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Jf 1 Dakota County Herald. (Stntc Historical Society. ALL THE NEWS WHEN IT IS NEWS ESTABLISHED AUGUST 28, 18i)l. DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1919. VOL. 28. No. 4 Jk A I; ' tf ? s A'- DlSJl5ll5Jl5laQJlDngjgJlDy ED n 5 NEWSY ITEMS FKOM OUK EXCHANGES 0 m HI 550l50000n000g0000l5D0DnDa WIsner Chronicle: Mrs. Frances Cheney went home to Plainvlcw Sat urday, after visiting her mother, Mrs. Helen Rich. o Central City Republican: Mrs. N. J. Hoagland and Miss Luetic return ed last Thursday from Minneapolis, where they had visited for two weeks with relatives and friends. I3reslau items in Osmond Republi can: Helen Ironsides, who has been visiting at the G. P. Wright home, the past two weeks, returned to her home in Sioux City Monday. Lyons Mirror-Sun: Mr. and Mrs. William Goodell, of Chadron, Neb., and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Goodell, of Waterbury, Neb., are here on a visit with the Fritts families and othei relatives. Winnebago Chieftain: S. Toledo Sherry was down from South Sioux City garnering his crop of potatoes Monday. Ho said the yield was not very large but large enough undei the circumstances. Fullertdn News-Journal: Miss Hel en Rix returned the latter part of the week from Omaha, where shewrs a guest of friends. She is at pres ent cashier for Penney & Son, while Miss Kearney is taking a vacation. Newcastle Times: Mr. and Mrs. John McGrath spent Sunday near Willis with their niece, Mrs. John Mahon and family... -.Miss Sarah Cole-man-has spent the past week visiting her sister, Mrs. John Mahon and fam ily. o Wayne Herald: Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Munsinger and daughter MissEIta and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Munsinger, drove to Dakota City and Sioux City Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mun singer remained over Sunday with relatives at Dakota City. The rest returned by train Saturday evening. Wakefield, items in Wayne Herald: Frank Barto has recently purchased the brick house owned by his mother and expects to move into it in about thirty days. ...Mrs. J. D. Spencer left Monday for University Place, "Lin-, coin, where she will pay an extended visit,, to her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Cooley. ,Ar Allen News: Mr. and Mrs. Elmu Broyhill, of Dakota City; spent Sun day in the Harry Warner home.... Wm. Twamley, who was seriously hurt last week when his Ford truck knocked him down and ran over him, is reported to be improving rapidly in a Sioux City hospital and it is expected that he will return home thjs week. Carroll Index: A. King drove to Emerson Saturday evening to visit his wife over Sunday, who is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. McEntaffer. ....Mrs. Etta Honey and daughter, Mrs. Seth Mossman, and little Ber nice Honey, visited friends in Sioux City the fore part of the week, also at the Ed Honey home in South Sioux City. o Tekamah Journal: Rev. C. R. Lowo of Dakota City, a schoolmate of Rev. Utesch, stopped off and visited be tween trains.... F. Schriever, who taught here last year very success fully, asks us to change his paper to THE UNIVERSAL-CAR We are experienced, and know how to give service to the owners of Ford cars. We have the same methods, machinery and skill that they have in the Ford factory, and we use the same parts made by the Ford Motor Company. Ford owners are doubly guaranteed by us as to the reliability of our service on Ford cars. Don't try to do it yourself, bring your car here? Incidentally we are getting a few Ford cars and are able to make fairly good deliveries. SMALL & ROGERS THE FORD MEN homer Motor co. THE HOUSE West Point, where ho is to teach this year. Friends here will wish him continued success in his work. Dur ing the summer he attended the Uni versity of Chicago taking special work in his line. 0 Walthill Citizen: Mrs. J. II. Ken nison returned to her homo at South Sioux City Saturday evening. . . .Mrs. Geo. Lamson and son George, were passengers to Sioux City Tuesday evening. .. .J. F. Matousck and fami ly motored to Homer Monday even ing and visited