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VOLUME 42 COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, JULY 12, 1911 8 Historical Seciety x NUMBER 15

The

Columbus

State Bank

Points to its longrecord of success-fully

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caring for theneeds of its custo-mers

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with justpride, and asks for ,

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future business onits past record. j

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The Oldest State :

Bank in Nebraska

Gray's July Clean SweepSale, Julv 8th to 22nd.

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Insurance nr evry description."has L. Dickey State Bank Build- -

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The Baptist Sunday scnool is en-

joying a picnic at Steven's lake to-da- v

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Miss Ruth Manger is entertainingHiss Tht-lm-a Gates, at Silver Creek !

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This wwfcI

Miss Geneve Jones -it the last ofthe wek fur a two weeks' visit with :

friemis at Seward. i

P A. Peterson will leave todav for .

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illness of his mother

Mrs. Juiitis Nichols will give a nineo clock breakfast Thursday in honoror Miss Liueh. of New York City

Mrs. Karris has returned to herhome m Waterloo, after a week's visitwith her parents. Mr. and Mrs. H.Pueschel.

Insure vour time, health and awi- - :

dent insurance. One dollars per i

month.Building.

C. L. Di.-ke- y State Bank J

Mr. and Mrs. A. I Rush and ohil- -

dren left Saturday for a two weeks'trip through Colorado, stopping atDenver Salida. Colorado Springs andother points of interest- -

July is not as popular a month withthe brides as June. Judge Katter-ma- a

having issued only one mnrnaselicense this week, that being to Mr.Elmer F. Ranibo. and Miss MinnieWilhelm. of Columbus.

Misses Mazie Magill and HazelClark returned yesterday from Cres-to- n.

where they had been visitingfriends. They were accompaniedhome by Miss Alta Anson, who willvisit with them for a time.

Mrs. E. H. Chambers returned !

Monday from a two weeks' visit inOmaha, the guest of Mrs. E. O. Ham-

ilton and Mrs. J. J. Sullivan. Whilein Omaha Mrs. Chambers was thehonored aueat at a luncheon given by

Mrs. Hamilton at the Happy Hollowclub and also one given by Mrs.Sullivan at the Fild club.

80 Acresof land within2 miles of Col-

umbus is offer-

ed at a bottomprice for aquick sale

Inquire of

Elliott -- Speice-Echols

Go.

P. B. Smith and family, who havemade Columbus their home for thepast four years, left Wednesday forOmaha, where they will make theirfuture home.

The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid so-

ciety will give a tea at the home ofAirs. H. J. Horstman. corner of 15thand Lewis. Wednesday, July 19th.Sherbet and cake, ten cents, andluncheon 15 cents. Hours for serv-ing, 3 to 9 p. m. Everybody invited.

There will be a base ball game atthe park next Sunday afternoon at'J 20. between the Owls and theEagles. A small admission fee willbe charged to cover the cost of thegrounds. Both orders are confidentof victory, and both are putting indome strenuous licks in practicing.

In a Ieter to The Tribune-Journa- l.

J. W Louis states that he and Mrs.Louis reached their destination.Pinckneyville, Illinois. Saturday .aftera vry pleasant trip. Although ratherfatigued from heat and continuedtravel they were feeling fine and en-

joying life.

Rev. Samuel Harkness is nursing acouple of sore fingers this week as aresult of having caught on a fishhookMonday afternoon. The hook tare onefinger quite badly and lodged in thenext one so that it was necessary forhim to cut it out with a knife, ratherthan tnar it out.

Did you ever see a moving picturestir a large audience to a storm ofapplause? Well, that was what hap-

pened last Saturday evening at theLync. at the close of the film show-

ing the wonderful Sheridan's ride.The film was accompanied by theplaying of patriotic airs by the or-

chestra, but even the pictures them- -

selves were so stirring that every onen'lu inrandnlr inrapaiirofl m atrarv fi.ture. M.r Washburn is certainly tobe congratulated on the quality of pic- -

tures shown in his house.

