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DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 191S.
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Items of Interest
Gleaned from
Our Exchanges
Walthill Citizen:
was a Sioux City
night and Monday.
W. II. Mason
visitor Sunday
( Wakefield Republican: Miss T '
tie Samuelson went to Dakota (., .
Sunday to visit her sister, Min.
Walter Miller.
Pender Republic: We are inform
ed theat K, J. Taylor, editor of the
Winnebago Chieftain, was stricken
with a serious attack of asthma
and on Tuesday was taken to Texas
by his sister, Miss Lillie, in the hope
of restoring his health.
Sioux City Journal. 17: Charles
Morris, of South Sioux City, Neb.,
te in the base hospital at Camp Funs
ton suffering with an attack of pneu
monia . . Stockholders of the Crys
tal Lake Park company held their
annual meeting, electing the follow
ing ofHcers: T. E. Lacy, president;
II." Howard, vice-piesident; J. H.
Marshall, secretary and treasurer,
Ira Howard and F. S. Smith, direc
tors. Sioux City Journal, 20: Mr. and
Mr. L. G. Dierking departed last
evening for Merrill, where they will
visit Mrs. Dierking's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. F. N. June Died, in
Sioux City, la., Saturday, January,
19, 1918, Mrs. Alice Ferrier, 35 years
old, at her home. 1715 Texas avenue,
of pneumonia. She is survived by
her husband, Edward Ferrier, and a
brother, Charles Van Sickle, of South
Sioux City. Funeral arrangements
have not been make.
Allen News: Dr. H. L. Prouse
was in Jackson on business the first
two days of this week Mr. and
Mrs. J. 0. Lyle, of Russell, Minn.,
arrived in Allen last Wednesday and
have since been visiting friends and
relatives here ...J. W. Armour, of
South Sioux City, Neb., came up on
the evening train Monday to attend
to some important business in Allen.
A deal was completed the latter
part of last week whereby the 70
acre farm located on the west bound
aries of Martinsburg, owned by Will
Pettit, was sold to Sherman Andress.
Mr. Andress has been living the past
few years on the Duram farm, south
ot Martinsburg. Mr. Pettit has as
yet made no definate plans as to J
what he will do alter March 1.
Emerson Enterprise: Mrs. C. T.
Carto, Mrs. Richard Chinn and
Ernest Barto, of Wakefield, visited
at the DeGroff home on Tuesday. . . .
At a meeting of the Welfare com
mittee Monday evening held at the
home of Mrs. Geo. H. Haase, John
Moseman was chosen president and
Dr. Allen, secretary Judge R. E.
Evans, J. II. Ream, Geo. Wilkins.
Fred Duensing, Sidney Frum and
William A. Neimeyer, of Dakota
City, and a delegation of Scottish
Dakota
Grocery
Specials for Saturday
1 can Baked Beans 20c
1 Can Corn , 15c
1 box Rolled Oats 12c
1-lb bag of Pure Buckwheat 45c
1 bar Old Dutch Soap 5c
lb can Stollwerck Cocoa 20c
1 can Sweet Potatoes 15c
214 lb can Farmer Jones Sorghum 20c
Boiling Meat per lb 15c
Bologna, per lb 1 7c
Beef Roast, per lb 1 7c
Highest Price Paid foi
COUNTRY PRODUCE
ROSS GROCERY
Dakota City,
Rites Masons of Sioux City, attend
ed the funeral services of W. L. Ross
Friday evening. . - .Mrs. Jennie Van
Houten died at her home southeast
of Emersion on January 9, at the age
of 50 years, 9 months and 20 days.
The funeral was held from the home
last Saturday, conducted by Rev. A.
Wimberly, and the remains laid to
rest in the Emerson cemetery.
