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Dakota city, Nebraska, Thursday, February m, iois.
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Items of Interest
Gleaned from
Our Exchanges
Fonda, la., Times: Burt Kroesen
was at Manson Tuesday evening.
I&JWynot Tribune: Mrs. Will Hi
gins and father, Mr. Sayre, vr.
passengers to Waterbury Monday.
Walthill Citizeni Mrs. M. Mason,
,o Homer, spent a few hours Mon
day with her son, W. H., and fam
iy. Emerson Enterprise: . Mr. and
Mas. Louis Fricken are happy over
itle arrival of a baby girl at their
home on February 2.
Wakefield Republican: Grandma
Spencer is reported to be seriously
ill ... . Al Shearer, who has been
operator at the depot, has been pro
moted to South Sioux City.
Laurel advocate: Mrs. Cadence
Ros3 came up from Dakota City
Monday for a few days' visit. From
here she goe3 to Ida Grove, la.,
where she expects to visit a few
weeks.
Sioux City Journal, 9th: John
Severson, who appealed to the dis
trict court from a a fine administer
ed in pol ce court, was found guilty
of violating the city building ordi
nance and the fine was allowed to
stand.
Ponca Journal: Martha Smith
came up from Willis Saturday night.
. Clara Cook, of Dakota City, was
a guest of' Beryl Mallory Tuesday
evening "Mr. and Mrs. Art Ander
son' went to Hubbard Sunday to at
tend the funeral of Mr. Anderson's
father, who died in Sioux Cily last
Thursday.
Sioux City Jqurnal, 7th: The mar
riage of Miss Ruth Nugent, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Nugent,
and Mr. Eugene Duggan, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Duggan,' took piece
yesterday morning at 7:30 o'clock in
the Cathedral of the Epiphany. The
marriage ceremony, which was per
formed by Rev. H. J. Schleier, was
attended by relatives and a few
friends of the couple. After a short
wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Duggan
will return to Sioux City, where they
will make their home.
Sioux City Journal, 8th: Purchase
William Slaughter Grain Co.
DEALERS IN
Css-ain., Feed, IPlotx.r, Hay asvet Coal
FRED PARKER, Manager
Phono No. -1 Dakota City, Nobr.
Dakota City
Grocery
Specials for Saturday
4-lb bag of Pure Buckwheat 45c
2 boxs Rolled Oats ' ; 25c
1 can Pumpkin .. ; .....: . 15c
1 can Sauer Kraut ' .15c
1 can Frank's New England Dinner 25c
' 3 pkgs Jelly Powder '. 25c
Boiling Meat per lb 16c
Beef Roast, per lb 18c
HigKest Price Paid, for
COUNTRY PRODVCE
ROSS GROCERY
Dakota City,
of the Princess theater from Jacob
E. Schlank was announced yesterday
by J. S. Shortley, of Seattle, Wash.,
a-former Sioux City business man
The change will take place Sunday.
Mr. Shortley purchased the lease
and all equipment. He will continue
the policy of a combination of vau
deville and pictures, temporarily,
with improved vaudeville bookings.
"I will give Sioux City the best vau
deville that is to be obtained for the
price," he announced. Mr. Schlank
- s been booking Sullivan & Consj-
ne acts. Mr. Shortley established
.ic tar theater in Sioux City eight
years ago. Atterwaru he operated
a theater in Seattle. He was a res
ident of Sioux City for a number of
years and is widely known here . . .
