Stato Historical Society
Dakota County Herald.
ALL THE NEWS WHEN IT IS NEWS
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VOW?. J) NO. 51
Esfablished August 22, lJJST
DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919.
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Pender Times: A. M. Smith went
to Dakota City on legal business
Modnay.
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Wakefield items in Wayne Herald:
Mrs. Dean Cornell left' Tuesday for
u visit at Omahn.
Ponca Journal: Prof, anil Mrs.
Jncobson are expected here next wool
Dakota City, Mr. and Mrs. Everette
Carr and Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Fegley,
were entertained at the J. H. Allen
home Sunday.
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Wayne Herald: Mrs. Frank I)a
.vcy of Sioux City, was a guest Sun
day of her daughter, Mrs. F. S. Berry.
Mr. ami Mrs. iJ. A. uascy oi uununru,
Neb., were also visiting at the Horry
Jncobson are expected nere next weeii Sunday.... "Mr. and Mrs. W. A
and will occupy the cottage north o! lvhitaker and children of Omaha,
Dr. Grote.
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Plainview News: Mrs. P. L. Graves
was called to Wisner Tuesday to at
tend the funeral services of her
brother's son.
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Obert Tribune: W. C. Heikes and
Arch Grantham were on the Sioux
City market Saturday with a load
of hogs each.
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Albion News: Misses Mary and
Helen Duggnn, of Goodwin, Nebras
ka, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Sullivan this week.
Martinsburg items in Ponca Jour
nal: Reinhold and Win, Mcsser
schmidt, of Hubbard, were here on
business one day last week.
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Fonda, Iowa, Times: Marjorie and
Carroll Kroesen of Waterloo,, are tha
guests this week of their Uncle and
aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Kroesen.
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Pender Republic: Milton James
was at South Sioux City Tuesday to
see his little grandson, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Sam James, who is
quite sick.
Walthill Citizen: Miss Dorothy
Irby went to Homer Monday to spend
the week visiting friends... .Miss Ei
fie Lamson, from Wheeler county,
came Thursday to visit her sister,
Mrs. B. J. Sheldon.
visited at the Peter Covlo and T. W
Moran homes from Friday to Sunday.
Mrs. Whitaker is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Coylc and a sister of Mrs.
Moran.
EQUALITY DEFOKB 1HB LAW"
Sioux City Tribune, 7: Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas McElhinney and Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph McElhinney were guests
in the Dr. D. C. Stinson home Wed
nesday, en route to their home in
Washington, Iowa, after an extended
mptor trip through the west.
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AWynot Tribune: Mrs. E.-Jr Morin
and her mother, Mrs. Cheney, have
"been visiting relatives in South Da
kota during the past week.... Ed
Morin received word Saturday of the
serious illness of his baby and de
parted Sunday for South Dakota,
'where his wife is visiting.
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Sioux City Journal, 10: After hav
ing drawn his wages and donned his
best clothes two days ago, James
Mazine, a South Sioux City laborer,
left his home in South Sioux City
without explanation, and has not been
seen by his wife ofr friends since. He
was well dressed, and had a consid
erable amount of money on his per
son. His wife. was at the police
station yesterday to enlist police
services in n search for her missing
husband.
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Allen News: J, H, Allen and fam
ily spent Saturday in Sioux City and
Dakota City.... Dick Fegley, of Dal
tno, Neb., is visiting friends and rel
atives in and around Allen.,., The
G, A. Herrick family of Waterbury,
spent Sunday in the Will Clough
home in Allen..,. Mr, and Mrs. Andy
Peterson. Mrs. Mavfield and daugh
ter Irmn, and Mr, John Waamund, of away
Winnebago Chieftain: A petition
was in circulation Monday asking
Harry Kecfe to become a candidate
for member of the constitutional
convention which is to frame a new
constitution for the state of Nebras
ka. The petition must be on file in
Lincoln by Saturday, August 9, as
the election takes place next month.
The district is the some as the legis
lative Thurston and Dakota coun
tiesand Emmctt H. Gribble, of
South Sioux City, is the only other
candidate that the 'Chieftain knows
of. It goes without saying that ev
erybody in Winnebago signed the pe
tition asking Mr. Keefe to become
candidate. Nebraska has not had a
new suit of clothes since her admis
sion as a state, and Mr. Keefe's well
known abilities particularly fit him
to frame the organic law for n state
for which he has done so much in
other ways.
