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THURSDAY, OCTOBEB ?, 1926. PAGE FIVE Murray Department I Prepared In the Interest of the People of Murray and Buntranding Vicinity Especially for the Journal Readers 11 $5 V ji Yon will never have use for the Guarantee, but Your Funds are Guaranteed -i-i . , j j , 1 his IS beyond doubt a com- fortmg thought to those whose money is covered by the Guar anty Fund. Doubtless is would be a com forting thought to those, also, whose funds are not protect ed. If you would know perfect peace of mind in a banking re lationship try it. There is No Substitute for Safety , Murray State Bank Murray, Nebraska Thomas Cromwell was looking af ter some business mattters in Mur ray on Tuesday of last week. James Brown and -wife- were visit ing in Murray on last Sunday, driv ing down notwithstanclng the very bad weather. t A. D. Bakke and Jess Chambers were visiting and looking after some business matters in Omaha on lasf Tuesday afternoon. Harry B. Nelson was a visitor in Plattsmouth last Saturday, called there to look after some business matters for a short time. Henry R. Gering of Omaha was looking after business as well as ROCK CREEK STOCK FARM Filling Station BEST GOODS BEST SERVICE Supplies and Accessories One Mile East of Murray Stop and get yonr car filled with the best of Gas and Oil. G. M. MINFORD Owner MURRAY - - NEBRASKA LOGIC! - LOOK! - LOOK! Fiddlers' Contest Peterson Hall, Murray OCTOBER 22, 1926 1 Old time music. All music must he played by ear. 2 One accompaniment to be furnished by player. 3 Three minutes first round, anything, and, as many pieces as player wants to play. Second round, two minutes will be given. 4 Prizes will be awarded by competent judges to be an nounced that night 5 Open to all fiddlers young and old. 6 There will be six cash prizes given winning contestants. 7 Contestants desiring to enter write to Miss Etta M. Nickles, Murray, Nebr., for your entry number. 25c Admission Old Time Dancing After the Contest Murray Community Club MURRAY -:- -:- -:- NEBRASKA visiting with friends of whiche he has a large number in Plattsmouth Business called Harry Nelson to Nehawka and Weeping Water on last Monday, he making the trip with his auto, but found the roads rather rough. Mrs. Eliza Young departed during the early portion of the week for Milford where she will spend the winter at the Soldiers and Sailors Home. W. J. Philpot shipped 78 head of very fine cattle to the South Omaha market on last Sunday, they making an excellent display as they were well rounded out. At the store of Tutt & Brubaker the counters hare been changed which makes a fine appearance and adds novelty to the arrangeemnts. Better st In and see how thlns3 step look. L. H. Puis completed the seeding I of his wheat on last Monday and has I in forty acres, and with the very favorable conditions under which it is now, should make an excellent crop. G. W. Minford shipped his cattle to the market and purchased some 3 5 hpad of tsit fine heifers which he will put on feed, and will, after thev are finished return them to the market I jvi. it. uan, pasior oi tne iiapusi church of Nebraska City was a visitor in Murray on last Tuesday, having some business matters with George E. Nickles, and other gentlemen of Murray. Gussie Brubacher was looking after some business matters in Plattsmouth on last Tuesday afternoon, driving over in his auto and was accompanied by Mrs. Brubacher who was visiting with friends. Mrs. R. J. Hall and family were in Nebraska City on last Monday. They had the novel experience of a woman hitting their car with her own while driving about the streets. But little damage was done. Uncle B. A. Root who was visit ing in the central portion of the state for some time a few weeks since arrived at home on last week, and reports crops not any to good in the places where he had visited. Wm. Sporrer and wife were visit ing and looking after some business on Thursday of last week in Omaha, they driving over to the big city in their car, but found the roads very poor, and many people getting stuck. There is some new fixtures coming f for the Murray State bang and when installed will make an excellent showing. Look out for their installa tion which will take place in the near future as they are on their way. Mrs. J. W. Berger, who has been visiting in Oklahoma for the past two months where she has been with her daughter and enjoyed the visit very much w.ith the exception that a por tion of the time she was not feeling as well as wished for. She, however, is feeling better at this time. Lester and Clelland Gansemer who have been visiting in the western part of the state for the past two weeks arrived home on last Monday and have to say, while the west is a good place that Murray and Cass county have the rest of the state bested, for the crops are much better here and times are better. Boedeker and Wehrbein, who have been feeding cattle, shipped their last fat cattle to the market on Tuesday