"W. 'v' -m, wMi bAK6tA COUN$V HfeJRALB; DAK6A CITY, NR8RASKA. tMAm miftiim rt iVTill F! w w M HnlnV. n..l.. II . t J uaftuid vuuiuv n'Jiaiu JOHN H. RKAM, I'UIiUSllUK itabapripttou Price, $1.00 Tor Year. A weokly nowapapor published at Dakota City, Nobruukn. Pormisnion lma boon granted for tho trAnaniiHoion of this papor through the miin an uocond-olaRS matter. Tolophono No. 48. Official Paper of Dakota County County Agent's Field Notes BY C. H. YOUNG. TUB POCKOT ROPIIKIt PKSTS Pocket gophers are very promi nent among our farm pests. An es timated loss of two or more millions of dollarsfor the state is said to be conservative, and there is no doubt but that Dakota county is bearing her Bhare of this enormous amount. That the situation is becoming worse each year is evident on every hand. This is perhaps due to the decrease in owls, hawks, weasles, and bull snakes which are the natural enemies of this animal. Two methods of destroying are in common use and both have their ad vocates and advantages. Trapping is a very safe and sure method al though not sp rapid as poisoning. For this purpose special gopher traps may be secured or ordinary steel traps used. Those should be set in the run-way between two mounds by digging with a spade sufficiently to place the trap. Close observation will show which way the animal last passed so that the trap may be set with the plate or moving parts in such a position that when he next passes that way, dirt cannot be push ed into it so as to prevent its closing. The opening should then be covered over. Mr. James Green, near Hub bard, caught 154 pocket gophers with nine traps during a few weeks, last fall. Where a large number of these rodents are to be exterminated, poisoning is undoubetedly the fast est method. Mr. Ogburn, who lives near Mr. Green, practically cleared his farm in one year by the use of strychnine and potatoes, cutting the potatoes in small cubes with his knife blade opening the cube enough to insert a small piece of strychnine. This was placed in the run-ways through a hole made by a rather bluntly pointed rod. Natural bates for these gophers are softened grains, potatoes, car rots, parsnips, raisins and apples. The U. S. Ideological Survey recom mends the use of one-eighth ounce of powdered strychnine (alkaloid) and one-tenth of this ammount of sacharine ground together in a mor tar and sifted over four quarts of dampened bait. This is placed in the run-ways as previously describ ed, One gopher may have from ten to twenty mounds and from two to three baits will be sufficient for each Bystcm. Where grains are to be used the Kansas formula is very satisfactory. Its preparation consists of ono ounce of green coffee berries mixed with the whites of eggs and allowed to stand for about fifteen hours. One ounce of powdered strychnine sul phate is then dissolved in half pint of boiling water. Add a little warm water to the mixture of coffee and egg and strain through a coarse sieve. Mix tho alcohol with the hot solution of strychnine and add the other mixture. Stir thoroughly. Soften half a bushel of corn by pour ing boiling water over it and allow to stand ten or twelve hours. Drain off the water and pour over it and allow to stand ten or twelve hours. Drain off tho water and pour over; it tho poisen mixture and a cupful of syrup. Add a few pounds of corn meal and mix thoroughly. With a spoon, place in run-way as already outlined. At tho North Dakota Experiment Station whej e considerable of this work was done it was found that a man could cover from 75 to 100 acres per day at a cost of two and one. fourth cents per acre, allowing one dollar and twenty cents per day for lubor. After the placing of the poison all mounds Bhould bo leveled down with harrow or other implement. Then as new mounds aro raised tho re maining gophers are easily found. Persons desiring demonstrations in gopher eradication should call on this office. Boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen years, wishing to join the corn, pig, potato, sewing, or cooking club should write tho County Agricultural Agent, Dakota City, Neb. An agricultural meeting at which treatment of potato diseases and oat smut and seed corn testing will be discussed, will be held at St. Pat rick's hall, Homer, Neb., on the evening of April 13th. Have YOU Paid YOUR Subscription. ? tttfyiC4MW - A)rj0&MVjMWWrW&JH & rr-rntric -si