There ia a mild 3uk ns n theronud amoug the members of theOwls and the Eagles Arrangementswere being made for a ball game be--

r.VPen the members of the two ordeis.ami tiuj committee were discussingthe matter when ihe question of-a- d-

ising cim P- - "Have 7 anU i

I in good standing who is aprinter.' aslteu a memoer or tneEagie committee. "Certainly: someof the Tnbune boys are Owls."answered the Wise One. ,4Well." re--

joined the High Flier. -- Harms is anEagle, and w think he should havethe printing." So the argument woreon. Finally one suggested that a

coin be flipped to decide the matterand Harms won. so the Biene getsthe printing. X. B. This is not anaici advertisement.

w D WUaoIl retuRUMl Mondayfrom a Tiree weejs' trip through thewest where he had been looking overthe country. Ke visited Seattle.Portland. Los Angeles and was in SanFrancisco at the time of the lastearthquake on July 2. He says thesensation of the earth quaking underone is first strange then startlingand makes one realize the utter help-

lessness of his position. As soon asthe shock was felt, people rushedout into the middle of the streets toget away from the walls, whichmight fall at any time. Later he saidhe went to the Union Depot, wheremany people were leaving the city in

the fear that the awful days of 190C

might be repeated. He says he likesthe way San Francisco is built, buthad no particular love for Los Ange-

les.

According to the records in the of-

fice of the county clerk Tuesdayafternoon, four candidates for countytreasurer, four for county judge, and

j each for county clerk, clerk ofthe district court, coroner and superintendent have filed their names togo upon the ballot at the primaryelection next month. All are demo-

crats. For treasurer the names areWilliam J. Voss. Otto E. Heuer, Ed-

mund Miles and Louis Schwarz. Inaddtion to these there are one ortwo others who have announced theircandidacy through the local press,and numerous others whose nameshave been mentioned. The candi-dates for county judge are Judge Hat-terma- n.

Former Judge T. D. Robi-so-n.

of Humphrey; Former Judge W.X. Hensley and Judge O'Brien, ofColumbus. John Graf has field for

as county clerk, and J. L.Brunken has announced his candi-dacy for the same office, but has notyet filed. Henry Gaas. C. M. Grnen-th- er

and Fred S. Lecron signify thatthey are wiling to make make thenecessary sacrifice for the service oftheir county for another term intheir respective positions. HenryLachnit lets the papers say that hewill also be a candidate, hut he haanot yet paid the county treasurer thenecessary five dollars to make It of-fici- aL

No republicans have filed forany county- - office at this writing.

John Smith, of Bristow. who hadbeen here for a two weeks' visit withhis wife and daughter, returned homeFriday. He was accompanied by his

daughter, Miss Ella, who will visitwith him and her brother at Wag-

ner. South Dakota, for a couple otweeks.

Rev. Win. Xandera will leave thisweek for Indiana, where he will en-

joy his summer vacation. He ex-

pect to visit different point in thestate, but will spend most of hia timeat Lake Michigan. Mrs. Xandera ex-

pects to spend a part of the summerin the same state.

Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McQuown re-

turned aStnrday from a visit of sev-

eral days with Mrs. McQuown's moth-

er at St. Paul. They report that theseason has been very dry in Howardcounty, that the small grain is avery short crop and the outlook forcorn ia discouraging.

A whole regiment of knights of thetie pass appeared before JudgeO'Brien bright and early Mondaymorning, acting under orders of ChiefSchack, who had assumed temporarycommand. The regiment, which num-

bered twenty-fou- r able bodied men.was ordered to proceed to some otherplace, which they lost no time instarting out to do.

A new departure at the 1911 StateFair. September 4th to 8th will bethe Coin Turnstiles at the General ' spent the week-en- d with relatives atAdmission gates. Instead of the ens-- Eellwood.ternary stop and purchase of a ticket 1

I Harrv and John Richards, of Fre- -

at an outside ticket office, the fair -

mout. spent Sunday with Mr. andvisitor will walk to the turnstile and .

Mrs' D- - B- - Ricnani3-drop- slay down his fifty-ce-nt piece whichinto a slot, releaaea the lock

t Mr ami Mrs. c. g. Easton. of Cam-an- d

permitting the person to pass Drjjge are thtt guests this week at'through. Therefore when you come home o( Qtto Rummer,

to the State Fair this year be sure to j

have a 50-ce- nt piece, as nothing else ' Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Richards re-wi- ll

unlock the turnstile. turned home Thursday after a brie!visit with relatives at Oakdale.

