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TIIUItSDAY. APIIIL. 1C, 1874.
LETTER FROM AVOCA.
Avoca, Neb., March 27 th, 1874.
Mil. Editor: In these times of
t emperance awakening, perhaps a few
lines in regard to what we are doing in
this locality, may not prove uninterest
ing. ' -
A meeting was held in the stone
school house of district No. 77, of this
precinct, on Tuesday evening, 24th ult.,
in 'pursuance of a call issued hy Mrs.
H. K. TefTU for the purpose of organ
izing a temperance society.
Quite an assembly congregated, and,
after listening to several speeches, de
lineating, with remarkable power, the
necessity of organization, in opposition
to the great evil of the day, intemper
ance, the meeting proceeded to organ
ize a home temperance society, to be
known as the Avoca Temperance So
ciety. The following persons were elected
oilieers for the first quarter:
President I.. C. Peters.
Vice-President Isaac Moore.
Cor. and Recording Sec. U.K. TeiTt.
Financial Sec. Mrs. S. A. Moore.
Treasurer Mrs. E. E. Shoopnian.
Chaplain Orlando Tefft.
The meetings are to btf-open to all.
If some temperance organization was
in existence in every school district in
our county what an influence it would
exert. "Will not some person or per
.sons in everv schuol district move in
f . . i
this matter ? W no win ie me next in
report. O. T.
(RANGE RESOLUTIONS.
Glesdalk, Cass Co. Xkb., )
March 28th, 1874.
Er. Herald: The fo'lowing reso
lutions were adopted this day by Glen
dale Grange Xo. 32, assembled. Please
give this a place in your excellent pa
per. lltt'dced, that we will not purchase
any farming implements of tliose
manufacturing companies or their
agents, who have refused to sell to
Grangers direct.
Iltsolced, that the secretary of this
Grange be instructed to request the
editor of the Herald to publish these
resolutions in his valuable paper.
s Names of manufacturers referred to
in the above resolutions: Molina
Plow Company,; Deere & Co.; F. 1).
Brewster & Co.; Parlin & Orendorf ;
F. & II. Smith, & Co.; Furst & Brad
ley; St. Joseph Manufacturing Com
pany, Mishawaka,Ind.; Morenoffer,
Dent & Co. ; Briggs & Enoch, and many
others we will not take time to give,
as they will find out in due time who
we mean. "
The 18th ballot for the Massachu
setts Senatorship was taken on the
lth and stood;
" On the eighteenth ballot the whole
number of votes was 273 necessary to
choice, 137. Dawes. 91; Hoar, 72;
Curtis, 74; Adams, 15; Sanford, 9;
Banks, 7 ; Washburn, 4 ; Whittier, 1.
CORN IN CASS COUNTY.
Large Yield of Corn.
The Nebraska State Board of Agri
culture last year .offered a premium of
fifty dollars for the best yield of corn
in that State in 1873, which was award
ed to Mr.M. M. Xelson. of Cass County,
upon the following showings:
The crop was raised on thirty-five
acres of ground, first prairie broken in
1871, and the cost of cultivation was
as follows:
Plowing, $1.23. per acre - - 43.75
Planting per acre. 45c - 15.75
Cultivating per acre, 81.80 - - 63.00
Harvesting, 81.25 per acre - - - 4 3.7 5
Total cost, S4.75 per acre - S1G3.25.
These thirty-five acres yielded three
thousand two hundred and two one
half bushel f being ninety-one and
one-half bushels per acre. The Variety
was the "mahogany," and its weight
averaged sixty-three pounds to the
bushel. Chi'Xiyu 1'o.st ami M7.
We have published Mr. Nelson's big
yield. aud the fact of his drawing th
prize, before; but we call attention to
this synopsis of sthe fact from a Chica
go paper, to show the benefit it has
been to us in the way of an advertise
ment, and also to impress on the minds
of our farmers once more the import
ance of cultivating smaller quantities
of land in a more thorough and workman-like
manner. Thirty-live acres
here .yielded as much as seventy acres
do under the ordinary half-cultivation ;
and just think of the horse tlesh saved
and toil avoided by tending thirty-live
acres instead of seventy. Men need
theii strength and lime too, and it c m
be put in elsewhere to better advantage
than in half tending a huge cornfield
to obtain quarter results.
To Nebraska tyiilMJrjver.
Maj r Caffery long and favorably
known as the accomplished editor of
the Brownvillw Advertiser, proposes to
issue on or about the 20th day of
April, the Lincoln Daily Made, and is
anxious to number among his exchan
ges every paper published in the .state
of Nebraska. We hope the brethren
will "take due notice and govern them
selves accordingly." We can assure
our friends that aside from the Jour
nal, the Blade will be the liveliest
sheet in the- State. Liu'ln Jonrn d.
ON ADVERTISING.
Wkki'Ino Water, Neb., (
. June 28th, 1873.
Ed. Herald; The man who de
pends on advertising alone will fail.
This was beautifully illustrated in
your place a few years since. A man
to succeed in business, must advertise,
but at the same time he must live up to
his advertisements. " lie must lmy
goods cheap; he must sell goods cheap:
he must sell yood goods; he must sell
the bext for the best, not sneond or
third rate for the best; he must make
itatudyto know how eheap lie can
sell goods, not how tiwrh he can get for
them. Then advertising will pay.