Sioux City Journal, 7: The exten
sion of the South Sioux City street
car line to Crystal lake apparently
is a chimera, in the belief of South
Sioux City councilman and interest
ed citizens. Several weeks ago an
attempt was made to interest the
Sioux City Service company in the
proposed extension and a favorable
reply was received to the councils
proposition. A tentative date for a
meeting of the council and service
company officials was set. Later the
traction company postponed the meet
ing, and it has apparently been in
definitely postponed.no efforts having
been made by the service company
, to again set a dato for consideration
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council discerns u nuvui iiiinij; in tuu
cloud which obscures their vision o
a line from the city to the lake.
They believe that the apparent luke
warm attitude of the traction com
pany may bo only a ruse to procure
an especially favorable franchise.
Emerson Enterprise: Mrs. John
Church has been seriously ill the- past
week, but is improving. .. .Mrs.
Clyde Myers and baby visited for
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raska Federation
week with relatives in Homer and
attended the chautauqua... .Mcs
dames Martin and 'August Fillman,
of Homer, spent a week visiting their
sisters, Mrs. Chas. Rockwell and Mrs.
Clyde Myers. .. .Mrs. Will Shearer
and little girl went to Hubbard Mon
day to visit a few days with Mrs.
John Smith. The ladies are sisters.
. . . .C. O. Fitch has purchased a farm
near Nacora on which ho intends to
move in the spring. The people of
this vicinity will be very sorry to
lose Mr. Fitch and family. .. .Miss
Rose McIIenry of Norfolk, visited u
few hours Saturday with Miss Mag
gie Sweeney, Miss McHenry used
to live here and her lather run the
mill which has since been taken
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Rock-
THE UNIVERSAL' CAR
There are more than 3,000,000 Ford cars
ill daily operation in tho United States.
This ip a little better than one-half of all
the motor cars used in America. Tho Ford
car is every man's necessity. No matter
what his business may be, it solves the prob
lem of cheapest transportation. We solicit
your order now, because production is limit
ed, and we must make it the rule to supply
first orders first.
SMALL & RQQMB .ovTJIE FORD MEN
homer Motor co.
THE HOUSE
OF SERVICE
THE NEW NEBRASKA
FEDERATION was formed
for the purposo of preserving
the REPRESENTATIVE In
stitutions established by the
founders of this Republic and
reflected In all the great prin
ciples embodied In the Con
stitution of Nebraska,
The broad und general ob
jects of this Association are:
1. To Inform the people
of the danger or GLASS leg
islation and the Impending
threat toward such class leg
islation fostered by socialis
tic leadership organized out-
niio ewer. s'l,e tl,e boundaries of the
OUR ENSIGN sltlte. (Q urouse the ,)00ple
to opposition to such olu '""'''ntlon ; to oppose tho unnecessary and
unwise extension of publ.v inactions outside the realm of govern
ment; to oppose the costly and dangerous multiplication of .public
oillces to administer c '.ientnl business enterprise financed by
the treasury of the state with capital extracted from the pockets
of the taxpayers ; to opposo the exploitation of private property
from the humblest home to the largest business enterprise by
political agencies, and Its dissipation and distribute n for class
ndvantnge. ,
2. To condemn revengeful anj unwarranted oppression of
legitimate business enterprise; to substitute for oppression the
rules of reason, of intelligent regulation wherever found necessary;
to stand for "Equality Before the Ln.v" and equality of opportunity
for laborer, farmer, merchant, mechanic, wnge-eamer, business and
professional man.. To oppose the introduction Into our govern
mental system of Ideas and experiments which past experience has
tested nnd repudiated.
3. To foster the dissemination of knowledge regarding theories
of government nnd their. liKACTICAL EFFECT on the security,
happiness and prosperity of the people and in extending a compre
hension nnd understanding of the vital principles upon which our
political Institutions are founded nnd upon which they have sur
vived and prospered beyond those of all other peoples of the world.
4. To search out the defects In tho administration of law and
propose their safe and wise correction without Jeopardizing the
foundations of our institutions by substituting state socialism In
the form of state-owned Industry therefor; to promote the means
by which social Justlco nnd efficiency may be more promptly nnd
certainly realized In full harmony with the principles of Justice,
equity nnd equality of opportunity upon Avhlch our government Is
bnsed nnd upon which alone it enn live and be preserved to our
posterity.
