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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935. 122 La at Lewes! latas Prompt Closing SEE Seari S. Davis Grasshoppers infest Two-Thirds of the State Weather Is Now FavoraUs to Pests, Although little Damage Is Ezpected Novr. O. S. Eare, extension entomologist or the collets cf agriculture, Monday reported a heavy infestation of grass hoppers over nearly two-thirds of the stats. Favorable late summer and early fall weather has caused the in flux of the pests, M.ny of the hoppers in the western section have moved i'to the etr.te from Colorado, where they have Leen Lad, while those in the eastern portions cf Nebraska are "natives," Eare saiJ following an in vestigation. Trouble i3 expected un til a good heavy freeze is experienced turnout the state. "Altho the hoppers are damaging recently planted winter wheat and young alfalfa in some sections, I do not anticipate heavy damage now," Bare said. "The real test will come next spring when weather conditions will determine the degree of infesta tion during the summer." The infestation is heaviest in Kim ball, Cheyenne, Deuel, Keith, Perkins and Chase counties altho some reports from Knox and Cedar counties in the northeastern area and Pawnee and Richardson counties in southeastern Nebraska have also been made. The central part -of the state appears to be but lightly infested while some of the pests have been reported la north ern Sheridan county and parts of Dawes. The use of poisoned bran mash in controlling ,tfcfir hoppers Jis, rwon;, mended by Mr. Bare, v. ho says farm er in the western section already are combatting the pest' In such a man ner. The bran is broadcast in the grass and fields in the morning. The hoppers do not start work in the fields at this time cf the year until about 9 a. m.. Little Hessian fly infestation ha3 been reported in Nebraska thus far, Bare said. Little trouble with winter wheat is expected. clef offs Tavern 426 Main Plattsmouth ANNOUNCING Our -Hew Policy On "Wednesday and Saturday even ings we have Fred Vincent and his Orchestra playing for your entertain ment thru fall and winter months. Try Our 25 C Business Men's Noonday Lunch We Specialize in Chinese and Ital ian Dishes, also Chicken and Steak Dinners. Watch fcr Cur ISSenus fcr tho above Nights. Dine and Dance Every Night in the Week YCU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME! Mil Consider SERVICE First! THIS IS CUR POLICY . . AND SHOULD EE YOURS We realize that our service must be, at all tines, within the reach of all people tut we insist that, whatever the price, the service must be truly worthy of the reputation we have been building for a great many years. ---! : i i far SATTLER FUNERAL HOME llrgfeS5S'X PLATTSMOUTH. NEB R. WlBWm. PHONE Mortgages on Farms are Down Over a Billion Liquidation of Debts, Foreclosures Cited as Kajor Factors Loans Shifted. Agriculture department records Tuesday at Washington disclosed a decrease of more than $1,200,000, 000 in farm mortgage debt since 1030. This decrease was attributed by bureau of agricultural economics sta tisticians to both a liquidation of debts by farmers and to a large de gree to foreclosures by the lending agencies. Leans Shifted. In addition, bureau statisticians reported that there has been a heavy shift of agricultural loans during the past 12 months from life insurance companies to federal land banks. Bureau records showed that in 1D10, the total farm mortgage debt of the Uniied States was $3,320,470, CC0. This increasad to $7,857,700, 000 by 1920; ? D,3CO,G20,COO by 1925 and $0.4CS, 520,000 by 192S. The decline in farm mortgage in debtedness began after 1S2S, and in 1S20 the total outstanding was $9, 211,290,000. Down to Eight Eillions. While detailed figures fcr 1934 were not available, informed officials said the total debt had declined to eight billion dollars, and that a fur ther decline is in progress. State figures showed that Iowa had the largest farm mortgage debt in 1910 $431,500,000 the largest in 1920, 1925, 102S and 1930. The Iowa debt in. 1930 was $1,09S,610,000, a decline, however, from the 192S total of $1,402,17S,000. Iowa was the only state shown to have had a debt of more than a billion dollars since 1910. CLADIS SIX 'ON THE SPOT' New York. Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, the share the wealth man from Louisiana, told an audience of Manhattan newsmen that six mem bers of hi3 organization "are in grave danger of assassination" J 'keafe"tn lnepot,e;-?:x,flain-ed, identifying- himself as one of the six, "a very hot spot." Flying into New York from the south for his first visit here since the assassination of Senator Long. Rev. Mr. Smith was hesitant in answering questions about the role the organization would play in the 193 6 election. "We lost our 1936 candidate for president with the death of Mr. Long," he said. "As for our power at the polls, our following developed in the midst of Mr. Long's attacks on the new deal. We are not disclosing our strategy yet." WHEAT FUTURES SOAR Chicago. Wheat prices soared more than three cents a bushel to above $1.02 for future delivery as gossip based on private reports that war in Africa would start within a week was circulated about the grain pits. A broad buying movement gave the market a very strong tone at the close with the top prices of the day being written on the blackboards during late dealings. Wheat prices closed 2 to 3 cents higher and corn was 1, to 1 cents advanced. No. 1 wheat was quoted at $1.04 a bushel in Lincoln. YA rv NO ACTION ON BUSES Omaha. The city council failed to take action on the petition pre sented by Dr. J. W. O'Connell, ask ing permission to operate a bus sys tem here. Delay on the part of the council drew sharp criticism from James C, Perkins, one of the leaders of the striking group of Omaha and Council Bluffs street railway com pany employes, who said: "This petition has been before the I council four weeks now and no ac tion h.3 been taken. We have been out of work five months now and are getting near the end of our rope. We expect a little co-operation from the council. While delay after delay prob ably doesn't seem much to you gen tlemen with jobs and food and fuel for the winter, it means considerable to families who have no jobs." The strikers left their jobs in April. A group of 15 cr 20 have gone back to work with the street car com pany, and others have found new jobs. A total of 150 strikers are still listed on the county relief rolls. The group that walked out last April cumbered 2GS men. President Urges Liberals to Acton a United Front Ecosevelt Expresses OpUmism to 70, 000 Persons at Los An geles Tuesday. President Roosevelt made a plea at Los Angeles Tuesday for liberals to unite on a "common ground" of ac tion in a speech before more than 70,000 persons. "Our own national program," he said, "owes a great debt," to the "liberal spirit" of Cali fornia. Mr. Roosevelt, in ringing words of optimism, declared "We have come thru stormy seas into fair weather. . . . Patience is receiving its reward. Faith is being justified. Hope is be ing fulfilled." Then, pledging continued efforts in behalf of the needy, he said "the faith of a liberal is profound belief, not only in capacities in individual men and women, but in the effective ness of people helping one another. "Liberals ... must find common ground "and a common r6a.'d each making some concession as to form and method in order that all may ob tain the substance of what all de sire." Mayor Shaw of Los Angeles wel comed the president and Mrs. Roose velt. The automobile carrying Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt was driven onto the stadium track at the head of a procession of dignitaries. Thousands stood thruout the ad dress. Introducing the chief execu tive, Mayor Shaw lauded him for his efforts in the Boulder dam project, dedicated by the president Monday. When the party left the coliseum Mr. Roosevelt was cheered repeatedly by thousands of persons packed on the sides of the streets. He then went to the University of Southern California, where he was given the degree of doctor of laws. During the afternoon Mrs. Roose velt addressed a gathering at Holly wood bowl at a meeting in behalf of the community chest. The president remained in his private railroad car preparing his address Wednesday at San Diego. TTT.AN ASSASSINATION TOLD Danville, Va. The "inside" story cf the assassination of J. W. Steph ens, a carpetbagger, b. Ku Klux Klansmen in the Yanceyville, N. C, courthouse during reconstruction days of 1S70, was revealed for the first time in a deposition which Capt. John G. Lea, of Danville, made in 1919 and locked in a vault until after his death. In his witnessed statement, Cap tain Lea, who was an organizer for the invisible empire in Caswell coun ty in 1870, and who died at South Boston, Va., Sunday, names Col. J. T. Mitchell and Thomas Oliver, now both dead, as the actual executioners of Stephens. The assassination, which occurred while a rally of Negro republicans was under way In the courthouse, led to a declaration of martial law in the county and indirectly to the impeach ment of Governor Holden of North Carolina. Two hundred persons were arrested by the carpetbagger govern ment in connection with Stephens' death, but releasd aftr trials because of. the lack of evidence. The Lea statement declares Stephens was con demned to die by the Caswell Klan which accused him of arson. The klansmen swore a solemn oath never to reveal to others who had participated in the enterprise until the last one was dead. Captain Lea was the last, succumbing in his ninety-second year. ROOSEVELT VISITS BOULDER DAM HIV: L B0ULDEB CITY, NEVADA, SEPTEMBER SO President neering achievement, mighty Boulder dam, just prior to the by more than 20,000 persons. Walker Young, chief engineer of tures from ens of the towers. Left to right, Young, President Neha wKa George Pollard shelled and deliv ered his two year old corn crop