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State Historical Socioty
ALL THE NEWS WHEN IT IS NEWS
KSTAUIilSHlll) AUGUST 2S, 1891.
DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1919
VOL. 28. NO. 8.
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Ponca Journal-Lender: Sheriff
Cnln of Dakota City, wns a business
visitor here Wednesday afternoon.
Dixon items in Allen News: .Miss
Marion Hall returned on Tuesday
evening from Jackson, where she has
been visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs'.
Leo Hall.
Bloomfield Monitor: Edward
Schweer of Nncora, Neb., who has
been up hero visiting with Fred Eg
gers, Frank Phillips and other frienas
returned home today.
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Wakefield items in Wayne Herald:
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cassler of Em
erson, visited over Sunday with Mrs.
Cassler's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T.
Harto. The former then left for
their new home at Florence, Neb,
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Crofton Journal: Todd Christo
pherson drove to Sioux City Saturday
returning Sunday. .. .Misses Gcrt.uclo
end Franci3 Coombs, of i.uth Sioux
City, returned homo Tu-sday rlter a
visit at the Todd Christophcr.son
home.
Fonda, la., Times: Mrs. Lillian
McLaughlin returned Saturdey even
ing from a week's visit at Emerson,
Neb., and at Sioux City Burt Kro-
sen was at Marcus Friday where the
burial service for his uncle, the late
Hert Cobb, who died at Los Angeles
early in the year, wns held.
Carroll items in Wayne Herald:
The Carroll band boys played at Ho
mer last Thursday for Homecoming
Day. A brfrbecue was the chief fea
ture of the day. The band men re
port that large crowds were fed
from 3 to 7 o'clock with the roast
ed steer and several roasted hogs.
Ponca items in Allen News: Our
football team played the Dakota City
high school at that place Friday ai
ternoon. Our boys were again de
feated, byva score of 51 to O....A
number of our people have been buy
ing quantities of potatoes in Dakota
county the past week, where it seem3
there is n plentiful crop.
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, Sioux City Journal, 3: Miss Es
ther Learner has departed for Chica
go, III., where. shcwJUjenter Chicago
university H.O study .ftir her master's
degree.... An automobile driven by
J. A. Sides, of South Sioux City, and
one driven by R. E. Bray, of Martins
burg, Neb., collided at Fifth and Ne
braska streets, yesterday.
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Winnebago Chieftain: Jim Little,
of South Sioux City, was in town on
Tuesday. .. .Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lam
mcrt Sundayed in South Sioux Citv.
....Mrs. Florence Ohmit is visiting
her father. Irving Ohmit, and other
relatives this week.... Ed Londrosh
arrived from overseas service Wcd
nesray, looking fine and says he is
feeling fine. Ed is the last of the
Londrosh boys to get home. Mr. and
Mrs. Londrosh had four sons in the
service, and it sure seems good to
them to have their youngest home
ngain.
Allen News: The Chas. Brown,
John Benstead and Fred Benstead
families drove to near Goodwin Sun
day nnd spent the day with the Ru
dolph Schroeder family.... On Wed
nesday of this week occurred tho
wedding of Miss Myrtle McPherran
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 petting a few Ford cars and are able
to make fairly good deliveries.
SMALL & ROGERS THE FORD MEN
HOMERlVOTOR CO.
THE HOUSE
and Mr. Harold Smith at the home
of tho bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert McPherran, near Allen. The
young couple arc both well and pop
ularly known in this vicinity, having
spent mbst of their lives here. Mr.
Smith hns just recently returned
from ovcrsens service in France.
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Walihill Citizen: Miss Dorothy
Irby and Miss Mildred Griffith spent
Thursday evening last with friends
at Homer.... Mrs. Gilbert Earlv vis
ited at South Sioux City from Thurs
day evening until Saturday with John
Early and family.... Miss Mabel Har
vey returned to her home in Sioux
City Sunday evening, after a visit
with her sister, Mrs. Lee Clement....
Raymond Sheldon returned homo last
Saturday night from western Nebras
ka and Colorado, where he has been
working the past summer. ...Dallas
Lano and wife returned to their home
at Gurley Sunday afternoon. Their
many friends were glad to see them,
even for so short a visit.. . .Mrs. L.
M. Cooley, of University Place, Lin
coln, and Mrs. J. D. Spencer, of
Wakefield, were guests in tho Mason
homo Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sioux City J( arn.il, 2- Lewis
Smith, of Jackson, Nob., is a surgical
patient at St. Vincent's hospital....
