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ColumlmG Sfcibtme--3onr:vuiVolume 42 Columbus, Nebraska, Thursday, September 14, 1911 Number 24

Your attention is called tothe latest statement of

The Columbus

State Bank (

Note the large total assets,nearly $600,000; the largeamount of cash on hand,nearly $150,000.

A strong conservative bankwith ample resources is the ofbest hank with which to do tinyour business-Deposit-

stin

M.protected by the

Depositors Guarantee Fundof the State of Nebraska

Dr. K. II. Naiiniaun, dentist.

Dr. W. Ii. Slater, veterinary, Bothphones.

Dr. W. It. Neumarker OHlce withDr. 0. 1). Kvitiis. West aide Park.

Mrs. (). I. Taylor entertained hermother, Mrs. Mill-.- , of Central Citythe first of the week.

Mrs. K. V. dure returned the lastof the week from a three weeks' visitwith friends in Omaha.

Mr. and Mrs. Mullholland and chil-

dren left this afternoon for a weeksvisit with relatives at Woodriver.

Mrs. Mary A. Standley, of Peru,arrived Friday evening for a visit atthe home of her son. It. H. Miller.

The annual meeting of the Businessmen's club will be held on September!iu, at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium.

Mr. and Mrs. .1. Kousek and DaleHashlierger, of Schuyler, were guestsTuesday at the home of S. ilashber-ge- r.

Mrs. J. O. Davidson entertainedMrs. Whose r, Mrs. Cutty and MissLillie Plath, of David City, lastWeek.

Mrs. S. IJrindley returned to herhome in Kearney Monday after athree weeks visit with Mrs,. O. L.Maker.

Mr and Mrs. William Clark andlittle son. returned Saturday from atwo weeks visit with relatives atStr msburg.

Don't forget the Fall Mil-

linery Opening at LaBooks,Thursday, Friday and Satur-day, Sept. 14, 15 and 16.

Mrs. William Altman. of Monticel-lo- ,Iowa, arrived the first of the week

to be the guest of her aunt Mrs.Thomas Keeting.

Register Schmocker announces thatthirhteen births and nine deaths werereported in and around Columbus dur-

ing the month of August.

Mr. and Mrs. Langhin, who havebeen the guests of their daughter,Mrs. Reece for the past week, return-ed to their home iu Ashland today.

Miss Minnie Glur. accompaned byTom Askew of Council IJlutXs spentSaturday and Sunday at the home ofMr. and Mrs. W. W. Ernst at Duncan.

Mrs. Mable Swift, PublicStenographer, Room 1, StateBank Building.

80 Acresof land within2 miles of Col-

umbus is offer-

ed at a bottomprice for aquick sale

Inquire of

Elliott -- Speice-Echols

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KKI'OKT OF THE CONDITION

OF

THE COLUMBUS STATE BANK,

of ColumltiiH, NVbrahka, Charter No. 97, (Incor--ixtnitol) iu the Slate of NeLrabka, at the

clonn of liUbiucos Auk 31st, 1H1I.

HESOUHCES

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TOTAL $574,545.38

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ItinKidKli, V. II- - WK.WK, Dinrtors.SnlifrilMil ami Hworn to n inn this Gth

laj of September, lull.(Jus C..HK-lli:it-

, JitNotary 1'nMic

Little Margaret and Dorothea Rob-

erts spent Sunday with their aunt Mrs.Shonsey, at Clarks.

Mrs. II. I. M unlock returned Mon-

day from a three months visit withher mother at Rochester, New York.

Anton Thompson and George Reben-ge- reach contributed a dollar to the

school fund last week as a penalty forbeing drunk.

W. C. Crowe is this week enter-taining his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.II. Crowe, of Wichita Kansas. Theyarrived Friday.

Mrs. Louis Zinnecker and little son(Jus returned home the last of theweek from Denver where the y had beenvisiting for the past two weeks.

Walter Robinson will leave the lastof the week for Lawrenceville, NewJersey, where he will enter the Law-

renceville school for the coming year.

Mrs. P. J. Krause acempanined byher daughter Miss Mamie, left Mon-

day for Lincoln, where Miss Krausewill enter a sanitarium for treatment.

An infant son of Mr. and. Mrs.Richard McGuane, living just northof Platte Center, died Monday. Thefuneral was held this forenoon atPlatte Center.

Misses Iva and Neva Munger spentSunday with their parents Mr. andMrs. Sam Munger. Miss Iva is teach-ing at the Kinsman school, and MissNeva near Genoa, this year.