night and were on the market with them on Monday, finding a fair mar ket, and now have the fedd yards clean, and will look around for more but must have the prices right and the cattle in good condition. John Fitch and sister, Mrs. Belle Frans, who have been visiting in California for the past six weeks or more returned home last week, after having enjoyed their stay in the west very much. John gained twelve pounds while he was away and says he is feeling fine. When asked why he came back he said, "I only came back so I could brag of how fine it was out there." Perry Nickles and George Martin! them Rev. John A. Henderson, presi were over to Henderson, Iowa, last dent of the Zenia Theological Sem Monday, where they attended a sale ' inary, who gives an address on the of Hampshire hogs, from the cele-; school where he is president. An brated breed of L. E. Brainemeicr, address will be given on Thursday by they driving over and say that there Rev. E. M. Milligan, president of the were some excellent hogs there, and board of publication from Pittsburgh, they secured some of the best. The; purchases are to be shipped at once Mr. Nickles says that it is a fine country and almost as good as Cass county. Will Give Fiddlers Contest. Miss Etta Nickles is a hustler and no mistake, for she has done some wonderful work for the Murray Com munity club, some people wonder why Murray and her community spirit are working so well when larg er towns fall down on the work, but when you find a town with the work ers that Murray has they will suc ceed. Miss Nickles is backed by more than a dozen of her style and all workers, it is not any wonder that things go forward. Miss Etta Nick les, with the Young Folks Bible class of Murray put over "Sunshine" the play, which was called for at Ne hawka, and will probably be given elsewhere, and made a wonderful suc cess of the matter, and now has in hand a real fiddlers contest. This is to be staged on October 22nd, and is open to the world. There is no one too old and yet too young to be barred out of the prrospect of earning a nice piece of money for there will be six cash prizes all worth winning. There will be plenty of old time music, sacred music and jazz, and such music as will make your feet shuffle a trifle. Come and hear what Murray can do in this direction. You have just witnessed what Mur ray was able to do in the line of a play and this fiddlers contest is ex pected to exceed the play. It is un der the auspices of the Murray Com munity club and it will be made a success. All who are desirous of informa tion or of entering the contest write Miss Etta Nickles for informatioc and get your number. All will be allowed three minutef for the first round and you can play anything you want, time being called on you at the end of three minutes, and on the last round all will be given two minutes at a comback Better be ready and go to it for all you are worth. That Sunshine Play. People were even more than satis fied when they attended "Sunshine" play given by the young folks class of the Christian church on last Saturday night and which was sponsored by Miss Etta Nickles and was for the benefit of the Murray Community club. The play was everything which could be desired and the stag setting was more realistic even than nature itself. The trellis and vines thereon were bodily moved from the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Brendel and the ends of the vines placed in water pots that they might keep green, which they did, ihis making a most beauti ful stage setting. They do tell of Will Seybolt making an excellent minister and how he can tie the knot. Dan and Lena as the contracting parties of the wedding, and the little flower girls and ring bearer coull not have been better. Now this was good and you all know it, go hear the fiddlers contest, and get your ears full of "real fiddlinV Teachers Will Give Program. The end is not yet, for the teachers of the Murray schools have it in mint! to give the people of Murray and vicinity a real treat when they put on their Hallow'een program on October 31st. Watch for it. Boar Pigs for Sale. I have a number of very choice spring boar pigs, of the celebrated Hemshipe strain, which I am offer ing for sale, ready for service. Call 3114, Murray. Perry Nickles. o7-4tw Wins Prize and Ribbons. Chester Sporrer who is the teacher of the school district No. 15, won a prize and also was given ribbons, the premium was for a float which the school has, and there were ribbons for other school work. Democratic Caucus Friday Night. There will be a democratic caucus for the placing in nomination on pre cinct onicers for the West Rock Bluffs precinct, and a full attend ance of democrats will be desired. Speak to the others of the fraternity and you will find out where the meet ing is to be. We do not know neith er did our informant but he said there would be one. Presbyterian Synod. There is meeting at Murray, Neb., at this time the Synod of the Ne braska