Advertising helps only to bring in new
customers. After they have come in,
they forget the advertisement, and the
merchant must hold them by fair, hon
est dealing. Of course a man cannot
keep every customer. We have lost, a
few; some never have any regular
plce to trade: some have left 'us be
cause we were temperance men; some
because we would not sell them goods
on the Sabluth. and some for other
similar reasons; some Grange nun left
us because we would not sell to them
cheaper than to other fanners: but
most of all these classes .have come
back, acknowle Igiug that they could
find no other place -where they could
do as well as with us.
Judicious, conim n sense a hertisiug
docs pay: and we know of no better
medium lhu the Hkhald. -- ,
Very Ih speet fully. ,
Heed lb:-..
A Kansas gent'eman has thought
fully put his front gate" in the parlor,
so that his daughter and her young
man can swing on it without taking
cold during the cold weather.
This is a humane suggestion to all
fathers. A front gate in the parlor
may save a good many dollars that
would otherwise be paid out for cough
sirup.
Oil, how we wish th'it father would
move to Plattsmouth, and put a gate
up in his parlor here.
BUSINESS NOT AFFECT Ml.
(J RANT PARDONS THE FDXES.
President Grant has issued the Ex
ecutive pardon in favor of Leander
Fox and Bvron Fox, father and son.
of the firm of 1$. Fox & Co.. 391 Canal
street, New York, who, at the instance
of Anthony Comstock, were prosecut
ed and convicted last year of sending
obscene books through the mails.
They claimed at the time that they
had bought the books as purely scien
tific medical works, and were not
aware of their containing anything that
could be construed into mere obsceni
ty. They were, nevertheless, found
guilty and sentenced to one year's im
prisonment and a fine of 8500 each.
The President now remits the term of
imprisonment and orders their dis
charge, on condition of their paying
the fine and costs. Ar. Y.Sunday tfews.
Would be pleased to have everybody
call and examine my stock of 1 loots.
Shoes, and Gaiters, before purchasing
elsewhere, -for I sell cheaper than ever.
No charge for showing them.
52tf Peter Merges.
A Naii nul Sellout of Cookery.
The recently instituted National
School of Cookery, in England, has had
its objects explained very clearly bv
Jjady Barker in a little " volutin:. She
writes: "The great point which I have
reason to believe the Committee of the
National School of Cookery will insist
upon is thoroughness. No imp will be
allowed to run or try to run before, she
can walk. The elementary knowledge
of how to light and manage. a kitchen
fire, of scrupulous cleanliness in pots
ami pans, of attention to a thousand
small but aE-important details. lr
taught ami insisted upon before the
learner is allowed to do anything
worthy of the name of cooking. She
will then, probably, br surprised tw find
how comparatively easy -it will lie to
acquire the art. and she may be very
sure she will not be allowed to try a.
second thing until she can do the first,
if it be only boiling a kettle or toasting
a piece of bread to perfection. Such
is the plan for complete beginners,
who, by the way, generally prove the
most successful pupils; but for serv
ants or artisans wives who wish to
'better' themselves in their kitchens
there will be a different mode of in
struction, into which I need not enter
here. Ladies will also have an oppor
tunity either of sitting in a chair and
listening to a lecture or series of lectu
ers on cooking, begining with a mutton
chop and ending with fsouff'le, or they
may turn back their sleeves, take off
their rings and bracelets, and try for
themselves. It will lie hard if any
eager inquirer . does .not find some
course or class to meet her needs, and
it is hoped that, whatever excuse may
hereafter be urged for our national
bad cookery, the reproach of the want
of a place and opportunity of instruc
tion will be done awar with forever."
The recent depression in business
has not affected the passenger traffic of
the St. Louis. Kansas City & Northern
Short Line, jus they continue to run six
fast express trains, two more than an;
other line between the Missouri and
Mississippi Rivers. This road enjoys
great immunity from accidents, bv
reason of immense expenditures, in the
List two years, of oyer two million dol
lars, besides earnings in wonderful im
provements, in relaying their line with
new steel and iron rails, on broad, new
ties, in new rolling stock supplied with
all modern appliances for comfort and
safety, and as another safeguard, em
ploy night and day watchmen to in
spect the road before and after the
passagf of each train, to see that every
thing is in order. Conspicuous among
new improvement is the substitution
for ordinary cars, of new reclininir
chair coaches, elegantly carpeted and
fitted with dressing rooms for ladies,
gentlemen and families, without an;,4
fj-tru rh'iriy. The St. Louis, Kansas
City & Northern and the Kansas City.
St. Joseph Council Bluffs Railroad,
form the only line running through
Pullman Palace Sleepers letween
Omaha and St. Louis. The shortest
line between the W'vst and the East is
over the St. Louis, Kansas City &
Northern Short Lin, either through
St. Louis, the great metropolis of over
450,00 a inhabitants, or through Chica
go, via the Chicago & Alton Short
Line, over the Louisiana llridge i.o.v
op"ii for passage of . thnjygh trains.
Ticket Agents of connecting loads sel
ling through tickets to the East. North
or South, will furnish tickets by this
excellent line. For map. circulars,
time cards and information relative
torates, apply to or address Io
nian McCai tv. Kansas Citv, Mo or !
B. Groat, St. Louis. Mo. 44tf
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Horses Boarded by the Diy
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LI VEIl V A T A L L TIMES.
Particular Attention Paid 16
" Driving and Training
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Trotting Stock.