That the proposed free bi :il;e across
the Missouri river, between S'oux
City and Dakota county, Neb., -jo
named Monahan bridge and that it
serve not only us a bridge, but as u
war memorial for Sioux City and D.i
kota county, was suggested yesterday
by Ward Evans, attorney. Mr Enns
said he will tnke the suggestion to
Monahan post uf the American Le
gion, the Rotary club and to city
officials for discussion. "I believe
the bridge could Serve the double
purpose satisfactorily, and that both
states will be satisfied," declared Mr.
Evans. "It would lie a real memo
rial. Every person who crossed it
could not help but remember the
sacrifices the ooys made for freedo i
I think it would be well to have t.io
lets on the bridge for the boys of
both Sioux City and Dakota county
who were killed in uction, and that
the names of all others who died in
the service should be attached to the
vbridge. If this suggestion is.carricd
out 1 would favor a bridge"'of a more
imposing design than the one already
planned. Such a bridge sould be
built for about $500,000. With state
and county aid, but little additional
money would be required to complete
the project, and Sioux City and Da
kota county would have a suitable
and lasting memorial for the boys
without calling for subscriptions."
Mr. Evans said his petitions for the
erection of a bridge now has about
1,000 signatures, and that a thorough
canvnss of Sioux City and Dakota
county will be begun about Novem
ber 1.
Emerson Enterprise: Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Fisher attended the home com
ing celebration in Homer last Thurs
day.... Mrs. A. F. Sanford, of Dako
ta City, visited ov.er the week-end
with the family of her brother, Joe
Harris. .. .Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Davi3
and Mrs. W. I. Davis attended the
homo coming celebration in Homer
last Thursday. .. .Mrs. Clyde Arm
strong spent Sunday here with her
sister, Mrs. N. L. Hanson. She re
turned to Waterbury Sunday even
ing.... Miss Clara Blume spent tho
OF SERVICE
week-end here with tho home folks,
roturnimr to her duties at South
Sioux City Sunday evening.... Mr.
nnd Mrs. E. Harrigfelt took their son.
Louie, to Sioux City Tuesday morn
ing to havo his tonsils removed, as
his health hos been very bad lately.
....Ray Linnfelter came up from
Omaha Monday night. Ho was ir
the city Sunday during tho rioting
and saw a part of it. Ho went on
to his work in Sioux City Tuesday.'
....Miss Minnie Harris attended tho
final homo coming Welcome affair for
the soldiers at Homer last week.
This was the hainxv termination of it
large number of these splendid cele-r
brations....Otto Swnnson, who rV
cently sold his place six miles oast
of Emerson, was in Emerson and in
formed tho writer that he had bought
the Hoikes place north of Homer for
$300 per acre. Ho will not move
until the first of the year....L. C.
McEntaffer took the civil scrvico ex
amination the 24th in Wayne in or
der, to qualify as postmaster here.-
He was the only applicant for tnc
place. There was also one -ppli-cant
for tho position at WaU -: '
whero there is a vacancy.
FARM ItUREAU NOTKS '
C. It. Young, County Agent
While in Lincoln last March, Mr.
C. C. Beerman. president of tho
Farm Bureau, and the Cou.ity Agent,
visited Dr. Geo. E. Condra, who is in
charge of the soils survey work in
the state. Dr. Condra was at the
time asked to have a survey made in
Dakota county. He, at first, thought
this impossible, as he had planned to
use his forco in the western coun
ties. But, remembering that this
was the Only county in northeast Ne
braska, which was not surveyed, he
promised to see what could bo done,
and' later wrote tho survey would be
made this year.
On August 12th, Mr. F. A. Hayes,
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, and Mr. H. L. Vedell, of tho
office of the Nebraska Soils Survey,
came to the county to begin the work
which was completed on October 3rd,
the men working during this entire
period. The expense of doing this
work in Nebraska is born half by the
state and half by tho U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The purpose of this survey is to lo
cate the areas of the different soil
types and then to make a chart or
map showing these. To make such
a chart each forty acres of the coun
ty is visited, and with an auger, bor
ings tre made at frequent intervals
to ij. depth of threorfeet. The,Jnum
ber of borings to a' given area is 'al
ways dependent on the variableness
of the types of soil. Besides the
charting of this work, a bulletin is
issued by the government giving a
written description of the soil types;
an idea of the agricultural and other
industries of tho county, giving men
tion to the principal crcps grown;
something of the market advantages
or disadvantages, railroads, highways,
etc.; and even going back and giving
in. brief the early history and devel
opment of the county.