Ponca Journal: Auctioneer Ras
mussen is crying sales in Dakota
county this week. ...The marriage
if John II. Mahon, of Dakota county,
uuj Miss Cecelia Coleman, of New
castle, occurred at 5 o'clock Tuesday
morning in the Catholic church at
Newcastle. Rev. Father O'Toole offi
ciating. The bride and groom were
attended by Miss Sarah Coleman and
Mr. Chas. Mahon, sister and broth
er of the bride and groom. The
ceremony was held in high mass
with the assistance of near friends
of the bride who contributed the
special music for this occasion. The
bride wore a beautiful tailored suit
of blue. The groom wore a becom
ing suit of dark blue. After the
marriage ceremony a breakfast was
served at the home of the bride's
mother, Mrs. John Coleman. The
breakfast was served in four courses.
The bride is one of the charming
young ladies of Newcastle. She
grew to womanhood in their midst.
For the last few years she has been
the postmistress and in this
manner endeared herself to a host
of friends. The groom is a prosper
ous farmer in Dakota county and
has lived there all of his life. The
bride and groom have gone to Chi
cago on a two weeks' wedding trip
when they return they will go to
housekeeping on the farm of the
groom. We extend congratulations
to this worthy couple and wish them
unbounded happiness.
Sioux City Journal, 10: Mrs.
Maude Fulton, of Kingfisher, Okla.,
who was a guest in the home of her
brother, Charles Edge, is visiting
with relatives in South Sioux City,
Neb ...William Armour has been
elected president of the Castle club
of the Sioux City high school, an or
ganization of all boy students of the
institution Hazel Ostmeyer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Ostmeyer, 1921 South St. Mary's
street, underwent an operation yes
terday at the German Lutheran hos
pital.. Mrs. W. F. Wall, of Jack
son, Neb., is visiting in the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Ray, sr. Mrs. Ray, who was serious
ly ill with pneumonia, is slightly im
proved Mrs. Alice Ray, 79 years
old, wife of George Ray, civil war
veteran, died last night of pneumo
nia at her residence, 4125 Floyd
avenue, Leeds. She has been a resi
dest of Sioux City for twenty-seven
years. Besides her husband, Mrs.
Ray is survived by two sons, James
and George Ray, jr., and onedaugh
ter, Mrs. E. Jackson, of Jackson,
Neb ...Charged with making dis
loyal remards about the United
States government, William Land,
who is alleged to be identified with
the I. W. Ws., yesterday was taken
from Dakota City, Neb., to Omaha
for imprisonment until he is tried
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Homer, Nebraska
Friday Evening, Jan. 25, '18
The Cambridge
Players
In Song and Drama
Coached by Klias Day
I SINGLE ADMISSION 50 CENTS
February 1, in the federal court.
Land was employed as an ice cutter
near Dakota City several weeks ago,
when ho is said to have made the
declaration to men who were work
ing with him: "I would rather be
in jail than a slave of the United
States." The man was arrested by
Deputy United States Marshal W.
A. Morgan, who accompanied the
prisoner to Omaha.
Notice to Alien Enemies.
All male native citizens, denizens,
or subject of a foreign nation or
government with which war has been
declared, is an alien enemy, even
though he has declared his intention
to become a citizen of the United
States by taking out his first papers
of naturalization, or has been partly
or completely naturalized in any
country other than the United
States.
AH such persons above the age of
14 are required by the government
of the United States to personally
appear at the postoflice of which
they are patrons, on or between
February 4th to 9th, 1918, inclusive,
for the purpose of registering them
selves as such alien enemies. Forms
of registration affidavit to be made
by them are expected to be in each
postmaster's hands by January 25.
All registrants are required to
furnish four unmounted photographs
of themselves, not larger than 3x3
inches in size. On the return of the
registration affidavit thumb and
finger prints of the applicant will be
taken.
Lutheran Church Notes
DAKOTA CITY-SALEM
Rev. C. R. Lowe.
The Salem Ladies' Aid will meet
Thursday, January 11, at 2 p. m., at
the home of Mrs. H. E. Brown. All
are very urgently requested to be
present. The serving committee is
Mrs. Pierce Wilson. Mrs. T. W.
Gribble, Mrs. Alice Sides and Mrs.