district of the Presbyterian church, which ia composed of some 70 churches in number and which, and represented by the pastors of the different churches, which is a. large number of pastors for a little town like Murray, with less than 400 hun dred inhabitants. v There is a three days program being given, and which has on it, pastors from, all over the union, and presidents of two col leges, besides a representative, the Rev. H. B. Gephardt who cams all the way from Nasser, The Sudan. He 1 If tnyjaf-th leaders o'rthe JoumiinioT of mcr-BoclAl event or 1 tea of lotereet in tils ylciaity. ad"wUl tutU f m&o cm office. U wU t pe&r wader tikis heading. W W3kObU sew twos Ewtob gave an address on the "Crisis in Foreign Missions." There is with Pa., and also by Rev. John H. White secretary of the General Council ot Pitteburgh, Pa. There are represen tatives of The Sudan, Africa, Love land and Colorado Springs, Colo. Pittsburgh, Pa.. Stirling, Kansas Denver, Colo., Saint Louis, Mo., and many places over Nebraska, The citizens and the Christian church are caring for the visiting delegates. The splendid spirit in which the sister church, the First Christian church in Murray came to service of caring for the delegates is greatly appre ciated by the Presbyterian church and is indeed a real Vhristian spirit. Business Enters Year's Last Lap; Outlook is Good Severe Upset in Farm Products, How , ever, Is Banger Sign; Wow Cotton Hurts South. New lork Business enters upon the final quarter of the year with a satisfactory outlook for a large vol ume of trade and ample profits. De velopments last week were mainly favorable although they revealed that the autumn expansion in trade and industry was accompanied by scat tered and occasional disturbing ir regularities. The chief danger sign on the hor izon at the moment is the threaten ed upset of the commodity price equilibrium due to rather sharp de clines in the values of farm products. Wholesale prices of farm products in August, as measured by the De partment of Labor's index, had fallen approximately 25 points below the level of August, 1925. compared with rather gradual declines in other groups. The average price of all com modities, for example, was 11 points lower while the extreme loss in clothing material amounted to 15 points. The decline from July prices was proportionately greater for ag ricultural products than for other commodities. South Hit Hard. The resultant shrinking in the purchasing power of the farm re gions has been obvious. Within the last fortnight, the south especially has been affected by a drastic slump in cotton prces to a pont about 9 cents a pound below the levels of a year ago. The west has suffered to a lesser degree, chiefly through the damage to crops from unfavorable weather. So far the general business situation has not reflected these de velopments, but an unfavorable reac tion at a later date would not be sur prising. Industrial prosperity, on the other hand, hes suffered no serious set backs. Production in the third quar ter was fairly well stabilized at a level considerably above the average and promises to remain so until the end of the year. At the same time the manufacturing output has con tinued to move steadily and smoothly through all distributive channels. The enormous volume of goods going into consumption has been attested by the gains in bank clearings, the large sales of department stores and mail order houses and the record breaking traffic being moved by the railroads. Credit conditions have given the greatest concern to the business world. Money rates last week reach ed the highest levels of the year and opinion was divided as to whe ther the peak of the demand had been reached or whether a more serious stringency was in sight. The situa tion a year ago was precisely the same, but the firmness of the money market in October failed to retard business in the last quarter of the year. Bank Loans Expanding. A warning that bank loans were expanding more rapidly than they normally should upon the basis of the present volume of trare and that credit inflation might result were sounded by one Wall street authority. Set against this view was the opinion of a leading banker that so far as business was concerned the situation continues free from inflation, over buying and other simptoms usually calling for corrective action. No changes of importance mark ed operations in the two key indus tries of 6teel and automobile manu facturing. Both were maintained at a high level, although narrower mar gins of profit were reflected in the earnings of some of the motor com panies. The formation of a European steel combine is not eypected materially to affect activities of the industry in this country. Ernest E. Wurl, who has been spending the past few weeks here with his mother, Mrs. B. Wurl. and his brothers, E. A. and B. Q. Wurl, will depart this evening for his home at Pomona, California. All the home news delivered to 'your door for 15c a