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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1918)
DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. ( 1 K r the sun wifb S Vision for a moment those far off ports beyond the trackless seas From Arctic ice, to the torrid lands beneath the Southern Cross From towns tucked in the mountains, to the busy river's mouthy WftlGMEYS is there! There, because men find comfort and refreshment in its continued use. Because of its benefits and because Signs Fail. "March caino la Hko a Iamb." "Not this year. It came In like a meatless day." To. keep elenn and healthy take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu late liver, bowels and stomach. Adv. If you would keep good company, wear khaki. Keep Yourself Fit You can't afford to be laid up with sore, aching kidneys in these days of high prices. Some occupations bring kidney troubles; almost any work makes weak kidneys worse. If you feel tired all the time, anil suffer with lame back, sharp pains, dizzy spells, head aches and disordered kidney action, use Doan's Kidney Pills. It may save an attack of rheumatism, dropsy, or Bright's disease. Doan's have helped thousands back to health. A South Dakota Case R. E. Murphy, Pierre, S. D.. says: "Kidney complaint had made me an Invalid and I was confined to bed for a month at a time. My limbs swelled twice their normal slzo and my wliolo body was racked with pain. The kidney secretions were in awful shape, too. On a friend's advlco I used Doan's Kidney PIHb nnd they made a complete cure. I shall never tire of recommending them " IRLxxb Get Doan's itt Any Store, 60c Boa ' KIDNEY PILLS FOSTERrMILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. . X.waA23f?.v5rri"ssraJrZ2W A Tho llftllrfW 1;T Win the War by Preparing Sowing the Seed and Producing Bigger Crops Worlc in Joint Effort the Soil of the United States and Canada CO-OPERATIVE FARMING IN MAN POWER NECESSARY TO WIN TIIE BATTLE FOR LIBERTY The Food Controllers of the United States and Canada are askinp; for Greater food production. Scarcely 100,000,000 bushels of wheat arc avail able to be sent to the allies overseas before the crop harvest. Upon the efforts of the United States and Canada rests the burden of supply. Evary Available Tillable Acre Must Contribute; Every Available Farmer and Farm Hand Must Assist Western Canada has nn enormous acreage to be seeded, but man power is short, and an appeal to the United States allies is for more men for seed ing operation. Canada's Wheat Production Last Year vas 225,000,000 Bushels; the Demand From Canada Alone for 1918 is 400,000,000 Bushels To secure this she must have assistance. She has the land but needs the men. The Government of the United States wants every man who can effectively help, to do farm work this year. It wants the land in the United States developed first of course; but it also wants to help Canada. When ever we find a man we can spare to Canada's fields after ours are supplied we want to direct him there. ' Apply to our Employment Service, and we will tell you where you can belt serve the combined interests. Western Canada's help will be required not later than April Sth. Wages to com petent help, 550.00 a month and Up, board and lodging. Those who respond to this appeal will Ret a warm welcome, good wages,, pood board and find comfortable homes. They will get a rate of one cent a mile from 'Canadian boundary points to destination and return. For particulars as to routes and places where employment may be had apply toi U. S'. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR DES MOINES, IOWA WRAPPED ffi IN pOTntS fimQsfiin&m In the Soup. A rookie was home on a furlough. "What do you have to eat?" In quired his solicitous mother. "Oh, a little of everything," he re plied nonchalantly. "But I want to know what 'a little of everything' Is," persisted his mother. "Well," answered the son, a mis chievous smile lighting up his counte nance. "There's soup, for Instance." Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOUIA, that famous old remedy for Infants and children, and see that It Benrs tho Signature of4g In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Energy in Swat, Too. The public has to be educated to swat the fly, but when It conies to the nio&quito, no urging Is necessary It is banged without mercy. Salem (N. J.). Sunbeam. Pimply Rashy Skins Quickly soothed and healed by Cuti cura often when nil else fails. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Oint ment to soothe and heal. For free samples address, "Cutlcura, Dept. X, Boston." At druggists and by mall. Soap-25, Ointment 25 and 50. Adv. Wanted to Know. "How do you like the new baby, Jack?" "Oh, he's all right ; but do you think we needed it?" MUST MARKET WHEAT Government Wanto Grain and Will Seizo it Unless Released, Orders Reach State Administrator. Furinors must market .thi'lr whont or thu Krivi'miuunl will remiNltlou It, ticcorilhiK to ordurs received from Washington by thu slate food admin istration. The government wnuts It for war purposes. "Uequlsltlon the wheat of those who are holding It with it desire to obstruct the govern ment" Is the order which came to State Kood Administrator Wnttles. Orders to county food administrators, asking them to