A copy of such work in the hands
of a person looking for a farm should
prove n splendid guide, and where an
owner has a good farm for sale, show
ing one of these maps with the ex
act location of his land might make
a sale. Already thousands of coun
ties havo been surveyed in the Unit
ed States and many persons havo
learned to secure reports of these
surveys before going into new sec
tions to buy farms.
The survey of this county has been
completed and is now awaiting the
corning of tho government inspector,
who will drive over the county, and
if it meets his approval, put on his
O. K. Like everything else pertain
ing to tho government, the finishing
will bo slow as it usually takes from
one to two years before the bulletins,
are issued. We will endeavor to no
tify the public as soon as we can
learn of them being ofi" tho prcs3.
If any person desires the report of
the survey from any county in any
state in the union we will be glad to
secure it providing the work has been
done.
Mirly Sheep Hrcedlng Advocated
Early breeding in order that lambs
will bo old nnnnirli to nITnf nlm -
sistanco to worms when they arc
milieu on pusiure, is advocated by
the College of Agriculture. Ewes
bred In October and November will
lamb early in March and April. This
will givo the lambcs from one to two
months on their mntlmrn' miiir ...-.,1
grain before they have to combat
worms. i no principal objection to
early lambing is tho necessity of hav
ing a good bam. However, the ex
pense and trouble from early lamb
ing is more than oirsot by tho abili
ty of the lambs to survive the worn,
season. Extra feeding of ewes dur
ing tho breeding season is urged.
Well-fed ewes are more likely to
produce twins.
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War on. rood Takers
The College of Agriculture nnd the
United States Department of Agri
culture are conducting n uni- ,. un
called egg substitutes, nnd tonics and
ouicr preparations alleged to make
hens lay moro eggs. It ia declared
t lint the nn.rMilliwl ntrir unite If,,.,.
vill in no sense take tho place of
eggs in cooKing and DaKlng. In the
C11SO of DOUltrv stlmulntnr-K nr iirnna.
rations to increaso egg laying, it ia
said that while rmi nf limn, ..,,,,.
havo a little value they sell for many
times what tho ingredients can be
purchased for at ji drug store. Tho
preparntion usually must bo fed with
cracked corn, bran or other feed, and
it Is tho good feed that does the
work and not the tonic.
DREAM OF SOVIETS
15 CENTURY OLD
Our Forgotten Socialism That
Led to Widespread Repu
diation by States
MILLIONS WERE BLOWN IN
Well Known Economic Writer Recalls
Distressful Period When North
Dakota Plan Left Ruin
In Its Wake.
(IVOtll "Our Vttrn-txiimn U..l..ll I, .... ...
jjj J), -llnood, Copyrlclitcd, He.iroduccd In
i. t 1,crn,1"'0 ' Saturday levelling
J It is a curious fact that in these
(Jays when the American people ure
being so eagerly urged Into what are
called .socialistic e "rlnients they
should Imve complete forgotten or
never heard of those tremendous and
kindred adventures of their great
grandfathers which resulted so disas
trously. Nearly a hundred years ago almost
ail the states of this Union except
2ow Jersey and a few of tho New
England States embarked upon an
elaborate and complicated series of
ventures Into state-controlled rail
roads, banks, canals nnd other lmllur
enterprises. Only one of more than a
dozen states was conspicuously suc
cessful. Most of them fnlled so
dismally that there Is to this very dny
u bitter heritage of unpaid and actual
ly repudiated debt.
iLong before the civil war numerous
stutes not only in the south but lu the
jnlddlo west had defaulted upon and
repudiated millions of dollars of bonds
issued In aid of what to-day would be
called state socialism. For these pur
poses they created In a comparatively
short period of time about $225,000,000
of Jbonds. This was moro than tho
feJ$rnl government had ever owed'and
TAr.tluNllrst' largo funded debt Incur
red by the government' of nny country
for Industrial purposes.
There remains ut the prascnt time
about $50,000,000 of unpaid and re
pudiated state bonds, not to mention
forty to seventy years of Interest In
nrrears. Most people who have ever
heard of these bonds mistakenly sup
pose them to bo pnrt of the debt
created by the southern stntes during
the civil war. Not ono cent of the
amount was incurred In connection
with the war, and among nearly n
dozen states portions of whoso debt
are still in repudiation are two of the
richest In tho north. Even the great
commonwealths of Pennsylvania, In
diana and Illinois came perilously near
being unnble to meet tho bills duo to
their orgy of stnto enterprises, and in
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan the
ventures were wilder if anything than
In tho soutli.
