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ESTABLISHED AUGUST 2S, 1891.
DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1921
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Magnet items m Randolph limes:
Lisle Olsen and Aithur Nelson cre
Pierce and Norfolk business isiWua
Thursday.
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Randolph Times: Gruudtn.i Hill
went to Jnckaon on Wednesday to
visit the tanulj of her on. .1. i
From thore she will visit in rroi'int
and Omaha.
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Lyons Mirror: John Doloughery,
the eldest son of the late Michael
Deloughery.a pioneer citizen of Da
kota county, hu4 been in Lyons for a
week or so. He called at this office
and recited History of pioneer days.
He claims that he attended school at
Dakota City, taught by Miss Ames
sixty years! ago, and remembers of
ol. J. F. Warner making some of the
greatest speeches he ever heard in
his life. Ha is a sort of a wanderer.
Winnebago Chieftain: J. H. Bui
cum, a former resident of Winneba
go, died May 20, 1921, at his home in
Hampton, Iowa. ,He was in hi 7'ith
year when called away Deceased
was well known hereabouts. He was
one of the pioneers of Dakota county
and was, in the early days, quite
piominent in politiccs. Ho had
many friends in that part of the
state. He was a resident of Winne
bago about four 'years, leaving here
last September. Carl Burcum and
family autoed to Hampton to attend
the funeral held last Wednesday.
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Sioux City Journal, 9: The Mis
souri river i lays no favorites. A
tract of land near Salix, la., which
once was a pait of Nebraska, has re
cently become a pait of Iowa as a
result of the arbitrary course of the
river channel. Since the. land has
become a part of Iowa fifteen Salix
farmers are indent upon cultivating
the area. Hrs. Felix Jauron. of Sa
lix, who claims the property, is e'e
termined thrt they shall not, and
that :he land is hers as i result of
the title she has held for fourteen
years. Mrs. Jauron has asked for a
permanent injunction in a petition
filed in district court of Dakota City,
Neb., restraining the farmers from
using; the land. Hearing on ' the
cose vjll be held at Dakota City be
fore Judge Guy T. Graves, Juno 20th.
The Missouri liver formerly bounded
the land on the east side, but since
it has changed its course it bounds
the land on the west side.
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Ponca Advocate: Miss Anna Aus
tin and Herbert ICdwaul Marble wore
married in the Presbjierian church
Wednesday afternoon at '.i o'clock,
Hev. E. C. Seabright officiating. A
large number of relatives and fiiends
witnessed the ceremony. The church
was handsomely decorated fpr the oc
casion, a color scheme of pink aiid
white being followed out in the
church and at the home of the hi ide's
parents. Miss Helen Austin was the
bridesmaid and Vern Morgan was best
man. Miss Vera Beermann played
the wedding march. A pleasing fea
ture of the ceremony was the bride's
Sunday school class of beginners, lit
tle girls, who acted as flower bearers.
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Dayton Austin, has been an un
usually successful school teacher, and
Attention!
Your.
Spring Supplies
We have tKerrk
Interior Wall Finish
Outside and Inoide Paints and Varnishes
Barn Paint
Poultry Fence and Netting
Garden Tools
Lawn Mowers
Screen. Wire
Screen Doors
Window Screens
Carpet Beaters
Perfection Oil StoVes, and other makes
Full Line of Enamel and Aluminum Ware
Full Line of Galvanized Ware
Horse Collar Pads
Baskets . ,
Hog Troughs
Hog Oilers
Garden Gates
. Iowa Farm Gates
Posts Steel and Wood
tiiki:i: tons or slack coal
SEE US FOR ANYTHING IN BUILDERS HARDWARE LINE
nut stock of lf.mukh.
GFMighesaGo
H. It. GREER, Malinger.
OUR EXCHANGES a
active in church work, vhcreihc will
biu.greatly missed. She has a large
circle of friends who wi3h her joy in
her wedded life. The groom is a
prosperous farmer of Shell Lake, Wis.
Vera and Ora BccrnnOin, Venia and
Harry Ebel, and Vern Morgan, of Da
kota City, were out of townguests.
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Ponca Journal: David Resmussen
is working for an uncle in Jackson
this summer. ...Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Rogosh and daughter of SoiHli Sioux
City, visited in tho Rev. Klctt home
Sunday. ...Mrs. J. M. Davey enter
tained Mrs. Joe Biennan ol Jackson,
and Mrs. Mary Smith of Sioux City,
Sunday ...Kiss Margaiet Tvvohig at
tended the wedding of Dr. J. J. Glca
son and Miss Grace Peters of Omaha,
at Willis Wednesday morning. Rev.
Father Gleason, only brother of Dr.
Gleason, performed the wedding cer
pmonv in tho church at 8:U0. .. .Mrs.
