Bross is the proud owner of a new touring car. F. C. and Will Ruwe drove over from Fontanelle township Tuesday in their Rambler, returning the same day. H.
H. Shields and daughter Mildred, Mr. and Mrs. George Dyball and Mrs. Smith of Omaba, and Mr.
Phillips of Columbus, were at the Wilkinson home Sunday. John Sas was here from Winner, So. the first of the week. He has disposed of his business interests up there and isn't doing anything just at present. V.
G. Lantry, a. former resident of Blair and well known to all our old settlers, died Tuesday at Cody, where he had lived since 1899. He was 68 years old and a brother L. L.
Lantry of this city. The remains will be shipped to Omaha aud the funeral held under the auspices of the Knights Templar, of which order the deceased was a member. He leaves two sons and two daughters. J. H.
Jensen returned last week from Excelsior Springs, Missouri, where he had been for the past four weeks under a doctor's care. For the past several months Mr. Jensen has been suffering with kidney and bladder trouble and for a time was in a very bad way. His trip to the springs benefitted him greatly and he is now able to be up town occasionally, but uses a cane to help him move about. Peter Gilbertson, an old time resident and well known all over the county, is suffering with cancer of the stomach at his home in Blair and it is said it is only a question of time until he must give up the unequal struggle.
There is some talk of taking him to Omaha for an operation in the hopes of prolonging his life, but unless he gets strong enough to stand such a trip even this will have to be abandoned. The county commissioners met Tuesday and after organizing allowed a number of bills before noon. After dinner they allowed a refunding order of $10.87 to Christoffer Anderson because he was assessed in school district No. 1 instead of No. 16, and received the report of the commissioner appointed to view road No.
542. Then they adjourned to June 11th. The shortness of the session was due to the fact that there was not a great deal to do and also because Commis. sioner Heurman wanted to get back home so he could help ship some stock to South Omaha. J.
I. Unruh for Furniture and "Rugs of Quality." Undertaking a specialty. See McDonald Supply Co. for all kinds of paints, oils, varnishes, Roof paints etc. 50-tf.
For any kind of outside photography call Mark McDonald. Prices reasonable. Bell phone 27, Ind. phone 88. Milton A.
Sams, undertaker and I embalmer. Ambulance calls answer. ed day and night. Both phones. Rooms opposite the postoffice, Blair.
T. P. Blankenbeckler and wife left Sunday for their home near Tekamah after having spent a week or two with relatives in this neighborhood. Mrs. Dr.
Langstaff and Mrs. Chas. Ross left for Chicago last week to attend the graduating exercises of the Armour Institute, where they each have a son who will finish, their course. Harold Langstaff already secured a good position in Chicago and will remain in the east, while Ralph Ross will return home for the present. He has several good pros pects.
J. Mueller, the grocer, says the season for canning strawberries is here right now, the Missouri berries being at their best. It is doubtful if these delicious berries will get any cheaper in price than they are right now and the wise housewife will not wait for the home crop, because the long continued dry weather has injured the strawberry crop quite seriously. I desire to announce to the people of Blair that I have taken charge of the old Ellington hotel and am now ready to serve the public with meals and lodgings. It will be my endeavor to make the Ellington the best stopping place in Blair, and in connection with the regular meals I will serve short orders at all hours.
A share of your patronage will be appreciated. 51-2 Mrs. D. McMurtrie. Cappis Latta report the sale of another Overland touring car one of the latest and most beautiful models made by the Overland people.
The car, which is rated at 45 h. was sold to M. Bloom, a prosperous farmer living up near Herman. The Overland is fast taking its place in the hearts of the people of the couutry and Washington county is getting its share. The proprietors of the Blair Auto Co.
are to be congratulated on the number of sales they are making this spring, because every Overland sold means another pleased auto driver and owner. 19 Cent Sale ALL THIS WEEK AT Blair Racket Store. A sale That Will Interest Every Member of the Family, Including Glassware, Chinaware, Enamelware, Woodenware, Hardware, Notions Jewelry 10 and 13 Qt. Enamel Dish Pans, 19c 4 and 6 Qt. Enamel Preserve Kettle, 19c 2 Qt.
