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Da kot a County Herald Slate Historical Society V ALL THE NEWS WHEN IT IS NEWS DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919 KSTAHLISHKD AUGUST 28, 1891. VOL. 28. NO. 7. A I P A, .'iff i V n MESDMESEESSEelMheMleJLeJlsJis NEWSY ITEMS FROM II loirarniiiifnHiiriifara Hartlngton Herald: Raymond Mc Nnmara wont to Omaha Inst Saturday to work in one of the packing houses. Orchard News: Frank was up from Jackson over He has a farm there. Francisco Sunday. -o Wayne Herald: A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heikes, livlnr, two miles southeast of Wayne, on October 1. , o Pender Times: Thos. Ashfordwas over from Homer Tuesday.... W. W. Sharp, formerly of Pender, is now .-. resident of South Sioux City get ting bnck to good old Nebraska again. Fonda, Iown, Times: Rev. and Mrs. V. A. Woolworth and daughter Ruth, of Hayes township, south of Storm ukc, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hurt Kroesen Sunday. Mr. Wool worth was pastor of the Presbyterian church at South Sioux City. o Ponca- Advocate: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Carter, of Omaha, are visiting in the H. H. Hart home.... Don Forbes, a Dakota county farmer, had a car load of fine Early Ohio pota toes on the Ponca market last week. They sold for 32.25 a bushel. Bloomfield Journal: John Killack ey returned the other day from Sioux City, where, he had been cared for at the St. Joseph's hospital. He is not much improved and will probably make a trip down to Excelsior Springs in the hopes that n sojourn there will aid in building him up. o Ponca Journal-Leader: Prof. Ja, cobson and wife were visiting rela fives in Sioux Oity Saturday.... Mr. Dan Hodgins and sister, and Miss Mary Walsh of Willis, Dail and Merl Putman, Francis and Cornelius Slm han and also Miss Catharine Shahan nnd Miss Inez Hevdon of Ponca au- toed to the beautiful new homo of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Burns on Silver creek Sunday and spent tho day, Winnebago Chieffain: Ashley Lon drosh moved into, his home in tho east part of town Wednesday. .. .Mr,s. Harry Hill, of-' AHenr'Neby, ; Visited relatives here this week) returnftig home Wednesday. .-. .A. very i quiet wedding occurred at the home of Mrs. Nellie L. Nunn Tuesday morn ing, October 7th when her daughter Alice, was married to Elmer G. Had ley, of Hastings, Neb. The young couple left just after dinner, by au to, for Lynch, Neb., where they will visit a few days, then go to Fuller ton to visit. They will be at home to their friends at 127 East Fourth street, Hastings, Neb. Walthill Citizen: Mrs. V. P. Kel ley and 'two daughters went to South Sioux City yesterday to .visit her sis ter, Mrs. Gallagher.... Miss Ethel Fritz and Mrs. Paul Lungenburg at tended the wedding of Miss Alice, Nunn at Winnebago on Tuesday.... Mrs. Geo. Lamson returned home on Saturday from her extended visit at Salem, 111. George was all smiles when he met her at the depot, and told ye reporter he was through with the batch act. ..."Major Ream Post" , American Legion, was organized last "Friday night with 21 members. An other meeting was held Tuesday even ing to select a delegate to the state 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 0 OUR EXCHANGES HD IS meet at Omaha tomorrow and B. F. ltickerson was given the honors and leaves today for that place. o Emerson Enterprise: John Was mund, of Dakota City, was a week end visitor in the Ncls Talstrup homo.... George Carter is back on tho Omaha-Sioux City run after a three months' vacation which he and Mrs. Carter spent traveling in tho east, sncnmnir a nan ui il hi, miuu- tic City. He was greeted with en- thusiasm by his Emerson friends a. Lulu Bondcrson and Mrs. George K niu u.,,.iuiii. , i, "" -"- Haase went to Omaha Monday after noon to attend a missionary conven tion of the Nebraska Synod. Rev. Chas. Lewis and Henry W Peter." went at the same, time and will at tend a meeting of the Synod. Wakefield items in Wayne Herald: Mrs. Lewis Cooley left Saturday for her home in Lincoln after a few days' visit with her mother, Mrs. J. D. Spencer, and other relatives.... Mrs. George Barto entertained a number of Indies on Friday afternoon in honor of her sister, Mrs. William Smith, of Hudson, Wis. The after noori was spent socially and refresh ments were served... .Mrs. J. D. Spencer returned last week from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Cooley, at Lincoln. Mrs. Cooley re turned with her mother to visit her sisters, Mrs. B. Chase, Mrs. Georgo Barto, Mrs. P. Barto, and Mrs. Win. Smith, of Hudson, Wis. The latter il now visiting at Wakefield. o Sioux Citv Journal. 