week. j. .r-T,T..T,f...T,i,T.,T..T..T.. - j-j-J. BIBLE SCHOOL LESSOH Sunday, October, 10, Br 11 & Brlffg 5" I j ?! iiTMTMTiiTMTnTMTMTMT!iiTiiTnTir-nTi tTt Golden Text And we are able to overcome it. Numbers 13:30. The Eeport of the Spies 7rtwT n -- v ? -t- o - 4an Vina (rnflD west in the expanse of America with the definite purple of finding a home in the wide w-est, or of finding gold that they might return to their home in the east and live in ease when they bad gotten "t ma" " ., . r some enterprise tnat mignt gam enter ise ,and. times wrapped in paper for lack of a"2J LLLCa::f rXZ T i a tj T"T orwTItort' Phrase in the Lord's Praver which might learn our A . B. C s, ana start, r - i & . . . , . r, ' , ... OT,ri.syas Forgive us our tresspasses as, i . - i- m i make out of life e could Again we have gone the Bible, school, that we might learn the real way of Eternal Life which extends j u .r,r-iA VZTZ " IZI t6' ..rr firstGesU "In the'bnning S teV! S created the heaven and Je-- ESrvTrS and in John 1:1 when it "related I;against another whicn vou wuld not the beginning was the word and the...-, . . " , word was with God and the word h,f'e "5ainBt you Inj JhZU dJc:ntao Ufa rinA at ciiTtrtrv timpq pnakP to our' fathers, and he had spoken to(untoyou- Moses in the wilderness saying to; . twelve selected men, go spy out the; A 4 lands which the Great Jehovah has,r k Ul JLi III promised Abraham, and which has been known as the Promise Land, that we may know about it, its extent, its productiveness, and what we will have to do to obtain it and other possibilities. With this command they were sent out, one from each tribe, thev went. Now the men who were,Green Advisers Agree On This selected were representative of thej children of Israel and as such were. Very representative of the whole peo- pie. When the character of these men Detroitf Mjch., Oct. 3. The five wre taken into consideration the gen- fl ..t fn ama fVlo eral character of the whole people fore ag definjte , f th Ameri were arrived at. All of the recenta . .Z . . - . j ,, r y i-ii -wtti a turn ui uui uiuuiaui iu- years of their life was rapped up in meeting of the exe- their state of mind, and what effects, . " their slavery had had on them was ai?ut.lve C0UE" of .the federation pre- .if. nfo if ia be natural that they should do as they were educated, if they had been schooled in any one thing that was surely to develop sooner or later. With this idea, they went and their report would in a manner be colored by their own status Df life and education. Take it now and know if you are looking for success take confidence and a firm belief of your capability of succeeding with you, and cast off gloom and disbelief, and the idea that you cannot succeed. For whether you are aware of it or not, you are a por tion of all men whom you have met. and continued rebuffs and disappoint ments will in a way determine the way you sail into the difficulties which you meet on the way and dis pose of them or shy around them like a fightened horse at a piece of paper, where there is really nothing to be afraid of. There is really nothing in the dark to fear. God has covered the land with his mantel of night, that his children may find rest in sleep to be better prepared for the work of the coming day. True when the darkness has fallen, one must go with caution, but go just the same, for by standing still nothing is accomplished, and remember, God said to Joshua, at the crossing of the Jordan. "Speak to the Children ot Israel that they go forward." When the soles of their feet touched the waters of the river the tide was stay ed and they passed over on dry land. Returning to the spies, we find that they encompassed the land of Canaan, that is traveled entirely over it, from end to end, taking forty days for their investigations, and then return ed to report to Moses, Aaron and the entire host of Israel, what they had found. They were unaminous in their report that the land was a good one. and filled with great possibilities, and that it was fruitful, for they brought home with them the products of the land, and made the report that it was a land literally flowing with milk and honey of life and even with the lux uries. It was a goodly land, they all re ported, and then the faint hearted ones reported that there were walled cities and giants, men so large that they themselves appeared to be as but grasshoppers in comparison. True that the men were large, as out of the tribes of the large men, came Goliath, who the lad David later slew with his sling and a pebble which he gathered and then decapitated the giant with the giants own sword. While the children had the promise of God with them, and knew full well that he would care for them, they con continually complained to Moses, their leader, during the forty year in the wilderness. Ey the faintheartedness which they manifested they were not allowed to enter the land until that generation of grown men died off and another one came who were schooled in the idea