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v DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD; DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. tT7 -w i : it- ("A Growing Business Built on Our Reputation" I SHIP US YOUR I I Cattle, Hogs and SKeep I Steele, Siman & Co. Sioux city, Iowa Ten Steel. Mnnneer RayStman, a Mnnneer Cattle Bnlcstnnn. J Hundreds of Dakota County Farmers Ship Us. . Ask them about us. Our- Best Boosters. I We Work for You. IM MM Mi W Licensed Embalmcr Lady Assistant Ambulance Service Wax. F. Dickirvsorv Viidertadking Doll 71 Atuto 0471 reso zct o casus o Ask Your Dealer The Famous Sturges Bros. Harness I If they Don't Have Them, write or call on f they I Sturges Bros., 4ii Pearl St., Sioux City, Isi. Westcott's Undertaking Parlors "- . Auto Ambulance Old Phone, 420 New Phone 2067 Sioux Cityv lowai JHenry's Place East of the Court House for the Best in I Wines, Liquor and Cigars i Bond & Lillard, Old Elk, Sherwood Rye Whiskies. NKilif e Beer ! Bottle I Hnry t 9 Abstracts of -Title A $10,000 Surety Band GwnaBtee the aeoumoy of ttrj Abstrot I make I A. Ira Davis Auctioneers Satisfaction Guaranteed Phone us at Homer, Nebr., 01 Emtrson KRANKDAVEY,JR. Davey Bros. Tire Repair Co. 423 Water Street , Sioux City, Iowa Prompt Service . 1 t'V t Dve Prutmtr, Mirry EpptMcn, Ilotr& Sheep Salesman omce Write Us, Ship Us, 415 Sixth Street Sioux City, Iowa mcCTiaa esrtcaz o taresoBJ e to Show You GO Crt" o o 3 o CO CD o 7-r i or Ketf Successor to - Dakota County Abstract 0: Bonded Abstracter J. J. ESMERI Dan F. Sheehan No. 222, Line 00, or write us I AT- Nebraska RAY M, DAVEY. Satisfaction Guaranteed anHnHMNHnnHMai 1 BRIGHT PROSPECTS """asfflSSgg 'wiffiS5sr.i"" ' A&HRi Larry Lajoie, Natural Slugger, Now (Hi- ITtANK G. MKNKH ) Tho acquisition of Larry Lajoie makes it Beoni cortaln that tho Ath lotlcs will bo in tho 1915 pennant light all tho way. Don't bo surprised if tlioy gof away in the front and load tho parado to tho wiro, despite offortH of tho dangerous Ited Sox to do tho overhauling stunt. It sooms to bo tho proper tiling just now to spoof tho pennant chances of tho Athletics simply because Eddie Collins, Charles Hendor, Eddio Plank and Jnck Coombs no lounger have thoir names enrolled In the lineup. Hut it seems thnt tho spooling la somewhat uncalled for. Tho loss of Collins scorned to bo a terrific blow at first, but tho purchaso of Lajoie to fill his boots changes tho aspect of things. Lajolo 1b old and ho isn't as speedy as Collins Dut despite his forty years he still is good a fielder as CollinB. Ho can't run bases like Collins, but in all tho years up to last ho could bit like Collins and hit beyond Collins. Lajoie slumped to .258 in 1914. Hut ho'll hit .300 or bettor in 1915 or we'll miss our guess. And that's about as good as might bo expected from Col 11ns. Lajolo isn't through as a hitter, oven though ho 1b Hearing his fortieth year. He's a natural slugger and ho'll do a "como back" this year. Great hitters are great hitters as long as they aro nblo to hold a bat. During tho coming season Lajolo will bo working' under a manager who will appreclato him and encourngo him. Last year he worked undor tho fiery Birmingham, and ho worked with, a team that was torn by internal strife. Ho worked undor conditions where a man could not do his best. FIGHTER HAS FEW FRIENDS Bantamweight Champion Williams Has Remarkably Slim Following He Is a Very Clever Boxer. Considering his grent work in the ring and since winning tho bantam weight championship, Kid Williams has mado remarkably few friends, it Kid Williams, Bantamweight Cham pion. t is hard to account for this. According to nil precedout, tho Bnltimoro Viking should havo tho fistic world at his foot, for ho Is tho only champion who is doing any real fighting worth mou tloulng. If Williams wero merely a crudo slugger, his reckless way of risking his tltlo would bo loss worthy of uoto. But ho Is n clover boxor whon ho cares to play tho gamo thnt way. Ho proved that when ho out-boxed Johnny Coulon In that ton-round bout at Mnili son Squaro gardon. Terry McGovorn, Buttling Nelson, Ad WolgnBt and oth ers of that typo, who aro constantly roforrod to ns ideal champions, woro hard lighters, but they ktiow no otlmr way of milling. Had they boon adopts at tho hlt-and-gqtfaway stylo thoy . rift ? FOR THE ATHLETICS assriii' K7illlUl" J1SU&& With Connie Mack'o Champions. Tho Athletics aren't going to miss Hendor and Plank as much a3 som6 folks think. Thoy won't miss Coombs at all becauso during tho past two or three years Coombs has pitched only a few games. Connio Mack has a squad of youth ful hurlors to throw into tho breach mado by tho loss of-Bonder and Plank, and they look able enough to fill it and fill it acceptably. 