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GROWING BETTER
BUSINESS MEN DISCERN MORE
HOPEFUL FUTURE.
INDULGE IN OPTIMISTIC TALK
Present Period Marks Turn of Tide
In Declining Prices and
Liquidation.
Now York. Whou bankers, manu
facturers and business men generally
are optimistic regarding the buslnoss
and fhiunclal future, It Is right and
proper that Mr. Average Man should
also feel moro cheerful.
Dig men, leadors of business and
of busluess thoiiKht, have not hesi
tated to talk optimistically.
Judge Elbert II. Gary, chairman of
the United States Steel corporation,
soys: "In my Judgment, there Is no dif
ficult situation to overcome. Notwith
standing the most dlungrouable foa
tureB of our dally life, of which wo
hear or road, wo have passed through
or out of them, or nearly so. Wo aro
rapidly returning to moro normal con
ditolns." W. 1 O. Harding, head of tho na
tional fodoral resorvo system, also sees
causo for optimism. Mr. Harding
says:
"Tho readjustments which have
takes placo in this country, painful as
thoy, bavo been attendod with less pri
vation, loss unemployment and havo
been less sovero than in other coun
tries whoro the expansion of bank
credit and currency has been propor
tionately groator, and tho prospect for
rovlval is aluo far ' better hero than
elsewhoro.
Charles II. Sabln, president of the
Guaranty Trust company, the largost
Institution of Its kind lu tho world,
says:
"It Is tho fooling of tho offlcors ol
tho Guuranty Trust company that this
porlod marks the turn of tho tide In
declining prices and of liquidation. Al
though many readjustments aro yot to
bo mado In tho mouths and years to
come, thero Is ovory, reasonable assur
auco of an early return to normal busi
ness coudtllons, to stabilized prices,
to easier money and to larger busl
noss opportunities. Wo faco tho pres
ent with satisfaction und tho future
with confidence."
Hankers draw attention to enormous
financial resources. Tho annual rotail
trado oxcoeds $1,000,000,000, while Its
wholesale trado Is easily $2,000,000,000.
Those features, says Guy Emorflon,
vlco president of tho Natloual Dank
of O6mmorco of Now York, "represent
a public demand for food, clothing,
transportation, housing and n great va
riety of the necessities and conve
niences of life. This demand is the
outstanding factor in appraising the
soimduoss or tho business situation
during 1921."
Sea Monster Found,
Miami, Flu. Scientists and deep
water fishormeu hero aro puzzled over
tho finding of u huge sea monster off
Soldlor'u key, a few miles south ot
Miami, which thoy aro unable to name.
The body ot tho creaturo was found
throe weeks ago by Elmer 13. Garret
son, of Huntington, L. I., Now York,
who towed part of It to Miami. The
fragment Is GO feet long and 7 feet
wldo. Mr. Garrotson said ho did .not
know how long tho monster was, but
ho flaw as much as 80 foot of It.
Sharks wero dovourlng tho flesh when
ha first found It.
Road Builders Seek Reductions.
Chicago. Tho full strength of tho
mcrlcan Hoad Dulldors' association
will bo put behind a demand to reduce
immediately freight rates on gravel,
aand, cement, stono, brick and other
materials used In road building whon
consigned to officials or contractors
for actual use In such construction.
Resolutions calling on tho interstate
"ommerco commission and other
bodies to reduce tho rates woro adopt
ed at the closing session of tho asso
ciation. Deputy Sheriff Slain.
Shenandoah, la. Deputy Sheriff
Hurt l'atton, IG, was Instantly killed
In a pistol duo with two highwaymen
at liingham, five miles from horo.
Tho two bnndlLs held up a crap gauin
In tho railroad yards here ami were
followed by tho deputy sheriff and
City Marshal J. I. Garrett. A posse
Is being formed to continue tho hunt
House Rivers Bill Reported,
Washington, D. C Tho house riv
crs and harbors bill, carrying a lump
appropriation ot $10,250,000, was re
ported favorably to tho senato by the
commorco 'committee, without amend
menu Fruit and Vegetables Low.