There will be no new Xorthwesternpassenger station at Humphrey, at - and Mrs. Fred Fuerst and Miss

liable Fuerst. of Battle Creek, spentleast not for the present. That wasthe ruling made by the state railwaycommission last week in the casewherein the citizens of that townthrough their attorney, R. P. Drake,had asked the commission to causethe road to build a new depot andto have closer to the town the pres-

ent one is. The town-peopl- e arguedthat they produced sufficient revenuetojustify the expense, but when thematter was sifted to the bottom, it ,

was found that the expense would beconsiderably in excess of a year3revenue. The depot will be enlargedand the platform surrounding it also,and it is likely that a permanent sidewalk will be constructed from thedepot up town.

Following an illness of a year anda half, resulting from a fall on an icysidewalk, at which time she fractured j

her hip. Mrs. Rowena R. Gray died ,

at ner nome last inursuuy ""- -

For several days beiore the ena came,she had been unconscious, and nohopes were held out for her recov-

ery. She was bora at Ellington.Connecticut. March 12. 1S40. andlater moved with her family to Gales-bur- g.

Illinois. While a student atKnox College, she met Sidney C. Gray,and on March 7, 1SG1, became hiswife. Five children were born tothis union, of whom two sons. Clin-

ton C. Gray and Arthur M. Gray, bothof Columbus survive. They wereamong the early settlers of Columbustownship, living for several years onwhat is now a part of the Sheldonland northwest of the city, moving toColumbus in th early nineties. Mrs.Gray had for a number of years beena member of the Congregationalchurch, and it was there that thelast sad rites were paid to her mem-

ory Sunday afternoon, at which timea large concourse of friends andneighbors gathered to pay their lasttribute of respect to her who hadbeen their friend.

The court room at the court housewas crowded last Thursday after-noon, when the case of the stateagainst George Henggier. of Bis-mar- k

township, and his five sons.George, Alois. John. William andPeter, was called for a preliminaryhearing. The charge was that mem-

bers of the Henggier family had de-

stroyed a bridge in Bismark town-ship. The question was brought up

that the bridge was on the privateland of Mr. Henggier, where it hadno right to be. County AttorneyMcElfresh went back in the case to atime two or three years ago. a num-

ber of witnesses testifying that theyhad seen some of the Hengglerstampering with the bridge at thattime. After the state had introducedall its evidence. Attorney Hensley.for the defense, moved to dismiss thecase and discharge the defendants,introducing no evidence in their ownbehalf. County Attorney McElfreshfought this proposition vigorously,with the result the court decided theevidence sufficient to hind all thedefendants over to the district court,each of the six being bound for fivehundred dollars. George Henggeler,St., furnished thm basis tor alL

WHEN WE DELIVER COAL

to you. you know that you are get-

ting the best Coal and the moat

prompt service possible.

TRY OUR ALFALFA MEAL

For Feeding Your tive StockIT WILL PAY YOU

T. B. Hsri Craa C.PHOXES: Independent 20

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J. A. Marohn. of Schuyler, spentThursday at the home of S. E. Baker.

Otto Merz. Jr., returned the last of

the week from a visit at Xeola. Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Price and children

Thursday at the home of Otto Fuerst

Mrs. E. G. Brown and sons. Harryand Jay. will leave Thursday for atwo weeks' visit with relatives atAmes. Iowa.

Mrs. H. S. BossetXBca. . and chilf-dre-

returned Thursday from aweek's visit with relatives at Grafton3nd Lincoln.

Martin Wirhmnn nf 5r Pnul fin.nesota. arrived the first of the weekfor an extended visit with his uncle.Otto Fuerst.

Mrs. J. J. Dodds and children andMiss Anna Dodds. of Cambridge, ar-rived home Thursday for a brief visit

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Misa Halcomb wfao haa been tfaege,,st Qf John McCItmahan forthe pajJt WQ fQrherhome in Osceola

Miss Ethel and Charles Grady, whoha'e been visiting at the home ofJohn Quinn. returned to their home inGrand Island Saturday.