Down In tho lower, mustier stack
levels of tho moro extensive of our
great libraries may bo found tho worn
yellowed volumes of Nlles Weekly
Register, nnd other chronicles of the
earlier days of tho republic. The
pages smell like tho attic in great
grandmother's home; tho typo Is puln
fully small; the news would bring a
smile of' derision to the lips of a mod
ern city editor. Four or six small
pnges a week nre enough to cover the
nation.
States Gone Mad.
A plcnsnut occupation, you say, for
some dry-as-dust student, unconcerned
with the throb mid thrill of these ab
sorblng reconstruction days.
But out of those yellowing pages
from the unremembered past leap
strange and vivid pictures, some start
ling In their similarity to the very
latest sensation of tho moment, others
peculiar nnd characteristic uf an ear
lier day. But whether In the old colo
nies of Pennsylvania, the uplands of
North Carolina, tho cotton fields of
Alabama nnd MlKilKiliml. (lie urulrles
of Indlaim mid Illinois or the woods
of Michigan these picturesque, color
ful experiments in extending the activ
ities of tho stute Into the field of In
dustry are remindful In u hundred
ways of far more recent attempts and
projects.
.Many states went literally crazy on
the subject of government aid to rail
roads, canals and bunks. They al
most thought tho millennium had
come. Magic heemed to attend nny
new entemi-lutt In ivlilili tln stntn WMH
Interested. Let It but lend Its credit
to a new bank and presto, hero was
a panacea for every III. When tho
llrst spadeful of earth was removed In
one combined railroad uml cnnul un
dertaking that soon proved an utter
mill illsmnl fnllnrrt tin, nrfitnr nf (lilt
duy said ho looked down "avenues of
ruuire giory ror ino eommonweaiin i
I.ei-'lslutures wen. culled wise nnd
?ood solely In proportion to the com
pleteness or incluslvcness or tno sys
tem Of tllllille onternrlunn for wbtcll
they planned and votod bond Issues.
Everyone., spoke of what wasbelng
done" as "th"e system," though no ono
know exactly, what was meant by the
word.
All manner of enterprises were tied
up not only with tho states but with
such other. It was thought that banks
rould add to tho credit of tho state,
that tho state could create banks, that
banks could Hoot railroads, that rail
roads could exorcise banking func
tions, that tho state could own rail
roads, that both banks and railroads
could successfully float bonds of tho
state, that farmers could subscribe to
stock In tho banks by mortgaging their
real estate, that bunks could lend to
the farmers to the extent of their sub
scriptions, and so on. All went down
together In tho crash that Is, all ex
cept tho states which could not fall,
being constitutionally nblo then and
now to repudlato their debts. But
while tho delusion lusted men literally
fought for a chance to get In on any
now undertaking.
Historians say that conditions were
not the same In different sections.
Michigan, Illinois and Indiana experi
mented. It appears, for reusons not at
all lie i'ioso that appealed to tho
southe M'tites. Pennsylvania perhaps
had still other reasons. But tho laws
of human nature and political economy
were much alike everywhere. What Is
moro Important, the results seem to
have been much tho same, whatever
tho section or whntover tho object of
experiment, bo It banking or transpor
tation, canals or railroads.
Certainly tho moro enthusiastic ad
vocates of having the "stnto operate
everything for the public good" will
prefer discreetly to forget this chapter
of American history.
Practically everywhere failure wns
nlmost absolute, uml usually for like
reasons. Plans were overuinbltlous.
Instead of doing one thing nf u time
people thought tho government wits so
powerful that everything could be done
ut once. Instead of building one rail
road at a time u dozen would bo start
ed simultaneously, only to fall nil to
gether. It looked good on pnper to have rail
roads, banks nnd canals all tied up to
gether financially, but the crash was
all the worso when it came.
The Reign of Extravagance.
Local pride, sectional prejudices nnd
logrolling always prevented unified ef
fort Joward il reasonable end. Nor was
there any real effort to count tho cost
while tho mania was on. Extravagance
reigned supreme, benefits wcro figured
only under Ideal conditions. Under
state management politics defeated tho
elllclcnt construction ana management
of transportation lines to such an ex
tent that private companies had to be
appealed to, and us n result u lurge
part of tho railroad system In the east
ern uml southeastern and mlddlo por
tions of this country todny consists of
consolidations of lines originally start
ed by the stutes.
