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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1885
Page
5
Local merchants advertise clothing syrup grass repair hose and lawn sprinklers cattle hay and feed and pork beef offers. Real estate loans farm loans and money to loan on improved farms. Services include piano and organ instruction and voice culture with Dr Boyle. A mix of sales notices and upcoming deliveries round out the page.
Local ads report E M Brickey Co clothing bargains and Pike’s Lumber Yard stock boards for stables or shacks. Eastern money eases loans. over twenty homes rise in South Meqook. apples sell at 1.25 per bushel. Profst Bros showcase blinds. roadmaster Danchy visits family from Troy. Grand Island Flour priced 1.90 to 3.00 per hundred. Truman Shop offers job work. Spencer’s advertises blacksmithing and grasshopper plows. J P Mathes furniture new quarters. Dr Gibson dentistry services. H W Pike Lumber Yard launches in 1884 with wide stock. Cemetery updates, church notices, land deals, and hotel/ saloon preparations appear. local finance and real estate activity highlighted with loans.
A circular for M Stern's Hastings saloon license circulates this week urging support. The Tribune backs saloons as benevolent institutions and cites supposed benefits while other items note local court humor, price drops, mail delays, and ads from area merchants.
A survey of visits and movements around town includes Miss Jennie Shaw returning from Omaha, Mrs. HK Hamilton visiting Indianola, and Nellie Lee staying in Exeter for weeks. Many land seekers and merchants traveled to and from Beatrice, Hayes Center, and surrounding areas in pursuit of opportunities.
F L McCracken plans rear addition and sleeping room to his jewelry store while removing a chicken coop ornament. After May 1 George W Holdredge becomes General Manager of the C B and Q railroad. Local debris along the tracks prompts reader concern. Rowet advertise dresses and services. Kilpatrick Bros stock brand noted. Tribune touted as ad medium. Misc classified items include secondhand stove plants and a cheap buggy setup.
Improvements by Improvements-Register Laws and partners add porches and additions to multiple homes including a west side expansion. George Leland advances a 16 by 24 residence on McDowell Street, while Albert Noren grasses and trees his lots south of Representative Hockwell. Suess and Minkler begin two story houses north of the school, and D J Smith nears completion of a Macfarland street livery barn. The piece ends with a humorous note about a western missionary and a school roll listing students by state totaling 134.
County officials report a busy clerk's office with Cramer complaints and Balleau handling abstracts. Indianola experiences a building boom with new library room Y M C A plans, hotel addition, Sargent house expansion, and a bank safe arrival. District Court opens April 13 with an unusually large docket.
Red Willow County Teacher's Association will convene at this place on May 8 and 9 with a planned program. All five teachers are expected to attend. L. C. Steruenson, President, Indianola, April 21, 1985.
The ad lists family flour choices with prices including Gold Dust Flour at 2.00 and Legal Tender flour at 2.15, plus 21.75 for Choice Family Flour and patent flour at 3.30. Witcox Bros.
An old notice promotes Hunyadi Janos Hungarian mineral water as a remedy for consumption and indigestion sold at the B M Pharmacy. The ad frames the product as a preventive and curative tonic.
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