12: Joe Klos- ter, town marshal of South Sioux City, engaged in a gun battle withhold a story implicating tho Brind three men who entered the Graham & Priestly garnge in Main street, about 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Blood was spilled about tho garage, ana the marshal believes he "got" one of the men. Kloster was inform ed of the attempted robbery by a motorist who passed the garage. The marshal armed himself with a shot gun and advanced upon the garage. He opened fire and the men returned shot for shot. The marshal was un injured, but several wind6ws in the building were shattered. An exam ination "revealed that tho thleyes'got n bushel "of onions and 40 cents from the cash register. ' o Sioux City Journal, 10: Roscoe Young, 2114 Lakeport avenue, and Harry Beilto, of Jackson, Neb., were arrested by Detective Becker last night and taken to the police station where they were held for investiga tion. Young, policesaid, went to the Wyckoff Auto Salvage company where, it is charged; he represented himself to be an agent for a man names Sutherland who is a customer of the company. The police say he obtained several automobile tires and tubes which he gave to Beilto to to sell. Part of the goods were found in Bielto's possession when ar rested, it is charged. .. .The death of Mrs. Erhardt Held, at Hinton, la., yesterday marked the passing of one of Iowa's pioneers. Mrs, Held was 77 years of ago and her death was from infirmities of age. She was born in Odernheim, Germany, in 1842 and came to America in 1856 and settled in Sioux City. In 1861 she was married to Erhardt Held and they moved to, a farm near Jackson, Neb. Later they moved to Hinton. OF SERVICE mm, "T. R .", A many-sided man of might, Touched with the poet's vision, ho Fought always in the van of right, And dealt his blows heroically. For him there was no turning back His gaze was fastened on a star; Nor saffron-dyed hyena pack Could daunt the courage of "T. It." This was no fifty-fifty man; His hat was in his country's ring: His soul was all-American His genius nn eternal thing. Edwin Carty Itarick. c,,..,, nir crn. nm rimitrhtnr nrn Phn E, Heid MrSi Joseph Sweeglor, Mrg Henry gnydcr, Mrs. D. C. Huff, jonn nciu anu uus iicim, ui iiiiuuu; Mrs. Wilham Snyder, of Los Angeles, Cal.;Mrs. Andrew Raven and Mrs. P. P. Schindel, of Sioux City. Tho ser vices will be at tho Evangelical church at Hinton, and interment Will be made in the Melbourne cei. tor there.... The arrest of two mei. , . two girls, one aged 13 years and the other 18 years, followed a raic he Spowngo block, 912 Fifth streut,, ear ly yesterday. The raid was mndo by Detective Ed Becker, who was act ing on a tip furnished by J. T. Brind ley of South Sioux City, Nol ., fathei of Clara Brindley, the 13-year-old girl involved. Tho Brindley giU was picked up about 1 o'clock in an automobile at Fourth and Jones Std. When $aken to the police station she, said her name was Elsie Stevens, of Randolph, Neb. Later Detective Becker went' to a room in the Spow age block and arrested Fred Gulke", aged 22 years, and Mrs. Fay Mcrri man. They were in the same room and attired only in night clothing. Harry Turner, aged 24 years, was found in an adjoining room and also arrested. Upon their arrival at the police station the Mcrriman woman ley girl. She said that Turner and Clarn Brindley were "in on the party" and had been in the next room. The Brindley girl is large for her ago and told the police she was 17 years old. Her father gave her age as 13 years. All are being held for investigation. The Merriman woman said that hel husband deserted her nine days af ter they were married. bhe nssert ed that she had only known her hus; band three days before they were married, and that she married him to .prevent her commitment to the j state reformatory." " ,Vk FARM BUREAU NOTES C. It. You n?, County Agent Pocket gopher eradication meet ings will be held this week as fol lows: Thursday, Oct. 16th at 2:00 p. m., at tho Hale school house on the Fiddler creek road. Thursday, ax 3:30 p. m., at the German school house. On Friday, Oct. 17th, at 10 a. m., at the Combs' school south of Homer. Friday, at 2:00 p. m., at tho Louis Krumwiede farm on tho river road, Friday, at 3:30 p. ta., at the Georgo Cain farm in Blyburg. On Saturday, Oct. 18th, at 10 a. m., at! the Tim O'Connor farm east" of Homer. Saturday, nt 2:00 p. m., nt