellers entertained Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. N. Nelson, the occasion being a kitchen shower in honor of Miss Daisy Griffin. Fifteen ladies were present. Each guest in presenting her gift read an appropriate verse containing good wishes and advice. Mr. and Mrs. Eppley of Fort Collins, Colo., who have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hill and other friends in this locality, left Monday for Omaha and Atlantic, la. Mrs. Eppley will be re membered as Miss Cora Bieber, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Bieber, and a resident of west of Monroe a number of years. Beginning with Monday there will be a change in the time of the passenger truin on this branch, the first in several years. The eastbouod passenger will arrive here about thirty minutes earlier and leave at 11:25 a. m., and returning leaves Columbus at 1:10 p. m, arriving here at 1:40 instead of 2 p. m., as under the old schedule. On the main line a midnight train leaves Omaha for the west and this will give the same mail service on the branches as before the Denver train was taken off, the dailies arriving in tue morning instead of the afternoon. Another important change is the local train on the main line, which leaves Columbus for the west at 12:10 p. m , giving passengera from this branch a chance to get either way from Colum bus, something that it was impossible to do under the old time table. Next Wednesday the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Monroe Inde pendent Telephone company will be held in Monroe. This company, which was organized eight years ago, baa grown un til it covers a large territory north and west of here, and gives all stockholders a reasonable and efficient telephone ser vice. When originally' organized, the promoters had no idea that the company would ever reach its present status, the original plan being to supply local tele phone service for Monroe and vicinity after promises to build lines in this section had been made and not kept by other companies Evidently the pro moters built better than they knew, for Monroe company is a surprise to all telephone men, and the railway com mission have commented favorably upon thi plan on which it is conducted. And in passing it is well enough to call attention to the fact that of all the counties on the lines of this company, Platte, which is the original home of the company, is the only one without free M'rvice to the county seat. BELIAVOOD. From Ilu(inzett. Miss Angeltne Shields and Miss Mary Beringer, who are attending St. Francis Academy at Columbus, returned to that place Monday evening after Spending Saturday and Sunday visiting with their parents. " A metbodist bishop's wife addressed a meeting of slum house-wives on their home duties. The address made the home life seem very fine and ideal. One housewife present, however, said the bishop's wife didn'l go far enough to help her. Said she: "She's all right as far as she goes,, but what I'd like to ask her is this: What does she do when her old bishop comes home on a pay night with his envelope empty and a fightin' jag on?" M. N. Wilson was over from Columbus last Friday evening and while calling on bis "beet girl" some of the boys thought they would give him a serenade. They hired a number of kids, who were to march on their victim with tin pans and drums, while a certain doctor in Bell wood watched the rear door to prevent M. N. making bis escape. The boys for some reason or other failed in their duty but the doctor remained at his post, cov ered in a pile of straw nntil nearly froz en and now the sell seems to be on the doctor. Halaie Riley Smith was born in Medi na Center, Medina county, Ohio, Nov. 36 183C, and died at his home near Bell wood Nebraska, after a brief illness, February 13, 1011, aged 74 years, 2 months, and IS days. He was married to Nancy Mara I Krnm in I860, and to this union there was born ten children, -five of whom sur vive him, namely, Clayton. Clarence, Norman. Mrs. Mary Moore, and Mia. Nannie Sheldon. His wife died Feb. 8, 1880. He was married a second time to Mrs. Isabell Shavely in April. 