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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1884
Page
5
Local items advertise City Bakery flour and fresh City Market fish and produce. McCook builds a building and loan association while bids open for a schoolhouse. Theft reported at J B Meserve herd and harness, and a new residence for Fred Parsons under H C Rider. Community events include a Union Sunday school concert and a cattleman adding a Hereford bull for $150.
A meeting of doctors from the Republican Valley is called to convene in McCook on the 18th of this month to organize a regional Medical Association. Organizers hope for a full turnout of physicians devoted to Esculapius.
Town readers note Wilcox Bros. has built a large addition to their store and added a groceries stock after improving the original building. The item appears among community notices and town developments.
A stock train from Auburn passed through the station Thursday afternoon. Shipments by A. Moore included eleven cars with 400 head of cattle and one car with 75 head of calves. Two or three cars carried horses, chickens, household goods, wagons and ranch paraphernalia. They had been in the cars since Wednesday morning and music filled the air during the stop for orders.
A cowboy with a literary bent staged a fake water spout disaster on a Flathead and Cheyenne trail canyon. Newspapers across the region ran bold “special dispatches” about eleven cowboys swept away, while critics note the story was a harmless hoax from a practical joker.
Abundant rain and cool days followed by a hail storm near Stokes and Troth ranch damaging vegetation. Mrs. John Ryan and Mr. Ryan recover and suffer illness from measles. Stokes and Troth enlarge a pasture with John Ryan helping. Leon Keeler travels to North Platte after Mrs. Ellis. Round-up plans form at Frenchman and Stinking Water. Sunday school begins with small turnout at Mrs. Braugh's. Red Willow and Blackwood Cattle Association met May 20 at J. K. Paxton’s house, electing officers and adopting by laws.
A homage to Noah Webster as the republic’s schoolmaster. It praises his spelling books and dictionaries for uniting dialects, compares him to Columbus and Washington, and credits him with educating generations and shaping a common national tongue.
A list of visitors and residents in McCook includes A. Constable visiting Cambridge, George Short from Indianola, S. Sims from Kansas City, Jesse Welborn, R. M. Sibbett, Senator Dolan, J. M. Wilson, General Brush, Ed Wilson of Circle Ranch, and others. Local moves include A. W. Huntley family into C N Batchelor’s house and W. C. LaTourette settling on the hill. Updates cover health, ranch business, travel, and a medicine ad for De Land’s Soda and Sabora tus.
C H Russet writes that Red Willow County has grown since its 1880 settlement, citing drought years and later progress in mixed farming and stock raising. He argues cattle can be profitable if fed and sheltered, claims eastern reports misjudge the county, and urges eastern renters to move west as land values rise with increased plowing and sod turning.
List of uncalled letters remaining in the McCook Nebraska post office for May 1584. Names include Joseph RB Apmenstrout G Roger Hate Envin M Forbes Be M Forbes Michael Fitzpatrick Geo Hadi Miss Mattie Hain Alonzo Kelly Mrs W TM Hockinday Ne H Kelly John Luis Js. Sellers Vanderfoort T W Scott P M.
Fred Trebel, patient for several weeks, shows signs of slow recovery and improving health as he convalesces at home or hospital care.
Thomas Colfer buys two lots west of A. McG. Robb and contracts a 24 by 24 foot residence with a kitchen addition. F. L. McCracken purchases Mr. Byron's jewelry store as this edition goes to press.
Customers from Des Moines Iowa to Fort Scott Kansas report cures for liver and blood ailments with Marsa's Golden Boop and Liver Tone. Advertised tonics include Golden Boop Liver Tone and GoLprEn Balsam for throat and lungs, sold by S L Green McCook in large bottles priced at 50 cents and one dollar.
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