13ob Shawkey looks like ono of tho best pitchers in tho American League. Ho vas worked regularly last year and it gave him confidence. Also it gavo him a chanco to correct his only fault wlldness. "Rube" Dressier, tho' port sido flingor that Mack secured last year, looks llko ono of tho best youngsters that has busted into the national pastlmo in many years. He ought to ho ablo to fill tho placo of Eddio Plank. Wyckoff and 'Pennoclc have been with tho Mackmen for several sea sons. Thoy liaven't worked to any great extent becauso Connio dopendod largely upon his veteran pitchers, but when thoy did work thoy showed they had everything necessary. This sea son thoy will get their chance. Leslie Bush is a good pitcher. He's cool-headed, has a good arm, and he is brainy. Ho will bo ono of Connie's regulars this season and great things aro expected of him. In addition to (hese twirlers, Connio has sovoral other youngsters, who can answer tho call of duty and answer It well. So Connio isn't worrying about 1915. Would you worry if you were outfit ted with ball players liko thoBo who will fight undor tho White Elephant banner In 1915? might not have been so willing .o make a fight of ajl their bouts. Wil liams, having two courses to choose from, desorvos all tho more credit CRICKET CLUBS ARE LOSERS Alarming Deficit Shown by Many Clubs as Result of Damper on Sport by Outbreak of War. Most of tho prominent professional cncKoi ciuus in Knginnd snow an alarming financial deficit for tho sea son as a result of tho damper which war put on the sport aftor August 1. Tho Lancashire Cricket club, with an nnnual income of about $40,000, had a loss of $0,500. Tho Northamp tonshire club was ablo to finish its season only through the receipt of a gift of $2,500 from Lord Lllford, an enthusiastic follower of tho sport. Tho club has decided to abandon tho game for tho year 1915 and assess all mornbers n sum sufficient to enable the organization to start tho 1916 sea son free of debt. ' The Hampshlro County club, aftor beginning tho year with n largo sur plus finds Itself at the end of tho season with a deficit of $4,500. Ex act figures aro not available for tho othor prominent clubs, but it is known that all havp suffered sovorely. Cobb Teaching Son Baseball. Tyrus Cobb, Detroit outfielder, is spending much of hhj timo these days playing golf on tho links near his Georgia homo. vHo likos golf and fol lows that pastlmo to keop in condi tion during tho winter. Ty also ia fond of shooting. On many of his out door jaunts Cobb is accompanied by his llttlo son, whom ho is teaching tho rudiments of baseball. Record Number of Trotting Meets. W. II, Gccher, secretary of tho Na tional Trotting association, reports that moro trotting meetings woro held in Amorlca last season than In any other year slnco tho sport had its origin. Gccher nays In all 1.HC8 meet ings wore held on something llko 1,200, dilforont racks, About ono hundred wero on hnlf-milo tracks. Thoro aro 99 mllo tracks In this country and Canada. Some Difference. Tho difference between n football coach and n basoball mnnager 1b that when a football coach calls down IiIb players for making bono plnya they bsllevo he knows. War Threatens English Classic. The annual olght-oarod crow raco between Oxford and Cambridge may bo called off noxt yenr owing to tho largo number of absentees among tho athlotos of both universities. Johnny Evero Has a Grouch. Johnny ICvers is dead against the suggestion that the National 'loague got back to tho ono umplro system for purposes of rajronchmejit. ISvori says any chump can rldo ono umpire IDLERS DESTROY ALL Get Rid of the Old Machinery and Have the Most Up-to-Date Labor-Saving Kind Thlo 13 an Era of Efficiency. (By JOHN D. I'UENTICE.) A good many years ago I suddenly woko up to 'ho fact that Mio Idlers on tho farm aro tho 'things that keep a man from making money. When I camo West fifteen years ago I' visited a big manufacturing plant at Chicago and I was struck by the system which kept everybody and everything busy. In going through tho factory I could not sec an idlo man nor nn idlo ma chine. Everything and