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M Dakota County Herald. 4 P Si'n ALL THE NEWS WHEN IT IS NEWS tr Hi. f4fow ' J1"7 s0l JIKTAHMSIUM) AUGUST "8, 1891. Voty TA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1920. VOL. 28. No. 31. i r 1 r ft !, h h Isl HI IU NEWSY 1THMS FROM OUR EXCHANGES ( i5ii5ii5iiiiiraii5iraiaiDiaaraaaaaaaaaaaaa Wakefield Republican: Mrs. Demi Cornell went to Sioux City Saturday where she spent the Jn. Ponca Advocate: Win. Goertz, of Hubbard, Neb., was calling on Ponc-i friends the first of the week. Pender Republic: Mrs. Chorlos Pounds and son were north Imwl passengers yesterday morning, o Sioux City Journal, 0: Mr. nrfd ?hs John Critz, of Homer, Nob., have removed to Morningside to n.ake their home. They have occupied a resi dence in Fifth aver.uc. o Lyons Mirror: Chas; Sierk, ol Dakota City, was visiting his luoth-or-in-law,' Wm. Sund, this 'week. . Mi s Svlvia Lamson, 6f Walthill, r. im.ee of Mrs. M. M.,Worncr, was down here Saturday. --0 Sioux Citj Journal, 25: Mis.3 Fran ces Sawyer, of Jackson, Neb., hospi tal librarian at Fort McPhcrson, Ga., is in Sioux City on twenty days leave to visit her sister, Mrs. E. V. Nor dyke. She has also served at Camp Sherman, Ohio. o Ponca Journal: A heavy wind storm visited the locality near Wihis Tuesday afternoon, blowing down 'buildings and killing some stock. About the same time if grew verv dark in Ponca ami the electric light? were used although it was before the sun had gone down Rosalie Rip-Saw: Miss Bessie Crane of South Sioux City, was v. .nest at the It. H. Mason home Sac nrduy. . . ."Mr. aiid Mrs. Ralph Mason went to South Sioux City Sunday evening. Ralph returned Monday, but Mrs. Mason visited relatives in the city until today. o Sioux City Tribune, 21: Mrs. Sam A. Heikcs has returned to her home in Dakota City after visaing for two weeks with her daughter. Mrs. Chas. Kate.... Mrs. Russcl Owens, of Ho mer, Neb., who was a guivc of Mrs. Florence Do Young, has returned to y-uiherjohome. , Lawrence De Young ac- weeks' visit.- f o Allen News: During the storm Tuesday afternoon, a small twister hit at the D. O. Triggs farm, Allen, and in an incredibly short tiini- had knocked a hole in the end of a chick en house, filled the building with sticks and timbers, and jabbed other sticks of all sizes into the "round. Several other farm homes 'Xvoio vis ited by this severe wind that boi acr ed very much on a real cycione o Emerson Enterprise: Mrs. N, L, Hansen and daughter Frederika, vis ited last Week with Mrs. Hansen's sis ter, Mrs. Clyde Armstrong, and help ed care for the new daughter. Arm strongs are living this year on a farm near Willis Mrs. Ralph Lamp of Nacora, is enjoying a visit with hei brother, Michael Fitzsimmons, r.rd wife, who arrived here from San An tonio, Texas, a few days ago. He has been away eight years and served 21 months in France with the 2nd divi sion. .. .Misses Frieda and Lena Wall way visited Friday night with their aunt, Mrs. Emily Illume, returning to their home near Nacora Saturday. psraMrMrwu tTfir""" r'MM'w"-'rVrT'rVMCTtiffr"" """" THE UNIVERSAL CAR The Ford Coupe with an electric self-starting and lighting system, is one of the most popular members of the Ford Family. It is a permanently enclosed car, with sliding plate glass windows an open car with plenty of shade. Then in inclement weather, enclosed and cozy, dust-proof and rain-proof. Just the car for traveling salesmen, physicians, arch itects, contractors, builders, and a regular family car for two. Demountable rims with 3-inch tires all around. To women it brings the convenience and comforts of tho electric with the durability and economy of tho .Ford car. Early ordeis will avoid long delays in delivery. homer Motor co. THE HOUSE 3-imVvm Lena is homo on a month's stay, re covering from an appendix operation. She will soon return to tho hospital whore she is training as a nurse.... M. McEntafTer has received word from the government that the remains of Ins son Harry, who gave up his lite on tho battlefields of ?rpr.C3 and was buried tl ere, will be brought to the United Ltatesif the family so desues Mr. MeEntafper has requested that they he Drought home. lne govern ment pays all expenses of bringing the remains to Emerson. Sioux City Journal, 28: Mr. and Mrs. Barry Wencr have noved 1o a faun near Jackson, Neb.... Miss Le one Lange, of Sac City, lowu, is vis iting friends in Morning'udo ...C. T. Westcott, who migrated to Sioux City from Killlngly, Conn., sixty three years, ago, is returning to Con necticut. He is retiring from his interest in Samuel Bros.' undertaking establishment, with which he ljas been connected for the last year and a half, and with Mrs. Westcott will depart for Killlngly, shortly after April J. Mr." Westcott established the Westcott undertaking parlors in 1882 and was the