Enamel Coffee Pot, 19c Roasters in Enamel and Iron, 19c Hard Maple Butter Bowls, 13 15 in. 19c 25 to 35c Values Salads Cake Plates 19c Glass and China Water Pitchers, 19c And Many More Values Worth Up to 50c and 60c, All Go In At 19 Cents Unheard of Values in Jewely, Notions, Etc, Including Brooches, Waist Sets, Collar and Belt Pins, Cuff Links, all at, each, 19c Be sure and visit our store this week. It will pay you big. "WATCH OUR WINDOWS." BLAIR RACKET STORE. Doney's is the only place in town to buy German pretzels.
47-tf Have Jesse Bigelow shine your shoes. At Nemetz barber shop. 35tf If you can't afford an airship, win fame by being a successful dodger of automobiles. Dr. J.
G. Smith, Osteapath, office at residence first door east of Post Office. Both Phones. 50-tf Silas Foster is very low at his home in this city and grave fears are entertained for his recovery. There will be Catholic services in Calhoun next Sunday morning at.
9:30 and in Blair at 11:00 o'clock. Beef and horse hides and spring chickens and hens bought at Lantry's Market at highest market prices. 7-tf Buy your gasoline from the Blair Auto Co. It is automatically filtered and is free from dirt and water. 45-tf Dan McManigal was here from Wayne last week visiting relatives.
He had been to So. Omaha with a load of cattle and stopped off here on his way home. The first open air dance of the season will be held at the Jensen Park on Saturday evening. June 1st. Music by an Omaha Orchestra and a good time is promised all who attend.
Ed Parish left last Saturday for Shickley, Nebraska, where he will spend a week at the home of his old friend, John Portwood. This is Ed's first "trip to Filmore county in twenty-five years, when the Parish family left there and moved to Blair. A new ruling regarding the return of mail not called for has been put into effect by the postal department, according to notice received by Postmaster W. J. Cook.
It is to the effect that undeliverable mail bearing the address of the sender with no notation as to how long it shall be held for delivery before being returned will be held five days if for city or rural delivery and ten days if addressed to general delivery. Berthal Miller drove into town last Thursday to meet his daughter, Miss Laura, who has been absent for several months, While gone Miss Miller visited many places of interest in California and other states and was with her brother, A. who wrote such interesting letters for the readers of the Democrat. For the past several weeks Miss Miller has been staying at Glenwood Springs, Colorado where her brother is employed in the government forestry service. W.0.
Wood, manager of the Merchants hotel, is representing the Alberta Development Corporation, Ltd. This corporation is one of the largest in Alberta, Canada, and has a large lot of the best Improved and unimproved farms in Alberta, which are now selling at from $15 to 840 per acre on easy terms. They also have large tracts of land which are sold for colIonization. It you want to see a country that is noted for health and wealth and is destined to be one of the richest portions of the American continent call and make arrangements for a pleasant trip. 47-tf J.
H. Owens is the proud owner of the black imported Percheron stallion, Tripolion, also an imported bay stallion, Cornish King, Imported by O. F. Singmaster Son, of Keota, Iowa, In speaking of Tripolion, Mr. Singmaster said: "'This horse has been in our breeding barns for the past four years and has many good colts his credit.
He is strong- in the Percheron lines and we should have retained him, but it is one of our rules to sell when 5 or 6 years old no matter how good a horse may There is no better horse in the country than Tripolion; his colts are heavy-boned with good style and action and demanded the top prices. of stallion colts last winter from imported mares. Come and see me or call Red 106, Ind. phone. J.
H. Owens. Another change in the business the town is booked for the first of June when W. H. Epling and M.
A. Sams assume control of the J. I. Unruh furniture stock and buildings, which they purchased last week. Mr.
Unruh came to Blair from Plattsmouth several years ago and opened a furniture store, enjoying a very good business and enlarging from time to time until he had one of the finest furniture stores in eastern Nebraska. In selling to Messrs. Epling and Sams he relinquishes a good business and a stock of goods second to none. Just what business he will engage in later is not yet definitely known. The new firm needs no in troduction to the people of Washington county.