WiWiaiBOtMlilOWfijtClWMitMW) HUBBARD We have a fine assortment of dress shirts and neck ties for Easter. Carl Anderson. Pat Jones was a business visitor in the city Tuesday. We have a complete stock of men and boys overalls and work shirts. Carl Anderson. A number from hero arc attend ing the session of district court in Dakota City this week. We want your butter and eggs and will pay the highest price the market will afford. Carl Anderson. Max Leedom enlisted in the army at Sioux City Tuesday, and was as signed to the coast defense. He left immediately for the training camp at Ft. Logan, Colo. We have a fulUine of horse col lars, collar pads, saddlery hardware and straps. Carl Anderson. Several families in this locality were quarantined for smallpox last week. Among the families quaran tined are the J. Sherlock and James and Mike Smith families. We have a full line of farm and garden tools. Carl Anderson. Fred Bartels topped the Sioux City market Tuesday with a carload of 50 Poland China hogs averaging 29Glbs, that sold for $10.15. We have the snappiest and newest in dress hats. Carl Anderson. HOMER. Henry Rockwell, whom many here will remember being an old Dakota county boy, died at his home in Fairmont, Minn., last Saturday, aged 50 years. He was a brother of Eph Rockwell. Miss Mattie Gorham was a guest at the Tim O'Connor home the first of the week. Ed Houts and family are enjoying a visit from friends from Sioux City. Will Bristol has enlisted for four years in the navy as carpenter and was sent to Virginia. lhat makes four Homer boys who are serving their country. Melford Lothrop and Hobert McKinley in tho army, and Will Bristol and Minor Curtis in tho navy. Two dogs were shot on our streets Monday, one in front of Ashford's store and one in front of Allaway Bro's. Several women were made sick by seeing them. If they must be killed why not use a more hu mane method and take them ofi" Main street to a back alley for slaughter. Chas. Bates and wife were north bound passengers Sunday. Miss Mary Rena returned from the Mason home the first of the week. Mrs. Andy Peterson, of Dakota City, was a guest at tho Mrs. Anna Shull home Tuesday. Attorney Steuteville, of South Sioux City, was a Homer business visitor Thursday. Frank Broyhill and Will Biermann were Homer visitors Thursday. Miss Mabel Eberly, of Missouri Vully, la., came Thursday to spend her Easter vacation with her sister, Mrs. Art Rymil. Mrs. Mary Harris is in Wakefield visiting her father and other rela tives. Elgie Smith will build a dwelling in the near future just north of the Robert Smith home. M. Mason motored to Sioux City Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Armour were Sioux City visitors Thursday Mrs. Audry Allaway, Mrs. Art Rymil and her sister, Miss Mabel Eberly were passengers from the north Friday. The Blago Avon Safe club met with Nadino Shepardson, Saturday evening. Mrs. A. L. McEntafl'er went to Hull, la., Friday to visit her daugh ter, Mrs. Earl Pennington. Nelson Smith and T. D. Curtis went to Omaha Sunday to serve on the federal petit jury. Lon McEntaffer is building a barn at tho Freeman Rockwell home. Mr. Mayfield is the new Hntion agent. His family has not yet ar rived. Messrs. Cnnk nnil Kfltinurn. nf bioux Lity, were here Thursday in tho interest of the Masonic lodge. Harold Harris visited last week with his grandparents, Jas. Harris and wife. Warren Kinnear and Edgar Davis were doing carpenter work and painting at the Ed Polly home last week. Jimtnie Allaway put up a garage last week to house his new Ford. Warren Kinnear will build a barn on the Swinglo farm soon. Nelso Smith and son, Raymond, were Sioux City visitors Friday. Mrs. Hicoek returned from Illi nois Saturday where she visited rel atives. Earl Rasdal, of Coleridge, was a Homer visitor Saturday, Mrs. Julia Nixon and Geo. Zent mire, of Sioux City, were Homer visitors Saturday. Rev. Pendell visited his son and family in Sioux City Friday. Vern Lake and family, of South Sioux City, motored to Homer Sun day, to visit relatives. II. A. Monroe and family and Sherman McKinley and family, of .