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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1895)
THE COURIER. i. Instead of waiting Until the end of the season we inaugurate it at the bsjfinninif. Value and cost cuts no figure. All styles and patterns carried over must go and go quickly OUR BQ VJRHYYVlWE. SMiE BtyTS THEN Mii That's what we hear from people who havj got our prices, compared and returned here to buy II M I D 11 R I j u i Anything and everything at prices to con form with cheapeness like this 5 Ft Oak Desk worth every hit of $ 073 mm 0 00 PARLOR GOODS, BOOK CASES, DINING ROOM SETS CHAMBER SUITS, ICE CHESTS ETC. At nearly ONE HALF its original value ' . SALE Is a record breaker RUG. OUR CARPET, CURTAIN The comparison prove superiority in quality, quantity and variety, linked to a positive saving of from 20 to 40 per cent is what pulls the trade here. Ingrain carpet, extra super warp, quite a nice line of patterns usually 40c now 25c Ingrain carpet, all wool patterns, cotton warp in good live patterns usually 70c now 42 Ingrain carpet all wool extra super quality of the very best fabrics usually 75c now 45 Tapestry brussels, good styles positively worth Gocperyard now 45 Tapestry brussels, extra quality, all choice patterns worth 80c now 59 Oil cloth. Linoleum, Chinese and Japanese Mattings in a great variety of very handseme patterns at correspondingly low price. CURTAIN DEPARTMENT Here is where we sell From 33 1-3 percent to 1-2 off on everything in these lines even on goods that have not been in our house three day. Nothing reserved and no one can ever expect to buy' a nicer pair of curtains at these prices again. STOVES STOVES STOVES Evkkythino Here Has Rf.oeivkd Not One H lack Eye But Two Ilavirg failed to dispose of our large and magnificent lino of stoves at wholesale and decided to discontinue this branch of our business, wo propose to slaughter everything at retail, and tho only way for you to find out how WONDERFULLY CHEAP a good stove can be sold is to corns and see us at once. Every stove warranted to bo all right in every respect. GRUETTER & JOERS. FURNITURE AND CARPET 60 I SOCIAL GOSSIP I Mrs. Elia W. Feattie is th9 guest of Mrs. Westermann, 1522 S street. Mrs. F. Johnson, of Crete, spent Federation days with Mrs. John Hor ton. Mrs. Langwortby, of Seward, is with Mrs. H. H. Wilson. Mrs. Langwortby has had great experience in serving on boards and committees. She is one of the serious-minded ones who serve others for conscience Bake. Miss Fairbrotber, the editor of the Woman's Weekly, is the guest of Mrs. F. M. Hall. Mrs. Laura Woodford, of Weeping Water, is the guest of Mrs. F. N. Gib son, 1141 G street. Mrs. Geo. Hill, of Beatrice, is the guest of Mrs. John P. Maule. Dr. S. C. Spottiswnod, of New York city, is the guest of Mrs. Amelia B. Clark. Dr. Spottiswood is an influential member of tho New York '"Sorosis." Mrs. C. J. Bowlby, of Crete, is the guest of Mrs L. G. M. Wade. Mrs. R. E. Moore entertained Miss Irene Bryne and Mrs, Henry Nott, of Omaha. Mrs. John Cattle, of Seward, and Mrs. D. C. McKillip, were guests of Mrs. T. J. O'Connell. Mrs. Belle M. Stoughtenborougb, of Flattsmouth, is the guest of Mrs. Wiesman, 513 N, 13th street. B. D. Mills haB gone to live in Mis souri. Mrs. Gooper is ill with inflammatory rheumatism. Dr. E. H. Eddy will sad for Europe October 10th. Mrs. A. L. Hoover left on Wednesday for Hutchinson, Kansas. Jared G. Smith, who has been visit ing his family here, left on luesday for Washington, D. C. Miss Katharine Kleutsch's visitor, Miss Minnie Bowman went back to her home in Omaha yesterday. Geo. Sheldon and wife were in town the first of the week visiting old friends and attending the republican conven tion. D. N. Lehmer, a university graduate and recently of Johns Hopkins uni versity is in town visiting his .sister, Mrs. Prey. Disk Berlin, of Omaha, was in the city this week in attendance upon the republican state convention. He was the guest of Frank Zehrung. Miss Elinor Raymond left on Monday for Miss Armstrong's academy in Cin cinnati, Ohio, in which she will con tinue her studies this winter. The engagement of Mr. Francis Tucker to Miss Emma Boose is an nounced. Both young people are well known in university and Y. W. C. A. circles. Mrs, J. C. Kier, who has been suffer ing from a severely sprained ankle all summer, is almost entirely recovered and has gone with her mother to attend the tri-ennial National Episcopal Con vention at Minneapolis. Last Saturday Charlie Miller, the County Commissioner, took a little run over to Council Bluffs and did not re turn alone. He surprised his friends by bringing back with him as a bride Miss Inez Bush, a young lady well known and popular in this city. Miss Stella Rice begins tho season as organist at Trinity Episcopal church tomorrow. She has been spending tho summer with her mother in Iowa. Miss Rice has been the organist at the Episcopal church for yei.ro and the people are glad to welcome her back. The Y. W. C. A gave a trolley party Monday evening for Miss Mattie King. They rode out to Wesleyan university to the accompaniment of horns. When they got back they bad hot coffee anc luncheon. Miss King has gone to Chicago to study dentistry. The party waB given to her in place of the gold cane which a popular man sometimes receives when he goes off to live some where else. Let us hope she will lean on thoughts of her friendly farewell when the Chicago pavings are unusual ly hard. Maior J. D. Calhoun has been viait ing in Lincoln for the past few weeks. Mild, amorous Florida has smoothed out lines in his face that it took Ne brasKa ten years to grave. He says ht has quit stirring up the animals and that when he has a little nioro of the climate down south ho will return to Nebraska and let this climate and the politicans help old age make him theirs. Mr. Calhoun never said this. He never said anything bitter in his life. He was born in the south and the southern sun has interpenetrated his disposition. Long life and good luck to him. Professor Bessey is busy making an enlarged and revised edition of hiB text book, "The Essentials of Botany' Most scientific books are ehort lived, new discoveries are constantly crowding old ones to the wall. Prof. Bcssey's book was written twelve jcars ago and then was re-written from a book written four years before that. But ao well has it stood the test of time and advancing discovery that during the last three years it has increased in sale. Prof Bessey had anticipated that by this time its day of usefulness would be over, but Henry Holt fc Co. wroto him a few months ago and told him tho de mand for the book was bo great they thought it wise to make a revised edition. Tho book has been almost en tirely re-written, and is embellished with numerous plates, the work of Miss Edna Hyatt. Miss Hyatt, by the way, has so much work to do for tho nituml ists at Leland Stanford university that she can not possibly be back before November. The young people of the university this wtek gave the first large dancing party of the season. Lieutenant Per shing who left this week for bis new post in the north-w.st, was given a reception Tuesday evening in representative hall by the university battalion and Persh ing Rifles. The Lieutenant, as is wel! known, has always been popular at the university. The students, particularly the cadets, saw in him a disciplinarian and a gentleman. He accomplished splendid results and at the same time earned the admiration and good will of young men. Pershing diJ good work, and his place at the university will not be easy to fill. It was entirely fitting that a farewell reception should have