The Columbus journal., 1879-02-26
We call attention to L. Kramer's

before they are al gone
If you think of buying a seeder
call at Becker's and examine prices
and goods before buying. ss r0l
Wagons are plentiful in Nebras-
ka, and he who is in need ought to
be able TO buy one at very low
figures.
B. & NJ. r. r.. Lands are going
like hot cakes. Becber & Reynolds
are delivering from the North Ne
braska oven.
The Columbus Social Club will
give their first social hop at the
wadsworth building on llth street,
Thursday evening this week.
The legal contest between the
Taxpayers Of Boone Co., and the B.
& M. R. r. Co. is becoming mat
ter of considerable interest there
i'm N. ID. Howe's communication
this week on "Home" there are
some sentiments worthy of record
as long as the human race endures.
Mrs. Ewing (nee Freddie Lang
hoff) and Mrs. Roberts, Of Omaha,
were visiting friends in the city last
week, aud returned home Monday.
-E. Weinschenk went to North
Platte yesterday, TO take his position
alougside of Louis Kramer and
Beverstock in the North Platte store.
Mr.. Geo. Wescott has put up
dwelling and a stable, near the
southest corner of his farm-the OLD
"Rickly" place west ofJacob Ernsts.
Mrs. Post, mother of Judge G.
w, A. NJ, and Jos. Post, is danger
ously iii at her sons residence in
York. She is about sixty-five years
old.
-Galbraith Bros. have purchased
Gus. Lockner's stock of farm ma
chinery and implements, and will
continue the same business on 18th
, street.
The Columbus Dramatic Troupe
will play AT Schuyler next Saturday
evening. Our friends there will
certainly be glad that 4" Cousin Joe
has coomed."
Gus. Lockner was absent from
, home from Friday till Sunday even
ing after lost mare, which he
tracked 10 Shell Creek, six miles
, east of Schuyler.
S. o. Raymond, WHO returned
, Saturday from Denver, says that j..
q A. Baker was about going TO Lead
vile to engage in business at the
new mining center.
e On the 22d of February, WASH
ington's birthday, flags were dis
played at ID. ID. Wadsworth's; at
= the Court House, and at Ed. Shee-
hans on llth street.
a The knights Of Honor Mutual
Aid Association is the name of a
new order intended To provide $3.-
900 additional life insurance to
> members Of the X. of III.
j. Wagner has purchased ol
Anthony Keller his farm of 80 acres
= south of the Loup, has taken pos
! session, and is now erecting a new
house, stable and grauary. -,.
y Levi Kimball of Polk county
e was in the city Monday. He has beer
disabled for the past fourteen
l. months, by fall from wager
l. which Injured the spinal cord.
7" We have lately been publishing
: some of Will NJ. Carleton's ballads
N We give, this week, "Betsy and
D. sre Out" and will follow il next will
"How Betsey and | made up"
10 The new billiard-hall in connec
T. ton with the ClOther House is to b
= 26x33 f., and two stories high. |
will front on 12ih street, and viii
ID appear like separate building.
a 1t is strange but nevertheless
u true that those who deal in hogs
give the name of the animal a quee
Of sound, not "hawg," as people gen
III orally call il, but ''hahg," short.
n Fred Schroeder of Stearns Prai
rie died Saturday last of abscess o
'e the stomach, and was buried in tn
u, Columbus cemetery Monday. III
'o was about thirty-five years old.
WIN. Grant is Of opinion ths
cS the snow storm which began her
o. yesterday is the first and last Of thi
ed season. He ought to know, becaus
he is an old settler in Nebraska.
ed Our old friend Robert Wiki
on of California has returned from hi
D. European business trip and say
"this country seems grand after SCI
ey ing the cramped, little countries {
lie Europe"
10 Dan. Faucette will furnish yo
anything in the harness line, at th
ell lowest possible cash prices. Now
be the time TO have your old harneI
ny overhauled and set in good shaE
for spring work.
he 1t seems from present indie,
q. tions that the State is to be overru
~, by wire fence this year. 1t seen
to us that they have almost ever