--.. , ......., South fcSioux City, were Easter guests at the B. McKinley home. John Ashford nnd wife, of Winne bago, Neb., motored to Homer Sun day. County Clerk Geo. Wilkins was a visitor in Horner Sunday. Dr. Mentzler and wife, of Sioux City, visited Sunday at the home of Mrs. Mentzler's parents, M. .1. Dailey and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Audry Allaway vis ited invDakota City Sunday, Ralph Church and' Paul Lopp, of South Sioux City, were guests in the Will Learner home Sunday. James Hatch has brought the lit tle house on the hill near Walt El liott's barn from Steve Rockwell. Miss Flora Kunzi spent the week end and Easter at her home. Mr. Peterson, who had been living with his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Odell died Easter Sunday and was bur ied Tuesday in the Omaha Valley cemetery. Services were conducted in the M. E. church, rev Pendell offi ciating. Marvin Armour and wife were guests of Rev. Keckler and family, at McLean Neb., Easter Sunday. Ray Augheyand wife visited rela tives in Homer Sunday. JACKSON. Thos. Hartnett, jr., has an attack of the mumps. William Gill and wife, South Sioux City, spent Esterer with relatives here. Chas. Hicks underwent an opera tion at a Sioux City hospital last week. Harry Bowie has purchased a new Ford auto. James Bigley was down from Ponca last Thursday. Mrs. T. M. Beyer and two children are spending the week with her folks at Norfolk, Neb. The Misses Annie and Blanche Waters, who are students at Ames college, Ames, la., are home for a short vacation. C. K. Heffernan, Rev. F. McCar thy, Dr. Magirl and wife and Mrs. Mary McGonigle autoed to Omaha Sunday in Mr. Heffernan's car. Elizabeth Zimmerman was called to Omaha Sunday by the serious ill ness of her brother. Beatrice Jones returned to Wayne, Neb,, Tuesday, after spending East er with the home folks. Jack Rilev. sr.. of Vnrriiirrnn Nnh and Sam Jock, of Wayne, Neb., were master guests in the William Riley home. Mrs. C. L. Hrnno-fir nf SnnnrfiaVi S. D., is visiting in the home of her brother, O. A. Barber, and other relatives. Mr. and Mrx .Tnlin Rvnn nrwl daughter, Margaret, of Sioux City, were iruosts in thi Thns. Hnrrnntt home Sunday. Mr. Ryan now drives a new uouge car. Marv Mefinnic.il tintr-in tonoliinfr a spring term of school near South oioux L,uy, Monuny, in tlie Unas. Karst district. Genevieve Rrntlv. nf Wntorlmrw spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs! rtmy urauy. Emmett Lnwless. nf Sinnv Citv !a spending his vacation here. Margaret Waters, who teaches the Sioux City high school, is enjoying a week's vacation here. Marie Dugan, of Norfolk, Neb., Frances .McCormick, of Herman, Neb., and Monica Flynn, of Hinton, la., spent Easter at their homes here. Jas. Sutherland and wife were Sunday guests in the Jas. Suther land, sr., homo at Ponca. Mrs. Boyle is having her house, which she recently purchased from Miss McDonald, raised and a new foundation and basement put under it. Mr. Gasser, of Ponca, has the contract. Other improvements will follow later. Thomas Hartnett and wife and John Duggan and William Franklin were among those from here who attended tho Stecher-Caddock wrest ling match in Omaha Monday night. Joseph Ileenan entered a Sioux City hospital last Friday for treat ment. Raymond Hall returned to Sibley, la., Monday, after an over Sunday visit with his parents. Jack Cavanaugh, of South South Sioux Citv, spent Easter with rela tives here. J. A. Hall returned from Arden, Mo., last Saturday where he had been the past six weeks looking after his property there. Pat Gormally was appointed city marshal vice Joe Bryan, resigned. R R Time Table C, St. P., M.ft O. Trains loavo Dakota City at tho fol lovlug tiruo: UOHTU BOUND HOOTU BODhD 0:17pm Omaha 7:D8 am 10:88 am Omaha f2.D8 pm 7 :8f am . . . .Nowoastlo. . . .lo :00 am 1:82 pm " ....5:G0pm daily oxotipt Sunday, f do not stop SUNDAY TtUINH 12 :1J pm Omaha 2 :58 pm C Bft Q SOUTH Mo. 91 Looal Freight' 7 :1B am 17 " Pa8Beneor..12:Dpn NOIITII No. 92 Looal Freight1 2 :2B pm 10 Looal PaBflongor., 0:19pm 'daily, dally except Sunday, AS PRICES RISE HIGH COST OF LIVING HITS THE RAILROADS Service Will Be Crippled, Un less Relief Gomes Soon. EXPENSES UP, RATES DOWN Wasteful and Conflicting Regulations Hamper Railroad Credit, While Ad vance In Labor and Material! Out trips Revenue, Chairman Krutt chnltt Telle Congress Committee. Unified Federal Control Will Improve Conditions. Wusliluaton, April 2. The condition In which the rallronds And themselves as a result of constant increases In vnjjes, prices of material, taxes and other expenses, while their revenues are restricted by legislation, was strlk. Ingly described by Julius