Now York. Wholesale prices for
fruits ami vegetables tiro so low In tho
Now York market that many farmers
who shipped produce horo received
withtiiK In return hut n bill for the
balance due on freight charges, Dr. II.
II. Porter, state commissioner of foods
and markots, declared In a statement
Even with prlcos at pro-war levels th;
pooplo are eating loss thuu usual, h
added. Parmors and wholesalers, b
said, believe this condition duo to th
retail trado not giving the benefit
low prices to tho public.
H. M. WURZBACH
II. M. Wurzbnch of Soguln, Tex., is
nnu of the newly elected congressmen.
Ho is n Republican.
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FOR BIG U. S. NAVY
Senate Body Rejects Bill Propos
ing Suspension.
Committee Report Holds Warships
Constitute First Line of Na-
tlon'a Defense.
Washington,, Pel). 11. Until the
United States has a navy second to
none, or an agreement for universal
disarmament Is reached, construction
of lighting ships shoiili be pushed re
lentlessly, the senato naval affairs
committee advised in Its report re
jecting the Dorah resolution propos
ing a six months' suspension of the
building program.
Nothing has developed to convince
experts that the capital ship or bat
tleship Is no longer the Imckhoiio of
the licet, the report declares. To tem
porarily halt their construction, It as
serts, would not only result In the loss
ot between ?ltj,0O0,000 and SU.'.OOO.OOO
to the government, but would weaken
the nation's defense und Increase the
danger of attack.
"Situated ns Is the United State,"
the report reads, "with oceans separat
ing It from other great powers Its
first line of defense must necessarily
ho Its navy, and so long n It has n
battle fleet which can hold tho sea
power and the fact that without It we
would bo at the mercy of the other
nations, It Is the opinion of the com
mittee that this country should main
tain n navy at least equal to that of
any other power.
'Tho lessons of history teach us we
cannot afford to depend for main
tenance of our rights, and the lives
and commerce of our citizens upon
the mercy or good will ot other pow
ers with rival and conlllctlng Inter
ests or nmhltlons."
The report which was prepared by
Senator Polndoxtor closes' the con
troversy over the allegation that the
development of the ubmarlne and
alrplnne had rendered the battleship
obsolete.
TO PASS SOLDIER BONUS BILL
American Legion Officials Assured of
National Legislation by
Senator Penrose.
Washington, Pelt. r'. The soldier
bonus bill will pass congress this ses
sion. Assurance to this effect was
given tin- national legislative commit
tee of the American Legion by Sena
tor Penrose, Chairman Gilbert Rett
man of the committee stated : "There
may he a few taxation features of the
bill altered, Senator Pentose told me,"
Mr. llettiuun said, "but we were given
to understand by him that the bill in
Its substance Is satisfactory to con
gressional lenders'. It Is not thought
likely that any of the alternative plans
of compensation will be altered oi
that the scale of amounts wiU be
changed."
INDIANA LAD IS EXECUTED
Efforts of Hoosler Senators Fall to
Save Jesse Walker From
Electric Chair.
Ussliilng, N. Y.. Peh. HI. Last min
ute ofVorts, It Is said, of Senators (Jul
der, New, Stanley, and Watson ami
ex-Senator Jloioiidgo falling to obtain
a reprieve, .lessc Walker, twenty.
Evansvlllo. Intl.. a sailor during the
war, was put to death us ho smoked
u cigar In the electric chair at Sing
Sing. lie was convicted of kllliig
Samuel WolcbaU, ti stationer, In an
attempted robbery on November !l,
1011).
, Resigns as Canal Governor.
liiiimiiii. Pel). M. Col. Chester
Harding, governor of the Panama
canal rone, sailed for the United
States. Ills resignation and depar
ture leavos Col. Jay J. Morrow as act
ing governor.
