w- ift'K'-y-"? '' - , 4 C M r' .V -M y S ESTABLISHED AUGUST 28, 1891. a NEWSY ITEMS FROM Wisncr Chronicle: Mrs. J. E. Wagner returned Tuesday from a vis it to a spn nt LeMnrs, Iowa. Allen News: . L. L. Jackson went to South Sioux City Thursday to con suit Dr. McArthur for stomach troub le. Wntorhnrn llnmo in Allrm TJnWS F, H. and E. J. Way purchased 55 1 head of cattle in the city Monday, which they expect to put in the yard to feed. Winnebago Chieftain: Two young men whoso names are not known stole a team of horses belonging to John McMnnn Tuesday. Sheriff Rutledge captured them at Dakota City Wed nesday. Fonda, "la., Times; Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. S. W. McKinney last week en joyed an autd trip to Sioux City where they took in the Sunday revi val mettings and to Emerson, Ncbr., where they visited the homo of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Vaugh. Wakefield Republican: Mrs. Geo. Pranger was a Sioux City visitor last Friday Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. XI. reauio on juuiiuuy, i.i.ui. ., daughter Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pran-. ger were Omaha visitors last week. I o , Nebraska Journal-Leader: Prof, and Mrs. Conrad Jacobson j.nd Mrs. F. D. Fnlcs attended the football game in Sioux City Saturday. On recount of the rain the ladie3 came i,. ,Vio, .ivonlnir.nn the train, but Mr. Jacobson stayed and drove the car homo.Sui.day Moning. Concord .terns in Dixon Journal: A ton was boin to Mr. and Mrs. Per jy Branaman, of Plainview, October '5. Mrs. Branaman died Sunday. The body was sent to Dixon Tuesday morning and funeral services wore held at Ihe Mission church in Con cord, Tuesday afternoon and intei' tteUt rninde tin-t$ Concor-afifctcryj- Dixon County Advocate: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Snyder went to bouth Sioux City, Friday afternoon, to spend the week-enu with relatives, leturninc Monday evening Mrs. Geo. Carter rnd children arrived in 'Ponca fom Omaha, Thursday, to vis it her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H, Hart, foe a lew weeKS Charles Muhon, who was taken to a Sioux Ci ty hospital last week tor an opera tion, had so iar recovered as to be able to return home the iirst ot the week. Walthill Citizen: Mrs. B. J. Shel don joined her husband at bhreve port, Louisiana, this week, where he lias his gallopers uev. runey preached at the Al. E. cnurch in Ho mer, bunday evening. 'Ihe cnuich tnere is trying hard to gee Kev. Far ley to divide time with that charge there lor the morning service and here for the evening seivice. There is some talk this being done but the matter has not ben iuiiy decided up on. Owing to the haid times and scarcity of ministers, this is being done at several charges. o Sioux City Journal, 7th: E. E. Smith, 221 bixth street, is lying ser iously injured in the St. Joseph's hospital as the result of a peculiar aeciuent. eaily bunday evening. With a gaping ,six-inch wound on the lelt side oi. iis head, binith wut lound at bixth anu i'i.url streets in a semi-conscious condition. in tell ing hs stoiy to the police, Smith stttt(jd that he slipped and tell, striking his head on some sharp m stiument. Weak tiom the loss oi blood, Smith tainted en route to bt. Joseph's hospital. He was leportea to be resting easy at an early houi this inoring. Sioux City 'tribune, 7th: Congrat ulations are being leceived touay by" two pioneers of fankton and boutn Dakota, Mr. and Airs. M. P. Ohlman, br., on the occasion ot their 5otn wedding anniveisaiy, messages com ing in iroin scores ot friends through out this territory. Open house will be held at the uhlinan residence, en a bluff overlooking the Minouri, dur ing the afternoon and evening. The huppy event is made even more pleas ant for the pioneer couple by the piesence of all their chiioien. fheso are: Airs. 1). W. Rogers, of Indepen dence, Mo.; Mrs. Howard Shipley, of Sioux Falls; Mrs. Charles H. Koss, of Sioux Fall; Wilfred Julius, of Sioux City, la.; and Martin Peicy, of Yank ton. 