Mrs. J. E. Peterson enteitainedMrs. M. S. Berger and daughter Ruth,Mrs. S. C. Watts and John MaxwellSunday, the party making the tripfrom Silver Creek in their car.

Mrs. Anna Thorn, of North Bend,died at the hospital Monday, from theeffects ot a tumor. She was aboutfifty years of age. The remains wereshipped to North Bend yesterday forburial.

Miss Helen Wise, of Denver, whohas been visiting her cousin, M. S.Binney this week left this mornng forPullerton, whers she will visit rela-tive before returning to her duties asinstructor of Music in the universityof Denver.

Mrs. W. M. McCorkle and childrenreturned Wednesday from a visit oftwo months with Mrs. McCorkle'smother at Elkhart, Indana. Mrs.McCorkle was very fortunate in beingin Chicago at the time of the aviationmeet, and being able to witness theaeroplanes.

Elwin Strong and his company leftthe city Monday after playing a four-nig- ht

stand in their own tent to Col-

umbus people. Before leaving theyannounced that they would probablyreturn here for a single performancesome time in November, playing"Madam X."

Miss Helen Brugger will leave thisafternoon for Grand Rapids, Michigan,where she will visit friends a fewdays before continuing her journey toMassachusetts to resume her work atMt, Holyoke. Miss Brugger willcomplete her college work this year,besides taking up the work as an as-

sistant in the botany department.

When you buy land or city lots,you never pay out money unless thetitle is good. Why don't you use thesame good judgement in buying lifeinsurance? Don't join mosquito com-

panies, that will fall before your pol-

icy matures. If you insure in the OldNew York Life your dividends reduceyour premiums so you pay less in theend than in other companies and havethe protection of the largest andstrongest Life Insurance Conmpany inthe world. Mr. C. T. Taylor, a sen-

ior Nylic, is now paying out NewYork Life money almost daily for pol-

icies he wrote twenty years ago.

W. A. McAllister is attending thepost-maste- rs convention in Omaha thisweek.

R. W. Saley made a trip to Ful-

ler ton in his White Steamer Wednes-day.

Rev. and Mrs. Lincoln Lohr, ofEddieville, spent Monday at the homeof William Lohr.

Hans Kretnpi, who had been theguest of Columbpus friends for thepast ten days, returned to his home inGrand Island Sunday.

Fred Schluser, who has been theguest of Columbus friends for the pasttwo weeks, returned to his home inBurlington, Illinois, Wednesday.

Miss Ruth Jens, of Fremont, arriv-ed Sunday evening in this city whereshe will make her home, her fatherbeing employed as sales-ma- n in Fried-ho- f

's store.

Mrs. Mary Smith, who is makingher home with her daughtr, Mrs. N.D. Wilson, left the first of theweek for Madison, where she willvisit for several days.

Mrs. Julia Munger arrived Thurs-day from Richland, where she hadbeen spending the summer with herson. She will make her home thiswinter with her son, Sam Munger, inthis city.

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Shank, ofLos Angeles California were guestslast week at the home of WilliamLohr. They were enroute to Pennsyl-vania where they will make theirfuture home.

Mrs. H. B. Robinson returned Tues-day from Omaha, where she had beenthe guest of Mrs. J. J. Sullivan. Shewas accompanied home by Mrs. LaneWilliams, who will remain in this cityvisiting friends for several days.

Joe Bucher, will leave Thursdayfor his home in San Bernando Califor-nia, after a visit of two weeks withhis brother William Bucher. Mr.Bucher has just returned from Swit- -zerand, having spent the summerthere.

Judge Ratterman issued marriagelicenses to the following this week.William Hellbusch, of Humphrey andEmelia Muth, of Creston; HermanCattau and Anna Rosche, of Colum-

bus; Ole Lee and Mrs. Ragne Warn,of Newman "Grove.

L. F. Rector is this week receiving a visit irom his brother J. tt.Rector, of Wolbach. The visitingbrother has been station agent atRoseland for some time, but has re-

cently been transferred to Wolbach,and is taking advantage of a shortvacation to visit" here before takingup his duties in the new station.

George McFarland has returned toColumbus to live Jafter being absentfor several years, during the pasttwo years he has been living in Miss-

ouri, but decided that Nebraska wasbetter suited to his taste, and lastweek arrived here with his family.He has purchased a home on twentiethstreet, where he will engage in his oldbusiness of manufacturing brooms.

A warrant was issued this morningfor Samuel Grover and one McDonald,on complaint of Hoppe Brothers, living near Richland, in which hecharges that he is minus a canvas haycover and believes that it is in thepossesion of the defendents. No ar-

rests have as yet been made, as it isunderstood they have left the county.the stolen proproty is valued at thirtydollars.