$30,000 Liquor Is Seized.
Detroit, Mich., Peb. 1 1. Liquor said
to bo worth more than i?:iO,(XH) wns
seized by agents of the slate food anil
drug department In a raid lu an ex
clusive district here. Whiter Lunge
I wiih arrested.
$35,000,000,000
GERMANY'S LIMIT
Berlin Paper Says Sum Will Be
Offered as Reparations
Maximum.
MAY ASK II. S. AS ARBITER
Refusal to Allow Consideration of
the German Counter-Proposal
Would Result In Teutons' Ab
sence From Conference.
Merlin, Pel). II. The ministry of
Hnnnco has reached the conclusion
that the utmost sum Germany can pay
lu reparations Is IGO.000,000,000
marks .S3r,700,000,000, estimating the
mark at normal (gold), 1!.'J.8 cents,
this Including all she has so far paid
In cash and goods, according to Infor
mation which the Deutsch Zoltung
says It has received from a "special"
source.
This ir,O,O00(OO0,000 marks would be
paid off In HO years, under the plan
outlined by the newspaper's Informant,
who also Is quoted as declaring that
the proposal to pay It would be sub
mitted to the authorities at Paris for i
the purpose of learning whether the
London conference on reparations, set
for March 1, will permit of its consid
eration along with the allies' pro
posals adopted nt the recent Paris
conference. (The Paris repartitions
terms call for payment by Gcrnmny
of ?r:i,7S8,000,000 and n 112 per cent
tax on exports during -12 years.)
Refusal to allow consideration of
the German counter-proposal would re
sult In Germany's absenting herself
from the Loudon conference, tho news
paper declares It has learned. It adds
that Germany would then suggest that
the United States be called In us nn
arbitrator for the purpose of prevent
ing the allies from adopting meas
ures such as an invasion ot tho Ruhr
district, which It declares would be
looked upon by Germany us an act of
war which would positively destroy the
treaty ot Versailles.
The suggestions thnt the United
S'tnlos be Invited to mediate falls to
arouse enthusiasm In the conservative
Industrialist organ, Die Post, which
expresses fear that the American ver
diet In deciding on a sum between that
submitted by Germany and the allies'
figures would ho more likely to In
cline toward the sum tho allies are
demanding.
Itollof Is expressed by Die Post that,
even If this reputed offer by Germany
wero to be accepted, she would be af
fixing her signature to an obligation
which would be Impossible for her to
meet.
Paris, Pel). 11!. Louis Louchcur,
who, as minister of tho liberated re
gions, assisted Premier llrlund and
the other members of the allies' su
preme council In fixing the German
reparations, explained his definition of
Germany's payments In her exports.
"It seems thnt tho terms of tho
variable annuity of 11! per cent on ex
ports Is Imperfectly understood
abroad," he said. "It never hns been
the question to create or oblige Ger
many to create a tax upon exports.
What was sought wns to establish
Germany's capacity for payment.
Therefore, wo divided the annuity Into
two parts one fixed, which Is an Ir
reducible minimum that hns been es
tablished upon figures close to, al
though' below, those prepared by the
American experts during tho peace
conference, which always have been
regarded as the least Germany must
pay. The second part of the annuity,
called tile variable, Is to be calculated
ut the close of each six months ierlod
by taking 112 per cent of the total ex
ports during tho six months.
"In a word, It Is a method of cal
culating the annuity upon Germany's
economic development."
SENATE 0. K.'S FARMERS' LOAN
Approves $100,000,000 Bonds to Pro-
vide Immediate Agricultural
Credits.
Washington, Peb. 1 1, Tho appro
priation bill rider authorizing the sec
retary of the treasury to purchase
$1(X),000,0H) of federal farm loan
bonds to provide credits for farmers
pending decision by tho Supreme
court in the litigation testing consti
tutionality of the farm loan law, was
adopted by the senate. It now awaits
approval by the house.