A resolution repudiating an old debt
amounting to thousands of dollars,
and outstanding since 1884, when
the court issued a judgment against
the city, was passed by the South
Sioux City council last night at a
special meeting. The statute of
limitation will prevent collection, it
was asserted by Ward Evans, city
attorney. The judgment wasjssued"
in favor of Philo Graves fo"i side
walks built when the city was incor
porated under the name of Coving
ton, Neb. The amount of the claim
was $2,306.07 and bore 10 per cent
interest. Attention was called to
the fact that already $0,000 had been
paid on the account, and that George
Graves, who lives somewhere in the
west, and to whom the debt ha"s been
assigned, claims a balance due of
$4,550.60. The action of the city
council abandoning the obligation is
said to have been actuated by the
Burlington Railroad company, which
is a heavy taxpayer in South Sioux
City. The railroad company stren
ously objected to the city's high tax
rate caused by the t old debt. The
matter of repudiating the judgment
has been under discussion for some
time by members of the city council,
and last night the special meeting
was called to take official action on
the proposieion, Mr. Graves will be
notified of the decision of he coun
cil. Omaha World-Herald, 7th: Wil
liam Bartels, Hubbard, Neb. .wealthy
farmer, who was arrested two weeks
ago and ordered interned at Fort
Crook, is to be sent to Fort Douglas,
Utah, for internment. Bartels is
now in the Douglas county jail await
ing transportation to Fort. Douglas,.
Where he will be kept until the end
of the war. Uncle Sam keeps those
of his enemy aliens under arrest un
der such close surveillance that there
is small chance for their escape.
Bartels, for instance, is in a barred
cell. In order that a World-Herald
Nebraska
Basket Ball
Dakota City High School Girls
vs. Ponca' High School Girls
Dakota City High School Boys
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Friday Evening, Feb'y. 15th
In Dakota City
High
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reporter might see him, it was first
necessary to secure a permit from
United States Marshal Tom Flynn.
This permit got the reporter into a
long corridor with heavy bars on all
sides. Then Bartels was brought
into a barred room adjoining. The
room was separated from, the cor
ridor by two sets of iron bars and
two steel meshes, the meshes being
so dose together that the two men
could not even see each other, al
though, by talking rather louder than
is permitted in polite society, they
could hear one another fairly well.
And a deputy sheriff stood a few
feet away where he could hear every
thing said and see everything done.
Small chance an enemy alien has of
causing trouble under those condi
tions. William Bartels denies that
he is an enemy to this country, al
though he is interned as such. "I
deny that I am an enemy to Ameri
ca," he said through the heavy bars
and the steel mesh. "I came to
America with my father when I was
10 years of age. That was thirty
eight years ago. We came direct to
Dakota county, Nebraska. I have
lived in that county ever since. I
thought my father had completed
his naturalization papers and was a
citizen. I have votqd ever since I
reached the age of 21 years. They
say I made disloyal talks against this
country. 1 deny it. 1 was not on
good terms with my neighbors.
They must have misconstrued what
I said. I certainly j did not talk
against America. I subscribed to
the Red Cross, just like everyone
did up there I took six cards, one
for each member o'f the family. I
have just written the agent of the
department of justice and placed
my case btfore him. I have asked
him to let me go home. I want to
go home".'' Bartels does not know
that he is to be taken to Fort Doug
las for internment. He believes he
js to be taken to Fort Crook, to
which post he was originally sentenc
ed. Reports from Hubbard are that
his wife is in serious condition. He
does not know it.
Seed Corn Prices Fixed.
Notice to owners and holders of 1910
corn.
By authority of-the National Gov
ernment and the Nebraska State
Council of Defense:
I am directed to give notice to the
owners and holders of 1910 corn
suitable for seed that they shall not
dispose of this seed until the local
demand has been filled and that any
old stocks of corn shall not be per
mitted to leave the county until it
is known that the needs of the coun
ty are sufficiently supplied. . It must
be understood that this embargo
must be recognized and if there is
any disposition on the part of the
holders not to comply with the re
quest of the State Council of Defense
any violation of this order will be
vigorously dealt with.
CONCERNING PRICES
The price of seed corn in the state
of Nebraska shall not be more than
$5.00 per bushel for pure (not mixed)
strain, graded, guaranteed 90-or
over germination test and delivered
to consumer. The price of seed corn
selected from the crib by consumer
shall not be more than $3.00 per
bushel,
' Thomas Ashford,
Chairman County Council of De
fense, Dakota county, Neb.
To My Old Customers and
Friends. ,
All who know themselves indebted
to mo will please come and settle
their accounts at their earliest con
venience. Yours truly,
Carl Anderson,
Hubbard, Neb.