the Ray Hoch farm two miles north of Homer. All meetings will st ' on the new time. At these meetings methods of lo. eating tho gopher's run-way. settintr traps, and placing poison will be shown. Both poison and traps' will bo for sale. Traps will sell at IB cents each and 'poison at 35 cents per box. Meetings to determine a fair wage for corn husking were held last week at the Meridian school, Goodwin, anu the Nacora school. One was to have been held at tho Halo school but be cause of the rainy night it was found necessary to not hold it. At all of these meetings seven and olght cents per bushel was agreed upon. At present there are hundreds of men in Sioux City ready to go to husking. Home Demonstration Notes Miss Florenco Atwood Homo Demonstration Agent Miss Louise Murphy, a Stato Pub lic Health Nurse, who is being Ji nanced by funds which tho Women's Council of Defense had on hand at tho timp they demobilized, will bo in this county a part of this week, be ginning October 20th. Miss Murphy has just recently returned from over seas duties and prior to that timo did public health work in Chicago. Her work which she has already dor.i in this stato has received very favor able mention. It is hoped that she will receive a hearty co-operation in this county. The schedule arranged for her meetings are as follows: Monday, October 20th', at 2:45 p. m., South Sioux City high school build ing. Thursday, Oct. 23rd, at 2:40 p. m Jackson, in St. Patrick's hall, Thursdny, Oct. 23rd, at 8 p. m nt Dakota City, In Court Room, Friday, Oct. 24th, at 1:30 p. m ut Homer, in high school building. . Saturday, Oct. 25th, at 3 p. m., at Emerson, in the basement of tho Lutheran church. The subjectsto bo discussed have been loft to the discretion of each community, but will lie ono of tho following; How to muko a patient comforta ble. The child of pre-school age. Prenatal and Infant care. DREAM OF SOVIETS IS CENTURY OLD Our Forgotten Socialism That Led to Widespread Repu diation by States MILLIONS WERE BLOWN IN i" Well $wn Economic Writer Recalls Distressful Period When North Dakota Plan Left Ruin In Its Wake. M (Prom ''Our Forgotten Sotiullttn," by Albert . .Uwooit, Copyrlehteil. llenrodnMil ' In rorLby. rcrmlidon of Sutunliir KveiUn 1'ott.) (Continued from last week.) So the states started out for them selves on n mad senunblo for internal Improvements to connect Uie east and tho west, and New .York got so far In the leuil with its Erie canal and cur ried it 'to such an overwhelmingly sue cessf ul .conclusion that the stato nnd city of; "New York took first place lu the nation, which they, have held to this day.1 The Success of the Erie Canal. New York wifs by far and away the first in" the field, the Erie canal being Btnrtedvery soon after tho close of the great wars. The. state pledged every thing It had Iii'fcnr and trembling, in cluding sales at auction, lotteries and the duty' on Bnlt. But'the tolls from tho , cnhnl even before the work was finished so exceeded interest on 'the bonded debt that the canal's most eager advocates w;ere dumbfounded. Within ten years .the tolls' hud paid' for the entire cost, and' the Btato had to pay a premium of fi ,to 0 per cent to in duce holders of bonds to present them for payment. Even: before the big ditch wns finish ed an immense new business was created' in western New York nnd as far west ns Ohio- aud Michigan. ,Th ,1800 there had;been only'fety-'ttiou'-i Buna pepe -wesakeneqaiaKo in New York state ; now there were many hundreds of thousands. Nearly twenty thousand boats passed West Troy in' 1820. Immediately Boston, Philadelphia nnd Baltimore saw their prestige lost to New York. They sought desperately by menus of vast systems of canals, roads and that brand-new device, the railroad, to regain their supremacy, But they wero too lute. The new wealth crented by the Erie canal wns enough to turn men's heads. Many, ninny years ago, when Uie hero of that popular novel, "David Harum," visited Newport, he shouted, "Low bridge I" nt a fashionable dinner party, whereat all the older men present, ex- cept nn English lord, .ducked their heads, thereby showing the origin of their fortunes. Not only did the cities and states along the Atlantic seaboard dQSlre to attract the new western commerce for Its own sake, but also because through the growth of tho west they feared there would bo n shift In the balance of power. Southern states, and espe cially North Carolina, wero losing farmers, planters and slaves. Tho cheaper and more fertile lands of tho west