Wm. Rakow died at the home of her
son near Jackson Wednesday of last
week. She was an old settler, hav
ing lived in the vicinity of Martins
burg and here in town for more than
thirty years and was highly respected
by all. Funeral services were held
in Sioux City Friday, conducted by
Rev. Sehafer of the fcutheran church
at Martinsburg, burial being made in
Graceland cemetery. She leaves an
only child, Ferdinand Roost of Jack
son, and several stepchildren, among
whom are A. F. Rakow and Mrs.
Bauer of Ponca, and Robert Rakow,
of Martinsburg. ...We all have been
through the pleasing experience of
having company arrive for a visit
either in wagons, buggies, autos or on
the train, but very few, so far, have
enjoyed the thrill of having company
drop from the sky ,as it were, in an
aeroplane. But this is what hap
pened to Mr. and Mrs. George Car
ter last Saturday afternoon, when
Mr. Carter's brother-in-law, Cullen
Root, of Omaha, arrived in a piano
with Mr. Jamer of Omaha as pilot.
Mr. Root's wife and her mother, Mrs.
Carter, drove over from Omaha in an
auto and visited several days in the
Carter home. The aeroplane came
back Sunday at 12:30 and otter land
ing in the fields est of lown and
getting; its passenger, it. nione.high in
the air 'anil tftted' Vpec'eMtrs to"
an interesting" sfght by furnin.-y :ven
twice in a double ioniersault.
Lend A r.so n n(t Controls Beetles
Lead arsenate put on as a spray is
probably the best remedy for Deetles
that attack cucumber and melon
vines, according to the State College
of Agriculture. Lead arsenate is
also good for potato beetles. Bor
deaux mixture is sometimes added
to the lead foi the purpose of driv
ing the beetles away and thereby
preventing injury to the leaves. Lice
can be controlled with "Blackleaf
40." A United States Department
of Agriculture bulletin called "Dis
eases and Insects of the Home Gar
den," gives information about tho
control of practically all kinds of
common garden pests. Copies may
be obtained free through county ag
ricultural agents or from the Col
lege of Agriculture at Lincoln.
The Herald for News when it is News.
Dakota City, Neb.
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Stock in the Greatest Mutual Benefit
Association in All the World
By PROF. H. B. WARD,
Uncle Sam's children have approximately ono hundred and ten mil
lion shares of stock in the greatest mutual benefit association in the world
and their interests should be protected. This great organization holds,
.among other things, the grandest canyon (Grand canyon, ATifc.), the most
wonderful mountain (Mount Mclviifloy, Alaska), the mot superb gey
sers (Yellowstone National park), the oldest and biggest living things
(big trees, Sequoia National park), and numberless other unique objects
in the nineteen jiational parks and nearly fifty national monuments, es
tablished and protected by twenty-four successive congresses. Each of us
holds one share of stock in this ns&cintiou. It is time for the American
people to instruct their representatives in congress, who are the directors
of this corporation. ' '
A joker in the water-power' bill passed last June, puts the national
parks and monuments in with public land and forest reserves as places
in which the water-power commission can grant privileges for irrigation
reservoirs and hydro-eleclriq plants. A bill is ponding to eliminate this
joke and restore to congress the absolute control of national parks and
monuments.
Bills are already pending in congress to transfer 8,000 acres in tho
Yellowstone to private irrigation interests and for the damming of Yel
lowstone lake. ' $
To turn over this public property to private persons is wholly in
defensible and even to commercialize our national parks for pubjie benefit
is to destroy their real value. To retain these national parks in their
natural conditions is not to withhold from development any appreciable
part of the area of the United States, of which they cover less than three
thousandths of ono per cent.
Farm Rurcau Field Notes
C. It. Young. Count? A Kent
Community meetings woie held
during the past week at the Coml'K
school, at Hubbard and at Juckson.
Mr. Newton W. Gaines, of the State
Extsnsion office, gave his popular
lecture on organization. Good crowds
were present at each meeting.
Referendums were taken the first
part of last week in Emerson, Hub-.bard,-
Covington, Pigeon Creek and
Omadi precincts, on the sixtcezf
points considered in the legislative
program ol tne American rami Bu
reau Federation. Covington pre
cinct held their monthly community
meeting at the same time with a
short program and ice cream and
cako.
At the Omadi precinct meeting,
Mrs. John Thacker was elected di
rector to the County Farm Bureau.
Because of the few women present at
the Hubbard meeting, it was thought
best to elect a temporary director for
tho women, leaving the permanent
election until a later date. Miss
Mary L. Heeney was chosen to the
position.
HOME DEPARTMENT OP THE
FARM BUREAU.
By Geneva Rankin.
It is hoped that both men and
women will come to the meeting on
June lGth, because the Farm Bureau
program as a whole will be discussed.
A picnic dinner should get everyone
acquainted and ready, for an early af
ternoon meeting.
PROGRAM
Community singing.