Louie Vlasak and family.... S. Toledo Shorry was in town yesterday from South Sioux City and gave this office a pleasant call. o Craig News: Miss Jennie E. John son visited Miss Lena Smith, of the News, from Saturday until Monday. She had spent the summer with a sister at Doland, South Dakota, and was visiting friends at South Sioux City, Craig and Omaha on her return to Nebraska City, where slio has taught nineteen years in the State School for the Blind. She is one of three teachers there whose salaries will be advanced ,15 per cent because of length of service. She was born on a farm just north of Oakland. o Havre, Mont., Promoter: Yesterday morning, July 30th, at 9:30 o'clock at St. Jude Thaddeus church occurred one of the prettiest weddings of the season when Mr. Arnold Hileman and Miss Lillian Wanazak were united in t marriage. rather Corbctt perform ed the ceremony which was attended by their immediate friehds. Mr. and ,Mrs. Hubert Wanazek acted in the capacity of brides-maid, and best man. Mr. Hileman, who is a regis tered pharmacist, but is at present working for the N. E. Gourley Bak ery, has been a resident of this city for the past three years and has a host of friends. The bride who is a Havre girl and a graduate of the Havre high school this year, is one of the popular members of Havre's yuung sucim set, unu is very pruini nent in the social life of the city They will be at home to their many friends in the Brainard Appartmcnts after Septenfber first. The Piomo ter joins with their many frionds in wishing them a very pleasant , jour ney throughHife. ' "- f o Emerson Enterprise: F. F. Haaso was under the weather a few days the early part of the week.... Miss Clara Blume, who teaches at South Sioux City, spent the week-end at her homo here.... Mr. and Mrs. Ern est Erfko and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. 11. Haase drove to Fremont yesterdaytto attend the formal opening ot Midland College.... The Luther league held a very enjoyablo party at tho Hans Bon nickson home in the country last Fri day 'evening. About fifteen young people went out in an auto truck. The party was chaperoned by Mrs. G. H. Haase and Rev. and Mrs. Chas. Lewis.... Mrs. Kate Kerwin had her house and yard about full Sunday when her children and their families came to sec how nicely she was set tled in her new homo here. The day was most enjoyably spent by the big family. Those present were Mr. and Mrs". Joe Heenoy and children of Nacora, Mr. and Mrs. James Heonan and children and Tom Gorman of Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Hogan and fami ly from the country, Mr. and Mr&. OF SERVICE Will Kerwin and children and the sons and Mi3s Francllln from tho farm. Sioux City Journal, 12: Miss Mom Nordvke and Miss Ruth Lcnnon de parted Wednesday for binsinawa oi roller from hay fever for our Mound, Wis., where they will enter daughter Alice wo decided to spend school.... A touring car belonging to' our vacation on the bank of one of Thomas Ashford, 709 Sixteenth street, (Minnesota's beautiful lakes. Arriving which was stolen from in front of at "Ltbby, Minn., which consists of a the lilks' club yesterday, was found last nicrht bv its owner. Evidently it had been taken merely for a joy ride and roturned to its former place or was used by ono of Ashford's frionds who neglected to notify him that it was in uso....brncst Messes, storm was coming on. We wero 21 years old, who two months ago at- seventy miles west of Duluth and tempted to steal an automobile from ilfteen miles north of McGregor, tho Guy Sides, a farmer near Dakota nearest railroad station. Around us City, Neb., returned to Dakota City on all fcidos stretched immense, pri yesterday and was arrested by Dep-' mevul forests of tamrack, pine pop uty Sheriff J. P. Rockwell. Later .lar, lrch and other kinds of troes. in the day, when questioned by Coun- Through the courtesy of a splendid ty Attorney Georgo Learner, Messes old Scotch gentleman wo wero allow confessed that he attempted to takAJed, tck take shelter In a dismantled the machine. The attempt to take .old steamboat liko those that used to Sides' car was made at night. Sides ply