H. E. Brown. You will bo assured
a good time if you are present. Wo
have found by testimony and expe
rience that the only way to get to
affairs of this kind is to'break away
from everything and go. Thoro will
always be work to do and if we let
ourselves bo driven by it we will
always be driven. Everybody is
alike in this. Those who go just go
and leave some work behind. That
is the way most people get to church;
they leave something undone at
home. Did you ever stop to consid
er whether you were the boss of
your work or whether it bossed you
when we can't leave it? But we can
leave it if we want to.
Many left their work for the short
course, and a lot of us will leave it
for the Farmers and Breeders in a
couple of weeks. After all it is
largely a matter as to whether we
really want to or not. There are
circumstances which seem almost
impossible to get over. Our idea is
not to go because the- pastor urges
it nor for his sake but beoauso of
the good you will got out af it.
If a man cares for his soul's wel
fare ho will find pleasure in divine
worship. It is not idle talk. A
system or a religion that has nothing
in it when put to the- experimental
test will lose its hold on its follow
ers. Christianity has a host of fol
lowers who have had a deep expe
rience and have found it to be all
that has been claimed for it. If we
do not find the same thing it is be
cause we have not tried it rightly.
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Comty Food Administrator
Offers Some Pointers
Reports have been made to the
county federal food administrator
that there are very many families in
Dakota county who have a large
supply of flour and sugar on hand.
It is not the purpose of the food ad
ministration to punish anyone, but
those who have an excess amount of
flour and sugar on hand are violating
the food law and subject to very se
vere punishment,
Np one is permitted to have more
than n thirty day supply on hand at
any time. Merchants are not per
mitted to sell more than $1 worth of
sugar nor more than one-half barrel
of flour at any one time to custom
ers in rural districts, and to custom
ers in towns they are permitted to
sell only 50 cents worth of sugar
and a quarter barrel of flour. Any
violation of this rule subjects both the
seller and purchaser to punishment.
Any person who wilfully hoards
any necessaries shall upon convic
tion thereof be fined not exceeding
$5,000, or be imprisoned for not
more than two years, or both.
Congress has defined "hoarding"
as including necessaries "held, con
tracted for, or arranged for, by
any person in a quantity in excess
of his reasonable requirements, for
use or consumption by himself and
dependents for a reasonable time,"
and the rules and regulations pro
vide that no person shall purchase
at any one time an amount in excess
of his reasonable requirements for
thirty days.
Congress has also provided "that
any person who wilfully aids or abets
any such violation, or any such pro
hibited operation, practice or trans
action, shall upon conviction thereof
be punished by a fine not exceeding
$10,000, or by imprisonment for not
more than four years, or both."
Under these provisions the retail
dealer, as well as the consumer,
could be prosecuted where a sale is
made to any one person beyond his
reasonable requirements for a pe
riod of not to exceed thirty days.
The law was clearly intended to
reach not only the man who hoards
the food products, but also the party
who sells it to him, and thus aid him
in such violation of the act.
The food law went into effect on
August 10, 1917, since which time it
has been unlawful to purchase or
hoard necessaries.
Those who have an excess amount
of flour or sugar on hand should at
once place the excess in the hands of
some local groceryman for re-sale in
proper quantities to the trade. Un
less this is done within a reasonable
time prosecutions by the govern
ment will begin. The food adminis
trator invites the co-operation of all
loyal citizens in seeing to it that
there is no violation of the food law.
Report to me the names of anyone
who is a violator. Wo have already
shipped abroad all tho normal sur
plus of fiour to our allies, but we
must continuo to ship more, and
what we ship from now on will have
to be saved from what we normally
consume. We cannot permit tho
hoarding of food in excess quanti
ties and do this.
A general observance of wheatless
and meatless days is asked of all
loyal people. This moans the ab
stinence of beef and pork of every
Tuesday and the use of white bread
on every Wednesday. This is not
an unreasonable request and is one
which every loyal patriotic citizen
will gladly comply with.
J. J. Eimers,
County Federal Food Administrator.
m CORN CROP
IS NOW MOVING
More Than 3,000 Million Bushels
Raised in 191 7 Gives
Big Surplus.