report nil cases In Ne braska where wheat Is being held on the fnrnis with the hope of obstruct ing the government, were sent from Kootl Administrator Wattles' ofneo. As soon as these reports are received, action, following the request of Her bert Hoover, United States food ad ministrator, will be taken by the Ne braska administration to get this wheat to market. If the legislature follows the sug gestion of (inventor Neville, und passes the soldiers' voting li,ll In Its present form, Nebraska soldiers In France will participate In the coming stale election. They will vote by mall. An expert who investigated . fall wheat In Cheyenne county reported, after viewing 420 farms which are sowed to fall wheat, that only live are not 100 per cent perfect. Chey enne county has a larger acreage of fall wheat than ever before. Nebraska's quota of the third Lib erty loan will be J?:u ,0412,800. This is Mlghtly higher than the minimum quota and much lower than the max imum quota for Nebraska on the sec ond Liberty loan, which were re spectively !$2O,04O,000 und $40,400,000. Oil drillers at work nenr Red Cloud have reached u depth of ii,85 feet. A considerable trace of oil appears in the formation brought up. Prospects for linding oil could not be better, according to experts on the ground. The United Hrolhorhuod of Strong burg has sent an urgent appeal to the state legislature In session at Lincoln to ratify the federal prohibi tion amendment during the present session. The squabble between citizens of Red Cloud nnd vicinity nnd various telephone companies doing business in the district is to be uircd by the State Railway Commission at a hear ing at Red Cloud May 1. The executive committee of the Ne braska State Press association ut a meeting nt Grand Island tlxed Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, June 20, 21 and 22, us the dates for the mid: summer meeting ut Omaha. A $100,000 Issue of school bonds carried in a special election at Hustings. The money will be used to complete the 9:100,000 of school buildings including the new Junior normal. The state food administration has urged the Fremont canning factory to secure as large an acreage as possi ble this season, In view of the henvy demand for food products. Governor Neville Issued a procla mation asking Nebraskans, on April 0, the dnto of America's entry Into the world war, to devote their efforts In promoting the third Liberty loan. Mayor Dnhlinan of Omaha has Is sued a proclamation calling upon all citizens of the city to observe tho new daylight saving regulation, which became effective last Sunday. A non-partisan league meeting scheduled to bo held at Wuhoo was forbidden to take place by the ,clty authorities on u suggestion of thu Saunders County Council of Defense. A complete uutoniqblle ambulance outfit for American troops In Franco Is to be equipped by the Nebraska G. A. R. After twenty-seven years of serv ice Omaha's chief of police, Henry Dunn, ' resigned his position because of poor health. A Red Cross auction sale held nt Gothenburg netted $7,000. A goose was sold HSU times nnd eucli tlmo sold for a dollar. The hearing of Miss Lyda MeMa lion, former superintendent of the girls' Industrial school at Geneva, will bo held April 17. A big sign reading "Closed Till After the War," appears across the Columbia society hall door at Nor folk. The hnll formerly was known ns the German hall. The society 'changed Its nume recently from the Lnndwehr Vorolu to the Columbia society. According to a survey made by State Food Administrator Wattles, mills of Nebraska can turn out 4-17,-000 barrels of common!, 0,1100 barrels of hominy and grits, Oli.fiOO barrels of corn Hour, and 18,700 burrels of bur ley every SO days. A service Hag with l.OKJ stars was unfurled at the Union Pacific head quarters at Ouinhn. It curries the greatest number of stars of tiny son Ice (lug In Nebraska. The stars Indl cate the number of young me.n from the No'jrubku division who have Join ed the rolors. A recent order from the war de partment places all radio buzzer schools in Nebraska under tho super vision of the state board for voca tional education und hereafter all re ports to the government will be mude hrough thu Nebraska office. Ward M Hurgess, state director of the war saving catnpulgn, has receiv ed a letter from D. U. Klnulsou of David City In which Mr. Kttinlsoii offers to turn his SO-ncre farm over to the government for the period of live years, or for the duration of tho war, all the proceeds above the actual expenses of oncmtlim .and living for Mr. Klnneson and hfs family to go to the government. A war saving stamp contest was staged recently In the public school at Stapleton. Sides were chosen nnd March 22 was set as tho date on which tho contest should close. The fiuul count showed the total amount of stnmps bought to be $1,ir0, or an average of about $1-1 to the pupil. .T. M. Glllan, head of the Industrial bureau of thu Omaha Chamber of Commerce estimates that more than 11,000 carloads of.potutoes, valued at 2,000,000, are rotting In cellars of Nebraska farmers because there Is no market for them. State Secretary of Agriculture Dnnlelson announced that machinery men are making their entries for the state fair early this year, and Indl cations point towards one of the larg