of a government for them selves under the guidance of the Great Jehovah. Ten of the spies continued to hold to the fact that they were not able to possess the land while two of them, namely Joshua and Caleb, who maintained that the thing could be done for they said in he language of the Golden Text. "We are well able to overcome it." The Forty Year Sentence. Why should the Israelites remain in the wilderness for the forty years? God had sent Moses to Egypt to bring the children out, and not to have them remain in the wilderness for those forty long wearisome years. No, he brought them out to inhabit the land which had been promised Abra ham, and renewed the promise to Isaac and again with Jacob, and it was for this purpose that the twelve spies were sent to spy out the land. that they mUht take it aa was the, E u Book and Gift Shop intention when thy wer brought ,tl'-ur' uw T ,wv .f out of EgyptUn bondage. Then came the triaJ of the children! of Israel, -when they testified against tnemseivee, ana as they were round guilty of lack of faith in the God who ' 1 1 - lL . . 1 ..1 . ua.ii taieu lur mem evcu waeu were being fed on the manna which came down from heaven, they were, ungrateful and were not willing to do Jfr - anything for themselves they even de-' iK'v'"i to stone Moses and Aaron. anu trying - themselves and testifying against themselves and even passed sentence on the whole tribe of Israel, for they did not go as God had given them " "T ' the.r natural fl fe ' prison of the wil- "e" VvVn" w r 5? over twenty years with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, who were nermit- Position is 3ust like that we forgive those who tresspass against f forgiveness Rhonld not havP it an Enr" ,not .aTe " ... . Be friendly if you want friends, honest it you want the world to be honest with yCu Tell the truth others as ye would have others do;?.n Wage Fight for Five-Day W eek As Cardinal Point jn-Labor s ProeTam. I'minary 10 me ioriy-sixm annual convention which opens tomorrow. President William Green and his cabinet, composed of international officers of affliated unions, agreed upon the five-day 40-hour week as the cardinal point in the advance ment program of organized labor, and determined to recommend the policy to all affiliated organizations as a basis of negotiation for con tract renewals and employers. "The 40-hour week is inevitable in American labor," Mr. Green said in a public statement, after the meeting, "for the simple reason that it is economically sound and profit able. It is profitable for the worker and for the employer and has been tremendously successful in the num erous crafts in which it is already effective. "High pressure production and the physical demands of modern indus try are such that only with the short er day can we attain notable pro gress in mechanical production. In the printing crafts, garment trades and building trades, where the five day week is effective in some sections of the country, the results have in creased production as much as 4 0 per cent on certain operations with an actual decrease in the unit cost. Point to Figures. "Scientific study of fatigue charts in mechanical operations point to the shorter week as the most promising method of maintaining the prosperity of Aemrican industry, for it will re duce the labor turnover and increase production as well as the quality of work, create more leisure for the general high standard of living for the American worker, the best paid worker in the world." Under the constitution of the fed eration the executive council may not go further in the advanccmoTit of such a policy than a mere blan ket indorsement of the aims, for tie actual working out of the program must rest always with the autono mous international organization in the negotiation of contracts. The council reaffirmed its deter mination to have no contract with soviet Russia or its sympathizers and agreed to recommend to the con vention non-participation in a pro posed commission to investigate con ditions in Russia in behalf of Amer ican labor. The action follows the unanimous vote of the metal trades departmental convention last week to condition affiliation with the Inter national Metal Workers' federation upon the pledge that Russian metal unions would never be permitted to affiliate so long as they adhered to the principles of the third Interna tionale. Mexican Delegates Present. Fraternal delegates from the Mex ican Federation of Labor were re ceived by representatives of the Pan American Federation of Labor at the headquarters hotel of the American fedration today, and will take their seats tomorrow at the opening plen ary session. Delegates representing a majority of the convention vote reached an Informal agreement today to accept without-debate the recom mendations of the executive coun cil in the matter of relations with the Mexican federation during the doming year. The annual report of the exerutive council will be read at the afternoon session tomorrow. The Dennison line offers you year round entertainment goods. Picnics, lawn parties and outdoor events ca he BnTralied as well as interior deco w exclusive beuing agenw xor xennr son goods ia this territojrf. Hughes Pleads with President for W orld Court Former Secretary Is Guest at White House Seeking to Save Lssua Frcm the Coals. Washington. Oct.