Kruttschnitt, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southern Paciilc Company. In his testimony during the past few days before the Joint Congressional Com mittee on Interstate Commerce, which is making a study or the question of railroad regulation. Mr. Kruttschnltt urged the committee to recommend a plan of regulation which will center responsibility for tegulatlon and its results in the federal government, so that conditions affecting both expenses and revenues may be made subject to a uniform policy Instead of the waste ful and often conflicting policies In volved In the system of combined state and federal regulation. Why Reads Need More Money. Mr. Kruttschnitt's testimony also had n bearing on the reasons for the appli cation of the roads to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a general advance in freight rates. He showed that while the price of transportation has declined In recent years, tho cost of producing transportation, like the cost of almost everything else, has rap idly advanced. This bo illustrated by showing that if freight and passenger rates had Increased during the past twenty years in the same proportion as average commodity prices thb railroads of the United States would have re ceived $1,054,000,000 more for trans portation in 1915 than they did receive. This saving to the public was effect ed, in spite of an increase of 03 per cent in the cost of operation of trains, by a reduction in the average passen ger rate per mile from 2.04 cents in 1895 to 1.98 cents In 1915, a decrease of 3 per cent, and by a reduction In the average freight rato per ton mile from 8.39 mills In 1895 to 7.3 mills in 1915, or 13 per cent During the same period the cost of operation per train mile rose from 92 cents to $1.78, almost doubling. At the same time the aver age price of 34G commodities enumer ated in a bulletin of the Department of Agriculture increased 115 per cent. Transportation is practically the only commodity in general use that has not increased tremendously in price during the past twenty years, freight and pas senger charges being lower than they were twenty years ago. Big 8aving to Public. If rates had risen proportionately to the Increase in the cost of other arti cles of ordinary use, Mr. Kruttschnltt told the committee, the average pas senger rate In 1915 would have been 2.95 cents a mile, or CO per cent higher than It was, and the average freight rrate would have been 1.21 cents, or 00 per cent higher than It was. The sav lng to the public in passenger fares through this difference was ?314,000, 000 and in freight rates $1,340,000,000. Universal railroad bankruptcy under this reduction in rates and increased cost of operation, be said, was avoided only by heary expenditures to obtain Increased elllclency in tram movement, making It possible to haul more tons of freight per locomotive. This' had re duced the averago cost of hauling a ton or freight, but tho decline In the average freight rato had reduced the net revenue of tho roads from each ton hauled. If tho operf'lag costs of the railroads, including the prices of coal, labor and material, continue to ad vance at the present rate a lot of rail rouds will bo In tho hands of receivers by 1018 unless some relief Is afforded. Mr. Kruttschnltt told tho committee. "Owing to the rise of commodity prices," he said, "tho purchasing power of tho dollar has fallen 55 per cent and the railroads are In tho position of be ing compelled by law to accept pay ment for their servlco to tho public In currency worth 45 cents on tho dollar. Public's Chlof Interest. 'The public's greatest Interest la In adequate) transportation facilities and not so much in low rates. As to most commodities freight rates form a very small proportion of their cost. Ex eluding low grado commodities, the percentage of tho freight rato to the cost Is so slight as to offer no Justifica tion for any substantial lncrcaso in prices to tho consumer. It may bo stated with llttlo fear of contradiction that tho consumer seldom, If ever, profits from a lowering of freight rates. "Extortlonato charges are a thing of the past, and under the attempt to cut rates to their lowest posslblo figure the Interest of the whole public iu the character and standard of transporta tion is subordinated to tho Interest of that part of the public only tuat.pronts by lower rates that is to say, tho ship, pcrs and their agents andrfiot the geu era! public, the ultimate cousumer," Hal r 9 , F r .eKO?