Mr. Epling has been resident of Washington county for the past twenty-eight years and has an acquaintance that will stand him well in his new calling. Mr. Sams has been conducting an undertaking and embalming establishment here for the past several months and during his residence here has made -many friends. Both of these men are hustiers and the Democrat hopes to see them do a good business.
There ample room in Blair for two furniture stores and the good business enjoyed by their predecessor proves this. BLAIR WINS IN THE EIGHTH Blair won from the Co. Bluffs Imperials Sunday by the score of three to two, in the fastest and best game of the season. A small crowd only was out to see the game, and the rest were the losers, if the opinion of the few faithful is any index. Wolff was invincible, letting the Bluffs boys down without a hit.
He also struck out ten of them, and allowed but one base on balls, which figured in the scoring not at all. Except for a couple of bad stops and a wild heave by "Smooth" Struve in the second, it would have been a shut out. Gunsolley twisted an ankle in the third sliding into home, and his place had to be filled by Haller, who had played the bench up to this time, he going to first, Struve into right field, Ben Haller into left field, and Davis to second base. From then on things went swimmingly except for a moment in the eighth, when Krause tried to catch a foul tip with his right knee, but he couldn't do it. Aside from Wolff's pitching other features were the playing of Burcham at short, who accepted nine chances without an error; and two circus catches by Davis, one in left field, and one at second base.
Guinnee, for the Bluffs, was also much in evidence, allowing but four hits, strikingsout seven, and hitting one batsman. Gunsolley hit for a duplicate of his home run of last Sunday, but the wind caught it and carried the longest hit of the season foul. But we won it, as follows: Blair AB RHPOA McMannigal 3b 4 0 0 Gunsolley 2b 2 0 L. Haller 1b 2 1 8 0 Krause 4 -J Burcham ss 3 2 Davis If 2b 3 3 B. Haller rf If 2 Struve lb rf 3.
0 2 0 Harding cf 3 0 Wolff 3 0 2 29 3 4 27 15 "Imperials AB. PO A Colburn If 3 Deyl 3b 4 2 2 Young of 1b Wolcott 4b 4 3 3 Christ's'n 1b cf 3. 0 0 Rice rf 2 0 O. Christensen ss 3 0 Payne 3 5 Guinnee 3000 2. 0 29 0 0 24 12 6 Blair 3 4 4 Imperials 020000000-2 0 6 Three base hits Krause.
Bases stolen Blair 7. Double play Deyl to Wolcott to A. Christensen. Struck out by Wolff 10, by Guinnee 7. Bases on balls off Wolff 1.
Hit by pitched ball B. Haller. Earned run Blair 1. Time of game 1:30. Umps Cheeley and Zeigler.
Blair plays Tekamah today (Thursday), and it will be a good game. Everybody come out. OBITUARY Eliza A. Bohonon was born June 17, 1835, in Bombay, N. Y.
At the age of 19 she was united in marriage to Henry C. Morrill and since 1869 had made her home in Nebraska, most. of the time, since the death of her husband in 1888, at Tekamah. Born to this union were ten children, five of whom are living: Mrs. H.
E. Reynolds of Tekamah, Mrs. James Kesslar of Sioux City, Mrs. Wm. Belville of Colorado, and Mrs.
Charles Haynes and Mrs. Watson Tyson of Blair, who with an only sister, Mrs. Olive E. Colby of Salsbury, N. 26 grand-children, and 18 great grandchildren, are left to mourn her death.
In 1904 she suffered a paralytic stroke which caused a general weakening and she passed away May 22nd at the age of 75 years, 11 months and 5 days. The funeral was held Friday at the home of Mrs. HI. E. Reynolds, Rev.
Warren officiating, and the remains interred in the Tekamah cemetery. Her many friends extend their deep sympathy to the children in the loss of their mother. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to the many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during the long illness and after the death of our beloved mother. Her Children. ANNOUNCEMENT Having bought the furniture and undertaking business of J.
