The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-02-09
BARLEY.

BARLEY.
Robert George is still very low with pneu-
monia. e.
Mrs. Henry Walker is numbered among the
ailing ones.
Drs. Brown and Hathorn were at Indianola,
Wednesday.
L. S. Grisell and wife of Indianola visited
his parents here, Sunday.
Ike Smith of deputy sheriff fame had bust
ness in BARLEY, Wednesday.
Miss Ella King has nearly recovered from
her recent attack of l%agrippe.
Cyrus Cowles is enjoying a visit from his
mother of Illinois-the first in twenty-one
years.
Our stockmen, Sipe and Smith, shipped
thirteen cars of hogs from this point, last
month.
Bert and Mollie Stephens of Box Elder
were Sunday guests of their sister, Mrs. H. P.
Hodgkin.
]. G. Grisell and wife, who have been visit
Illinois, Tuesday.
A daughter arrived in the home of John
Clouse and wife, on the 5th inst, and an
nounced that she had come to stay.
John O'Malley and wife are evincing pa
rental interest in a young lady who arrived in
their home on Wednesday, February 9TH.
The furniture and household goods of w. C..
Hanson and wife have arrived, and they are
now delving in the mysteries of housekeeping.
Just think of it-a photographer here all of
next week! Cheer up, look pleasant, and
don't go around with a face long enough to
eat oats out OF a churn.
T. c. Lake and bride from Maxwell were
guests of c.. E. Matthews and wife, Wednes-
l4, &-I TL,rrl1- ryl,1a M -D,,fa 70
Kansas, their new home.
Park Brooks, who has been farming the
Daniels farm for the past few years, will farm
near his home in Gosper county, this year,
and II. I. McElroy will work the Daniels
place.
A. G. Keys and S. w. Clark of this place
and c.. E. Shaw and ]. w. Collicott of North
Valley precincts, all stalwarts, participated in
the Republican reception and banquet in Nc
Cook, Friday evening.
Guy Curlee was over from Danbury, Sum-
day, distributing seven-by-nine smiles and
passing the glad mitt" around among the
natives. He was accompanied by a friend,
Mr.. Hymer, from the village on the Beaver.
Born, Friday, February I'd, to M. E.. Corbin
and wife, an eight-pound girl. With the pos
sible exception of hurry all parties concerned
are convalescent, and his condition is such
that he has made a will bequeathing his entire
DarDer Outft 10 MS nelr.
Cecil Matthews takes occasion to land him.
self a boquet by stating that your correspond
ent cribs his griSt from the columns of the
weakly squirt-gun." The amateur editor of
the monstrosity no doubt feels guilty in view
of the fact that he never hears of two-thirds
OF the news items that appear in this column
until after H TRIBUNE arrives here.
A stranger from the west end of the county
was in town, one day this week, and after a
remark about the weather said to a native, 81
believe Cecil Matthews is editing your paper
here, isn't he?" Whereat the native bristled
up and said, Say, you, are you looking
for a fght?" and the stranger changed the
subject, noting that we are a little sensitive on
that score down here.
Our amateur editor seems to think it I'M
usual for a person to be born with nothing,
and broadly intimates that when he arrived
on the scene in addition to his eighteen-karat
nerve and unsatiated desire for office he was
accompanied by a change of shirt studs and a
weeks supply of "Battle-Ax" in a steamer
trunk. But it should be remembered that the
ex-milk-peddler, ex-pig-sticker, ex-farm-hand,
ex-plasterer, ex-hobo-printer, all around cheap
screw and omnipresent office-seeker is rather
out of the ordinary anyhow.
If any one with two grades of sense. above
an oyster had accused US of plaglarizing the
matter which has appeared in this column
AASAA I'm >eIh S1ohA Seh1 w va cAiCbiA
feel quite discouraged; but coming as it does
from the amateur in charge of the same We'll
pass it up and, as heretofore, endeavor in our
humble fashion to give the news of this com
munlty, since THE TRIBUNE is recognized by
all as the only medium of the kind in the local
field. We are not stuck IN our ability as a
news-gatherer, and our time is otherwise en-
gagged, but a comparative glance at this col
umn and the squirt gun" will demonstrate to
any one that, despite his self-laudatory efforts,
the amateur is thoroughly outclassed in the
matter of ~news-getting.
We hardly expected to get the whole TRIB-
N force and the county officials roasted
we have the amateurs word for it that it was
a "roast"-when we mentioned little Cecil's
Kentucky thirst for Office, some time since.
However, in the course of his ravIngs, he
pleads guilty to working his little petition to
get himself named as Green's deputy, the
same being signed by one man who repre-
lists, Democrats and anti-Clark Republicans
of Red Willow county" He also modestly
admits that he was promised BENEFITS dep
utyship, and that Immediately thereafter the
third-term ticket appeared more favorable to
him, and he came within ten votes of learning !
that he was seventeen man on Benefits list.
In politics, as in everything else, there is a
good deal of the Jay about the amateur.
The school Entertainment Friday evening,
was a decided success in every respect, and
the receipts were S34.1o. The attendance was
about three hundred, quite a number from
lndianola and Cambridge being present. The
feature of the program was the part taken by |
the old folks, who were rejuvenated for the
evening. Adults of ages ranging from fifty to
seven-hve years acclaimed and sang the Selec-
tons of their childhood days, and after this
part of the program a spelling contest was in
dulged in by about fifty aspirants. Mrs. John
M~atthewson was the victor, John Glandon Sc
cured second place, and r. c. Catlett third.
Prizes were awarded as follows: First, a pop
corn ball a foot in diameter; second, a dough
nut two feet long; third, a pumpkin pie a foot
square. Tit contest was followed by refresh
ments consisting of ice cream, cake and cocoa.
All had a good time and went home reluct-
antly.