'Ihe Ohlmans were married at Da Lota, City, Nebr., on November 7, 1871, the bricie being Miss Einilie Oester 1m, a native of Fort Wayne, Ind. She is a daughter of Joachim and Marie Oesterling, who caino to Sioux City in 1850 when Mrs. Ohlman's father openeJ the old Des Moines House, the first hotel in that place, artd it was In Sioux City that she be came acquainted with Mr. Ohlman. Mr. and Mrs. Ohlman have traveled extensively In America and Europe. They are both in the best of health, Dakota County Herald OUR EXCHANGES 5 Sioux Citv Journal, Gth: The South Sioux City high school football team Friday afternoon defeated the Ponca high' school eleven by the score of 27 to 20. Trinity college second team won from the Jackson, Nebr., high school football team Friday afternoon on the campus at Trinity by tho score of 19 to 0. The Jackson outfiit out weighed the Blue and Gray scrubs, did not show the class necessary to win. The annual staff banquet was held at the St. Joseph's Mercy hospital Thursday evening at 7 o'chek. The election of officers for the coming year followed. Dr. P. E. Sawyer was elected president; Dr. J. B. Nnft zger, vice president: Dr. W. D. Run von, secretnry; Dr. P. B. Mclaughlin, Dr. W. J. S. Cremin and Dr. R. Q. Rowse were elected executive com mittee. Addresses wero given by Rev. M. T. O'Connell, Dr. Charles T. Maxwell, jr.. and Dr. J. B. Niftzger. Sioux City Journal. 3rd: Dr. ana Mrs. Chas. T. Maxwell and their lit tle son have nrrived home fiom their trip to New York and Philadelphia. While in Philadelphia Du Maxwell attended the clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons, to which" body he was recently elected to membership. Tony Frodo, 16 years old, and Roy 7-arkin, 17 .eurs old, were arrested Wednesday right by Sheriff Georgo Cain, of Dnkntn Citv. n thnv unrn riding through South Sioux City on horses which they had "borrowed" from John McMnnn, a farmer near Pendor. Thlirslnn ennniu Molii- -fn whom they had been working. The youtns wno soiu their homes were in St. Paul, MKn., received their pay Wednesday morning and ' departed form McMnnn's far.m Later in the day he missed two .horses, and re membering having henrd tie lads memtion th.it they intended to take a trip to Sioux City, telephoned the sheriff of Dakota City tto watch for them. The vigilance of -the fcheriff was rawardedMotO ysdnesdfiy flight whcnT,thei two boys approached" the Combination gridge. 'the boys told the sheriff they had only taken the ponies for the purpose of visiting Sioux City, and that i-fter they had had their fun here they intended to leturn the ponies to the larmer. Emerson Enterprise: Col. A. Ira Davis and Mis. Davis leave today for a montn or so, to visit with relatives in Iowa at Ida. Grove, Iowa Falls, Des Moines, also at LaPlatto, Missouri. They gave up their contemplated vis it in Kansas on account of the threat ened strike of railroad employes. Mr. and Mis, William Wallwey re turned last Fiiday from a nine weeks' sight seeing trip in the, northwest portion of the United States. While away they visited with former resi dents of Emerson and vicinity. They were the guests of Mrs. Benicke, who lived in Emerson nearly a third of a century ago. It was a delightful time for all and the time spent in leminiscence carried them back to days of youth the really best per iod of human life. They also spent Jiree weeks with Mr. Wallwey's sis ter, Mrs. Richard Smith aj Molson, Washington. A sad affair occurred near Nacora lost Friday when the father of Mrs. Tony Simmons received burns that proved fatal. The gentleman was a paralytic and was given his pipe filled and liirhteU. He is supposed to have the pip'e slip form his mouth, the bed clothes caught fire end when discovered his left side was burned so badly that he died within a few hours. The remains were shipped to Lyons, Iowa, for burial. The wedding of Mls3 Virgina Doughtery of Dixon, to William Ire land of Emerson, was solemnized last Saturday at Dixon. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Doughtery, highly respected citizens of Dixon. She is u charming young lady of sterling worth, and has a host of friends at Dixon and at Emerson who extend hearty congiatulations. She has been employed at the post office here for several joars. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James li eland. He is the jun ior meber of Demme & Ireland. "Bil ly" Ireland in a clean cut young man with progressive ideas. Ho1 is a live wire in every respect and is a "Vet" of tho late war. After a short honeymoon visiting with the groom's parents at Kansas City, and other places in Missouri and Kansas, the jnung people will occupy the Ii eland residence in Emerson. Miss Marie Liewer and Ed Ecker man were bridesmaid and groom's man. The Enterprirc joins with the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ire land In wishing them u piosporous and happy married life. F 0 TJ N J) ' Found A brown feather gauntlett driving glove Hansen brand modi um size. Owner can have same by paying ior tnis nonce, ALL THE NEWS WHEN IT IS NEWS DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER i0, 192L i 1 11 1! 1 p ! 1 i I! 11 OPEN DRAW IS. UNCOMMON NOW U m , ID HI 11 U ' t 4 ,"- H m - m - : :, i . '.- - ii in -V A t . m n i ''VJV ' n m m m Vn iilrnl.llnnf TTlieln WAfA,ltf XT,lln A...U aol.-uu.., iti.i,. ,,vuu.9, ,,.....i m m is wintering nt the mouth of tho ;l.its tie Sioux River, so as to bo in readi- i IM M (1 property of tho Wood litcthersOon ness for work in the spring, .ltyfthcj struction company, of LincolnjaFNeb. The boat was brought to Sioux Ci ty Saturday, anw will remain, here II m 11 " , A Ir3UiiiiiiiiiiiSQiiiEiiitl3 .j ,' ."' " -. DAKOTA CITV SCHOOL NOTL'S By Prof. H. M. Eaton eastaao this winter. lhis js the first club ., tt a i , r i- ltnat nns organized for a winter Mr. Harry H. Adair, of our direct- course, This wlll Bive them an ex ors, visited for a half day with us ceIlent start &0 thnt th cnn fo last week. We will always welcome up with Coiuse No n ,ext summer, Mr. Adairto the school. Now that he ,j they wish, has broken the ice we look for the other members of tho board to visit ' Miss Florence Atwood,, former Homo by the time school is out next May. Demonstration Agent of Dakotu Mrs. Fronk Lean visited Us last County, will be here November 15, week. Come again. i16 ard 17th. Miss Atwood will meet m, . ,, . I with the parents and pupils in tho The first quarter of the year is now- &chooi rooni( weigh nnd meisure the history. Examinations arc over and children and where necessary; will the cards were sent home Monday ndvise corre"ctive measures. The evening. These cards are sent home ,ot school lunch is one project that for the information of the parents. we hopo will develop out of these We are asking that each one of them meetings. give a little interest to theso reports,! ' no nicy mum cjiu (JiUKicsa ui liic uwjr or girl during tho past fourth of a year. Vsk them questions about their work, talk over with them the hopes you have in them for tho fu ture. How does the deportment as reflected suit you? T cnmaflmaa urnnrlac ?f Vin 'wnin a in Dakota Ci are really interested in "f is n ,busy mnn tlieso days looking their children. If interested, see ntter, a lnrKe number of cuses of ir that the boy or girl is in school cv-! regular or no-attendance. Accord- ory day and every moment of tho day. nB to iho reports that aro coming No school can work out a course and nr m,uc,h B0(1 h,as already been ac- give same to a