were, irresistible. To savo herself North Carolina entered upon a great trunk line schemo of canals! and rail roads. But western states wero just as anxious for Internal improvements, Their prairies wero rich Indeed. Wheat and corn grew with amazing ease. But there wore no markets. Tho farmers of Indiana raised two or three times ns much produce us they could con sume, and had no place to sell tho surplus. Only tho towns along the Ohio river had any chnnco at all, for from them grain could bo sent by boat to New Orleans. Suddenly people begnn to reullze that tho west wns no longer a mere refuge for poverty or for tho restless pioneer adventurer who wanted to got "twenty mllc,s away from law and culomcl." Many of the western settlers had come out by wuy of tho Erie canal. They knew about Its kuccobs and thoy were men of courugo nnd faith, with tin fear of adventure. Not only hnd tho Erlo canal paid be yond the dreams of Its builders. In England stock In tho Chester canal which cost $500 sold for $12,000 and puld a dividend of 180 per cent. There seemed no reason why tho veins and nrterles of physical nuturo should not bo multiplied like those In tho human frame. Why not bring steamboats way Into the Interior? Besides, if canals would not do, how about the railroads? They wero newer und more untried, but people wero greatly excited about them. Money From England, A few years before peoplo had been very dubious about tho railroads. Op ponents hnd argued that they would frighten the cows from having calves and the hens from laying eggs. In 1823. a. corespondont askod ono of the PbljudolphlajpjiperH "What la u rajh rond?"' uiuT the' editor nnsTvorod "Per haps some other correspondent can tell"; but nobody did. HoWovcr, 11 wns said that tho railroads would not frcezo over In winter like the rivers and cnnnls, nud by the tlmo extensive, works of Internal Improvement won undertaken sonio ton years later mosl of the states compromised by building combined systems of railroads nnd canals. With the exception of n few govern, ment-sponsorcd bunks thero hud never been any Industrial undertakings in America which called for moro thnn n million dollars. Peoplo knew nothing of largo enterprises llko canals und railroads whero great masses of cnpl tnl had to bo sunk In a slnglo under taking, not to pay returns perlinps for a year. They had been accustomed mostly to mcrcnnttlo nnd shipping en. terprlscs. Corporations wero nlmost unknown. But England had money, literally to burn. Again to quote tho sevoro Mr. Beck; "The, plethoric purso of Europe would rejoice to bo relieved by tho phlebotomizing process of a loan to any v Vt o'uld promise to relievo them from t' ' uro of , their nfoney for n good long while. To bo suro It was admitted that foreign capital was dan gerous to our liberties and ought to be pronounced contraband. But thoro ar exceptions to all rules." Since the close of ' tho Napoleonic Wars caprtal had accumulated in !Dng land so rapidly that the rate of tator est was forced, down to Insignificant figures. Tho steady conversion of the English debt to lower aud over lower rates of interest simply forced capital into foreign countries, into nil manner of rash ventures. , This country stood hjghcst'of nit in British esteem. Wehud?but, u-short tlmo before 'paid 'onour'Revolutlonnry debt,4 tho only country Mnjttlibftworld which hnd over paid off its .debt. Not only were canals? proilfuble in Engand, but that t'countryj' was "tho, home of the railroad, a' As fqr banks, the English hnd invested vwith " great success in tho First und Second Bnnks of tho United States. Besides, they, wanted cotton from tho south and they, thought new banks In America would stimulate cotton growing. So when the-Fed'ernl' Government paid off i jts'j dtf.theEjfgjJsli Invested it In tho new .'vnterpirlseav railroads, canals and banks, and ex- pected to profit Immensely, especially as most of them were backed by the states. Tho English never got it through their heads a state could constitution ally repudiate its bonds. They knew that tho federal government never hnd done so and never Intended to. Thoy have never quite to this dny distin guished between tho states and tho federal government. How Jersey Stood Out. As nlrcfidy stated, tho first weak ness in tho schemes of lntcrnnl im provement was their clnborato Inclu sive magnificence. In Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and North Carillnn work was begun nt nil points at once, each state, thus bidding against Itself for tho few laborers to bo