5. To preserve the fruits of labor In the form of private prop
erty to the lawfui owner thereof, whether represented by the
humblest vlllago or farm home, shop or store, or the legitimate busi
ness Institutions of our cities ; nnd to opposo it; confiscation under
nny form of law devised by political philosophers who proclaim a
lnlllcnlum to be gained through destruction of property rights and
the substitution of state socialism for private Initiative and en
deavor. To thesq plain propositions the New-Nebrnska Federation dedi
cates Its, mostIrfco couvjU;Uqns, lts.unjtlrjng endeavors and appeals 1
fuVthe suppdrt and co-operation oTuil the' cltlzenslilp of Nebraska.
THE HORSE SITUATION
As Viewed by the Secretary or (he
Perchoron Society of America.
(Prom Farm Bureau News).
Chicago, III., July 21, 11)19.
Mr. C. It. Young,
County 'Agricultural Agent,
Dakota City, Nebraska.
Dear Sir: The development of ox
port trade and tho extreme shortage
of horses of the right kind in tho
country lend Prof. Edmonds and my
solf to make a careful field survey
in Illinois this past week. Tho in
formation is presented in tho follow
ing brief "nrticlo which we hopo you
will bo able to use to advantage.
The immediate problem confronting the thinking peo
ple of Nebraska is the writing of a new constitution for the
state. This must be done at a time when unrest is general
and radicalism is rampant.
The constitution that is written in 1020 will stand for
our children and grandchildren. It is important that men of
poise and vision sit in that contention; we can not afford to
trust the destiny of the state to hair-brained theorists,
socialists and bolsheviks.
We need the active interest of the good citizens of Ne
braska, irrespective of politics, of religion, of language, oc
cupation or financial worth.
Please let us have your membership in any of the three
classes, $1, $5 or $25.
The New-Nebraska Federation
Midwest Blrfg., 12fi St. 11th, Linnli, Nrt.
' O. O. SMITH, President, Kearney, Neb.
HORACE M. DAVIS, Secretury, Ord, Neb.
Executive Committee:
W. T. THOMPSON, Chairman,
Lincoln, Neb.
C. H. Shimu, Wahoo.
Charles draff, Bancroft.
John I. Long, Columbus.
T. O. Byrno, Omaha.
Walton Roberts, Lincoln.
well, of Homer, spent a week hero
at the home of their son Chnrles.
They went on to Crofton Sunday for
a further visit with relatives.
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Lyons Mirror: John Stowell and
family when driving lrome in their
car Sunday evening, just out of South
Sioux City, were shot nt twice by a
man from a garden truck patch by
tho road-way. Mr Stowell was struck
four times in tho faco and ten or
twelve times in the arm and side by
No. ( shot. Mrs. Stowell bent for
ward to shield her little baby and
was hit in the eye by a shot, hors is
probably tho most serious wound, but
it is hoped a specialist mny save tho
sight of her eye. The little dnugn
ter was shot through tho bridge of
tho nose, nnd the ban received five
shots in the back. Mrs. Stowell had
an X-ray picture of tho wound to
her eye nnd went on to Omaha for
eye. Details pf tho accident were
not nvailablo until late last night.
Mr. Phillips and his son were return
ing to South Sioux City and had
turned to tho side of the roadtopaaj
a horse and buggy, bound in the op
posite direction. Armstrong, imme
diately behind tho Phillips car and
driving at high speed, was forced to
oithor hit tho horso or sweryo Into
Phillip's car. it being impossible to
stop his enr quickly enough to avoid
a collision. Ho turnod his machine
abruptly to tho right, struck .the
Phillips car and both cars landed In
tho ditch wrecked. Tho shock of tho
collinlon stunned Mr. Phillips and it
was .several minutes before Mr. Arm
strong and the son succeeded in re
storing consciousness. A party of
motorists from Sioux City passed tlu
spot and were hailed by Armstrong,
who nsked them to take Mr. Phillips
l.:n l. Tim Iniiirnrl mnn 1R
ner eve nnu went on to j nana ion - iiuihc ,. ...j... ..........
further consultation with a special under tho caro of Dr. K. J. MCAr
FACTS CONCERNING COMING
HORSE SHORTAGE.