child not present, complished, or the schools are show- lf your child fails at the close of inB a '"ore regular attendance and a tho year, and he is frequently absent, larSer enrollment. So fur, it appears do not lay it to tho teacher or to that ?f " tho cases that Mr. Bar- ho s.inni Vr.ii nm tnHn.r frnm nctt has investigated none will re- your boy or girl their chance to win. fu,se to comply with the compulsory Can you afford it? education ( but will keep their cull Names of those neither taidy noi re In school regularly hcreatter. absent during the month jint closed, All that seems necessary, is to bring October 28. tn,s ntW ,uw a,Kl lts provisions to Miss Biermann's Room: tne "ttentions ot the parents. We Charles Neibuhr, Bernice Snydcx, have hau to .seive but one written Margaret Adair, Willard Sundt, uoio- "t'ce o lr, and have had to con thy Lean, Eldon Morris, John Smith, sider no case that may need to bo Evelyn Waddell and Catherine oung. biought into court to be fined. This Miss Kroger's Room ' bUlt's l13 nne V hope that all of Dorothy Learner, Candace Young, tho parents with whom wo will huyo Alico Tague, Blanch Holbrook, Mai- to deal will be as willing to do tho garet Geise, Louisa Neiswangur, Mor- B" thing, lor neither or us aro ence Frederick, George Foltz, Doro- Iook' lor trouble. Wo merely in tViv PiioKtnn Atnv Moocorii vor.. -I rm. tend to see that all attend school ac- ner. Ruth Graham. Leona Todd. La..c0!.u"1K to law, and to perform our vonno Cain, Guy Sides, Sarah Reir, Raymond Sierk, Waldo Phillips, Chur- lotte biues, uarrou i ranees, uscar Snyder, Helen Runge, Georgo Sundt, Leo Frances, Harold Peterson, Albert Jones, William Triggs, Lucilo Fred erick and' Vera Niebuhr. Mrs. Neiswanger's Room: Edgar Frederick, Leonard Sides, El da Powell, Harry Foltz, Martha Burg, . Glenn Waddel, Alarie Sundt, Roy t'er- ry, Alfred Forbes, David Warner, Ed ward Sundt, Clair Orr and Maurice Berger. Miss Roger's Room: Vira Sundt, Eldon BetcUo, Dora Powell, Marie Hansen, Walter Gra ham, Lorraine Blermann, Horaco Graham, John Orr, Ruby Lovlg, Bculah Morris, Phillip Winner and Aiaooi aunut. High School: Anna Berger, Everltt Blessing, Don ald Ebel, Edwin Blessing, Edwin Mor gan, Clarence Ostmeyer, Mildred Ream, Ernest Geise, Porter Sides, I Warren Armour, Erwin Bliven, ChnC les Blacketer, George Berger, Gladys Frederick. Lawrence Frederick. Ral ph Bliven, Maurice Niemeyer, Ernest jSlerk, Helen Sundt and Roib , Perry. during the winter. It is one of the smallest of tho river boats, be ing only about 15p feet long. Next spring the boat will be used in the v.nrk of bank construction in which the' Woods. Bros, company is engaged. Thi3 t.s the first' time thot the com- . , - Pfiny has undertaken jobs this i JlUjlillll(llllllUillllliIlill 'Jiil-in -BiriTHtr-Ffclir Notes' C li. ung, County Agent The Walkers' Island girls are plan ning on prganizing a sewing club for I , a COILNTV SCHOOL INOJIN W. E. VOSS, Superintendent Our county school attendance ofl'i- lull duty in this connection The counties thut arranged for an attendance officer earlier seem to have found cases that needed to lie taken into court. For instance, the olliccrs in Wayne county have been finding it necessary to fine throe pat ents, amounting to $20.00 each In fines and costs, and to havo still u number of cases pending in the coun ty court. Outside of tho casts, this is necessarily a light fine. 