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Ponca High School Boys
Auditorium
dmission, -5 Cents.
County Agent's Field Notes
BY C. K. YOUNG.
The special committee appbinted
by the National Government and the
Nebraska State Council of Defense
to investigate the seed corn situation
and to suggest plans as to how best
meet the problems incidental there
to, has reached the following con
clusions: From reports gathered which re
veal conditions in several counties of
the state as to the quality of the
1917 crop, it appears that in nearly
all the counties its germinating abil
ity is very poor and great care will
have to be taken in selecting ears
which can ue relied upon to grow.
In a number of counties there rire
stocks of 1910 crop and most of this
corn can be relied upon for seed.
It is very imparitive. that these old
stocks shall be first used to supply
the demands of the.communities in
which they are located. County coun
cils of defense and all local authori
ties mut see to it that no seed corn
is shipped out of their communities
until full provision is made for their
own seed corn requirements, thus
avoiding the necessity of having to
ship in seed which is not so well ad
apted for that particular locality.
The committee feels that it cannot
place too great emphasis as to the
absolute necessity of doing this.
The question of establishing a
price for seed corn has had the most
careful consideration of the commit
tee and it has decided that the fol
lowing prices are fair and equitable
to both buyers and sellers of seed
corn:
"Report of Seed Stocks committee
appointed by Nebraska State Coun
cil of Defense and U. S. Department
of Agriculture concerning price and
control of seed corn:
"The price of seed corn in the
state of 'Nebraska shall be not more
than $5.00 per bushel for pure strain
(not mixed) graded, guaranteed
90"o germination test or over and
delivered to consumer.
"Mixed corn, or corn of inferior
quality should be correspondingly
lower in price.
''The price of seed corn selected
from the crib by the consumer shall
be not more than $3.00 per bushel.
"It is recommended that the State
Council of Defense place an embargo
on all corn suitable for seed until
after March 15, 1918, unless special
permission for its shipment is ob
tained from the Seed Stocks com
mittee of the State Council of De
fense."
The committee has been impelled
to do this from the fact that many
complaints have reached the govern
ment and state council of defense
that persons who have seed corn for
sale, are seeking to exact an exag
gerated price from those who are
compelled to purchase seed corn.
Also, many cases have been report
ed that buyers from commercial
centers are seeking to purchase old
and new stocks of seed corn before
local needs have been ascertained
and provided for.
In these days the nation's ne
cessities mustbe first considered and
the best provision possible made to
meet them.
The state council of defense calls
upon all county councils of defense,
boards of county commissioners,
farmers and business men to assist
in providing the seed which will bo
required to plant Nebraska's 1918
corn crop and also to provide a sur
plus of seed if possible to help other
states whose seed corn situation is
even more serious than ours. In
counties where government agricul
tural agents are established the seed
corn work will be carried on in co
operation with them.
The Herald 1 year, $1.25.
Lutheran Church Notes
DAKOTA CITV-SALEM
Rev. C. 11. Low!:.
We received word last week of the
coming visit of Mr. C. H. Wellor Un
der tho auspices of the Laymen's
Missionary Movement. The object
of this movement is to stir up tho
churches over the country to the
payment of at least their full appor
tionment. There are some churches
that habitually fall behind. Possi
bly we should say some preachers
habitually fall behind for much de
pends on him in this. After you
have heard Mr. Weller speak you
will want to pay your full apportion
ment more than ever before. He
was at Synod last fall and was the
most entertaining speaker on the
program. He is not a preacher,
but a layman, deeply interested in
helping the laymen of the churches
to do their part of the church work.
Ho will bo hero Wednesday, April 3,
at Salem, and probably at Emman
uel Thursday afternoon.
Some times when the pastor did
walk in dalem he might havo driven,
but ono thing i3 sure when ho tried
to drive the first Sunday of this
month he surely should have walked,
for he stuck in a snow drift and Mr.
Ward Joyce was kind enough to take
him the last half of tho way.
manics, Mr. Joyce.