the Missouri river near my boy was looking for a bunch of .. ry hood .home. horses nnd drove his car hear a u,i Thojupper deck contained six state road crossing, leaving the motor -in- rooms two dining rooms and akltch nlng while he walked up the t -c.i a en, TThe boat was docked just below short distance. Messes, riding a hi- the,, government dam in the Sandy cycle, came up from an opposite di river. "Here on tho north bank of the rection. He left the bicycle at tho Sartdy'Loke we spent tho most strcn side of the road and jumped into tlui'uouii vacation of our livess We came car. In attempting to tarn it hero for a rest and u change. Tho around ho killed tho motor. Sides railroads got most of our chango and ran toward the car and Messes es- the 'stage driver the rest. Time and caped on foot, leaving the bicycle. Dakota county authorities later found that the bicycle belonged to a South Sioux City negro boy, who had received $20 from Messes for tho I033 of his wheel. With the innocence of the negro established, he again ob tained possession of his bicycle. Tho authorities awaited the return of Messes, who was employed on a Mis souri river snagboat. A charge of unlawfully taking an automobile has been placed against Messes, who will probably be tried today before Coun ty Judge Sherman. McKinley. Tho statutes provide a S100 line or a thirty-day jail term upon conviction. Tho Feeding Value of Tankage nnd Mont Scrap! In nations for Laying Pullets. (From Farm Bureau News). Leghorn pullets, if heavy layers, consumed about 82 pounds of feed per year. Pullets that were poorJayers used within 1R nminHq nt tniif'n -fnnfl a tho -goad layers. This , amount oil feed.Jf of the'proper, kjndiuavj'in cjoasetegg" pVo.ductidrf'over 100' eggs per bird. When given an opportunity, pullcu; ate eight to ten times as much oyster shell as gr. Results indicated that the presenco of animal protein in a ration increas ed the efficiency., of the other feeds given. Although tho egg production var ied from year to year, tho general tendency was for meat scraps and tankage to be equally efficient. The pullets in the pen fed tankage laid an average of 183.G eggs; in the meat scraps pen, 170 eggs; and in tho no meat-feed pen, 69.35 eggs per year. Under war time conditions, it cost slightly over $2.00 to feed a laying Leghorn pullet for 12 months. It cost an average of $0,128 for fepa to produco ono dozen eggd in tho tankage pen, $0,130 in tho meat scrap3 pen and $0.33 in tho ho meat-feed pen. It cost less to feed a pullet when no tankage or meat scraps wero fed, but it cost more to produce one doz en eggs. The amount of feed required to produce one pound of eggs was 3.G pounds in the tankage pen, 3.77 pounds in tho meat scraps pen and 9.32 pounds in tho no meat-feed pen. Sudden severe lowering of temper ature in tho winter retarded egg production of Leghorns. Tho highest egg producing month, regardless of the ration fed, were March, April and May. Tho income wa3 tho highest dur ing tho spring months when tho prices for eggs were tho lowest. Tho orofit nvnr fnil rnat unn S.1 T7 in tho tanknere tmn. S.l.fin In lm mnnf- scraps pen and $0.43 in the no moat-'We feed pen. Tho feeding value of tankage was $1371.00 per ton and of tho meat scraps was $1051.00 per ton. The three pens involved in tho ex periment produced eggs of similar lertuity but the tankage-fed pen was consistently lower in "hatchubility" of eggs than tho othor pons. Tho eggs of tho meat scrans nen hatched slightly better than those of the no meat-reed pen. A Leghorn pullet produces about 25 pounds of manure on the roosts each year. There was nothing to indicate that the rations given had anv influnnen on tho mortality of tho flocks. June, 1919 Bulletin 227, Indiana Ex periment btation. MVATTJNH Tin: HOARDER. (From Farm Bureau News). That it is possiblo to select tho best laying heni from a flock is for cibly set forth by Mr. J, II. Clay baugh, County Agent at Clay Center, Neb. He says: "Tho results of tho culling demonstrations as reported to tho Farm Bureau office shows that wo really can tell tho boarder hens. A 5 per cent record was obtained from tho culls from which ronorls