'Ihe court would, no doubt, increase the weight of the nenalties ii these mir- etits should l.ted to bp charged again with the violation of the attendance law, , The first teachers' examination of this school year win lie held on Sat urday, December 3, 11)21. Those who want a schedule may have one for tho aaking. I shall attend the State Teachers' Association nt Omaha yn November 0, 10, and 11. My plun. is to be back to tho office by l a. in. on Satur day, tho twelfth. Tho teachers' institute for this county will bo held on Thursdaykahd Friday, November 17 and 18, Ev- 'Te'acher is .xf-ctVdto attend.' north. A watchman and mln- h imum crew will remain with l the boat this winter. The pic d ture shows the craft steaming m through tho open draw of thergl far combination bridge. QU 11 IDIllllilUlHIlllllimillllIllIllIlilll f NEAR EAST RELIEF As announced last week, a irrnin campaign Is being launched in Da kota county for tho famine Strieker people of Armenia and other "Nea East" sufferers. Tho u portionment asked from this county is only a lit tie over 100 bushels of corn, .which ii& tin averago of but one and a hall bushels per farmer. But who is tlu 'man who cannot spare several time that amount and rejoice in tho giv mgr The campaign will continue througl November but the grain is needo now. Arrangements aro being mad whereby the elevators will take- you gift, bo it large or small, issue yoi a recoipt and see to lorwarding i to somo member of this committer Be sure to sign the blank at you elevator .specifying the amount d livered so no mistake oan be mat When you make your contributi think of tho thousands of homch women and children and especially the thousands of orphan childref made so by the cruel Turk. Las', year, 110,000 of these orphans wen cared forby this organization am during tho winter months only on applicant in five could' be taken be cause of the meager supplies. Lc I us think of our own children, or thos I whom wo love, loft alone in a barrel land, at tho mercy of a cruel race ,of people and wholly dependent on i a very inadequate charity and we will havo a partial picture of thesi children in their rags, living on rootf and grasses in a country with a cli mate as cold as ours. Let us opei generously our cribs ond purses ant contribute to this needy work. Let us give them for Christinas, the bare necessities of life for even in our fi- nancial trials none aro so needy as these. i Any member of the local commit tee will gladly look after your gift. K. II. Grlbble, Chairman. W. H. Bergor, C. R. Young. iiKi:i:i:its hanqukt (From Farm Bureau News) I Early in .ho month the Northeast iNoiirusKa rureureu ljivcsiocK jireed- ers' Ass'n mnt nt. Knumnn In n mnci, meeting t6 discuss plans for the ycaW activities. mis meeting was atten ded by about sixty breeders and theli wives. I Tho Emerson Community Club ten- 'dored the association a seven o'clock banquet at which about one hundred and ten were present. Mavor Lew- iler of Emerson, welcomed the guests which represented Cuming, Thurston, i Wayne, Dakota. Dixon and Cedar counties. .Mr. Harry L. Keefo of ( waiinui, spoKo in response Other BpooKers wero Dr. u. li. Hays of tho , Bureau of Animal .Industry, Directoi iW. II. .Brokaw of the State Extension Service, Dr. F. S. Woodrintr. nctintr utato veterinarian, Chester Grcaff, a prominent breeder of Red Polled cat- tlo, J. J. McCarthy, u, promlnont Hereford breeder, and ..Don Cunnlng- jtiam, a nvestocK auctioneer or Wayne President Dan F. Shoehan of Emor- ;U6h 'acted as lda3t,master. All who wettemortunato enough, to be present lijfti Reeling that they hap!, spont a prtflltablo afternoon and evening. .f r i t . TOO STARVED TO BE HUNGRY? There Comes a Final Stage In the Horror, When Taste for Food Is Lacking. I cannot quite bring myself to tell tales of famine horrors the monkey facedf pop-eyed babies tugging hungrily ut tho cold breasts of dead mothers ly ing on the frozen ground; thq piteous old women and tho stoical men ; tho In credibly deformed starving valf whom I picked up outsldo of thfrclty of Tsing kluhgmi ; tho boy on tho wall of Chln kUng vho was carrying home a starved cat for food, and In response to a query, tried so hard to Hell it to me as a delicate morsql, nnd such general conqomltants ns the lucldcnco of