1892. Mr. Smith came to Butler county 40 years ago, and engaged in farming in the sum mer, and teaching school in the winter, for a number of years. He was a soldier in the civil war, having been a member of the 8th Iowa regiment. Equal to the Cat. Seniplet-Johnson has trained his cat to climb a brick walk Nistor Oh, that's no stunt! I've trained my ivy to do that Detroit News. Dreary Waiting. The chap who lives on the strength of what he used to be has to wait a long time for the secoud table. Chi cago Journal. All skill ought to be exerted for anlversal good. Johnson. IN OUR NEW HOME In the Meridiam Amnex You will find us better equipped that ever to attend to your wants in Electric Lighting and Electric Irons Let us wire your house Columbus Light, Heat & Power Co. COLUMBUS MEAT MARKET We invite all who desire ohoioe steak, and the very best cuts of all other meats to oall at our market on Eleventh street. We also handle poultry and fish and oysters in season. S. E. MARTY & CO. Telephone No.1. - Columbus. Neb. Origin of a Song. The grumbling of a negro groom led to the composition of the immortal "Old Folks at Home." While waiting for a change of horses at a Kentucky hostelry the composer. Stephen Foster author of so many beloved darky mel odies, heard a melancholy negro mur mur as he threw n set of harness tu the ground: "I's sick an' tired o dls life. I wlsht I was back wif de ole folks at home." "Where may that be. Sam?" asked Foster. "Oh." answered the darky, "way down on de Suwannee river." The result was the song ns we have It today. Patriotism. It is the duty of every man who de sires to carry on his business In peace and safety to take his share In the defense of his country. Sir Walter Besaut. The rule In carving holds good as to criticism never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. Charles Buxton. A Proof. "That girl Is trying to make a fool of me." "Oh, no! She never. tries anything ready made." Baltimore American. A Woman's Mind. Sillicus A woman never seems a bio to make up her mind. Cynlcus Why should she? She would only change It again Philadelphia Record. Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a. fal' -Smollett. 1911 Indian Motorcycles are all fitted with The Free Engine Clutch without extra charge Holds all World's Records Get the 1911 Catalogue F. R. GOODWIN, Agt. Genoa, Neb. DO YOU WANT TO BUY The best irrigated land, with the beet water rights. Which baa produced ham per crops for the past 20 yean. Price reasonable. Terms very easy. Kor iar tiralara write Isaac Conner, Omaha, Neb. jfiSt UIIIOII PACIFIC (JH) TUE TULE WKST BOUND. EAST BOUND. No. 11 8tam No. I 4:21 am No.1 Wan am No. 13 !ilam No.V USnni No.rt 2.-40 pm No. 17 SjOSpni No. Id 2:10 pm No. IS Uilp'u No. 10 3:05pm No. S tiiV.pm ' No. 13 5:57 pm No.5 J:4Gpm No. 2 3:f4pm No. 21 llOam No. 22 Opn No. IV ll0ain No. 'JO 3:00 p m No.'-M 838 pm No.24 7:12 am No." Silpm I No. 8 rt:lrtpm BB4XCHZ8. NORFOLK. SPALIHNO ALBION. No. 77 mxd. d 7:20am No. 79 mxd.. d 60 am No. 29 pan ..d7ipm No.31 pas ..d lJOpm No. 30 pas ..a 1:10 p m No. 32 pas ..a!2 JO p m No. 78 mxd. .a (1:10 pm No. 8ft mxd. .a 7:00 p m Iailjr except Sunday. xotz: Noa. 1, 2. 7 and 8 are extra fare trains. Noe. 4. 5, 13 and II are local passengers. Noa. 58 and 59 are local freights. Nos. 9 and 18 are mail trains only. No. 14 dne in Omaha 4:15 p. m. No. 6 dae in Omaha 5:00 p. m. C. I. t Q. Tins Tails No.22.Paas. (daily ex. Sunday) leave.. ..7:25a m No. 33, Fit. 4 Ac. (d'y ex. Saturday) 1t.5K p m No. 21. Pass, (daily ex. Monday) arrive..920 p m No. 31. Frtv& Ac. (d'y ex. Sunday) ar. ..6:15 a m T.KI08. Fids the Wtirld. John O. Sprecber of Schuyler, form rly editor of the Free Lance, is in town this week soliciting subscriptions to the Omaha Bee and other papers. A. G. Johnson was recently at Albion when he purchased a team of thorough bred Belfian mares that are as good as can be found anywhere. Our farmers an sparing neither pains cor price these days to secure the beet grades of live stock that are to be had. Since the thawing weather set in last Sunday one could hesr at short intervals a great boosting noise caused by explod ing dynamite at the bridges across the Platte and Loup at Columbus. The ice is breaking up easily this' season. The creeks are bask fall of. ice and water and the way the ducks and geese are flying northward makes one think spring is coming even the robins are back. Ed Hollman'a little son Julius playful ly pnt some grains of wheat into one of his ears some time ego and at last it be gan to cause trouble. Ed brought him to Leigh bat it seems the wheat could not be removed so on Thursday of last week he and Henry Hoellerwent to Col ambus in Ed's auto and the doctor there succeeded in getting the grains out. There was great rejoicing in thai family. SCHUYUtR. From the Hon. Mrs. Roy Oroebj who narrowly escap ed in the hotel explosion in Niobrara some time ago is slowly improving in a Fremont hospital. Last week it was found necessary to amputate one of her feet and the doctors now claim she baa a good chance for recovery. Monday deputy sheriff Curastil took Mrs. Vincent