navo Deen received. A 45 nor ennt. egg rocord is reported from tho hens passing tho tests. Before flocks wero culled they wero only giving a 30 per cent average egg yiold. Our reports show that 30 per cent of tho culled flocks were Rejected." IN THK WILDS OF MINNESOTA (Tolddo Sherry in thu Winnebago Chieftain.) Hi order to secure some . measure combined store and postotiicc on tho ' bank of tho Misslnnl river whoro tho ' Hudson Bay Fur Company used to havo their headquarters in tho early ' days, we looked about for quarters, I The cottages wero all taken and n again wo wished our Winnebago friends could share our ample quar ters, with us and enjoy tho boating, fishing, berrying and 'swimming and the great Silence of tho Big Forests. Away, out in the stillness bf tho heart of tfo forests ono gets close to na ture and some of the biggest thoughts in our experience steal in upon usl Three times a day for the most of our stay we had fresh fish and ber ries with cream, all wo could eat. Blueberries, raspberries and black berries grow wild; the blueberries in greater profusion this,year than ever 'before. I believe if all tho bluebor- ries in. tho state could have been gathered1 they would havo furnished blueberry pie for every family west of 'the 'Mississippi. uno morning wo rowed two miles along Sandy Lake, which is about six miles long and from one to four miles wide, trolling our lines as wo rowed. We caught three four-pound pickerel and ono fine pike. We then landed and picked seventeen quarts of blue berries, returning homo the way we camo, umeDerries are very similar to Huckleberries, and grow on small m six to ten or twnlvn IncheS'thlgh. On one ocedstoh we' gathered twenty-four quarts on a piece of ground not more than thirty yards square. On another occasion all four of us walked two miles through a denso forest, along a lonely log road, to a quiet little lake, starting before sun rise and taking our luncheon with us. Sometime' after dark, tired, hungry and sleepy but gloriously happy, wo returned, having caught soven sun perch, fifteen bullheads and fifteen black bass, To more experienced fishermen this may not seem more than an ordinary catch but to us it was a red lotter day and will livo in our memories when many other things aro forgotten. Tho biggest experiences that ever come to the life of anyono is tho meeting of important people Dur ing our stay in this isolated region wo had two delightful surprises. One was while fishing on our favorite lake. Late in tho afternoon we heard someone calling from tho opposito shore. As wo had tho only boat on the lake wo rowed over and wero do lighted when wo learned that our visitors were Judgo Warner and Sid ney T. Frum of Dakota City, Neb., and two of their friends. These gen tlemen aro two of tho most skilled disciples of Isaac Walton I havo over met. I had not smoked all that day and when Mr. Frum handed mo a Robert Burns life took on a beautiful rosoate hue. Our nlaco was tho Mecca of visit ors and on another occasion wo wero moro than delighted when tho Hon orable Ross Hammond and his estim able family of Fremont appeared at the door of our wanderer's home. had n delightful visit together, as this was tho ilrst timo wo had mot since his return from Europe. Ono afternoon as wu wero tempt ing tho finny tribe on tho big lako an aeroplane, like a great bird of pass age, flew directly over our heads to wards tho north and was soon lost to s'Rht. Thcso experiences impressed 'us with tho fact that this old world is not so very big after all and that wo are living in tho greatest period of tho world's history. Both of our girls learned to swim while wo wero on our vacation and are very proud of their newly acquir ed accomplishment. They also learn ed to row very nicoly and our friends will be glad to know that Alice was entirely freo from her hay fever tho entire timo wo wero away. We desired to finish well and on tho afternoon before leaving, Alico and I went to our favorite retroat and fished from threo until after eight in tho evening. We came homo after dark with ono Iono bullhoad and eighteen flno black bass. We throw back all weighing one-hnlf pound and