Da kot a County Herald
Slate Historical Society
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ALL THE NEWS WHEN IT IS NEWS
DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919
KSTAHLISHKD AUGUST 28, 1891.
VOL. 28. NO. 7.
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NEWSY ITEMS FROM
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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.
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Wayne Herald: A son was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heikes, livlnr,
two miles southeast of Wayne, on
October 1.
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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.
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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.
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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
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meet at Omaha tomorrow and B. F.
ltickerson was given the honors and
leaves today for that place.
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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.
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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.
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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
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"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
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Well $wn Economic Writer Recalls
Distressful Period When North
Dakota Plan Left Ruin
In Its Wake.
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(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
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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.
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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., "'
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