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MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935. PIATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE Weather Wisdom for Gardners 7 V-Kwtt r Tho map above, prepared by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, shows the eastern half of the U. S. divided into zones according to the average date of the last killing frost in the spring. Christmas is a festival o spring. It is celebrated when the sun starts north from the equator. Newspaper headlines often proclaim that the shortest day of the year is the begin ning of winter, but gardeners know better. Once the days begin to lengthen,' signs of spring appear in the garden. Buds swell, bark changes color, mys terious growth processes unfold even in coldest weather. With many hardy plants, the period of freezing is as necessary to their development, as the warmth which follows. Spring is near at hand and it is time to make plans for sowing seeds just as soon as it is safe. How can the safe date be determined? "Beating" the weather is a gamble which many a backyard tiller is will ing to take on the chance that he may have his first crop of lettuce or radishes a few days before his neigh bor. It is still a gamble, however, and the gardener who would rather be reasonably sure of his crop had best make some inquiries of his local weather station. The date of the latest recorded kill ing frost in your neighborhood is an important factor. It will give you a basis for figuring just when you can take a gambling chance on an early garden with a good chance cf win ning. The latest killing frost cn rec ord is about a month later than tho average date and so it is usually safe Wab ash N evs Mrs. Audrey Stromer, or Alvo, was a visitor at the heme of her father, John C. Browne, last Tuesday, and enjoyed the afternoon very much. Mrs. Alice Bailey and son, Larry, cf Lincoln, were visiting at the home cf her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Corbeling, during the greater part of last week. William Langhorst has been feeling rather poorly during a part of last week, but is now some better and was able to be down town again the last of the week. Ray E. Frederick of Nebraska City, president of the Frederick Seed com pany cf Murray, was a visitor in Wa bash early this week, coming here to ship three carloads of corn which he recently purchased in this vicinity. Ralph Richards, who believes in the future cf cattle as an investment end is willing to risk putting expen sive feed into beef production, pur chased a. number cf calves recently to be pasture fed through the spring and summer and later prepared for mar ket on grain feed. John Woods continue:; to do a thriv ing bu;;inc5-:i hauling real from the mine near Clarinda, Iowa, to custo mers in this vicinity. So heavy is the demand for real at thir, mine that trucks arc lined up for a great dis tance waiting their turn to get up to the leading chutes. Essy Putting Up Ice Nccl Golden and Kenneth Munford hive been busy during the past week with the cutting and hauling of ice to these in the neighborhood of Wa- T&Ke an inventory or z 71. youx household good Befcre vou have aire. V INSURE VJiTH 3. fllTiB m Zhlt 7 r Kmne tee i: -v , ; 4f How many chirS Jr How www m 7 tw--- rut i r to plant the hardiest seeds a month ahead of it. The period of time between the lat est and the average killing frost date increases as we move away from the seashore. In New York there is a margin of 20 days but in St. Louis the average date is 38 days earlier than the record freezing date. Cleve land has a 36-day difference and Chi cago is about the same as Cleveland. Allowing 30 days is playing reason ably safe. Plan to start your garden a month before the latest recorded killing frost. There are many vegetables which frost will not injure, provided it is not freezing weather. In general all the root crops are hardy and do not mind frosts so long as they are not freezes; most of the crops for greens are in the same category. But only one crop, the immature seeds of which furnish a delicious food, can be called hardy and that is the pea, and only certain varieties of the pea. So while it is freezing or snowing outside gather up weather data and figure the date for the earliest pos sible start this year. It is a waste of seed to start too early and a waste of time to start a day too late. The frost records will give you a reliable basis of figuring just the right time. If the plants should be nipped you are not out much but if they are not you are just that much ahead with the garden and the odds are greatly in favor of escaping a killing frost. bash who have storage facilities and desire to lay in a supply of the same for summer use. In the old days, be fore the advent of electrical refrigera tion, vast quantities of ice were stor ed for use during the summer, but nowadays this is almost a forgotten art. Besides providing cheap refrige ration, it also provided work for many men during the coldest part of the winter when other work was hard to find. The artificial ice plants, followed by home electric refrigeration are re sponsible fcr the abandonment of ice harvesting as a business, except now and then in rural communities, and large storage houses in cities like Om aha are being let go to rack and ruin. Elevator Meeting Postponed There was called for last Monday a netting of the stockholders of the Wabash elevator, but the weather be ing so cold, very few came, and the meeting was put off until a future