-v3o4l M IWEU S& AWFUL SUFFERING. "I Buffered untold agony with neuralgia. 1 thought 1 would ko mad with pain. A friend of mlno advised mo to take. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. I did so and the pain stopped almost at once. Then 1 commenced uslnc Dr. Miles' Nervine and be fore long I was so that 1 did not have these pains any more." E. J. WINTER, EC1 E. Tlatte Ave., Colorado Springs, Colp. IF TO DC Lutheran Church Nolcs DAKOTA CITY-SALEM Rev. C. R. Lowe. What more could have been asked for the day on Easter Sunday? It was as fine as any might ask. And our people and friends took advantage of it and filled the house at Salem. It was a fine Easter spirit that pre vailed too, for every one was happy. It should be so always when we go into the house of the Lord. The Cantata "Easter" was ren dered by our boys and girls and they rejoiced in it. We had a good time preparing it and were glad to praise the risen saviour, in song on his res urection day. None were at all dis appointed in the outcome. How seldom will a young person fail in in what is nut un to thnm ns n vn. sponsibility that they shall make good when the thing is within their powers and the matter is rightly appreciated. Don't you know there is no keener discernment of fairness than a boy's and girl's and that none are so ready to respond to proper tact than a young person? They did well and our community is rejoiced in it. Express your ap preciation to your own children and others. That doesn't cost anything, it is but common courtesy, it is real ly due them, and will make them more glad they were faithful and instill a desire in them to do some thing again. Scatter roses on the heads of the living, the dead cannot appreciate them. And there are none more appreciative than young people. And this not all. Our one hun dred dollar Easter offering material ized. Our older people responded liberally, too. And all are glad over that. Don't you like to do good things in a big way? Of course. And here is where we get in on the ground floor. We would all have been disappointed if we had not come through with this, and God will bless us for it. This offering has already been sent to the treas urer of Synod, apportioned to the following benevolent objects, Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Church Extension, Ministerial Education and General Education. This will insure us a handsome excess in our benevolences when we make our re port to Synod this fall. How glad we all are in the church work. Emmanuel Sundav school render ed our Church Extension Board's program very creditably indeed and we were no less happy in it than the church in the country. In church and Sunday school work a happy spirit in what we are doing for the praise of God constitute a successful work. Jesus didn't say "I came that you might have a large congre gation and a fine church with a pipe organ," but he said he came "that you might have joy." . If we do take pleasure in doing what there is to be done and falling in lino with the work we have Christ's promise. And strange it is that one may find a plan for his christian activity and a joy in a certain work and another find nothing good enough for him. Surely the trouble is not in what is being done. When the spirit of Christ prevails we will do what is to be done in the most practical way. Emmanuel's congregational meet ing last Saturday resulted in the election of Mrs. Geo. Niebuhr and Mrs. D. M. Neiswanger elders for one and two years respectively and M. A. Schmied deacon fof two years. Mr. A. T. Haase desired to be relieved from tho work of tho council with which he has been continuously con nected for nearly G9 years. His place was given to his daughter and he was elected as an advisory mem ber of the council for life with "all the privileges of a regular member. Envelopes In .E'dery Size, Color or Quality AT THIS OFFICE Close attention to work is the cause of much Pain and Obtain relief by taking one or two 1 DR. MILE.S' ANTIPAIN PILLS Then tone up the Nervous System by using Dr. Miles' I ."i i. V llii h rt9i't7inft FIRST BOTTLE, OR no:t, TAILS HELP YOU, 'YOUR MOMCY $ILL REFUNDED. BTTlflfl. i.'.',XVCS2 rf.l. - For Sale Team of horses, weight 1-100; 1 i. c; 1 new Henny carriage; 10 tons wild hay. P. 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