Miss Kate Merz. who has been theguest of Miss Xelle Hall at Boulder.Colorado, for the past six weeks, re--

turned to her home Saturday.

Mrs. John Grant, of Xorth Platte,spent several days at the home ofMrs. John Quihn last week. Mrs.Grant was enroute home after an ex-

tended visit in Michigan.

ARE YOU TROUBLED

WITH

HEADACHES

?This present warm weather mayseem to you to be the cause forthat headache which troublesyou. Instead, it mar be the firstsymptoms of eyestrain.

It will be far better to come hereand have your eyes examinedthan to dose yourself with medi-cine in an effort to relieve it,

A pair of glasses titled by an ex.pert optometrist here will nodoubt relieve the pain, therebyrelieving the eye of strain.

1 charge nothing for a prelimi-nary test to find if glasses areneeded or not. I do charge $3. 00for a complete diagnosis, butthis fee is deducted when glassesare ordered.

ED. J. N1EWOHNER

OPTOMETRIST.

Mrs. G. E. Wniard willthe Jolly Sevaateen clubevening.

entertainThursday

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Perry returnedto their home in Fremont after a briefvisit at the home of H. C. Bean. MissBean accompanied them home for aweek's visit.

Miss Eleanor Rusche entertainedMiss Vera Thompson, of St. Edward.Monday. Miss Thompson was en-rou- te

to Osceola for an extendedvisit with friends.

The funeral of Robert. Buckley, abrother of Mrs. John Dolan and Mrs.William Dolan, was held at St, Bona-venture- 's

church last Thursday fore-

noon. Mr. Buckley was a young man.thirty-tw-o years of age. and had diedthe Sunday preceding at Aberdeen,South Dakota. For the past fewyears he had been traveling withcarnival companies.

Mrs. Albert SherralL of CampCrook. South Dakota, who has beenhere visiting with her parents, Mr.and Mrs. Todenhoft for the pastmonth, will return to her home Sun-

day. She will be accompanied by herbrother. C. F. Todenhoft, who willgo to Hot Springs for a month's stay.

Maurice Meyer, a former Columbusmerchant, but now ot St. Joseph. Mis-

souri, was in the city last week, shak-ing bands with old-tim- e friends andacquaintances.

Mrs. J. K. McFarland receivednews last week of the death of hermother, Mrs. Bertha Diefenbach. ather home in Spokane. Washington.Mrs. Diefenbach enjoyed good healthuntil three weeks before her death,when she suddenly began to fail andcontinued to grow worse until the.end. She leaves four sons, all ofwhom live in the west, and one daugh-

ter. Mrs. J. K. McFarland. She form-

erly lived in Platte county, and willbe remembered by many of her form-

er friends and neighbors.

Judge O'Brien held a night sessionof his court last Wednesday evening. the case being one In which Mr.Lulu Randall appeared against JohnCriss. whom she charged with fight-ing. The evidence developed thatMrs. Randall had gone to the barber shop where Criaa ia employed and:tried to collect a bill, which be de-

clared he did not owe. She thencalled him a dead-bea- t and said otherthings that ronsed his ire. and he or-

dered her out of the shop. When sherefused to go. he pushed her out. Thecourt decided that be had acted rightin the circumstances and the casewas dismissed.

President Frischolz, of the com-

mercial club has received word fromWashington that it cannot be defi-

nitely stated at this time just whenthe government road expert will behere. It appears that when the or-

iginal agreement was made it waswith the understanding that hewould be here sometime in themonths of July, August or September, and as the first of July drwnear, Mr. Frischolz wrote to Wash-ington to see if he could ascertainanything definite as to when hewould be here. The man will be herein due time, and before winter wewill have a good road between theLoup and Platte river bridges.

In another column of this paperwill be found the call for the repub-

lican county convention and the re-

publican caucuses in the severaltownships. The business to be con-

ducted will be important and repub-

licans all over the county are es-

pecially urged to read and heed thecall.