had. Pennsylvania planned u completo vertebrnto sys tem of track and water courses, and unllko most of tho other states actu ally built It. Men even said that by digging soventy-flvo miles moro of canals Philadelphia would soon bo connected directly with tho "Pnclfic ocean. Only n few years later, however, Pennsylvania tried In vain to sell to private interests two million dollars of stocks in banks, turnpikes, bridges, canals and railroads. Finally its can nls wero sold out to prlyato interests after thpV hnd got deeply In debt. In deed before niiny decudes hnd passod, half of tl;o nearly flvqthqusandjnljcs iilSll(llliiIlISIlliIliillIllllBlH m m MEN OF MODERATE MEANS' and women, too, need Checking Accounts quite as much perhaps oven more than do those of larger interests'. They can not afford to run tho risk incurred through keeping money in a pocketbook or safe or to pay a bill twice, for want, of a receipt. A Checking Account hero guarantees protec tion for funds and furnishes a valid receipt for every disbursement. m n u m u m m m m m m n n m n m m ' Jackson OH Jnckson, u of canals In Uio countr?, Built mostly by tho states nt a cost of possibly two hundred millions, had been aban doned, nnd most of tho rest hadt'be eomo unprofitable becauso of railroad competition. But tho stntes fared only a littlo.. better with their railroads. After ta tlmo Pennsylvania sold out her rail road Interests to prlvato companies nt what is said to bo only one-sixth of their cost, and on easy terms at that; Michigan planned COO miles of rail road nnd 230 miles of cnnnl, though IliU JIUllUlllllUIl Wilt, SUIHU IVfU UUU'i drcd thousand. It was cstlmnted by. the legislature that n railroad from Detroit across tho stato would yield 80 per cent a yenr in profits. Tho bene -fits to bo expected word appraised, everywhere- dqwn to tho minutest de-'. tall. Ono county in North Carolina ' figured thnt It would savo $3,750 ,a year on tho transportation of salt nlonc. Of course many of these states tvere too now, sparsely settled nnd poorto hnvo any ;ro.venuo from taxes to spent of, and thus no provision wns inado to pay tho Interest on bonds sold to east em Und foreign .Investors, except by. means of tho mythical dividends, In Michigan nnd elsowhcro it never sccnicd to v occur to nnyono that rail roads through a wilderness could not bo mndo to pay at once. As for Michigan's grand schemo of stat$ railroads, It camo to naught, through sectional jealousies, political dlH.scnslon, oflldal corruption and cx trav'ngnnce. IOj 1840 'Michigan sold out tho laBt unfinished remnants of her railroad system to prlvato companies for less tlinn cost, s Thoy wero, rapidly com-, pletcd under prlvato management, and , to-dny the great trunk lines that cross- thcstavto run along tho original routes. Two years after tho private compa nies' had bought control tho Btato sigulficantly enough was able to re sumo Interest on Its bonds. In the new constitution In X8GO?tho pooplo of Michigan deemed ltsdcces snry to prohibit what initio earlier constitution they had explicitly .com manded: "Tho stato shall not b crlbo to or be interested, in stock:, of any) company and 'shall not bo a, party, or interested in any work of Internal improvement," v '' "' " ' Indiana , pot Jo Teo. ,kj r An old and populous state like Peas , sylvanta might alt fiaoneyitk.a ok. tuln-degree .otflmpunrty, but not 'so la frontier communities ' llko' Michigan; ' Indiana nnd Illinois, where the farms Wero not yet cleared und moBt of the pooplo still lived In log cabIaa.,Wheu the, Indiana legislature passed. 'tlia Mammoth Internal improvement law, appropriating all amount equal to moro than oud-alxih of the State's en tiro v uilth without any provision . for Interest, there were bonfires, parades, and orators, in every town and village. Twelve hundred miles of railroads and canals wore, provided for. Interest on tlio; bonds, would cost the stato a million dollars, and, taxes amounted to only fifty thousand,, but everyone thought even those ft small taxes would soon become Unnecessary, Every section In. tho statei got biy and presented to the legislaturopetl; tlotw to, connect each little 'creek by canal with tho nearest similar rtvti let.' Hundreds of highly paldstateef ilea sinecures wero created. After $0,000,000 had been spent-' on canala and railroads only $13,000 .loonaa.vaa fctMcd from the property., "' V (Continued next week.). Thi FOLKS AT HOME EXPECT YOw TO TELL 'EM ALL ABOUT "OMAHA'S FIR CENTRE." 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