It Is hard to say whether the bane
ful effects of political exploitation ap
pear more clearly lu banking or trans
portation, but any one who reads of
thoso days will probably conclude that
Hanking was the moro spicy and ex
citing. A southern sluto with a popu
lation of only .100,000 put ubout $10,
000,000 Into u state bank, which by act
of tho general assembly was to lonn
money In tho counties In proportion to
the number of representatives each
county had In the assembly,
The assembly also appointed the
president of tho bank,, all tho directors
and officers, and directors of u large:
number of branches. Naturally any
citizen, no matter how worthless and
Impecunious, sought out a candidate
for tho assembly when In need of a'
loan. Votes rather than credits thus
became the essential principle of bank
ing. A hotel keeper wns elected to the
assembly nnd his barroom swurmed
willi appliiu ,s for lunns, with tho re
sult thai i les of refreshments In
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UNQUESTIONED SAFETY
is rightly tho prime requisite to demand in
the bank that you patronize.
Our depositors enjoy absolute security, by rea
son of our known stability, active, responsible
management, and our operation under Nebras
ka Banking Laws enacted for the iipecific ben
efit of Nebraska people,
Intelligent, efficient service is accorded ono
and all, and a clearly-defined atmosphere of
good fellowship at all times predominates.
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creased enormously, rmus fits com
petitors were put at such a handicap
that they actually had to ctiter poli
tics and run for assembly In order not
to lose nil their trade 1
The Court's Post-Mortem.
For n tlmo the bank did so well that'
the stnto actually abolished nil taxes
nnd paid Its expenses from bank stock
dividends. But after tho crash came1
an Investigating committee discovered
that $0,000,000 of tho loanswere worth-'
less. In nn adjoining state, banks, in
surance companies nnd railroads wcro
nil tried out nt about tho same tlmo by
tho government, nnd many millions of
dollars of bonds wero sold to further
these projects, though tho total popu
lation of the state was only 50,000 at
tho time.
In 1841 tho governor of ono of these
states furnished tho legislature with an
up-to-dnto report of tho bank's condi
tion. It Is a gem :
ASSETS.
Suspended debts In suit.. $2,089,809.20
Do. not In suit 1,777,837.78
Resources, chiefly unavail
able 8,034.154.28
Specie on hand 4,349.00
LIABILTIES.
Capital Stock $5,008,000.00
Immediate liabilities 3,034,154.00
"Not moro than one-third tho debts
duo tho bank will ever bo collected,"
added the govornor, "and tho whole of
Its capital la irretrievably lost"
Tho great urn of internal improve
ments of eighty and ninety years ago
that now seems so grotesque, was na
tural enough nt tho time. After tho
close of. tho war of 1812 and tho Na
poleonic wars, European trado settled
back Into Its customary channels, and
It became necessary for tho American
people living along the Atlantic sea
board who had been employed In marl
time pursuits to find a new Held. Ob
viously they turned to tho great, al
most unexplored west.
"Soon tho waves of emigration which
Burko had seen In vision lapping; over
tho crests of tho Alfeghnnles grew
Into a dclugu that swept down the
western valleys, overwhelming tho wild
animals, tho Indians and the primeval
forest, trills was no ordinary move
ment of population. It wns n national
migration to the American hinter
land." .
The great .obstacle In tha road to
this wcstcwvBorll.wathe1JwHy
mountains? s,But'" Wn8htngtod,aTbng;
with tho other early fathers, especially
TUomas Jefferson's secretary of tho
treasury, Albert Gallatin, worked out
u comprehensive scientific system of
atlonnl roads, partly porhaps In imi
tation of thoso of the Roman empire,
But local Interests and. Jealousies,
along with tho state rights sentimsnt,
prevented the building of more than
one., of them, tho Cutnberluud Pike..
(Continued next week.)
Government Farmers' Bulletins Free
Tho following United States De
partment of Agriculture farmers,'
bullotins may bo obtained freo from
tho Extension Service, Collcgo of Ag
riculture, Lincoln: No. 840, Farm
Sheep Raising for Beginners; 810,
Equipment for Farm Sheep Raising;
955, Tho Sheep Killing Dog; 834,
Hog Cholera; 96(T, A Simple Hog
Breeding Crate; 781, Tuberculosis
of Hogs; 7G5, Breeds of Swine; 906,
Tho Self Feeder for Hogs; 932, Ro
dont Pests on the Farm; 890, Rats
and Mice; 1039, Commercial Comb
Hopey Production; 975, Tho Control
of European Foul brood; 1032, Oper
ating a Cooperative Motor Truck
Routo; 719, Economic Study of Farm
Tractors in tho Corn Bolt; 842, Mod
ern Methods of Protection Agajnst
Lightning; 927, Farm Homo Conven
iences; 841, Water Systems for Farm
Homes; 815, Organization, Financing
and Administration of Drainage Dis
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