Carl Kramer returned Monday even-

ing from Buffalo, Xew York, wherehe hed gone several weeks ago to at-

tend the meeting of the bead campof the Modern Woodmen of America.Since the close ot the convention. Mr.Kramer has been visiting relativesand sight seeing in Xew York City,Washington. Chicago and other largecities of the east. Speaking of Wash-ington, he says that if a person wantsto go sight-seein- g, that is the greatplace to go. While there he witnesseda session of congress and heard Sen-ator Cummins, of Iowa, make hisgreat speech. He also visited the li-

brary of congress, which, ia the great-est institution of its kind in the

world. In spite of all these things hewas very glad to get home, declaring

that with whatever conveniences theeastern people might have, Xebraskahas them all beaten in every point

that goes to make up a happy andprosperous life for everybody. Speak-

ing ot the convention. Mr-- Kramerreports Tha no place for holding thenext meeting was decided upon, thedelegates leaving the matter in thehands of the executive committee.The work of the convention was notcompleted, and when they adjournedit was to meet again in Chicago nextJanuary, at which time and placethey will definitely dispose of someof the matters now under conaidera- -

tiOB.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank, Darr, of Oi

ha, came up to spend Sunday at thehome of J. B. Cwtto and other rela-tives, returning Moaday.

Mesdames Perry Losbaugh, C. J.Scott. A. Anderson. E. Kuehnel andC. W. Ray will serve a 15 cent lunchWednesday afternoon in the parlorsof the Methodist church, beginningar 4 o'clock.

Miss Adria Lay is visiting withthe family of G. S. Lay. of Buffalo.Xew York, at heir summer home atFort Erie, Ontario. She was ac-

companied by Miss E. M. Stevenson,wBo will visit at other eastern points.

Children's Day will be observedTuesday evening by the local camp ofthe Royal Xeighbors at the Hercben-han'- s

hall. Appropriate exercises,consisting of recitations, dialogues,instrumental and vocal music will berendered by the children.

Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Luchinger re-turn-t-d

Tuesday frost Milwaukee.Wisconsin where Mr. Lachinger wasbeen attending the National conven-tion of the Swiss Grentli societywhich was in session last week attnat place. Before returning honethey visited relatives at Montcelloand Monroe.

John Branigan has installed a newvulvanizing apparatus in his garage.so that be is now prepared to takecare of all troubles that may arisewith automobile tires, both at homeand those that might stop here whileenroute through the city. Mr. Brani-gan realizes that these improvementsall go to make his place more e,

and it is against bis nature tobe at the rear of any procession.

Considerable surprise and no littleregret was expressed at the meetingof Engine Company Xo. 1, ot the firedepartment last Monday evening,when Louis Maier tendered his resig-

nation as foreman of Hose CompanyXo. 2. as well as a member ot thecompany and department. Mr. Maiergave his reason for his act that he hasnow served his time in the depart-ment, and that the work interferredseriously with hia business. Thei niwiy efectei Xete Nelson, to- - fillthe vacancy caused by Mr. Mater'sresignation.

The Platte county automobile asso-

ciation will hold another meeting atPlatte Center on the evening of Sat-

urday. July 22. at which time it isexpected a permanent organizationwill be effected. President Feasterhas spent much time the past fewdays in touring over the country andstirring up an interest in the matter,and be is very sanguine in the beliefthat the Platte Center meeting willbe a monster. About thirty motor-

ists have-- already signified their in-

tention of going from here, and it islikely that as many more may de-

cide to go before the time comes.Considerable enthusiasm is reportedfrom all the towns in the northernpart of the county, as well aa fromLeigh and Xewman Grove. There canbe no question but that the associa-tion will be aauccesa and become apower of good far every one who willmake himself interested in it and itspurposes.