Tho Farm Bureau and its Program
for the year C. It. Young.
Greeting from the new Home dem
onstration Agent Miss Geneva Ran
kin. Music Kathryn Warner nnd Neva
Ramsey.
Woman's Place in the Farm lu
reau Program Miss Ellen Harris (In
charge Extension Work with Women,
Washington, D. C.)
Round Table Discussion by the
Home Department.
Plans of Work for the Year Mis
Stella Mather, State Home Demon
stration Leader,
The club spirit in the county is
splendid. With cooperation on the
part of the club members and lead
ers a lot of good work should be ac
complished . this summer. Sewing
clubs have been organized this week
at Dakota City, South Sioux City and
Hubbard. Tho Dakota City girls
have also organized a cooking club.
Our club motto should be "Start Up
Keep Up Finish Up."
Plans for tho Northeast County
Agent and Farm Bureau Conference
to bo held at Crystal Lako Park, on
Juno 21th and 25th, have been made.
Everyone interested should plan to
attend all the meetings and become
better acquainted with conditions
here and in our neighboring coun
ties. County Agents and delegates
from tho following counties will be
present: Thurston, Cuming, Dodge,
Colfax, Platte, Madison, Holt and
Dakota.
The following program has been ar
ranged: Friday, 2:00 P. M., June 2Hlu
Checking up results on program of
work.
Analysis of Extension work by
counties.
Type of dally records and reports
for effectively making monthly and
University of Illinois
annual repot ta.
Saliirdio, 0:00 A. M., June 25fli.
Visit to Young's office. (Special
reference to ofl'ice system.)
Visit to County Aaanl' Hanson's of
fice, Sioux City, Iowa. (Speciul ref
erence to office system and keeping
membership records.)
The plan of the U. S. Grain Grow
ers Inc.
The Club' Work -plans.
.Home Domonstiatfon Activities.
; ;Farm Bureau matters.
t-i3:0( P. M. Basubull and other
games.
j40:0Ci P. M( Picnic SupperwfthJDa;
kota Countv Farm 'Bureau. " "
7:00 P. M. Swimming and Dane-
Arrangements for camping aid
obtaining meals are being made for
those who care to. stay for two or
tluee days. Anyone wishing these
privileges should notify the County
Kami Bureau office. Each camper
must bring his own bedding, hand
towels, soap, silverware, dish towols.
Tho cost of locals and tents will be
charged pro rata. The committee
for managing the picnic supper giv
en by the Dakota county people, usk
that everyone bring a little nuie
than they need so that our visitors
will be provided with suppjr. Tic
nic supper committee will be: Mrs.
Young, Mrs. Beermann, Mrs. Miibon,
Mrs. Sheehan, Mrs. Goodfellow.
The reception committee is to be
Friday Mrs. Forbes, Mrs. Kline qnd
Mrs. Learner.
Saturday Mrs. Batch, .'.irs. DeFor
est and Mr.s. Iden. '
Let everyone come expecting to
have a good time, and we will have
it . Show our neighboring Farm
Bureau friends what real coopera
tion can do in holding a wide-awake
conference.
Lutheran Church Notep
B Rev C. h. Lowe.
The Children's Day exercises at the
Salem Lutheran church last Snuday
certainly was a credit to the child
ren and to the ladies who did the
work in getting the program ready.
The service went olf without a hitch,
and everyone did well. One could
not help but notice what a large
number of children there is in the
community. What a great work it
Is to husband these for tho church.
The dinner served at the end of
the exercises was a most enjoyable
alfair. We were pleased with the
number of visitors. They are nl
ways welcome. There were thirty
cars on the church grounds. Each
came( loaded with people, and it wus
one good time wo had till four
o'clock.when the people went home
for their evening chores. The whole
day was a complete success, from the
service to the weather. Why can we
not look forward to another such day
during the summer?
Mrs. M. G. Learner will meet all
the children who are interested In
learning to sing and forming a chil
dren's chorus at the church next
Friduy afternoon at 2:30. This is a
mighty good thing. There is no
reason why our younger folks should
not be already trained in the work
of tho church In HiIh line, and Mrs.
Leumer has very kindly undertaken
the work with but one idea, to help
the children and tho church. Tho
parents are asked to help in this
thing by making it possible for their
children to be ut the church Friday
afternoons.
For Sale
Some good cotton'wood lumber, also
a quantity of '.stove wood. Don
Forbes, mile north of Dakota City,
The
Scrap Book
TRICK TO PLEASE CHILDREN
How Paper Butterflies May Be Made
to Move Through the Air With
Appearance of Life.