Dr. J. H. Hart one of the attachesof the Illinois state penitentiary atJolliet, gave two lectures at theNorth theatre last week. Dr. Harthas been in prison work for manyyears, and these who heard his lectures found them very 'interesting andinstructive. He and his wife are ontheir way to the coast, and may possi-bly stop ii. Columbus again on therereturn trip.

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Geo. Scott is in Omaha this week onbusiness.

Mrs. C. S. Raney will entertainthe R. K. club Friday afternoon.

Mrs. John Fox is enjoying a visitfrom her brother Gus Hartel, of Shel-by

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Raney spent theweek-en- d at the home of Earl Weaverat Humphrey.

O. B. Anderson and Ward Drakespent Thursday in Lincoln attendingthe state fair.

Dr. D. T. Martyn left the first ofthe wek for Chicago to visit his daughter, Mrs Rhodes.

Mrs. Frank Schram will entertainthe Jolly Seventeen club Thursdayafternon at her home.

Mrs. G. L. McKelvey returned thefirst of the week from a visit of sev-

eral days at St. Edward.

Mr. and Mrs. William Newman leftMonday for Loup City, where theywill visit friends for a few days. V

Mr. and Mrs. L. Thornage, of GrandIsland, are spending the week asguests at the home of H. C. Bean.

Misses Elsie and Bessie Merrill, ofSt. Edward, were guests of Miss iyar-gar- et

Willard the last of the week.

Mrs. Jambridge.and little daughter,of C. J. Dodds arrived Friday for avisit of several weeks with relativesin the city.

Mrs. J. G. Reeder entertained at aone o'clock luncheon Monday in honorof Mrs Thomas Dack of Los Angeles,California.

Mrs. Thomas Dack returned Tues-day to her home in Los Angeles, afterspending a month at the home of herson C. H. Dack.

Miss Gertrude Herrod returned Wed-

nesday evening from North Platte,where she had been visiting friendsfor several weeks.

Miss Minnie Glur" accompanied byTom Askew, of Council Bluffs spentSaturday and Sunday with Mr. andMrs. Wm. Ernst at Duncan.

Miss Hedwig Jaeggi returned thisafternoon from a five months' visit inthe west, spending most of the timewith friends at Los Angeles and SaltLake City.

Miss Alice Pratt, of St. Edwardspent several days last week at thehome of G. A. Willard. Miss Prattwas enroute home from a pleasure tripto Colrado.

Mrs. H. C. Bode, and daugher ofKeokuk, Iowa, arrived Thursday fora several weeks' visit at the home ofH. W. Heineman. Mrs. Bode is asister of Mrs. Heineman.

The members of the Sanchouci wouldlike to show their appreciation andextend their sincere thanks to the pub-

lic for their kindness last Thursdayafternoon at the benefit social.

Mrs. O. L. Baker will leave thefirst of the week for Omaha, whereshe will visit friends, from there go-

ing to St. Joseph, Missouri. She ex-

pects to be gone about six weeks.

Mrs. William Lohr will leave Fri-day morning for Briggsdale, Colorado,for a visit of stveral weeks with re-

latives. Before returning home shewill stop in Denver for a few days.

Messrs. North and Carroll Evansentertained a number of young peopleSaturday evening at a seven o'clockdinner in honor of their guests, Messrs.Drexal and Clarence Sibberson, ofOmaha.

Mrs. Alvin Poole, of Omaha, whohas been a patient at St. Mary's hos-pi- ta

for several weeks was able toleave the hospital Monday. She doesnot expect to return to her home untilshe is stronger but will visit at thehome of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.O. Burns.

Death of Congressman Latta.James P. Latta, member of cong-

ress from this district died Mondayevening at a hospital at Rochester,Minnesota, where he had gone a fewweeks ago to submit to an operationfor gall stones, for several days afterthe operaion it seemed that it wouldprove successful, but last Saturday hetook a relapse, and grew steadilyworse until the end came Monday evening.

He was born in Ohio October 31,1844 and when two years of age camewith his parents to eastern Iowa,where he remained until he was nine-teen years old, when he walked acrossthe state of Iowa and settled in Burtcounty. He --was married in 1870,and is survived by his wife and twosons, one of whom is cashier of thebank in which Mr. Latta owned a largeinterest, and the other is managerof the home farm near Tekamah.

He was elected to congress in 1908,defeating Edgar Howard for the nomination after a bitterly contestedfight, and was ed in 1910, bythe largest majority ever given acandidate in his disrict.

