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There will be a dance at John Mais
els Saturday May 6th Good music
Come boys and bring your girls
C ILCoulson was around last week
posting his sale bills He will have a
sale April 2Gth and will move to his
new home in Missouri
The dance at John Maisels was
well attended Saturday night All
reported a fine time
Edd Kelly is working for Joshua j
Rowland
J H Wesch went to Cedar Bluffs j
Kansas Monday on business
A number cf people attended the
R X A supper at Traer Kansas
last Saturday evening
J H Relph has moved back on his
farm again His son Earl is carrying
the mail on route number 2
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Lame shoulder is nearly always
due to rheumatism of the muscles
and quickly yields to the free appli
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REGULAR CHURCH SERVICES
Congregational Sunday school at
10 a m Preaching at 11 a m and
8 p m The public cordially invited
R T BAYNE Pastor
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Services
Sunday at 11 a m and Wednesday
at 8 p m Meets now in the north
east corner of court house basement
CATHOLIC Order of services
Mass 830 a m Mass and sermon
1030 a m Evening services at
800 Sunday school 230 p m
WM J PATTON O M I
Methodist Preaching by the pas
tor at 11 a m and 8 p m Sunday
school at 10 a m Epworth League
at 7 pm
LESTER E LEWIS Pastor
EPISCOPAL Sunday school at ten
oclock Morning prayer and sermon
at eleven oclock Evening prayer
and sermon at eight Choir rehearsal
as usual every member please attend
ALFRIC J R GOLDSMITH Rector
German Congregational Sunday
school at 930 a m Preaching at
1030 a m and 730 p m by the
pastor Junior CE at 130 p m
Senior C E at 730 All Germans
cordially iwiied to attend these serv
ices
HENRY KAUERZ Pastor
GERMAN EVAN LUTHERAN Ser
vices every other Sunday afternoon
at 230 oclock
REV GROTHEER Pastor
BAPTIST Bible school at 10
Preaching at 11 and 8 oclock
D L McBRIDE Minister
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DANBURY
E E Holdrege and family left Sat
urday for their new home in Wash
ington
Leonard Ilethcote of Indianola was
ovor Sunday last to sell three head of
horses to the horse buyer
Miss Bettcher the county superin
tendent was over on business one
day last week
A Ruby and Fred Osburn re
turned to Bird City Kan Monday
to resume their work on the new
house
A band of Gypsies canvassed this
town one day last week
Miss Edna Henton visited at Beav
er City Wednesday
B B Smiley shipped a car of
sheep to Kansas City Tuesday night
Mr and Mrs S W Stilgebouer vis
ited at Marion between trains on
Thursday
Dr Bartholomew of Marion
down on professional business Tuesr
day
H D Kettering of Lebanon was
up Wednesday
J A Clouse is having his barn re
painted and it improves the looks
very much
Mrs Anna Mueller Cienfuegos
formerly of this place but now living
in Cheyenne Wyo came Friday for
a visit with home folks
Sandon Naden traded their store
goods to a party from Kansas They
took possession Saturday
A number of scholars from outside
schools took the county eighth grade
examinations held at the high school
Thursday and Friday
Joseph Murphy and Hank Gooden
berger traded places last week Hank
will move out on the farm after
school is out
Lester Lord and Omen Smiley were
Indianola visitors Sunday
A number of young fellows went
out northwest of town Sunday to a
shooting match
The Beaver Valley Band association
will meet at Danbury Maay 11th A
big time is expected
Mrs M M Young and Mrs Jane
Minniear were called to Denver Tues
day night to be present at the fun
eral of Mrs Nellie Kirchner
INDIANOLA
Mr Sargent Ray and Alvin Dow
left on No 1G Tuesday morning for
Texas
A brother of Mrs George Cramer
has been visiting her this week
Mr and Mrs Jas Cosgro spent
Monday in Cambridge
Mrs Sly of McCook spent several
days in Indianola this week
The entertainment given under i
auspices of the Indianola high school
association Saturday evening was not
very well attended but all who were
there enjoyed it very much
Superintendent Gordon was absent
Friday from school because of a re
fractory tooth
Mr Sargent and Mr Moore and
families were released from quaran
tine Friday
Charlie Junker is home for a vaca
tion It looks natural to see him
around town again
R H Thomas had one of his finest
hogs killed by lightning during the
electrical storm Friday night
Mr Wilber left Sunday morning for
New York state to visit a sick sister
Mr Gordon and family have moved
from the Bernard Hiller house into
Jim McClungs house
Mr and Mrs L B Korns left for
Missouri Monday evening to visit
their daughter Mrs Wallace
Lucy Thomas went down to Stam
ford Wednesday to attend the Dist
rict Convention of the Christian En
deavor as a delegate from the Con
gregational church
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BRUSH ENTERTAINS R R MEN
A Large Participation and a Big
Time Enjoyed
The Invitation
Brush Colo April 18 1911
Agents and Operators
On behalf of The Brush Commer
cial Club I wish to urge your at