first cmbalmer in the city. Ho maintained lis inter est in the business until ho beenme connected with Samuel Bros. In 1B96 and 1897 he was a member of the city council and was chairman of the committee in charge of laying Sioux City's first asphalt pavement. Five log shanties bordering the river constituted Sioux City when A l. Westcott, u boy of 1G, first saw the town in 1857. The boy made the five weeks' journey from Connecticut to Sioux City, traveling by railroad to St. Louis, from St. Louis to Counci' Bluffs by boat, and the rest of the way by team. The shanties were clustered at what is now the foot of Pearl street. His. father, J amis Westcott, had preceded Inn by a year. The Westcotts settled on a farm across the river betweei iiintix City and whut is now Jackson, Neb. The farm was later known as "old Homestead." Living conditions then hold no comparison with the luxuiy of present times. Mr. Wcsrcott now recalls the- privations of r.hat pioneer life, with xi laugh, but ha added, "1 woaldn,tVTthroulrnortfvn1it',,f'e did 'those first five or six years out heie for the whole state of Nebras ka." When he first saw thn country that later became Sioux City and a wealthy farming district, there was not a tod of fence or plowed ground. It was just prairie," said Mr. West cott, "and was inhabited bv Indians. The Omahas and .Poncas were friend! enougn, uui wouiu sieai ovcrytning in sight. Tho Sioux were worse Tney would steal and murder. We kept a company of men ready for them all tho time. The greatest nua-.bc we could get together amounted to be tween 300 and 40Q and the ' came from all the country around.'1 For three years Mr. Westcott carried mail on horseback from Dakota City toNf obrara. Didtola City was then much larger than Sioux .City, having thhty .orf houses 'oniutticd to Sioux City's five. Dakota City also had a hotel with thirty-two sleeping rooms, and Sioux City had only a small log cabin. Logan City, now no longer existing, had fifty houses and Covington, now absorbed by South Sioux City, was three times as big as Sioux City. "I used, to leave home Monday morning with tho mail after it had beendrop- OF SERVICE mmmmmmm IlIHliliillM l PAYING I 8 H Did yuu ever have an argument with your grocer, doctor, or neighbor he insisting that you had not ;irid vourbill, when you wore posi tive you had? Such annoyances are, needless. Thero is very little room for dispute about accounts that are paid with bank checks; your canceled check when properly indorsed is the most perfect form of receipt known. Many a dispute has-been settled, and loss and law suits ayoided by producing checks wiiioh told in no uncertain terms that payment had been made. Another advan '"'-of a checking account is the convenience oil having at your fingers' tips at all times a correct ""showing of when, how much, and to whom you have paid money. If you are not using the check as a mt.uns of payment, weinvitc you to open your check-ini- account here. u ?' GOODWIN STATE BANK GOODWIN, r NEBRASKA "Every tli iiif? in Ranking" ped by boat," said Mr. Westcott, "mul , travel by horseback with the two big bags on cither side of the saddle. 1 never got back until Saturday morn ing. For the lost fifty miles to Ni obrara there wasn't even a log house. I stopped at Ponca and then at a lit tle loir house occupied by a man and his family and kept for the purposo of taking care of rhe mail carrier. Those were my only stops between Dakota City and Niobrara. Most ot the mail was for army officers. "I j was carryingmail at the time of tljq .Minnesota mussaurc, uui mu xjiunuis never chased me. I carried a Bpy glass and kept a good lookout for about five or six miles around. Qnc time I found a whole family dead at a watering place, beside their burned wagons. My folks begged me not to go out 'after that, but I knew the In dians wouldn't return to a place where they might be caught." Food for consumers in this vicinity was pro vided in but small variety at that time. For three years the West cotts had no llour in' their house. "We ate corn meal and, what was called 'sow belly,' " explained Mr. Westcott, "and the cornmeal wasn't what we get now. It was unsifted and we ate bran and all." At that point Mrs. Westcott interrupted' to say that to this day her husband re fuses to eat anything made of corn meal. James Westcott, his father, paid'SlO a bushel in those days foi two bushels of potatoes to plant. "Wo used to pare them thick," said Mr. Westcott, "and plant tho rinds. There was plenty of wild game, so we could have all the meat wo want ed. And there were lots of wild plums, gooseberries, blackberries and loganberries. All the supplies were brought in by boot and when tho whistle blew down the river every body in town was at tho landing to get his stuff." At that time thero were no Dakotas, Walker's island and South