Horses, aro indispensablo to eifi
cient farm operation. Inforior
horses, or insufficient numbers of
good ones, hamper work, increase la
bor costs, nnd not frequently cut
crop yields- by reason of delay In
planting. Tho most successful farm
ers arc alive to theso facts and in
sist onv having nmplo team forco to
do .v . well, quickly and cheaply.
ho. breeding has been so great
ly cv... led in tho past four years
that a scarcity of good drafters has
been evident. Tho beginning of ex
portation brings general complaint
from buyers over difficulty in find
ing suitnblo horses. With a view
to determining exactly what tho sit
uation was in Illinois, rroi. o, u. .u
monds nnd tho writer made a caro
ful field survey in three leading
counties on July 10th, 11th and 12th.
A day was spent in La Sallo County
with Agricultural Agent Brooks; in
Iroquois County with Agent Wiso;
land in Woodford County with Agent
.Mosier. These Counties aro decid
edly above tho average in horso pro
duction. In La Sulle, Brooks reported but
Jono colt per 10 miles, as his observai
tion for two months past. Leading
horsemen stated that tho county over
would not nverago one foal porfarnij
nnd nn equal number of yearlings
Ten farms, visited by tho party that
day, had 24 foals, 28 yearlings, nnd
25 two vear olds and theso wero
among tljo best farms in tho county,
operated by men who aro really good
horsemen. The greatest handicap
at present is tho lack of good sires.
There aro over 300 Pcrcheron mux eg
in the county, owned by mon who
have each from 1 to 8 head. While
three good, sires could handle all the
parcsyf bunched, they aro bo widely
scattered that at least 10 are needed
to makothem atcessibleto tho mares,
for theso Percheron mutrons aro in
tho harness every day, and ennnotbo
sent long distances to breed. There
wero 119 horses, threo yenrs old or
over, on theso ton farms, comprising
3032 acres, or an nverago of 12 work
horses per farm, or one horso to each
25 acres in farm area.
In Iroquois County, Agricultural
Agent Wiso estimated that thero was
ono fonl to each five miles. Breed
ers reported few mares bred in 1917
and J918, but thought farmers wero
breeding their mares a little better
this season. This may have been
duo to tho foct that there aro three
exceptional' stallions in that part of
the county stuuiea. two oi mem
have been champions at the Inter
national and tho third Is a 'tried
sire whoso got has won high honors
in leading shows.
j Exact figures wore obtained from
I threo farms. On theso thero wero
0 foals, 12 yearlings, a two year oiU3
and 32 horses threo years oia ana
over, on 080 ncres. This gives an
average of ten and two-thirds work
horses per furm or one horso to each
21 acres in farm area. These farni3
wero all handling Perchorons nnd had
much moro young stock thun tho av
erage. From tho best information
obtainable it is doubtful whether
Iroquois Coqnty will avorago 1 foal,
1 yearling nnd 1 two year old per
form. Tho situation as to sires is
decidedly bettor than In La Sallo
f"nnntv.
A hard drfy'a drive in Woodford
Countv nn County Agent Mosher
lend the ub ervers to tho conclusion
thnt thero is still less young tstuff In
this county than in the othertwo
visited. Complete data was secur
ed from six farms which nro much
above tho avorago. Thero were' 18
foals, 11 yearlings, 10 two year olds,
and 63 horsoa threo years old or
over on a total of 1488 acres. This
gives 10 work horsospcr farm, or
23 and 7-9 acres per horse. Mosher
was positivo that thero was not an
avorago of ono fo'ol per farm, taking
tho county over, wlth yearlings no
moro numerous, and our observations
indicated that ho was correct. TJicre
is a shortage of good sires 4n this
county nnd some in use Hint ought to
be castrated. Against this, we
found ono oxcellont stallion that has
not had' half enough to do, though
such colts as wore seen aro far nhovo
tho average.
Summarizing tho situation, we,
found oh tho 10 farms whore we ob
tained complete records, 46 foals, 51
yearlings, 44 two year olds and 214
horses threo years old or over on 4
total of 5200 acres. This averages
about 2 foals, yoarlings and two
year olds respectively, per farm, and
11 i work horses per farm, or an av
erage of 24 and 1-3 ncres per horse
in use. These wero among. the best
farms in Illinois, and far above the
average. Wo also found from in
quiry and personal observation that
thero is not to exceed r Jfonl and 1
yearling per farm in these ' counties.
