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DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1917.
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Ilosilie Ripsaw: Mr. and Mrs.
John Klliott and children, of South
Sioux City, spent Sunday at the
Amid,, home.
Watsrbury Items in Allen News: i
Word from Eric Sayer, located at
Sun Antonio, Tex., says they were
to leave for New York, October 19.
Emerson Enterprise: John Spencer
one of Dixon county's old settlers,
died at his home in Wakefield last
Saturday, after a lingering illness of
several months.
Ponca Advocate: Dr. Maxwell
and County Clerk Wilkins of Dako
ta City, were here Wednesday after
ua., inferring with our local ex
emp' ion beard.
Dix m Journal: Herl Hopkins, of
South Sioux City, arrived in this
city Friday night ...Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Fletcher, of South Sioux City,
were visiting iriomia in this city the
':"jt oi the week.
Sioux City Journal, 25th: Died,
in South Sioux City, Neb., October
24, 1917, Mrs. Matilda Mayo, aged
17 years. The body is at the West
cott undertaking establishment
pending funeral arrangements.
Fonda, la., Times: A public re
ception will be given for the new
Presbyterian minister, Rev. David
Do Best, and family, by the mem
bers of his church at the home of
Mrs. Lillian McLaughlin and Mr.
and Mrs Burt Kroesen this evening.
Pender times: Mrs. P. V. Cain
and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Abbott spent
Sunday with relatives at Nacora . .
Married, last week at Dakota City,
Miss Clara M. Schopke, of Emerson,
to Mr. William D. Krusemark, of
Thayer precinct. The groom is one
of our best young .farmers and the
Times extends congratulations.
Walthill Citizen: W. S. Estill went
to Homer and Sioux City Tuesday,
on business. . . .Irma Barney went to
Homer Saturday evening to visit a
week at the Goodsell home Mrs.
W. H. Mason returned home Sunday
evening from Lincoln, where she had
been visiting her son Ralph, since
the Rebekah Assembly adjourned
last Thursday.
Osmond Republican: E. J. Huey
was a Norfolk visitor Sunday We
are in receipt of a letter from B. S.
Leedom stating that his son, Capt.
J. W., is now stationed at Camp
Deming, and on the Colonel's staff.
Joe's friends are pleased to learn of
his success as a soldier, and would
all be glad to hear from him through
the columns of the Republican.
Sioux City Journal, 29: FredRenz,
Dakota City
Grocery
Specials for Saturday
51b bag of Chase & Sanborn Coffee $1.25
1 Can Corn 15c
5 bars Flake White Soap. 25c
2 Packages Macaroni 25c
1 Gallon Dark' Karo Syrup 85c
5 Boxes Matches 30c
2 boxes Big Hit Crackers 25c
Higfrwest Price Paid for
COUNTRY PROIWC1S
W. L.
Dakota Cily,
of Hubbard, Neb., will undergo an
operation for nppendicitis at the St.
Vincent's hospital this morning....
The city council of South Sioux City,
Neb., Saturday night accepted the
resignation of Chief of Police A. L.
Mathwig. Henry Crane was ap
pointed to succeed him. Mr. Math
wig has accepted a position as state
agent of Nebraska and is working
now in Omaha.
'on News: Mrs. William Twam
k ' Friday evening for Orchard,
Ni 'or a visit with her mother
andsisi John B. Evans, of Da
kota City, was among those from
Dakota county who attended the L.
K. Wharton hog sale in Aljen last
Thursday..-. T. L. Overboo moved
back to the home farm last week
after having lived in Allen since last
spring. W. C. Wensel, who had
been farming the place, accepted a
position with John B. Evans, of
Dakota City, and is now living down
there.
Ponca Journal: Mr. and Mrs. Ro
go:ich and Mr. and Mrs. Armbright,
of Dakota county, visited at Merrill,
la., the first of the week .... Rev. L.
R. McGaughey conducted services at
Central church last Sunday. He will
hold services at Homer, Neb., next
Sunday afternoon Thomas B.
Murry, of Omaha, gave an interest
ing address at Hart's garage on the
subject of the Second Liberty Loan
last Saturday afternoon. He spoke
at Jackson before coming to Ponca
and also at Newcastle Saturday
evening.