The funeral will be held fiom hislate home at Tekamah Friday and willbe attended by a committee ofcongressmen appointed by the sergent- -at-ar- of the house and the senate.The house committee is to consist ofthe entire delegations from Nebraska,Kansas and Colorado, besides Repre-sentatives Pep-er- , of Iowa, Boher, ofMissouri, Floyd, of Arkansas, andDavenport, Ferri and Carter, of Okla-homa. The personnel of the com-

mittee from the senate has not yetbeen made public.

The death of Mr. Latta makes itnecessary to elect a new member atthe fall election, and it is likely thatGovernor Aldrich will issue a procla-mation to that effect within a fewoays.

St. Francis Academy Notes.The Rev. Fathei Sigsmund, assist-

ant pastor of St. Boneventura's churchof this city and Rev. Father Cyric,pastor of St. Joseph's church, PlatteCenter, will make a trip to Sioux City,Iowa today and at the same time willvisit the beautiful St-Boni-

sace chuich,which was recently dedicatd and isconducted by the Franciscan Fathersofthe St. Louis Province.

Last Thursday September 7, VeryRev. Father Marcel I inus left for CedarRapids, where he will conduct thesolumn ceiemonies of the corner-stone laying of the new Parocialschool, which will be opened in thenear future.

The pupils of the St. Francis acadamy resumed their studies last Wed-

nesday September 6. The variousclass rooms being over crowded, madeit necessary to break out the partitionsof some of the other departments andopen two more class' rooms.

Miss Lena Abahart, of Gibbon, apost graduate of St Francis Acadamy,spent several hours in this city Monday. She accompanied her sisterHelen, who will resume her studies atthe acadamy.

Wanted Roomers. inquire 814West 13th Street,

Millinery opening. Whose?Stires. When? Thursday,Friday and Saturday, Sept.21, 22 and 23. Be sure toattend.

Cross Eyes

StraightenedWithout an

Operation!

Cross eye is nothing more orless than misplaced or strain-- ,ed eye muscles. By relievingthe muscle strain the eyessoon resume their normalposition. This is especiallytrue in young folks. In thegrownups it takes longer, butas long as vision remains inthe deviating eye, there is achance. I have made thestraightening of cross eyes aspecialty and the number ofcases I have cured will amplybear out my statement thatno operation is necessary.

Ed. J. NiewohnerJeweler aid Optsaetrist

COURT?tSEtSsT NEWS

The court room was crowded this afternoon when the chairman of thecounty board called the meeting toorder and announced that the citizenshad been called together to presenttheir views to the county board rela-tive to the matter of making arrange-ments for the building of a new courthouse for Platte county. SupervisorDassenbrock, who has been the leaderin the matter from the start of thepresent campaign, asked that the clerkread the notice of the meeting, whichwas done.

Chairman Schwarz announced thatthe purpose of the meeting was notto tell the people that a new courthouse was needed, but rather how toraise the necessary funds, by votingbonds, or by a method of direct taxa-tion. Supervisor Dassenbrock thoughtit might be well to find out firstwhether the people favored the newbuilding, and then discuss ways andmeans ol procuring it. He assuredthe people that the board was willingto do all in its power to give the peo-

ple what they wanted, if they wouldmake their wants known.

G. Frischolz compared the presentbuilding with the homes of the peo-ple as built for their own uses at thetime that it was built, saying that asthe people advanced in prosperity,they built new houses and other build-ings to meet their demands and con-

venience, and thought the samewould be aplicable in the matter ofpublic buildings. He then raised thequestion as to the best method of rais-ing the necessary money, and referredthe question to County Attorney McEl-fres- h.

The county attorney said that hehad had occasion to look into the statutes thoroughly in this matter, andfound that the people might raisemoney for this purpose in either oftwo ways: By issuing bonds, carried bya two-thir- ds vote, which was thequicker of the two methods; or bylevying a direct tax. to do this re-

quired the filing of a petition, signedby one-four- th of the voters of thecounty, and the board to call an elec-

tion on the strength of this petition,which would require a majority voteto carry. The tax in such a case cannot exceed a levy of five mills on eachdollar, nor run more than five years.He called attention to the fact thatat the last assessment, the total as-

sessed valuation of Platte county wasabout $7,500,000, which would makeit comparatively easy to raise the ne-

cessary amount. At this juncture.August Wagner presented a motionthat it was the sense of this assembl-age that a new court house should bebuilt. After some discussion as towhether this motion was just in theright place at this time, it was carriedby a rising vote, overwhelmingly.

