THE COURIER.
Instead of waiting Until the end of the season we inaugurate it at the bemnin. Value and cost cuts rt figure. All styles and
patterns carried ovtr must go and go quickly
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That's what we hear from people who h iw got our prices. compared and returned here to buy
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Anything Jand
everything at prices to con
form with cheapeness like this
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PARLOR GOODS, BOOK CASES. DINING R00
SEIS
CHAMBER SOUS, ICE CHESTS EIC.
At nearly ONE HALF its original
value
f Ft Oak Desk worth every hit of S 0.75 umv c'.UH)
Is a record breaker
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OUR CARPET.
CURTAIN
The comparison prove superiority in quality.
quantity and variety, linked to a positive saving
of from '20 to 10 per cent is what pulls the trade
here.
Ingrain carpet, extra super warp, quite a nice
lino of patterns? usually 10c now :25c
Ingrain carpet, all wool patterns. cotton warp
in good live patterns usually 70c now -121..
T- (ngrain carpet all wool extra super quality of
tho very best fabrics usually 75c now 45
Tapestry Brussels, good styles positively worth
Goc per yard now 15
ft. Tapestry hrussels, extra quality, all choice
patterns worth SOe now 50
Oil cloth. Linoleum, Chinese and Japanese
Mattings in a great variety of very handsome
patterns at correspondingly low price'.
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Here is where we sell
From 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.
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EvhKYTHI.Mi IlKKK Has Kk(.'K1KI Not O.NK liLAUIC
Evk Hit Two
Having failed to dispose of our largo and
magnificent line of stoves at wholesale and
decided to discontinue this branch of our
business, we propose to slaughter everything
at retail, and the only way for you to find
out how
WONDERFULLY CHEAP
it good stove can be sold is to come and
see us at once. Every stove warranted to
be all right in every respect.
GRUETTER & JOERS. FURNITURE AND CARPET GO
SOCIAL GOSSIP
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T. II. McKinny and wife are in Chi
cago. Webster Eaton is doing the City of
Mexico.
Mrs. A. Ti. Hoover is in Hutchinson,
Kansas.
Win. E. Knight went to St. Louis
Tuesday.
C. M. Jaques left Tuesday for a busi
ness trip to Sterling, III.
Mayor E. W. Brookings was in the
city this week visiting A. T. Leming.
Miss Valjean McCandless has gone to
spend the winter in Canon City, Col
orado. J. W. Deweese and Miss Lena Dc
weese were in St. Paul, Mint:.; this
week.
Leonard II. Robbing, formerly of the
State university, is now a sophomore at
Princeton.
Mrs. Fred Krone and family have gone
to Galveston, Texas, where they will
henceforth resids.
Mrs. Geo. A. Clark, of Leavenworth,
Kansas, is visiting her father, Mr.
Wienn, of this city.
Mrs. A. M. Trester and her grand
daughter. Miss Lillian Trester, went to
Denver Tuesday to visit friends.
Mrs. E. R. Tingley has gone to join her
husband, who will winter in the moun
tains of New Mexico for his health.
Mre. William Wakefield, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Flansburg. has
returned to her home in Peoria, III.
Miss L. C. Butler left Tuesday for
Galesburg. III., where sho will spend
the winter with her cousin, Mrs. Har
rington. President William E. Chancellor of
the Polytechnic will open the V. M. C.
A. course of lectures at Omaha Monday
evening with a talk on "American De
mocracy and the Public Schools."
The ladies of the Family club gave a
reception at the Conservatory of Music
to Chancellor and Mrs. MacLcan on
Wednesday evening. Receptions to
Chancellor MacLean are becoming fre
quent Next week the Lincoln club
will welcome him and soon after tho
Patriarchs will try to do him honor.
Tuesday evening the officers and mem
bers of St. Paul's church tendered a re
ception to Dr. C. C. La-by and wife and
Elder II T. Davis and wife. The parlors
of the church, in which the reception
was held, were beautifully decorated. A
short musical program was rendered and
refreshments were liberally served. So
numerous were those eager to offer
their congratulations to the guests of
the evening that the hand-sha'ring
occupied more than an hour. Mr.
George A. Adams made the address of
welcome to the pastor and presiding
elder.
The university library has been pre
sented by Judge J. R. Webster with a
valuable collection of books on ancient
religions. It comprises forty-six books
of research into religion by ancient and
modern scientists. The collection is
worth one hundred anil fifty dollars.
With the true spirit of a scholar Judge
Webster wished the collection he has
taken so much pleasure in selecting not
to be scattered, but to be read and stud
ied by others. The new university
library is tire proof. The books are
safer there than anywhere else in the
state. Besides the donor wished to
have the pleasure of giving the books
himself.
The university fraternities are now
selecting their members, Tj be an
acceptable member of a fraternity one
must be a good dresser and must not
be an habitual "Hunker." Occasionally
several Greek letters want the same
man. When this occurs all kinds of
attentions are lavished on that man. He
is invited to dinner, to the theatre, he
can have anything that twenty or thirty
devoted and rival boys can get for him.
He thinKs the students a most po'ito
unselfish, disinterested set of young men
until he is initiated into one of the fra
ternities, then the members of the other
fraternities sunddenly "give him ice"
and he realizes that the world is hollow.
C. V. Smith made an entirely scien
tific investigation of the Bowery and
makes a report to Thk Coukikic:
"Saturday night I went to the Uow
ery." J always thought that the Bowery
was some kind of a theatre and I was
surprised to learn that it was the name
of a street. It reminds me very much
of White Chapel, Loudon. It is one
grand blaze of light illuminating the
shop windows, and the concourse of the
middle classes and roughs who prom
enade up and down the sidewalks. The
place of greater interest here is Steve
Brodie's saloon. Who has not heard of
Steve Brodie- What! never heard
Brodie? Well, I declare. Some time
ago Steve Brodie stood on the dizzy
heights of Brooklyn bridge, leaped into
the air, and like a shot fell down, down,
down to the waters of East river. He
lived. This leap took Steve Brodie
from obscurity ami secured him an en
viable Msition among the men of the
hour. When we entered the s:loon
I there were four of us the three bar
tenders all spoke together immediately
on our entrance: "Now, gentlemen,
what'l you have? Quick now, what'l it
be?" 'lhey spoke in such decided and
rather. I think, commanding tones, that
we realized without much difficulty that
it would be healthy for us to order
something, and order it juick. too. We
ordered four. The place is small; about
.'U)xl5 feet. Not at all a gaudy place
with handsome furnishings and the
like, but the bar and all are wry com
mon place. The four walls and ceiling
furnish the attraction, being covered
entirely with photographs of sports and
pugilists from Adam down. It is, in
deed, a curious collection, hardly tit for
a Sunday school, but instructive never
theless. There is besides a big blotch
of blood on a white piece of paper in a
small wooden frame with the inscrip
tion, "Blood wiped from the floor after
the Sullivan Corbet t tight at New Or
jeans.' tie also has a piece of tiie shirt
worn by a man who was electrocuted in
New York. Also Hags given him by
Corbatt and trophies from Sullivan and
others. As a sport Steve Brodie is way
up. and he probably is a power in pol
itics. His saloon is headquarters for
prize fighters and their coterie of fol
lowers. But just imagine placing on