Newcastle Times: The Homer
girls come to play our girls some
day next week . . . Our new profes
sor, Mr. Jacobson, took up the work
of Prof. Richardson Monday morn
ing, October 22. The students think
he will be an agreeable Prof .. .The
basket ball girls went to Homer last
Friday where they were defeated by
a score of 26 to 10. The game was
exciting from start to finish and the
girls put up a good fight, but fo.und
the Homer team a little, too fast for
them South Soo will return our
football game Friday, October 2G.
We have been practicing every even
ing under our new coach, Mr.
Jacobson, who understands the
game and is a fine coach. You are
sure to witness a good game this
Friday.
Wynot Tribune: A jolly bunch of
old friends from Soutli Sioux City
dropped in at the McCormick home
in Wynot last Sunday and spent the
afternoon. They brought well filled
baskets and a big picnic luncheon
was greatly enjoyed by all. The
delegation came up in five automo
biles and was made up as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Chas Kline and daugh
ter Gladys, Mr. and Mrs. Clint Man
ning, Mr. and Mrs. George Boucher
and two children. Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Metz, Judge and Mrs. J. J. Eimers,
Mr. and Mrs. Denton Chase, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A'. Morgan, Miss Bigler and
Howard Church. Miss Lucile Mor
gan, who had been to South Sioux
City to visit her parents, returned
with the crowd. It is needless to
say that the occasion was an enjoy-
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Dakota County's Bond
Quota Over-Subscribed
Following is the total subscriptions
for Liberty bonds as reported from
the different towns in the county:
Homer 5 59,500
Dakota City 41,1500
Jackson U9.500
Hubbard 25,000
South Sioux City 12,000
Emerson 10,300
Goodwin 3,400
Nacora 3,200
Total $194,200
able one, and here's hoping that
these excursions will be more fre
quent in the future.
Sioux City Tribune, 2G: Hrandir
the Missouri River Bridge company ..
latest mortgage of $300,000 on t-l
combination bridge a piece ot iji.,h
finance," Ward R. Evans, city attor
ney of South Sioux City, today de
clared the action of the bridge com
pany in incumbering its proprty
here will only add to the clamor for
a reduction of the tolls. The bridge
company has mortgaged its holdings
to the Fort Dearborn National bank
of Chicago for $300,000 and is iloat
ing first mortgage gold bonds to se
cure the deal, according to records
in the office of the county recorder.
The property was purchased in
August of 191G by the Missouri River
Bridge company at a forced sale,
for $288,000. Thus, Mr. Evans said
this afternoon, the $300,000 mort
gage clears the holding company,
giving it a profit even if it desired
to let the mortgage holders foreclose,
to say nothing of the profits .antici
pated between now and the time the
$300,000 mortgage falls due.
Lyons Mirror: Major Chas. Phil
lips is making his home with his
daughter, Mrs. David Everett, this
winter. . -Mrs. Nate Miller and son,
Harold, of South Sioux City, visited
the Chas. Chard family this week.
....Lee Taylor, a brother of Mrs.
M. M. Warner of this place, came to
Lyons Sunday in company with his.
sister, Mrs. i'lorence Nixon, of Ho
mer, It was surely a great surprise
to see him back" again as he was sup
posed to have been dead for twenty
five years. Twenty-eight years ago
he left Dakota ' City for Idaho.
From there he went to Trail, B. C,
and his wife sent a telegram that
"Lee died this morning," which we
thought was true. From there he
disappeared and his whereabouts
were unknown until Sunday. He
mailed several letters and they were
returned to him. He was in Alaska
seven years and made a million dol
lars and coming down to Saskatche
wan, Canada, where he has accumu
lated a lot of stock and two sections
of land. He is a grand lecturer and
the best part of the story is that he
turned in with the socialists and
made Saskatchewan dry as a bone.
Sioux City Journal, 28: Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Griggs departed yester
day for Hubbard, Neb., to visit for
several days with Mrs. Griggs' sis
ter, Mrs. B. Dyer, and family
Sergeant Claude Ketter, known as
the "Billy Sunday of the army,"
who is working in the Sioux City ter
ritory gathering recruits for the
army, and Miss Helen Rummel, of
South Sioux City, will bo married at
the home of the bride's father, W.
L. Rummell, of South Sioux City,
November U. The romance began
last spring. Sergeant Ketter, who
was an acquaintance of M. A. Beach,
navy recruiting officer, then station
ed in Sioux City, made a visit at the
Beach home in South Sioux City.
Miss Rummel also was an acquaint
ance of Mr. and Mrs. Beach, and she
and Sergeant Ketter met at the
Beach home. Since last spring the
acquaintance developed into a ro
mance. Sergeant Ketter, who was
said to have come to Sioux City to
get recruits, admitted that he was
here in the service of his country,
and did not deny that he also was
doing a little recruiting for himself.