binallpox plaguo with the famine. One of Uio unexpected aspects of work In tho famine camps came when 1 was accompanying Mrs. Pa&ton of Chiukinng ns she mnde rounds to dis tribute medicine to tho sick umoilg the hungry. As n matter of fact, relatively few persons ever (lie In u famine tllrectly from nctual hunger, but rather from diseases Induced by malnutrition. Obligingly, Mrs. Paxton frJjjjtrans lnted for nie ns wo went nlongJnndj'uo found, in pathetic paradox .fm?t",tht' commonest request of thebu'iitiiO'lng creatures was for medicine to ' give them un nppetltcl Even when .they succeeded In getting a bowl of jfood from tho relief station, rnn the re peated tale, they could not out It, having no tasto for food. To us this meant, obviously that tho sufferers hud reached the final stiises, where craving for food had passed away. They wero not hungry,! be cause they wero starving I William T. Ellis In the Outlook. NEW TOY FINDS MUCH FAVOR Parisian Children Hall With Joy Idea Which Has Been Imported ' From Central Borneo. ThoMntest toy which Parlslnn chil dren are buying, and which threatens to displace the Bcooter hi populurfa vor, Is a modern "form of the , ofil ' "Jumping stick.!' ! Tho new "Jumping stjck," whlqh Is called u "pogo," Is more scientific Jthnn Its predecessor, which was nothing more, elnborafo than a single stilt 'with no rests for the feet. -' It is made with an India rubber, pad nnd with n, strong spring, .which ena bles Its possessor to take a series of leaps without Jar. ' v , The pogo wns first found In use, in a "primitive form, among the Dynk'nn tlves of ccutrnl Borneo, who gayo It that name, it' wns a stick with u cross-piece,' on whlcli( cprtnlri favored young men used't'o .perform and,bf dunce nt sacrificial ceremonies. v As tho chiefs took vchnrgc Pfj'ntljo pogos nfter the ceremony, hldngfliin until the next occasion for their use, it wns very difficult to obtain them, but n French traveler; whd 'saw' tho dance In p.tgress, described th'eni on his return to Tarls., Frorn JjiiTrQagh sketch the now Paris tpjOas "toQch1 made. " , "Mountles" In With Dominion Police Under an act of parliament ' tub Royal Northwest mounted police of Canada was merged with tho Dominion police May 1, 1020, with Jurisdiction throughout Canada, and known as tho Itoynl Canadian mounted police. The Dominion police was a small body of men, tho uniformed members of which wero employed largely In -guarding (he parliament buildings, tho mint nnd other government structures in Ottuwu. To It wns attached u number of highly trained experts, skilled In dealing with International criminals nnd their schemes, and hav ing knowledge of tho linger print system. These are now nil members of the Itoyul Canadian mounted police, under the command of Col. A. Ilowen Perry. t , The force Is now recruited; to Its prewar average of 1,200. Canadian government officials hope soon to bu able to1 Incrcnso It fur beyond that number, but, tho dominion's yur debt has to data made that Impossible. , js , Facts Concerning Eels. Whence the eel comes uijd whither It goes Is the text' for au erudlt piece of which American Consul Den nH at Loudon claims uuthorshlp In u cablegram to Secretary Ilooyer. Quulnt belief that tho eels wero miraculously born of horsehulrs drop ped Into ponds from horses tnlH Is entirely dispelled by Mr. Dennis, who comments upon research work by Doctor Smith, Danish scientist. The eel's life, history, un unfuthdin able mystery twenty years ngo,tlius for the first time Is mnde u wide open book, and Mr.' Dentils' wurratits these facts: The eel lives up to eight years In fresh waters, Adult eels, llvlns tjielr llfo span, go down to tidewater, wheio' they spuwn uud die. Nowly hatched eels live In a cold and gloomy depth of S00 fathoms. They reappear Jn late winter. 711'"'" VOL. XXIX. 'XOl'7 Ml n n i ! J i oi