Dakota were then Minne sota. Mr. Westcott has hunted deer and elk in Yankton, Vermillion and Scotland when there were no towns there and all was embraced by Minne sotasota. "Things were different then, but wo had good times, too," ho said, laughing in remembrance of the old days. "Wo would have cornhusk ings and dance afterwards and wood choppings and danco again. Wo al ways cleared off tho ground floor. Tho girls never saw a pair of slippers. They danced in thick cowhide, shoes." After seven years on the farm, Mr. Westcott returned to Killingly, where ho engaged in tho undertaking busi ness. In 1882 ho returned to Sioux City and March 1, 1882, opened the Westcott Undertaking parlors. The town then had between G.000 and 7,000 inhabitants. For thirty-oight years air. westcott has lived in tho same house at 918 Jennings street. To Singe Crop Contests Tho Nebraska Crop Growers' Asso ciation is fostering state-wide yield contests with corn, wheat and oats. The contests ore open to members of tho association engaged in farming. Any person may become a member b. paying a membership fee of 51, Each entry is to contain not less tn.m flvo acres, witn no maximum Unit. Each contestant is required to report 0;. his methods and proyido a sample of his product for the state corn show. Tho state is divided in two sections for tho corn contest, with tho small grain contest covering tho entire state. Irrigoted land cannot bo en tered. Further Information will be supplied by P. H. Stewart, secretory of the association, University Form, Lincoln. BY CHECK Farm Bureau Field Notes C. 11. Youtitr, County Agent That there is still money in good horses was shown by the recent price paid by nn eastern firm. These horses weie bought from tho Union Stock Yards at Chicago. lheiu se lection were deep bodied, powerfully built drafters, averaging over 1300 pounds in weight and costing more than 450 each, f.o.b. Chicago, Une nnir sold for considerably over S1000. GoAljudges consider this toyJtCj tho besV carloadof" "'draftr- howes ..cyct bought on the Chicago market. These prices are said to be tho high est ever paid for horses on the open market. The U. S. census for 1910 robealed 19,833,000 horses and 4,210,000 mules on farms; and tho Department of Agriculture estimate for January 1, 1920, shows 21,109,000 horses and 4,925,000 mules on farms, or an in crease of 1,276,000 horses and 785,000 mules in tho last decade. Bes'dcs this we exported during the nino years ending Juno 30, 1919, 1 Mt,Y6S horses and 370,330 mules. The rise in prices for good draft horses and mules in spite of tho ex istence of more than twonty-ono million horses and almost five mil lion mules on farms indicates how agricultural and transportation needs are growing. Good authorities pre dict a steady rise in prices of horses and mules for tho next three years. This is tho breeding season. Where ver possible, farmers should breed their best mares. The,, better they are, the more there is in breeding them. Splendid interest was shown at tno oat smut and orchard pruning dem onstration at the Wm. Kohda form, and tho orchard pruning demonstra tion at tho Wm. Biedo farm. Instruc tions in setting traps und placing poison for gophers were glvon at each one of these places. Gopher , trnps and poison were sold at each f.irm. Both of these places are in tho li:n erson precinct. Tho precinct meeting held at Elk Valley church, wore both well attended. At each meeting tovernl co-operators for projects were secur ed. Those present at tho meetings voted to have tho next meeting to lie one on farm tractors. Patronize your neighbors when you buy eggs for setting, is tho advice given by our Stnto Poultry depart ment. They add that l'ecauso on advertiser lives a long ways off and asks u big price is no reason why tho buyer is going to get superior slock. Wo hove at least two poultiy raisers in tho county who are filling orders for tho State University and :nothor who supplies eggs for a largo commer cial firm. Besides theso wo iuwe several other flocks from which eggs can be secured that uro as good or better than moso of those you buy when sending anywhere. What i) said of buying setting eggs may bo sold of buying any breeding stock. Tho Farm Bureau ofTJco can assist you in locating good eggs or breeding btock. W u r it i n k J Parlies who moke a practice of dumping tholr rubbish on tho out skirts of town, 'tro hereby notified that all rubbish must bo tokon to the river dump and deposited, Anycno detected leaving thc.r rubbish on tho side streets will bo prosecutod under tho provisions of tho ordinance gov erning such matters. Wm. LAIIRS, Street Commissioner. JJokota City, Neb. Official Proceedings of the .Hoard of Commissioners Dakota City, Neb., March 22, 1920 Tho board of countv commissioners met pursuant to adjournment with the following men, burs