A substitute- by t'halrinan McLean
of Gih banking committee to limit pur
chase of farm loan svcurltlos to $S,
000,(XX) annually for ten years was
defeated.
Quake Rocks Italian Town.
Rome, Peb. 112. Earthquake shocks
are reported from Parentui. on the
Adriatic ben, about 100 miles south of
Venice.
Allies Threaten Austria.
Vienna, Pel). II. Olllclals aro re
ported to have sent u formal note to
the Austrian .government protesting
ngalnsl movements having for their
object fusion of Austria and Germany.
Reprisals are threatened.
40,000 Steel Men's Pay Cut.
Youngstown, O., Pel). 1 1. A 1!0 per
cent reduction In wnges for ludepentb
nit steel plants of the Mahoning vnl
lej (O ) and the Shenango mi ley (Pa)
fields was announced here Moro tbnn
UHOOO men aro ufficted
BILLS niLEH
SIFTING COMMITTEES BUSILY
ENGAGED IN BOTH BRANCHES
OF THE LEGISLATURE
ONLY FEW HAVE BEEN SIGNED
With Over One-Third of Session
Period Passed, There Still Re
mains Large Amount of Strenu
ous Work to Be Done
Lincoln Tho Nebraska state sen
ato In tho first twenty-two days of
session was actively engaged to tho
extent of summarily executing forty
two bills, or an eighth of the total
number Introduced In that body.
Senato bills numbered 349 at the close
of tho last day for Introductions.
Most of these hills wero put to
death on reports of standing commit
tees, without having ever seen the
general hie. Tho senato committee of
tho whole has been generous-minded,
and only In raro Instances has thero
' been oven a flurry In tho considera
tion of a bill thnt litis como forth with
tho standing committee's stamp of ap
proval. On tho general fllo awaiting the
action of tho committee of tho whole
aro twenty-ono proposed measurea.
and twenty others havo either passed
on third reading or aro awaiting that
order of business, ready to bo finally
acted upon.
Pour of tho 617 house bills have
flitted their way through the two
chnmbers and have been signed by
tho governor, and about twenty others
aro on their way through the regular
channels of passage In the upper
house.
I Three Welfare Bills Signed
i Three of the fifty-three children's
code commission bills on child wel
fare became laws with the signature
of Governor S. R. McKelvie. The
bills, which passed both houses, and
which the governor his signed are:
Aurthorizing the judge in default
divorce cases to make investigations
of his own when the interest of
minors is involved.
ing within the child stealing law from
10 to 1G years. .
Extending the present law on
cruelty to or abandonment ot chll
dron from 1-1 yoars old In tho statute
to 16 years.
Arc Against Boxing Bill
Desnito .tho earnest nlea of Amor-
Ican i,eRion spokesmen for a legal
enactment which would permit boxing
exhibitions on a non-commercial basis
and under stato regulation, the house
commltteo on miscellaneous subjects
voted to report for indefinite post
ponement tho Legion's "boxing bill.
Representatives Palmer, Ruddy,
Mears nnd Harbour havo signed a
minority report on the bill, nnd tho
houso will bo asked to place it on
general file.
Regulate Size of Bread Loaf
One pound as tho minimum weight
for loaves of bread received the final
approval of the Nebraska representa
tives in tho passage of the Smith bill
by a vote of 83 to 5. The bill allows
larger loaves to bo baked and sold In
weights of lVi and 2 pounds and
higher multiples of one pound. It
permits one ounce overweight, but
nothing under. No attempt is mndo
to fix prices.
Will Test Slman Language Law
On tho sanio day set for a spocial
hearing boforo tho senate commltteo
on education on tho Norval bill to re
poal tho Slman forolgn language law.
nn appeal was filed In tho supremo
court ot Nebraska from a conviction
ot a German teacher under that law
lu Hamilton county. Should tho Sl
man act bo done away with, It would
havo tho effoct of annulling this con
viction and any others obtained.