last Friday. John J. Stine was visiting friends in Beatrice last Sunday, making the trip in his car. Gayle Sturm and wife were at I Lincoln last Friday, where they look ed after some matters of business. Fred Lutz, of west of Murray, was looking after some "business matters in Nehawka Mondav afternoon of (this week. . . .,r t Glen Rutledge was looking aftei some business matters in Plattsmouth on Monday, driving over to the coun ty seat in his car. James J. Pollard was a visitor in Nebraska City Monday of this week, where he was looking after some inatters of business. William Gorder of Plattsmouth was a guest last Monday at the home of Victor Wehrbein, coming down to look after some bigness matters. Orville Philpot is to move to the farm of Leo Switzer, which is located on the south side of the road near Mr. Switzer's other place, and will farm there the coming year. Harvey Gregg, the carpenter, was looking after some business matters here on Monday, and also made a trip to Union to look after the secur ing of some work in his line. Mrs. J. G. Wunderlich returned home Sunday from a visit of nearly a week in Plattsmouth, where she was a guest at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. C. A. Rosencrans, and fam ily. Herbie Kuntz and family were guests last Sunday at the home of a cousin of Mrs. Kuntz, Mr. and Mrs. Belbert Swanson, who reside north west of Alvo. They drove over in their car. John H. Steffens was at Lorton on Tuesday of this week, where he was I visiting his parents and assisting his father with the preparation of Borne reports for the bank which the lat ter conducts there. The kittenball team of the Ne hawka high school was at Avoea last Tuesday evening, where they played a spirited game under the flood lights that were recently installed there. The game was won by Nehawka. Glen Rutledge, editor o the Ne hawka Enterprise, was among those from here who witnessed the football game at Lincoln Saturday between the Cornhuskers and Chicago Uni versity. He was accompanied by two aunts, who are visiting here from their home in Minnesota." Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Scott Norris visited last Sunday at the home of their old friends and neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Fleming, of Platts mouth. They were neighbors on the farm north of Nehawka a half cen tury ago and their friendship has continued through the passing year3. Raymond C. Pollard and wife, Prof. C. E. Stimbert and wife, Melvin Sturm and wife, Chester Stone and wife, Charles Hall and Burnell Adams arid mother went to Lincoln Saturday for the opening football game on the Cornhusker schedule The game was J. V j. a. between the Cornhuskers and Chicago L'niversity, being won by the fast Ne braska team by a score of 28 to 7. Ward Pitman, cf Omaha, was a visitor at the home of his sister, Mrs. Robert II. Chapman, of Nehawka, and also called on his mother, Mrs. Thomas Pitman, who makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Chapman. Saving the Corn Fodder William Brandt, with the assist ance of some of the neighbors, was filling his silo with corn fodder, with the corn left on the stalks. The ex perience of last year has been such u3 to warrant doing the same thing gain this year, when he will have much better feed, as there is a good crop of corn on the stalks this year, while last year the crop consisted only of dwarfed stalks, but it helped out a lot even in that condition. Visiting in the Northwest Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Hild, of Mur ray, Mrs. F. H. Hansen, of Nehawka, and Mrs. Wm. Wolfe, mother of the two ladies, who resides near Avoca, left last Sunday for Newcastle, Wyom ing, where they will visit at the home of Julian Bock and family. Mrs. Bock is a sister of Mesdames Hild and Han sen and daughter of Mrs. Wolfe. Nehawka 's New Postmistress Effective October 1st, Miss Lenna McRaynolds became postmistress at Nehawka, taking over the duties of the office, which has been conducted by Verner Lundberg for a number of years past. A change in classifica tion moves the office up into the third class rating, hence it was required that an examination be taken to fill the position of postmaster, the same being wen by Miss McRaynolds, who is expected to make a good official. With the higher rating, the post master will no longer be required to provide the furniture and office space, and that will be furnished by the government. The furniture that had belonged to Mr. Lundberg was pur chased by the government. Visited in West Virginia Frank W. Martin, who recently purchased a new Ford V-8, left the latter part of last week on a trip to the east, with Huntington, West Vir ginia, as the principal objective. He was accompanied by his son, George Martin, of Nehawka, and three daugh ters, Mrs. Adolph Ross, Mrs. Irene Plymale of near Ashland, and Mrs. Anna Greenwold of near Avoca. Start ing early in the morning, tliey were able to make some 800 miles during the day, spending the night at New Richmond, Ohio, and completing their trip the following day.