est machinery exhibits in the history of the fair. According to n report Issued by tho government -census bureau there are 129,503 farmers In Nebraska. Three hundred and eighteen lire listed us dairy farmers, 2.C07 as stock raisers, fifteen as apalrlsts 'and 15-1 ns corn shellers. "The. drive on the western front Is Gorninny'.s supreme effort to call oh tho war before America gets Into ac tion," said Prof. F. M. Fling, head of thu Kurnpcan history department of tho University of Nebraska, at class lecture at Lincoln. That Nebraska women are to tin their part in the third Liberty loan campaign is evidenced by the an nouncenient of Mrs. A. G. Paterson of Aurora, that chairmen In 72 counties have been appointed. Fanners will have to pay $75 a month for hired hands this season, and they will be hard to get at that price, according to C. W. Pugsley, of the state university agricultural ex tension department. The smallpox quarantine at Kear ney has been lit fed after three weeks forced vacation of the school children. Theaters are agnin permitted to operate and public meetings may bo held. Work on the new home for tho Klkhoin Valley Slate bank at Stan ton was beguu Just recently. The building will be one of the finest of the kind In tho state when completed It Is reported that Senator Adam McMulIen of Gage county will be a candidate for the republican nomina tion for congress In the Fourth dis trict. Uniforms have been ordered for tho Albion home guards. The company drills once a week and is developing Into one of the most proficient units In the state. Extensive tests made in, the labora tory of the high school at Fremont, show that only 48.20 per cent of seed corn from last year's crop in Dodgu county possesses vitality. Farmers along the Union Pacific linu In Nebraska have been requested to co-operate with the company In preventing destruction of crops by fire caused from locomotive sparks. Tho third Liberty loan quota for the Kansas City district, which In cludes all of NebiMska, is .?1!U),000,000, an Increase of $10,000,000 over tho second loan. Postmaster Wahlqulst of Hastings reported a totnl sale of over $508,000 worth of war stamps, placing Adams county In tho lead from per capita standpoint. Fifteen hundred bushels of whlto corn Is being niado into comment every day at the Cooper mills lit Humboldt, RIchnrdson county. State Treasurer Hall now has $500, 000 of state funds in depository banks that are pnylng the state 5 per cent Interest for the use of the money. The Ulysses Dispatch, published by T. S- Greer, has been purchased by O. D. Kratzer, owner and editor of tho Garrison News. tTliu Nebraska Rase Hospital unit No. 40 left Omaha for Fort Des Moines last Tuesday for u period of Intensive training. As the result of nn epidemic of smallpox la Omaha, all school chll dren In the city nro to be vaccinated. A request to Nebraska factory own ers to secure gardening laud for their employes, to make It possible for these workers to help with the food pro duction has been made by .Mrs. Fred M. Dewesse, chairman of the food production division of the woman's committee of tho Council of Defense. Deposits In Olio state banks of Ne braska gained $27,001,558.28 since last November, and $50,000,000 over ti year ago. Deposits now total S250, 500,824.74, according to a summury by Secretary .7. .7. Tooley of the stato banking board. The second will purporting to havo been made by John O'Connor, aged recluse of Hastings, who died August 17, 1017, without uny known heirs, leaving' an estate of approximately $100,000, has been declared- Invalid by Judge Snider In the Adams Coun ty court. IJurllngton railroad officials have started a drive toward planting 11,000 gardens along the company right-of-way In Nebraska. Station agents and section foremen aro urging the towns people to cultivate the laud on thu rlglit-of.way. &M&ss&!&8z$em&mm II 1 It Cost the Average Family Less Than 10c Per Week for Packer's Profit in 1917. The Meat Bill is one of the large items in the family budget but. less than 10 cents per week of it goes to the packer in profits. In converting live stock into meat and getting it into the hands of the retail dealer, the packer performs a complex and essential service with the maximum of efficiency. The above statement is based on Swift & Company's 1917 figures and Federal Census data: Swift & Company's total output (Met and by-products) - 5,570,000,000 Pounds Swift & Company's total Profit $34,650,000.00 Profit per pound U. S. Meat Consumption - 170 pounds per person per year 170 pounds at $.0062 $1.05 per person per year The average family 4V& persons $4.72 per family per year 1918 year book of interesting and instructive facts sent on request. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois &k Swift Just What Did He Mcan7 "I have read tlint the most dnnger ous thing n girl can do is to throw her arms around u man in case tho boat upsets." "Uh," said tho man. "Perhaps so. Tills boat Is perfectly safe, however." Louisville Courier Journal. How's This ? We offer $100.00 for any ca90 of catarrh that cannot bo cured by HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE is talc rn Internally and acts through the Blood on tho Mucous Surfaces of the System. 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