Would Have Teachers Take Oath
Tho senato has taken favornblo ac
tion on a bill which requires every
ono connected with educational insti
tutions, public and private, to take an
onth to respect nnd support tho con
stitution of the United States and tho
constitution of Nebraska and to obey
laws. Tho bill applies to every one
connocted with the management, dis
cipline and Instructing forco In public
and prlvnto Institutions of learning.
Allen Land Bill Up Again
Representatives McFarland, Snow
and Murphy havo signed a minority
report on the Japanese land owner
ship bill, which tho judiciary commit
tco of tho houso voted to recommend
for Indefinite postponement.
Tho bill, introduced by Mr. Davis.
Is modeled after the California law,
which bars Japaneso from acquiring
lands In that stato. or from fcofding
extended leasos thereon.
Kill Free Pass Bill
Tho senate has killed a bill intro
duced by Senator Hoagland for tho
purposo of permitting railroads to
glvo reducod rates to mtnlstors of the
gospel and to glvo froo passes to a
lot of othors, all of which Is now pro
hibited by tho provisions of the tintl
pass law.
Ask New Game Laws
Nebraska fishermen havo recom
mended to tho standing committoe on
game and fish legislation of the state
legislature that fishing with a hook
and lino be permitted tho year around.
Other requests by sportsmen are:
open iciison on chickens from Sop
tomber 1(5 to December 31; no size
limit on bullheads, crappios and sun
fish; open season for doves, geese,
ducks and all other water fowl; elood
season on rabbits from April 1 to Sep
tember 16, and increase of penalty to
vlolri'on ot tho eWf t.it -
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comhusker items
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout
Nebraska.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Saturday
Wnlr will vote March 3 on n munic
ipal Ice plant.
William Koth, for over 50 years a
resident of Pierce county, Is dead.
II. R. ll-rrlngton, a Warnerville
merchant, dropped dead of heart dis
ease. A community club of fifty charter
members has been organized at Wood
Lake.
Card parties are being given In Al
bion to raise funds to help pay for
-street paving.
Roys of the State Industrial School
nt Kearney contributed .fSli.HO to the
Chinese fund.
The State Retail Jewelers' asso
ciation will convene nt Omaha Febru
nry 'J.'! and 121.
The price of eggs at Norfolk stores,
dropped to 12! J cents per dozen one
day last week.
Approximately 20,000 acres have
been leased in Thayer county for oil
drilling purposes.
More than half tho townships of
Hall county have completed farm bu
reau organization.
P.eatrlce will vote on a proposition
to return to the old mayor and council
system of government.
The state biennial session of the
Woodmen of the World will be held at
Columbus April 18 and 10.
The $0,000 bond Issue for the erec
tion of a new school at Morrill has
been approved by the state.
The Nebraska Retail Jewelers' asso
ciation will hold the annual conven
tion In Omaha Peb. 123-12-1.
Ninety conversions resulted from the
revival meetings just closed at the
M. E. church nt Franklin.
Callaway authorities are fighting
the most violent smallpox epidemic In
the history of that section.
Farmers In Thayer county have
bought thousands of dollars' worth of
surplus army harness and saddles.
Airplanes will be added to the auto
exhibits at the annual automobile show
at Iloldrege the first week In April.
The printing of the Nebraska su
preme court records has been awarded
to a Columbia, Mo., printing house.
Ashland will vote in the spring on
the questions of pool halls or no pool
halls, Sunday baseball and card clubs.
Fire of undetermined origin at
Thurston totally destroyed the build
ing and stock of the Thurston gro
cery. A pipe organ, said to be the largest
outside Omaha and Lincoln, will bo in
stalled in the Temple theater at Mc
Cook. Michael Schaefer, a Platte county
pioneer, Is dead ut his home nt St.
Rernard. He was the father of twenty
two children.
Seven hundred and fifty-one carload
shipments of freight were handled by
the Union Pacific from Lodge Pole
during 1020.