Sioux City Journal, 2Gth: District
court in Dakota county did not con
vene yesterday, as was announced,
because Judge Guy T. Graves, of
Render, was unable to be present.
Court will convene this morning and
the case of Ben Haaker will be taken
up. Haaker appealed after be had
been found guilty in the countyH
court ot illegal possession. His
place was raided in May and about
1,800 bottles of beer and 20 gallons
of whisky were found . . . .Mrs. Wa
janetta Schickner asks $5,000 perma
nent alimony in her petition for a
divorce from Albert Schickner is
worth $10,000, Mrs. Schickner allec-
'es. The couple were married at
I South Sioux City, Neb. ort November
122,1911. They separated on Octo
ber 8, this year. Schickner began a
course of cruel and inhuman treat
ment soon after their marriage, she
alleges. She declares that ho beat
her and accused her of intimacy with
other men. She asks for $150 attor
ney's fees ... i Cruel and inhuman
treatment is the ground upon which
Mrs. Graco May Wright is'sueing for
a divorce from Fred M. Wright. It
is another shattered Dakota City ro
mance. Mrs. Wright asks $50 for
the cost of bringing the action and
$25 a month permanent alimony.
Sioux City Tribune, 27th: The
following letter concerning the
toll controversy has been received
by The Tribune from W. Stewart
Gilman: To the Editor: The mat
ter of tolls on the bridge across the
Missouri here is one that should have
the attention of the people of Sioux
City. t In this time of war, when the
question of the cost of food to the
city people and of merchandise to
the country people is before us all it
seems that the tolls on a bridge
should be as reasonable as they can
'c made without interfering with
anyone's rights. A large portion of
the cost of this bridge when it was
juilt some 20 years ago was paid by
voluntary tax on Sioux City property.
The only protection the people have
against high toll charges :s the pro
vision in the charter tha. 'he sched
ule of tolls should be approved by
the secretary of war. It therefore
behooves the people of Sioux City
to take notice of this matter and
have their rights properly presented.
The farmers of Dakota county are
also greatly interested in this posi
tion. The bridge was sold at forced
sale for $288,000, and it is natural
that if the same charges are made
for crossing other Missouri river
bridges the value of the bridge will
be enhanced above this and a bond
issue will undoubtedly be floated and
after that time the people of Sioux
City would be unable to get the rates
reduced by showing the secretary of
war that tho investment in the
bridge is small. I want to see the
gentlemen who put their money into
this bridge make a very good return
on their investment, but the people
of Sioux City and Dakota county
should know what their net earn
ings are and the bridge tolls should
be regulated so that those earnings
are fair and reasonable and just to
those who are using the bridge.
"Yours very .truly, W. S. Gilman.
Farm Notes.
Issued by the University of Nebraska
College of Agriculture.
HEAN THRESHING
Bean threshers are naturally more
satisfactory for threshing beans
than any other implement, but they
are not necessarily the only machine
which will do the work. Unless
there are rather extensive fields of
beans, it is better to use the com
mon type of thresher. However, in
using it the concaves should be re
moved and the cylinder run much
slower than ordinarily.
It is not" necessary that even a
thresher be used for separating the
beans from the pods. By putting
the beans in a wagon box they can
be tramped out very easily by walk
ing over them and using a cement
tamper, or they can be flailed, or if
one has a rather large, clean floor,
they can be scattered over the floor
and a light roller dragged back and
forth over them. To separate the
beans from the straw one simply
shakes the vines pr straw with a
fork; then the beans are winnowed
in a strong current of wind, or run
thru a fanning mill.
GET READY FOK NEXT YEAR
. Now is the time for Nebraska
towns to make preparations for next
year's .gardening campaign, accord
ing to the Extension Service of the
SisUe University. War gardens will
be more necessary next year than
they were this. Every town should
conduct a survey along tho following
lines:
How much space is available for
gardens that was not occupied last
year?
How much produce had to bo ship
ped in from outside points when it
might just as well have been pro
duced at home?
How many tons of manure can be
secured for the asking, an extreme
ly valuable fertilizer with the high
price of potash?
One city located 200 acres of un
used land within its limits. If in
terested in a town survey, write Ex
tension Service, University Farm,
Lincoln.