everybody was on tho jump every minute. No lost motion, no loafing on tho job. And as I pondered over the matter on my way to my now farm I bogan to realize now much I had lost in tho past through maintaining idlo and unpro ductive things. As soon as I got settled I sold off throo old horses I had brought with me, and boughf two good ones; traded four cows that had never been up to tho mark for two that gave more milk than tho four cvor did, and 1 In vested somo of my capital in a flock o 20 sheep, about 100 hens and five of tho best brood sows I could buy In tho county. Then I traded an old reaper that I Using the Tedder A Very Useful Im plement In Curing a Crop of Alfalfa or Clover. Lad hauled from central Ohio for flvo stands of bees and a good plow. I mado up my mind that I would have tho best tools and tho best live GOOD PROTECTION FOR TREES Pennsylvania Expert Recommends That All Litter Bo Removed and Earth Mound Be Erected. Tho damage to trees, particularly In young orchards, from gnawing by rabbits and mice during tho winter tlmo Is very great Last winter In particular thoro was an unusual abund ance of field mlco. When tho Bnow thawed from meadows the burrows of mice could bo seen extending In nil directions. Many young trees planted in sod or where manure or mulch camo closely around their bases wore completely girdled by these animals. As a precautionary measure, Profes sor Paddock of Ohio college of agri culture recommends that litter of all kinds bo removed from around tho trunks of young trees and that a six inch mound of earth thrown about trunks of such treeB Is also a good plan. This protection of earth also safeguards to a certain extent against wintor injury. Ono docs not want to go to tho other oxtreme, however, and remove all cov ering from oft the young tree roots. Experiment has shown that a cortaln amount of organic matter in or on tho soil will ofton protect tho trees from injury during a hard winter. Rabbits are always present and tho possibility or injuries should always bo guarded against. Ono of tho ways rocommonded for' preventing tho rab bits from gnawing tho trees Is to pro tect them with somo form of tree protector. This may either bo a cylin der of flno-meshed wovon wire or wood veneer or cloth. Loss of Cream. When you let your skim milk stand n few hours and find quito a cream has risen on it, you aro losing cream, and that means money. Either skim It again or else let it stand a little longer in tho first placo. Somo milk Is so poor ono skimming gives you a chanco to sco clear" to tho bot tom of tho pan, and you haveVt any great amount of cream at that Bran Mash for Horse. Givo tho horBO a bran mash Satur day night or Sunday noon; and on Wednosdny night also, If work Is slack. Aftor a long day in vory cold or wot woather, a hot mash, half bran nud half oats, with a tablespoonfui of gin gor, will do tho hortto good. Put very llttlo salt, If any, in tho mash. Profits In Dairying. Tho profits in dairy farming under prcsont conditions como only to tho men who havo the grit and gumption to wood out their small-yield cows. Unsatisfactory Conditions. Sometimes unsatisfactory conditions surrounding tho cooporatlvo croamory nrlso from working tho buttor too llt tlo and tho buttormakor too much. CHANCES OF PROFIT stock that I could buy and that I would make everything on the placo cam its keep or know the reason why. I had brought with ino an old thresh ing machine with which 1 used to go around through our neighborhood in Ohio every fall doing odd jobs of threshing. Of course I mado a llttlo money at this, but when I figured out tho timb tho old machine stood idlo about ton months in tho year and re pairs I had to pay for and tho timo spent In hunting up jobs, I- quickly discovered that tho old rattletrap had cost me a good deal of money. I tiadod the outfit for a hunch of yearling calves and felt that' I hnd a load off my chest. Within a week aftor I had mado my trades and purchases I had the sheep busy cleaning up a 20-ncro pasture ovor lOt) chickens wcro scratching their living out of tho fields, tho hogs wero putting on flesh; the cows mado moro butter than wo could use, which brought us in ensh every week, and tho calves wero laying money on their ribs right along. Everything was working nigh,, and day. Of course I could not make all tho changes I wanted at onco, but within six months every head of 'lvo stock on tho placo was good of its kind, and