An epidemic of mange hns broken
out among horses on the Indian reser
vation in Hurt county, in the vicinity
or Decatur.
Rroken Row Is agitating a Notary
club. If organized, It will be the
smullest city In the United States to
boast a club.
The Waterloo Presbyterian church,
erected at a cost of $11,000 by the
Joint efforts of the community, was
dedicated last Sunday.
Reports sent out from P.eatrlce to
the effect that there Is an epidemic
of smallpox there isstrenuously de
nied by the board of health.
The Peru post of the American
Legion raised money to furnish head
quarters by presenting the war drama,
"The Cnmuulluge of Shirley."
Mrs. Nine Huff of NebVaska GIty
was seriously Injured when she forced
a pair of scissors into her body as she
fell to the lliior in a fainting spell.
The price of eggs In Norfolk nnd
other towns In the lcinity dropped to
!2o cents a dozen In the stores. This
Is a decrease of 17 cents In a week.
Riirglars entered the sleeping room
of two young indies Misses Jo.-ephlne
Eekort anil Katie Uayel at Fulls
City, and cut off their hair while thev
slept.
Uurglurs lust week raided nearly
every business house In Guide Rock,
Including stores, pool halls apt! gar
ages, carrying away eah and other
goods of value.
Edward J. Crowley, private at the
Port Omaha balloon school, Is dead
from injuries received when ho col
lided with another skater while skat
ing at a local park. Ills skull was
fractured.
Hogs hit the ?S a hundred mark
Thursday at South Omaha, wiih a
few selling ns high as $S0O. The run
of hogs reached a total of i:i,r00 head,
milking u total of the four da.s of the
week of riO.SO.') head ns compared with
(Il!.0Si) for the sumo days last week
and ."l,0i21! head for the same period
last eur, showing a gain In receipts
this year of Ill.OUl! for the four days.
Kd Rolton, u well driller of Itluom
llihl, has discovered a "steel vein" In
Nebraska, he has notified Governor
McKelvie. He shs a tost of the steel
proved It to be of the highest quality.
Dr. It. II. Kerr of Alma and Dr. P.
A. lirew.-ter, of Reaver City, made a
trip by airplane to Pjillsude, a distance
of 1120 miles, to consult with other
phylclami in the ease of the critical
Hint! of imtlent nt the' latter place.
Mlmleii I licit school students pro-
M'titml ill uu'iuhcrs of hut year's bus-
.-tlialj team, champion of western
' -'.i, wiili watch fobs mounted
h ii l.tisl--t)taiiM
A live-day week has been begun at
Fnlrbury for section employes of till
railroads.
Citizens of Mil ford have voted bonda
for tlie erection of a municipal elec
tric lighting plant.
Poiien will cbntlniic the county seat
of Dixon county, hmlng won over, tho
town of Allen, at mi election held last
week.
Jefferson county schools are engag
ing In elimination contests prior to the
county spelling contest to be held at
Fnlrbury April 0.
Roy C. Pulver, 17, is dead nt At
hlon as a result of nines'? brought on
by an attack of hiccoughs which be
gan a short time ago.
Mrs. Charlotte Lyons, 101 years old,
Is dead at Seward, following n pecu
liar Illness of several weeks, during
which time she lay In u stupor.
A twenty-piece bund has been form
ed nt Lodge Pole tinder the direction
of Louis Deltrunner, well known
throughout the state as a director.
Forty-seven ciirloiuls of hogs, pur
chased from Ruffnlo county farmers
and stockmen on the Callaway line,
were shipped from Kearney last week.
llev. Father Lynch, 7.", pastor of
the Catholic church of Wood River
for ,'IC years, is dead. He held pator
ates at Platsniouth and North Platte.
A new record for a day's freight
shipments from Cozad was established
last week when sixty cars of sheep,
hogs and alfalfa were started to mar
ket. Plans to relieve unemployment by
the construction of .several new busi
ness blocks nnd many residences havo
been made by the Sidney Chamber of
Commerce.