The facts go to show several
things. That a man's judgment
may be bad even in material things.
The pastor thought he could drive
it. How much moro is a man's
judgment liable to be mistaken in
spiritual things. There are all too
many men who sit in judgment in
spiritual things when they are not
qualified to pass .judgment. They
judge they can be saved without
Christ, they judge themselves to be
good enough. Jesus tells us some
Lthings very plainly and yet men con
tradict it. Thus, disbelief and mak
ing "God a liar" as St. John calls it.
And then this bad' judgment got
us into trouble. A lot of show had
to bo shoveled, somo labor, more
delay, and considerable inconver
ience. And as the sinner's bad
judgment will get him into trouble
and from all accounts, oven by sin
ners themselves, it will not be shovel
ing snow. Even sinners profess lo
believe this but they don't act as
though they did. If a man really
believed he was going to hell he
would make haste for the kingdom
of God.
A man cannot overcome the diffi
culty, he has to be helped. I would
not force my car through the snow.
But yet there are lots of men who
are trying in their own wisdom and
power to save themselves and lead
Abstracts qf Title
A S10,000 Surety Bond Guarantees the accuracy
of every Abstract I make.
J. J. EIMER.S, Bonded Abstractor.
Successor to the DAKOTA COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.
Stlnson's
Specials for Saturday, Feb 16
For tfais Ua.y Only
100 lbs Clam Shell T . .$1.00
1 lb Gloss Starch. v ....., 5c
2 lbs Dried Peaches . . . . . ; . . .,.'. . ; 25c'
I lb Parsnips '.....'. .'.(.V.'.-.. , 4c
1 lb Carrots : 0. .'. , 4c
1 lb Calorobas '........,... ., 4c
3 cans Merry- War Lye .v.',: J. 25c
J pkge Howell's Best Mince Meat . .V.: . . . .' 10c
Ginger Snaps per lb '...'; 18c
1 lb Rolled Oats '. 7c
Fresh Oysters and all kinds of Fruit
for Saturday Trade
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righteous lives. But you can't do it
oven in the sight of men to say
nothing of God's sight. It simply
cannot be dono. We need power
not our own to take us through tho
difficulty. Wo may try as hard as
wo will to do some things but it
ends in failure. This is ono of them.
If we have a friend to help us he
can often save us in affairs of this
life. As to eternal life Jesus is the
one alono who can save us. This is
the word of God and the testimony
of men, Mr. Joyce kindly offered
to take us on out to tho church and
all the pastor did was to let himself
bo taken. Christ has brought us
salvation and all wo have to do is to
let Him save us. Mr. J. would like
ly not have compelled us to let him
take us out, neither will God com
pel us to bo saved. But He has
provided us tho way of escape. We
better accept it gladly.
Department of Health Anx
ious forCompletejRecords
Publisher Herald:
Dear Sir: Wo are excee dingly
anxious tb have our births and deaths
recorded 100 per cent, and as it
seems that there arc a great many
people who do not know that tho
state of Nebrasha records births
and deaths, wo believe tho figures
from your county may bo of inter
est. Whenever a baby is born or a
person dies, it is of the utmost im
portance that the same be recorded
at the state house. In almost every
town wo havo a local registrar, and
we would ask that the mothers' of
tho children born seo that tho baby's
birth is properly recorded. The
physician, etc., usually attends to
this, but as our registration last
year regarding births was only 02
per cent of what it Bhould be, we
believe if tho mothers and fathers
would exorcise the proper interest,
that better results would bo accom
plished. To the mother of each baby whose
birth is recorded beginning' Decem
ber, 1917, we send a book entitled,
"Your Baby How to Keep It
Well."
The recording of a birth is a legal
record, and establishes the Identity
of the child. We make no charge
for such a record.
Tho number of births' recorded in
your county last year were 144, of
which 8G were boys, and 00 wer,o
girls. Native fathers, 127; native
mothers, 130. Foreign fathers, 23;
foreign mothers, 8. Twins, two
pair, of which all were boys.
State Department of Health,
Lincoln, Nebr,
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