Here Is a charming little experiment
that can bo carried out by means of
a Scldllta powder, one of the last
things In the world, says Science and
Invention, from which one would ex
pect any amusement. Secure un empty
Jain Jur and get a good-sized cork to
act as a btopper to this. In tho center
of thu cork bore a hole, through which
opening a funnel Is pushed. The way
In which this Is done on a be seen from
the sketch. Next, from brightly col
ored tissue paper cut the shapes of
three or four butterflies. In tho middle
of each of th?se, Just between the
wings, fasten with glue a thin 1trlp
of cork. This serves to act as a body
for the paper Insect and also helps In
thu balance of thu butterllles when
they nre In the air.
Fill the Jar about half full with
water. Then Into It tip tho contents of
the packed) forming the Seldlltz pow
der. Quickly replace tho cork In the
Jar and put the paper butterllles Into
the funnel. Soon the gas generated by
the effervescence rises and this causes
the butterllles to fly up and down In
a most lifelike manner. The effect
continues for quite a good while, see-
Flying Paper Butterflies.
lug that the comparative Bmallness of
the opening of the funnel only allows
a little of thu bus to pass out at a
time. This Is all-sutllclent to keep the
butterflies flitting up and down In u
luosttfuscluatlug manner.
Remarkable Snake Palm.
In Cincinnati, O., a "snako palm",
is on exhibition that bloomed without
earth or water. Lust full the owner
dug up the plant from the front Inwn
and removing the dirt placed It In a
small box In tho cellar for the winter.
A mottled green and tun stalk, threu
Inches In circumference, grew from the
center to a height of three feet, and
developed n Illy cup of deep magenta
color. This Is similar In shape to a
cull a lily, but of much greater dimen
sions, tho cup being a foot deep. With
in the Illy Is a long magenta stamen,
about 20 Inches In length. The owner
lias had the bulb more than 30 yearH,
and In the summer It attracted consid
erable, attention. througlMts beautiful
I pBonriiiSriwi.
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Delivered, for
$667.40 ,
the iii:st, .most economical
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market today. uk conyinckd.
homer Motor co.
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palm leaves, but this Is the tlrst' time
It has blossomed.
Deer Kill and Eat Geese. ,
Not many hae heard of deor kill
ing and eating geese, but a fanner In
British Columbia lost several geese
that way. One day thu fanner heard
his gander making an awful commo
tion and upon Investigation found a
herd oC red deer chasing tho geese. Be
fore he could Intervene they had
caught up with the birds and killed
two and proceeded to eat them. Tho
farmer had found the remains of somo
geese with tho feet and legs chewed
to a pulp a few days before.
"Hears" Obstacles In Path. v
A blind lawyer, who Is also a mu
sician In Atlanta, (la., gets around
without any assistance, becauso ho
"hears" tho walls and posts and every
other material obstacle In his path. He
says ho can follow the building line
ulopg the sidewalk by sound. Ho wnlks
fearlessly about tho streets, turn?
without hesitation at corners nnd can
estimate very accurately tho width of
the sidewalk, always knowing when It
becomes wider or narrower.
Mare Took Daughter's Foal. '
Two mares, mother and daughter,
on a New Brunswick farm, foaled
about thu samu time. All went well
until they were turned out to pasture.
The old maro seeing her presumptuous
Illly with n foal chased her and took
possession of thu foal. The foal took
a liking to Its' grand dam and she suc
cessfully raised both foals. The
younger mare was put to regular work
soon after.
Partridge and Hen In Fight.
Startled by a noise among his poul
try, an Ontario farmer discovered a
partridge fighting 'one of his hens.
Moth of the birds had a batch of
chicks the samu size and they had
become mixed. They added to the
noise by crying while the mother birds
fought.
Queer Companionship.
While raising ehjeka by Incubator,
It was common, says an Ontario read
c,r, to find the house cat asleep lu thu
brooder curled around the beater. Thu
rhlrks were couched all around aud
.oyer.thc! eat, alLfnwurinestfrletift.
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(I'ctdng Itlil of House Ants
The best way to got rid of house
ants is to locate their nest or colony
and destroy It, says a circular of
tho Stato Collego of Agriculture
called "Control Methods for House
hold Pests." Collecting tho ants
tpongos, or the usu of unt tapes, ro
pellants or tiuch measures are likely
to bo only temporary, nnd may, oven
attract more ants. Where thoMieSt
can bu located the ants can bV de
stroyed with boil'i g water, korosqno,
or carbon bhiulphldo. whero It is
not possible to reach thu nest, results
may bo obtained by spreading slow
poison, which the ants will eventu
ally carry to their queen. Tho cir
cular discusses the control of such
other household pests as flics, mos
quitoes, hcdb'jgs, clothe3 moths, car
pot buotlea, cockroaches, crickets
silverllsh, house plant lice, hoxqldcr
bugs, and insects In flour, meal,
breakfast food, ham, bacon, choose,
etc. It also deals with rats and
mice. Copies may ho obtained thru
county agricultural agonta or from
the collego of agriculture, Lincoln.
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