picsent: John Feller, chairman; O. W. Fisher and William II. Rockwell, commissioners; Ucorgo W. Learner, county attornoy, and J, S. Bacon, county clerk. At which time tho following busi ness was transacted, to-wlt Comes now Fred Saunders and oth ers asking that road bo established between sections ninotccn and twen ty, township twonty-oight, range sev en In Dakota County, Nebraska. Po tition for said road having been filed in tho county clerk's office July 31, 1919, and said road having been view ed and reported by Joe Leedom, county surveyor, said report being favorabio to tho establishing of said road and recommended that said road bo forty feet wide, and said road having been also advertised according to law and oppraiscrs appointed and leport that damages as follows should bo allowe : John llorty, twenty feet ofi v sido of tho southwest quarter r. ho west twenty feet off the south,v.-L quarter of the north west quarter of section twenty, town ship twenty-eight, range seven, in the sum of $437.10; James Hog'in. damages for tho west twenty feet of the northwest quarter of tho north west quottcr of section twenty, town ship twonty-eight, range seven, in tho sum of $14G.b0; Aedrcw L. .An dersen estate, damages for tho east twenty feet of tho southeast quartei of section nineteen, township twenty- eight, range seven, in tho Bum of $290.20; and Fred Saunders, tho east twenty feet of tho northeast quartor of section nineteen, township twenty -eltjlit, rango seven, in vho sum ol S200.2O. After duo consideration tho county commissioners allowed Jolm llarty S437.40, James Hogan s j 4&.00, A. u Andorsen estate 5190.G0. and Fred Saunders tho sum of $190.00 respectively, for damages for road on road os heretofore described and also voted to establish said road as peti tioned. Road described as follows was or dered opened and county clork di rected to notify overseer of road dis peiiwuRajsJiJft 1. JinrHffT High School Girls GLEE CLUB Wednesday, April 7th, 8:15 P.M. High School Auditorium A well prepared program of music that is real music, and yet "good to listen to." SPECIAL , . . . instrumental JNumuers. Headings. Comedy: "The Revolt." N Tho Comedy is worth the price of admission. The "Mere Man" is extinguished almost by tho Lady Pirates. - , Admission, 35 Cents. w: .iiuiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiii! mm m M d II m ' m M m m m m in ii u ii OPPORTUNITIES Many and varied are the opportunities that exist on every hand. But these opportunities often call for an immediate investment of capi tal. This Institution, always interested in further ing community progress and sound enterprise, stands ready to assist you in any responsible project offering reasonable security. Our officers will be glad to discuss the subject of collateral loans to enable local residents td make the most of OPPORTUNITIES. ED M Jackson State Bank Jacl'son, Nolmislm tBillliQDliiSeSiliilllllllI$Illi)D trict number one, of Dakota county, to open said road and put same in shape for traffic, beginning , nt tho northwest corner of tho northeast quarter of section twenty-seven and running tnenco south on holt section lino one half mile, thenco o.ut one half mllo to intersection of road on section lino on west side if section twcnty-slx, all in township tvsnty soven, ranjjp nine, in DafcoU county, Nebraska. Tho resignation of Matt McKSver- gan as road oyorsccr of road district numbor eighteen, was accepted and Patrick Gotmally was duly appjinted .is road ovorseor of road district No. eighteen. William Brovhiii was annouitcd highway commissioner within and Jir Dakota county, lo take cttcct at mco. Bills wore allowed on tho various fuiuU ii: follows: R iiul Drngglns Fund- Thomas D. Jones, labor ....,.$15 75 Guy Sides, labor 20 00 Ora Bornhordt, Nitor 15 20 M. G. Loonier, lnnor . 32 00 Raymond Ream, InMr 35 00 Wm. K. Cox, labor 2J 40 Will II. Sundt, luoor 21 U) Commissioner's District No. 1 Emmott Hilcmnn, labor $ 2 00 Commissioner's District No '2--Standard Oil Co., gosoiiiie ...S 4 05 Board adjourned at this time to moot again Aptil 2G, U20. ' J. S. BACON, County Clerk. Avoid Old llggs for Hatching -Tho Nebraska Collego of Agrlcul turn hos found that it is not adviso olo to uso hatching eggs that arc more than three wcoks old. Tho risk of poor hatches increases rapidly with tho ago of tho eggs. Tho nearer fresh tho eggs oro tho bettor. If it Is found necessary to keep hatching eggs they should bo placed In a torn pcraturo below 70 degrees. It 11U0 has been found inadvisable to uso washed eggs for hatching purposes. WANTED CATTLE 10 PASTURE Scvonty acres of sweet clover, and plenty of water. Call on or phoo L. L. Howard, 03 F 20, Dakota City, Nobraska. Tho Herald for News when it is Nows. ivr-Jl tMj&iilt' w. 'TWt( FEATURES . , . x .. ' ,4 ral tal m M m M M M M m u u u II m m m m m m mo ED &l