tendance at the meeting of station
men in this city Saturday evening
April 22nd
Bring your wife or your best girl
We expect to show you a pleasant
time Dont eat any supper
Kindly let me know on attached
slip how many will come from your
station
GEO S SCOTT Agent
Brush Colo
P S Dont let the babies keep
your wife at home bring themtoo
Responsive to the above over a
hundred agents and operators and
wives of both from the McCook and
Sterling divisions dropped in upon
the Brush Boosters last Saturday Th
guests were met at the depot and
taken to the elegant club rooms of
the commercial club of that city
In the afternoon autos were in at
tendance to drive the visitors over
the Mirrounding country for a few
hours to see the irrigated beet al
falfa and other lands in that neigh
borhood
In the evening over two hundred
boosters and guests were given a ban
quet provided by the commercial club
and served by the ladies of the Cath
olic guild It was an elaborate and
elegant ihree coursc gastronomic af
fair with a superb crelieim on the
side and a dance follovins
During the banquet there were
short talks by Mr Lamb general
j chairman of the O R T Mrs Hard
ing wife of the agent at Haigler and
Miss Halliday agent at Parks The
keys of the city a mammoth affair
were tendered the guests by Agent
A V Anderson of Yuma local chair
man of the O R T
Among those present from McCook
were Mr and Mrs B J Lane and
Floyd Stayner George Bailey formei
ly of McCook but now wire chief at
Sterling was present
The affair took on incidentally the
nature of a reception to the new train
master at Sterling W F Pate late
chief dispatcher here Bill has al
ready captured the boys ip there
Our former agent G S Scotts
handiwork was to be seen in many
of the details
It was a splendid occasion
Another Spur Track
The Burlington company is pre
paring to give McCook more house
track facilities A new spur will be
built north of the present tracks lead
ing to the freight house The new
track will run north of the icehouses
and as far east as the freighthouse
This will necessitate the removal of
the storage houses and the section
house west of the freight house We
understand the company is arranging
to dispose of its presentt section
house hjere This track will add p
needed house track to their pres
ent facilities
Fire in a Feed Yard
Sparks from the engine hauling pas
senger train No 13 set fire to a hay
stack in the feeding pen of O M Kel
legg about 100 yards south of the
railroad track Tuesday consuming all
the hay and grain and damaging the
frame work of the pen hut the live
stock were rescued Benkelman
News
Canned strawberries raspberries
blackberries pears of the Flag brand
of course at C L DeGroff Coc
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BORNEO LARK
Jtoco s A pbsirui Variety
SLIGHT DAA1AGE THEY DO MORE THAN
OFFSET BY GOOD THEY ACCOMPLISH
By John T Zijimfu Department of Entomology
University of Nebraska
The llCi ncd Larks or Shore Larks
are medium sized birds marked with
DiMwn black and white or yellow as
shown in the accompanying illustra
tion The possession of two little
tufts of feathers on the head give to
them the appearance of possessing
horns hence the name Horned Lark
These biids are ground dwellers
although sometimes seen perched on
fence posts and wires When on the
ground they do not hop but walk or
run and when alarmed rise uttering
a simple alarm note and fly for a
short distance or circle around and
alight near the place from which thuy
started Dining the breeding season
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the males rice into the air in a flight
which carries them upwards until they
may bo lost to sight At such times
their sweet warbling song is often
heard even alter the birds are indistin
guishable Although found commonly
aluig roadsides and in other such sit
uations Horned Larks are essentially
birds of the open fields and prairies
and it is here that they construct
their nests in a depression of the
ground lined with grasses
The food of the larks consists for the
most part of seeds of various kinds
about three fourths of which are of
weeds sucii as sunflowers tumble
wed smartweed pigweed dandelion
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OATS
What variety of oats shall we sow
is a question in the mind of more than
one farmer in Nebraska at present
For several years it is admitted that
the oat crop has not been a very profit
able crop and most farmers claim
they would not raise it at all except
they must do so in order to rotate
their land There are two difficulties
Date rine
Early Oats T904 0S
Burt July 6
Sixty Day July 9
Kherson July 10
Canada Rd July 14
Texas Red July 15
Average July 11
Iate Oats
Lincoln Oal July 19
Swedish Select July 19
University No C July 20
1 White Queen July 20
American Banner July 21
Improved Prize Cluster July 21
Molds New Black Beauty July 22
Average July 20
I which must be contended with by grow
ers of oats in Nebraska at present
One is the decrease in the fertility ofr
the land and the other is the hot dry
t