- 4. ChL.rU s E Hughes, former eecrcetary of state, is credited Sunday with making an eleventh-hour f.glit to persuade President Coolidge to keep the world court issue alive. . i He is a guest fet te unite ik.iiro. He arrived Saturday night and in tended to leave Sunday morning. In stead he will rtniain over Monday and will have Secretary Kelloss in a three-cornered conference vuh the pithiueiii. Afr Hun-hc-' , jr- is realizes, it was t-t td. 'that the United States definitely is out of the world court. He hopes o:ne way may be found to bring it brk. , He is said to feel, however, that the rations which have just rjcted the American, reservations may reconsider tneir action. This will bf done, he Denoves, wnen trie league oi inuons mcr.bers accept the view tht the United States are serious and would only enter the court on thtir own terms. For this reason, he is said to be plated by the president which would write "finis" to the international ven ture. He is said to be afraid that the kind of action which is now planned would offend the league of nations and make its members forever close their doors to America. On the president's Fide tho riuse to him say that he has irrevocably made up his mind to abandon the court. While lie expressed regret when the American reservations were rejected he is said to have Keen glad that the political tension over the issue had been relieved. With the world court a dea'l ifcue it no longer can threaten the re-election of administration senators. Former Secretary Hueiis. how ever, is making a Ftrenuous fipht. Ho is just back from Europe, having nr rivrd on the Leviathan and brought the president highly confjdenti;il in formation from the old world chan cellories. Among his views ia th" one that America ehould not peek f-peciul privileges in anj alliances with Europe. Mr. Hughes generally is credited with being the "father" of the ida of .American entry into the world court. Kissing Popular Back in 2500 B.C. Cretan Sculpture Proves that the Modern Sheik Has Nothing New. Rome, Oct. 2. Kissing as a form of love caress existed fifteen centuries before Christ in th island of Crete according to a sculpture on a v;.sc unearth recently in excavations car ried out by the Italian Archaeological School of Athens. This work portrays a young Cretan fondly embracing a pretty mai 1 who shyly rests her head on his shoulder. Our modern "sheiks and flappers" could teach the Cretans nothir.z about the "soul kiss," it was indicate!. Many of th Joys, sorrow-? rnd loves of the ancient Cretans' dcnieMic and social life were brought to light by the excavations. Thf Cretans' civilization was buried on th' islrnd where, it ia supposed, simple arcadian tribes which had migrated from Greece several centuries before the Doric period. 160 Tombs Found. The buried past emerged onro more from the excavations performed in the heart of the rugred Lissitnl mountains. On the very summit vt one of these, the excavations revil ed the foundations and ruins of what had been a fortress. On tho er.t side of the mountain were discovered the remains of the small city. On the west side the rescm-hers were rewarded with still greater rue- cess. Over 160 tombs were discovered. full of the Cretan treasures of art. The tombs consisted cf chamber; cf different frizes, filled with 6arfoph;":i urns with the ashes of the cremutfd. 250 rich vases cf all dimensions, rold and silver ornaments, weapons, bronze utensils, curious coins rnd pins, numerous inscription?, hc uhold objects and all sorts of curiosities, re vealing the domestic and social lire and habits of the Cretans. Art Unearthed. Vases of variegated shapes and Fizes wero decorated with wild gop. ts, giraffes, birds of gorgeous plumage, ducks, lions holding pitchers, and the sphynx with a metal fillet. Obscure points on inhumation end cremation of the dead were cleared up with the discovery of the tombs. WARNS OF NEW ACCORD Cologne, Germany, Oct. C. ;rak ing at the convention of the Gcrr.i?rs people's party today, Dr. Curtius. min ister of economics, insisted thnt (!. cushions of the question of Fra'no German conciliation from an economic stadpoint must be confined to mobili zation of from one to two biJiit ;in in railway debentures. He varied against combining th- question with a general solution of the reparations question and tha interallied debt set tlement. "Deepite our most passionate en deavors to liberate the IlLineian ;.' he asserted, "there are two ur..-ha:; eable and incontrovertible princip 't. Urftrence with a fial solution cf e reparations question." All kinds -of business s'.Etioery j printed at the Journal office.