The true northerner., 1895-01-25
WHOLE NUMBER 2O79.

Holmes & Bilsborrow have decided to
put their business on strictly cash
basis, commencing with March LIST next.
and give their customers the 10 To Is
per cent that must always attach To-
prices when long book ac-
counts are kept We believe their trade
will be pleased with the change. See
their new adv. on 4th page.
A worthy, poor and industrious
widow, whose washtub is her only
means of support, complains, and we
believe justly, of the practice o7 many
OF our young men sending their laundry
work To Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids.
Why not have the work done at homes
1t would help keep the wolf from the
door during these long winter months.
Donovan of Bay" has gone along
with the legislative junketing party to
the Upper Peninsula. He probably
does not want it to be understood by
his action that the great unwashed" as
a party concede the correctness of the
junket business, but is DESTROYS of accu-
malating material for vigorous fight
against such indulgenees in the future
Commissioner Billings has issued an
order requireing the 5. Ii. d K. railroad
TO increase the speed of its trains TO 18
miles per hour between South Haven
and Paw Paw, bat To maintain the 12-
mile rate between this place and Law
ton. If Mr.. Billings could only devise
some means whereby we might get at
least one mail day from the Central
road. there would he no questions
asked as to the rate of speed attained
in getting it here.
The concert given at the opera house
last Friday evening by the b flat club
was AN unqualified success in every par
ticular Notwithstanding the heavy
rain storm which prevailed, the house
was well filled. The numbers rendered
by the chorus evidenced much pains
taking in drill and practice, and reflect
credit not only upon its members but
upon Prof. Churchill, who has had
direction of the class. Where all did
well it would seem To be invidious to
from making special mention of the
trio, "Roses and Violets," rendered by
Mesdames Ferguson, Miller and Chand-
Ter, which was a rare musical gem, and
the solos by II. f. Squier, Miss Jane
Broughton, and Miss Matte Cooley, all
of which were eXceliently well rendered
and encored to the echo. We learn the
club has another treat in store for our
people, the announcement of which will
be eagerly looked for.
Unless the crop of 1895 is aremarkably
bountiful one, considerable share of
the counties of western Nebraska will
be nearly depopulated by next fall. As
it is, two successive crop failures have
sent thousands of families i'm search of
more promising land and reduced
thousands more to the verge of starva
ton. In twelve or fourteen of the
southwestern counties utter destitution
exists, and unless generous supplies of
food and fuel are promptly sent and
Systematically distributed, the most
squalid of deaths will be the fate of
many. There are hundreds of houses
where the provision supplies do not ex-
ceed, all told, pound head. Scurvy,
from insufficient food and the lack of
vegetables, has made its appearance in
some quarters and physicians predict
an epidemic of the disease unless food
remedy is quickly supplied. A commit
tee of three ladies from the nj Echurch
and similar committees from other
churches are soliciting aid for these peo-
Pile, and we trust no one will turn them
away empty handed.