profitable. That is tho main thing, to invest ono's capital only in things that will brijg returns on tho invest ment. I jiover before had realized how greatly handicapped tho farmer is who tries to work with old, half worn out machinery, decrepit horses tha cannot do moro than a half day's work in a day, cows that eat more than thoy earn, and who lias, no poultry or sheep to clenn up tho stuff that would otherwise go to waste. By changing my methods I havo mado three times as much money sinco I camo to South Dakota as I over did in Ohio, although 1 do not think my land is any better and we do not work as hard. I havo oxacfly tho samo amount of land I had in Ohio and perhaps I have learned how to farm it better, but I attribute what little success I havo had to the fact that everything on tho placo is productive and that I keep everybody and everything busy every minute I can. POTATO ROTS QUITE COSTLY Important to Treat All Tubers Show ing Affection With Solution of Mercury Bichloride. Various types of rot annually de stroy many thousands of dollars' worth of potatoes. Tho rots respon sible for much of theso damages are Internal brown rot, powdery dry rot, soft rot and stem rot. Very often tubers are attacked in the field or instorage by a soft rot which quickly reduces tho potatoes to a soft, slimy, foul-smelling mass. Tho stem rot fungus, rhlzoctonia, produces on tho tubers small dark brown bodies which resemble bits of soil. Theso bodies aro tho wintering over stage of tho fungus and may spread very rapidly from ono tuber to another under improper methods of storage. Whllo this fungus docs not Itself cause a rot of the tuber, it may pavo tho way for such rot-producing organisms as the dry and soft rots. Of theso diseases, rhizoctonia and the or ganism causing tho internal brown rot only produce a wilting of the vine. It is, therefore, important to treat all tubers showing tho presence of tho brown soil-like bodies with a solution of mercury blchlorldo and to discard for seed all tubers showing tho brown ring discoloration. Internal brown rot may live in the soil for flvo or six years. If potatoes aro grown continually year after yenr on the samo soil theso organisms will increase in number, and, as a conse quence, tho percentage of wilted vinos and rotted tubers will also increaso until in a few years tho soil will bo entirely worthless for growing pota toes. Since all of theso diseases live over winter on or In tho tubors, it is im perative that seed treatment and seed selection bo practiced In order to pro vent a recurrence of tho troubles tho following year. This, together with tho other precautions given, will pre vent the spread of these diseases and rcduco tho loss In storage. Good Type of Brood Sow. In selecting u brood sow, form Is first to bo considered. Tho body should bo finely built, vigorous, long with heavy quarters, flat back, short snout, cars and limbs. Thojiock should not bo too short. She should bo a vigorous feeder, with great ca pacity, becauso an Indifferent feeder will starvo her pigs. A sow whoso lit tors range less than eight to twelve pigs each is a failuro. Raising Calves by Hand. Calves can bo raised vory success fully upon skim milk proporly supple mented. It Is possible to raiso them, aftor a few weeks of age, upon milk substitutes. No inflexible rulo as to amqqnt of feod can bo glvon. Even skim' milk varies In food value, and calves vary as to their reuulremsnta. BRIEF NEW8 OF NEBRASKA Fnlrbury will be In the state bast ball league next season Otoo will havo a county baseball league the coining season. Tccumsah got sixteen .ncliou of snow during tno recant storm. Society women of tho Hustlnj-'s Y. W. C. A. huvo organized a bowling club. State mnnufacturorB will hold thoir annual show nt Lincoln, Fobruory 23 to 26. William Herbert, a pioneer of Omn ha, Ib dead at that placo at the ngo of 9C years. D. C. Kllpatrlck was found dead in a snow drift a Bhort distance from his home nt PalU City. Retail hardware merchants of the state will hold a convontton at Omnha, February 9 to 12. Retailors of tho state will hold their next nnnual meeting at Lincoln, February 23 to 2G. Auburn will hold her nnnual fiddlers' contest, open to tho stato, on tho even ing of February 4. University Place people decided by olection to push a proposed project for a library for that placo. ' Dr. L. C. Kigin, state votorinarlnn, has tendered his resignation to tho livo slock