date. Shewing; Good Improvement Mrs. Ira Bothwell, who has been at the hospital in Lincoln, receiving treatment for a growth on her face, was able to re-turn home lnzt week and i'j getting along very nicely at this writing. It is expected that the af fecticn will be entirely cured in a short time. Her many friends are well pleased at the nice progress she ij making. Visited tlie Dentist Lloyd Richards, who has been hav ing considerable trouble with his teeth, concluded to part with them and made a trip to the dentist at Weeping Water, where he had them extracted. When the soreness heals, he will have a new Get made to take their place. WARES OF FRATERNAL TAX Omaha. Opposition to the pro- ! posed legislation seeking to tax fra ternal institutions was promised ia an address hero by A. R. Talbot of Lincoln, national president of the Modern Woodmen of America. "We must net permit any agency, governmental o othewisc, to tear down this organization," Talbot said. "The average legislator does not un derstand fraternal organizations. He seeks to classify us with rtock in surance companies, and if some of the bills in the Nebraska legislature arc passed we will have a hard time to survive." A HARDY PENX WOOD SORREL Not many of the Oxalises or Wood Sorrels are hardy, so when one is found that will brave the Winter climate about New York it is of spe cial interest. Such a find is the bulbous-rooted Oxalis Bowiei, from South Africa. It is a showy and beautiful plant for a warm, sunny nook in the rock garden, where it should be planted in well-drained gritty soil. This Ovalis begins to flower early in September and continues for many weeks. The flowers are borne in open panicles of ten or twelve at the end of six to eight inch stems, opening a few at a time. Several flowering stems are sent up from each bulb. The color of the flowers is a lively bright pink finely veined with deep er color. They are tubular in shape, opening out almost flat in the sun shine but closing when the light fails toward evening. They are of suffi cient substance to withstand the winds and rains of Autumn without injury. In the bud the flowers are slightly twisted and droop from the stalks, but are held erectly or hori zontally when fully open. They turn with the sun in an amusing manner, seldom appearing in the same posi tion for long at a time. The leaves are rather fleshy and divided into three large, bluntly heart-shaped leaflets of a bright lettuce-green, slightly downy on the undersides and are handsome enough to constitute a decoration in them selves. Toward evening not only do the flowers close but the leaflets droop to form a little tent. Then the whole plant appears to have gone to rest. The plantation of lavender or white-flowered Autumn Crocuses in the neighborhood of the Oxaiis makes a pretty picture for this time of the year. The bulbs may be planted any time in Autumn, but the earlier the better. The bulbs may also be potted up in late Fall, three bulbs to a six-inch pot in ordinary potting soil, and placed in a sunny window indoors, watering them as necessary. They will flower for at least three months. After the flowering ceases gradually withhold water and when the foliage dies down, set the pets in some place where the soil will remain quite dry. In the following Autumn they may be repotted in fresh soil and again started into growth. If the bulbs have flowered out of doors during the late Summer and Autumn they will not flower during the Winter indoors, as they require a period of rest. Like most of the Oxalises, they increase rapidly. By Louise Beebe Wilder in the New York Times. MORRIS TO INTRODUCE BILL Washington. Senator Norris indi cated he will introduce his bill for a Missouri valley authority and co-ordinated development cf the valley and fight for its approval, even if President Roosevelt opposes him. Norris, when informed the presi dent had indicated he favored only an advisory commission to study fu ture development of the Missouri, appeared discouraged. "I suppose that means I'll have to introduce my bill," he commented, "and fight for it, altho it's probably a losing cause if the president is against it." Meanwhile, proponents of the tri county power and irrigation project in Nebraska, another matter close to the heart of the senator, were await ing careful study by the public works administration of an amended application. George E. Johnson, consulting en gineer for the project, conferred with the Nebraska expediter for the FWA. lie was assured that as soon as tech nical experts of the PWA finish tasks they are on now, some will be as signed to speed restudy cf the tri county. 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You simply must try McCoy's at once. Remember if yon don't grain at least 8 lbs. of firm healthy flesh in a month get your money back. Demand and tret McCoy's the original and genuine Cod Liver Oil Tablets approved by Good Housekeeping 46r Institute. Refuse all substitutes u tuv unainai aicoy s there are none better. School Children Invited to Attend Flower Show Plan to Allow the Children of Iowa and Nebraska to Attend Show at Omaha, Free. All Nebraska and Iowa school children have been invited to attend the National Flower and Garden show, which is to be held in Omaha, March 30 to April 7 inclusive, free. This announcement came today from the Omaha offices of W. Dale Clark, in charge of making arrangements for children to attend the show. "We feel the children of Iowa and Nebraska will never again have an opportunity of witnessing such a