A contract for n new court house
at Schuyler to cost .'?14S,C00, upon
which construction will be started a
year from March 1, has been let by the
county commissioners.
Forty citizens of Wabash have peti
tioned the Nebraska railway commis
sion to require the Missouri Pacific
and the Western Union Telephone
company to reinstate its telegraph In
struments removed February 15.
The Congress of Surgeons will he
held in Omaha March IM. This Is ex
pected to be one of the largest meet
ings of the year and will bring sur
geons from all parts of the United
States.
Lieut. Gov. P. A. P.nrrows has been
excused for two weeks by a unani
mous vote of the senate to take an of
ficial trip east as commander-in-chief
of the National Sons of Veterans' as
sociation. S. F. Ilockinan, president of the
First Stato bank of Hickman, was
found dead In his harn, with n shot
gun lying beside him, circumstances in
dicating an act of suicide, but no cause
Is known.
Flro of unknown origin completely
destroyed the Harbin block, the best
structure In Nelson, causing n loss of
$.'J.",0O0. The Masonic lodge, occupy
ing the upper story, lost Its entire par
aphernalia. The State Hoard of Control has just
purchased 1200 pairs of work shoes for
the Nebraska penitentiary at !?:i.03 a
pair, which the board says is about
91.H0 lower a pair than ut the peak of
prices, wholesale.
In a communication to the Creigh
ton university at Omaha the State Bar
association has announced the addi
tion of a second collegiate year to the
requirement for entrance to law
schools.
The Omaha-Chicago division of the
air mail service lost one of Its pioneer
flyers when Pilot II. II. Rowe, with
Pilot W. L. Carroll and Mechanician
It. 15. Hill, was cremated Wednesday
evening in a German junker plane,
which crashed to earth and burst Into
flames at La Crosse, Wis.
The oldest sheriff in Nebraska, and
perhaps In the United Stales, is L. A.
MlUlums of Loup City, who Is eighty
years old and has been guarding the
public peace and order in one capacity
or another for nearly half that time.
Dr. Wilson of the slate board of
health, investigating the epidemic
which has placed over fifty homes nt
Rlnlr under quarantine, pronounces
the disease a form of Miiallpox. Schools
and churches may be closed.
The Nebraska college of agriculture
mulls out an average of 10,000 free
copies of agricultural bulletins each
month to persons requesting them.
The publications deal with practically
every phase of agriculture. Copies of
these publications also are distributed
through county farm bureaus. They
consist of circulars and bulletins Is
sued by the Nebraska agricultural ex
periment station, the agricultural ex
tension service and the United States
department of agrlculturo at Washing
ton. The smallest conipleto airplane In
America made n non-stop lllght from
Grand Lslnnd to Omaha, Tu.-.vluy. It
weighs only :ctr pounds, has a wing
span of 121 feet and measures Vit, feet
from front to rear. It was built by
A. II. Fetters and E. N. Groovy of
Omaha.
The otlleinl board of tho Presbyte
rliin church nt Steele City has extend
ed a call to the Rev. Fiedeiick Knuuer,
who Is at present a teacher In the
Hastings-college. The other churches
at Steele City have disbanded and tho
church-going people hnvo united la
supporting but one church.
Stockmen ot Arthur have shipped
more cattle and hogs In the past iwo
weeks than for many months before.
Nearly all has gone to South Omaha.
Holding htm over a sixty-foot ires
tie ami threatening to drop him Into
space and crush oti.t his life, a high
wiiymiin robbed Curl Hurt man, eout
heaver for the Northwestern railroad
at Norfolk.
The Ashland volunteer lire depart
ment, since the receipt of its new
chemical, ladders, Iiom and other ap-
puriiuiK, is said lo lie the be-t equipped
fone of ,mj town of sliaihn' .-,,1 in
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