weather which sets in about the first
of July just at the time when oats is
developing its berry and usually re
sults in arresting the growth at a crit
ical time
Apparently our oats crop is the first
one to show the effect of decreased
fertility and the complaint that oats
do not pay has been heard more and
more for the past five years There
was a time wym yields of- 50 and GO
bushels of oats in the state were com
mon Such yields however can be
secured now where the land is rotated
with alfalfa or clover Last year near
Brunmg Neb there was a yiem ol
over 90 bushels per acre secured on
Kherson oats on a field that had been
Tirnten un from alfalfa and in Clay
j county on the McKelvie farm there
i were 100 bushels These sound like
old time yields dont they but there
Is nothing old time about it except
the soil has been restored to the old
time fertility Some people believe
that the varieties of oats are running
out but this is not the case As a
matter of fact the varieties of oats we
are growing in the state today are
much better adapted to the state than
the varieties used twenty years ago
Plow Across the Slope
When you are plowing up a sloping
field always have the furrows run
acroaa the slrie This will go a long
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HORNED LARKS
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crab grass foxtail and others to the
number of at least sixty eight Mr
W L McAtee of the United
survey finds that of one hun
dred weada considered as the most
troublesome in the country no less
than thirty eight contribute to the diet
of these birds Fruit is very seldom
touched Grain is sometimes eaten
hut only when it is found on the sur
face of the ground as vaste material
or in cases whore a field has been
sown broadcast and this slight dam
age may be eliminated by the substitu
tion of drilling for broadcast rowing
Insects and other small animal forms
home of which are among our most se-
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f vere crop pests are readily consumed
Weevils are principally taken but
other forms eaten are chinch bugs
grasshoppers eaf hoppers ants cut
worms etc as well as spiders mites
and small crustaceans
As we may see from the above
Horned Larks aro certainly to be
elassed among our beneficial birds
The slight damage they do in this re
gion in the way of eating grain is
more than offset by the good they ac
complish in the destruction of nox
ious weeds and insect pests For this
reason if for no other they should bo
afforded ample protection
Nebraskas Farmers Should
Stick to Early Varieties
By E G Montgomery Dept of Ejperimental Agronomy University of Nebraska
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This is especially true of the early
rieties like Kherson and Texas Red
j For a number of years several varie
ties of oats have been grown at the
Nebraska Experiment station to com
pare their yielding power These vari
eties can be divided into two groups
the early varieties and the late varie
ties The following table gives results
Yield No
per acre yrs j
597 4
525 5
553 7
503 i
520 7
539
401
Height Color of
1907 S grain
39 Yellow
Yellow
40
40
40
44
Yellow
Reddish
Reddish
442 5 42 Whitish
392 6 44 Whitish
437 5 44 Whitish
426 4 Whitish
414 6 46 Whitish
381 4 Whitish
326 5 43 Black
It will be seen here that the first
group of varieties known as the early
oats mature on the average about
July 11 and average 539 bushels per
acre The late varieties average nine
days later in maturity and average
401 bushels a difference of almost
fourteen bushels per acre in favor of
the early types The early varieties
are not necessarily more drought re
sisting but their advantage seems to
come in earlier maturity As stated
before our dry weather usually begins
about the first week of July and that
is just the time when the late oats
are in full bloom when they need
plenty of moisture and cool weather
in order to develop their grains prop
erly On the other hand the early va
rieties being about two weeks ahead
in their state of maturity avoid in
some degree this dry weather and for
this reason seem to give a better
yield In the northern states and Can
ada where they have a slow ripening
season and cooler weather for matur
ing the large late varieties give good
results but we cannot expect the Can
ada varieties to give the same results
in Nebraska that they do in Canada
unless we have the Canada weather
For that reason Nebraska farmers
should stick as a general rule to the
eirly varieties such as Kherson and
i Texas Red
way toward preventing the washing
avay of the top soil If the land is
plowed the other way a rain will flow
off with a rush carrying away your
best soil
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two bottles of Foleys Kidney
with good effect The third bolri
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work as conductor on the Lexington-
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you claim in cases of rheumatism1
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