RAHHITS GNAW AITI.E TREES
If young apple trees are not pro
tected from rabbits and mice during
the winter, they may come out in
the spring minus a part of the bark,
according to the horticultural de
partment of the Nebraska College
ot Agriculture.
Any covering that extends from
the ground up to the branches will
serve for protection. Such material
as cornstalks, paper, rags, wire
screens, or manufactured covering
may be used. If a close-fitting ma
terial like paper or wood veneer is
used, one should remove it in the
spring to prevent injurious insects
and mice from collecting about the
trunk" of the tree. Wire protectors
may bo left on for several years.
A mulch of seed or grass should
never be piled around young trees
in winter.
HOW AROUT AN ICE POND?
Ice, now considered more of a ne
cessity than a luxury to the econo
mic production of dairy and ether
farm products, may frequently be
had at moderate expense by the
average farmer. A low place on the
farm, sometimes unfit for cultiva
tion, irabout forty feet square, may
be used to excellent advantage as a
pond for ice. It is not necessary to
excavate more than two feet deep.
When dug, tho pond may be puddled
by herding a drove of cattle, sheep,
or hogs in it. When properly pud
dled, there need bo )utlo fear that
water will seep away. It is esti
mated by the agricultural engineer
ing department of the Nebraska
College of Agriculture that a pond
forty-five fnnt in diameter will .sup
ply twice ".-. luch ice as tho aver
ago farni r i'l require. Sketches
and estima.cj of cost for a home
made ice house may bo obtained
from the agricultural engineering
department.
INDIANS AID IN POTATO HARVEST
A shortage of labor is confronting
the potato grower's of western Ne
braska. The local farm bureaus
thru their county agents are attempt
ing to meet the demand. Helpers
are being brought from Omaha,
Lincoln and Chqyenne Into Kimball
county. Some northwestern coun
ties are using Indians from the Pine
Ridge reservation. Tho Indians are
proving very efficient in harvesting
the potato crop, and are most faith
ful workers when given a square
deal.
CORN HUSKERS
If you need help for corn husking
apply to the nearest of the following
bureaus:
Dakota City W. L. Rosss.
South Sioux City Knowlton &
Manning.
Jackson Hans Knudsen.
Hubbard Geo. Timlin.
Homer Geo. Rockwell. .
Nacora D. C. Evans.
Goodwin J. C. Duggan.
The State Department of Labor at
Lincoln is prepared to distribute
corn huskers where they are most
needed. The department is in touch
For Sale -At a Bargain
My home at Jackson, Nebraska. Owing to the growth
of our bank I wish to sell my home in Jackson, Nebr.,
or will trade for land. Long time given monthly or
yearly paymentSTrlow interest. Home modern in every
way fine condition large grounds, water works, etc, etc.
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Hardware and Lumber business in Dakota
City, and urc here to stay. Our aim will be
to treat everyone right, and alike, and will guaran
tee satisfaction on all sales and work done at our
place of business. We will carry a full line of
Lumber, Building Material, Hardware, Coal, Paints,
Plumbing Material, Greases and Oils. We have a
well equipped shop where we will do all kinds of
Plumbing, Tin Work, Furnace and, Stove Repairs.
Also Concrete Work of all Kinds.
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with local labor bureaus in all parts '
of the state and secures accurate in
formation on labor conditions.
Tho State Council of Defense is
advising county councils to establish
ono central bureau for the county,
which will keep in touch with the
local bureau and help to distribute ,
equitably labor in the county. In
case of general shortage in the
county, labor will be directed by the
state bureau to tho county bureau.
Nebraska has a serious labor short
age for corn husking and Kelp will
be difficult, if not impossible, to ob
tain on very short notice. Officials
of tho labor department feel sure,
however, that they will be ablo to
relieve any unreasonable labor short
age within a week or two after
notice.
A committee appointed by the
Strite Council of Defense recommends
that a uniform price for husking be
paid by all farmers. It is recom
mended that in good corn, where no
I'scooping" is required, six cents be
the price; and that more than six
cents bo paid in poor corn, or where
"scooping" is required.
Mr. Young, county agricultural
agent located in the court house at f
Dakota City, is in charge of farm
labor work for the county.
FARM PROFITS.
Do favorable or unfavorable cli
matic conditions detormino thorn?
Yes, but more- often tho proper ap
plication or misapplication ot gonor
ally rocoKnlzou farming principles
evolved by successful farmors and
breeders and tho government experi
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Is Issued semi-monthly nt Sioux City,
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