There are a number of places to select from. Good board and lodging can be secured for $4.50 a week and fair quarters may be had for as low as $4 a week.
     Directors: Dr. M. D. Bedal, president; John W. Boggs, vice president; F. H. Claridge, secretary; W. C. Walton, treasurer; A. French; John McQuarrie; John M. Tanner, manager.
     Dr. M. D. Bedal, the gentleman who made the discovery of this Gold Cure, is president of the company and is also the physician who is in charge. He administers all the medicine and looks carefully after all patrons of the institute. He also prepares all the medicine that is used in Bedal Gold Cure Institutes in other States where a franchise has been purchased. His entire time is given up to the gold cure project, consequently every detail is attended to in a thorough, skillful manner.
     Dr. Bedal is forty-six years of age. Previous to commencing the study of medicine he was for three years a student in the University of Chicago. From there he went to the Miami Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took the three years or graded course in medicine, graduating in March, 1874. Since graduating he has been continually in the practice of medicine and surgery. He was for several years United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions at Blair, Nebraska.
     He is a member of the State Medical Society of Nebraska, also a registered pharmacist and is proprietor and owner of a fine drug store in Blair. Nebraska, where he has resided for nearly fifteen years He has given much study and thought on the subject of alcoholism and the drink habit, and during the past year has completed his cure for alcoholism. Putting this discovery into actual practice, he is now treating a good number of patients and cured a number of the worst cases without a single failure.

GRAND ISLAND.

     It has been poetically though truthfully said that the sun of heaven shines upon no fairer portion of the globe than that embraced within the territory known as the Platte Valley. A region of gently undulating prairie and broad plains where nature has been most prodigal of her choicest gifts; where every element of air and sky and landscape unites to give a tone and vigor to the mind and body: where every product of the temperate zone is grown, and where rigorous cold or tropic heat does not conspire to render life a burden. In the midst of this fertile valley, 150 miles west of Omaha, is situated Grand Island, one of the fairest cities in the West.
     Enumerating some of the reasons why Grand Island has always been progressive and prosperous, it may be stated that the administration of city affairs has always been in clean and energetic hands. Henry D. Boyden, one of the city's most successful business men, is now at the head of city affairs as mayor, and has behind him a council composed of men possessed of large property interests, keenly alive to the importance of furthering every desirable improvement. And this has always been the rule as regards city officials. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been expended in improvements, under the direction of city officials, and never has a suspicion of jobbery existed.
     Prominent among the city's many improvements in which her citizens take pride may be mentioned the city hall. a beautiful and magnificent structure of brick and stone, erected in 1889. In this building the city's business is carried on, a home for our splendid public library is provided and our unequaled volunteer fire department makes its headquarters. The building is furnished and equipped in a thorough manner and every needed convenience is found. The upper or third story is devoted to the largest hall in the city, or in the western country for that matter; here the citizens assemble in frequent mass meetings to consider matters of interest to the welfare of the city.. This hall is always given over to political and business gatherings. Grand Island is known throughout the State as a city that is capable of caring for and entertaining in a royal manner State gatherings which call together multitudes of people.
     The system of waterworks. owned by the city, is the finest in the State. Over fifteen. miles of mains are now in use and every modern appliance is called into use to supply its taxpayers and residents with an abundance of water for domestic purposes, the propagation of lawns and protection against destruction by fire. The works are now self sustaining and an unanswerable argument in favor of every city owning its own waterworks.
     Our volunteer fire department is one of the best equipped and most effective in the State, and the good work done by the boys has, scores of times, subdued threatening conflagrations and saved thousands of dollars in property. Our fire companies are the city's pride and no expense is spared in fitting and equipping and providing ccmfortable (sic) quarters for them. A paid fire department will be unknown to Grand Island until the present generation joins the great majority, and even then will not exist unless the blood of their descendants runs much colder than did that of the ancestral stock.
     The thorough and perfect manner in which our city has for years been lighted has attracted the attention of visitors and those passing through the city. Arc lights of 2,000-candle power each are furnished, under contract, to the city by the Grand Island.

Light & Fuel Company, which operates a gas and electric plant, put in at a cost of $150,000. The business portion of the city is kept as light as day, while resident portions are illuminated by powerful tower arc lights. The gas mains of the company above named, extend to all parts of the city and every resident desiring to take advantage of such facilities can do so, with the knowledge that it is not necessary for him to buy the entire plant.
     Grand Island has the finest natural streets in the world. These are constantly attended to and kept in the best possible condition.
     The extensive sewerage system put in by the city at an outlay of $50 000 some three years ago affords perfect surface drainage and aids materially in keeping the streets in good condition. Grand Island points to her sewerage system as one of her greatest improvements.
     The street railway of the city is one of the features of Grand Island. Seven miles of track are in use, spreading over the main part of the city and leading to many outlying points of interest such as the beet sugar factory, Soldiers' Home, base ball park, reunion and agricultural association grounds.
     That Grand Island is a railway center, enjoying all the advantages and facilities of transportation to be derived from competitive corporations, holding out every inducement for business, may be ascertained by referring to a map. The extensive territory traversed by the three great main lines and feeders passing through our city has given birth to a jobbing trade of large proportions, and this bids fair to become one of the most important and profitable interests of the city.
     The Nebraska Soldiers' and Sailors' Home is situated two miles north of the city. This is a State institution erected several years ago.

     The main building is an imposing and substantial structure, fitted at great expense to meet the purpose for which it was designed. Numerous cottages, of neat and roomy design, have also been erected, and these are given over to old veterans who have families. Hospital, chapel and school buildings, where the sick may be cared for, religious exercises be conducted and the young educated, have been provided and the lot of Nebraska's patriots, compelled to seek such a home in their declining days, is as happy as it can be made under the circumstances.
     The public school system of Grand Island is another feature of the city, and nowhere can better schools be found. Five large brick buildings, erected at a cost of $75 000, are in use, and they, with the school grounds, bring the total investment in school property up to $125,000. About thirty-five teachers are employed, and able talent is sought for by our capable and efficient board of education.
     It is said that no city of its population can boast of so many churches as Grand Island. All denominations and creeds are represented, and some fifteen fine church buildings have been erected. those of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal. First Baptist Immannel Baptist, First Methodist Episcopal and Trinity Methodist Episcopal truly approaching magnificence.
     Grand Island is noted for its social civic and benevolent societies. The Masons, Knights of Labor. Knights of Pythias. Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen Ancient Order of United Workmen. Grand Army of the Republic. Good Templars, Commercial Pilgrims and American Protective Association, all have flourishing, well supported organizations. and contribute largely to our social advantages. The A. O. U. W. have three lodges in the city, No. 1 being noted as having the largest membership in the State. The membership of the Grand Army Post is only equaled in the State by that of the Omaha Post.
     This city boasts of one of the finest opera