At the meeting of the city coun-

cil last Friday evening, estimates forthe running expenses of the city forthe next fiscal year were filed. Theestimates provides for the raising ofJ24.065 for the genral fund. $600 forparks. $1,500 for maintaining thepublic library, $5,000 to pay far thecombination chemical and hosewagon. $4,840 for the water workssinking fund and $9,410 to pay inter-est and make deposits in sinkingfunds of various bonded Indebtednessof the city. These items foot up atotal of $45,415. Bids were alsoopened for the material and layingof water mains extensions or orderedsome time ago. Bids for the materialwere filed by eight different compan-

ies, the bid of the successful bidderbeing as follows: For four Inch pipe,$20.50 per ton; for six inch pipe,$23.15 per ton; special castings, $55per ton. a total of $6,005.50 for theentire amount. The successful bid-

der for the placing of the extension Is

to receive $13 each for six Inchevalves. $10 each for four inch valvesand $25 for each hydrant, an esti-

mated total for this item of $527; agrand total of $6,542.50. The contractfor the material goes to the Ameri-

can Cast Iron Works, of Kansas City.Missouri, while J. M. Diefenbach isawarded the job of placing it. A reso-

lution was passed declaring thatsince there is now a balance of $?,-297- .1a

in the water works sinkingfund, that $7,000 be set aside to takeup seven of the bonds, at the next in-

terest paying date. A communicationwas read from the board of educationin which it was stated that $2250would be needed for the city schools

for the next year.

PILOrelieves quickly

It requires hut a few aiautes ofyour tiaeeack uav a tew applicationof Nyai's PUo and Ike persistent tor-ture associated wiUi piles la baaisaed.

There in oo aeed of your suaVrlBtf dayin and dav out unable tu pefora yourduties, uaafale to secure rest eitaer dayor uiKbt oa account of 'tae Incessantpain

Nyal's PUo affords tlwoMt instant r.lief, and if used perslsteaMV will in-

variably effect a cure.ommmmumm I relieves

PUo la not aa experiment it oasproved its menu aud we are posutiveit wtU do as represented.

Fifty casts the hex.Besides tfood goods you get good

treatment at our store. Always gladto nave people cone in and lookarouiL woetber tney want to buy ornot. We wait on you promptly, giveyou wbat you ask for but never teatteanyone to buy anytbing.

AT

DACK'SGray's Joly Gleaa Simp

Sale, July 8th to 22mLIsrael Gluck is up from Omaha to-

day.

Thomas Askew, ot Council Bluffs,was a Columbus visitor Sunday.

Miss Catherine McGann, returnedto her home in Albion Tuesday aftera week's visit with Miss FrancisSchilr.

Mrs. Robert McCray and her sister,Mrs. J. B. Gilmore, of Grand Island,went to Platte Center yesterday for avisit with relatives.

Mrs. P. A. Peterson entertained herbrother, W. B. Miller, of Lindsay,Monday. Mr. Miller was enroute tohis old home at Calmar, Iowa. ,

Porter Xest, Xo. 1107, Order ofOwls, meets every Thursday eveningin Hercbenhan's hall. H. W. Porter,president. C. J. Mason, secretary.

The new addition to the Gottberggarage is now completed, and with itthis house has become one of thelargest automobile houses in thispart of the state.

J. EL Oiscbner has moved into thenew garage recently built for him byL. W. Weaver on the lots at the cor-

ner of Fourteenth and Murray streets.Mr. Dischner has a very good locationhere and one of the finest places inthe city.

Manager O. H. Washburn of theLyric is having the work on bis newbuilding pusbed right along. Thenew building will stand on the lotaformerly occupied by the Airdome.and will bave a seating capacity ofabout six hundred, and will be oneof the best equipped little theaters inthe state.

Robert, the thirteen-yea- r old son ofMr. and Mrs. R. H. Miller ia a patientat St. Mary's hospital, where he sub-

mitted to an operation for appendi-

citis Monday morning. He had beenvisiting friends at Humphrey, andwas taken sick while there, beingbrought back last week. He Ia re-

ported this morning to be restingeasy.

The board of supervisors met yes-

terday for a short session. Two ofthe matters to come up before themare the opening of the bids for print-

ing the ballots for the primary andgeneral elections, and the considera-tion of the matter of the proposednew bridge across the Loup rivernear Monroe. John Gibbon and L.

Franklin, representing the MonroeCommercial club, appeared before theboard yesterday afternoon. No actionhaa been taken aa yet. but those whoare interested seem to have no doubtbut that the bridge will be built with-

in a short time.

JULY I,

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