The question of location was thenbrought up, Ma. Drake, of Humphrey,saying that the town or city securingthe court house should put up a bonus,and offered to contribute $1,000 him-

self if it should be removed to Humphrey. Uther speakers also discussedthis phase of the matter, until finallyattorney Cornelius called attention tothe fact that the county could notmove the court house without firstvoting to change the county seat. Thematter was then dropped.

Then came the question of just wherethe court house should be located inthe city of Columbus, some insistingthat it shoudb be left just where itis and others favoring a change.County Attorney McElfresh and G.W. Phillips were of the opinion that itshould be more centrally located, whilei.. H. Leavy, William Bucher andCharles Segelke insisted that it wasin just exactly the proper location atpresent.

J. E. North introduced a motionrecomending that tne board call anelecton to submit to the voters a pro-

position to issue bonds in the sum of$250,000 for the Luilding of a newcourt house. On motion of AugustWagner his motion was amended tolimit the cost to $150,000. Mr.North argued in support of his moth nthat while other counties snrroundingus and which had a much lower as-

sessed valnation, and fewer inhabitantshad public buildings from $100,000to $150,000, Platte county with anassessed valuation of nearly eight mill-ions of dollars and 20,000 inhabitantsought not to limit the board to thatamount.

W: F. Gernandt, of Fairbury, anarchitect making a specialty of de-

signing plans for court houses, wasthen introduced Mr. Gernandt is thearchetiect who designed the newhouses of Phelps, Pawnee, Dawsonand derrick counties. He advisedthem that $150,000 would be ampleto provide a courthouse that would lastfor generations, and would build anabsolutely fireproof building. He alsoadvised strongly against voting fourper cent bonds as they would not besalable.

B. P. S.

Barn and Roof PaintIs made from the highest grademetallic pigments that can besecured ground exceedingly finein pure linseed oil, and the neces-sary japan. Hand-mixe- d dry Ve-netian Red. "Ironclad" Paint andordinary barn paints (made oflow-gra- de materials) receive prac-tically no grinding, and are neces-sarily coarse and gritty. Thiscoarse mixture is so hard to applythat a painter will wear out agood brush in attempting to spreadit properly. Furthermore, threegallons of such mixture will notcover as well, or go as far, as twogallons of B. P. S. Barn and RoofPaint, nor wear nearly as long.

At

The German Picnic.It was a big day big for the hosts,

big for the guests, and big for thespectators. In fact, it was a biggerday than many of our own people hadanticipated, notwithstanding the factthat a vast amount of advertising hadbeen done. Even at an early hour inthe morning, people began to arrive,and long before noon the streets werelined with auomobiles and carriages,and a special train had brought a largecrowd of enthusiastic people from Lin-coln and all the towns along the line,besides the crowds that came bythe regular trains from east, west andnorth.

Music for the day was furnished byfour bands, Columbus, Schuyler, GrandIsland and a German band from Lin-coln, and from the time they arrivedthere was not an idle moment in theday.

Promptly on time, at two o'clock,the parade formed at Orpheus hall,and headed by six mounted horsemen,marched through the principal business streets, ending at Kopetzky'spark, where the exercises were held.In the parade were the m&yor and citycouncil, the German societies of Col-

umbus and visiting cities, the bands,and a number of beautiful and attract-ive floats and decorated wagons, bug-gies, and automobiles. One of themost attractive floats in the parade wasthat of Friedhof & Co., in which ahalf dozen young ladies dressed in"her brother's clothes" were takinga joy ride in the big Friedhof car, withMiss Helen Howard at the wheel.Another float worthy of special men-tion was that of the Gruetli society,in which a number of young ladies tookpart.

After arriving at' the grounds theprogram was carried out pracically asannounced in advance, with the excep-tion of a portion of the musical part.After the close of the literary programeverybody was turned loose to enjoythemselves in whatever way they sawfit, and judging from appearances,everybody 'seemed to take a just ad-

vantage of the opportunity.

Dr. L. P. Caratensen, veterinarian.

Dr. Vallier. Osteopath. Barber Block.

Mrs. Thomas Keeting is entertain-ing her brother Wm. Sullivan, ofAlbion this week.

Mrs. John Egger and children arevisiting with friends and relatives inDuncan this week.

For Sale Four thorough bred Po-

land China boar pigs, weight about 130pounds. Chris Abegglen, Oconee,Nebraska.

A deal was closed this afternoon bywhich W. M. Mason sold his 240 acrefarm in Columbus township to JosephChillaha. The price paid was $150per acre. Mr. Chillaha will move onthe place in the spring.

An opportunity to get afarm near Columbus

Buy the

W. M. MASON

Farm

while you have the chance.

Becher,Hockenberger &

Chambers