I. Unruh we take this method of introducing the new firm to the public. We will take possession on June 3rd and will keep an up-to-date line of rugs, furniture and all that goes with this line of business. We have a splendid equipment for the Undertaking work and will make a specialty in that line. Don't wait until in need of something in our line, but make us a social call and get acquainted.
Our greatest ambition will be to please those who deal with us. Very Respectfully Epling Sams, Successors to J. I. Unruh. is FOR -An "Indian' motor cycle, in first class running condition.
Inquire of Wm. P. Cook, at Independent telephone office. 50tf. Graduation Gifts From a jewelry store being the most pleasant thought to the mind of the young graduate.
A host of proper gifts for both the young men and young women. For Young Men Gald Watches $8.00 to $40.00 Gold Watch 2.50 to 8.00 Gold Cuff 1.00 to 5.00 Gold Scarf Pins. 75c to 8.00 Gold Rings. 2.50 to 15.00 Gold Tie Clasps. 50c to 1.50 For Young Ladies Gold Watches $10.00 to $25.00 Gold Watch Chains.
2.50 to 10.00 Beads. 3.00 to 5.00 Gold Lockets: 1.50 to 5.00 Gold Locket 1.00 to 6.00 Gold 2.00 to 25.00 Gold Bracelets. 2.50 to 8.00 Diamond ring special $10 to $20. These make a fine gift and just the rights size for graduation presents. We have many other ideas, any of which will be a pleasing gift.
W. H. Palmer GREEN BACKS in STRAW STACKS THE wastage of grain by the average Treshing Machine is far more than many suppose. The Operator usually knows 1t, but he can't help it with that kind of a machine, so he covers it up all he can and lets it go at that. The Farmer suspects it, but thinks he to put up with it, and much of his hard earned money goes over into the straw stack.
This great wastage is the result of employing an incompetent type of Threshing machine that rushes the straw to the stack, but does not beat the graft. out of it. It is up to you Farmers to say what- Machine will thresh your grain this season. You have worked hard to grow the grain and you pay the bill for threshing it. You can't afford to divide your profits with the straw pile, for every bushel that goes into the stsck is money right out of your pocket.
You Can Save Your Thresh Bill by Hiring a Red River Special to Do Your Threshing It will save the grain for you; it will waste less of your time; it will do your job quicker; it will clean your grain, better; it will pay you all around. It is the only Threshing Machine made that uses the true and sure method of separation by beating the grain out of the straw just as you would do with a pitchfork. The Big Cylinder, the Man Behind the Gun, and the Shakers that toss the straw up and beat it as you would do with a pitchfork save the grain that others waste, whether it be wheat, oats, rye, barley, flax, peas, rice, alfalfa, timothy or other grains or seeds. THE RED RIVER SPECIAL WORKS OF AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PRINCIPLE OF SEPARATION from any other make. It beats It out while other makes hurry the straw to the staw and expect the grain to fall out, which it does not do.
Have your threshing done this year by a Red River Special. IT WILL SAVE YOUR THRESH BILL. Write us or call on our Branch House or Dealer fer the proof. NICHOLS SHEPARD Battle Creek, Mich, The only builders of Red River Special Threshers, on Self-Feeders, Wind Stackers, WeighN. S.
Co. Traction Steam Engines, Tractors and everything for the Thresherman. VacationDays Whether you prefer to go camping, stay at a summer hotel or rent a cottage, the lakes of NORTHERN WISCONSIN have superior accommodations, and their natural charm is most attractive. A few weeks of care-free, out door life is the best tonic in the world for big folks- -and little folks, too. WHERE TO GO- Our fishing folder contains detailed, maps of the fishing and outing region," list of accommodations and their charges, and will suggest a place to go.
A Summer Home Hundreds of summer cottages have been built during the past few years on the shores of these beautiful lakes. Our summer visitors have realized that, at present, it means but a small expenditure and it insures comfortable summer quarters; before long it will represent a most desirable investment. Round- Trip Excursion fares to Lake Superior and Northern Wisconsin Lakes via the North Western Line Folders and Information upon request G. S. O.
HELTMAN, G. H. MacRAE Agent General Passenger Agent Blair, Nebraska 51-2-eow St. Paul, Minn..