There aro apparently a few moro
two year olds, but IV, per farm Is
probably full high. There are no
moro horses a years oia ana over
than required to handle tho farm
worktfficiontly. Tho well managed
farm of 240 fores will have 5 teams
of mares of 3", 4, C, 6 nnd 7 years of
ago respectively and enough young
stuff coming on to permit of turn
ing off ono pair 74 years old, oaevi
season, when harvest is over. This
requires 4 head coming 3 each sea
son on each such farm. Tho geld
ings will bo worked till past 4, then
&old, and the best fillies kept to ro
plnco tho old mares sold. As the
muntion now picsonts- itself, there
nro not enough young horses coming
on in three of t,ho best counties in
Illinois to take care of the usual re
placements on farms in 192021. nnd
22; ana when Illinois1 tans snore on
draft-horses, tho balance of our
states aro far worse off.
Tho farmer who takes any thought
for tho futuro will not sell work
horses this 'fall, until he Jhas-locnted
and nurchased enough1 twos 'ana
threes to take the placebo! the older
ones, ho plans to dispbte.of. , Export
"buyers, wiHCnot "take 'stufCjunder 4'
years of ,nge and would -rather have
them pver 5. Tho demand for ex
port horses, combined with the ex
isting shortage, will send good bif
drafters very high within tho next
threo years' and the men who have
held fast to good stock will reap the
harvest they aro entitled to.
Ve'ry trulyyours,
Waynu Dinsm6re,
Secretary.
3IanyJLriics lor Boys and Girls.
Scores, of prizes .are beingoffered
for excellence among tho' more'than
30,000 boys and girls of the state or
ganized into 'clubs under the direc
tion of the College of Agriculture
Extension Service nnd the United
States Department of Agriculture.
In addition to tho certificate of
achievement given every boy and
girl completing the year's work,- the
livo stock exchange or stock yards
companies of Omaha, Sioux City apd
St. Joseph are ottering special prizes
in nearly fifty counties, andia do$;en
or more other companies have added
liberally to the list, .xweivo nun
drcd and sixty dollars are offered in
prizes at tho State Fair for boy and
girls' club exhibits. Six hundred
dollars of this will go to canning and
baking demonstration teams; One
ontiro barn at tho Fair' haa'been set
nsido for junior exhibits.' This is
tho first year that members of boys
und girls' clubs have had strong fea
tures at tho Stato Fair.
1-OIt SALE
Extracted honey, nt S. A, Mason's.
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1st. it was certainly a strange oc
currance and tho man who did tho
deed must certainly have been in
sane. Ho was caught and is in cus
tody at Dakota City, and when inter
viewed said he shot to kill, and from
other remarks it seems ho had been
having his vegetables stolen nnd was
guarding them, nnd as tho Stowell
car stopped near his pntch, ho
thought they had designs on his gol
den. It will no doubt go hnrd witli
him, nnd wo don't much caro if It
does.
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Sioux City Journal, 8: In an au
tomobile collision two miles west of
Crystal lake, Nob., late Sunday night.
(Mayor J. L. Phillips and hon Floyd,
weto Injured nnd their car wrecked,
when a car driven by a farmer nam
ed Armstrong rammed their machine.
The mayor sustnlned two broken ribs
and the bon was injured about tho
face, a largo cash being cut over ono
thui-. nnd Is now convalescent. Arm
strong, who lives n mllo from tho
scene of tho accident, has assumed
all responsibility for tho collision,
said Mayor Phillips last night, ofier
ing to rccompenso the mayor for tho
darnago to his machine.
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Pullets Need Animal Pood,
growing pullets do better if they
have some kind of animal food, such
ns Bkim milk, butter milk, ment
scraps or a high grade of tankage,
say Univprsity extension poultrymon.
Under normal conditions pullots on
tho farm will obtain enough Insects
nnd worms, but dry weather often
limits this supply. - Plenty of milk
or butter milk is usually available on
tho farm. If it is not It will be
worth while to use meat scraps or
good tankage, especially if an early
si'.pply of eggs is desired. Pullots
liavo been laying cinco July 2 at tho
University Farm.
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SYSTEM ON THE FAltM
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rightly includes system in farm finances.
This is best secured through tho use of a
Checking Account in tho Jackson State
Bank. ,
It is the time tried and proved mothod of
handling financial affairs, largo or small.
Until you avail yourself of its varied ben
efits, you are not playing fair to yourself.
May wo open an account for1 you s'AWriV
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Jackson State Bank
Jackson, NulmiHku
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