less. Tho llttlo girl succeeded in landing a four-pound black bass, tho finest specimen I havo ever seen. In this same lako I had my most excit ing oxporionco. I saw mv i:ork dis. appear. A slight jerk of tho line served to sot thn hnnr fimr. i. ht began. Wo wero drifting in opon wator. Timo after timo my bamboo polo wns bent almost to tho brooking point. Finally when tho excitement was at its highest, he took a turn, wont under tho boat, splitting my bamboo pole, breaking the hold of tho hook in his mouth and got away. I would gladly part with my best ten dollars If I had landed that bass. EAItM BUREAU NOTES C. 11. Young, County Agent TRACTOR DEMONSTRATION. Tho tractor demonstration conduc ted by 'the Farm Bureau on tho Kate Duggan farm south of Goodwin, on Scptembor 11th, was considered n success by both tho eight oxhlbitors and tho attending crowd, which num bered between 3G0 and 400 persons. Tho field plowed was only fairly hilly, giving some up grado and sido hill pull in each of tho two acre plots. Lato rains had soaked tho soil until it was in good condition for plowing. After finishing their plots, several men put their machines to moro sovero tests by plowing up and along tho sides of somo steep hills. The plowing was dono at a depth of seven inches, excepting tho Fordson, which only run from flvo to six inches, and on the closo the Parrott irled from six to seven. The ut.i re often run as deep as seven u. half inches. Each uf tho tractors pulled threo plows, excepting tho Fordson, Moline, aad Wetmore. Tho Hart-Parr used eight gallons of kerosene, and stopped ono minuto for engine and five for plow trouble, completing tho two acres in V hour and 54 minutes. The Moline used five and a half gallons of gasolino and lost two min utes for plows, completing tho work in 2 hours and .15 minutes. The All Work required six gallons of kerosene and one-fourth gallon of gasolino, stopped eight minutes for plows, and was through in 2 hours and 22 minutes. The Parrott burned flvo and a fourth gallons of koroseno and a fourth of a gallon of gasoline, no timo was lost, and tho plowing was dono in 1 hour and 37 minutes. Tho "Wotmoro and Hart-Parr finish ed at tho same time, 1 hour and 54 minutes, with only ono minuto lost because of plow trouble. Flvo and a half gallons of gasolino wero used. The fuel in this case was not meas ured until tho driver had completed his plot and in addition plowed sov eral short rounds up a steep hill and driven home,i a distance of half a mile. ' Tho Fordson used only five gallons of kerosene, lbst flvo minutes for plow trouble, but required 2 hours nhdf-32vmlmrtes in" which' tbdfi "the worki Tho Case burned eight gallons Jf Kerosene, jost nvo. minutes on plow trouble, and finished in 2 hours. Tho Titan consumed ten gallons of kerosene, had plow trouble lasting four minutes and engine for eight minutes. They took 2 hours and 40 minutes to comploto tho plot. i CROP REPORTS. (From Farm Bureau News) Tho Nebraska Crop Reports for September sets forth the following: Corn in this stato deteriorated 10 por cent, making the condition it per cent.- This indicates on average yiold of 25.5 bushels. 'Tho crop if. reported to be-very uneven over tho stote. In this crop Dakota County is near tho tot) of tho list, only threo other counties ranking as high, 94 per cent. Tho estimated yiold for the state is 172,402,000 bushels, com pared to 123,086,000 bushels last year. Tho total spring wheat yield for tho stato this year is placed at 0,870,000 bushels against 9,603,000 bushels lost year. Because of tho "scab" several counties rank highei than our own. This yoor a oat crop showed on nv- erago yield of 32,3 bushels compared to 22.2 bushels last. Tho yiold for this county 1b placed at 32 bushols. uno potato crop nas been reduced to G2 per cent of an average. The hay crop Bhows a very material in crease over last year. There is a loss of 15 per qent In swine compared to last ycai, ,hlch was abnormally targe. II II il II 1(1 II (111 II 011 n THE Y1IAM11S OP EGYPT were the first deposit vaultsbut only the no bility enjoyed tbeir security. Today practically everyono can afford to have valuables positively protected and preserved. 