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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
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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
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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.
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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