sanitary board. After a pastorate of nearly soven years at Stcinaur, Rev. Father Fobs lias been transferred to Hobron. Burglars entered tho store of Bono bright & Bunlo at Cortland and car ried away goods valued at $1,200. Rev. H. Hnilorberg, for olght years paBtor of the Gorman Evangelical church, near Arlington, haa resigned Lincoln hari been invaded by tho jitnoy cur. It ij said a number of them will be put on the streets at' onco. Judge Conrad Hollenbock, chief jus tico of tho Nebraska supreme court, died at Lincoln, Thursday, of heart failuro. Tho Cornhuskor basketball team won second gamo from tho Kansas) "Agglea" 20 to 20 and tied first, 12 to 12. Owing to an epidemic of measles at Elmwood, several rooms of the pilbliG school havo been closed until it ubatos. Weeping Water W. C. T. U. has re quested tho school board at that placo to have the Biblo read In the public schools. William Kuan, of Blue Springs, aged 77, was stricken with apoplexy and fell dead in his yard while feeding chickens. Columbus will have a primary elec tion February 9 to decide on u post master. There are flvo candidates for the place. Fairbury basoball fans havo organ ized an association, and will put that town ort the map by means of a stato league team. Chimes costing approximately $10,000 will be furnished for tho new $G5,000 Methodist church at Hastings by W. H. Lanning. State Field Veterinarian Day says the ravages of the corn stalk disease among horses are the worst in tho history of Nebraska. Ross Hammond of Fremont and C. II. Gustafson of Mead will discu&s community Interests at the retailers' convention at Lincoln, February 23. The fund for establishing a Y. M. C. A. at University Placo has passed the S1.000 mark. It will bo pushed until tho amount asked for, $1,000, is raised. Miss Lydia Meddles, telephone girl at Hastings, drank hair shampoo, mlb taking it for medicino. Though Beri ously ill for several hours, she has re covered. Ex-Senator Glover's barn, near Ansley, was burned and several fino horses perished in the flames, when a charcoal stove used as a foot-warmer set fire to a sleigh. A Fremont woman has brought suit against tho Canadian Pacific Railroad Company for tho alleged loss of $2,400 worth of diamonds while a passengei on one of Its trains. An increase in price of n quarter of a cont a cubic centimeter will bo charged by tho state farm for hoi; cholera serum after February 15, ac cording to an announcement. ' Eight cylinder nutomoblles, the very latest in automobile construction, will bo the feature of tho Omaha Automo bile Show, which will bo held in tho Auditorium, February 15 to 20. After a search or five years nt a cost estimated at $200,000, detectives have caught Henry G. Fisher, wanted at Fremont, among dozens of other places, for swindling John O'Connor out of $3,000. Over 1,500 sacks of Nebraska grown apples wero given away at tho closing of tho Btate fruit growers' association show at Lincoln. Tho Shorthorn breeders' association at Lincoln elected Charles Ritchie of Gresham, president; E. W. Cosgrove, Farnam, vice president; Irwin W.11 son, Bclvldere, secretary; Albert Johnson, Douglas, treasurer. Tho annual meeting of tho Ne braska Peace society will be held at tho First Presbyterian church at Lin coln, February 17. Many prominent speakers and workers along this line will bo present. Miss Cathcrino Butt, for nineteen yara postmistress at Unadilla, has re signed and a civil service examination will bo held to fill tho vacancy. Tho widow of Nick Feilen, who died In a drunken stupor in the Ne maha county Jail, has brought suit for $5,000 against three saloon keep ers and their bondsmen for selling htm liquor. Mrs. Fannie Kouty, of Omaha, was overcome by smoko ami seriously in Jured while trying to snvo the Hve3 of her two llttlo girls who had sot the houso on flro during her temporary nbsenco, Llttlo Frances Reynolds, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Walt II. Reynolds of Fremont, has recoiled a letter from 12-joar-old Alfred Bray of County, Cork. Ireland, thanking her for a toy which sho,Bent with othor pres ents which wero shipped on tho Christmas ship, Jason. Tho motorman on a trolley car at Lincoln was solzod wjth dizziness and foil from his post to the aldo of tho track and tho car continued on its trip until It stopped or its own accord on a curve at tho end or the lino. Tho 'our pagscngors aboard had a thrilling i 4 rtl !' f)l -fc- SBitM .ik. Aw Vu