SAVES WORLD FOOD SITUATION
America Bealnntna Greatest Corn Con.
sumption In History, Using Cereal
In Many Delicious Dishes.
Corn, America's greatest cereal crop,
Is now moving rapidly to market.
Moro than 8,000 million bushels
30 bushels for every man, woman ami
child In America wero raised In 1017.
It wrmn mighty crop. Tho actual ln
oi .. Is about COO million bushels.
And Wiui extra store of grain la com
ing on to tho market In tho nick of
time, stneo tho American wheat sur
plus lias been sent to help feed famine
threatened Europe.
Just as It happened In tho Colonial
days, tho "War of tho Revolution, and
tho Civil War, corn has actually be
come tho nation's mainstay.
In tho cntlro list of America's food
commodities thero is no item that Is
better than corn. In puddings, bread,
corn pone, and as hominy combined
with meat or eggs, corn is without a
peer, llousowivcs nro fast learning
tho largo number of delicious dishes
that may bo mado with corn and their
families are benefiting by an Increas
ed uso of tho cereal. Corn, moro than
any 'other cereal, contains all of tho
elements essential to maintaining life
mid health.
In order that tho fighting men
abroad and In tho nrmy camps at homo
may bo fed, and in order that actual
famlno may bo kept from the nations
associated with America in tho war,
the citizens of America uro finding
corn products delicious and palatable
on "wiitntlcs dnyV nnd glory In iho
fact that "wheatless days" hero mean
moro wheat for tho war worn allied
nations In Europe.
England, Franco nnd Italy must bo
fed from America's great storehouse.
They will get somo corn especially
Itnly but most of their grain ship
ments must bo wheat Their ability
to uso corn is small compared to the
facilities they havo for using whent.
And It Is tho opinion of ofllclals in
Washington that tho present is no tlmo
to try and chango tho eating habits of
Europe.
America's greatest uso of corn will'
be in tho form of corn bread nnd corn
meal, mixed with wheat in tho making
of leavened bread.
Mixed with 80 per cent, wheat Hour,
corn meal can bo used In bread mak
ing, producing a loaf moro nutritious
than bread baked with wheat alone.
It Is n fact corn millers will verify ,
that dozens of the large Amerlcnn bak
ers have been successfully using a corn
Hour in bread making for several
years.
Hominy grits, nerved at breakfast
wltk . poached ecc, oc. eatca at any
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DaJkota. City (Si Viclfkity
Wlv havo succeeded Mr. Fred Lynch in the
Hardware and Lumber business in Dakota
City, and are here to stay. Cur 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 anil 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.
Come in and see txs '
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otlicrTiical with" mcats'or gravy, fs an
other use of corn that will become un
usually popular during tho war.
Corn syrup to sweeten corn cakes,
and corn oil for uso In nil kinds of
cooking, nro two moro products that
nro already welcomed in thousands of
American homes. '
THE UNITED STATES FOOD
ApMINISTRATION SAYS!
Food saving Is In Its essence tho
dally Individual service of all the
people. Every group can substi
tute, and even the great majority
of thrifty people can save a llttlo
and the moro luxurious elements
of the population can, by reduc
tion to simple living, save much.
This means no moro than that we
should eat plenty, but wisely and
without waste.
Food Will Win the
War
LARGE part of the
world is coming to
tho position that
Belgium is in ; com
ing to tho stage
whero tho pri
mary und Im
portant thing
In lifo Is
enough food
to keep nllve.
Pood has now
taken a domi
nant position In tho war. Tho
American peoplo must preparo
themselves to sacrifice far moro
than was at first thought neces
sary. Tho cold facts are: France,
Itnly and England havo just
enough food to keep them going
ten or twelve weeks. When
America's food shipments stop
the allied nations begin consum
ing into tills slender storo and
begin n swift uiarcbMnto actual
famlno conditions; which would
mean dofeat lS.sJtort order.
Europe then must live on
America's surplus. Your saving
Increases our available .stocks
just that much nnd actually feeds
como person In tho countries with
which wo aro associated In our
war against the Ccntrnl Powers.
Our surplus wheat has already
been shipped to tho allies.
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