spectacle. The cultural and educa tional values of the Flower Show are so great that we mean to make every effort to see to it that not a single child in the Missouri Valley misses the Flower Show. For that reason we are going to admit school children to the show tree," Mr. Clark said. Mr. Clark said that an effort would be made to arrange tours of children to Omaha in groups with their teach ers. "Numerous responses have al ready been received from teachers and principals, at Flower Show head quarters, 1S13 Farnam street, Om aha, expressing appreciation of ef forts being made in behalf of the school children," he said. At the same time Ford Hovey, Om aha civic leader, in charge of the sale of advance tickets for the Flower Show announced that tickets thru out the Missouri Valley territory would be under the direction of Glen Eastburn, Omaha Chamber of Com merce commissioner. It is planned to distribute these tickets through chambers of commerce throughout the territory. Fifty thousand of the tickets will go on sale starting February 1. When this number have been sold, admis sion will be raised to C5 cents for the duration of the show. In a communication to division heads who will direct sale of the tickets, Mr. Hovey cautioned them of the impossibility of obtaining more when the 50,000 figure has been sold: "When the national committee in charge of arrangements for the Flow er Show was in Omaha last week, I made a personal plea that the 50, 000 quota be raired. I felt certain the figure would prove entirely in adequate for this territory. But due to the financial exigencies of the ven ture, the committee insisted that the reduced price tickets be rigidly re stricted. Our quota remains at 50, 000," he said. EETUEN TO GRAND ISLAND Kansas City. Grand Island, Neb., officers returned to that city with a photograph of a man held here, seek ing to identify him as a participant in a bank robbery there. Sheriff Dan Sanders and County Attorney Kelly were unable to identify the man thru descriptions which they carried but they intended to show the photo graphs to witnesses of the holdup. The man, who gave his name as Ed Reagan, about 40, declined to waive extradition. He told police that purely by ac cident he came into possession of coupons from bonds stolen in the holdup. He said he won $50 in a gambling game here and the loser gave him the coupons in lieu of cash, falsely promising to redeem them. Regan said he took the coupons to St. Paul where a bank returned them to him marked "stolen." He then toro them up. lie denied having any connection with the holdup. The man remained in the county jail, held on a warrant charging him with participating in the Grand Is land robbery. Police here said the holdup occurred about three years ago. SEES E0NUS COMFEOJUSE Washington. The Patman bonus bloc decided to go to American Le gion officials themselves to see if a compromise can not be reached which will align bonus suppcrtei. behind one proposal. The Legion has a separate bill, introduced by Rep. Vinson of Ken tucky, democratic member of the ways and means committee. House bonus advocates have split on the issue. Overtures from one side or the other apparently have not been fruitful. The legion measure techs to fi nance the cashing cf the adjusted service certificates thru ordinary channels. The cost is estimated by Vinson at less than 2 billions. The measure by Rep. aPtman (d., Tex.) calls for issuing new treasury notes. Phone the news to fro. 6. Alvo News Mrs. A. B. Stromer was a visitor in Wabash last Tuesday, where she was visiting for a short time with her father, John C. Browne. Harold Nickel was in Elmwood on last Wednesday, where he had some teeth extracted that have been giving him considerable trouble of late. Edward Durrell, who has been ruf fering from an attack of pneumoi.ia, is now reported as getting along very nicely and well on the road to re covery. Sid James, who has been ill at his home on the farm is reported as be ing some better at this time, which will be good news to his many friends in this vicinity. W. S. McGrew and A. E. Barber, of Louisville, who are employees of the Nebraska Power company, were in Alvo last Thursday looking after some business matters. Dallas Feifer, who has been in the hospital for some time on account of an injury to one of his hips, continues in pretty much the same condition, although splendid care is being given him. The little babe of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hermance is very ill with pneu monia. Every attention is being given it in the hope that it may pass the crisis safely and quickly regain its health. Mrs. Frank Edwards was a visitor in Weeping Water cn last Thursday, where she attended a meeting of 4 II club leaders and met many of her friends who are engaged in this line of work. Mrs. Kirkpatrick, who has been ill for some time, still remains confined to her bed and shows but little im provement, although she is cheerful and hopeful that she may soon be able to be up and about again. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Art Skinner has been suffering from an attack of flu which has kept her in bed for a number of days. She is now feeling better, however, and is able to be up and about again. Charles Ayres was in Murdock on last Wednesday afternoon, where he w as attending the farmers' mass meet ing being held that day to hear the new corn-hog contracts explained in detail. He reports a goodly number of farmers present to listen to the dis cussion. Martin J. Nickel was butchering a fine beef Thursday of last week, thus providing himself with an abundance of meat for the immediate future and also providing a quantity for can ning, so he will be able to have a supply long after the present cold weather season has pasued. L. D. Mullen to Farm L. D. Mullen, who has been resid ing in town, net having any regular employment cr prospects of any, has concluded to engage in farming the coming summer, having secured a 40 acre tract. He has purchased the dray ing outfit cf George Hardnock, who has not been in the best of health of late and finds that work too hard to continue regularly. With the elimi nation of Mr. Hardnock as drayman, George Foreman has been working in the delivering of coal and other like work. Kiss Chloe Buising Poorly Miss Chloe Buising, daughter of Mrs. E. L. Nelson, who has been at the hospital in Lincoln receiving treatment for her health for a consid erable length of time, is- not making the desired improvement and her case is perplexing to hospital attendants and the doctors in charge. When the mother was at the hospital on last Thursday she found the daughter in about the same condition. All are hop ing that she will begin to show some improvement soon. Has Fine Cattle Shipment S. C. Ecyles, who is a cattle feeder as well as a banker and knows just how to feed cattle to bring out the tery best in them, has just shipped two carloads of very fine cattle to the South Omaha market. The thirty-nine head averaged 1,1 SO pounds each and brought $11.75 per cwt, or $138. C5 fcr each critter. There was also a calf in the lot, which weighed 900 pound3 and brought $90. These fig ures hark back to more prosperous d2ys and give further proof of the fact that prices are going up, and you can be sure they will be reflected in the price of meat when ii comes back to you over the butcher's blo:k. True, they are not up to the ?18 and $20 per cwt, of war time, but nevertheless a great advance over the prevailing price a year or so ago. Resuming Treatment for Eyes Last Sunday evening, W. H. Warn er, who has been having treatment given to his eyes, returned to Lin coln so as to be near the physician and receive the most painstaking care. Mr. Warner had accompanied his A Every item featured in this ad is an outstanding value. You can depend on the Ladies Toggery for greater values! 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The many friends of this excellent woman are pleased that she is better and are hoping that she may continue to im prove. FONT SOAK MINING NOW Mcst authorities are r.ow predicting a substantial rise in mining activities. If the rise comes, the legislatures of the mining states will l ave a "food dcal to say as to whether it is to b. j permanent cr transitor Before the depression, mir ing was continually plagued by unfair tax and regulatory laws. The "ccult was that normal development was slowed down even when demands for metals was high. Jcbj were lost, capital was discouraged. Long before economic storms swept the country in general, mining facad many problems. Treat mining fairly v;Yen it starts to ccrr.2 back and it will contribute much to increasing employment and j purchasing power. It will cause the investment of money and develop business end industry. The benefits will felt far beyond the borders cf the mining states throughout the entire r.at;on. Your home town iner-crtant will j do more to accommodate you than any big city store mail order house or radio station peddler. Isn't he entitled to your trade? A WOMEN'S Step-in Panties Elastic Tcp Flared Leg A LADIES' SMOCKS Sizes from 12 to 20 Asserted Colors I li II ffj Ladies' Fancy Handkerchiefs Larpe Size Children's Tarns Asserted Cclcrs, Styles Extra Special tL - ''i -'irVi " inn rJ A WOMEN'S SILK HOSE Semi-Ssrvice cr Chiffon Tull Fashioned y Gccd Assortment cf Cclcrs ar.d Sizes 3 Li H CONFER AT WHITE HOUSE Washington. A group of pjwer executives called at the white house and surface indications were that they sought a compromise with Mr. Roosevelt on proposed holding com pany legislation and other utility problems. At the capitol, meanwhile, bills v.er introduced in hotn ine s.nait and house for a communications com mission investigation of the Amer ican Telephone and Telegraph com pany. The officials who called at the whitfl house included C. K. Groe.-beck of the Electric Bond and Share com pany; Wendell Wilkie of tho Com monwealth and Southern and Har vey Couch, president of the Arkansas. Louisiana and Mississippi Power company. Until a few months ago, Couch was a member of the RFC. Chairman McNinch of the federal power commission issued a brief ptatemciit after the white house par ley. It said: "We talked rural elec trification and about the sale of t-lec- trjca, appliances on a wide r.cale as r. contributary part of the rural elec trification program. We also di.- uss ed general utility problems, includ ing the proposed holding company regulatory legislation. The discus sion was at the request of the power commission." IIEZICANS KILLED IN FIGIIT Pi?dras, Negras, Mexico. Three i Mexicans were dead and two wt ,-jnd- cd after a f ht at ViHa Uni,.;i when Mexican state rangers and po lice attempted to dippcsEess i.bout twenty-five agrarians from lands il Icgalyl held, '''he chief of police, thf loader cf the agrarians and another combatant were killed. The fight war? still in progress when federal troops arrived. They 1. rccd the insursouts t() surrender. Soldiers disarmed t,,t.nt fiVe autl conflSeated a lruck ' load oi ar:ns and ammunition. 9C