- Their destina tion is a little over 1,200 miles from here. Visiting in Northwest Mrs. Anna Fulton departed late last week for Wayside, South Dakota, where she is to visit for some time with her two daughters and families, they being Mrs. Harold Kimlcn and Mrs. Albert Stoll. Underwent Operation Mrs. Chester Stone, who has suf- ; 7 I. ".-tr7Z"is i-j-. ii-rt -:'.??. v Eranklin Delano Eoosevelt views man's most stupendous engi dedicatory exercises on the giant structure which were witnessed the dam, is seen in the above photo, pointing cut important fea Eocsevelt. the President's military aide and ilrs. Ecoserelt. fered from repeated attacks of ap pendicitis, went to the hospital for an operation to correct the trouble. She tame through the ordeal in fine shape and is making rapid progress towards recovery, which will be good news to her many friends. Woman's Club Ket at Library The Nehawka Woman's club, which was instrumental in getting the li brary building constructed, keepin? everlastingly at it until the building was completed and paid for, held its meeting there last Friday when thX're was provided the result of a reeera contest7 between two chosen sides in the organization, with the losers to provide the winners with a dinner party. A splendid time is reported by all, as the losing side came through in splendid shape. Club Ilembers Entertained Mrs. Fred Lutz was hostess one day last week, entertaining the mem bers of the Pleasant Hill country club at her home. A very pleasant after noon was provided with much socia bility as is always the case when these ladies get together for one of their periodic gatherings. Instead of call ing on one another at different times, they all choose the same day and meet at the home of one of their mem bers, thus saving Tiiu'h time and at the same time getting all their visit ing done in one day. Home from the Convention W. H. Kruger, district commander of the American Legion, with Mrs. Kruger, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Nutz man, and the Messrs Eugene Roddy, Ralph Opp and R. R. Anderson, ar rived home the latter part of last week from St. Louis, where they Lad been in attendance at the national convention of the Legion. They re port oe of the largest crowds ever to attend a national Legion conven tion and a splendid time. Change in Management At a meeting of the board of direc tors of the Farmers Elevator compaJiy, held last Saturday evening, Stuart Rough, who has been manager of the elevator for a number of years, ten dered his resignation, which was ac cepted, subject to taking effect about the middle cf December, which i3 the time provided for the ending of the fiscal year. Mr. Rough has made an excellent man for the job ard it was the wish of the board that he continue in that capacity, but he has been kept pretty close to the work and wanted to get away, planning to spend part of the coming winter in California. The board elected J. J. Pollard as the new manager and he will take over the management of the basic ess about December lClh. Mr. Pollard is at the present time engaged in the implement businc, but prior to the time when he will take over the ele vator management he will either dis pose of his present business or close out the stock. He has been doing a good business, henvever, and should find little difficulty in disposing of the business, rath:r than having to close it out. " - TUESDAY 1 ' Shrader Farr: Sold The faim formerly L jlor.gin;; to the late Z. Y. Si:rader, was sold I.;.-:t week to a party from South Dakota. A s j:i of the purchaser will occupy t!ie f.TrM the coming summer. The prite slightly higher than it was cxpeUed the farm would bring, which pleasing to these selling it. United Brethren in Christ. Rev. Otto Engebretson NEHAWKA CHURCH Bible church school 10 a. r.i. Evening gospel service 7:30 p. in . ' jMid-weck prayer meeting Wtdiit J day evening. The choir rehearsal will be Wed nesday evening before prayer meet ing. The Woman's Society will be en tertained by Mrs. Dean this week. On Sunday. Oct. IS will be rally Sunday in our churc hes. We v. ill al.' o instali all the ofiicors at this F.crvi e. OTTERBEIN CHURCH Bible church school 10 a. m. Morning worship service 11a. m. The prayer and praise; service will he. held at the Douglas homo this week. The young people .ill als; meet there. The Woman's Society will 1 e enter tained by Mrs. J. V.". Murdoch Thurs day. Oct. 10. On next Sunday morning a num ber of our people plan ou going to the special services at Louisville. We urge all who can to attend tho Sunday school convention at 1'lutt.s mouth Monday, October 7th. "The goodness of Go! indurcth continually." Psalm C2:1C. iiLaaB Lba SU J? IU Just a few dollars will protect you from loss of your household posses sions by theft cr burglary. Protect What Yen Have It b geed business to have Good Insurance call cn SEE Phone- 16 Plattsmouth w v--V I f . j - i ! ' .V J mm INSURANCE- T-C