0 This Institution is justly proud of its safo de posit equipment, and confident that a visit through this department will win your patron age. A welcome awaits you whenever you call. 5 poicent paid on timo deposits. m m m m u m m n ED n Jackson State Bank M Jackson, m HBHmaEiHaiiiMieoEUMii POISONING RATS AND HIVE. (From Farm Bureau News). Among tho principal poisons that havo been recommended for killing rats and mice aro barium carbonate, strychnin, arsenic, phosphorus, and squills. Barium carbonate Ono of the cheapest and most effective poisons for rats and mico is barium carbon ate. This mineral has tho advant ago of being without tasto or smell. It has a corrosive action on tho mu cous lining of tho stomach and is dangerous to larger animals if taken in sufficient quantity. In tho small doses fed to rats and mice it would be harmless to domestic animals. Its action Upon rats is slow, and if , oxit is possiblo tho animals usually leuvo the premises in search of water. For this reason tho poison may fre quently, though not always, bo used in houses without disagreeable con sequences. Barium carbonato may bo fed in tho form of dough composed of four parts of meal or flour and one part of tho mineral. A moro convenient bait is ordinary oatmeal with about one-eighth of its bulk of the mineral, mixed with water ihto a stiff dough. A third plan is to spread tho barium carbonato upon fish, toasted broad (moistened), or ordinary bread and butter. Tho prepared bolt should bo placed in rat runs, about a tea spoonful at n placo. If a single ap plication of tho poison fails to kill or drivo away oil rats from tho prem ises, it should bo repeated with a chango of bait. Strychnin. Strychnin Is too roptd in action to mako its use for, rats do sirablo in houses, but elsewhere it may bo employed effectively. Strych nia sulphato is the best form to use. Tho dry crystals may be inserted An small pieces of raw meat, Vienna sausage, or toasted cheese, and these placed In rot runs or burrows; or oatmeal may bo moistened with a strychnin sirup and small quantities laid in tho samo way. Strychnin sirup is prepared as fol lows: Dissolve a half ounce of strychnin sulphato in a pint.of boil ing water; odd a pint of thick sugar sirup and stir thoroughly. A small er quantity may bo prepared with a proportional quantity of water and sirup. In preparing tho bait it is necessary to moisten all the oatmeal with tho sirup. Wheat and corn aro excellent alternative baits. The grain should bo soaked overnight in the Btrychnln sirup. Arsenic Arsenic is probably the most popular of tho rat poisons, ow ing to its cheapnww, yet qur expert- , menta prove;that-meiiBrd"'ly,vtha'"'' results obtained, arsenic is dearer , than strychnin. Besides1, 'arsenic is extremely variablo in its effect upon' rais, nnu u me animals survive a first doso it is very difficult to in duce them to toko another. Powdered whito arsenic (orsenlous acid) may bo fed to rats in almost any of tho halts mentioned under barium carbonato and strychnin. It has been used successfully when rub bed into fresh fish or sptead on but tered toast. Another method is to mix twolvo porta by weight ot corn meal and ono part of arsenic with whites of egga into a stiff dough. An old formula for poisoning Jrats and mico with arsenic is thefollow ing, adaptod from an English source. Take n pound of oatmeal,- a'pound of coarso brown sugar, and a 'spoon ful of arsenic. Mix well together and put tho composition into an earthen jar. Put a tablespophful ut a placo in runs frequented' by rats. Poison In poultry houses. Por poi soning rats in buildings and yarda occupied by poultry the following method is recommended: Two wood en boxes should bo used, one consid erable larger than the other, i,and having ono or moro holes In.' tho sides largo enough to admit vrats. ',Ii6 polsonod bait Bhould bo placed on the bottom and near tho middlo ofthe smallor bpx, and tho larger box should then bo lnvortcd over it. Rata thus havo freo access to the bait, but fowls aro excluded, Farmers' Bulletin 896. THE HERALD - $1.25 Por Yr i s i Nebraska - t i. V 1 .'i? r . St j J i jn ! A4 ft 1