to the asylum at Norfolk. She has beea in the county jail ever sin ce the shooting affair np near Richland last fall. She would not accept bonds for her release so the authorities thought best to take care of her. An item of interest to the public and particularly the people of Richland is the fact that in four years the Richland State Bank haa grown from nothing to $75,000 deposits. The stockholders of the bank have increased the capital to $10,000 to keep pace with its rapidly growing business. On Friday or last week Mr. Carl Kluck and Miss Katie Yesger went to Colum bus where they were united in marriage. Miss Yesger is a charming young lady of this city and Mr. Kluck has done him self honor in winning her hand. The groom is the son of Mrs. Johanna Kluck of this city. The young couple will go to housekeeping on a farm. May the happiness of a long and prosperous life be theirs. Sir.VKK CREEK. From the faniU Ed. Riley who has had charge of a Union Pacific section atOverton, Nebr., has been transferred to the Watson Ranch section. G. W. Erb, who suffered a light stroke of paralysis a couple of weeks ago and whose life has been despaired of since then, was reorted slightly improved the first of the week. Owing to the sickness of Mrs. Fred Hardle the past fall and winter her hus band has not hail time to pick bis corn. Last Monday a number of members of the local Modern Woodmen lodge under took to pick it for him, but owing to the mud and water in the field were unable to complete the job, but tbey got out about 900 bushels which was quite n help. The electric light plant is now in oper ation, the streets being lighted and many dwellings and places of business also. As fast as places can he wired the lights are turned on and soon the use of oil lamps in Silver Creek will be small. The plant promisee to be a great success. It is one of the most complete plants in the state ss it gives a fall 24 hour service and besides furnishing light can also furnish power and heat. HtlafPIlftEY. From the Democrat "Mr. Dan Drisco',1 has resigned as moderator of Hist. 75. He intends to move to Miobigsn soon. Herman Schlneter has been appointed as his successor in office." The above taken from the Pierce County Leader, we persume refers to the Dan Driscoll who formerly lived io Platte county. We are a little surprised to hear that our old friend Dan . contemplates leaving Nebraska for a horn in Michigan. However, we will bet that he will come back to Nebraska in due time. A record of about 31 years of continu ous use as a general merchandise store building is credited to the Rimers store building which is vacant this week for the first time in all those years, and daring that time, only in the recent few years practically no change was made in the ownership of the large stock which the bnilding always held. No wonder then that Mr. Eimers, Br., has a great pride in the store building and would like to see it continue as one of the important business plsces of the town. Islss ef the Sea. There are few isles of the sea that are not known. Even in the south Pa cific there Is not, it is stated, an iso lated islet on which the cocoanut palm can grow which is not marked on the chart and visited periodically by rep resentatives of some trader, nor a rock on which sea birds are accustomed to congregate and nest whose stores of guano have not been tested and in many cases cleared, nor a bank with in diving distance on which the pearl shell oyster has Its home which has not been discovered and stripped of Its treasures. Exchange. Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has. for its flrst duty, to forglvsv-Bul-wer Lytton. Malr the motf nutri tious food and the mot dainty and dehciout. ROYAL BAKING POWDER TsW only Bakmf Powder oMRojadGntpeCKUatofTartmr No fussing or fretting over tiaebiscuit-making. Royal is the aid to many a cook's success. JLVjwf Cm ROYAL RAKMM POWDER CO.. NCW YORK. THERE'S NO RISK. If This Medicine Does Not Benefit You Pay Nothing. A physician who made a specialty of stomach troubles, particularly dyspep sia, after years of stndy perfected the formula from which Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are made. Our experience with Rexall Dyspepsia j Tablets leads as to believe tbem to be the greatest remedy known for the relief of acute indigestion and chronic dys pepsia. Their ingredients are soothing and healing to the intlamed membranes of the stomach. They ere rich in pepsin, one of the greatest digestive aids known to medicine. The relief they afford is almost immediate. Their use with per sistency and regularity for a short time brings about a cessation of the pains caused by stomach disorders. Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets will insure healthy appetite, aid digestion and pro mote nutritition. As evidence of our sincere faith in Rexall Dyspepsia Tab lets, we ask yon to try them at our risk. If tbey do not give yon entire fcatiaf ac tion, we will return you the money you paid us for them, without question or formality. They come in three sizes, prices 25 cent". 50 cents and $1.00. Re member you can obtain tbt-m only at the Rexall store. Pollock & Co , corner i:ith and North streets Solitude. Solitude is dangerous to reason with out being favorable, to virtue. Pleas ures of some sort are necessary to the Intellectual as to the 'orioml health, and those who resist gayety will be likely for the most part to fall a sac rifice to appetite, for the solicitations of sense arc always at hand, and a dram to a vacant nnd solitary persou Is a speedy and seducing relief. Re member that the solitary person Is cer tainly luxurious, probably supersti tious aad possibly mad. The mind stagnates for want of employment and Is extinguished, like a candle in foul air. Johnson. Rastus and His Razzsr. "You are charged with carrying a razor." said the magistrate. "What have you to say;" "Rut hit's a safety razzer," pleaded Rastus. "What difference does that make':" the court asked. "Well, yo bono.' a safety razzer am carried only fo de moral effect." A Fair Prepesition. "But," the patient exclaimed, "your advertisement said 'no cure, no pay. " "I shall cure you," the doctor replied, "If you only will lie patient and give me time." "Very well. I will pay you if you will be patient and give me time. When shall I call again?" Chicago Record-Herald. $25 To California and the . Pacific Northwest Low One Way Colonist Rates March 10, to April 10, 1911 VIA UNION PACIFIC Standard Road of Hie West ELECTRIC BLOCK SIGNALS DUSTLESS, PERFECT TRACK EXCELLENT DINING CARS For literature and information relative to fares, routes, etc , call on or address ELLIS G. BROWN, Agent, COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA i THE GOLD WAS THERE. ut Mark Twain Missed It by Just One Pail ef Water. With Steve Glllls, a printer of whoaa he was fond, Mark Twain went sr Into Calaveras county to a cabin or. Jackass hill, where Steve's brother Jim, a lovable, picturesque character (the "Truthful James" of Bret Harts), owned mining claims. Mark decided to spend his vacation In pocket Rais ing and soon added that science to his store of knowledge. It was a hRlcyea. happy three months that ha lingered there. One day with Jlam Glllls ae was following the specks of gold that led to a pocket somewhere p the hill when a chill, dreary rain set 1r- Jim was washing and Clemens wan carry ing water. Tie "color" became better and better as they ascended, and Gll lls, possessed with the minlat? passion, would have gene on regardless of the ram. Clemens, however, protested aad declared that each pall of water was his last. Finally be said In his delib erate, drawling fashion: "Jim, I won't carry any saore water. This work is too disagreeable. Let a go to the house and wait till It dean up." Glllls had just taken out a pas of earth. "Bring one more pall, Sam," he plead ed. "I won't do It, Jim! Not r drop! Not If I knew there was a mllllea dollars In that pan!" Tbey left the pan standing there aad went over to Angel's camp, which was nearer than their own cabta. The rain kept on, and they sat around the grocery and barroom smoking and tell ing stories to pass the time. Meanwhile the rain had washed away the top of the pan of earth left standing on the slope of Jackass hill and exposed a handful of aaggefa pure gold. Two strangers had come along and. observing It, bad sat dowa to wait until the thirty day claim notice posted by Jim Glllls should ex pire. They did not mind the rain not with that gold In sight and the mut ate the thirty days were up they fol lowed the lead a few pans farther aad took out $20,000 in all. It was a good pocket. Mark Twain missed It by pall of watRr. Chicago Post Not Perfect. A horse dealer was showing a horse to a prospective buyer. After running him back and forward for a few min utes he stopied and said to the buyer: "What do you think of his coat? Isn't he u dandy?" The buyer, noticing that the horse had the heaves, replied, "Yes, I like his coat all right, but I don't like his punts." London Tit-Bits. Meditation. Try to secure some part of each day for meditation. Apart from mem we can look ourselves more honestly In the face, lift up our hearts to God and give our panting lives a chance. Stevenson.